Lin didn't expect to see his aunt in his lifetime.

Mu Zhongjun and Yang Weng arrived in Mengyang City early in the morning.

There are many ragged refugees outside the city gate, sitting or squatting or lying down, and they only need to pay three wen to go to the city, but today it has risen to ten wen, it is said that they are afraid that the displaced people will mix in. When I entered the inner city, there were many more beggars on the streets. Mu Zhongjun and Yang Weng asked for the location of Yaxing and went straight to Yaxing.

There are two tooth shops in Mengyang City, one is engaged in population business, and the other is engaged in shop real estate. Mu Zhongjun wanted to buy someone, so he went to Ma Yapo in the east of the city. She has a good reputation and is said to be a very conscientious tooth woman.

Because there have been a lot of refugees recently, there are a lot of people who sell themselves to Ma Ya Po. Nowadays, agriculture is underdeveloped, and people who depend on the weather for food stop eating when they encounter natural and man-made disasters.

Since the beginning of the previous year, there has been drought and no rain in the north, especially the original imperial capital of Chang'an, which has been in drought for almost three years. When the capital was moved, many aristocratic families moved away, but the title deed was still in the hands of the original owner. After the drought, the landlord generously reduced the rent, and in the first year he could barely get by, and in the second year, he did not have enough to eat, and in the third year, he had to lose his harvest, so many tenant farmers gave up their fields and fled south.

Jiangnan is rich, and now it is the imperial capital, precisely because it is the imperial capital, not many people go there, and the fool also knows that so many homeless people will not be able to reach the imperial city, maybe it will be destroyed eight hundred miles away from the imperial city. So Shu has become a popular choice.

Ma Ya Po is indeed a conscience Ya Po. The old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are all collected, and there are old and young people who drag their families with their mouths, and some families are willing to buy them together, and they are all pinched in their hands, and the main family is not at ease, right?

Yang Weng and Mu Zhongjun discussed along the way, buy a few families, the male strong labor to farm, the female to do housework at home, the little girl and the little boy can also be a little waiter for the third lang aunt A pig.

When he arrived at Ma Yapo, he went to sell his family to sell himself. Soon, three peasant families from the south of Chang'an City were selected. One of them is literate, the head of the family, Zhou Songyi, has worked as an account office, and his wife Zhou Qin is a talented daughter who is literate and hyphenated. The two sons, one fifteen and one thirteen, are named Zhou Yan and Zhou Yu, and a ten-year-old daughter Zhou Ju has received enlightenment education.

Yu Tao, wife Yu Quan, two sons are seventeen-year-old Yu Han, fifteen-year-old Yu Jun, and two daughters are twins, eleven this year, named Yu Yao and Yu Pei.

The smallest family is a family of four, the male owner is named Meng Cheng, his wife died of illness in the drought, and three sons, sixteen-year-old Meng Tian, fourteen-year-old Meng Tu and ten-year-old Meng Tao.

These three families all look very clean and honest, and the price is not expensive, only 15 taels of silver for 15 people. Ma Yapo did not treat them harshly, two meals a day were thin, and her body was clean.

Signed and pledged, and made a deed of sale. The woman and the child got on the car, and the man followed the ox cart to go home, so the speed slowed down, out of the city, and slowly got on the dirt road leading to Linjia Village, and after walking a short distance, I saw an old man and a young man in the middle of the road slowly moving forward, really moving, the old woman was about fifty, her hair was gray, and the little girl was ten years old, all of them were ragged. Hearing the sound of the ox cart behind them, the two hurriedly moved to the side of the road, probably because they were weak, and both of them fell and rolled into a ball.

Mu Zhongjun and Yang Weng were not ruthless people, so they stopped the ox cart and helped the two of them. The old woman said that she was also from Linjia Village, and she was going back to the village. Just on the way, Mu Zhongjun also let the two of them get into the ox cart, so that it was dark when they got home.

Because the Mu family lives in the depths of Linjia Village, so the entrance of the village did not stop, and the strange thing is that the old woman did not say to get off the car, until the car went down the mountain, the more the old woman looked at it, the more wrong it became, and she couldn't help asking: "Where do you live?" ”

Mu Zhongjun also wanted to know whose family the old woman was, so he told her that she lived under the Phoenix Mountain, and the old woman asked with a strange face: "Are there many people living under the Phoenix Mountain now?" ”

"Not much, just our family." Mu Zhongjun asked politely, "I don't know where my aunt lives?" ”

"My family is also ......at the foot of Phoenix Mountain," the old woman's eyes were full of tears, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar foot of the mountain in front of her, and the faint houses in the distance, which were not much different from what she remembered. Unconsciously muttered, "It's here...... It's ......."

