When Lu Zhong and Yulan heard the news of Lu Pozi's injury, they rushed back, and when they heard Xiao Yi tell them what happened, they didn't pay attention to it anymore and continued to cut wheat.

The next day, Mrs. Lu held her waist and spread the story of the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family beating her all over the village, and when she was tired, she picked a place with a lot of people to sit, and Mrs. Liu also quarreled with the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, and the two quickly formed an alliance and became the backbone of the rumors.

Zhang Gaoming heard the rumors from the good little widow, and went home angrily to clean up his daughter-in-law.

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family is speechless, and she really sees the difficulty of Mrs. Lu, plus the farm is about to be busy, and she can't afford to spend this time with Mrs. Lu, so she finally thinks she is unlucky, and buys some snacks and sends them, which is considered to be aparation.

Mrs. Lu accepted the gift, scolded the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family as usual, and finally pretended to be a good person, saying that she was magnanimous and did not blame the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family in the past.

Lu Xiaoyi was called over by Mrs. Lu to eat snacks, looking at her smug appearance, Lu Xiaoyi couldn't wait to write the word 'scoundrel' on her face.

The scoundrel's back injury was soon healed, because she also had to go down to the field to harvest the wheat.

Lu Xiaoyi wanted to go to the ground to cut wheat, but Yulan disagreed, Lu Xiaoyi grinded and soaked hard, and Yulan agreed to let her go to the field in the morning and stay at home in the afternoon.

On the first day of wheat cutting, Lu Xiaoyi truly experienced the hardships of farmers.

The first time the rooster crows, he has to get up and go down to the field to cut the wheat while the morning is cool.

The wheat straw is crisp, the wheat mangs are sharp, and they are kneaded into the clothes, and the sting is uncomfortable. The coarse cloth dress covered the whole body tightly, and after a little work, the sweat wet the bottom garment, and the sticky wrap was wrapped around the body, even if the head was covered by a straw hat, the neck was still roasted.

It is said that the harvest is the happiest, but the process of harvesting is really not as easy and beautiful as she imagined. Buried in the head, harvesting one by one, standing up, stacking neatly one by one, bowing down, tying bundles one by one, repeatedly, boring. Before she finished cutting a ridge of wheat, Lu Xiaoyi felt that she was going to faint, her whole body was hot and uncomfortable, her back was sore, and her hand was cut several times by a sickle, she looked at the vast wheat field, and deeply realized how hard it is for farmers to earn a living from the land, no wonder the farmers' money is so precious, it is really the hard-earned money of farmers.

Yulan watched the sun rise overhead, and hurriedly asked Xiao Yi to go home.

Lu Xiaoyi didn't listen, he insisted on it, so he was picked up by Lu Zhong, put on the buttocks of the donkey, and carried home with the wheat stalks.

Lu Xiaoyi mixed some sugar and brine water and asked Lu Zhong to drink it in the field.

In the next few days, Lu Xiaoyi insisted on getting up early to cut wheat, and when she finished cutting a ridge, the sun had risen, and then she went home on a donkey, went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables for lunch, and took a nap at home in the afternoon, so she took her younger brothers and sisters to boil water and deliver water, feed the chickens to pick up eggs, cut pigweed, feed the hens who hatched the eggs, and do some housework within their ability.

When the wheat was harvested and milled and loaded into the warehouse, the family was black and thin. Especially Lu Zhong, he doesn't wear a straw hat when he works, his whole face is tanned and shiny, Yulan is slightly better, but it can't be compared with leisure.

Yulan felt sorry for the child, so the next day she asked Lu Zhong to go to the city to buy pork and pork bones, fried and stewed, made a few dishes, and asked Lu Shouzeng, Lu Pozi, and Lu Yong to eat together.

After the farm is over, it is followed by the preparation of Lu Yong's family affairs.

Lu Shouzeng glared at Lu Yong, and his tone was not good: "On the twenty-sixth of next month, you can do it yourself!" The family didn't prepare anything, even the money for your marriage was borrowed from Xiao Yi, do you say that you, the uncle, blush? ”

Lu Yong has also tanned a lot recently, and he can't see his red face, so he glanced at Xiao Yi and said, "Dad, don't say it in front of the juniors, okay?" ”

Lu Shou angrily put the chopsticks in his hand on the table, "Do you still want face?" Tell me yourself, if you are like your brother in the past few years, you can go to the city to earn some money with peace of mind, as for that? ”

"Xiao Yi is a girl's family, I don't know what will happen after I am lame? All of her money has been borrowed by you, if you have a little conscience, just give a clear word, how can you pay back this money? Lu Shouzeng stared at Lu Yong and insisted on him to make a statement.

