After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, everyone talked together again, but there were several children in each family who made a fuss, so let everyone go back first. After www.biquge.info Lin Yujuan returned to her home with her family, she went to bed after freshening up. The weather is too cold, and I don't take it so seriously. The family is three adobe rooms, and the parents take their youngest brother to live in the east house, and they sleep with their older siblings in the west house. There are two simple beds made of wooden planks in the west room, Lin Yujuan and her sister sleep on one of the beds inside, and a curtain is drawn in the middle, and her brother sleeps on the bed outside.

Hmm~ I used to read novels, and I always said that the ancients paid attention to the difference between men and women at the age of seven. No wonder it is said that the rich and noble have big rules, but this poor family does not have that condition if they want to have rules. In a few years, if the eldest brother wants to marry his daughter-in-law, he will have to build a new house, otherwise he will not be able to live in it.

But I heard that it costs more than ten or twenty taels of silver to build a tiled house here. Relying on his father to work in the kiln, he only has five or six taels of silver a year. It sounds like a lot, but with such a large number of people in the family, it will cost more than half of the daily expenses to save money, and there is not much money left. One season of rice and one season of wheat on three acres of land are not enough for even food rations. The yield of rice per mu is three or four hundred catties per mu, which is a good year, and there are no pests in the wind and rain. The wheat is even less, and one acre of land is only two or three hundred catties.

People here don't like to eat pasta, and most of the wheat is used to pay rent. The rice is only about 1,000 catties a year, and the rice is even less, and there is not enough food for a family of six. Every time I cook porridge, I add all kinds of coarse grains, such as dried sweet potatoes, red beans, taro and the like. It is in line with the modern concept of healthy eating. is that the intake of protein is seriously insufficient, and I am usually willing to buy meat to eat, at most once or twice a month. And the rice and thick porridge are all eaten tightly by my father. Because he does manual work.

Thinking of Chungmi, Lin Yujuan felt extremely bitter in her heart. Purely handmade, the rice husk is loosened with a wooden stick, and then the dustpan is used to raise it back and forth several times against the wind. Lin Yujuan was tired watching from the sidelines, and it was really not a good feeling to think that one day she would have to do such a job. What could be done in a few minutes in the future now takes a lot of manpower to complete.

After thinking about it for a while, he fell asleep, and as soon as he opened his eyes in the morning, he was stuffed with a candy in his mouth by the eldest sister: "Eat quickly, you can only speak after eating, sister wishes my sister good health, the longer she grows, the more beautiful she is." Lin Yujuan obediently finished eating the whole candy before speaking. This is so sweet, Lin Yujuan and her brothers and sisters gave their parents New Year's greetings and then ate morning tea and went to their grandfather's house to pay New Year's greetings.

There are many grandchildren, and the red envelopes that each person gets mean one penny per person. Lin Yujuan also carefully put it away, she has been in this world for so long. It's only now that I have such a penny. Money, money, Lin Yujuan felt that she was about to become a wealth obsesser.

Think about other crossing women, as soon as they arrive in the countryside, they will immediately divide their families to earn silver and fight for the best. It's a lot of fun to be busy.

Look here, well, the mountains are not. So don't expect to pick mushrooms and sell them. It is as if people can't pick all the mushrooms every day, or catch rabbits, hunt tigers and hunt bears, and so on. Lin Yujuan thought about it, and she couldn't plagiarize. If there are really mountains, we can't do this job.

It's not the fish caught in the river, it's really good to beat the roe deer and scoop the fish. You can scoop it here with a scoop, but unfortunately it's only a finger's size.

Most of the rivers here are two or three meters deep, and the Taedong River at the northern point is estimated to be five or six meters. The current is gentle and the water is wide, and you can only fish with a net or hook. Where will this Lin Yujuan be.

Making soap? Lin Yujuan remembered reading the novel at that time, some people used straw ash and lard to make soap, and thought it was a lie, and she specially ordered the soap method. It turned out that it was not wrong, but the alkalinity of the plant ash was not very strong. Until now, I only remember that it was fat strengthened alkali and then saponified for many days, but I haven't actually operated it. I don't know how to get it, is the edible alkali a strong alkali? Have the money to try it later? It seems that the corrosiveness of alkali is also quite strong, what should I do if it flies to my face?

Food whiz? Lin Yujuan can only eat, and most of them can't cook. This cooking job needs to be practiced. She also didn't believe that she could sell a few taels of silver if she took a recipe to run a restaurant. And then what partnership divides the silver equally? It is estimated that someone will be slapped in the face with a rag. The chef takes a few looks, and two bites are not enough to make eight or nine.

Embroidered purse, tie the string? Don't be whimsical, rich families have embroidery girls, and it's not trivial to do these things while your daughters are in charge of housework. It's no better than what you countrymen do. Poor people who don't have money won't buy it, just make one that can be used. If you can embroider, you can embroider two, and if you can't embroider, you don't need a purse? What kind of thing is Luozi, the countryman said he didn't know. City people don't need it either. There may be one or two merchants passing by here to buy one or two purses, but the odds are too small to make money. There is no way to make money, Du Niang, Du Niang, do you know that I miss you very much.

I don't want to talk about it after the New Year first. On the second day of junior high school, the eldest aunt and the third aunt went back to their parents' homes. The eldest aunt has only one elder brother, and her father and mother went early to grow up with her brother since she was a child. It's time to go to my uncle's house for the New Year.

The three aunts have both parents and many brothers. Maybe the third aunt inherited her mother's good birth and upbringing, and she also gave birth to several sons. And the third aunt herself is also a strong and capable person, she has many sons, and her mother's family has a backer, so the two sisters-in-law didn't take it seriously.

