Chapter 36: Aren't You Happy
"It's not an uncommon way, the big girl just wants to be in front of others." Mrs. Ming knew that this matter was not something they could keep secret if they wanted to, just like Xie said, as long as someone came to their Ming house to take a turn, they would be able to think about it and plant a house by themselves when they went back.
It's all old crops, who can hide from whom? Rather than hiding and being learned in the end, they should have been directly open to learning from the beginning.
Mingyue also had an idea with Mrs. Ming.
In her opinion, the big families in the county, their hot spring villages have out-of-season greens every year, and there are also greenhouses used to raise flowers in the house.
Even if those big families don't bother to think about it, will the large number of tenant farmers and gardeners who work for these families not move at all?
So this is not something that their family can monopolize at all, instead of hiding it in a stingy way, Mingyue feels that they might as well simply take it out generously and make a small fortune with relatives and friends.
Mingyue conveyed her meaning to Old Man Ming, and when she heard it, Old Man Ming nodded again and again, "Don't say that big families are those in the village who are not short of firewood like our family, as long as they see our family planting, they can also follow suit." ”
To put it bluntly, these people were just limited by their own inertial thinking before, and subconsciously felt that vegetables could only be planted in the yard, but now Mingyue has opened a door to a new world for them, and then these people will go along this line of thought with a hundred times their creativity.
Mingyue is convinced of this.
"Then it's decided, when the boss and they finish the shelf, you will let the daughters-in-law go back to their parents' house." Old Man Ming told Mrs. Ming, "I'll go and say it in person." As for whether each family should follow the planting, we can't force this, it's up to them to think about it. ”
Mrs. Ming nodded, "Then Old Yu, let's please invite you?" ”
"Please, you should be treating Jia Yan as a face."
As soon as Old Man Ming said this, the discomfort in Mrs. Ming's heart suddenly disappeared, "Then I'll let the second child call Boss Yu over at that time." ”
Mingyue listened with a smile and didn't say anything.
She and Old Man Ming have the same idea - although Yu Shouyi is not good, Yu Jiayan is a rare good child, not only diligent and capable, but also extremely sensible and caring, which makes people involuntarily want to love him a little.
After agreeing on how to operate this matter, the Ming family once again devoted themselves to the busy routine of going out early and returning late, and soon, Mingyue ushered in the first winter after her crossing.
When the soil in the field froze and she could no longer dig herbs, she immediately began to plant out-of-season greens with her family.
The vegetable seeds were prepared by Mrs. Ming in advance, and the old crops at home used them as her solid backing to provide her with technical support, so that she could grow the little greens smoothly.
Along with them, they planted a large number of out-of-season greens, as well as the mother's family of Mrs. Ming, Xie, Zhou, and Tao, the aunts and grandmothers of the Ming family of Ming Ju and Ming He, and the Huang family, the neighbors of the Ming family.
Yu Shouyi of the Yu family wanted to plant, but his mother-in-law, Feng, felt that the Ming family was a blind toss, and her family did not have extra firewood to burn several rooms at the same time.
You must know that every winter, their family is crowded on the same kang and only spends the winter through a ram.
In this case, even if Yu Shouyi wanted to plant, he couldn't find a place to place a wooden shelf.
As for the Li Zheng family and Dr. Li's family, these two families are short of manpower and rich in life, so they only planted a few pots less, and the right thing is to add a few fresh dishes to their Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
“... Rabbits and pheasants were sold for twelve taels, herbs for about four and a half, hazelnuts, walnuts and pine nuts for a little more than a tael, plus the cotton and cloth we had bought before, and now our family had a total of twenty-seven taels of silver and four strings of money. ”
Under the light, Mrs. Ming whispered to Mr. Ming about the family's accounts.
To tell the truth, since the old man Ming took all the money in the family to buy land, Mrs. Ming has not been able to settle down in her heart, she is afraid that something will happen suddenly, and the family is anxious to use the money.
Fortunately, her children and grandchildren soon earned her enough money to save her.
She asked the old man, "The big girl said that she wanted to buy a calf back for the New Year, what do you think about this?" ”
"It depends on the situation, if this little green vegetable can really be sold for money, then we will ask the He family to help buy a little calf and come back." Old Man Ming is thinking about these things at home almost every day, but for him, buying cattle is far from being on the agenda.
What he wants to do more now is to send Shiro and Goro to study.
Shiro Goro is the right age, and the most important thing is that one represents the big room and the other represents the third room, which is very important to the old man Ming who strives to achieve a bowl of water on his children.
He said to Mrs. Ming: "Anyway, it's winter, and the children can't always run up the mountain anymore, so let the second child continue to teach them to read and read tomorrow." Especially Shiro and Goro, you ask the second child to detain them at home and get to know a few words, and stop always letting them go out and run wild. ”
Mrs. Ming didn't think much about it, she nodded slightly at Old Man Ming, "Then I'll let the second child also bring Jiayan, that child will also have to set up a household in the future, and our Mingyue is a woman after all." ”
Only then did Old Man Ming realize that he was a little thoughtful, "Cheng, just do as you say." ”
So, the next day, the Ming family had breakfast, and Shiro and Goro, who were about to go out to play with their friends, were intercepted by Mrs. Ming at their own house.
The two little babies cried and went to Mingcheng in the second room, Mingcheng smiled and took out pen, ink, paper, inkstone and books, and began to enlighten Shiro and Goro in front of the two little faces full of sorrow.
"Second uncle, didn't my grandmother say that Brother Jiayan is also with us? Where is he? Mingcheng had just said less than two sentences, and Shiro had already asked these two sentences in a fuss as if he had discovered a new continent.
"He's gone up the mountain with your eldest sister. When they come back after picking up rabbits and pheasants, your brother Jiayan will come to find the second uncle. Mingcheng had a good temper, and his nephew interrupted him teaching, not only did he not train people with a straight face, but he also answered Shiro's question very patiently.
Of course, what he didn't tell Shiro and Goro was that Mingyue and Yu Jiayan actually went to Xishan to check those traps and rabbit traps. They were accompanied by Jiro, and Daro and Saburo went to Nanshan, where there was almost no danger.
At this time, at the foot of Xishan Mountain, Yu Jiayan was sitting with Mingyue on the thick branches of a big willow tree.
"Sister Mingyue, aren't you happy?" The little boy looked up with his face and looked at the thin girl who was looking into the distance with a melancholy look on his face.