Chapter Sixty-Four: The Hanging Strings of Money
When Zhao Mingzhe and the others came back, Mu Zhen had already prepared the meal, and while eating, Mu Zhen told them about it
It seems that these days are still a little busy, and everyone eats a lot faster than usual
"Qi Niang, the uphill and downhill road is not easy to walk, please take Yiqing to watch the house in the house, just the three of us will go" He Laosan was alone in the house, and Mu Zhen couldn't rest assured
"Okay, don't worry, there's nothing else to do in the house," Qi knew that she couldn't leave the house, and besides, after a few years of serious illness, her body and bones were not as strong as young people
"Trouble, Qi Niang, remember to turn over to my father-in-law, cut the fish that Mingzhe beat and left two, I boiled the soup at noon and drank the rest, and put the rest there, I came back and castrated it, and when the time came, Yang dried up and ate"
After instructing the Qi family, Mu Zhen set off with Zhao Mingzhe and Zhao Baoxia
When Mu Zhen and the others arrived at Jinshan's house, the husband and wife had already picked a few large baskets of green beans and came back, and the water also boiled a big pot
"Sister-in-law Hongmei, it looks like the green beans in your field are growing well," Mu Zhen said with a smile after glancing at the green beans pushed by Hongmei Hall
Hongmei wiped the sweat on her forehead with her hand and said with a smile: "I'm still average, I didn't think much of a big deal when I planted it at that time, you asked someone to pick up a few big dung a few times later, and the long ones were applauded, by the way, Zhenniang, these green beans were also picked back, what should I do now?"
Geumsan's sister Jin Lian continued: "That's right, Zhenniang, so many green beans are piled up in the middle of the house, and they all have a fever, maybe they will rot by tomorrow morning."
Jin Lian's words didn't mean to accuse Mu Zhen, for Mu Zhen, she actually liked it a lot, Jinshan, their family can grow so many green beans, and Jin Lian has played a big role
I remember that at that time, although Hongmei bought the seeds of green beans under the persuasion of Mu Zhen, she did not dare to plant them
After all, their ancestors have used the land to grow crops for generations, and now they suddenly have to use these acres to grow these useless things, what if they lose money when the time comes
Jin Lian knew what her brother and sister-in-law thought, and said: "Brother and sister-in-law, don't you see that other people's Zhenniang has bought more than ours, and the life in the house is more sad than ours, they are not afraid of what you are afraid of, besides, don't you think it is useless for Zhenniang to get those Tsubaki buds last time, you go and see now, except for people who keep them for their own food, I guarantee that you can't find more."
I heard Jin Lian say this, Jinshan and his wife planted it
At this time, everyone didn't know that it was Ying Jinlian's inexplicable trust in Mu Zhen that made her future family property not worse than that of her brother and sister-in-law
Mu Zhen said to Zhao Mingzhe and Zhao Baozhu: "Mingzhe, you and the Jinshan brothers will go to the field to pick the four of us and wash them in the house."
Then he said to Hongmei: "Sister-in-law, do you have a steamer in the house, and after washing, put it in the steamer and steam it."
"There are steamers, but we only have four slots."
Mu Zhen looked at the green beans in the underground pile and asked, "This is a lot of picking."
Hongmei thought for a while and said, "I guess I haven't picked half of it."
"That's probably not enough, Baozhu and I will wash in the house first, you go and ask which house to come and how many grids to come."
The division of labor between the several people was almost up, and when the first basket was steamed, the two men came back with two more baskets
But fortunately, steamed green beans are not steamed buns, probably they washed the next cage and the previous cage was steamed
Next, the steamed green beans were dried under the sun, and Mu Zhenjiang had already told Hongmei, and she went to ask others to borrow a few fences, so there was also a place to dry
It's just that the red plum is borrowing a steamer and a fence, which naturally arouses the curiosity of others
"Hongmei, what are you doing with so many green beans" The woman who spoke was Hongmei's neighbor, the same family that helped Mu Zhen move with Jinshan last time and sent fifty yuan, and everyone in the village called her Changgen, daughter-in-law, surnamed Liu, and called Liu Feng
"Oh, the green beans I bought this year grow well, they are all ripe in the past two days, and we can't finish eating them, so we will dry them in the sun, and there will be no greens in winter, and it will be a bowl of good vegetables," Hongmei did not say that this was what she planned to sell, whether she planned to sell it or not, or a question, don't let people laugh at that time
The long-rooted daughter-in-law also heard for the first time that the green beans can also be dried and kept for the winter, "Can you eat this dried in the sun, Mo is as dry as the leaves of the tree, and when it is dry, it will crumble into slag when touched, so what's the matter?"
As for what it will look like after this is dried, Hongmei doesn't know, "I don't know, this is not the first time to try it first, no, I'm thinking of something else."
