The Ming family was busy for nine days, until all the thorny old buds in good condition were sent to Jufude Restaurant, and the Ming family entered the spring ploughing season when the whole family set out.

In nine days, the Ming family picked a total of more than 350 catties of thorn old buds from Nanshan, and after these thorny old buds were sent to Jufu Restaurant one after another, the restaurant paid them a total of 82 taels of silver and more than 270 copper plates.

Seeing that Mrs. Ming's small money box was gradually becoming full day by day, the tired body of the Ming family glowed with infinite fighting spirit.

The happiest is the old man.

In the early years, because of the famine and Dow's premature birth and dystocia, the Ming family once sold the twenty acres of Shangtian handed down by the grandfather of the old man Ming.

This matter has always been the heart of the old man Ming, these years, he dreamed of adding some more land to his family, but the land price during the famine and the current land price, that is simply two extremes, the old man Ming has saved for more than ten years, and the money he saved is not enough for him to buy back the twenty acres of land in his house.

But with almost ninety taels of silver obtained during this time, the old man Ming saw the hope of buying land at once.

The price of one mu of their land in Wulitun is 14 to 15 taels, and he wants to buy back all the 20 acres of land that he sold in his early years, and he must have at least 280 or even 300 taels in his hands.

Counting the silver sent to the tooth people, the silver to exchange for the red deed, the silver to send the people who handled the yamen, and the silver to invite Li Zheng and others to eat and drink, he had to prepare at least three hundred and ten taels.

He discussed with Mrs. Ming, "When the harvest is over, I want to go to Master Wu and tell me about the twenty acres of land that our family sold." When are you free, help me calculate how many silver taels are missing. If I could buy it back, I would be able to close my eyes when I die. ”

Mrs. Ming and Mr. Ming have been married for many years, and they know Mr. Ming quite well, and before Mr. Ming talked about it, she had already guessed that Mr. Ming would inevitably plan to buy land.

Because of this, she gathered all the money in the house early in the morning and counted it.

At this time, Old Man Ming said, and Mrs. Ming immediately reported the specific figure to Old Man Ming, "I have already calculated it, our family now has a total of two hundred and seventy-six taels of silver." ”

Old Man Ming was silent for a moment, "At least another thirty-five taels have to be prepared." If it really doesn't work, I'll go out in the autumn and find someone to borrow a few taels to use first. ”

Mrs. Ming sighed, "That's all it can be." ”

The old couple didn't notice it, and in the main hall across the curtain from them, a small figure quietly withdrew with a sad face.

The little figure is Mingyue, the family has made money, and her first thought is to buy a cow, or buy a big green mule, a small donkey or something like that.

In the memory of the original owner, all the farming of the Ming family relied on manual labor, and even the work that required strength such as pulling the plow had always been the responsibility of the three Ming brothers.

Not to mention the motor vehicle in Yue's memory, their family didn't even have a bigger livestock.

Finally made money, Mingyue thought about how she could buy a big livestock now, who knew that she ran over in a hurry at night, but as soon as she entered the door, she heard her grandfather's long sigh.

The old man Ming knows how much he values the field Mingyue, not to mention that the old man even said the words "You can close your eyes when you die", where did Mingyue dare to raise different opinions.

She returned to the east wing with a stupid face.

Mingcheng was sitting at the kang table flipping through a book that he didn't know what it was, and when he saw Mingyue hanging his head, he couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, "What's wrong with you?" Did you discipline you? ”

Mingyue shook her head, "I didn't even enter the house." When I walked to the hall, I heard my grandfather say that he wanted to save money to buy back the twenty acres of land that he had sold before..."

Mingyue simply repeated the words of Old Man Ming and Old Lady Ming, "How pitiful you are to listen to what my father said, if I still clamored for him to buy cattle, then he must be very embarrassed." ”

Mingcheng touched his daughter's head, "You're right to think so." Those twenty acres of land were sold for you and your mother, not only your father over the years, but also your father and me, and I have been thinking about it in my heart. It's better than anything else to be able to buy it back. Anyway, your uncle and the three of us have been like this for more than ten years, and it won't be bad for another three or five years. And you see in our village, the families who raise big animals don't have a slap in the face. Everyone is not living the same life yet. ”

Mingyue pouted and retorted to Mingcheng, "Where can I use it for three or five years, at most the year after that, I will definitely let our family buy big livestock." ”

Mingcheng didn't reprimand his daughter for being "whimsical" and "so ambitious", he patted his daughter's shoulder with a smile, "Then Dad is waiting to enjoy my daughter's blessings." ”

Mingyue's father in modern times, after remarrying, rarely even said anything to her, let alone encouraged her so gently.

The father's love, who had been absent for many years, now returned to her in such a form, and Mingyue was both happy and sad.

She resisted the urge to shed tears and smiled at Mingcheng, "Then you will continue to teach me to read and write from today onwards, I want to be a knowledgeable and capable person like you." ”

- People are obedient from books, Mingyue doesn't want to be semi-literate.

Mingcheng couldn't close his mouth when he was flattered by his daughter.

He taught all the older children in the family to read and write, and at first the children were quite serious about learning, but when they found that learning this thing was useless, they gradually lost any interest.

At that time, they would rather dig up an extra basket of wild vegetables and hunt more pigweed.

Mingcheng knew that this was wrong, but their family had no money for their children to study for the imperial examination, nor did they have a way to send their children to study medicine or study planning. After a long time, children will inevitably slack off, or even give up learning altogether.

"You have a good foundation, it shouldn't be difficult to pick it up again." It's rare that his daughter is interested, Mingcheng can almost be called elated, he can't wait to flip out a copy of "Thousand Character Text" from the cabinet, "Come, Dad will take you to review and review now." ”

Mingyue happily agreed, climbed onto the kang and read the book with Mingcheng, but secretly swore in her heart that she must make the Ming family rich as soon as possible.

***

On the morning of the third day of the Ming family's spring ploughing, the two aunts and grandmothers of the Ming family, Ming Ju and Ming He, who had been married, went back to their parents' house in a donkey cart on their front and back feet.

Married to Minghe in the town, her husband is Chen Bai, who works as a partner in Jufu Restaurant. Chen Bai wants to go to work, of course, it is impossible to accompany his daughter-in-law back to her parents' house. However, he didn't ignore the affairs of his father-in-law's family, although people couldn't come, but Chen Bai asked Minghe to bring five catties of white noodles and a two-pound pork belly with skin.

Ming Ju, who married into the family of Zheng Orion in Daqinggou, not only brought her husband Zheng Dachang, but also brought her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zheng.

Of course, Mrs. Zheng Jin is not here to help the Ming family. She heard about Mingyue falling down the mountain, so she came to visit Mingyue.