When they made up their minds to move to Fucheng a few days ago, the family had already packed up almost everything, and the rest were just small things that were commonly used every day, and the mother and daughter only spent a morning picking them up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are still a lot of things that Xu Xiangwan needs to do next, first of all, he has to go to the private school to quit Mr. Xiao Jiuxiang, and now the family is moving to Fucheng, and Xiao Jiu can only find another school in Fucheng; After so many days of getting along, Xu Xiangwan and Zhang both felt that the two of them were diligent, down-to-earth, and had a good temperament, so they signed a long-term employment contract with the two. Although Xu Xiangwan and they were leaving, there were still more than a dozen acres of land to take care of in Xujia Village, so it was naturally impossible to take the two away, so the food and accommodation of the two became a problem.

Fortunately, Xu Xiangwan signed a one-year contract when he was a tenant house with the clan, and now it has only been less than half a year, and there is still half a year for them to think of other ways.

In fact, Xu Xiangwan planned to build a house by himself, but now that they were going to Fucheng, they didn't know if the money was enough, so they could only put this idea on hold for the time being.

According to the current price level, one stone of rice is about 200 wen, one pound of pork is ten wen, and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are not more than 30 wen per month. So after Xu Xiangwan discussed with Zhang, he decided to give Chen and his wife 350 yuan per month as daily expenses, and save more for the next month, if it was not enough, let people send letters to Xu Xiangwan and them, and then send them back. The living expenses of 350 Wen are very good, and the Zhuang family has always saved, generally speaking, the expenses for half a year are not necessarily so much, and some are poor, and even can't spend so much in a year. I think when they first separated, didn't they only get a copper plate of 100 wen in the second room?

When Mr. and Mrs. Chen knew that Xu Xiangwan was willing to give them more than 300 wen a month as living expenses, they were moved to tears, and knelt on the ground with a "poof" and kowtowed to the three of them again and again to thank them.

The reason why she is willing to give so much living expenses is not that Xu Xiangwan is generous, she thinks more about other things. As long as the money can buy the loyalty of the two, she doesn't have to worry about the family's fields, she can sit back and enjoy the results, and she can always get the movements of Old Man Xu's family, isn't this the best of both worlds?

After arranging the affairs of the family, Xu Xiangwan went to the field to check again, and now the broad beans in the field have been harvested, and there are still six acres of peas and ten acres of soybeans left. Three acres of broad bean land were planted with two percent of potatoes, and three acres of land were planted with rice.

Xu Xiangwan originally wanted to try to grow some medicinal herbs by himself, but then he planned to move, so he didn't bother to think about it anymore, but just planted rice with the villagers.

Now she doesn't have time to take care of these places, so she handed them over to Chen and his wife. Although the two of them don't know how to grow new crops, they are good at planting some common things, and Xu Xiangwan is quite relieved to hand over the land to them.

Thinking about the care that Aunt Chen's family next door took care of them, Xu Xiangwan cut some fine muslin of different colors from home, probably able to make a dress for each of them, took a gilt silver hairpin, a pair of silver earrings with exquisite workmanship, and a silver bracelet, and then took a piece of pork belly about five catties from the kitchen, packed it in a basket and quietly sent it to Aunt Chen's house.

Since moving to the old house, Xu Xiangwan has been to Mrs. Chen's house a lot less, but every time they come to Mrs. Chen's house, they are very enthusiastic about themselves, because it is for them to send charcoal in the snow before, Xu Xiangwan is grateful to them in his heart.

When she arrived at Mrs. Chen's house, Chen Jiaying happened to pick vegetables in the yard, and when she saw Xu Xiangwan coming, she immediately smiled and said, "Sister Wan'er, since you moved to the old house, we haven't played together for a long time." How did you get here today? Are you planning to go next door? ”

Chen Jiaying's skin is a little dark, but her temperament is very straightforward, and her heart is kind, Xu Xiangwan likes this neighbor's sister very much.

"No, I can't hide from the people next door, where is the reason to take the initiative to move forward? Didn't I think I hadn't seen you in a long time, so I came here to hang out? Xu Xiangwan handed the basket in his hand to Chen Jiaying's hand and asked her to take it to the room and put it away.

Aunt Chen and Sister-in-law Chen walked out of the kitchen when they heard the sound, Sister-in-law Chen was still wearing a sackcloth around her waist, and Aunt Chen was also holding a water scoop in her hand, and she greeted Xu Xiangwan happily when she saw her.

"Come on, why do you still carry a basket? It's not easy for your family, don't always think about sending things to our house. "Aunt Chen is telling the truth, although she also knows that Xu Xiangwan has made some money, but the orphans and widows of the family, and there are two scholars, the expenses must be large, so every time Xu Xiangwan sends something, she only accepts some cheap vegetables grown in the field, and she has not received valuable things once.

Chen Jiaying was an anxious person, and saw that Xu Xiangwan had carried such a large basket of things, and it was covered with a piece of cloth, so he curiously lifted the coarse cloth covering the basket to see what was inside.

"Oops, so much stuff! Late girl, are you digging up gold? Chen Jiaying waited for the contents of the basket in surprise, so frightened that she hurriedly stuffed the basket into Xu Xiangwan's hand, and took a step back exaggeratedly, as if the basket in Xu Xiangwan's hand was something terrifying.

Xu Xiangwan saw Chen Jiaying's reaction and immediately laughed: "Sister Jiaying, what are you doing here?" The contents of this basket don't bite, what are you running backwards for? ”

Seeing Chen Jiaying's reaction, Aunt Chen and Sister-in-law Chen had never come to the yard, and they were also surprised when they saw the things in the basket.

Aunt Chen frowned and said with a slight reproach: "Later, what are you stupid boy doing with these things?" If you don't keep such a valuable thing well, why do you still give it away? ”

Sister-in-law Chen also nodded again and again, disapproving of Xu Xiangwan's approach. This basket not only contains a large piece of pork, but also a lot of muslin, their family's life is a good life in Xujia Village, but all year round they make two sets of coarse linen clothes, even if it is the New Year, it is just a set of coarse cloth clothes, when did you wear muslin?

knew that the Chen family must have reacted to this, Xu Xiangwan had to explain it well, and said that these cotton cloths were given to them by others, and there were still a lot of them at home, and they would be enough to wear clothes for a few years, so Aunt Chen reluctantly accepted the pork and cotton cloth.

As for those gold and silver jewelry, Aunt Chen said that she would not accept anything.

Xu Xiangwan thought about it and took these jewelry back, and secretly said in his heart that if there is anything that can help them in the future, he must help them, so he talked to them again and left. (To be continued.) )