Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 78

Winter is coming to spring, and spring is cold again. This year, Xiuyao doesn't need to dig wild vegetables, because Lao Qin's vegetable garden had a good harvest last year, and there is always no shortage of vegetables.Chinese cabbage, radish, and hanging square melon have not been eaten yet, and there are a lot of pickles in the pickle tank. In addition, the leeks and spinach in the vegetable garden have turned green and can be harvested.

However, Xiuyao has always insisted on going out to cuddle grass every day, which can not only exercise her body, but also avoid those annoying spirits at home.

She passed the deep river ditch that she fell into a year ago, stood on the bank, looked at it and sighed. At this time last year, the river was full of water. It was only a year ago that the water in the river went down More than half, while the other shallower rivers have already dried up.

It is not untrue that a place like Shandong has experienced nine droughts in ten years.

She was thinking that this year's wheat harvest would be a problem again. She estimated that one acre of land would be enough for one stone, so she might as well persuade her grandpa to grow sweet potatoes.It is more cost-effective to raise pigs with sweet potato seedlings and sell food after earning money.

But how to convince grandpa?

Originally, she had hoped to get some corn seeds from Gu Ning last year, but unfortunately the Feng family planted all those seeds, and the plants were treated as foliage plants, and there was no corn, let alone seeds.And Gu Ning also went home to celebrate the new year, and only asked Liu Qing to send her a letter saying that he would help her pay attention to new seeds when she had the opportunity. Xiuyao felt that he might just say it casually out of politeness, and it was impossible real.

Xiuyao sighed. If the grain harvest fails again this year, vegetables will not solve the big problem. After all, vegetables are still enough during Maodong. When doing farm work, there is no enough food and no strength.

The sun in early spring was still rushing westward as if driven by something, and the evening came soon, and Xiuyao went home with a basket on her shoulders.

As soon as I got home, I heard the second aunt complaining to the third aunt at the door, "You said it's spring, and you are about to go to the fields again, and you still eat vegetable soup all day long. Not to mention some dry rice, you have to eat some porridge."

The third aunt said with a smile: "There is not much millet and noodles at home, and looking at the wheat in the field, it is estimated that this year will be even more difficult."

The second aunt said angrily: "Why do you always make us suffer? Now the big house doesn't go to help and eats at home. Why should we let us take care of it?" Mrs. Liu stopped doing embroidery, and also mowed grass and did housework at home. Yes, Qin Ye doesn't go to help either. Men occasionally go out to help with odd jobs, and they can't make much money.Now everyone is the same, why does the boy in the big house not have to work, but can go to his grandpa's house and still study?Where did the money come from?But don't let Liu's earn money and take it to her family if she doesn't pay it to her family.

When the third aunt saw Xiuyao coming, she quickly signaled the second aunt to stop talking. Xiuyao passed by and said hello, and then went to dry the grass.

The second aunt glanced at her, and said to the third aunt: "Look at this dead girl, her eyes are getting more and more invisible. She didn't see us standing here? Muttered a word and walked over. Who can hear what she said?"

The third aunt said: "Second sister-in-law, don't be as knowledgeable as a little girl. Everyone in their family is very attractive. They have a grandfather who runs a mill. Our noodles are all ground by others. for free."

The second aunt hummed: "Isn't that what it should be? My mother's family has money, why don't you order it to help the family? If my mother's family has money, wouldn't I take it? She just wants us if we don't go back to my mother's house, hum , when we don’t know.”

Xiuyao naturally heard it. After drying the grass, she paused in front of the two when she returned home, looked at them, and said with a smile: "Second Aunt, whose money didn't just fall from the sky, and they didn't have money either. I don’t work at night. You can’t earn money by grinding your teeth all day long.” As she said this, she turned her head and went home, making the second aunt chase her and beat her, but the third aunt hurriedly stopped her, “Second sister-in-law, don’t make trouble , the old man is very annoyed."

The crops are not good, and Lao Qin's face is ugly every day. If he is not careful, he may step on his tail and make him feel unhappy and scold others. Why bother to scold him again.

