Towards evening, the rain finally stopped.

Xu Zhinian refused Song Chuxing's request to send her home and walked alone on the country road.

When she passed by Zhang Youfang's house, she noticed that something was wrong - many people were walking in the direction of his house, and the already muddy road was trampled even more unsightly.

Xu Zhinian grabbed the widow Ma who was rushing in and asked, "Aunt Ma, why are you all running to Zhang Youfang's house, what's wrong?" ”

In fact, she asked knowingly, and she already had the answer in her heart - such a heavy rain, such a strong wind, lightning and thunder, the small granaries of Zhang Youfang's house, after a winter of frost, coupled with this rainstorm, it is strange that they do not leak!

Sure enough, her guess was correct.

"Oh, this road is so difficult, who wants to come, Zhang Youfang asked his stupid son to go door-to-door to inform, let everyone help him clean up the barn, and say that he will give money when the time comes, oops, what money is not money, everyone is a neighbor, if you can take a hand, you can take a hand."

"What happened to his barn?"

"It's collapsed, it's all collapsed, it's full of water, you forget, last year he collected the corn sorghum of our entire village, and he didn't sell it at all, it was all piled up in the barn, this time it's over, and he lost a lot of money!"

"Huh? Then I'll go and help too. ”

Xu Zhinian followed Widow Ma into Zhang Youfang's house.

Going around the house and going out through the back door, this is where his family stores food.

Other people's houses are all vegetable gardens in this location, and in order to store food, his family didn't even grow vegetables, and spent a lot of money to plaster a layer of cement floor.

Fortunately, it was a concrete floor, otherwise, the grain would have been washed away by the water and mixed with the soil, but it would not have been salvaged at all.

At this time, the whole backyard was in a mess, the barn was falling and scattered, the grain and the rain were mixed together, and there was no place to put your feet.

Wang Fengqin was patting her thighs and crying, and Zhang Youfang and Zhang Shouzhu were busy cleaning up with a few neighbors who had arrived.

Xu Zhinian heard that when it snowed continuously before, this barn had already issued an early warning.

The grain inside froze and froze, and the snow seeped in, and all the moisture returned.

Zhang Youfang wanted to repair the barn, but he couldn't come up with the money - he spent all the money to collect the whole village's grain, and now his pocket is cleaner than his face.

As a result, in the spring, I finally got some money by squeezing oil, but before I could repair it, the first rain came, and no one expected that the first rain could be so heavy.

"Aunt Zhang, don't cry, my Uncle Zhang is too, why don't you spread a layer of plastic sheeting on the barn? This was directly rained, and the damage was very heavy. ”

Hearing Xu Zhinian's voice, Wang Fengqin put away her tears, looked up at her, her lips trembled, her eyes were full of chagrin, and she suddenly scolded in the direction of Zhang Youfang.

"You idiot, you don't even know how to shop plastic sheeting! Now that the food is all soaked, I'm not afraid of divorcing you, poor bastard! ”

Xu Zhinian made this afterthought, and directly blew up their emotions.

Zhang Youfang also wanted to cry, but when he saw Xu Zhinian coming, he wanted to hold back his tears, and walked over angrily and said, "What are you here to mix, you want to see the liveliness of our family, don't you?" ”

Xu Zhinian looked innocent: "Wronged, Uncle Zhang, don't I want to come over to help?" What is there to do, you can tell me. ”

"Help? Help! As far as your thin arms and legs can help, you just came to see me lively, Xu Baoya, I only reacted now, you didn't want to collect these corn sorghum at all, you just deliberately barred me, raised prices, and wanted me to take out all my savings to collect food...... Now, I, I can't sell it, and all the money is gone! ”

Zhang Youfang wanted to cry without tears, Xu Zhinian suddenly fanned his innocent eyes, and shook his head vigorously: "Uncle Zhang, you have wronged me, I have never thought about it like this, at the beginning, I signed an agreement with Xiangyang Grain and Oil Store, I really wanted to package and buy, but you intervened in it, so that I could only go to the other two villages to collect, and the construction period was delayed for more than ten days, so that people did not deduct my money..."

When Widow Ma heard Xu Zhinian's words, she came over and said: "That's it, Zhang Youfang, something happened to your family, you are anxious, everyone knows it, but you can't be nameless, you robbed Xu Baoya's business at the beginning, and we all remember it clearly!" ”

The neighbors all came over and kicked Xu Zhinian to speak, and Zhang Youfang ran out of power.

This time, he suffered a big dumb loss, and there was suffering!

"Anyway, you can't help here, let's leave quickly, I'll be upset when I see you." Zhang Youfang directly issued an eviction order.

"Oh, it's okay to go, but I originally thought of an idea to help you rescue and reduce some losses."

Xu Zhinian was about to leave after speaking, Wang Fengqin's eyes were quick, and she hugged her thigh.

"Baoya, what do you have in mind, hurry up and talk to your aunt! You see, now all this grain has been washed to the brim, but it is all real money! You and Jiaojiao are classmates, my sister-in-law is your own aunt, we are all real relatives, you can't see death without saving it. ”

Zhang Youfang saw his wife's soft bones, and as soon as he got angry, he picked up Wang Fengqin directly, and shouted: "Don't listen to her, she is digging a pit for us again!" ”

"Auntie, you see, he doesn't want me to say it...... Forget it, then I won't talk about it, you are busy, I will go first. ”

Xu Zhinian was about to leave again, Wang Fengqin shook off Zhang Youfang, and shouted: "Now that it's like this, how can she trick us, won't she get it if she doesn't take money out?" ”

When Zhang Youfang heard it, it made sense, but he couldn't pull down his face to say mercy to Xu Zhinian, so he stomped his foot and continued to busy him.

Wang Fengqin caught up with Xu Zhinian and said softly: "Baoya, don't be like your uncle, he is red-eyed, tell your aunt, what do you have in mind?" Anyway, now we really can't get a penny. ”

Xu Zhinian looked at the mess in the backyard and sighed.

"Auntie, look at how much food you can salvage today, how much is counted, I'll take it."

As soon as Xu Zhinian said this, Wang Fengqin felt her ears buzz, and she didn't close her mouth for a long time.

"You're going to harvest this grain? These grains are frozen and damp, and they are no longer edible, and they are washed away by the rain, and they are mud and soil......"

"Yes, it's really miserable, I don't know if I can find a way out, but, recently, our family has made a little money, everyone is really a relative, I don't want to see you fall down, if you want, cut off too much muddy water, and the rest, I will buy it according to five cents a pound, just mix corn and sorghum together."

"Five cents a pound? You're going to take away all this grain for five cents a pound? ”

Wang Fengqin stared at Xu Zhinian's face vigorously, wanting to determine if she was joking, Xu Zhinian nodded seriously and said, "You guys gather together, see how many catties there are in total, I will come over tomorrow afternoon to collect it, pay as you go." ”