Sheng Jiaojiao leaned down slightly, leaned a little closer to Niu Ju, and said calmly:

"It's not me saying, Niu Ju, these days, the money you make, to say the least, is a few taels of silver, so much money, at the current price of sheep, you can buy dozens of sheep, you really count it."

"Then my aunt borrowed everything, what else can I do, my aunt said that it was my uncle's brother who wanted to marry his daughter-in-law to build a house, so he lent it to him."

"Yes, are you still there?"

Sheng Jiaojiao didn't want to ask, but Niu Ju was crying so badly that she couldn't help but ask.

Niu Ju didn't answer, and two more tears fell from her eyes.

So Sheng Jiaojiao continued:

"In the past, your family had no money, look at your house is broken like that, has your uncle borrowed anything from your family? Now that you have made money, your aunt must have shown off something in front of your mother's family with your money, and your uncle only knew that you had a few taels of silver at home, so he came to the door and borrowed them all. ”

Niu Ju nodded, that's it, these days, her aunt is a person who says, how much money she has in her hand, and what she wants to do with it.

How did the money come from, but Xiong Lin felt a little unspeakable, and didn't say a word.

But when he met people, he said that his family was rich.

Seeing that Niu Ju nodded and admitted, Sheng Jiaojiao let out a "heh" in her mouth, and said:

"With your aunt's temperament, no matter how much money you make in the future, you won't be able to cover it."

"So what should I do?"

Niu Ju was so anxious that she stomped her feet, she stood up from the kang, and turned around in a circle in a hurry, saying:

"My aunt knows that I go to sell apples every day, I can get a lot of wages, I keep the money in my hand, just want to buy sheep, if I deduct half of the money, when the time comes to buy sheep home, she knows that I must have lied, did not pay her the real account."

"Then you don't keep sheep at home."

Sheng Jiaojiao stretched out a hand, supported her forehead with her white and tender fingertips, tilted her body gracefully, and said to Niu Ju:

"The medicine field behind our house needs to be taken care of, I originally had the intention to buy more sheep, there are more and more sheep, all of them are raised in my front yard, I have long wanted to find a special place to raise sheep, the medicine field behind the house is very good, you can also raise sheep there from now on, take care of medicinal materials and sheep for me, we build a sheep shed, and plant some grass by ourselves, used to feed the sheep, the manure pulled by the sheep, and can also be used to fertilize the medicine field, what do you think?"

She made what Niu Ju wanted to do more detailed, which was equivalent to hiring Niu Ju's whole person.

Although Niu Ju took Sheng Jiaojiao's two salaries, from now on, there is no time to go around.

Niu Ju, who was originally anxious to get angry, only felt that this plan was very good, her aunt already knew that she could earn a lot of wages from Sheng Jiaojiao a day, so she had to take at least ninety percent of her wages from her every day.

Even sometimes Niu Ju doesn't leave a penny, and will take it all.

Now Niu Ju can still pay a salary to A-Niang, but Sheng Jiaojiao gave her extra money for picking medicinal herbs and raising sheep, and Niu Ju will not pay.

She wanted to use the money to buy sheep, and the sheep she bought were no longer kept at home, but on the edge of the medicine field.

This time, Niu Ju figured it out by herself.

She and Sheng Jiaojiao planned to go to the market first to sell the apples to the boss who had agreed before, and then directly buy a sheep for herself and come back, and Sheng Jiaojiao would take her to the medicine field.

They are going to build a sheep shed there.

As a result, when Niu Ju came back with a sheep, he opened his mouth wide in surprise when he arrived at the earthen col.

From the flat ground, there is such a large vegetable field growing in the ordinary depression, and a large area of medicinal herbs grows on the soil slope, especially in this medicinal material, there is even an apple tree

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, there is an apple tree in the tree that the nest sect went to sell to our family, I was afraid that it would be too eye-catching to plant outside, so I let the four of my family plant it in this col."

Sheng Jiaojiao explained the existence of the apple tree lightly, and seeing that Niu Ju completely accepted her lie, and didn't even have the slightest suspicion, Sheng Jiaojiao smiled and pointed to the apple tree again,

"If you still have time, you can also help the four guys pick some apples."

Niu Ju nodded again and again, she took Sheng Jiaojiao's salary so much, that is, twelve hours a day, and kept working for Sheng Jiaojiao, she felt that it was all right.

Originally, Sheng Jiaojiao thought that if she wanted to build a sheep shed, would she call Qi Huan back, she wouldn't do this.

But before she could speak, Niu Ju put the rope leading the sheep in her hand into her hand, rolled up her sleeves with both hands, went down the dirt slope, turned around, and went to find the clods.