Lu Yong scratched his head, hesitated for a long time, as if he had made up his mind, clenched his fists, and said loudly: "Dad, I will start going to the city with my eldest brother tomorrow to find work!" All the money you earn is left to you to save, okay? ”

Lu Shouzeng's face was slightly better, "Hmph! I'll leave this here for a while to see how many days you can last? You're going to slip halfway through again, follow Gao Yang's second-rate son to fool around, and see if I don't break your legs! ”

At the mention of Zhang Gaoyang, Mrs. Lu became angry, "My son, look at who you have befriended?" The mother-in-law of the Zhang family died early, the two sons were abolished, and the eldest married a daughter-in-law and was even more of a shrew, and dared to beat Xiao Yi in front of me, tell me, who are they? Gao Yang is even more of a finished thing, he is idle all day long, and he can't even talk about a daughter-in-law, such a person, what are you doing with him? ”

Lu Shouzeng glanced at Mrs. Lu and agreed with it.

Mrs. Lu came to the end, and belittled the Zhang family more and more, "If you want me to say, our Yong'er has been a good boy since he was a child, and it's all because of the second boy of the Zhang family. ”

Lu Shouzeng hurriedly stopped, "Don't say this, I know my son, and he is not a diligent person." ”

Mrs. Lu hated Lu Shouzeng, shut up and didn't speak, picked up a piece of big fat meat and put it in Xiao Geng's bowl, sandwiched a few scrambled eggs and finally stacked a big meat bone.

Xiao Geng pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "Grandmother, the bones are for the eldest sister to eat." ”

"You eat, she just drinks the soup."

The corners of Lu Xiaoyi's mouth were deflated, thinking, what an eccentric old woman.

Yulan didn't speak, and gave Xiao Yi and Xiao Ding a piece of meat each.

After eating, Lu Shouzeng and the others left, and Yulan brought out a big bowl of bone broth, leaving two large pieces of meat and bones for Xiao Yi and Xiao Ding to eat separately.

Xiao Geng was not envious, he smiled and watched his sisters gnaw bones, licking his lips from time to time, Lu Xiaoyi fed him, and the little guy hurriedly shook his head and said, "I ate it just now." ”

Yulan said to Lu Zhong, "I see that my father and mother have lost a lot of weight after the farm, thinking that they can eat enough dishes for one table, the two of us are still young, and it is okay to eat two bites less." ”

Lu Zhong said gently: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

Yulan pursed her lips and smiled: "There is not much to make of two catties of meat and two catties of bones, you also know my mother's temper, I will pick everything to Xiao Geng, I think Xiaoyi Xiaoding is sensible, only eat green vegetables, if I don't keep two meat bones in advance, the two children will have nothing to eat." ”

"I'll go to the city to find work from tomorrow, and I'll try to buy as much meat as possible in the future." Lu Zhong said.

As soon as Lu Xiaoyi heard that his father was going to the city to find work, he suddenly became interested, and he didn't gnaw on the bones anymore, handed over the bones in his hand to Xiao Geng to suck and play, and didn't drink the bone broth, let Xiao Ding drink it, came to Lu Zhong's side, and said curiously: "Dad, what do you do in the city?" ”

Lu Zhong said with a smile: "You can do whatever you want, catch up with the arrival of goods in the store, catch up with the caravan to pack, you can take a hand." ”

Lu Xiaoyi understood as soon as he heard it, it was all tiring loading and unloading work, and the boss didn't need to work for a long time.

"It's getting hotter and hotter, Dad, it's so hard for you to help move the goods!" It's all physical work, not to mention hard work.

"It's okay to work hard, and the money you earn is better than growing crops!" Lu Zhong said with a smile.

"Dad, how much money can you make in a day?"

"When there is a lot of goods, there are 30 wen a day, and there are 10 wen and 20 wen when the goods are less."

Lu Xiaoyi silently calculated in his heart, an average of twenty wen a day, if he had work every day, he would have an income of six hundred wen in a month.

"Dad, wouldn't you be able to earn five or six hundred dollars a month?" Lu Xiaoyi asked.