Mu Zhongjun was a little at a loss when he saw the old woman crying: "Actually, we just moved here, and I don't know how many households there were at the foot of the mountain. We lived in the old house of the Lin family, which was demolished and rebuilt......"

"The Lin family's old house?" The old woman became excited, and her voice was sharp: "Who are you?" Why did you casually demolish someone's house? ”

"It's not someone else's, it's my family's ......" Mu Zhongjun hurriedly defended: "It's my mother-in-law's house." ”

The old woman was shocked: "Your mother-in-law? Whose family are you? What's your woman's name? ”

"My woman's name is Lin Yu." Mu Zhongjun was frightened and answered honestly.

"Ayu!" The old woman was stunned, and pulled her throat excitedly: "Ayu Ayu, my Ayu, ah......"

Lin's nickname is Ayu. Even Yang Weng was stunned at this time.

Here Lin heard someone shouting Ayu, and greeted him suspiciously, but saw a person rolling down from the unsteady ox cart, Mu Zhongjun hurriedly jumped out of the car to help her up, but the person pushed Mu Zhongjun away and stumbled forward, Lin hesitated to stand still, the figure walked up to her and asked, "Are you Ayu?" ”

"Ah, yes. I am. Lin's heart moved, and a feeling that he couldn't tell what kind of feeling came to his heart.

The old woman hugged Lin and cried: "Ayu, I'm A-Niang, ......"

"Auntie!" Lin was really stunned, and then the dim light of the evening carefully looked at the gray-haired woman in front of him. Ah Niang is only in her forties, and the woman in front of her has dark skin and wrinkles, but the contours are clearly her Ah Niang! She: "Ah! With a miserable scream, he hugged Lao Lin and cried loudly, crying and shouting "A-Niang, A-Niang, ......"

Mu Zhongjun and Yang Weng looked at each other, and the people who bought them behind them stood neatly, and the women were wiping their tears. This natural disaster and man-made disaster, I didn't expect the mother's aunt of the main family to also fall into trouble...... Although I don't know the ins and outs, the scene in front of me is really touching, and I think of the tragic situation of my own family, and I whimpered for a while......

San Lang and Mu Fushu Ah Zhu rushed out, only to see Lin and a gray-haired old woman hugging and crying, and they were confused for a while. Mu Zhongjun said succinctly: "Aunt Pig, that's your grandmother!" ”

Shu called grandma to be a grandmother, and grandma is also a grandmother, Khan!

So the person in front of him is the Lin family's mother-in-law, and the legend has it that the Lin family Mingyue went crazy and disappeared?

Yang Weng saw that the Mu family was staging a meeting with each other, so he called San Lang to take someone to settle down. Saburo took the man he had bought to the six rooms in the courtyard. The house also made a kang after the New Year, but it was not used, and it was only burned when the new kang was built. There are also thin mattresses on it, and there are quilts, all of which are thin quilts. The current weather is not cold when the cover is thin, and if it is cold, you can burn the kang.

Saburo explained the method of burning the kang, and after seeing that they were amazed, he began to arrange the room by himself, and then went out of the house to the kitchen. There are many people who buy it today, and I'm afraid that feeding is not enough.

Mu Fushu and Ah Zhu watched the Lin mother and daughter crying, and finally stopped under Mu Zhongjun's persuasion. Old Lin pulled the frightened and motionless little girl next to him over, and said to Lin: "Her name is into the painting, and she is the young lady of the house where I worked before." ”

It turned out that the old Lin family went crazy after learning that the Lin family was sold, and he carried a kitchen knife to cut Chen Chunniang, and the Chen family was angry and wanted to kill her, Chen Chun still had a little conscience, and secretly released her in the middle of the night, claiming that she had gone crazy and ran away.

Lao Lin was ready to look for his daughter, but he couldn't find a lot of dental shops, and finally went to the north and was sold himself. Fortunately, the family that bought her was Mr. Private School, and it was not bad for her. It's just a three-year drought, and the private school can't be opened, and then my husband died of a serious illness, and my wife was too sad to follow. The old lady and a young daughter of the husband are left. Mr.'s wife felt that her son and daughter-in-law were gone, and she was left with a daughter, and her family was going to die. There were only the people left in the family who bought it, and when they saw that they were about to run out of food, they entrusted their granddaughter to the old Lin family and threw themselves into the river. Lao Lin because the child was brought up by himself, and thought that he was good to other people's daughters, and people would definitely be good to their daughters, gritted his teeth and walked back to Shu with the painting all the way to beg, walked for more than half a year, and finally returned to Linjia Village, what he didn't expect was that he could still see his daughter, son-in-law and grandson, and he was pleasantly surprised and couldn't express it in words.

