In the early morning of the next day, Liu Hongjube and Liu Guiyuan came to Liu Jindi's house to squeeze half a catty of fresh milk.

"This cow's milk is so fishy." Liu Hongjube walked home with a crockpot, wrinkling his nose as he walked.

"The milk is like this, eldest sister, you can cook it in a clay pot for a while, boil it on a hot fire first, and then bring it up after the milk foams, and then continue to cook after the foam goes down, and you can drink it two or three times in a row." Liu Guiyuan was afraid that her eldest sister would cook the fresh milk that she had finally come for, so she directly taught her how to cook it.

"You know that? That's amazing! Liu Hongzao only paid attention to the road under his feet, and asked half curiously and half casually.

"Well, I used to hear what the people in the village said, but I forgot who said it." Liu Guiyuan can only continue to lie, there is no way, if she wants to maintain the nutrition of milk, she must tell her sister the trick of cooking milk.

Fortunately, Liu Hongjube wanted to boil the milk and serve it to the Zhang family and the fourth sister to drink, and he did not doubt Liu Guiyuan's words at all.

According to Liu Guiyuan's method, the three sisters cooked a pot of milk with a strong milky fragrance, Liu Guiyuan tasted two sips, fortunately, although there was no added sugar, but it was not difficult to drink, only a little fishy, and it couldn't be drunk at all if you didn't drink it carefully.

After breakfast, Zhang fed the lotus seeds with boiled and warmed milk, and after tasting two or three sips of the lotus seeds, he drank them in a big gulp, and Zhang's frowning eyebrows finally relaxed.

"My lotus seeds are obedient, I can drink anything, so I can feed myself, isn't it?" Zhang teased the child in his arms, not to mention how happy he was.

The mother and daughter were in a warm situation, Liu Chongshan walked in from the outside, and gave orders to Liu Hongjube and Liu Guiyuan: "The grass in the peanut field is almost growing to the calves, you two take hoes to the ground and hoe." ”

The area south of the Yangtze River is close to the sea, and crops such as maize and peanuts are considered local characteristics, but the planting area is not large, and some people still like to eat white rice.

Farmers like them, who have experienced famine in previous years, are accustomed to planting an acre and a half of maize or peanuts every year.

After Liu Chongshan finished arranging the work, Liu Hongjube and Liu Peanut nodded in agreement, went to the back of the door of the hall to get a hoe and a dung basket, and went out.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one at home is paying attention now, Liu Guiyuan went to lie on the kang in the west side room alone for a while, and immediately summoned it and flipped it over when he thought of the pink backpack he had brought over.

These things can't be used now, it doesn't mean that they won't be used in the future, it depends on how she Liu Guiyuan tries to use them and make the best use of them.

She thought that it was really useless, and that when she had the opportunity to go to the city one day, she would find a pawnshop to dispose of the valuable things and exchange some pocket money for herself.

Anyway, she doesn't have to worry about being found out about hiding money, as long as she puts it in a pink backpack and puts it away, no one can find out.

Putting away the pink backpack, Liu Guiyuan lay on the kang and squinted his eyes for a while, thinking that there was nothing to do today, but how did she know that her scumbag father Liu Chongshan began to be a demon again.

In the inner room, Liu Chongshan told the Zhang family the news he heard in the morning, it turned out that there was a flower woman who was in charge of pulp and laundry among the people in the Yang Mansion, and her niece married to the village.

"What, ask Gui Yuan to be a little girl in Yang Mansion?" Zhang's suddenly raised voice frightened the lotus seed who was full of food and sleepy, and the little doll immediately held her mouth and cried.

"Originally, peanuts and longan could go, but I think longan is more suitable, the face is protein, and it is more pleasing than peanuts." Liu Chongshan seems to have already thought of a candidate.

Red dates are fifteen years old this year, a little old, and there are only two girls in the family, peanuts and longan, who meet the age, but the pockmarked face of peanuts is not very good-looking, and the flower woman may not want it, so longan is the most suitable.

