"Making tofu?" Du Jinning was pleasantly surprised, "Mother, do you know how to make tofu?" ”

"Hmm." Chen responded, "My mother's neighbor is a tofu maker, and I am good with their sister, and I have come and gone in his house since I was a child, and I know how to make tofu very well." In the past, when your father was still alive, during the Chinese New Year, I would also make a few plates of tofu to add a dish to the family. ”

Although Du Jinning didn't want her mother to work so hard, she also knew that the Chen family couldn't do other technical work, and they didn't want to sit back and enjoy the success, so they must find something to do. Instead of carrying wood, you might as well make tofu.

"Okay." She took out two taels of silver from her arms and handed them to Chen, "You take this money, what tools to buy to make tofu, and what to add to your home, you can buy it yourself." ”

Chen's hand shaking a little as he received the silver.

Since her husband died, she has never touched the silver again.

"If you don't have enough money, tell me again." Du Jinning said.

"Enough, enough." Chen said, she raised her head and said with some guilt, "When my mother makes money, I will return the money to you." You are the youngest in this family, and your mother can't afford to send you to the academy to study, so how can you make money to support your family? ”

"Mother, I'm the head of the family." Du Jinning said and laughed.

She loved her position as head of the house. In this way, there is no control over what she does, and she can do her own thing as she wants.

Looking at Du Jinning's cheerful smile, tears gradually clouded Chen's eyes.

Her youngest daughter should have been protected by her mother and sister without worries. But now, she not only has to plan to divide the family, but now she has to support the family.

The most rare thing is that she has not complained yet.

"Mother, the meal is ready." Du Fanghui's voice came from the kitchen.

Chen quickly turned his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve.

In order to celebrate the success of the separation and move to a new house, I specially made rice tonight and fried the bacon sent by Du Yinsheng. The family gathered around the fire and ate very sweetly.

Because the beds in the two rooms are not big, Chen slept in the same bed with Du Jinning at night.

Anyway, now that the gate of the courtyard is closed, no one knows how they live, and they don't pay attention to the prevention of men and women - there is no defense of men and women to talk about.

I don't know if it's to choose a bed, or for other reasons, Du Jinning couldn't sleep on the bed for a long time at night, listening to Chen's even breathing, she couldn't move, so she had to close her eyes and think about how to live in the future.

Chen has already made arrangements for his future life, that is, to share other people's fields to plant, then make tofu and raise some livestock. This is the most common way of life for farmers. But Du Jinning thinks that this is hard work and can't make any money, so it's better to do some other work that saves money.

She was an Internet writer in her previous life, and she was naturally an old bookworm, she had read countless texts about crossing the fields, and naturally knew that many girls wore to ancient farms.

Du Jinning has only eaten the dishes made by Chen and Yao, and has never been to a big restaurant in the city, so he has not investigated this, so he can't draw a conclusion. But Du Yunnian was looking at her three sisters with a tiger's eye, and she didn't worry about letting her sisters go to the city every day to sell things, which made her quickly deny it.

It is better to do the work for sitting at home, and then the Chen family will take it to the city and sell it after it is done.

What to do?

Just as Du Jinning was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a "bang" outside, as if there was some movement.

Du Jinning froze, listened with his ears pricked up, and seemed to hear the sound of rustling, and then disappeared, and there was silence outside.

She wanted to go out and have a look, but thinking about her small body, even if she met a thief, it wouldn't help. Thinking about it again, before going to bed, Chen told his sisters to close the doors and windows of the top, and the doors and windows of his room were still firm, Du Jinning's heart was a little more relaxed.

I don't know if I heard it wrong before, or if the person didn't come in, Du Jinning listened with her ears pricked up for half an hour, and there was no movement outside, so she put her mind at ease, and I don't know when, she fell asleep in a daze.

When they woke up the next day, Chen and Du Fangfei had already eaten and went up the mountain, Du Jinning got up with a grunt, didn't wash, and went out to look around the wall.

"Brother Ning, what are you looking at? The porridge is left on the stove for you to warm up. Du Fangling was turning over the ground, and when she saw Du Jinning's move, she came over very curiously.

Du Jinning had turned to the outside of the wall at this time, pointed to the root of the wall that had collapsed a little bit, and said, "Look here, is there a footprint?" ”

Du Fangling took a look, and there was indeed a footprint there, looking at the size, it should be an adult man. Because the grass was pulled here yesterday, the ground was loose, and the dew was heavy at night in winter, so the footprints were very obvious.

At the outer edge of this footprint, there is another one that is not very conspicuous.

"I heard a noise last night, and then it didn't move, and I thought I heard it wrong. Now it looks like someone did come and climb our fence last night. Du Jinning said.

Du Fangling was taken aback.

This kind of thing had never happened in the Du family before.

"Could it be the footprints of those who laid the thorns yesterday?" She said.

Du Jinning shook his head: "Yesterday, I carefully looked inside and outside this wall, because there was no dew, there were absolutely no such obvious footprints here. ”

She pointed to the thorns on the wall: "You see, these thorns were left in good place last night, and now they are half pulled down. ”

"Brother Ning, what are you two sisters and brothers doing?" Zhang Hongwen's voice came from behind him.

Du Jinning turned his head to see that Zhang Guangyi and Zhang Hongwen, father and son, were coming down from the bridge.

Du Jinning greeted them and told them about last night's movements and footprints.

Zhang Guangyi came over with his son early this morning, but he didn't feel at ease with the mother and son, and wanted to come and have a look. When he heard this, his expression became serious.

In the nearby villages of Taohua Village and Dalin Village, under the strict control of Zhang Guangyi, the folk customs are quite simple, and there are few cases of stealing chickens and touching dogs. Now Du Jinning and the others had just moved in on the first night that something like this happened, which naturally made Zhang Guangyi's face gloomy.

Seeing this, Du Jinning hurriedly whispered, "Uncle Zhang, let's go in and talk." ”

"Okay." Zhang Guangyi turned his head and instructed Zhang Hongwen, "You hurry up and go to school, don't be late." ”

Yesterday was Laba, everyone wanted to worship their ancestors, and Boyue Academy had a day off. Today, I still have to go to school.

Zhang Hongwen turned his head to look at the side of the bridge, and saw that Zheng Lin had come out, sitting on the wheel and waiting for him, he didn't dare to delay any longer, said hello to Du Jinning, and turned around.

The group entered the courtyard, and Du Jinning whispered that Du Yunnian wanted to sell Du Fangling to Fucheng Qinglou and use the money to fill the hole in gambling debts.

At the end, she said, "If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have made a fuss about breaking off with that side." ”