What about Lin Yujuan's mother, Qi? Daughters-in-law from outside, hundreds of miles away. I have never returned to my parents' house since I got married. I can't make bricks, so I can only work in the fields. I also gave birth to two sons, otherwise it would not be easy.

When it was almost lunchtime, the two aunts arrived at their grandfather's house. Lin Yujuan's family went to help early in the morning, and my aunt went back to the Qi family, the sister-in-law, to help. Anyway, there are no other relatives in the family to move around.

The eldest aunt looks very much like her grandmother, and now she is estimated to be nearly thirty. You can still vaguely see the shadow of a beauty, it seems that grandma was really a beauty when she was young. The little aunt doesn't know who she looks like, with a big round face and a little big nostrils, and she looks very bad. There are five brothers and sisters, except for this little aunt, everyone else is good-looking. But it is very popular with grandma, and the grandma who coaxes her to obey is obedient.

Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth Lantern Festival. I heard that there is a lantern festival in the town, but the road is far away at night, and the weather is still cold, and the big guys don't want to see it. After the Lantern Festival, the year is over, and the farmers in the countryside began to pack up their farm tools again, ready to work in the spring.

In February, the weather still felt so cold, but the plants began to sprout and grow leaves. There were a lot of shepherd's cabbage growing in the wheat field, and people began to dig them up and try them. Lin Yujuan, who was full of money, wondered if she could sell some wild vegetables?

Just do it, the spring is bright these days, and the wheat field is not so wet. Lin Yujuan dragged her sister Xiujuan to dig camellia in her wheat field. At this time, the wheat seedlings were still very low and not afraid of stepping on them, and Lin Yujuan brainwashed her sister while digging the shepherd's cabbage with a small sickle.

"Sister, the shepherd's cabbage here is so big, we've all dug half a basket in just a while. You said that we countrymen are also very good, and we can dig in the field if we want to eat. You said what the townspeople would do if they wanted to eat purses or something. ”

"People in the town buy whatever they want to eat, and most of them are richer than us. Not all the businessmen, the rich, and the workshops live in the town. Lin Xiujuan felt the need to tell her little sister about it, it was too embarrassing for a child to have no knowledge at all.

"These vegetables and grains are all grown by the countrymen, but the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar are going to the town to buy. Well, the townspeople make sugar. We can't do it."

"Sister, do you think we can go and sell shepherd's cabbage? Then it's okay to change the sugar. ”

"That's right, the current shepherd's cabbage is fragrant, fresh and tender. I heard that people in the town like to wrap spring rolls with shepherd's cabbage, make dumplings and wontons or something. I had one at my grandmother's house two years ago. Hey, it's still stained with my sister-in-law's light grandma is willing to wrap it, but it's so fragrant. ”

Lin Yujuan saw that her sister was so cooperative, and felt that she couldn't miss the opportunity: "Sister, then let's fill these two baskets, the pressure is solid, and there is at most one bowl at home." We'll go to the town tomorrow to sell and see, and if we can't sell it, we'll bring it back. Anyway, it doesn't cost money to dig in the ground, but if you can sell it for a few pennies. If you think about it, we earn it ourselves, and we can buy candy to eat. It's time to go to town. ”

Although Lin Xiujuan is a sister, she is only a ten-year-old girl after the New Year. All year round, that is, you can eat a few candies every year. So the temptation of sugar is still great.

"Okay, let's try it out in town tomorrow. Let's dig quickly, and we'll dig some when we're done with lunch. ”

The two sisters dug up a basket of shepherd's cabbage and went home with a meal, and talked to their parents at the table during dinner. The two adults were skeptical, but they didn't stop them. Qi has a classic quotation: You can go to heaven if you want, but don't let me get you a ladder, let alone ask me for money. Anyway, it doesn't cost money, and if you can't sell it, you can bring it back to eat. Just play with the children, and now there is not much work at home.

Completely different from the parents' indifferent reaction, the two boys cheered. Sugar, I didn't see it, but what a beautiful thought. As long as you can sell the shepherd's cabbage, you will have a chance to buy candy to eat.

Little Brother Lin shouted directly: "Sister, can you really change sugar to eat?" You must take me tomorrow, but you must not sneak away. ”

Lin Yujuan felt that her head was big: "Then can you get up early tomorrow?" Can you go to town by yourself, the three of us can't hold you. It's a long way from home to town. Mom, it's a few miles away. ”

"Well, it seems like five or six miles away. Suo'er may not be able to walk, so I'll go to Gu Wangkou's house to ask if he will sell fish tomorrow. Father Lin Guilu saw that the four children were so happy and didn't want to disappoint the children, so he helped with ideas.

Qi Shi was worried again: "How many of you can weigh things?" Can you read the scale? There are rods and scales at home. It's hard to have no people. ”

"Mom, I usually watch everything you call from the side. Why don't you teach me and the jade buckle now. Lin Xiujuan didn't want tomorrow's plan to be aborted, so she dragged her eldest brother very seriously to learn how to use the scale. Lin Yujuan also hurried up to see where the stars were, where there was a catty, and where there was a tael. It took a lot of time to learn.

In the afternoon, the four sisters and brothers went to dig in the field for a while, adding up to more than ten catties in total. In the evening, I heard Lin Guilu say that I had negotiated with others, and I would bring a few children tomorrow.

Several children went to bed early at night, and Brother Lin also came from his parents to sleep with his brother. In the evening, there was a lively discussion for a while. Brother Lin even shouted in his dreams: "Sugar candy is so delicious, second sister, don't rob me of candy." Lin Yujuan's face darkened when she listened, do I usually rob you of something to eat? I'm a bad guy in a dream.