Chu Yan and Tian hurriedly opened the door.

There was a strong young man standing outside the door, scratching his head a little crampedly, and the hehe Okita clan and Chu Yan smiled: "Auntie, sister-in-law, do you want to collect yams today?" ”

The person who came was none other than Wang Liang, who went out to dig yams early in the morning and didn't bother to eat until now.

I just dug a basket of yams, and if I didn't come back, I couldn't put it down, so I went down the mountain, and I didn't even go back to my own house, so I came directly to Wang's house.

"Collect and collect, your old Uncle Shi is not at home, and the two of us will weigh you." Tian hurriedly opened the door and welcomed people in.

Wang Liang carefully put down the back basket, Chu Yan took a closer look, and saw that the yam in the back basket was clean and neat, which was better than Chu Yan's own digging.

"Oh, you're digging up a pretty good yam." Tian smiled and quipped, "Liangzi, you are really capable, you don't have to worry about finding a daughter-in-law if you go on like this." ”

Wang Liang's face suddenly turned red to the back of his ears, and he snorted and said, "Auntie, you are laughing." ”

In my heart, I couldn't help but look forward to the life of my wife and daughter-in-law, and I was full of energy.

Tian was talking to him, Chu Yan found a scale from the house, the scale rod was mottled and worn, but according to Wang Laoshi, this is a name left by the Wang family for several generations, don't look shabby, it is indeed very accurate.

Wang Liang looked at two women, one was old, the other was thin and weak, neither of them looked like they had strength.

So he picked up the basket with one hand: "Auntie, sister-in-law, it's weird, if you believe me, I will weigh it, do you look at it?" ”

"This relationship is good, your old Uncle Shi just went out to the field, the two of us have really little strength, thank you for your hard work!"

"No hard work, no hard work!" Wang Liang waved his hand again and again and hooked the back basket with a scale hook.

After a while, the weight of the yam came out.

"Fifty-two pounds and four taels, that's right!" Chu Yan confirmed with Wang Liang.

"That's right, hey, hey, hey!" He was suddenly happy, and he wondered where he would dig yams tomorrow.

"One pound and five cents, a total of two hundred and sixty-two cents." Chu Yan counted the money out of the house.

Wang Liang took the money bag and went out happily, along the way, attracting everyone's strange eyes, but he didn't care, returned to his thatched house, made a pot of paste, and drank three bowls with satisfaction, not to mention how comfortable.

After Wang Liang left, people came to deliver yams one after another, but it was best to count the yams dug by Wang Liang.

Counting it piecemeal, a total of more than 300 catties of yam were collected today.

After all, yams grow underground, it is not easy to dig, and the mountains are not everywhere, so it is not bad for a family to have dozens of catties.

So the question is, how will so many yams be transported to the town tomorrow? Usually a weight of dozens of catties, just carry it, this is more, but it is inconvenient.

"I'm going to borrow an ox cart!" Wang Laoshi slapped the table violently.

The living can't let the law give them a sad death.

In Jinshan Village, only the village chief Wang Fuchun has a cow at home, which is usually precious, more expensive than others, and rarely lent it to outsiders, and is only willing to use it when the farm is busy.

After all, what if someone else lends it to someone else? Borrow it, the cow is precious, don't borrow it, the villagers must be uncomfortable, saying that he, the village chief, is stingy, so he simply doesn't borrow anyone.

"Can it be done?" Tian was a little skeptical.

"I'll try it, isn't this the village chief's family also coming to us to sell yams?" Just got the benefits of the Wang family, can't you not let the ox cart use it, Wang Laoshi thought to himself.

Chu Yan was silent for a while, and then took out ten copper plates and gave them to Wang Laoshi: "Dad, let's not borrow it, let's rent an ox cart." ”

Wang Laoshi took the copper plate and went out, and after a short time, he came back happily.

As soon as he entered the house, he yelled at the two of them: "I said that I borrowed an ox cart, but the village chief didn't say anything, and directly said that I would go over tomorrow to take it, and I didn't collect the money." ”

"It's about the same, the village chief and his family have sold it for 200 yuan today." Tian snorted lightly, feeling a little distressed when he thought of the money he spent today.

Chu Yan knew what was going on when she looked at her expression: "Mother, if you think like this, you can't give up the child and can't trap the wolf, let's pull the yam to the town tomorrow, and get more money back!" ”

Tian thought about it, and it was also such a reason, but she had been poor for most of her life, and she was happy to make money, but it hurt when she paid for it.

Tonight, it was a sleepless night for many families in Geumsan Village.

Let's just say that in the Lin family, a large family guarded the money bags on the table, their eyes were round, Wang Qiao'er opened her mouth wide, and her children were about to flow out.

"Dad, mother, is this the money we earn today? So much? "She's seventeen years old, and she's never seen her family earn so much money at one time, and it's not the whole family today.

"No, I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to dig yams." Wang Qiaoer said, rolling up her sleeves and looking like she was going to do a big job.

Lin slammed her head: "What do you think, stay at home for me, they are all relatives, you can't run around the village like before, how bad it is to spread out!" ”

"Mother, can you make money at home? Even if I work slowly, I can earn 20 yuan a day, where can I find such a good job? Wang Qiaoer was very unconvinced.

In addition to Lin and Wang Qiao'er, the other three women on the table wanted to speak and stopped, they were none other than Lin's three daughters-in-law.

Today, I followed the Lin family up the mountain to dig yams, thinking about how much to earn subsidies to supplement the family, who knows so much, if my father-in-law is at home, it would be so good.

They were eager to bring all the yams from the mountains to their homes.

At this time, Wang Dayong, the head of the family, spoke: "Qiao'er is staying at home, I will go to the town now." ”

"What are you doing in town?" Wang Qiao'er asked suspiciously.

"Go and call your eldest brother, second brother and third brother back, don't do the work in the town first, come back and dig yams." Wang Dayong explained.

The three daughters-in-law were overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and thanked them: "Thank you, Dad!" ”

They all went into the town to work part-time when they were slack, and they earned more than 100 yuan a month, and now there is a better way to earn money, who doesn't want to earn more in their own house, but they are embarrassed to talk to their in-laws, but they didn't expect their father-in-law to propose it first.

This is the case in Wang Dayong's family, even more so in other people's homes, and the village chief Wang Fuchun's family is no exception.

Chu Yan didn't know about this.

The night gradually darkened, the birds quieted down, and in the silent night sky, the soft moonlight passed through the window lattice and sprinkled onto the small bed in the house, Chu Yan gradually fell asleep.

At noon on the second day, Wang Laoshi drove the village chief's ox cart, pulling several sacks of yams and prepared cold skin and noodles, bumpy all the way, and drove towards the town.