"Granny Hua, in fact, before I walked into this door, I was still very confused, I came in completely because of Master Guo and Mrs. Guo, but after coming in, I felt that I was right to walk in." Jiang Yuanyuan came back to her senses and nodded with a smile, "But I still want to know, are you helping me because of Master Guo and Mrs. Guo, or because of what?" ”

Granny Hua was stunned, as if she didn't expect Jiang Yuanyuan to ask this.

"Granny Hua, don't hide it, I'm really short of money now, although I won the Peng family, but we also lost eight hundred, this is a miserable victory, you help me, I can't help it, but I want to know, what are you helping me for, I owe a lot of money to Mr. Guo's family, if you are because they helped me, in the future, you are our guest, if you help us because you want to help us, in the future, we will be partners."

Granny Hua sat up and laughed, she stood up, stood in front of Jiang Yuanyuan, and nodded appreciatively.

"If I had helped you because of them, I would have given you two thousand taels directly when you were most in need of money, and you would have to take it and owe me." Granny Hua said, "But it can't be denied that part of the reason why I helped you is because they mentioned that I have always had my own considerations, you are a good girl, and I also like your marmalade, which is the main reason." ”

Jiang Yuanyuan smiled.

"In this case, my mother-in-law will be my family in the future, and we will be partners and friends."

Granny Hua laughed affectionately, a little happy, she walked to the flowers and plants she raised, dug up some water and poured it, "Mother-in-law, I have experienced a lot of things in my life, and I have experienced everything that ordinary people can't bear and can't imagine." Speaking of this, Granny Hua shook her head, a little sad.

"I'm very accurate, so I can see that you're a good boy. At my age, many things are regarded as floating clouds, and there is no need to live my own life in this small courtyard. Granny Hua sighed, "I'm telling you this, just to tell you that I don't care if I get the money back, more than that, I just want to get your words." ”

"Oh, you can hear me, my heart is warm." Granny Hua smiled and urged her heart.

"Mother-in-law, is you the only one living in such a big yard?" Jiang Yuanyuan diverted the topic, she made it clear to Granny Hua that it was a few faces, but at this moment, seeing such an old man saying these words, her heart was a little sour, and she felt a trace of pity for this old man.

"I know what you're trying to say, but there's no need for that." Granny Hua waved her hand, "The money is on the table, you take it and do what I say, wait until this fall, when the marmalade is made, you come to me again, I have dinner at home every night, and I am not there at other times, if you come to me, look for this time." ”

Jiang Yuanyuan was stunned, scratching her head a little embarrassed.

"If you want to accompany me, bring wine, accompany me here to drink, look at the moon, mother-in-law, I welcome you, forget about the rest, here, they are my most important people, I have to accompany them here." Granny Hua touched the flowers and smiled happily, "Okay, don't be stupid, I think the kid who came with you is probably looking for you now, Nuo, quickly take the money and leave, and get everything done." ”

Granny Hua walked to the recliner and lay down again, Jiang Yuanyuan opened her mouth, but after all, she didn't say anything, and left with the money.

After coming back, Jiang Yuanyuan built some houses and recruited some people according to what Granny Hua said, this time the scope was expanded, and she also made rows of small houses for some people who lived far away to sleep, and invited professional people to raise silkworms, and she was completely idle.

Chen Mofan also didn't have so much time to go to the field to manage people because he had to take care of the children, Jiang Yuanyuan promoted one of the people who did well, Jiang Qian and Sun Hui were going to sell chestnut cakes when autumn came, Jiang Yuanyuan also agreed, but asked them to choose a person they liked to take their place.

Jiang Yuanyuan went to invite a shopkeeper to come back, surnamed Liu, the person is very good, fat and fat, the person is not tall, he looks very kind, but he does things very well, she looked at it for a while, and felt that this person was doing a good job and trustworthy, so she handed him over to take care of these, and he only occasionally went to look at the account book and inspect it.

The child is older, Chen Mofan took Xun'er and Xiao Sanzi to his house to play a few times, after the two families got acquainted with each other, they often came and went, Jiang Qian has been vomiting recently, they all suspect that they have a body, but because the month is a little small, it is not obvious now, and they have to wait a month to see it.

All of them are developing in a good direction, except for Sheng Rong who left.

Waking up from the dream, Jiang Yuanyuan rubbed her head and sat up, she got up and went outside to take a look, the dark clouds covered the moon, and it was going to rain.

I took all the things that were drying into the house, sat in front of the door and waited, and then I took a nap, and in a daze, I felt that there were raindrops falling on my face, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that there was a light rain in the sky.

