Now that life is difficult, and there is no land to plant, I can't be idle at home. Yunzhu thought, she has to find something to do.

There is a place in the west of the village where horses are raised, which is managed by the government and handed over to several families in the village to feed. There are also twenty or thirty horses. Every horse is registered.

Horses are managed by special people, but they also need food and grass. To herd these two dozen horses but not so spacious grassland. Now in autumn, the grass is gradually turning yellow, and the villagers who usually cut the grass to sell it are gradually decreasing. However, it can't be sold for a few bucks when selling grass, and the price of government management is also small, and the grass is calculated by catties, and ten catties of grass are given for a penny. Yunzhu thinks that this job doesn't earn much, but it's better than nothing.

So he picked up the sickle, put the basket on his back, and asked Xiangmei to go up the mountain and down the ground to cut the grass together.

"My mother hatched more than a dozen ducklings yesterday, and said to send a pair to Tian Tian."

Yunzhu smiled: "She's still a child, where will she feed this?" ”

Xiangmei said: "We don't want your money, you and Tian Tian raise them well, and it's enough to eat some leftovers of vegetables and leaves." When you're older, you can still pick up duck eggs, and if you can't lay eggs, you can still sell them. ”

Yunzhu smiled: "I naturally want to understand the love between you and your eldest mother, so it's okay to find something for her to do to save her from running around." ”

Although everything is not yet dead in this season, there will always be grass to find, although it is not very luxuriant, but as long as you look around the field, there will always be a harvest. Within two hours, Yunzhu and Xiangmei's baskets were already full, and the two of them wanted to earn a little more, so they pressed as much as they could, and filled a basket of grass solidly.

When they came to the place where the horses were raised in the west of the village, the two of them handed over the grass and weighed one after another, the basket of Yunzhu was almost thirty catties, and the basket of Xiangmei weighed about the same. After half an afternoon, I only earned three copper plates.

Yun Zhu weighed the three copper plates and wanted to cry a little: "There is no rice at home, and it is really enough to buy rice by cutting the grass to earn money." Is there no other way to get money? ”

Xiangmei smiled: "There don't seem to be many ways to make money, it's nothing more than raising something and planting something, but these are slow to take effect." ”

"At present, the most important thing is to be able to eat, and I can't let Tian Tian go hungry with me."

Xiangmei said: "Why don't I go back and talk to my mother, and we will lend you some money for emergency first?" ”

Yun Zhu waved his hand again and again when he heard this: "You lent us rice, and it's really embarrassing to borrow money again, I'd better figure it out myself." ”

Xiangmei saw that Yunzhu refused, so she smiled and just forgot it.

The next day, Song Yunzhu took her daughter and went to the street with the mother and daughter of the Feng family. Feng Lao Niang and Xiangmei made a few pieces of needlework, Yun Zhu took a few looks, nothing more than embroidered a handkerchief with a little head, picked out a few pairs of new insoles, the needlework is not bad, but the color is a little red and purple, and it looks inevitably more vulgar.

Yun Zhu carried 20 wen in his arms, and first went to the rice shop to take a look, all of them were rice without threshing, the best grain sold for 20 wen a catty, and the worst one was 13 wen. Thinking that the little money on her body is only enough to buy a pound of rice, she will go back and get a stone mortar by herself, and after removing the chaff, she will not even have a catty.

After walking around, Yunzhu bought some vegetable seedlings and four chicks. The things in the entrance cost ten cents, and I bought two catties of millet that were a little moldy and a catty of stick noodles.

Feng Lao Niang saw that Yun Zhu and her mother were a little unbearable, so she said to Yun Zhu: "There is a group of people in our village who specialize in helping people make banquets, are you willing to join in to help?" ”

Yunzhu thought that there was still this line of work and asked, "What is the way for the eldest lady?" ”

Feng Lao Niang smiled and said, "Yes, as long as you are willing, I will ask Mei'er and her aunt when you go back." ”

Yun Zhu hurriedly smiled and said, "The eldest mother helped me find something to do, and I am grateful to the eldest mother." ”

"I also see that you two are having a hard time, although there is no guarantee that there will be work every day, but as long as the owner is generous, you can always make some money."

