Cai Erniang's father finally brought the whole family to his daughter's house, and the mighty fish rushed in, the team was so large that a room could not be crowded.

Usually do things steadily and steadily, and the second lady of the cabbage, who is afraid of stepping on ants when she walks, seems to have a spirit. A pair of feet shuttled between the kitchen of the house non-stop. There are so many people, and she quickly steamed two pots of steamed buns by herself. stewed a pot of stewed dishes, and added some meat secretly given by Chef Zhu.

Lin Zhu wanted to help her, but he couldn't keep up with her rhythm, so he could only follow her back and forth. Running out of breath, he hasn't intervened yet.

Running around can't help, it's better not to help.

Anyway, my mother wants to behave well in front of her own family. She stood at the threshold and looked at her uncle and the family.

In addition to grandfather Hu Laoda, uncle Hu Dadong and aunt Hu Liu. There are also four boys and three girls, and a family of ten people in the same house. It's similar to the Lin family. She couldn't help but secretly admire that her thin paper-like aunt was too powerful. When I first came here, I heard that there were only four children, and in just a few years, there were seven children.

She's only in her thirties, and maybe there will be one in the future.

It's so powerful. Somehow, her mind remembered an old sow she had seen in the town again, also thin and thin, with many piglets hanging from the nipples under her belly.

How can it be associated with the old sow, it seems to be a bit insulting.

She threw an apologetic look at her aunt without saying anything. If she didn't wear women's clothes, she couldn't tell that she was a woman at all, but Hu Liu only cared about scolding the three children who still couldn't understand the words, and didn't look at her at all.

Seven children. The eldest cousin is already a big guy, bigger than her. The youngest is still breastfeeding.

This big family is all yellow and thin. Especially those girls, there are only a pair of eyes left on their faces. It should be as my mother said, it is forced by life. There is also a standard preference for sons, and those who do well are left to the boys in the family, and the girls are fine as long as they don't starve to death. Anyway, it will be someone else's in the future, and sooner or later it will be spilled out.

She sighed again that she was still happy growing up in her father's house.

The meal was served on the table as quickly as expected, and the whole family finally sat down at the table.

There are more people. And the rules were set up.

Daddy Hu. Dish 2, Lin Zhu's uncle, four cousins and cousins sat at the table in the main room to eat, and they were men who could get on the table. Cai Er Niangzi took her brother-in-law Lin Zhu's three cousins to eat in Lin Zhu's house. It's a woman who can't get on the stage. It is said that if a woman does not eat at the table, she will be in the kitchen. But there were too many people and the kitchen couldn't fit in.

Before picking up the chopsticks, Lin Zhu was stunned. My aunt looks like a thin bamboo pole, but the amount of food is surprisingly good. The bowl-sized white-flour steamed buns are almost filled into the mouth one after another. Seems to swallow without chewing. She ate five in one bite. I didn't even eat a single bite of the dish. The little girl in her arms hung from her shriveled nipples and smacked her mouth. Her dark belly was exposed, and she didn't care about it.

The steamed bun that was lost was soft just out of the pot. If it's dry, you're bound to choke to death.

And the two skinny little cousins like black ants also showed no weakness, and the two-year-old almost ate one. You must know that the steamed bun bowl is as big as the mouth.

The second lady frowned distressedly. It's not that I feel sorry for food, but I feel sorry for my brother-in-law and niece.

How hungry you must have been to eat like this.

Lin Zhu took a bite of the steamed bun and couldn't eat it anymore. After eating a few bites of the dish, I put down my chopsticks.

In the face of a few such hungry people, I really don't have the mood to eat.

I heard Caier's voice coming from the room over there: "Zhu'er Niang, Zhu'er, hurry up and make steamed buns." ”

It seems that it should also be the speed of the wind and clouds. Cai Er Niangzi was feeding her two-year-old niece for dinner, and Lin Zhu hurriedly said, "Mother, you feed her, I'll go." ”

There is already one drawer left in the three-layer cage drawer of steamed buns in a steamer. Lin Zhu put the big steamed bun that was not very particular about it on the plate and brought it in.

The steamed buns on the big wooden plate on the dinner table are gone, and a large pot of vegetables is gone.

In the end, it's a man, and he eats a lot, and there are almost twenty big steamed buns on the plate just now.

Lin Shu put the plate on the table and went to the kitchen with the vegetable bowl to add some stew.

When I returned to the house, I was surprised to see that the steamed buns on the table had been swept away.

Here's what's going on.

