"Yes, since you want to stay, you might as well be the long-term worker of my family. First, we can provide you with food and clothing, which saves a lot of chewing, and secondly, you can also save a pension money. In the future, when the children grow up and start a family, you will need to spend money everywhere, and you will no longer have to suffer poverty. Dong Xiaoman thought to himself, this happened to be sleepy, and someone sent a pillow.

Several women immediately nodded in agreement, and made an agreement with Dong Xiaoman with great gratitude. Dong Xiaoman also arranged different things according to the demographic characteristics of each family.

A family surnamed Tian, originally five brothers lived with their parents. But there are too many people and too little land to live. The old lady of the Tian family gave birth to eight sons, but only five survived, and the seventh male owner of this family was the fourth son.

Tian Laoqi's wife, A-Yao, is a shrewd and capable woman, and the brothers in the family have also gone to private school, and her father is a showman. Therefore, Ah Yao is also literate and hyphenated, can speak and write, and she is not used to seeing the concubines on weekdays because of a handful of wild vegetables.

This year's harvest is not good, and the two sons of the family eat a lot, and they are accused by the concubines all day long, and it is really unbearable to scold Huai. In the end, Ayao took Tian Laoqi and his two sons to Pingliang City to beg for a living.

Ah Yao thinks that there are many businessmen coming and going in Pingliang City, and there are many more opportunities to make money than at home. Tian Laoqi is tall and burly, a typical Northwest man, and he is also very handsome. He carries a bow and crossbow all year round, and can often hunt a wolf to relieve his wife and children.

It is precisely because A-Yao can see that the men in her family are the main laborers, but they are not paid as they should be, and besides, there is no reason why the two of them can starve to death if they work as a female worker.

Among the people recruited by Erlang to build houses, there is Tian Laoqi. Tian Laoqi is young and powerful. Good mind again. People are real, too. I used to do odd jobs at home. I also know a little about carpenters, masons, and the like. So in some places, as soon as the master pointed out, Tian Laoqi immediately understood what should be done.

Erlang looked at it coldly and felt that this person was good, and asked about his personal situation again, which was the meaning of taking him in.

Dong Xiaoman can also see that among these families, Ah Yao and Tian Laoqi are among the best people. Among the people who came to consult with him, it was Ah Yao who was the main person and everyone was the auxiliary. Arrange to work, A-Yao is also silent and has no opinions, and will also do other people's psychological work.

After living for so long, everyone got to know each other, Dong Xiaoman once asked A-Yao: "You are also from a scholarly family, why did you choose Tian Laoqi?" ”

Ah Yao smiled indifferently: "What a scholarly family." Madame is exalting me. I didn't know Brother Seven, but one year I almost let the wolf dig it out, but Brother Seven saved me. My father was pedantic and boasted of being a scholar, and my two brothers also went to private school. My sister-in-law's family has a little money in business, and what I like is our family's so-called scholarly family. But my father is not uncommon, my sister-in-law talks about money all day long, and he doesn't want me to find someone who is not worthy. ”

Speaking of the past, Ah Yao sighed: "But there is a saying that it is useless to be a scholar, and none of the four men in our family combined have the seventh brother to work alone." My brother and sister-in-law are running a grocery store, and it is difficult to support the family. I thought that I could find a good family and have a good dowry, which could be regarded as leaving some money for the two brothers. ”

"But the seventh doesn't seem to have any money, right?" Dong Xiaoman couldn't help but guess.

"He? How can he have it? What he has is a wild goose today, a pheasant. It's best to have no more than a basket of fish. Can my sister-in-law take a fancy to these things? That's why I'm going to have a relative, and it's good to say it's a dowry for me. But I inquired secretly. People have money in their families, but they are a loser, spending money everywhere. If I marry that man, I may end up on the streets in the middle of the road. Ah Yao pursed her lips and smiled, but her work did not stop.

"Seventh Brother Zhilu said that my sister-in-law matched me with someone, and I couldn't do anything in a hurry. I asked him, if I marry him, can I be good to me for the rest of my life and listen to me for the rest of my life? Of course, the seventh brother agreed, saying that even if he only had one mouthful of porridge, he would rather starve to death, and he would give it to me. Speaking of this, A-Yao smiled happily with a red face.

Dong Xiaoman is very willing to listen to such a warm love story, A-Yao didn't see the wrong person, Tian Laoqi was indeed very good to her.

Then he came to propose, and came stupidly with a bucket of rice and two chickens. My sister-in-law picked up a broom and chased him on the spot, and my father was immediately angry when he heard that he was a farmer who only knew a few words and had not even been in private school for a few days. Later, I knelt in front of my father and begged bitterly, and finally told my father that we had to marry if we cooked raw rice and cooked rice. After Ah Yao finished speaking, Dong Xiaoman, Erya, and Huanhuan all looked at her in shock.

It's crazy that anyone would really do something like that. It can be seen that there are still talented and beautiful women in ancient times who teach each other privately, this is love.

