The women of the village come to work at dawn every day, and when the sun goes down, they go home to cook dinner and earn money to cook. Moreover, the quiet wages are paid once a day, and the women who come to work can get back 20 yuan every day, and the family is extremely happy, and they are told to do a good job.

They also listened to what the village chief's family said, and quietly hired them to work, just to pull them and let them earn some hard-earned money. People could have sold the whole thing, but they thought that this year's crops were not harvested, and the villagers were having a hard time, so they helped the villagers. For the quiet act, the villagers are full of gratitude. Of course, there are some people who don't care, and some people are full of resentment. This resentful person is, of course, the family of Lao An's mother-in-law.

Even cutting and drying, the women in the village were in a hurry for more than 20 days, and all the yams on the five acres of land turned into dried yam tablets. And the women who worked, each of them received a salary of three or four hundred yuan. If three or four hundred wen is bought with coarse grain, a family of four can save some money, and it will be enough to eat for two or three months. This made the women who came to work full of gratitude for the quietness in their hearts.

Dried yam tablets are packed in sacks. Informed the town and the shopkeeper of the Spring Hall to send people and cars to pick it up. Five acres of yam tablets filled six wagons. After a good time, it was weighed a total of 15,000 catties, and the price of 20 wen a catty had been set a long time ago, and the yam of five acres of land was sold for a full 300 taels of silver. Jing Jing didn't expect that five acres of yam could sell so much, and she was very happy. It was decided that all the ten acres of sandy land will be planted with yams in the coming year, as for the question of where to plant the rest of the grain? For quiet, it couldn't be easier, and that is to buy a few more acres of land.

Today is the day of Jiaming's rest, and he drove the ox cart into the town early in the morning. I came too early, and the shops on both sides of the street hadn't opened yet. Quiet parked the ox cart at the door of the grain store, and waited for about a quarter of an hour for the door to open.

Jing Jing entered the store, first looked around, this grain was more expensive than the last time she bought it. When she came to the counter, the shopkeeper was dialing the abacus, and when she saw that it was quiet, she raised her head and asked, "Girl, what do you want to buy?" ”

"Brown rice, black flour, and big ballast." Quietly and succinctly replied.

"How many pounds does that girl have to buy?" The shopkeeper put down the abacus and account book in his hand, and asked seriously to be quiet.

"Five hundred pounds each. Boss, I bought so much, can it be cheaper? "Quietly bargaining with the boss.

"The girl is a visionary and courageous. I'll tell the girl the truth, this price brand will be replaced in a while, and every catty of rice and noodles will rise by two cents. You buy it now, and you buy it again, and you're already making money. As the shopkeeper spoke, he looked at the quiet gaze with a look of appreciation.

"Since the shopkeeper said so, then I can't bargain anymore. Then ask the shopkeeper to tell the man to give me a thousand pounds of each. As soon as Quiet summed it up, he re-reported the number.

"After buying so much, are you finished eating?" The shopkeeper listened to the quiet purchase of so much, and blurted out in some surprise.

Quiet and silent, just looking at the shopkeeper. Quietly thought to herself, how much food did she buy, and could she eat it all? But there is no obligation to explain it to the treasurer.

The shopkeeper has been doing business for so many years, and he is naturally a smart person who can look at his eyes. Seeing that he was quiet and didn't want to say more, he stopped talking.

Instructed the guys in the store to load the 3,000 catties of grain that Jing Jing wanted into the ox cart, and Jing Jing went to the grocery store to buy 100 catties of salt, and went to the pharmacy to buy 100 catties of dried ginger, and finally went to the cloth village to buy a bag of needle and thread from the boss, and bought dozens of horses of coarse kudzu cloth, and a few hundred catties of cotton, and then drove the ox cart to the school.

There were many more people begging in the streets than before, and most of them were women, old people and children. The people on the streets were talking, and when Quiet inquired, he realized that these beggars were from the border. This year's drought caused the crops in the fields to fail, and the desert people took the opportunity to invade the border and rob them of their grain. These people couldn't, so they dragged their families all the way to Zhoujia Town. Those who were stronger and had better legs and feet went to the county towns or prefectures where there were many wealthy people to beg. Those who remained in the town were either women, old people, or children. It's all some old and weak people who can't walk anymore and stay in this town.

