Now, when my father saw her, the first thing he thought of was whether she lacked food, and he also gave her the few grains in his family, so how could she hold back the tears that burst out of her eyes?

Xiaocao's grandmother Yao, seeing that her daughter was crying vigorously without speaking, was so anxious: "What's the matter?" What's wrong? Speak! No matter what, let's sum it up, and we can always get through it! ”

Liu's sister-in-law, Han, also came over and looked at her with concern. Liu wiped his eyes, grinned, and said, "It's nothing, I just miss you." Let's see if you are doing well, lack of food! ”

Liu Cunjin was relieved when he heard his girl say that there was nothing wrong, and he smiled and said, "No shortage, no shortage!" The family received a message and harvested a lot of green wheat, and dozens of catties of grain could be seen per acre. Coupled with the relief food from the imperial court, it is enough to eat for a few months. How is your home? Can corn be spoiled by locusts? ”

Yao glanced at his man and said, "Your father and daughter are ready to talk about this?" Don't pestle at the door, let the girl sit in the room! ”

"Grandma, grandpa!" The little stone was hugged from the top of the grain, and he rushed into the door as soon as he hit the ground, and shouted at Liu Cunjin and the old man.

Yu Xiaocao followed behind him, also shouted to his grandfather, and then called Han and Bian standing in the courtyard: "Eldest aunt, third aunt......"

Yao happily held the little stone in his arms, and touched Xiaocao's head with one free hand, squinted his eyes with a smile, and said, "Yo! We've got grass and rocks too? Look at this little face, it's all red. Let's go, go into the house and grandma will pour you sugar water to drink! ”

Xiaoshi said obediently: "No need, grandma, we are not thirsty!" Shall I help you rub the barley? As he spoke, in the place where Yao was squatting, he picked up an ear of roasted and dried wheat and rubbed it.

Yao Shi hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Be careful, don't be pricked by Mai Mang!" Our stone hands are the hands of writing and learning, if they are swollen, how can we complete Mr.'s homework? ”

Yu Hai outside the door was unloading the carriage. The neighbors of the Liu family came out to see when they heard the movement. Looking at a wagon of grain, my eyes were red with envy.

"It is said that Old Man Liu's daughter is developed! Sure enough, lo and see, voila! Such precious grain is a wagon as soon as it is delivered. ”

"That's it, that's it! This cart of grain must have four or five hundred catties, right? If you save food, it will be enough for Lao Liu's family to eat for a few months! ”

"In the past, you still laughed at the daughter of the Lao Liu family for marrying a poor ghost, and her mother-in-law was so powerful that she couldn't be rubbed! Lao Liu's family did not make up for this married daughter. Look at people now, if you had known that your son-in-law could be developed, you wouldn't have lost more subsidies earlier! ”

"Not really! This cart of grain, put it now, is not more than a dozen taels of silver! Uncle Liu posted it before, didn't he earn it back? ”

Yu Hai carried a bag of flour into the courtyard under the envious and jealous eyes of everyone. Liu Cunjin, who has been paying attention to her since her daughter came back, found out that her son-in-law was still outside. Looking at the grain he carried in, Liu Cunjin hurriedly frowned and said, "Come on!" Why do you still bring food? Could it be that our family is too poor to afford a meal for our daughter and son-in-law? ”

Liu Shi hurriedly spoke for the man and said, "Dad, we didn't mean that!" Earlier, I had prepared a lot of food, and later the prince of the county sent two more carts over. We can't finish eating at home, so I'll bring you some. ”

Liu Cunjin's face was still a little unhappy, and said: "It's a disaster year, it's good to store more grain!" The locusts will freeze to death until winter, and the fields will not be able to produce food until tomorrow spring. How much food can you have in your house? How can you not finish eating? Hurry up and carry the food back! ”

Yu Xiaocao hurriedly said: "Grandpa, don't worry!" Let me tell you quietly, the little county king brought us 2,000 catties of grain, and also left 3,000 catties of harvested corn. We ate it with our bellies open for a year, and we couldn't finish it! ”

Xiao Shi also followed: "The second sister also made a potion that can expel and destroy locusts, and a lot of green vegetables have been replanted in our yard, and they have grown so tall!" The little stone gestured with his hand.

Yao Shi said in surprise: "Is there a potion that can kill locusts?" Wouldn't that be able to plant a crop of soybeans? ”

Liu Cunjin thought more complicated than his mother-in-law, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Cao'er, is the medicine for making potions expensive?" How much silver does an acre of potion get? ”

Yu Xiaocao glanced at her grandmother, who was a little excited, and whispered: "It is very expensive to have two flavors of medicine with medicinal water, and a pound of potion is less than five taels of silver, and it can sprinkle four or five acres of land!" ”

When Grandma Xiaocao heard that an acre of land would cost a tael of silver potions, she immediately retreated and said: "Planting an acre of soybeans can be sold for hundreds of dollars, and what kind of potion is used, and it is not a loss to find a home!" It's not a good deal! ”

Yu Xiaocao said with a smile: "We can't afford to plant more, we can plant less autumn vegetables and vegetables, so that we won't have no vegetables to eat in winter." Grandma, grandpa. I brought you a jar of potion, diluted it with a few drops of water every day, and watered the vegetable patch, so that the locusts would die one by one, and two would die with a pair! ”