Mu Fushu is not able to understand the psychology of A-Niang and A-Po, maybe she is cold by nature, or she has not had such a hard-working and unforgettable family affection. Seeing that A-Niang and A-ma were sad, they couldn't persuade them, but they just felt that it would be good to let them cry enough. With so many more people in the family, dinner is definitely not enough, so it is better to go to the kitchen to cook some serious food.

When I arrived at the kitchen, I saw that Saburo had already lit a fire and was ready to cook. She took a few sausages and cut them, washed a large pot of green vegetables, and prepared to cook a pot of sausage rice, which was simple and delicious.

After a while, the two of them cooked a big pot, which was really a big pot of rice. Saburo went to call the people over for dinner. There was a large room next to the kitchen, which was used as a utility room, but now it was empty, and only a few bottles and cans were placed. Mu Fushu decided to ask Daddy to find someone to make two big tables tomorrow, and people would eat here in the future. As for the main family and the scary people eating together or something, she said that there is something in the novel, she can't do it here, and this era doesn't allow it.

The three families have already been allocated houses, and the living rooms are quite spacious, after all, a kang can sleep four or five people.

Zhou Qin's family is the most neat, and his two rooms have been cleaned. Her two sons have a house, their husband and wife have a house, and their daughters and the twins of the Yu family have a house. She got her two rooms and was about to go to her daughter's sister-in-law, but when she saw her sister-in-law coming out and saying that it was already good, she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, so she took her sister-in-law to help the Meng family and her father and son clean the house.

The Yu family has two husbands and wives, two sons in one room, and a daughter and Zhou Ju of the Zhou family, so that they and the Zhou family can be regarded as occupying two and a half rooms, so that the four fathers and sons of the Meng family can only live in one room. They said that after they agreed, the house and clothes of the Meng family father and son would be handed over to them, which would be regarded as compensation for the extra house, and it would always be good to eat in a family in the future. Therefore, Yang Weng has a good eye, and the three people he bought are all honest people.

After they had cleaned up and settled down, Saburo came to call them for dinner. Because there were no tables and chairs, I packed my meal and squatted under the eaves to eat. This sausage rice tastes really good, and it tastes so light that I pour a spoonful of red sauce called soy sauce, which tastes so fresh and fragrant that even seven-year-old Zhou Ju has eaten a big bowl of rice.

The people were eating over there, and the Lin family in the main house was busy boiling water to bathe the old Lin family and the painting. I haven't taken a shower for more than half a year, so you can imagine how dirty it is!

Because there are only five main rooms in the second courtyard, and there is no kang in the other three ear rooms, I can only grieve Mu Fushu and them tonight. Mu Zhongjun said that he would call someone to come to the ear room to make a kang tomorrow, and Mu Fushu didn't care, but he couldn't enter the space overnight.

After taking a bath, she revealed her true face in the painting, she was a very beautiful little girl, and she hid behind Lao Lin very shyly. She is about the same height as Mu Fushu, so she is wearing Mu Fushu's clothes. Thinking of the open dirty pants, the corners of Mu Fushu's mouth twitched, she couldn't get used to wearing them anyway.

By the time everyone sat down to eat, it was already three o'clock. Saburo and Ah Zhu ate a bowl of sausage and rice, and they were not very hungry, and everyone else was hungry. The dishes were reheated, and everyone devoured them all. Lao Lin sighed: "I haven't eaten enough for more than two years......"

Lin's tears fell from his swollen walnut eyes, and Mu Fushu also felt a little sour. Mu Zhongjun snorted and said, "Ah, Ah Niang, in the future, we won't make you hungry!" ”

Lao Lin nodded with satisfaction, touched the head of the painting and said: "This child is also a miserable person, so let's be a companion with my aunt in the future." ”

The painting is one year older than Mu Fushu, Mu Fushu can't call her sister, so she calls her into the painting, and she doesn't care about the painting, calling her aunt. Mu Fushu has no experience playing with little girls, but Ah Zhu is a self-acquaintance, and soon got acquainted with her, and he didn't talk much to other people in the painting, but he talked and laughed with Ah Zhu. Probably because of the old Lin family, she could understand their dialect, and later she was able to speak slowly and completely integrated into the family.