"Hey, you're pretty good at it." Lu Zhong patted Xiao Yi's head and said with a smile: "There are more people looking for odd jobs in the leisure city, the same job, you don't want to do it for ten yuan, others are willing to do it, so that there will be more time to play the whiteboard, and it will be very good to earn three hundred yuan a month." ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded in understanding, the competition was fierce and the price was chaotic.

"Sometimes I don't earn a penny a day, and I have to catch a round-trip fare." Lu Zhong continued.

Yulan added on the side: "Your father sometimes gets up early and walks to the city in order to save money, and then walks back in the evening. ”

"How much is the fare?" Lu Xiaoyi asked.

"A penny for a position." Seeing that his daughter was so interested, Lu Zhong also said with great interest, "There is an old ox cart in the next village, which is slow to death, and when I take his car into the city, all the good work has been taken away by others, so I might as well get up early and walk into the city." ”

Yulan said distressedly: "You don't go to the city to sit idly, you go to work hard, walking every day is not a way, when you are tired, you can pay a penny, and you can rest in the car." ”

"Dad, don't go to the city to look for work, how about getting a donkey to carry passengers?" Lu Xiaoyi proposed, "A seat is a penny, our family has a donkey, we only need to have a board car, one trip will cost more than ten yuan, at least one trip a day, that is, more than twenty yuan." ”

Lu Zhong shook his head in disapproval, "Our donkeys are all used to work in the field, and your mother feeds them with good food and drink every day, for fear of a mistake, but your girl has to use it to pull the cart, and the donkey will be exhausted after a few years of tossing." ”

Lu Zhong's reaction, Lu Xiaoyi had already been mentally prepared, she also knew that farmers valued livestock, especially the animals whose teeth were good and were in the prime of life, and they were even more attentive than serving their families. Lu Xiaoyi silently calculated the account in his mind before he spoke: "Dad, do you want to buy cattle and horses?" ”

"Why, don't you want to? Our donkey has been around for more than ten years, and your grandfather gave it to us, and I haven't bought a single animal to my family until now. Lu Zhong was a little depressed when he said this.

Yulan smiled: "Raising a few children is enough for you to be tired, you can be relieved, don't listen to Xiao Yi's nonsense there, how can there be so much silver to buy cattle and horses." ”

Lu Xiaoyi pouted, she really guessed correctly, now this family is content with the status quo, a few chickens, a pig and a donkey, more than ten acres of good fields, men can make a little money in their spare time, and the days are satisfied, but she still wants to make the family live better, can have more livestock, more fields, more savings, in this ancient era of backward productivity, relying on the sky to eat is not in the end, and the food and silver money of the field livestock is the most real guarantee.

Taking advantage of the fact that the whole family was talking about making money, Lu Xiaoyi still said his thoughts: "Dad, mother, don't think I'm ignorant, listen to me." Our donkey carries grain, grinds wheat and grinds seeds, and it does all the heavy work outside the house, so how many years can it live with such hard work, and when the donkey dies of old age, does our family think about buying new livestock? ”

"If my father has a donkey cart, he can carry people and pull goods, and there are not many people in our village who have livestock, and others are reluctant to livestock, so our family is willing to earn some money as soon as possible, and when someone in the village follows suit, we have already saved some money in our hands, and we will sell the donkey to buy a cow or horse, and the family will not change the good livestock?"

Lu Zhong's eyes lit up when he heard it, and Xiao Yi's words reached his heart.

Lu Xiaoyi continued: "Mother, think about how hard it is for my father to go to the city to load and unload goods, those goods are so heavy, and in a few years my father's back will be bent, it is better to let my father go to catch up with passengers, it is much easier than being a coolie!" ”

Yulan glanced at Lu Zhong, seeing that she was much thinner than a few years ago, she couldn't help but feel sad for a while, and then thought about Xiao Yi's words, and said: "Let's settle the score, no matter how you say it with red mouth and white teeth, there is no real thing to convince people." ”

Lu Xiaoyi became happy when he heard this, and shouted: "I'll calculate, I'll calculate." ”

Magnolia snorted, "Hey! You dare to take any job, who taught you? ”

Lu Xiaoyi was stunned, and said casually: "Uncle taught me, I don't believe that you ask him next time." ”

Yulan smiled: "He can teach you that little bit of Taoism?" ”

"Uncle's road is high!"