Liu Feiyan, the little daughter of the Han family, looked at the ceramic jar in Yu Xiaocao's hand in amazement, and whispered: "So powerful? Mother, let's go clean up the vegetable garden now, shall we? It's better to plant the vegetables early. ”

The quiet and gentle Bian shook his head lightly and said, "You can't plant it in the vegetable garden!" If you think about it, other people's families can't grow vegetables, only in our vegetable garden, it's strange if you don't attract thieves. In my opinion, it is better to clean up the backyard, sprinkle some radish and cabbage, plus the dried vegetables at home, and you can deal with a winter! ”

Liu Feixu, the youngest daughter of the second uncle's family, blinked her big eyes and said: "Anyway, the chickens in the family have been slaughtered, so it's better to pick up the chicken pen and sprinkle some green vegetable seeds on that corner, so that we won't worry about eating vegetables in autumn!" ”

In addition to the eldest uncle, second aunt, and younger uncle of the Liu family, and the eldest son of the second uncle, Liu Zhiwei, who went to work and was not at home, everyone else gathered around Xiaocao, talking about growing vegetables.

Yao pulled away from the crowd, rescued Xiaocao from it, and scolded with a smile: "What should you do, what should you do!" Growing vegetables, let's do it together at night! Cao'er, go into the house with grandma to wash your face and cool down! ”

The two aunts and uncles took the children back to their places and continued to rub the green wheat seeds. The second uncle, Liu Han, together with his brother-in-law Yu Hai, moved the grain from the carriage into his cellar one by one. Liu Cunjin and his wife watched from the sidelines and kept saying, "Why do you send so much food?" Do you have enough for your family? Or pull half of it back, right? ”

Liu pulled his father and mother back into the house one by one, and said with a smile: "Dad, mother! This is your daughter and son-in-law's filial piety to your second elder! You can take it with confidence, right? If you can't bring back the cheap grain in two months, your daughter will send it to you. ”

Two prime-aged laborers, four or five times back and forth, moved all the grain into the cellar. Liu Han rubbed his hands and said to Liu Cunjin: "Dad, the ones my sister sent over are all fine grains." There were seven bags of white flour and three bags of clean rice. You see......"

Yu Xiaocao grabbed in front of his grandfather and said: "Grandpa, the little county king sent us all fine grains, if you want to ask us for coarse grains, our family really can't take them!" ”

When Liu Cunjin heard this, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, looked at his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren with a smile, and said, "I won't say anything polite!" In the future, if your family is too busy, remember to respond, our family does not say anything else, that is, there is a lot of labor! Even Zhimin's kid can cover most of the labor force! ”

At this time, he suddenly remembered the ten acres of corn planted by his son-in-law's family for the official family, and said, "The sea, how is your corn harvest?" Has production been reduced? Alas! Who would have thought that a bumper harvest was approaching and there would be another plague of locusts! If it weren't for the warning of the old gods, the corn would not have been saved, and the court would have blamed it at that time...... God forbid! Finally leave a way for our family to live! ”

Yu Hai smiled and said, "The yield of corn is not bad, and the prince of the county is very satisfied." He came over a while ago, pulled away more than a dozen carts, and said that he would reward us for us! ”

Liu Han is a good farmer, he calculated in his heart, more than a dozen carts of grain, a cart has at least five or six hundred catties, then the ten acres of land of his brother-in-law's family will produce tens of thousands of catties...... There was a look of horror on his face: "More than a dozen cars? That acre of land can't be collected a thousand catties! Growing corn is so high? One acre of land is about the same as our six or seven acres of land! ”

Yu Xiaocao said with a smile: "Second uncle, if corn is popularized, it can only be regarded as coarse grain!" It's like millet noodles, and it can't be sold at a high price! ”

Liu Han was very clear in his heart: "The price of normal coarse grains is half or one-third of fine grains, so it is still cost-effective to grow corn!" Another point, if you grow high-yield crops, how can you not have enough to eat in the future? I can't finish eating when I open it! ”

Yu Xiaocao nodded like pounding garlic: "Well, mmmm!" If you can't finish eating, you can feed the chickens and pigs, and if you feed it big, you will not be willing to eat meat all year round! ”

Liu Zhimin looked at Xiaocao with bright eyes, and said, "Cousin, according to what you say, our family will be able to eat meat twice in three days in the future!" ”

Bian nodded his son's head with a smile and said, "Look at your gluttonous cat, and you're not afraid of your cousin's jokes." Over the past year, have you eaten less meat? ”

The Liu family's current life is one of the best in Xishan Village. The eldest and second eldest of the Liu family followed his brother-in-law to sell watermelons and made some money. The third child has excellent craftsmanship, and was hired by King Jingfu to build the Xishan Courtyard, and he has a salary of two taels of silver every month, and he earns a lot of money in a year. The food at home has also skyrocketed, although it can't eat meat twice a day like the Yu family, but it can still be eaten three or five times a month.

At noon, Liu's two sisters-in-law made vegetables of bacon and wind duck brought by Xiaocao, and scrambled the few eggs left in the house, making a table full of vegetables. The family has a large population, and the adults sit at one table and the children sit at the same table, and they talk happily.