She blinked.

At the dinner table, Grandpa Hu held a big steamed bun in both hands, swallowed his stomach in a few bites, and licked the scum off his hands. Uncle Hu Dadong is not weak, his appearance is the version of his father when he was young. Maybe it's because life is too hard and it looks a little sad.

Four boys, all thin and weak. Maybe it's because nutrition just can't keep up. Not very tall.

The youngest was over three years old.

There are too many children, and life is naturally poor. It's no wonder that my mother has been talking about it.

Thinking of the silver rations plundered by Lin Zhang's family in Yueyue, Lin Zhu felt injustice for his mother. Niang is also a descendant of Yanfu, and she also earns wages, but all of them are impermanently dedicated to the Lin family, and her mother's family can't do anything about it, she was also born to her father.

She went to the kitchen again to bring steamed buns, and her grandfather, uncle, cousin, cousin, and cousin finally came to make them eat well.

Daddy Hu's family is an out-and-out farmer, guarding the true character of hard work, living in the vegetable garden for ten days, and the whole family is not idle.

Every morning, Daddy Hu would get up, find a tattered wicker basket from the vegetable garden, carry it with a shovel, carry it on his shoulder, and go out to find some cow dung, donkey dung, horse dung, and sheep dung in the fields outside. Come back and press it into the dirt. said: "The people in the town are wasteful, and no one picks up such a good fertilizer." You must know that every crop and flower is owned by dung. Vegetables are the same as dealers. When it's time to get fat, you have to get fat. With so much land, how can you not have enough fertilizer on it? ”

In just a few days, a dung heap was piled up on the head of the vegetable field.

His son Hu Dadong is not idle, he uses an iron to pile up the vegetable garden ridges very seriously, and the vegetable fields that have been desolate for a long time look like they are furrowed. He also took his two eldest sons to repair the pigsty, chicken coop. The decaying wooden fences were removed and replaced with new ones. I also tidied up the warehouses where the clutter was piled up, and threw away all the old ones.

Not to mention my aunt, who gets up every day before dawn. Helped the second lady clean up the vegetable cellars, one large, one small, one bright and one dark. He vacated all the old vegetables, dried and wilted, and said, "There are so many vegetables, but unfortunately they are not fed to the pigs." ”

The pigsty is empty for these two months, and the piglets will not be caught until February and March.

Cai Er Niangzi smiled and said, "Xiao Cui'er, it's all rotten vegetable leaves, just throw it away." It's a shame that you came to help my sister tidy up the vegetable cellar. Otherwise, such a large vegetable cellar. Your brother-in-law and I don't have the energy to tidy it up. In a few days, the leeks and spinach will grow again, and there will be no time at all. ”

Lin Zhu couldn't intervene on the side. So I helped with the three children.

In this short period of less than five years, Hu Liu gave birth to three in a row.

Everywhere you go, you drag your children with you, when you're at home. for there are those who feed. The farm work outside couldn't help. The larger ones were all kicked out to work on a few acres of thin land. She herself was entangled by three small ones. I can barely eat rice in my mouth.

Now there is finally Lin Zhutong's eldest daughter with three younger ones. I ate again, and my stomach was full, and I had inexhaustible strength. The motivation is greater than that of the second lady.

The vegetable cellar was tidied up. All the kitchen was cleaned.

Cai Er Niangzi found out all the old clothes sent by the kitchen of Yanfu, plus the small ones that Lin Zhu was wearing.

A whole kang was placed. I'm going to change clothes for my seven nephews and nieces.

Hu Liu's eyes lit up excitedly.

There are many people in the family and there is little land. The grain harvested every year can only last for half a year at most. For the remaining half a year, she could only rely on wild vegetables and vegetables and even borrowed from the east and west, and the half year when she couldn't eat enough was the most tormenting time for her.

I can't fill my stomach, and I can't take care of my clothes.

A piece of clothing is always worn by the eldest and worn by the second, and passed down one by one. It's all from the Yan Mansion given by the second lady.

It's just that Cai Erniang is usually busy all year round and can't see her a few times, and the clothes she brought back last time are already in tatters. Although the Hu family is living a very poor life now, their father-in-law is very strict and has a strong sense of self-esteem.

He always felt that his daughter's family was also hired by others and could not cause trouble. and I don't want to see the vicious face of my mother.

This time, I really can't help it. The grain and vegetables were eaten cleanly, and everyone who could borrow them received them. Breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year is all gruel, which is the last bit of food. Before coming to the vegetable garden, the family had been hungry for more than two days. The youngest daughter was crying so much that her nipples were bleeding, and she thought she wouldn't live.