The second aunt scolded in a low voice: "The whole family is useless, and they will play tricks on their wives and children."

Xiuyao washed her hands, and saw her grandfather sitting at the door with an empty cigarette pipe and pot. The family was struggling, and her grandfather had already cut down the dry tobacco, so she often just smoked an empty cigarette and acted like that.

Xiuyao walked over, "Grandpa, let's ask my grandpa to order sweet potatoes this year."

Old Qin glanced at her, "Your grandfather plans to plant sweet potatoes?"

Xiuyao nodded, "Grandpa, you don't care what he wants, he will give it to you."

Old Qintou asked again: "How many acres of land does he raise?"

Xiuyao counted the harvest of sweet potatoes, scraped off the immature and spoiled ones, and there was only a limited amount left for mother and child. She said, "At least one or two acres of land." In fact, those sweet potatoes for mother and child are enough for several acres of land.

Old Qintou smiled wryly, "Let your grandpa plant all the seedlings, so what's the use?" He didn't have the nerve to say why your grandpa didn't plant two acres more.After fertilizing last year, I thought that if there was enough fertilizer, the harvest would definitely be better, but I didn't know that the field was very dry, but the harvest was even worse.

Xiuyao persuaded again, and Old Qin knocked his cigarette pot on his head and said: "Girl, this kind of land matter is an adult's business, so don't worry about it if you are a child. Anyway, as long as there is grandpa to eat at home, you can't go hungry. you."

Xiuyao sighed, and hated herself for being too young to speak well, then she thought that even if she grew up, she would still not be able to speak well when she was fifteen or sixteen years old.But sweet potatoes must be planted, and more sweet potatoes must be planted. The worse the year, the more sweet potatoes must be planted.

Seeing that her grandfather refused to listen to her, she also knew that there was nothing she could do about it.She also thought about persuading her father about this matter, but her father refused to make up his mind to listen to grandpa in everything, let alone let him persuade grandpa, he would never go against grandpa's will.

"Grandpa, can I go to grandpa's house for a few days?"

Mrs. Zhang heard shouting in the house: "Why do you want to be lazy again, you know that you are living at grandpa's house, and you are almost busy with work."

Xiuyao didn't say a word, she was not idle all winter, Xiujuan and Xiumei didn't go out to hug the grass, she still went, and she didn't go to grandpa, well, it was just a time when sweet potatoes were harvested and selected, then It's still frost time.

But Old Qintou said: "Okay, the girl hasn't been to her grandfather's house for a long time, let your second sister send you to live there for a while." Old Qintou also found out that among so many children, the old Liutou and his wife are actually the ones that the old Liutou and his wife care about the most. Instead, it was this little girl.If he hadn't been poor, Old Qin wouldn't have been so calculating. Last winter he just got sick, thanks to the child's grandfather, so he had to give face.

Xiuyao became happy when she heard that, and hurriedly prepared happily.

As soon as Qin Xian heard that Xiuyao was going to her grandmother's house, he wanted to see her off, but his grandfather said to let Xiuxian go, so he discussed with Xiuxian, "Erman, let me see off my little sister."

Xiuxian glanced at him, "Second brother, I haven't been to my grandma's house for a long time."

Qin Xian said with a smile: "I'm going to learn two characters from my third brother, can you learn?" He, Xiuxian, and Liu Fei are about the same age, but Liu Fei is two months older.

As soon as Xiuxian heard that he was literate, she pouted, "Okay then." Then she smiled and said, "Second brother, do you know those two characters well?"

Qin Xian blushed a bit, "Don't talk nonsense, I can't have more than him?" Ever since Liu Fei went to school, Qin Xian suddenly seemed to be stimulated, especially seeing that Qin Yang and Xiuyao also got to know a few, so he called He also started to learn characters as if he had chicken blood. If he didn't have the opportunity to go to school to study, he took advantage of the space to work and ran to Zhou's school in the southwest of the village to learn secretly.In this way, he also learned some words and memorized a lot of books. It is no longer the case that Xiuyao asked her to write a rapeseed list last year and he hid himself.

