Chapter 55: Fortune Gained
Erni took several steps back to stabilize her footing, and looked at Runsheng in a daze. probably didn't expect that Runsheng, who has always been gentle, would have such a fierce time, her eyes moistened, and she looked at him aggrievedly: "Brother Runsheng, you ......"
Cherry was pushed, but she wasn't angry. After all, Erni is only a few years old this year, and it is normal for children to have joys, sorrows, and sorrows that are directly expressed, if you don't like it, you have to pretend to like it, then it's called weird. It's just that...... She looked at Runsheng.
Runsheng has always been gentle and gentle, but sometimes, he will also show some little selfishness. It's just that I can't see it on weekdays, but once I encounter something related to her, it will be very obvious. However, this does not affect her evaluation of Runsheng, he is still very good. It's also great for a few of his sisters.
Runsheng fanned his eyelashes, didn't feel that his behavior was excessive, and ignored Erni's words, just turned his face to look at Cherry, his face full of concern: "How are you?" You okay? ”
"I'm fine." Cherry shook her head
Mian Tao has been watching quietly from the side, silent.
"Then let's go." Runsheng led Cherry forward, crossed Erni, got off the bridge, and turned west towards Akiyama's house.
Mian Tao glanced at Poor Erni who was pestled in the cold wind, and also raised her heels.
"Dead Ni!!" Erni gritted her teeth and stomped her foot hard at Cherry's back.
When a few people arrived at the door of Akiyama's house, they shouted for Akiyama and walked straight towards the mountain.
This time there were a lot of people, and there was no need to go to the trouble to catch any sparrows, and at noon I had a simple dry meal, and at the end of the day, I caught seven fat hares.
Mian Tao's eyes simply lit up: "I carry, this rabbit is at least five or six catties heavy, these seven hares are about thirty-five catties, and the cheapest on the market is now sold for twenty wen a catty, so if you calculate it, the rabbit top caught in a day can be sold for less than seven hundred wen!" A small abacus played loudly: "This can catch up with the money we sold when we catch ducks!" ”
Except for money, there is generally nothing that can make the third sister's eyes light up. Cherry secretly thought and said with a smile: "Now that the year is approaching, Brother Runsheng and Brother Akiyama will stay at home tomorrow to do their work." "Akiyama and Runsheng are not free labor, so they can use it if they want. People also have good jobs.
"What does that matter?" Cotton peach is rare, and she is a little excited: "It's the eleventh day of the lunar month today, and our second sister will have a holiday on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and it is estimated that she will come back on the evening of the fourteenth lunar month." Also, Brother Chengye is coming back soon, and when the time comes, will there be no one to worry about? ”
"Brother Chengye is back, and he can't come to our house to help" Even if Cherry has only been here for a few months, he knows the rules of patriarchy in this world, even if he becomes a parent, there are few men who go to the woman's house to help with any work, not to mention that these two have not yet become married? The third sister's eyes really got into the eyes of money, and she didn't care about anything.
"His two brothers and two sisters-in-law, what can't be done?" Mian Tao is all about making money: "Brother Chengye only needs to come and help us during the day." The worst is the worst, why don't we pay him? ”
"Look at you, it's getting farther and farther away." Cherry looked at the cotton peach in surprise, she really rarely talked like this.
Cotton Peach turned around, looked at her with a grin, and then turned to continue counting her accounts.
On the side, Runsheng and Akiyama were a little worried: "Or, let's come back tomorrow?" Look at the appearance of the cotton peach, as if tomorrow if no one helps, she will split you into two. ”
"Not really, you're busy with yours. I heard Brother Yu Ze say that he will come tomorrow. Cherry shook her head, although she can't use other people's seedlings to become a business, but the second sister will come back in a few days is true, she is a person, her hands and feet are nimble, one person tops two envoys, and she will not worry about the lack of manpower. I just don't know if this snow will last until then. When the snow melts, everything is lost.
"Go home today and see how happy the eldest sister will be." This time, there is no need to hide the rabbit from the family, and there is no need to hide the rabbit in the old yard of Miao Yuze's family. Cherry had already returned the key.
"I think you're happier than anyone else." Cherry shook her head, the third sister was really a little too excited this time.
Runsheng and Akiyama sent the Cotton Peach and Cherry sisters back to the yard and went home.
Before it was dark, Cherry went out again and pulled some dead grass back and stuffed it in the rabbit's nest. After beating the dust on his body and entering the house, the star fruit and cotton peach in the inner room were happily settling the account, and the calculation was exactly the one that the cotton peach had calculated during the day.
Cherry shook her head and silently went to the hall to make a fire to cook.
On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Miao Chengye came back from other counties and brought a small gift to one of the five sisters. He is the eldest in the family, and his two brothers and sister-in-law in the family are very fond of him, and he never talks much about what he does.