Sheng Jiaojiao said "hey" in her mouth, stood by the apple tree, and said to Niu Ju, who had moved a large clod of soil:

"This work is too heavy, let the four of my family come back and do it."

"It's okay, my own sheep shed, I'm sure I'll do it myself."

Niu Ju placed the clod of soil on the edge of the slope full of medicinal herbs, took a breath, rolled up the sleeve of his coat that had fallen under his elbow, and turned to look for the clod.

When she came back, she said to Sheng Jiaojiao:

"Here, here, first make a simple sheep shed, and then build a little bit up every day, so high"

She gestured, it seemed that this sheep shed was not big, because she was secretly trying to find a place for her sheep to live, so she thought of building a sheep shed, so as to teach her sheep a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Sheng Jiaojiao nodded, led the sheep forward, doubled the territory planned by Niu Ju, and said:

"How do you plan such a little space, how can you use it? If you want to do it, make it bigger, get a big sheep shed, what is a dozen sheep, raise more, raise dozens, hundreds, thousands! ”

As she spoke, Niu Ju's heart was pounding, and she stepped out of A-Niang's heart, and she felt that what Sheng Jiaojiao said was not so unrealistic.

One day, she may be able to raise thousands of sheep, Niu Ju can't imagine what kind of situation it is.

Then make the sheep shed bigger first, otherwise there will be too many sheep at that time, and it will take a lot of effort to expand the sheep shed.

Niu Ju's brain had been completely bewitched by Sheng Jiaojiao, and she really doubled the originally planned sheep shed according to Sheng Jiaojiao's plan.

She kept carrying rocks and built a boxy sheep shed on the ground, and then rested for a while.

Sheng Jiaojiao tied the rope to the largest stone and went home to fetch water for Niu Ju.

Then under the tree in his yard, he pulled two grass seeds and prepared to plant them on the edge of the sheep shed.

happened to meet Xiong Lin, standing outside his yard with a smile on his face.

She shouted Sheng Jiaojiao,

"Jiao Niang, have you seen our Niu Ju? Gee, did this kid sell you apples? ”

In the stove room of the Qi family, the eldest girl of Qi was frying bacon, and a smell of bacon wafted out of the stove room, making Xiong Lin, who was standing outside the yard, swallow her saliva.

Seeing Sheng Jiaojiao nodding, Xiong Lin smiled and asked:

"I heard that your family Shiro has been collecting bacon in the village for several days in a row, Dalang is really developed, you Erlang came back, did you also make a lot of money?"

Sheng Jiaojiao held the clay pot, turned around, looked at Xiong Lin, and said:

"Niu Niang doesn't have to be envious, with the money Niu Ju makes every day now, you can also make your family of three eat meat at once."

A piece of bacon, Niu Ju earns enough money every day, such a big piece of bacon, the Qi family can't eat it all, not to mention that the Niu family is only three people.

If it weren't for Niu Niangzi lending all the money Niu Ju earned to her brother, not to mention eating meat for a meal, or renovating the house, it would be enough.

Niu Niangzi couldn't hear the meaning of Sheng Jiaojiao's words, she said "hi" in her mouth, and said to Sheng Jiaojiao:

"You, this is in the Qi family, the Qi family is a blessed family, Da Lang is now in charge of the army, Erlang is doing business outside and making a fortune, where can we Niu Ju compare with your two brothers, not to mention, Niu Ju is still a girl."

She smiled, saw that there was no one else around, looked at Sheng Jiaojiao again, and admonished very sincerely:

"Jiao Niang, you can learn to help with some work at home if you have nothing to do, and your second brother will do it, don't follow it, women, the most important thing is to take care of your mother-in-law and mother's family, what else do you want?"

Sheng Jiaojiao frowned when she heard this, she didn't dare to look at Xiong Lin in disagreement, and she also smiled dignifiedly, and replied:

"If I don't do business, with my second brother's temperament, I will definitely not hire a girl to run errands for him, after all, women, it is enough to take care of my mother's family and in-law's family at home, I am the same, and Niu Ju is the same."

So she doesn't do business, Niu Ju doesn't have to run errands, so naturally she can't get such wages every day, she can't pay Xiong Lin, Xiong Lin can't put it in her mother's house, and her brother can't borrow so much money from Niu's family.

The smile on Xiong Lin's face froze, and she seemed to understand Sheng Jiaojiao's meaning a little, and she didn't know how to say it for a while.

Indeed, if it weren't for Sheng Jiaojiao going to the market to sell apples, Qi Erlang would let so many young and strong young men not hire, why would he hire an unmarried girl to sell apples at the market for him?