Liu Chongshan thought thoughtfully, Peanut is a little older, and he has more strength than Guiyuan, so he is suitable for doing heavy work at home, and Guiyuan happened to go to Yangfu on an errand to earn some wages and send it home.

"It's only been a few days since my longan, and I'm going to give it to someone as a girl? This...... Isn't this selling daughters? Zhang patted the crying Liu Lianzi and looked at Liu Chongshan's face carefully.

"What is it to sell? She signed an employment document, not a deed of sale, she went to Yang's Mansion to do it for three or four years, and when she went home, she was just eleven or twelve years old, and she could find her in-law's house when she rested at home, isn't it strange? Liu Chongshan was a little dissatisfied when he saw that Zhang had something to say.

Zhang's family will run out of ideas for a while, to say that the family has been really poor in recent years, when Liu Yao's family was divided, he didn't give her family much land, and the family didn't have enough to eat, which added a small one, and I was really afraid that I wouldn't be able to support it.

But Guiyuan is also a bitter life, and his brain is not clear when he is born, and he has only been clever for a few days, and he has to be sent to the outside house to work as an errand for others, how can the Zhang family be reluctant.

The palms and backs of her hands are full of meat, and she can't bear to make any daughter suffer, so she can only hold her little daughter in a daze.

Liu Chongshan and Zhang's conversation between the two people, Liu Guiyuan didn't know, she squinted on the kang in the west room for a while, and only felt refreshed.

Seeing that it was about to be noon, and the eldest sister and second sister who were estimated to be coming back, Liu Guiyuan went to the desk in the hall room, scooped three spoons of maize dregs, and prepared to boil some porridge to drink.

When the two of them left, Liu Guiyuan asked if they wanted to go to the field to deliver water and food, and the sisters said no, for fear that she would not recognize the road and go back to the road again, and then go home to eat.

After a while, the eldest sister carried a dung basket of pigweed, and the second sister carried two hoes and an empty dung basket, and walked back from the outside little by little, her face was full of sweat.

"Eldest sister and second sister, are you tired? Can I carry the dung basket for you? Liu Guiyuan burned the fire halfway, and when he saw the tired two, he trotted over to help get things.

"Heavy, you go and carry the hoe." The eldest sister Liu Hongzao flashed slightly, not asking her to take the dung basket with pigweed, for fear of crushing her.

"Good longan, help the second sister take the hoe, the second sister is almost exhausted, and she has to go to East Lake to pick grass in the afternoon." Liu Huahua hurriedly summoned Liu Guiyuan over.

There is a lot of grass in the peanut field, but it is all small grass, not enough for pigs to eat, she came back to eat something to pad her stomach, and she had to go to the East Lake to continue to gather pigweed, in order to have enough two dung baskets.

In this place, they like to work in the field called Xiahu, with their own homes as the center, and the fields in the east, west, south and north are called East Lake, West Lake, South Lake, and North Lake respectively.

For example, there is a lot of grass in East Lake, which is suitable for pigweed, and North Lake is a little far away, and weeds do not grow as lush as East Lake, so the villagers are used to going to East Lake to hunt pigweed and herd sheep.

The sisters put down their things, washed their hands and faces, and sat down on the bench in the hall to rest, and after a while, Liu Guiyuan came in with half a pot of maize porridge and a plate of fried amaranth.

"Dad, it's time to eat." Seeing this, Liu Huaanhua shouted at his father.

Liu Chongshan entered the room expressionlessly, sat on the main bench, first picked up a chopstick amaranth and tasted it, and then stirred it in the bowl with chopsticks a few times, and then took a small sip of porridge from the bowl.

Liu Guiyuan took the egg custard to Zhang's house, and was about to sit down, Liu Chongshan suddenly glanced at her and said: "Guiyuan, I have discussed it with your mother, and I want you to wait for the wheat to be harvested and then go to Yang's Mansion on an errand, it will not be long, and you will be able to go home in three or four years." ”

Liu Chongshan suddenly said this, and the chopsticks in Liu Guiyuan's hand fell to the ground in shock, what? She's going to be sold into slavery at such a young age? Just to add some more income to the family?