On the afternoon of the 14th day of the lunar month, Mi Tao came back from the neighboring village early, and brought a tael of monthly money and two winter jackets. The lady of that family was obedient to her training, and now she only listens to her. The parents of that family were very happy, and they rewarded a tael of silver for the New Year.
With Mi Tao and Miao Chengye these two powerful helpers, the matter of catching rabbits in the mountains has become easy and smooth, if nothing else, you can generally catch seven or eight in a day, and when you have more than that, you have caught eleven once.
Unconsciously, the days passed day by day, and on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the New Year was quietly approaching.
During this period, the snow fell intermittently a few times, God really gave face, the snow has been stopped during the day at night, and it happened that a few sisters can go into the mountains to catch rabbits during the day. After ten days, the family's poultry house was full of hares, and even the pigs' nests became hares' nests.
A rough number, there are seventy or eighty, and they really can't be raised. And according to Mian Tao, if these things are sold before the New Year's Festival, they will definitely be easy to sell and have a good price, but if they are after the year, the price will definitely drop. In addition, the amount of grass eaten by seventy or eighty hares a day is quite staggering, and even if the hares do not bark like the wild ducks, the sisters pull so much grass home every day that it will arouse suspicion.
So, the sisters discussed and decided that from the 25th day of the lunar month, cotton peach and cherry will enter the town to sell hares, star fruit will be washed at home, and rice peach and Miao Chengye will continue to go into the mountains to catch hares.
Cherry is really convinced of Cotton Peach's mouth, she is indeed a person who can do business. The market price of 20 wen a pound of hares, she can sell them for 25 wen a catty, the twenty-fifth of the lunar month happened to be another set, the hares brought by the sisters all of a sudden asked her to sell out, a full thirty, in exchange for copper plates and broken silver count, four taels of silver and more than 100 wen.
Four taels of silver!! Even when they caught wild ducks, they didn't sell them for so much money, if they were calculated like this, as long as the snow didn't melt, wouldn't the sisters have to make money this winter? Thinking like this, Cherry and Cotton Peach almost didn't know how to get home.
I heard that the rabbit sold for twenty-five wen a catty, and even Miao Chengye had to admire the cotton peach, he and his sisters were busy, catching rabbits, selling rabbits, and the work at home and the things to be prepared for the New Year all fell on the star fruit alone.
The star fruit was silent, but it was done in an orderly manner. She has always been an organized person, and will not be lazy, a few sisters are not at home, although they can't help, but they won't add to the chaos, she herself has prepared all the things for the New Year, not to mention, and also took the time to clean the yard inside and out.
It wasn't until the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month that the snow stopped completely.
On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Mian Tao also took cherries to catch up with the end of the day, and sold the rabbits at home.
After the snow stopped, the snow on the ground gradually melted, and the footprints were messy, so it was not so easy to go into the mountains to catch hares. Rushed to the set twice, and sold for five days, a total of more than 80 hares were sold, there are more than a dozen left at home, star fruit plans to slaughter two at home during the New Year, eat by themselves, and the rest are left some cubs, ready to breed in spring, and raise them themselves.
In less than 20 days, the sisters earned eleven taels of silver just by selling hares, and there were some copper plates, plus two taels brought back by Mi Tao, and the money earned from star fruit laundry, all of which were added together, a total of thirteen taels and more than 800 yuan, and the money at home was removed from buying some food and utensils for the New Year, and the rest was added together with what was earned, a total of 16 taels and 300 yuan.
Sixteen taels of silver swaying silver, this is really a huge amount of money!!
The most silver that the sisters have seen is probably the ten taels of silver they got when they sold the land, and at that time the money had to be used to treat the cherry, but I don't think it was anything. Now that the money spent on sixteen taels of silver is in front of him, and it is all his own deposit, which one can not be happy? Which one can not get excited?
Mian Tao's eyes that have always been indifferent are bright at this time: "This time, I really made a small fortune!" ”
Mi Tao always likes to stare at the angry eyes at this time: "Where is the small wealth?" When have we seen so much money? ”
"With so much money, I don't think it's as good as us putting it into land. Sixteen taels of silver is enough to put down two acres of medium land. As for the seeds and fertilizer money for farming, we can earn it just by doing laundry, not to mention the monthly money of the second sister? Besides, maybe it will snow again in a few days? What Mian Tao thinks about is how to turn limited money into unlimited money.
"What kind of land, when you marry out in the future, who will plant it? It's better to save them all, and when you get married, one by one, I will give you a beautiful dowry!! "What star fruit thinks about is the lifelong event of several younger sisters.
Cherry thought about it, but at the moment: "Eldest sister, third sister, I think let's not think so far for the time being, repairing the house is the right way." As he spoke, he pointed to the big slit on the top of his head: "If this is spring, and when it comes to the rainy season, there will be people to live in?" And this door, this window, should have been replaced a long time ago. And our broken fence courtyard wall, which can also be called a courtyard wall? Someone comes to a beast, which one can be stopped? ”