Chapter Seventy-Eight: Military Rations

"This is the blessing of God and the ancestors, so that you can meet such a strange person. (Tiantian Chinese.)" Old Man Su sighed while patting his thigh, while saying to the two sons and Yan Shopkeeper sitting next to him: "Since that girl is so good at weaving brocade, how can you guarantee that she will not weave yarn and silk?" When the time comes, brocade, leno, velvet, oh my God, this ...... This is really a blessing from God to us. ”

Su Liutian and Su Liuyun hadn't seen their father so happy for a long time, and they couldn't help but be very pleased, and listened to Old Man Su's strange words: "Yes, I see that Ruan girl is clearly dressed as a woman, why do you all call her a girl?" ”

Su Liuyun said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that she is still young, and she meets a negative person, she was dismissed, and she is not a widow and a virgin, so I think about her about Chapter 70: Military food doesn't like people to call her sister-in-law or something, because she is called a girl......" Before the words were finished, seeing that his father was brushing his beard, his eyes were full of sparkles, the five sons suddenly woke up, and hurriedly said: "Daddy, don't have other thoughts, I and Miss Ruan are innocent, just friends, there is no love between men and women, you don't hurt me." , and also made Miss Ruan unhappy, if you don't cooperate with you when the time comes, I think you will go and catch the blind. ”

Old Man Su pouted his goatee and said, "That's right, my son talks about character and family background, which one is not worthy of her?" We don't care if she has been divorced once, is she still critical of you, but it doesn't make sense......" Before he finished speaking, he saw that the fifth son rolled his eyes angrily and said: "You old province, don't think that women in this world are the same as several aunts, all of them live by looking at men's faces, so don't say that Miss Ruan has these skills." just doesn't have these skills, according to her son, she would rather work hard to weave cloth than remarry. ”

The shopkeeper Yan, who had not spoken, couldn't help but smile beside him: "Childe is Miss Ruan's confidant." I know it so clearly. Before the words fell, Su Liuyun glanced at him, and heard him say unhappily: "It's okay to say anything." In short, we are cooperating with Miss Ruan, and we are not allowed to think about other things. ”

Coincidentally, at this time in the carriage, there was also a conversation similar to that of the Su family. Zhong Nanzheng praised Su Liuyun in front of Ruan Yunsi. Giggled and said: "Sister Ruan, I see that these five sons are elegant and talk about Twenwen, although they are worse than Grandpa Su, they are also rare good men in the world." The most important thing is that although their Su family is also a big family. But unlike those extravagant aristocrats, my sister has these talents and crafts, are you afraid that they will not be like a bodhisattva for you when the time comes? So tell me to ......"

Ruan Yunsi just listened casually at first, but after hearing it, the more she listened, the more wrong it became, and she hurriedly stretched out her hand and said, "Stop, stop, what are you thinking about this stinky boy?" Believe it or not, I'm kicking you out of the car? ”

Zhong Nan has been with her for a long time now, and he also knows the essence of her knife-mouthed tofu heart, so he shrunk his neck. But he was still not afraid of death and said: "My sister has no idea about the fifth son, could it be because the little grandfather is ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw Ruan Yunsi's face cold, and his eyes were extremely sharp when he looked at him, and he suddenly remembered his sister-in-law's words, and it was obvious that he had committed a taboo against the other party. Deng Shi was so frightened that he didn't dare to say any more.

"Don't let me hear half a word about this in the future." But I heard Ruan Yunsi say coldly: "Just do what you should do as a child, don't fuck this tasteless heart for me." She had never spoken to Zhong Nan in such a cold tone, and immediately shocked this kid, and secretly made up her mind never to talk about this in the future, Sister Ruan is obviously different from other women.

Because Ruan Yunsi's face was cold all the way, Zhong Nan regretted it very much, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to clumsily tell a few jokes, hoping to make Ruan Yunsi laugh, so he exposed his own fault, but with little success, until the carriage arrived at Xiaowang Village, Ruan Yunsi jumped out of the car and ordered him to go to the master's house with the coachman to settle the bill, this kid came back with a dejected account, only to hear bursts of laughter from the house, among which there was Ruan Yunsi's voice, he finally lifted his spirits, and secretly said Zhong Nan, Zhong Nan, From now on, you must remember that you can't mention your sister's life, well, not only do you have to remember, but you also have to let your sister remember, otherwise the angry Sister Ruan is really terrible.

