Chapter 16 Soft and hard
Aunt Wang couldn't help Feng Shanyue's current situation, although she was not afraid of the village chief's family, there was no need to fight him. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info After she went back, Feng Shanyue closed the courtyard door, returned to the bedroom, and began to rummage through the cabinets to see how much money her mother left for her in this spring and March, which can be so coveted.
She rummaged for a long time, and finally found a few jade rings, jade pendants or something, and a large bag of shells in a small wooden box. The backs of these shells were smoothed and strung together in size, Feng Shanyue looked at it for a long time, and said to herself: "This should be the shell coin that the woman said, right? Tomorrow, I will go to Aunt Wang and ask how many things I can buy. β
The next day, Feng Shanyue took the youngest shell coin to Aunt Wang's house and said to her, "Auntie, there is no food at home, I want to buy some." But my mother used to be in charge of this, and I didn't understand. Can you help me see how much food this can be exchanged for?"
Aunt Wang was cooking, she hurriedly washed her hands, took the shell coin and looked at it, "You are a shell, it's worth thirty, and it can't be used in our poor mountain village." β
"Why? Can't this be exchanged?"
"Of course you can. Aunt Wang returned the shell coin to Feng Shanyue, "But this shell coin can be exchanged for a strand of sorghum rice, except for the big households, no one has so much extra food!"
"Yiyi?" Feng Shanyue was at a loss, the good woman had a limited memory, so he told himself about the palace, and he never mentioned this kind of trivial life at all.
Aunt Wang shook her head, this child was really raised by her mother so naΓ―ve, she didn't even know how much grain she had. She picked up the gourd spoon for scooping grain, "Look, this gourd is one liter, one bucket is ten liters, and one rope is sixteen buckets.
Feng Shanyue scooped a spoonful of sorghum rice from the jar and estimated it, about more than a catty, which is almost two hundred catties per thread. It seems that the grain output in this era is indeed not high, and even a family with a few strong laborers like Aunt Wang's family can't get 200 catties of surplus grain.
Feng Shanyue stuffed the shellfish into her belt and put it away, and asked Aunt Wang, "Then how should I buy food?"
Aunt Wang also knew that Chun Jiuniang, the mother of Spring March, was alone with her children, and she came to this village from outside to settle down, so she naturally couldn't farm. The previous food was also raised by chickens to lay eggs, little by little to get back, after her death, the spring and March slowly killed these chickens to eat, and now they can only exchange shell coins for food.
"Well, I'll ask the boss to take you to the market tomorrow, hoping that someone will come and sell the grain, so you can buy some back. You go back and look for it again, and see if your mother has left you a smaller shell coin, otherwise if people have little food and no shell coins to look for you, you still can't buy it. β
Feng Shanyue nodded, ready to go home, Aunt Wang hurriedly took out a basin-sized clay pot, filled it with two spoonfuls of sorghum rice, and handed it to Feng Shanyue: "Come, eat this first." β
Feng Shanyue hurriedly refused, "Auntie, your family has a large population, where is the surplus food? I'll go back and look for it, maybe my mother hid the grain somewhere." β
"Okay, don't be polite to your aunt. Your mother also changed a little to eat, how can there be any surplus food!" Feng Shanyue couldn't, so she had to go home with a clay pot.
As soon as he walked out of the gate of Wang's house, he saw Qian Guihua pulling Nie Panshi and walking in a hurry, and shouted from afar: "March, March, wait for my aunt!"
Feng Shanyue had no choice but to stop, waited for her to come to her, and asked, "Auntie, is there anything wrong with you?"
Qian Guihua wiped the sweat on her head: "I'll come to see if you're okay, by the way, I will arrest this kid and apologize to you! Quick, apologize to March! If it weren't for you, March wouldn't have fallen into the pond." β
Feng Shanyue took a closer look at this Nie Panshi, he looked very strong, and his eyebrows were also beautiful, but the horizontal strength made people not like it, and he dragged it to twenty-five or eighty-thousand.
Feng Shanyue tugged at the corners of her mouth and said, "Auntie is polite, it's just a child's fight, I won't take it to heart." β
Nie Panshi immediately raised his eyebrows and said fiercely: "Stinky girl, who do you say is a child?"
Feng Shanyue looked Nie Panshi up and down, with mockery in her eyes. Nie Panshi immediately jumped to his feet, "Stinky girl, dare to look at me like this, see that my Uncle Panshi doesn't clean you up!" This custom of Niejia Village, no matter how old or young, whenever there is a fight, the man will call himself uncle, and the woman will call himself grandma.
Qian Guihua hurriedly grabbed him, "What are you doing? March is your future daughter-in-law, you can't be so fierce." β
"What daughter-in-law? I don't want this kind of stinky girl!" Nie Panshi roared angrily.
Feng Shanyue also said with a straight face: "Auntie, it's better not to talk about this kind of thing casually." After all, it is related to the reputation of your young master. β
Qian Guihua is not a fool, of course she can hear that this means that it will damage the woman's reputation, and hurriedly smiled: "Then let's go back to your house and say, it is not good to see people coming and going on this road." β
Feng Shanyue felt that there was no need to tear her face now, so she took the lead and walked home with a clay pot, and Qian Guihua desperately grabbed the reluctant Nie Panshi and followed behind.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, Qian Guihua asked, "March, are you exchanging grain from the Wang family?"
Feng Shanyue shook her head, "Aunt Wang gave it to me." β
"You don't have any food?"
"Hmm. β
Nie Panshi pursed his lips, "Hmph, poor ghost, you don't even have food, just wait to starve to death." β
Feng Shanyue smiled, although her real age was only seventeen years old, she was really too lazy to be angry with this eleven-year-old child. Qian Guihua was very happy to see her forbearance, and she didn't know her son's temper, so she had to find a woman who could tolerate it. Besides, Qian Guihua looked around at this very magnificent house in her eyes, and couldn't help but imagine how comfortable she felt when she moved in!
"Oh, you kid, you're polite to your aunt. If I have no food, I will go to my aunt's house to get it, if my aunt is not talking big, my family will have surplus food in this village. β
Feng Shanyue said politely: "Thank you, auntie, I will go to the market with Brother Wang tomorrow to buy grain." β
"You say Boss Wang?" Qian Guihua's face suddenly faded.
"Yes. β
Qian Guihua began to ponder, although the Wang family and the Chun March family were neighbors before, their relationship was not very close, why are the two families fighting so hotly now? Could it be that the Wang family is also fighting with the same idea as herself?
Thinking of this, Qian Guihua said to Feng Shanyue with a sincere face: "March, listen to my aunt's advice, don't get too close to the Wang family, they see that you are alone and have such a good house, they must be beating your idea." Don't look at his family, there are four sons, all of them are unproductive and unreliable. You are a daughter-in-law who is favored by your aunt, and your aunt will take care of you in the future. β
This is really a thief shouting to catch a thief, Feng Shanyue scolded in her heart, but said with a smile in her mouth: "Aunt Wang also looks at me pitiful, March is just an orphan girl, where can people look at it?"