"I'm just thinking about things." Mingyue came back to her senses, she couldn't say that she was suffering from "homesickness", but when she was approaching the end of the year, she suddenly remembered all kinds of things in her previous life, so she could only casually make an excuse to deal with Yu Jiayan, "I have too many things to do next year, and I must clear my mind first." ”

Yu Jiayan looked at her, was slightly silent for a moment before lowering his eyes and said to Mingyue: "Sister Mingyue, you actually don't want to marry me, do you?" ”

Mingyue sighed in her heart, "What are you thinking about?" ”

"You actually don't want to get married so early, you're just afraid that I won't be able to stay in the Ming family, so you reluctantly agreed. I know it all. Yu Jiayan didn't give Mingyue a chance to fool around this time, his eyes were slightly wet, but his expression was stubborn and stubborn, "I know it, but I pretend not to know that I am married to you." I..."

"No, it's not like that." Mingyue raised her hand and stroked his yellowish hair, "At first, I really didn't want to marry so early, but it's not your fault." I just want to make a good life for my family first. As you can see, our family is actually poor. ”

Yu Jiayan obviously didn't agree with Mingyue's point of view, but he was very well-behaved and didn't refute it. He could see that Mingyue was not perfunctory to him, she really felt that the Ming family was "poor".

"And I'm actually willing to marry the two of us." As soon as Mingyue said this, Yu Jiayan only felt a rumble in his head, he was both surprised and happy, but his expression was unprecedentedly sluggish.

Mingyue couldn't help but laugh secretly when she looked at it, she straightened her expression slightly and said to Yu Jiayan: "I'm not for you, I'm for myself." With you, I don't have to marry anyone else. ”

"I know you're grateful to your grandmother and father for keeping you in the Ming family, but kindness and... It's different, and repaying the favor is not only a way to marry me. ”

"You're still young, and you don't understand the things that happen between men and women. You just have to remember one thing, and that is that whether you are my fiancé or not, you can stay in the Ming family until you want to leave. ”

"I look at you the same way as I look at San Lang, so I won't let you leave the Ming family to wander."

Yu Jiayan seems to understand whether he understands or not, although he is smart, he is only 11 years old after all, and he is still 11 years old.

Fortunately, Mingyue didn't expect Yu Jiayan to understand her words immediately, she touched the top of the young man's hair, "It's okay if you don't understand, you're still a child." When you grow up, you'll understand. ”

Yu Jiayan's face turned red - he just didn't understand it anymore, and he instinctively didn't want Mingyue to treat him as a child, which made him feel a sense of crisis and powerlessness that he couldn't talk to Mingyue on an equal footing.

He silently decided that in the future, he would not care about Mingyue calling his sister, lest she always treat herself as a little child. Although he is two years younger than her, he is her fiancé, and he must take the initiative in the relationship between the two.

Obviously, this kid only listened to Mingyue's willingness to marry him, but completely ignored Mingyue's long list of tirades behind him that he didn't seem to understand.

If Mingyue knew that "heart-to-heart" with Yu Jiayan would be the result, she swore that she would definitely become Meng Jiangnu who cried down the Great Wall in seconds - sad as her, this is clearly stealing chickens and not losing a handful of rice.

***

On the first day of the new year, the Ming family put all the small greens planted in the house into a basket.

Mingdi has already agreed with the Jufu Restaurant in the town that all the small green vegetables grown by their family will be purchased by the Jufu Restaurant at a price of 22 yuan and one catty.

This price is slightly lower than the market price, but the advantage is that the Ming family no longer has to send people to sell around in the town and county, which not only saves labor, but also saves the cost of carriages, horses, accommodation, food and losses that may be caused by transportation.

Of course, this is from the perspective of the rest of the Ming family.

If it is from Mingyue's point of view, then the biggest advantage of selling directly to Jufu Restaurant is not to save money and time, but to save worry and trouble - compared to the effort and energy required by retail, she would rather make less money.

Those relatives and friends of the Ming family who followed the Ming family to grow vegetables also sold their small green vegetables to the Jufu Restaurant in the town this time, and they also got the same selling price as the Ming family because of their excellent condition.

In addition to the Ming family, who has already inquired about the price of vegetables in this season, the men in charge of several other families who came to sell vegetables collectively became stupid in seconds when they heard the price of "twenty-two wen a catty", or Mingyue deliberately coughed twice, and these crops who fell into a sluggish state because the price of vegetables was more expensive than the price of meat finally barely came back to their senses.

"The Ming family has a total of 721 catties of vegetables, with a discount of 15 taels and 862 wen."

"The Huang family has a total of 693 catties of vegetables, with a discount of 15 taels and 246 wen."

"The Wang family has a total of ......"

Zhou's elder brother, Zhou Hu, the bookkeeper of Jufu Restaurant, reported every account, and the old shopkeeper watched the young man come out with a sum of money.

Mingyue was not idle, Zhou Hu also settled the accounts, and by the way, she also observed who had more and who had less income.

In the end, she came to the conclusion that like their family, her aunt's family, the Huang family next door, her grandmother's mother's Wang family, her uncle's mother's Xie family, and her mother's mother's Tao family, these families only got more than eight taels and ten taels of silver from selling vegetables because they planted a lot of vegetables, and like her sister-in-law's family and her third aunt Zhou's mother's family, these two families only got more than eight taels and more than ten taels of silver for selling vegetables because the number did not keep up.

It's not that these two families don't want to have more, but the men in charge of both of them are working in Jufu Restaurant, and the firewood at home is not enough, so they can't burn five or six rooms of fire like other families.

Especially Minghe's family, her family's firewood is still before the winter in Mingdi, and she specially hired the Huang family's mule cart to send it to the town, otherwise in the town this kind of place where every stitch and thread has to spend money to buy, how can Minghe have the spare money to burn a room of fire, which is specially used to grow off-season vegetables.

"You should have a few more crops, right?" The old shopkeeper instructed the young man to watch the people load most of the vegetables and transport them to the county, and at the same time, he did not forget to make an appointment with Mingdi for the next batch, or even the next batch.

Their Jufu Restaurant is not only open in Taiping Town, but also in the county seat of Fuxing County and other towns under the jurisdiction of Fuxing County, and even near the other two counties of Fuxing County, they Jufu Restaurant all have stores.

In addition, not all the squires in the county are wealthy, and they have conservatories or hot springs at home. And those who have a conservatory or hot spring Zhuangzi at home, the warm house at home is basically used to plant flowers, and the little green vegetables produced in the hot spring Zhuangzi are either kept for themselves to eat, or used as a very decent gift to relatives and friends.

As a result, the vast majority of families in the county can still only eat common vegetables such as cabbage and radish that are extremely resistant to storage in winter.

In other words, these small green vegetables he received, their owners can not only send them to the restaurant to attract guests, but also take them home to eat for themselves, otherwise it is also excellent to use them as gifts.

After such calculations, the more than 5,000 catties of small vegetables he received were not enough for their host's distribution, how could the old shopkeeper not worry about making an appointment for the next batch?