Ruan Yunsi was laughing with Yun Niang and the others, and the big silver ticket of 5,000 taels was placed on the kang at this time, and the bright red seal was extremely eye-catching. Ruan Yunsi said with a smile: "These days, Xiu Yatou and I will work hard to catch up with the work, and strive to get out some grey cloth to dye and sell before the cold winter, and from the beginning of spring next year, we will try to weave brocade while dyeing the cloth." ”

Yun Niang smiled: "Call me to say, with all this money, it's better to buy a carriage, didn't my sister still think that renting a car was too expensive?" And the new loom you mentioned, go check it out. ”

Ruan Yunsi said with a smile: "That's not in a hurry, I and Xiu Yatou will rush to work first, and when the Chinese New Year comes, won't there be a big market in Green Water City?" This kind of thing must be sold, and it is complete, so it's not too late for us to choose slowly. Yes, Brother Nan will let him help you work in the fields these days, and you are about to close the mountain, how can you be busy with a woman's family? ”

Yun Niang smiled and agreed: "Cheng, then I will take him up the mountain to work tomorrow." ”

The work was distributed like this, and in the following days, Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu worked day and night to weave cloth, and Yun Niang was only busy working with Zhong Nan on the mountain. Because Ruan Yunsi's house is big, the yard is all useful, so he pulled all the corn to Yun Niang's yard, and set up two large granaries, both of which were stacked with yellow and clear corn, but the straw was all pulled to Ruan Yunsi's backyard, and it was also piled up into two large haystacks high, because there were no cattle, sheep and horses at home, so these could only be fired.

This year is really a bumper year, although Yun Niang and Zhong Nan are so tired that they don't even have a human form, they are really happy. After the harvest was finished, Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu also drove out twenty or thirty pieces of cloth, which also had back pain, so they smiled at Yun Niang: "Ming'er, everyone have a good rest, don't do any work, otherwise this body will really be exhausted." ”

Yun Niang smiled: "You and Xiu Yatou are resting, Brother Nan and I have to hurry to turn those corn cobs into corn kernels, so that it can be regarded as real grain, after paying the rent, there will be a lot left, even if the price of grain drops, it can be sold for some money." ”

Ruan Yun Siqi said: "Huh? Aren't those five acres of land your own? Why do you have to pay rent? Before the words fell, Yun Niang had already softened her smile, shook her head and said: "It's really an unreasonable person, although the five acres of land are mine, but I am so young, how can I only plant five acres of land?" Naturally, you have to rent more than a dozen acres of land from the landlord's family to come back and plant it, otherwise you think you can harvest so much corn just by relying on my idea land? What a joke? ”

Ruan Yunsi was dumbfounded, looking at Yun Niang's slender body, she couldn't believe that such a woman could plant more than 20 acres of land a year, what kind of tired person would be? Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard a gong sound at the entrance of the village, this is the means by which Li Baochang wants to pass on the news, and now it is after the autumn harvest, so the news is mostly about grain, so Yun Niang got up from the kang and muttered: "I have to go and hear what the letter is, maybe it is the grain banks in the city who come down to harvest corn." ”

was about to get off the kang, but was stopped by Ruan Yunsi, and heard her rush to the outhouse: "Brother Nan, you have good legs, go over and listen to it, and come back to tell your sister-in-law that it will be done, and your sister-in-law and I will not go." After speaking, Zhong Nan in the hall outside said yes and ran out of the door.

After about half an hour, I heard the sound of Dong Dong's footsteps, and then Zhong Nan came in excitedly and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, great news, just now Li Baochang said that this year, the grain in our Jinfang Township will be used for military rations, and a bucket of grain will be 30 yuan, which is 20% higher than the price of those grain stores in the city." ”

"Really?" Yun Niang also sat up excitedly, but heard Ruan Yunsi smile and said: "Look at your happiness, this news is the most useful to those big landlords, just your twenty acres of land, how much can you have for forty or fifty stones of grain?" Also follow the blind music. ”

Yun Niang pushed her and smiled: "Yes, I know that you are rich now, and you don't take such a little money in your eyes anymore, but before you, didn't we Shengdou small people just point to this to live?" How can you not be happy? After speaking, he heard Zhong Nan say: "By the way, there is another one, saying that because the military rations will be transported to the border soon, they will be collected from the tenth day of the first month of next month, and after receiving the fifteenth, they will no longer be collected." ”

Yun Niang was stunned for a moment, and muttered, "So much time? It's not easy to get the grain out. No, no, Brother Nan, let's go now, it's better to have a bucket of food early. After saying that, no matter how Ruan Yunsi persuaded her, she refused to stop, in the end she left with Zhong Nan, and even Zhong Xiu went with her, here Ruan Yunsi sighed bitterly, but the other three were busy, how embarrassed she was to rest at home, so she also rushed over to help.

In the rest of the time, I knew that I made a lot of money by dyeing cloth, but I was infected by the desperate strength of the whole village, even Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu did their best to help Yun Niang and Zhong Nan get busy, and at the end of the day, they were often so tired that their legs and stomachs cramped, and even rhubarb, because the food owners in the past few days were all making do, he and his son had nothing good to eat, and they were so hungry that they lost weight.

Extremely tired, Ruan Yunsi couldn't help but think of the scene of going to the second aunt's house in the northeast in her previous life, and the second aunt's family planted dozens of acres of cornland. One autumn, when she went to catch up with the grain, at that time the countryside had not yet implemented all mechanization, but she remembered that there was a small cart for peeling corn down, and the corn cob was stuffed into it from above, and while shaking it with her hands, the corn kernels splashed out from the side, and the corn kernel after the corn was peeled off, and the thing called the bud rice bone in the countryside would fall out from below, and that thing did not use electricity, although it was also completely manual, but it was much faster and more advanced than the current backward method of harvesting grain!!