Yunzhu herself is still very good at stir-frying and cooking, even if she can't go to the stove at that time, she is willing to help run errands.

When I rushed back, I saw that there were still village women gossiping on the big stone under the big locust tree. Seeing that Song Yunzhu came back with her daughter, everyone stretched their necks to see, Yunzhu was not familiar with them, and walked straight over. Not far away, a whisper was heard.

She frowned slightly, and said secretly: Who said that the people in the village are honest and simple, it seems that they are not worried. Those long-tongued people are juggling right and wrong, and maybe tomorrow, she will be the focus of conversation in the village again. She didn't hear the chatter behind her.

When he got home, Yunzhu hurriedly washed his hands and cooked, there were not many things to eat at home, and the millet he bought still needed to be dried before he could eat. Today, I had to cut some shepherd's cabbage and add it to the cornmeal, mix it evenly, make a cake, and boil half a pot of dried vegetable soup.

"I always eat these, and I don't feed anyone. Look at how thin you've become. Good boy, when we have money, my mother invites you to eat bird's nest! ”

Tian Tian didn't know what bird's nest was, and he didn't know if it was good or not, but he said, "I don't love that." Every time I rush to the market, I smell the meat of the hoof flower sold at the corner of the street, mother, if we have money, let's go to the store to eat hoof flowers, okay? ”

Yun Zhu saw that her daughter was telling the truth, her nose was slightly sour, she gently pressed the corner of her eyes, and said forcefully: "Isn't it just a meal of hoof flowers, I must let you eat it." ”

The mother and daughter coped with their stomachs, and Yunzhu planned to clean up the front and back of the house, first, to be neater, and second, not to waste land, it is very cheap to grow some melons, fruits and vegetables or something.

The mother and daughter said they would do it, and even the small fields could help with things, helping weeding and picking up gravel in the dirt.

After half an afternoon, the scene in front of the door was finally much cleaner. Yunzhu planted the vegetable seedlings he bought, and carried water to water them.

She and Tian Tian sat on the threshold and rested, as if they could see the fragrance of vegetables and fruits in a few days.

"Song Niangzi!"

Yunzhu heard Feng Lao Niang calling her outside the fence, so she hurriedly got up and agreed: "Hey, is there something wrong with Auntie?" So saying, he stepped forward and opened the fence door.

Behind Mrs. Feng was a woman in her thirties, combing her round hair and wearing a wooden hairpin. White chubby face, slightly slender eyes. There was a bit of shrewdness in his eyes, and at the same time, he looked the cloud bead up and down. Yunzhu recognized her, she was Xiangmei's second aunt, Feng Bai.

"Listen to my sister-in-law, do you want to follow me to the village banquet?"

Yunzhu nodded and said, "Yes, the pot is almost impossible to open at home, I want to find something to do, I can't let the child go hungry." ”

"What will you do?"

Yun Zhu said with a smile: "Stir-frying, steaming and cooking will be." ”

Feng Bai frowned and said, "I don't need you to do this for the time being. We have to get up early, have a loud voice, have a lot of strength, and it's very hard, but can we do it? ”

Yunzhu nodded firmly and said, "Try it." ”

Feng Bai said again: "There is a business tomorrow, and when the rooster crows for the second time, you will come to me, and I will take you over." ”

Yunzhu thanked again and again.

Turning around, Feng Bai and Feng Lao Niang said: "I see that this little lady is not like a person who wants to find death and life, how can she run to jump into the river in a good manner?" What is the reason for this? ”

Feng Lao Niang thought for a while and said, "Song Niangzi said that it wasn't her going to jump into the river, she accidentally fell down." ”

"Oh, no wonder so!"

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