Seeing that Liu Guiyuan bowed his head and didn't speak, Liu Chongshan said disapprerovitically: "Little girl, when you go to the people's house on an errand, you have five hundred yuan of monthly silver, new clothes to wear, good food and good housing, who do you think has such a good life?" ”

For a while, the three sisters didn't speak, and Liu Hongzao instinctively wanted to persuade her, but looking at Liu Chongshan's firm face, the Zhang family in the inner room had not moved for a long time, and she knew that there was basically no room for maneuver in this matter.

Liu Huahua wanted to go a little when she heard this, in her opinion, it was a very good opportunity to be able to go to the nobleman's mansion on an errand. In the past, after two girls in the village came back from working in the house, they spoke and acted differently from others, and they still had endless money in their hands.

But she knows that such a good thing has never been her turn, why? Isn't it because of my ugly black face? Thinking of this, she poked the porridge in front of her fiercely and continued not to say a word.

Liu Guiyuan categorically would not be a slave to others, she took a deep breath, looked directly at Liu Chongshan and said, "Dad, I don't want to go to Yang's Mansion on an errand." I know that since I am no longer stupid, I have eaten more at every meal than before, but I don't want to eat for nothing at home, I can cook and clean the house, and I can do the work in the field for two years. ”

Her original body, maybe because she was a fool, only ate a little at every meal, or the Liu family only fed her a little at every meal, so she couldn't waste much food every day.

The bowl in Liu Chongshan's hand slammed on the table and said, "Since you raised it stupidly until now, how much food has been wasted at home?" After another three or four years, how tired will I be? The girl is useless, and after a few years she marries someone else's family, no matter how good she is, it will be in vain! ”

In Liu Chongshan's eyes, it is useless to give birth to a girl, he gave birth to four girls, and he is still so patriarchal, it is really hopeless.

Liu Guiyuan was angry and retorted: "Dad, the son of the boy must be filial, and it matters to you?" In my opinion, as long as the girl is good, she can still manage your old age, and there are many sons who don't ask you when they are old! ”

"Do you care about my old age? What can you do with me? When I'm a hundred years old, can you throw me an old pot? The poor family can't open the pot, after two years, your mother gave birth to a younger brother, and you have to have money to build a house for him and marry a daughter-in-law, that is the descendant who can give me the old age and fall into the old pot, what do you care for! ”

The more Liu Chongshan spoke, the more reasonable he became, as if in his story, a living eldest son had appeared in front of him and was waving at him.

Liu Guiyuan and him, a person full of feudal thoughts, can't speak clearly, it's like, you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep, you can only be angry, but you can't get out.

Liu Huahua was really afraid that her father's temper would come up and start beating people, so he hurriedly dragged Liu Guiyuan to the side and persuaded her in a low voice: "There is nothing wrong with being an errand in the house, if you can learn a little bit of craftsmanship, you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life, so don't fight with our father, and then I can really beat you." ”

Liu Guiyuan glanced at Liu Huahua and didn't say anything. During this time, she carefully observed the behavior of her two sisters and knew them a little.

Liu Hongjuo, as the daughter of the Liu family, even if she is not a child, has received more or less attention from the Liu family's parents, but Liu Huahua, as the second daughter, is different.

So imperceptibly, Liu Huahua is more precocious and more clever, and he knows how to behave well-behaved and how to please his father, especially his father Liu Chongshan, since he was a child.

Liu Hongzao also came over to persuade Liu Guiyuan, the family had just given birth to a fourth sister, and Liu Chongshan was in a bad mood, and he was angry when he even took a few girls to see them.

At this time, Liu Guiyuan had to talk to her, could he get it in exchange?

The two sisters are afraid of Liu Chongshan, Liu Guiyuan is not afraid, she has the soul and wisdom of modern people, so naturally she can't listen to Liu Chongshan's arrangement, so she thought about it and spoke: "Dad, don't you just fancy the Yang Mansion's 500 yuan of silver per month?" If I can earn this amount, will you send me there? ”