Jing Jing was soft-hearted and couldn't stand it, so at a stall selling steamed buns on the side of the road, he bought dozens of steamed buns and gave them to the women and children begging on the roadside.

When he arrived at the academy, Jiaming was already waiting at the door. Seeing that Jing Jing pulled this cart full of things, Jia Ming asked with some surprise, "Sister, why did you buy so many things?" ”

"Let's get in the car first, and then I'll talk about what I have to say when I go home." Quietly glanced at the people who were looking curiously at them on the road, and said to Jiaming.

Jiaming heard what the eldest sister said, looked at the pedestrians on the road again, and knew that some words were inconvenient to say here, so he nodded and got into the ox cart.

After picking up Jiaming, he went to the blacksmith shop to get twenty bows and arrows and two short knives that he had ordered before, and then drove the ox cart back to the village.

When they got home, they drove the ox cart into the yard, unloaded the grain, cloth, cotton, oil, salt and other things on the cart, and moved them into the west wing. I didn't bother to eat lunch, so I went to the village chief's house quietly.

When it was quiet, the village chief's family was eating, the village chief's son worked as a shopkeeper in a teahouse in the town, and his daughter-in-law had been living in the town to take care of Zhao Mingyi, who was in school. Today, the college is on vacation, and Zhao Mingyi went back to the village to visit the two old people.

Seeing that the silence came, the village elders and the elders were very happy, and just after eating, the village chief put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, beckoned Quiet to sit on the stone bench on the side and talk. The old village chief was a shrewd man, and he knew that if nothing happened, Quiet would not come running at noon.

"Jing girl came over at noon, but did you have lunch? Is there something wrong with coming to me? ”

"Grandpa the village chief, I really want to tell you something when I came here. Today I went to the town to pick up Jiaming, and I saw that there were many more strangers begging in the town. I heard from the people in the town that the border was bad for the invasion of the grassland people, and this year's grain harvest was not in place, but now it was robbed again, and the people had no way out, so they all dragged their families out to beg for food. I bought some grain at the grain store a few days ago, and after thinking about it today, I was afraid that the price of grain would rise, so I bought some more today. And guess what? It's just that after three or four days, the grain has risen by a penny per catty. Moreover, the shopkeeper also said that in the second half of today, he will grow two pennies per catty. Tomorrow will continue to rise, and food will only become more and more expensive in the future. I don't know if what he said is true or not. This heart is a little bottomless, this is not a time to come to the village to you, thinking that you are old, and there are many things, I want to talk to you about this matter. Quietly said half-truthfully.

Listening to Jingjing's talk of these things, the village chief also let out a long sigh, "Alas, the crops in the field have failed this year, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes are better." The rice in the paddy field is not even half of what it was in previous years, and the big guy doesn't know how to get past it this winter? Our people's lives are difficult! If you can't collect food, you have to pay taxes, and God won't let people live, alas..."

"Yes, I heard two elderly people in the town today say that there was a great drought a few years ago, and there was no harvest in that drought, and I don't know how many people died of starvation? The people who survived thought that it would be good to survive until the next year, but they didn't think that there would be another heavy snowstorm in winter, and many people froze to death that winter, and the scene was extremely miserable! I was also uncomfortable when I heard this. Seeing that the old village chief didn't react, Jing Jing continued to speak.

"Isn't it, you were young, and I didn't have you at that time. I still remember that the town was full of people asking for food. But how much more? All winter, every day people froze to death, starved to death, and in the end they could no longer be seen, not even a single person who asked for food, because those people were all dead, dead......" said the old village chief, as if caught in that unbearable memory. His face was full of sorrow, and his eyes were full of sadness.

Quiet has said everything that should be said, as for how to do it? It's up to the old village chief. Although she is kind, she is not ignorant, and she will not say anything if she speculates and comments on the situation. Trouble comes from the truth of the mouth, and silence is understood. Since ancient times, how many people have lost their heads because they said things that should not be said and talked about things that should not be discussed, and their families have been harmed. Quiet is not great enough to sacrifice her own life, even the lives of her younger siblings, for the sake of others. She does what she can, what she should do, she says what she can say, what she should say. She doesn't need anyone to thank her, and she doesn't need anyone to remember her, she just needs to do it in four words, that is, she has a clear conscience!