Chapter 31 Preparations for the Autumn Harvest

and Lin Ruyu and Lin Youqing sisters learned the craft of needlework for a while, and originally wanted the two of them to have lunch at their home and then go back, but Lin Youqing said that Aunt Li had told them to go home for dinner before they came, and they couldn't always make trouble for her. Lin Zhu was not reluctant, and wrapped half of the dim sum he bought yesterday and brought it back to Ruyu. made Ruyu, who was a little unhappy because she didn't eat Lin Zhu's cooking, suddenly felt better.

After the two left, Lin Zhu cooked a bowl of noodles for himself, and after eating, he took the wolfberries in the west wing to the outside yard to dry, because most of them had dried up in the shade, and only the sun was left. Aunt Li can't always come to her house, she has to do these jobs by herself, a batch of wolfberries has been sold, and she can be busy with the rest alone. Aunt Li picks more wolfberries than Lin Zhu, and Lin Zhu manages to dry more things afterwards, so the money from selling wolfberries is half for two people. Aunt Li didn't want so much, but Lin Zhu said that going up the mountain to pick wolfberries was the most tiring, and without Aunt Li, she might not even be able to pick one-third of these wolfberries. In this way, Aunt Li also accepted Lin Zhu's distribution method. However, as soon as she has the opportunity, she will come to Lin Zhu to dry the wolfberries together, and the heavier work is like moving the wolfberry basket out and in, and Aunt Li will come over on time to do it, and the rest of the picking will go to Lin Zhu.

After doing this, Lin Zhu rested for a while, and thought of what Aunt Li said when she came over a few days ago, that she was about to harvest the crops, and the village chief Lin Changqing also found a few suitable short-term workers, and when she decided when to work, because the village chief's family also had to harvest autumn, and the paddy fields of the two families were next to each other, and they might start working together at that time.

Lin Zhu decided to invite three people to work for five days, and her work on these five acres of land should be about the same. In this way, she will have enough money to sell wolfberries this time, but she decided to provide lunch and dinner, so that the money will be used more, but in order to make it easier for the next year, it will be good for her to spread some generous reputation.

The next day, Aunt Li came over, and after entering the door, she saw Lin Zhu cleaning the chicken coop, and wanted to come forward to help, "Auntie, I'm almost done cleaning, don't touch your hands." "Okay then," Aunt Li saw that she had done almost the same, so she didn't insist anymore. Xiaozhu, I came to you to cut rice. After Lin Zhu cleaned the chicken manure, poured it into the septic tank in the backyard, and after washing his hands, he heard Aunt Li's words, and looked up and asked, "Can you cut it?" "This morning, your Uncle Lin went to the field to see it, and said that it could be cut with one or two. Three of the five people you are looking for will go to your field, and two of them will come to our house, and they will all say that they will go to the field when the time comes. ”

"Okay, Auntie has something I want to discuss with you." Lin Zhu nodded, "Do you want to take care of the food at noon and at night?" "Although they are all from the same village, and they are close to home, they still have to take care of the food and send it to the land." Aunt Li and Lin Zhu walked to the place where the wolfberries were dried and said while turning them over. "Besides, it's all in a village, and there are always some people who like to talk when they see someone asking someone to work, and they don't have to let those who are not right-minded see jokes." "I think so too, ask people to help, they also have their own fields, and there is work to do, and they can work faster when they eat well here." Lin Zhu was relieved when she heard what Aunt Li said, she didn't want to be too unconventional, other people's families didn't care about food, and she was too conspicuous to take care of the food alone. Although she wants to use these to build a good relationship with the people who help, as the old saying goes, it is better to keep a low profile.

"Auntie, if I want to take care of the rice, I still have to buy some rice and noodles, the family may not have enough, and I have to buy some eggs and meat or something." Lin Zhu remembered that there was not much food at home, and he had to go to the town to buy some back. "If you want to buy eggs, you can buy them from whoever has them in the village, and you have to buy the rest from the town. But now is the time to be busy, and Lin Dazhu's ox cart is afraid that he can't sit anymore. Aunt Li thought for a while, "But I also have to buy some meat at home, and I don't want to do that heavy work and don't let me eat well." Then let's go together tomorrow. I can also help with things. "Lin Zhu originally wanted to go by herself, no matter what she bought, as long as there was space, as long as she put it inside, she could come back easily, if she went with Aunt Li, it would not be very convenient." That's too hard for you, and it's a long way to go, and it's quite heavy to buy. Lin Zhu thought for a while, "Why don't we ask Lin Dazhu if he can go tomorrow, anyway, he hasn't started working now." "That's fine, I'll ask him later." Aunt Li thought about it, it was not only them who wanted to go to the town to buy things, there must be other people, and Lin Dazhu might not want to take this trip.

After leaving Lin Zhu's house, Aunt Li went to Lin Dazhu's house to ask, and after receiving a positive answer, she went home satisfied. As soon as she got home, she saw Ruyu playing in the house, so she asked her to send a letter to Lin Zhu. "Mother, then can I play at Xiaozhu's house for a while and come back." Ruyu began to make a small request to Aunt Li. "It's okay to play, but don't eat at her place, I brought you half of the snacks yesterday." Aunt Li could see her careful thoughts at a glance. "Okay then," Ruyu's eyes rolled twice, thinking that if Xiaozhu had to keep me for dinner, then she couldn't blame me. Seeing her appearance, Aunt Li shook her head funny, took out ten eggs from the house, and asked her to bring them to Lin Zhu, "Just take some eggs, just say that Xie Lu thanked her for the snacks she gave you, and the snacks cost dozens of dollars a pound, she gave you half of them at once, and you have to return the gift." Ruyu took the eggs and went out.

Aunt Li just wanted to go back to the house, but she saw her eldest daughter-in-law looking at her all the time, and it seemed that she had seen what had just happened. Aunt Li sighed secretly, this eldest daughter-in-law is too shallow, always staring at the star, although her family is the village head, but the etiquette and favor in the village have to go, and outsiders can see it. Sure enough, Liu Qiucui saw that Aunt Li took ten eggs and asked Ruyu to send them to Lin Zhu, she was immediately unhappy, and she couldn't eat eggs every day at home, and she also sent them to outsiders, "Mother, who do you want Xiaoyu to send eggs to?" She really asked, Aunt Li frowned, "Isn't it yesterday that Ruyu came back from Xiaozhu with a snack, didn't you also eat a few pieces, that dim sum is thirty or forty a pound, you can't eat other people's for nothing, let Xiaoyu take a few eggs over is also a courtesy." Aunt Li stabbed her eldest daughter-in-law with something in her words. The dim sum that Ruyu brought back yesterday counted how much she ate, and she didn't have a look at it at all, I really don't know how the Daoist family taught her.

Yesterday, Ruyu took the dim sum back and distributed it to everyone, a total of only ten pieces, Aunt Li gave each person a piece, and the remaining four pieces wanted to be kept for Xiaoyu, so that she could eat slowly, it was originally given to Xiaoyu by Lin Zhu, but she didn't think that this eldest daughter-in-law finished eating her own portion, and took two more pieces, and Xiaoyu was about to cry, and Aunt Li didn't want to teach her a lesson because of this little thing, so she glared at her, and quickly wrapped the remaining two pieces for Xiaoyu and took them to her house, and coaxed her well, promising to buy it for her to eat next time. And then on this day, Aunt Li didn't give her a good look. But isn't what she says just snacks? It's really a little family, so I gave such a little, and before she was finished, she was dragged into the house by Lin Hongwen, who was angry with her for not knowing what to do.