When I came to my sister's house, there was food, and the food was all white flour and meat, although there was only a little bit of it every day. But for her, it was already in heaven.

There are still so many clothes, big and small, gray and black, but they are all half-new and not old. In her eyes, it is new.

She quickly looked through them one by one and made a decision.

These garments were enough to make two clothes for each of the seven children. Each of the single cotton. Those old clothes have cotton, and the cotton inside can be taken out, washed, dried, and continued to be used. There are also a few pieces that can be worn by the child's father and father-in-law, and there is no need to modify it at all.

She didn't care about eating and going to the toilet, sitting on the kang and flying needles and threads, she could only hear the click of scissors.

Hu Liu's needlework skills are no worse than that of the eldest sister, and she is happy. didn't even let Cai Erniang help.

And her eleven-year-old eldest daughter was very well-behaved and sensible while watching her younger siblings, so she washed the cotton that was a little black and dried it.

Lin Zhu held his little cousin, who was less than a year old, in his arms, and looked at the busy Hu family.

Although the life is very poor, you can see it. It's a big and well-bred family. The eldest cousin in the family is fifteen or sixteen years old, and he has already played the role of the eldest. The regiment of the three younger brothers' envoys can be completely taken care of.

Such a hard-working family, the days have been difficult. It's really unreasonable, it's intolerable. But she clearly saw that the Hu family, whether they were adults or children, were honest and could do their duty, and there seemed to be no one who could go to the streets.

Such a person has to be changed by hard work. If they are given enough land, they should slowly accumulate into a small landowner family.

Cai Er Niangzi has been devoted to her mother's family these days, and she can't wait to use all the things in the family on them.

But Lin Zhu knew very well that it was only a symptom but not a cure.

They only lived in the vegetable garden for ten days, and then it was. These clothes will only last for two or three years at most, and what about after that.?

If you want to help them thoroughly, you have to invest. Help them buy some land, buy more, this family is prosperous and diligent, if there is enough land, the problem of food and clothing should be solved quickly. As for other expenses, you can develop slowly.

The problem of food and clothing has been solved, and you can plant some oilboys, beans and the like in exchange for some pocket money.

Young Master Jin Zhen's oil mill had to buy oil boys from the villagers.

If you want to help, you can help thoroughly, she quickly calculated, how can she have a good land of about ten acres. The ancient cultivation technology was not high, and the yield was not large. She went to help the young master of the country to help the account of the pastoral farm. The grain harvest is bumper, and the yield per mu is more than 300 catties.

According to the calculation of two crops of coarse grain and fine grain in a year, take an average number, plus the original few acres of the family. Except for the imperial grain, it should not be much worse. Silver is valuable, but land is not cheap. In the past few years, there has been no war, life has become comfortable, and people have begun to buy land again. The price of land has soared, especially for good land, which is about seven or eight taels of silver per acre.

If you buy ten acres, you will get seventy taels of silver for nothing. Seventy taels, their family of three did not eat or drink for three or four years.

But Grandpa's family really deserves a good life, relying on their own labor, they are much better than the two brothers of the Lin family who are curvy and gnawing at the old.

Where will all this silver come from? Her grand blueprint has not yet been realized, let alone anything to get rid of poverty and become rich. Don't say seventy taels, now there are no seven taels or seven dollars.

But looking at the situation of Grandpa's family, if she waits until she earns money to help, maybe two of them will starve to death.

The first to starve to death was in her arms, and then to her feet.

Jiu'er left!

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, and my mind was opened. ，

That's right, Jiu'er left her a hundred taels, and the last one. It adds up to one hundred and thirty or forty taels, and only half of it needs to be used. Although she never thought of using the silver, it was still idle. Jiu'er has already made it clear that it was Young Master Jin Zhen who left her for emergency.

If you use them to help others, or even save someone's life, it is urgent. Isn't it worth it?

It can be regarded as doing a good deed for Young Master Jin Zhen.

He made up his mind and thought about how he would give them the money.

She still remembered that she had given it last time, and she also said that she had asked her grandfather to buy some thin land, but she didn't give much silver. At that time, Hu's father was very prevaricated, but it is said that because the money was too small, he only bought a few acres of thin land, and then Hu Dadong fell his leg, and the thin land was changed hands to save his leg.

This time, how can I sponsor the money to them? (To be continued......)