"My father was so angry that he slapped me, saying that I insulted my family and wanted to kick me out. My sister-in-law also thought I was ashamed, and then I married out of a small sedan chair with such a simple one. On the day I returned, my sister-in-law hid in the house and didn't come out to see me. We haven't had a good time all these years, and we don't have the face to go home. After hearing this, Erya said angrily: "If you marry a rich man, your sister-in-law can't wait to lick you." ”

"Brother Qi was very good to me, especially when I was confined. My sisters-in-law are more worryless than the other, and stand at the door of our house scolding the street all day long. I remembered that he always refused to let him, and he secretly went to find wild duck eggs, cooked them outside, and secretly gave them to me to eat. Even if my mother-in-law came forward, it was not easy to use, so I had to do enough confinement. After listening to Ah Yao, Dong Xiaoman felt that it was really a wise move to split up early.

"Brother Qi came back to tell me that you are good in this valley, I came to see that it is indeed a fairyland on earth. So I'm going to beg you, Madame, to see if our family of four can stay here." Fortunately, Mrs. is a bodhisattva and took in our family. A Yao had already made a shoe when she spoke, and the kung fu in her hand was so good that Ling Erya was staggered.

Dong Xiaoman is still in the same style as before, the men all go to work in the fields, and the women raise poultry and livestock at home. The most important thing in the northwest is sheep, and a large flock of sheep is returned to the valley as their own industry. A place was set aside to be used as a sheepfold, and the older children carried whips to the back hill to graze the sheep.

Dong Xiaoman has always liked to plan ahead, and she heard Ah Yao say that along the way, many homeless people seem to have more next spring.

The lieutenant at least went outside to take a look, and the report when he came back said that the situation was really not good. Dong Xiaoman was in a hurry, and hurriedly spent a lot of money in Pingliang City, bought a lot of chickens and ducks, and bought a lot of cheap fabrics and cotton. also purchased a lot of grain from Luo Hao at a low price, which made Luo Hao laugh at himself as a frightened bird.

Anyway, the grain is not in vain, and the spring can always be used as a seed. Fortunately, the place in Pingliang Mountain is wide and the water source is abundant, even if it is a good place to live in seclusion.

Dong Xiaoman even thought even more crazy, for fear that there would be some kind of famine in the future, and Tatars would run in and grab things. forced Jiro to make a sturdy gate at the exit of the valley. In Jiro's words, this is a small town with only about 30 people.

It turns out that Dong Xiaoman and A-Yao's feelings are not wrong, and the weather is unusually bad after the beginning of spring. There was less wind and less water, because the previous year's harvest was relatively small, and prices were much higher.

Fortunately, although Dong Xiaoman spent a lot of money to buy food, and the valley was basically self-sufficient and stable.

Wei left after the New Year, and Erya watched the child all day long without doing anything else. Tiansheng and other big men have not started a family, and it is more difficult for them to be women than to ascend to the sky.

So it became Dong Xiaoman, Xian Xian and Peony three people cooking. Huanhuan still played with her ideas of flowers and herbs, and she completely lost the appearance of the overlord flower by her parents' side.

Tiansheng and others also knew that this life was not easy, and with Tian Laoqi and others, they turned the flat land in the valley into fertile land. They grow grains such as wheat, sorghum, and beans, as well as many kinds of vegetables.

Huanhuan was idle all day long, and begged Erlang to get a medicine field in the mountain behind his house. Erlang knows that the girl herself is not willing to be a doctor, and it is useless to plant flowers and plants, and planting some medicinal materials can be regarded as helping.

Ah Yao took a few women to work all day long, how to feed chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep fat, and the children's fun was naturally only sheep herding.

Dong Xiaoman thinks that this kind of life is not bad, at least there is enough food and clothing. It's a pity that not long after such days, I heard that Pingliang City is not quiet.

First of all, Luo Hao said that there were fewer and fewer caravans in the city, and I heard that some homeless people began to have the idea of robbing caravans. After that, Wei'er at least went out to toss blindly, and came back to tell everyone that some villages had been robbed.

Tian Laoqi was worried about his brother and his father, and wanted to go home to see if Erlang could take them over.

Dong Xiaoman asked Ah Yao what she meant, but Ah Yao didn't mind the past: "Poor and lowly couples mourn everything, if they live a rich life, who will fight?" We're doing well here, and it's okay to take over the place. ”

In this way, Tian Laoqi took Erlang and his natural adoptive brother to Tian Laoqi's house, and brought back his parents, brothers and many villagers.

Dong Xiaoman stood on the flat slope and saw a group of people below, chattering non-stop. Ah Yao talked loudly there: "If it weren't for Master Zhao and his wife to take us in, I'm afraid the people in our village would have starved to death." Now that we eat and drink with them, what else do you have to be picky about? ”

It turned out to be one of Ah Yao's concubines, because Ah Yao's family was too small, and she really had no place to live for her children. Then there was her manhood, she was ignorant, and she scolded a few words and quarreled with each other. Ah Yao took the opportunity to lecture, and everyone was silent for a while.

Erlang had already gone back to his room to sleep, and he waited for a group of people to return to their waterfall to drink wine and eat meat to be happy so that they would not pay attention to these bad things.

Dong Xiaoman thought about it, carried his skirt and walked down the steps, and when he saw Dong Xiaoman and Huanhuan with slender eyes, he immediately shouted: "Madam is here, Madam is here!" (To be continued......)

PS: The A-Yao here is served by Xue Siyao 88, a classmate who has always supported me