Chapter 82: The Willows and Flowers

Before ten o'clock, when the long-distance bus stopped on the side of the road in front of Yu Mingyue's house, Kong Mingying waited on the side of the road early.

As soon as the three of them got out of the car, Kong Mingying pulled her face and complained for a while, she had been worried since yesterday until now, and only then did she eagerly inquire about selling vegetables in the city.

After figuring out the inconvenience of selling vegetables in the city, and having to reduce the monthly income by more than half in the future, Kong Mingying scolded the eight generations of the ancestors of the Tang family, Yu Mingyue listened to the hatred in her heart, and did not dare to persuade or want to persuade her, and from time to time she followed the coaxing twice, making the originally angry Kong Mingying laugh and scold, provoking her father Yu Zhiqing to stare at her.

Kong Mingying was distressed about money, and her brain was also active, and after discussing in the stove room for a while, she and Kong Xiaoyu would collect vegetables at home every day, and Yu Tianzhou and Yu Zhiqing would come back every morning, so that they could earn at least two or three hundred yuan more every month.

Yu Mingyue agrees with this idea, after all, farming in the countryside is only a few hundred thousand yuan of income throughout the year, and there is not much left after paying the agricultural tax, and some of them have no plan, or when the grain is not harvested or the price of vegetables is not good, they can't even pay the agricultural tax all year round.

Yu Tian and Monday listened, but directly rejected this construction, thinking that farmers should still focus on agricultural development, a few acres of land at home, Kong Mingying and pregnant Kong Xiaoyu can not take care of it, their father and son are the strong laborers of the family, half of the time every month stay at home to plant fields, although busy and tired, the income of grain and vegetables in a year is not old or young.

Yu Mingyue knew very well that her grandfather must have listened to Old Man Jiang's words in his heart, and wanted to do business and farming at the same time. Seeing that her grandmother wanted to speak several times, the more her expression became darker and darker, thinking about her thoughts, and when she didn't refute it again, Yu Mingyue was a little anxious.

Yu Mingyue couldn't guess her grandmother's thoughts, but in her opinion, farming can be done without delay, now the countryside has been contracted to the household for many years, and every household does not have to stay in the field every day to have endless farm work, when her family has something to do in the field, spend a few yuan to hire one or two people to help work for a few days, but it is far more cost-effective than her grandfather and father staying at home to do farm work.

Hiring people to do the work will be a common thing in the rural areas in the future, whether it is planting rice and threshing or cultivating wasteland, it can cost tens or hundreds of yuan, and hire people to do it, and the party that has the empty and short of money can earn some spare money, and the party that needs manpower can spend some money, but it is also much more relaxed.

But Yu Mingyue didn't dare to propose this at this time, because she knew that this kind of thing had not yet been taken the lead in the rural areas where they were currently very poor, and when the villagers needed a large number of people, they invited each other to help, and when others needed manpower in the future, they took the initiative to inquire about returning favors, which was commonly known as "au pairs" in the countryside.

Despite this, Yu Mingyue did not dispel this idea, and was ready to get an opportunity in the future to remind the adults from the side, especially to put some effort into her grandmother.

Before the liberation of her grandmother, she was the eldest lady of the Confucian landlord's family, who claimed to have hundreds of acres of fertile land, and hired long-term and short-term laborers, isn't it something that the landlord's family is used to.

Thinking of these, Yu Mingyue suddenly understood why her grandmother looked like that just now, maybe it was the various incidents of fighting the landlord in those years, and now her grandmother can't let go.

Although there are no more extremists who are idle and idle to catch the little tail of the bourgeoisie that oppresses the people's labor force, because there are no television or news programs to listen to or watch in the countryside today, her grandmother's thoughts and opinions are still forced to stay on the old things she has experienced, and she does not dare to boldly say what she may have thought in her heart.

With the bottom in her heart, Yu Mingyue also came up with the right way to deal with it, and she just hoped that after solving the labor matter as soon as possible, she would really be able to achieve both business and farming.

Now the family can only go into the city to sell vegetables once every other day, Yu Mingyue originally wanted to take the opportunity to take her grandfather and grandfather on the road to sell vegetables, but thinking of the atmosphere at home that had just become harmonious, she didn't dare to bring up this matter immediately, just wanted to find an opportunity to slowly do the work of the two old people in the family from the side.

Since the first time she successfully entered the city to set up a stall to sell vegetables, Yu Mingyue, like the four adults in the family, began to become extremely busy, and she was really powerless to do any work in detail.

There are a lot of jobs in the field, planting, watering, fertilizing, harvesting, etc., and there are some large and small locks to be busy every day, and the father and son of Yu Tian Zhou now want to press the work of January into half a month to finish, and after two days they have to go up the mountain to see the traps, pick some mountain goods, and every other day they have to carry vegetables on the car and get off the car to transfer into the city.

Because of the decrease in family income, the food has not become as good as before, the original meat was eaten two or three times a week, but now it is only eaten once a week, and within the first half of the month, the two adults who went to the city to sell vegetables have lost a lot of weight.

Not only did the two men lose a lot of weight due to their busyness, but even Kong Mingying and the pregnant Kong Xiaoyu, although they couldn't do too much physical work, they were also very busy at home and in the fields, although Kong Xiaoyu was pregnant and had some care in the food, she would be urged by Kong Mingying to eat the last boiled egg every day or two, and she was coaxed by Yu Mingyue to eat some pine nut fish from time to time, but she was obviously the same as everyone in the family, and she lost a lot of weight.

