CHAPTER XXV
Time passed like a noisy child.
Mu Lan has lived a very leisurely life in the past few months, no need to prepare three meals for a group of annoying spirits, since the light cotton has been sold, it is estimated that he is also thinking about the treatment of the field, and he has planted a season of summer grain, Donghua County has a good geographical location and two crops of grain a year, and each mu can produce four or five hundred catties of grain, and it will be harvested at the end of September.
Muli Muyi works as a blacksmith in the county, and what he does is the carrier of agricultural iron tools, based on this, the two families of Mulan and Mucheng have a lot of discounts when renting harvesting tools.
In order to be able to better make the carrier of iron tools, the temperature in the iron workshop is more than ten degrees higher than that outside, so every year in the hottest summer, all the official iron workshops in the southern part of Donghua County have to be closed for a month and a half, from late June to early August.
The students of Yuantang also attend classes from the beginning of July to the end of August in the summer, after all, the Yuantang in the county can't afford to use too many Bingyuan stones.
Bing Yuan Stone is a special product of Pingliang County in the north, the annual output is limited, the price is high, each palm-sized Bing Yuan Stone sells for more than 50 gold coins, its influence range is almost about five acres of land, according to the size of the Bing Yuan Stone can make the temperature of this part of the place drop from five to fifteen degrees.
It's mid-June, and it's so hot that you don't want to take half a step out of the shade.
The Mu family is also considered a wealthy family in the village, and the entire yard adds up to nearly two acres, but when the house was first divided, Mu Li Muyi was still young, and Xiao Zhao was not at ease at that time, and the courtyard on the east side of Badong was divided among the brothers on the grounds that the eldest son lived in the east.
Originally, the main courtyard was in the courtyard on the east side, and there was also a total of one acre of land.
However, before the separation, Old Man Mu replanned the entire courtyard on the grounds that the room he and Xiao Zhao lived in and the main hall belonged to the head of the family, and finally made it possible for the east courtyard of the main courtyard to be less than six points of land, and Old Man Mu and Xiao Zhao's children occupied double the land.
This incident was a sensation in Miki Village at the beginning, how could there be a father who was biased to such a point!
The east courtyard is small, so the Shen family didn't plant any vegetables in the yard, but just built a grape trellis next to the well, and now the grapes on it are bunches and they are pleasing to look at.
This grape is one of Mu Lan's favorite fruits after he came, and when these grapes are ripe, the whole family is there, and the people on the other side of the old yard are very quiet when the Mu Li Muyi brothers are here.
According to the grapevine of Wood Orange. This is because the old Sanmu Jian was once ruthlessly walked by the eldest uncle Muli because of his greed.
After hearing this, Mu Li felt that it was more likely that his father would beat him, who let his uncle keep his face tight from time to time! My own Abba is impulsive!
During this period, several boys from the Mu family also came back from Yuantang vacation twice, and during this time, they also had an unpleasant quarrel with the people on the other side of the old courtyard.
After the cotton was harvested in May, it was handed over to the old yard for a total of sixty catties, which was sent over by Mu De and Mu Lan's eldest brother Mu Yuan, and was originally weighed in front of the old man Mu and handed over to the old man, but the next day Xiao Zhao rushed to the east courtyard angrily and said that the weight of the cotton handed over was wrong, and it was five catties less, and then a big war broke out.
It's not a matter of a year or two since the cotton was handed over, and it was missing that year, especially when the two children brought it to the old man Mu himself and weighed it again with the name over there. The fight lasted from noon until the evening when Old Man Mu and Mu Jian came back, and the neighbors were completely alarmed and came to watch the play.
In the end, someone said outside: "Didn't the Qian family bring some things back to their parents' house today?" Could it be that she took it? ”
Mu Jian's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he pulled down Xiao Zhao.
Then the results came out, and sure enough.
In fact, Mu Jian knew about this matter and persuaded the Qian family to leave early, and he just wanted Xiao Zhao to find fault.
The reason for this incident is that he heard that the boys who studied in Yuantang were recommended to go to the Shouyuantang of the county capital and felt angry, when the town selected the ranger, he felt that he was better than the second child, but the second child was selected himself, but he didn't, but even if he was selected, what if he was selected, didn't he get this job in the end!
However, in the struggle of the next generation, he had to lose to Mu Li Muyi, which Mu Jian was very unconvinced, so he came up with such a way to find the stubble of the Liu family and the Shen family.
But no matter what it was, this incident increased the hearts of the Shen family and the Liu family to quickly separate their families. Just wait for the Muli and Muyi brothers to come back and agree on how to separate early. In fact, the two families have already reached an agreement on the matter of separation, and it is better to divide early.
On June 18, when the Shen family, who had opened the door, and the Mu family brothers, who were originally scheduled to come back on the twenty-first, appeared at the door of the house, they took two or three seconds to come back to their senses: "Big brother, Ayi, what's the matter?" ”
Don't blame Shen for being a little incoherent, this iron workshop has a fixed rest time every year, what's the matter with coming back early! However, the Shen family still welcomed them in first, and the Liu family, who heard Shen's voice, also widened his eyes, but Mu Lan Mu Cheng was very happy to see his father come back early.
The two hurriedly ran to the kitchen, because it was hot, so the lunch was not much prepared now, and the two were obviously in a hurry to come back, so they definitely didn't eat. Thinking about the hot weather, Mu Lan and Mu Cheng didn't prepare anything too hot.
The kitchen was busy here, and the Liu and Shen families over there helped the two of them take away the things they brought back and fetched water for them to wash their faces first.
Mu Yicai, who washed his face and drank the sour plum soup brought by Mu Lan, spoke: "Something happened in the county, and my eldest brother and I felt that we were going to go to the county capital anyway, so we quit the county work first." When the weather is cool, we will still prepare to move, only you and my sister-in-law and my eldest brother and I are not at ease. There are some problems with the house in Zhumei Town, and it will take time to find a house again! ”
Liu Shi was a little anxious, and when he heard the settlement of the house, he was not calm, and asked Mu Li: "What's the matter?" Didn't you already say it when you went to see the house before? We've paid our deposits, haven't we? ”
There is also a reason why Liu is in a hurry, it is very expensive to buy a house in a town close to the county capital, and it is not easy to find a suitable price.
"Okay, it's useless to rush now!" Mu Li said in a deep voice.
Yin Fa can't help it, who knows that his brother has sold the house to someone else? After all, the younger brother of Yin Fa has half of the right to dispose of the house. However, Yin Fa also agreed, he would completely separate the house into two families, and his yard originally cost eight gold coins at the market price, but he said that he could move in at the end of October with only seven gold coins. It's just that one of the two of us has to find a house. This Yin Fa also helps keep an eye on the house, but we have to go and see it ourselves! But how do we divide the house in Yin Fa! ”
"Since we said that half of them are the eldest brother and sister-in-law, let's not change! You tell me? Mu Yi asked Shen this sentence.
In fact, when she just heard that the house could only be bought halfway, Shen was thinking that she didn't want to move into that yard, although it became an independent yard.
Besides, the Shen family has long wanted to live separately from the Liu family, but Yin Fa's house is still big after all, and it is acceptable to live separately.
But now that there is an opportunity to separate, it is naturally better to separate.
So after Mu Yi finished saying this, Shen said with a smile: "Don't change what has been said." The yard was already divided, but now since half of it is not rented on my side, it is also my bad luck with Ayi, and there is no reason to embarrass my eldest brother and sister-in-law together! ”