Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 12

Chapter 13 Probe with Money

Grandma saw that this time it was Lao San's family making braised fish, so she talked about asking his elder brother to come and learn from him. The third uncle took out a letter of guarantee from shopkeeper Jin and asked Jin Yang to read it to her.Grandma saw that this idea was not feasible, so she asked if the shrimp pots could be distributed to the elder brother. This time, it was the father-in-law who refused: "These are all invested by the treasurer of Yushanjujin in Fucheng, so you can't just give them away. If you The third child of the family gave someone one, and he had to compensate him 1 taels of silver..."

The fourth master saw that the two families seemed to be making a lot of money, and said the same thing. Dad was angry that he would not let him dig ditches in his field. He rejected him with an excuse.

When it is hot, both adults and children in the village will go to the river to take a bath. Sometimes they will wade into the shrimp cage and fish cage at the bottom of the water. No one dares to go to the west because there is the village chief’s family in charge. Lao Huang is in the house. Bamboo poles are placed in the area with fish cages to the east to mark it, and anyone who approaches will be persuaded to leave.If anyone disobeyed, he had to be prepared to be beaten. After several conflicts with them, the villagers knew how powerful he was, and the nicknames of "Huang Big Crutches" or "Huang Lao Lai" were given away.However, he didn't care about Lao Huang, "If you don't have a nickname, don't you get rich?" Besides, no one dared to call him in front of him.Seeing that his family is hard-working people, Liu Tao and her father-in-law raised the commission for his family. From the previous agreement of three hundred copper coins per person per month, they settled on four taels of silver per month for the whole family.

With the fine weather, the rainy weather that lasted for more than ten days finally passed, but the water level of the river dropped slowly, and the main force for catching fish and shrimp was still the shrimp cage and fish cage. Fish cages need to be cleaned frequently, even if moss or branches and other debris are deposited and covered up.Objects with huge trunks brought down by upstream currents often float by. If they get close to the shore, they will be caught in the nets and even be taken away.But these drifters are not static. They will automatically change their posture when encountering a vortex or being blocked by a stone, and they will often unload the nets they have taken away automatically after walking for a while.Seventeen or eight of these fish cages and shrimp cages have been lost since they went down.A few people in the lower reaches had picked it up in the shallow water by the river, some were taken back by the golden seedlings, and some were not exchanged for money, because they saw that it was a good item for making money, and they owned it themselves. , Not only does it cost no money to eat shrimp, but you can sell more shrimp for money.

The fourth uncle also picked up two, and the family said a lot of good things, but he refused to return them, saying: "I picked them up in the river so hard, and I still can't return them. If I take two A fish cage is about the same as your partnership..."

Jin Yang felt distressed and had no choice but to let his father-in-law and father make up for it.Lao Huang was strolling along the shore, and when he saw a fallen log floating towards him, he tied a rope and pulled it to the shore.This method is very effective, and the loss of shrimp pots has been reduced.However, it is possible to see fallen logs and other drifting objects during the day, but not at night.

"Father-in-law, dad, it's fine if they don't pay it back, and our loss is not too big. If they pick it up, they won't be picked up by one person. If they pick up only one or two at most, then they will be picked up by one person. It will be gone if it is scraped away. Let’s think of a way now, which is to order a row of wooden stakes a little bit upstream of the place where we arrange the shrimp pots, to block the fallen logs floating down from the upstream..."

This was really a good idea. Everyone acted immediately, making stakes from the fallen logs that had been brought to the river in the past, and lined them up into the river.After a few days, a lot of rotten things were blocked, and Liu Tao thought of a bad idea.

"Brother Jinyang, what if we bring up the shrimp cages and fish cages in the morning or evening, and then push these messy things into the river together?"

"How about it... Ah, what a good idea!" Jin Yang grinned knowingly.

Everyone acted together at dawn, first lifted up the shrimp cages and fish cages, and checked whether there was any damage by the way, and then pushed many rotten things into the river and let them go smoothly. Eighty to ninety percent of the lost shrimp cages and fish cages were scraped away or destroyed.