Xiuyao said with a smile: "Second brother, ask third brother to give you some pen, ink and paper tomorrow, and you will teach your sisters when you come back. It is always good to know a few words." Things are also different from before.You only know one thing, you can call it by name, but you can’t write it. After all, you are separated from it by a layer. If you can call it and write it, and even know its ins and outs, it will be easier to do things if you are very familiar with it.

Xiurong was still depressed about not being able to go to her grandpa's house. When she heard about reading, she remembered that gentle and modest young man. He must have read a lot of poetry and books. Such a family must be literate.

She smiled and said, "I want to learn too, second brother, teach me."

Seeing his younger sisters holding him like this, Qin Xian immediately felt that he was very important, and a sense of pride and pride arose spontaneously, and he slapped his chest and said, "Sure, I'll teach you, but you also have to be patient, and it depends on you." Comprehension, you have to listen to my orders."

The younger sisters laughed in unison: "Don't worry, we will take care of you."

Xiuxian said again: "Well, I'm just joining in the fun, don't let me write this and memorize that, I can't do it."

Xiuyao smiled and said, "Second Sister, if you learn a few words, I will reward you with roasted pork."

Xiurong immediately shouted, "I want a reward too."

Xiuqin teased them, "Okay, let the second brother draw it for you."

Several people laughed, and the second aunt heard the constant laughter in the room, and sneered at the third aunt: "Even if the family is starved to death, they can still laugh."

The third aunt said: "I have my grandmother's family, don't be afraid, unlike us, my mother's family can't eat enough, so how can we have time to take care of us?"

Early in the morning of the second day, Qin Xian and Xiuyao hurried on the road without having breakfast, and arrived at Yangliu Village safely.

After a year of improvement, the Liu Family Mill has grown to a considerable scale, and the people who used to handle the milling in their own family also began to come to the mill. Everyone is willing to come.

In order to cope with a large number of businesses, Lao Liutou and the third grandpa's family partnered to raise two donkeys. They were used to plant the land when the farming was busy, and they were used to grind the mill when they were not busy, and there was no need for manual grinding.

When Xiuyao and the second elder brother arrived at the gate of Liu's house, they saw the bustle of cars coming and going, and it was going to be busy in the spring in a few days, and no one had time to grind, so they rushed to deliver the grain over this time. Go through this busy period of farming.

Seeing Xiuyao and the second elder brother coming, the people in the grandfather's family were very happy. They were too busy in the mill to get away, so they were only allowed to go to the backyard.Xiuyao and her second brother first went to the mill to say hello, and then they went to the backyard to meet grandma and the others.

Mrs. Li said with a smile: "Last night my eyelids twitched, and the magpies chirped early in the morning. I even told your aunt that this is a happy event. Who knew that two little guests came."

Xiuyao was a little embarrassed, "Grandma, you are laughing at us, it's a happy event if the magpie calls, we are not petty customers, we are regular customers, we come here to make a living." She laughed as she spoke.

Mrs. Li asked Chen's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to cook quickly, thinking that the children were hungry, so everyone followed suit to eat early.

Liu Fei and Qin Yang hadn't come back from studying, so Qin Xian went to the front mill to help, and Xiuyao took the hand of Auntie to her room.A few days ago, cousin Liu Xia was married after the Spring Festival, and now Liu Xu and her niece Liu Yun are together, and the house is much empty again.

After the reform suggested by Xiuyao, Liuxu's spinning car can now spin three tassels at the same time, which is much more efficient than before, enough for the loom and other needles at home, so Liu Yun no longer has to sit all day long. There she spun thread and also started doing her own dowry needlework.

The conditions of the Liu family are good, and the daughters are gentle and handsome, and they are all ingenious, so they are very easy to marry.Liu Yun also made a marriage a few years ago, and now she is busy preparing her own sewing for the upcoming spring festival.

Xiuyao heard from her mother that her aunt's marriage has also been decided. It's the Sun's family in Chakou Village. It is said that they are nice people. They have been to Lao Liu's house before, and everyone is very satisfied with the temperament and appearance of the future son-in-law.

(End of this chapter)