Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 110

Yang did not answer Ge Taohua's question, but looked at the bowl of sesame seeds in her hand, and asked with a tense face, "You brought this for Feng'er?"

Ge Taohua poured sesame seeds into an empty bowl on the stove, and said with a smile: "I know that my second brother sold all the sesame seeds, so I brought a bowl. Hey, you are frying meat."

Yang snorted coldly, "Isn't that right, we all have meat tonight, and I'll ask Song Qiu and Sui Er to come over and taste a few pieces later, but you and Tong Er won't have any share."

Ge Taohua blushed and smiled, it seemed that her mother-in-law already knew about her food storage.

Mrs. Yang glanced at her, and said again: "Hurry up and bring back the food hidden in Qiu Ju's house, don't let Qiu Ju and his man scoop up a few catties of food secretly. You are afraid that your family will take your food, but Don't let outsiders take advantage of it!"

Ge Taohua wanted to pick it just now, but she was afraid of being bumped into by her family, so she planned to pick it in the dark at night. Hearing what her mother-in-law said, everyone seemed to know.Since she was able to do this, she was not afraid of being talked about by everyone, so she said bluntly: "Mother, don't be angry, the second brother uses your grain to cook Laba porridge for beggars, aren't you as anxious as I am?"

After hearing this, Qian Feng quickly responded: "Sister-in-law, you can't call them beggars anymore, they are now the workshop workers in my stone workshop, how does it sound, does it sound good?"

Ge Taohua smiled perfunctorily, "It sounds good, it sounds good!"

Then she explained to her mother-in-law, "Mother, if you think about it, I still have two children to raise, and I have to feed my stomach every day. I can't care about today and ignore tomorrow like the second brother. If the second brother today If he really didn't make any money, wouldn't he have to worry about having no rice for the pot tomorrow?"

Yang said slowly and expressionlessly: "You are right, but I, a mother, will help him so that I won't see him and pomegranate starving. You, just live your own life, live your life." I'm happy if I'm doing well, but if I'm not doing well, don't expect Feng'er to help you in the future. Anyway, the family has been separated, and each has its own life. In your eyes, I guess you don't have me as a mother-in-law."

Ge Taohua stood there in embarrassment, not knowing how to reply.

Qian Feng knew that gossiping between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is the easiest way to distract the family, so he said to each other, "Sister-in-law, mother, she just talked about it. If you really have any difficulties with your eldest brother, will mother ignore it? Mother, Don't blame sister-in-law, sister-in-law said last time that she was hungry when she was a child, and what she feared most was starvation, so of course she has to protect her little food."

After Qian Feng finished speaking, he shouted out: "Songqiu, Sui'er, come over and eat meat, each person only has four pieces of meat, and if there is too much, I won't eat."

Shiliu just saw her mother-in-law and sister-in-law talking in a strange way, she had been sitting under the stove and dared not intervene, but now that Qian Feng said that her mother was a knife talker and that it was not easy for her sister-in-law, she was even more confused. Which side does Qian Feng help?

At this moment, Songqiu and Sui'er ran in, and Ge Taohua didn't want to argue with her mother-in-law, so she went down a step and said to Mrs. Yang, "Mother, I'll listen to you, so I'll go and fetch the food."

Ge Taohua went out after saying that. Seeing that Yang's face was still slumped, Shiliu took a piece of meat from the pot and stuffed it into Yang's mouth, "Mother, does it smell good? Is your face so slumped?" It looks good when you smile. My sister-in-law just brought a bowl of sesame seeds, and she is not stingy."

Yang's mouth was scalded by the meat stuffed by the pomegranate, "Oh, pomegranate...you want to burn me to death."

Songqiu and Sui'er laughed when they saw it, and Pomegranate was frightened, "Mom, are you okay?"

Mrs. Yang paused for a while, and said, "I'm not really angry with your sister-in-law, I'm just trying to make fun of it. Over the years, she and I have often quarreled, but I forgot about it when I turned around, it's still the same. Talk. After all, we are a family, and we don’t see each other all day long. Huh? Where did I just say? Being disturbed by your sister-in-law, I forgot the serious business.”

Qian Feng then asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's about being pregnant! Your sister-in-law got sick as soon as she married into our family. She fainted when she went to the river to wash clothes. Your father and I thought she was dying. I took out all the money I got to treat her illness, and invited the doctor in the town to come and see him, and asked Uncle Xiang to go to the county to find a doctor. Later, the family ran out of money, and your sister-in-law's health gradually improved. Half a year later, she Didn’t she become pregnant with a pinecone? Look at how strong your sister-in-law is now, all because she can have enough food at home.”

Song Qiu immediately raised his head and replied, "My mother said that she died of starvation at grandma's house."

Yang said with a smile: "Isn't that right, there must be something wrong with starvation."

Turning around, she said to Qian Feng: "Feng'er, you see that pomegranate is so strong, she can eat and drink every day, it's not a good sign that she is not pregnant, you two often go to the county, When you have time, find a good doctor and take a closer look, buy some medicine and drink to recuperate your body."

Qian Feng thought to himself, what kind of medicine do you take if you are not sick? How can you drink medicine indiscriminately? In order to deal with Mrs. Yang, he nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, I will definitely take her to see the doctor when I go back to the county. Is this okay?"

Yang was speechless now, and looked at Shiliu's body again, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

The weather is getting colder, Qian Tong, Er Xi and others have burned a lot of charcoal on the mountain. They have been busy making baskets for the past two days, and put the charcoal in the baskets. They counted more than 200 baskets. , but there are tens of thousands of catties.In the past few years, a basket of charcoal could only be sold for ten yuan, but the price has increased in the past two years, and a basket can be sold for 25 yuan.

Last time Qian Feng bought four baskets of charcoal on credit and sent them to Zhang Lizheng. This time he had money in hand and returned it to his elder brother.

Qian Tong held a hundred Wen coins in his hand and said, "I have to give this one hundred Wen coins to Uncle Xiang first, and then divide the money after all the charcoal is sold out. Let us forget it, and we can sell a total of more than 5000 Wen coins, a total of ten Six people, apart from having some food and drink on the way, it is estimated that each person can earn two hundred Wen."

Qian Feng said proudly: "Brother, you have been working for more than half a month, and you still have to spend more than ten days selling charcoal, which means that you can only earn two hundred yuan a month. Why don't you work with me?" Well, my workshop workers earn one hundred wen in half a month, and they eat three meals a day from me, so you have been eating from your own for half a month, right?"

However, Qian Tong felt quite satisfied, "If the charcoal can be sold out, it would be good to get more than 200 coins, and we can have a good year. By the way, each of us can get six baskets of charcoal. Isn't this the same as earning money?" Here? Tomorrow, I will bring you back and give you and your mother two baskets, so this winter won’t be cold.”

(End of this chapter)