After chatting a few words, Liu Feng also went back to the countryside, and there was no time to really be idle
The six of them were busy for more than an hour before steaming and drying all the green beans in these dozen baskets
Although Hongmei didn't know what price it would sell, she was infected by Mu Zhen's hard work, looking at so many green beans, her red face was full of smiles, "Zhen Niang, you helped me all morning, you see if you go to your field to pick green beans or eat rice and then go."
Mu Zhen looked at the sun and said: "Let's go now, it's still early, I'm afraid that it will rain by then, and even the things in the field will be ruined."
Mu Zhen said this, and everyone took their homes and went to the field with them
"Jin Lian, your brother and sister-in-law just help me, you can watch the house in the house, after all, so many things are outside, remember, wait for Ming'er, so some of them will be turned over, and then you don't have to worry about it."
"It's also Xiaolian, you're in the house, I'll go with your sister-in-law," it was Geumsan Muzhen who spoke, so he reminded him that it was indeed someone in the house who had to guard the door
Although Jin Lian wanted to be with Mu Zhen very much, but her brother had spoken, but she couldn't leave in the house, so she had to stay: "That's okay, I'll stay in the house today, Ming'er's sister-in-law is in the house, I'll go to help Zhenniang, my hands and feet are not slower than my sister-in-law."
Jin Lian's eager appearance made Hongmei laugh, "You didn't even see you stammering so much to your sister-in-law, it's really a white-eyed wolf."
Jin Lian knew that her sister-in-law would not care about these things with her, and urged them to leave with a smile
As Hongmei said, the green beans of Muzhen's family are better than Hongmei's parents, thick and long
Although Zhao Baozhu was no different from her subordinates when she was in the Zhao family, what she would do was some work at home, and it was impossible for the rich man Zhao to drive his daughter to work in the field and let others gossip
So Zhao Baozhu really doesn't know where these green beans grow
Looking at the strings of strings of green beans hanging there, Zhao Baozhu asked: "The strings hanging on the vines are the string beans, I don't know where it grows."
Seeing Zhao Baozhu's curious appearance, Mu Zhen quipped: "That string is not green beans, it's money."
Mu Zhen's appearance of the old god made everyone laugh, Hongmei smiled and patted her, "You're losing money, aren't you?"
Mu Zhen didn't feel embarrassed about Hongmei's jokes, and said with a smile: "I didn't drop the money, but I only had money in my eyes."
Talking and laughing, a few people began to move
Unlike the Geumsan family, before a few people came to the field, Mu Zhen asked Hongmei to borrow five scissors, after all, their house was far away, it was inconvenient to borrow things, and Mu Zhen bought more seeds than Hongmei's, and it was inconvenient to put all these things on the fence to dry
So Mu Zhen asked everyone to cut the rattan with scissors, and when the time came, the wire was threaded from the rope and dried one by one, so that it was relatively simple to collect and dry
After the five men cut two baskets, Geumsan and Cho Ming-cheol carried the items to the rock house first, and then the three of them continued to cut in the field
"Mingzhe, you go back and talk to Aunt Qi, let her boil a pot of water, wait, and then ask her if there is any thread and rope she kneaded on the soles of her shoes, if she doesn't have trouble, she will rub some more."
When Zhao Mingzhe was about to get up and leave, Mu Zhen instructed
"Okay, don't worry"
"Eh, isn't this Zhen Niang and Hongmei, there are so many green beans planted in this field, only yours, how many are yours, how many are yours, how can you eat them?"
I just met Changgen's daughter-in-law in the house, and now I met Changgen again
Others helped themselves so much last time, and there is still a favor owed by Mu Zhen smiled: "It's Brother Changgen, this is going uphill, or do you have to go back from the field."
"The general who went back went to the field to take a turn, this year Chen Hao didn't hang anything, the wind didn't get anything, and there was no heavy rain, but there were a lot of wild boars and pig badgers, and the land in my kiln bay made these beasts a lot of waste," Changgen said quite distressed
"That's right, I thought that I would harvest a few hundred catties of grain this year, but I didn't know that these beasts would not fill in the living people," Hongmei also said helplessly, and her own land was also ruined by those beasts
"Alas, there's no way, before the bud valley moved, I had to go and watch it night and night, okay, you're busy, I'm going back."
Seeing that Changgen was about to leave, Mu Zhen hurriedly caught up and said: "Brother Changgen, it's not a good thing to eat the green beans with a basket back, it's not too little."
Changgen had a basket on his body, and Mu Zhen poured it to him in his own basket
"Alas, Zhenniang, why is this embarrassing, I want to know that you are too detailed, so you should take a detour," but Mu Zhen Changgen pretended to be annoyed and said
Mu Zhen smiled and said, "Oh, it's not a good thing, if you finish eating, you can pick it yourself."
"Okay, I'll pick it up after eating, and I'll eat it every day, see if you dare to be so generous," Changgen also smiled and joked with Mu Zhen
Mu Zhen, who knew that Changgen was telling a joke, didn't care, and said that there were so many green beans, as long as they didn't get tired of eating them, whatever they wanted