Chapter 18
"That's right," Lu Yunian looked at the blood scab on Lu Wanxing's forehead, pondered for a moment and said: "The child recovers quickly, and it's not a secret that she digs back ginseng, I'm afraid that others are also worried about it, let's let the child rest for three days, what do you think?" ”
"Well, that's done. It's just that the wages ......."
"Settle it on the same day, what's going on?"
"Lao Qi's work is refreshing," Mrs. Lu sent him out with a smile, and as soon as she opened the door, she saw Lu Wanqian and Lu Wanqing slipping away against the window. The angry old lady gritted her teeth. I don't know how much they heard, so they led Lu Wanxing to the third aunt's house, where the third aunt and the fourth aunt were sitting together doing needlework.
glanced at the two of them angrily, and said in a weird manner: "What's the matter with the patriarch, and he still comes to play prestige under my nose!" ”
"The third family, why are you still angry with the child?" Mrs. Lu laughed with her, pulled Lu Wanxing to her side and said, "In the future, we will have to rely on Wanxing!" ”
"Yes, if Guo Rui is in the middle of autumn, she will be a lady, and our Lu family is counting on her to shine on the lintel! But there is nowhere to say this, in case Guo Rui is not rare when she is developed, we have to continue to feed this vain. "What the third aunt said was sour and sour, and Mrs. Lu didn't like to listen to it, but she laughed with it.
"That's not what I'm talking about, just now your seventh uncle came over to arrange an errand for Wanxing," Mrs. Lu came directly to tell her, she just didn't want to wait for Lu Wanqian to pass the word in the middle, and she could also help Lu Wanxing improve her status at home and be less angry.
"Errands? What for? The ancestral hall needs to be cleaned? The fourth aunt interjected and asked.
"No, that's it! We have to know it, but we have to keep it secret. ”
"Why did my mother still sell Guanzi, and she was so unhappy to speak." The third aunt simply put down the work in her hand and looked at Lu Wanxing with no good eyes. I feel sorry for that skirt in my heart, and I am worried about that ginseng. When he saw her, he added to the blockage.
"Your seventh uncle said that in three days, let Wanxing take people up the mountain to find ginseng, and give ten cents a day."
"What? Ten cents? The fourth aunt's eyes widened in surprise, "She's worth ten cents a day?" ”
"Yes, what your seventh uncle just said." Mrs. Lu also kept a hand, and she didn't shake out the dividends at that time.
"Really?" The third aunt rolled her eyes and squeezed out a wicked smile, "This is really a good thing." ”
"The third family, your seventh uncle said that going up the mountain is manual work, let the evening star eat more nutritious. also said that let her rest at home for three days, I think our family is not rich, and there is still a lot of housework......" Mrs. Lu said halfway through her words, looking at the third aunt's face.
The third aunt smiled and didn't smile, "Heh, hehe, mother, let's talk well, ten cents a day is also for the family, but not for her alone." ”
"Milk ......" Lu Wanxing is unwilling, why should she go out to earn money for nothing!
"That's, that's, Evening Star is also contributing to the family." Mrs. Lu grabbed Lu Wanxing's hand fiercely and didn't let her make a sound. Lu Wanxing felt this grievance in her heart.
"That's okay, from tonight's dinner, add an egg to Wuya a day, and I won't give her the work for the past few days." The third aunt's brain turned quickly, and she shouted twice into the courtyard, "Wan Qian, Wan Qing......"
"Mother, what are you doing?" Lu Wanqian pulled the window edge and asked, "Siya and I have to release geese for a while!" ”
"What kind of goose, let go of the goose, hurry up and clean up Wuya's house, and then wash the clothes she took off yesterday."
"Why?" Lu Wanqian twitched her face and was unhappy.
"Why, why do you say, Wuya can make money, can you? Hurry up! ”
"Hmph-" Lu Wanqian turned to the courtyard and said, "Siya, you go and wash Wuya's clothes." ”
Lu Wanqing reluctantly muttered, saying something specifically, I couldn't hear it clearly in the room. Mrs. Lu didn't stay long, and was about to leave when she led Lu Wanxing, but the third aunt pretended to be kind and pleasant, and called them affectionately, "Mother, Wuya, you can sit down for a while." ”
"Don't sit down, Wuya still has to rest." Mrs. Lu was afraid that she was going to change her hexagram, so the third aunt put down her face behind her, and said angrily: "Mother, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are at home, our family has a few eggs a day, and I am willing to add eggs to Wuya." It's just that Chengwen, Chengwu, and Chengcai are all growing their bodies......"
"The third family, only one a day," Mrs. Lu was unhappy when she heard what she said, but the old lady would not shake her face, and kindly emphasized it.
The third aunt saw that the old lady was not enlightened, and said impatiently: "Mother, I won't tell you, there is not much food in the clan this year, and the little land that our own family has opened up will not be able to see the harvest until autumn. ”
"......" The old lady flattened her mouth and said nothing, what the third aunt said was not a big deal to Lu Wanxing, an egg is a dollar in modern times, but she recalled the memory of the original owner, only to know that eggs in the Lu family are valuable food, usually only those brothers who have not yet married can eat it, and the third aunt once had a miscarriage and ate it for half a month. The remaining eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs are all sold on the market.
Their Lu family is a big family, the land in the clan is jointly planted by several families, and the grain is divided according to the head during the autumn harvest, and the family raises livestock, and kills a pig during the New Year's Festival, and also divides the meat according to the head. Cattle are fed in turns and used collectively.
In the early years, everyone worked together like this, eating enough to eat, and starving to starving. Later, some people opened up their own wasteland, raised some poultry at home, and lived a better life than others. Some people in the clan have followed suit, although the power is still in the ancestral hall, but over time the family has its own small treasury.
Every family has a male baby, saying that the daughter-in-law wants money, and their Lu family, since the third aunt is in charge of money, life is much better than before, and it is also the credit of her careful calculation. Now I am calculating the money for these eggs with the old lady, and the old lady has nothing to say.
The third aunt saw that she was taking advantage of the reason, and no longer concealed it, and said her thoughts with a thin mouth.
"Mother, last night Wuya brought back a ginseng, I know that Wuya intends to be filial to you, but you also know that that ginseng is very valuable, otherwise Uncle Qi would not have hired Wuya to lead the way, you say? Although ginseng is a good thing, it is not something that our poor family can enjoy, I will say it bluntly, you give me ginseng, I will sell it on the market, and how much money will be sold at that time will go into our family's account, not to mention Wuya plus an egg, when the time comes, our whole family will add eggs, then there is no problem. ”
Lu Wanxing understood, the third aunt said a thousand ways and ten thousand or was still worried about ginseng, and when the time came to sell it, she said as much as she wanted, and all the good things she said were posted at home, who had eaten her small stove? Lu Wanqian has not been bumped into by her when she eats white rice in the dark; She has been sewing and mending a belly pocket for three years, and Lu Wanqian has several big flowers and small flowers! If the third aunt doesn't buy it for her, where will she get it?