Seeing the adults working so hard, Yu Mingyue, who was also busy going up the mountain to collect and feeding rabbits, pheasants, and wild boars at home, was distressed.

But she is small and powerless, since her grandfather and father figured out the details of going into the city to sell vegetables, transfer cars, etc., she can only be more diligent to help do more less decent work at home, and from time to time under Kong Mingying's distressed persuasion, help adults cook a decent meal, wanting to reduce the burden of adults.

Every morning at dawn, Yu Mingyue went out early on the pretext of going to pull the moon mother grass to earn private money, and called her cousin Yu Mingyan and her uncle Kong Xinggang, who now goes up the mountain every day to herd sheep, to go to the mountain to pick pine fruits, cone chestnuts, and small persimmons, and from time to time carry one or two unlucky prey.

The adults are too busy, I just heard that every time Yu Mingyue carried the prey home, they all said that it was with Kong Xinggang, who often went up the mountain, and they didn't bother to control it anymore, this coke broke Yu Mingyue, even if her brother-in-law couldn't go up the mountain one day, she and her cousin could go to the mountains in a grand manner.

Yu Mingyue took the lead, mentioning that each of the mountain goods was picked and obtained, but the prey obtained, Yu Mingyue discussed with her cousin and brother-in-law to divide it equally, when the prey is not much, it will be allocated to this one today and that tomorrow, so it is very reasonable to take turns to distribute it.

Wild boars, muntjac and other large prey, Yu Mingyue and their three children have never encountered again, a few months later, Yu Tianzhou and Yu Zhiqing went up the mountain, and picked up a female wild boar cub more than ten catties in the trap.

However, in the past few months, seeing that the family has expanded into the big rabbit pen in the back wall, or picked up or laid more and more little hares, the six baby pheasants hatched with seven wild eggs, plus the wings and feathers caught from the lock and cut the wings, and the more and more pheasants in the fence next to the livestock shed, Yu Mingyue has a sense of accomplishment every day, and is more confident about a good life in the future.

At the beginning, Yu Mingyue was still a little worried that her brother-in-law brought the prey home, and whether her grandmother would tell Tang Wanfang about it, afraid that the Tang family would intervene in this matter again, but then she didn't hear the Tang family make any moves in this regard, and Yu Mingyue let go of her heart.

Originally, Yu Mingyue still had a little fantasy, hoping that her grandmother was still a little sensible and wouldn't say anything to Tang Wanfang's old witch, but later she heard her brother-in-law mention that her grandmother originally wanted to invite Tang Wanfang to eat hare meat at home, but her grandfather slapped her twice when she heard it, and strictly ordered that this kind of good thing could not be mentioned to any outsiders.

In her previous life, although Yu Mingyue didn't see it with her own eyes, she also faintly heard from her three uncles that her grandfather had done something to her grandmother, when she just came to live at her grandfather's house, in addition to fear and self-blame, she was only cowardly, and now she is an adult soul, and she can be positive and intuitive about many things, but when she heard about such a thing again, she didn't want to and couldn't bear to make any assessment of it, and only looked forward to the continuous efforts of her and her relatives in the days to come. Let her grandmother become the grandmother who made her feel kind and respectable in the later part of her previous life.

Busy time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is the winter of 1987.

Although Yu Mingyue is busy and tired now, she is very happy and down-to-earth every day, she doesn't know how her grandfather figured it out, anyway, before she mentioned the matter of letting her grandfather and her grandfather's family go to the city to sell vegetables, her grandfather took the initiative to mention it at the two houses.

She didn't know what the adults were talking about, anyway, her grandfather's family finally responded to this situation and decided to go to the city to sell vegetables, but her grandfather's family was not in good health because of the lack of labor, and her uncle Yu Zhizong had to spend a lot of time taking care of the fields, so he did not participate in the matter of selling vegetables in the city.

Now her grandfather's house will also collect vegetables every other day, and her uncle and second uncle will go to the door of the community where her family sets up a stall in the city to sell, but at this time, it happened to be wrong with the day when her family sold vegetables, ensuring that there are fresh and inexpensive vegetables for sale at the gate of the community every day, and I heard that it is very popular with the residents of the community.

But since then, although her uncle Yu Zhiqing has a lot of work, and her grandfather's family is also very busy, he will often squeeze time to come to her house to help with some hard and urgent work in the fields, so the relationship between the three families is obviously much closer than before.

What a bright future! Yu Mingyue often sighed with emotion.

Now, although the family can only earn about 20 yuan by selling vegetables every other day, if it weren't for the sudden change in the vegetable business, she knows that it will take a lot of effort to see the day when her relatives are close and happy. Although it is really hard now, Yu Mingyue feels that it is worth it, but her hatred for the Tang family has not decreased by one point.

When Yu Mingyue heard the adults mention again that her uncle Kong Xingming was going to do a happy event on the eighteenth day of the winter month of the lunar calendar, she had lost the sense of confusion she had earlier, and she just hoped that her grandmother would not make any more trouble on the day of the happy event, and for the sake of her mother, who was now nearly five months pregnant, don't give her mother any more anger. R1152