Because it is summer, heavy rain and light rain do not know when it will fall. They have wooden stakes to protect the fish cage and shrimp cage, so the loss is minimized.Those who tasted the sweetness of the fish cage and shrimp cage came to steal in the middle of the night. After being discovered by the black dragon twice and failed, they stopped coming.Liu Tao estimated that there must be a fourth master who loves to take advantage of it.The amount of fishing and shrimp has entered a stable period again.Apart from mowing grass and feeding crayfish in the morning and evening, the two of them didn't have much work, so they thought about making crispy rice for a test sale.

In the first ten days of July, after a period of recovery, Jinsha's fractured leg had almost recovered, and sometimes he would be abducted to Liu Tao's house for a walk. Huang Ying didn't know his privacy, and saw him limping, Just laughed at him and his father as a pair of cripples.Jin Sha has gotten to know her a lot these days, and after seeing his pretty face, he has a good impression of her, and doesn't mind his jokes.However, he, who had been to Fengyue place before, was extremely longing for the opposite sex. Seeing her pure and lovely, he couldn't help feeling admiration for her.

Huang Ying has a good impression of scholars from the bottom of her heart, and she is also a little moved when she sees Jinsha's elegance and elegance. He also knows that Jinsha's legs will soon return to normal, so he can't help but gradually develop a good impression of Jinsha.

Liu Tao discovered the change between them in time. She usually got along well with Huang Ying and called her "Sister Huang Ying".Out of protection for Huang Ying, she told Huang Ying the details of Jinsha Hao's gambling, and told her not to be deceived by others in a muddle-headed way, and it would be miserable if she suffered a lot later.He also said to her: "If you really don't care about his past, it's not impossible to fall in love with him for the rest of your life, but you have to observe for a period of time and see that he has completely improved before you can go out with him with confidence. ...."

For my 11-year-old self, I want to persuade 16-year-old Huang Ying. There are many words that are not suitable for her to say. It may be here.The girl's IQ was lowered because of her pregnancy, so she could only remind her family that Huang Ying's mother should discipline her for such things.But there are many words that she can't say to a big girl, and she doesn't know if Jinsha has corrected her mistakes.However, Huang Ying's persuasion to her mother had little effect, and Liu Tao also understood this. Most girls in love are like this, not to mention Jin Sha's going to Goulanyuan, Liu Tao did not treat Huang Ying and her for the sake of Jin Sha's reputation. Mom made it very clear.

On this day, after he discussed with Brother Jin Yang, the construction of a house on the east side of the compound, which he had planned long ago, started. It will be used as a processing workshop for crispy rice, and they will process new products designed by themselves by hand.

The two hypothesized; considering that after the house is built, all the tools for processing the rice crust must be prepared in advance, so as to save time, you have to wait for the tools and raw materials, such as the flat-bottomed iron pot and the flat-bottomed rice crust forming spoon, and you have to go to Fucheng in advance It is scheduled to be processed in the iron workshop.The oil and rice for making crispy rice should be bought back.

This time, she told Huang Ying that she and Jin Yang had no time now. Considering that Jin Sha had studied in Fucheng and was familiar with it, she asked Huang Ying and Jin Shan to go to Fucheng on their behalf, and gave Jinshan 50 taels of silver.The two of them went into the city together in Uncle Liu's carriage to pick up the goods.This time the two were given a chance to get along alone, Huang Ying was a little overjoyed when she thought that the two would visit Fucheng together.The carriage drove all the way to Fucheng, Huang Ying could only flirt with Jin Shan because of Uncle Liu's presence.Time passed quickly, and we arrived at the back door of Yushanju before noon.It happened that shopkeeper Jin was talking to a food delivery man, so Jin Sha greeted him.Jin Sha's father-in-law had already paid him back the money that Jin Sha owed to the shopkeeper, so Jin Sha didn't feel so embarrassed, but the shopkeeper Jin glanced at Huang Ying who was full of love for Jin Sha, and there was a trace of sympathy in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)