farmer's daughter

Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Or just pawn the grain in the field

After the elders spoke, everyone was quiet.Hong still didn't get up.Sitting on the ground sobbing and crying:
"Father, you have to decide for Chengzu. Your eldest grandson has given you face! You can't just ignore it!"

After the old Mr. Shen stunned the whole family, he smoked a cigarette and didn't talk.It can be seen that he is thinking about what to do?The grandson's entrance examination is the most important thing, and it cannot be ignored.But the family really ran out of money, and it was impossible to listen to Hong's words and sell their granddaughter.

Old Mr. Shen is not so confused that he listens to Hong's everything.Where is the money going to come from?

Hong continued to cry there.Shen Chengzong was arguing with everyone.I was still eating, until I finished the vegetable soup with fried meat, and put the chopsticks on my hand heavily.Roared to:
"Why are you arguing? Didn't Third Uncle come back? Isn't he working in the Yamen? Isn't it the end of the month? Ask Third Uncle to come back with money!"

Shen Sanzhu said in a deep voice:

"My monthly salary is handed over to my mother. Only in the last two months, because I changed the county magistrate, I haven't received my monthly salary. I will give it to my family when I get it later."

Upon hearing this, Hong immediately said bitterly:

"Let me just say, why is there no money in the family now, even if the big family eats for nothing, even if they have ten thousand family wealth, they will be emptied!"

Shen Sanzhu stood up and said loudly:
"Sister-in-law speaks with conscience! Who is poor for this family? Who can't tell where the money is used? Ask Mother, who used the money I gave her before? Ask Cheng Zu, what did he do with the money? You didn’t know that you didn’t go to the town, but Chengzu used the family’s hard-earned money to drink flowers and wine. Does he still look like a scholar?”

Hearing the words, old Mr. Shen turned his head to look at Shen Chengzu. After all, Shen Chengzu was only in his teens, and he had done these things in the first place, so he couldn't tell a lie.I just looked left and right in a panic.I don't know what to say.It was clear at a glance that what Shen Sanzhu said was true.

Old Shen's heart sank, it seems that this child really did those things?After Shen Chengzu looked around, he stood up suddenly and said:

"Master, I went there, but I didn't do anything I shouldn't do. It was because of a classmate's birthday that day, and everyone went there. I just went to see the excitement, and it wasn't my money. , Where did I get so much money? It was from my classmate’s family. I always knew that it was not easy for our family to get money. See that gentleman, I will not come back until next month, but I don't have enough money to pay a visit to that gentleman. It is related to my exam next year."

The little bit of doubt that old man Shen had just had was completely defeated by the aggrieved look on his grandson's face.He reached out and patted his grandson on the shoulder, motioned him to sit down and said, his attitude showed that he believed him.

Shen Erzhu and his wife and Shen Sanzhu glanced at each other.He didn't speak, but he felt sad for his father's eccentricity.

Old man Shen is also worried.With no money, how can this grandson go to school to find a good husband?You can't let the grandson give up halfway.But he couldn't do what Hong said just now about selling his daughter.

He also knew in his heart that what the third child said was right, that Shen Laowu's daughter-in-law was not a good thing in the first place, no matter how bad the girls in his family were, no one would be pointed out by outsiders.

The third child is also right in saying that if he really does sell his daughter, even the grandson's reputation for studying will be lost.Although I haven't read a book, I have listened to one or two operas when I went to the street these years.I also know that if your family has a bad reputation, even if you are admitted to school, the Shangguan will return you.

It's impossible to sell children and sell women.The Hong family only wanted money, and didn't care about the reputation of the scholar family at all.

As for borrowing money, from whom?The last time the eldest grandson came back to ask for money, I went to the clan with a cheeky face. The patriarch even called the clan elders to discuss it. Look at the key point, how much I am still a little proud in my tone.

But I didn't expect the clan elders to say that although the eldest grandson is the first child born in decades, he will not be the last. The conditions in the clan are inherently poor, and the rules cannot be broken.This is just a child who needs money from the clan. If a scholar is born, the clan will not be able to support his family!

In the end, the clan gave a hundred coppers, which was regarded as supporting such a scholar.When I came back, I sold the food in a fit of anger.Of course, after doing so much watching, old man Shen has a solid foundation in his heart even if he is angry.Anyway, there should be a harvest in a month or two.As long as the past two months can pass, besides, it is the time when wild vegetables grow wildly, and it is not impossible to eat two more meals of wild vegetables.How many years have been like this.

But I didn't expect that the eldest grandson would come back to ask for money before the autumn harvest. This time, old man Shen was really worried.Now there is no more grain, and the family has no copper.The day before yesterday my old wife was still saying that there was no more salt at home.This salt is indispensable.

For a while, the whole main room fell silent.They are all waiting for the old man to speak.At this time, Shen Chengzu stood up sensiblely, picked up the rice bowl in front of his grandfather and wiped the side with his hands casually, then went to the copper pot to pour water, and handed it to old man Shen with both hands.Old man Shen couldn't help but look up at the eldest grandson in front of him.It is true that children who have read books for a few days are different, they are sensible.

Old man Shen thought for a while, knocked on his cigarette bag and said:

"Last time I went to the clan and wanted to borrow some money from the clan, but the clan didn't borrow money. But if Chengzu is really admitted as a scholar in the future, it will be different. Our family's difficulty now is that Here it is. There is no more food at home. Or I just pawned the food in the field, which is food for the coming year."

Speaking of this, old man Shen paused, but he saw that, except for Shen Dazhu's family, everyone had objections to the old man wanting to pawn the grain in the field.All of them raised their heads and stared at Old Man Shen.If old man Shen really said that he had pawned the food, he would definitely do his best.

Or the authority of the patriarch at home is different, even if old man Shen deliberately stopped here to see everyone's faces, no one answered.On this point, old man Shen was still secretly satisfied.

This is one thing that makes him proud, this is his tutor!Often when talking with other old men, I mainly mention my tutor.Especially after a child was born at home.Even if the clan discusses something, old man Shen will be called to attend.Although he is not a clan elder yet.

(End of this chapter)