It was when Xiong Lin froze in place, and before her brain turned a corner, Sheng Jiaojiao had already turned around and walked away.

She carried the clay pot and went straight into the stove room.

Zhou sat in front of the stove to light the fire, Miss Qi had already finished frying a bowl of bacon, and when she saw Sheng Jiaojiao entering the stove house, she asked:

"Wash your hands and eat, what are you doing, that mouth can hang the pot, who upset you? A-Niang went to kill her. ”

"It's not Niu Ju A-Niang yet!"

Sheng Jiaojiao put the clay jar on her back, put the grass seeds into the purse at her waist, and took down a big bowl from the earthen shelf that was chiseled out of the wall, and said to A-Niang:

"A-Niang, give Niu Ju some meat to eat, and then give her a bowl of rice, I'll take it for her to eat."

"She doesn't have anything to eat?"

Miss Qi asked if she was so, or took the bowl handed by Sheng Jiaojiao, went to the stove and lifted the lid of the pot, put a big bowl of rice for Niu Ju, and took out chopsticks, and set a few large pieces of bacon on the rice.

Sheng Jiaojiao watched from the side, and told Xiong Lin about lending all the money earned by Niu Ju to the Xiong brothers.

He also said that Niu Ju wanted to raise sheep, but Xiong Lin wouldn't let them, so they planned to find a piece of land behind the house, get a sheep shed, and let Niu Ju raise the sheep there.

Because Xiong Lin couldn't know about this, Niu Ju temporarily ate at Qi's house, and when he was done eating, he would be busy for a while, and then go back to Niu's house.

When Zhou heard this, he sneered:

"This Xiong's family is really embarrassed, Niu Niangzi's brother, I know, I am good with Liu Qing, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling are all good, I am afraid that I will not have to pay back the money I lend to this kind of person."

Liu Qing was some time ago when he brought a "national spy" into Loess Village, wanting to bully Sheng Jiaojiao's man.

Later, he was arrested by Tan Ji as a strong man and went to Dongying to serve in the military.

Sheng Jiaojiao looked suddenly enlightened, took the rice bowl prepared by Miss Qi for Niu Ju, turned out a bamboo basket, put the rice bowl into the basket, covered it with a blue cotton cloth, and said idly:

"No wonder, it is said that this thing gathers by like, and people by group, Liu Qing's heart is not right, this Xiong family brother does not seem to be a decent person."

"Fortunately, you two brothers, the little guys are not the same as this group of bastards, let's live our lives well, and we will interfere less in the affairs of others."

The busy Qi girl carefully told Sheng Jiaojiao that their Qi family would not lend money to those unreliable people anyway.

After making money, first take care of your own family, and then have spare strength, and the help of the neighbors and villagers is already considered to be benevolent and righteous.

Sheng Jiaojiao nodded yes, and went out from the back door of the stove house with a basket.

Zhou Shi looked at it, supported his neck and asked:

"Jiaojiao'er, what are you doing? It's time to eat. ”

"I'll bring food to Niu Ju, she's helping me with the work."

Sheng Jiaojiao turned around, and as soon as she finished speaking, she saw Qi Erniang carrying an empty basket and walking in from the slanted thorn in the backyard.

Qi Erniang is no longer farming now. On the contrary, he learned to be a merchant, and went out of the house early in the morning with a basket of apples, selling apples from door to door in the loess village.

The Qi family originally only thought that Qi Erniang was making fun and fresh, but they were worried that Qi Silao took too much money and collected too many apples from the wandering merchants, which would be spoiled at home.

So let Qi Erniang sell it.

As a result, the more Qi Erniang sold, the more interested she became, not only that, but I heard that she made money every time, and she never lost money.

It's just a matter of earning more and earning less.

Sheng Jiaojiao was surprised and asked:

"Second uncle came back so late today?"

Normally, Qi Erniang's basket of apples can be sold out before lunch, but today she came back before dinner.

Qi Erniang raised her head, and when she saw that it was Sheng Jiaojiao, a loving smile appeared on her originally cold face, and said:

"I went to Huangguo Village today."

Huangguo Village? Isn't that Tan Ji's village?

Sheng Jiaojiao was a little curious,

"There are also people in Huangguo Village who buy apples?"

"No, the apples have already been sold, I just saw that it was still early, so I went to the nearby village for a walk, I collected some embroidery work in Huangguo Village, and Ming'er wanted to sell it at the market."

As she spoke, Qi Erniang put down the empty back basket behind her and took out a few handkerchiefs from it to Sheng Jiaojiao.

(End of chapter)