With more people in the family, the Lin family doesn't have to work so hard. Originally, the main family bought the next person to change the name, Mu Zhongjun was not interested in the name, and the Lin family didn't care. So the three families are still under their original names.

Although Zhou Songyi has been a bookkeeper, his body is not like a weak scholar, he is tall and strong, and he can do physical work. Zhou Qin's cooking tastes good, and Lin took her for a few days, and she will soon be able to have a decent stir-fry. The two sons used to study and are now able to work along.

Yu Tao and his two sons used to work as carpenters and could do farm work. Yu's embroidery is good, and the clothes and shoes he makes are very exquisite. The two little girls also learned embroidery from a very young age.

The father and son of the Meng family are good at farming, and the youngest Meng Tao can touch the fish! Although I don't understand the language in Shudi, I can still understand it in general. Speaking of which, Yang Weng and San Lang can speak some Yayan, which is equivalent to the current Mandarin, but their Yayan is a Shaanxi accent, and Mu Fushu accepts incompetence.

Mu Zhongjun and the Lin family felt that there were so many more people in the family, but there was less land. Mu Fushu also wanted to buy more land, but he was a little embarrassed when he thought that his wealth would not be exposed, so he simply asked Mu Zhongjun to tell him about digging up the mallet, so that he would have an excuse to buy land. Mu Zhongjun can't either, he has to buy land as soon as the wheat is harvested, so as not to delay spring ploughing!

Lao Lin rested for a few days, and after his body recovered, he began to string up the door in the village. In this way, within two days, the people of Linjia Village knew that Lin Jiamingyue was back, and they came to see her one after another, and they were very enthusiastic. I am also very interested in their family digging a mallet, and there are a lot more people going up the mountain these days.

When the wheat was harvested, Lao Lin had already inquired about who wanted to sell the land, but unfortunately it was all scattered and there was no large piece to sell. At present, the best fields cost about six taels of silver per acre, the paddy fields are eight taels, and the medium fields are four taels. Mu Fushu thinks that the medium field is not bad, the ancients didn't know how to compost and accumulate fertilizer, she understands, uh, it's not right, she has books!

There are many people, and the winter wheat is harvested in one day. After the taxes were paid, the wheat was processed into flour, and the fields were prepared, but the land was still not bought. Seeing that everyone was worried about buying land, Lao Lin glanced at a large family again, patted his legs and said, "What kind of field to buy!" There are buffaloes at home, and we open up the land ourselves! Also exempt from paying taxes for three years! ”

A word wakes up the dreamer. In ancient times, there were fewer people and more land, and the government advocated land reclamation, and the first three years were tax-free. However, after clearing the wasteland, it cannot be left empty and not planted, and if it is empty, it will increase taxes. Mu Fushu's house is at the foot of the mountain, and there is a large open space in front and behind, which is the hill, which is bare halfway up the mountain, and Mu Fushu is fully capable of transforming it into terraced fields.

Just do it, Lao Lin took Mu Zhongjun and carried two pheasants to the village chief's house. The next day, the village chief led Mu Zhongjun to the city to apply for a land deed, which was 200 acres of wasteland, tax-free for the first three years.

Mu Zhongjun bought five more ploughing cattle and two dairy sheep. The former is used for land reclamation, and the latter is Mu Fushu who wants to drink milk openly, but unfortunately cows are rare in this era, so he bought two dairy sheep.

After Mu Zhongjun ate the morning food, he took the twelve men of all sizes in the family to open up the wasteland. Mu Fushu had never seen ancient farming, so he took Ah Zhu to see the excitement. San Lang changed into a coarse cloth shirt and pulled a cow to walk in front, followed by Yu Han, the eldest son of the Yu family, holding the plow, ploughing forward with difficulty, pulling out the plow and then turning around to follow. Others are also ploughing the fields and weeding the weeds, Mu Fushu looked at it and felt that something was wrong, her farming was fully automatic and mechanized, and she had never seen such a backward method, so she made up her mind to go into the space at night to check the book.

Lin knew that Mu Fushu liked to sleep alone, so the old Lin and the painting moved into the study, and the study moved to the front yard ear room, which was big and not very crowded. Mu Fushu plans to build a few more rooms after a while, anyway, the place is big. The surrounding 200 acres have been bought, although the homestead is more troublesome, and it will cost more money when the time comes.