When I went back to the house, I took the snow in my arms, and the snow was very hot, like a small stove, and I lay down for a while, and fell asleep again, and I had no dreams all night.

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The mulberry is finished, Jiang Yuanyuan has already stuffed hundreds of bottles of mulberry jam in her own ice kiln, she also pinched two large jars of mulberry wine, put it in the kitchen to ferment, the water in the south has become more and more serious because of the rainy season for half a month, I heard that there is also an epidemic, it will be contagious, and many people have died.

These days, Jiang Yuanyuan has been worried about whether Sheng Rong will be infected in the south, every time she hears about the spread of the epidemic, she has to worry for a while, the sky seems to have broken a hole, this year's rain is particularly large, the spring harvest is not very good, and the summer harvest is about to be lost, Jiang Yuanyuan began to worry about the autumn harvest.

The autumn harvest is the most important harvest season of the year, how the harvest of the year is, it all depends on the autumn harvest, if the heavy rain is still continuous, it is likely to affect the autumn harvest.

The food in the city is getting more and more expensive, Jiang Yuanyuan began to worry that they had no food to eat, so she hoarded dozens of catties of food and put it in the cellar, Jiang Xuan couldn't understand it, and felt that Jiang Yuanyuan was wasting money, but Jiang Yuanyuan's uneasiness in her heart became more and more serious.

These cellars were dug secretly by Jiang Yuanyuan, there was nothing in them, and as soon as the grain was put away, the cellar was full, and the hole in the cellar was in the corner on the right side of the door, and there was a stone blocking it, Jiang Yuanyuan was not at ease, and piled a lot of wood on it, she thought just in case, if something really happened, these things would be used, if nothing happened, she would spend money to buy peace of mind, and then sell it at a low price.

There is less rice in the field, but everyone can basically eat a bowl of rice, and the workers have no opinion on this special treatment, after all, they can't eat white rice at home.

At the beginning of August, the rice and grain shops in the city began to run out of stock, Jiang Yuanyuan went to take a look, and while the news had not spread, she collected hundreds of catties of grain in the countryside and put them on the field.

At the end of August, the imperial court asked for grain, but there was no harvest this year, so everyone had to hand over their own grain stockpiles.

"It's said that people are already starving to death."

"What about the epidemic that only broke out last month, why is it starving to death now?"

"Isn't it that the epidemic has not been cured, the harvest in the past few years has not been good, this grain is not much, and there is such a thing, the imperial court has opened the treasury to give porridge several times, but after all, there is little porridge, so many refugees, there is always something that cannot be eaten, and people will soon start starving to death."

"Let's talk nonsense, I heard that many people died of illness, and the imperial court gave porridge in various places, so it won't starve to death now."

"Alas, where can we ordinary people say these things clearly, now the court is not reaching out to us to ask for food, if the hand reaches to us, we will not be able to do it, my family is worried about eating this meal now, if the food tax is added again, this winter will be sad."

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Jiang Yuanyuan covered the basket and walked home without squinting, the workers' meals are already two meals of porridge and one meal, and today they went to the city, the grain is indeed not sold, and the grain in the paddy fields has not yet grown, and look at this posture, this year's harvest is not optimistic, many people have begun to have no food to eat, and the rice grain at home has begun to be counted in pieces, although Jiang Yuanyuan has stored some rice, but now she doesn't want to take it out, she always feels that it has not yet reached the most critical time.

In mid-September, good news finally came that the epidemic was under control.

Jiang Yuanyuan went to Master Yang's place, they also stored a lot of food in advance, and now they don't worry about eating and drinking, but they don't eat blindly, the family is also drinking porridge, Jiang Yuanyuan went this time, first returned the money earned during this time to them five hundred taels, and then spent two hundred taels to buy all the oranges in the orange orchard.

"This year is the year of the catastrophe, marmalade or something, make it first, it's best to save it for next summer." Master Yang said, "It's not good, we are going to starve to death this year, I heard Hua Yuan say, those things in your hands are kept, you must hide them, and you must take precautions." ”

"I see." Jiang Yuanyuan nodded solemnly.

"If you have this spare money and time, you can go further north, take advantage of the fact that there is still food there, buy some back, and when the time comes, whether it is sold at a low price or whatever, at least there is a guarantee." Granny Yang tapped on the table, "There was such a disaster once more than thirty years ago, but it was not as big as this time. ”

"Is it too late?" Jiang Yuanyuan asked nervously.

"It's time, I'm also the mouth of a garden, no matter what, our workers, we have to support it, don't say whether the money is given or not, and when it's in the most crisis, it's good to give food to eat." Master Yang coughed, "It's a difficult year." ”