The next day, Liu Guiyuan slept a little, and it was estimated that it was almost eight o'clock, when she was woken up by her eldest sister Liu Hongzao, with a bowl of white rice porridge in her hand, and said, "Get up quickly, I won't be able to sleep at night." ”

Liu Guiyuan sighed, and was about to get up, only to find that yesterday's "Tongue Battle Group Confucianism" said too much, and his voice was hoarse after a night's rest.

After Liu Guiyuan washed, he drank the boiled rice porridge in two or three sips, and said to Liu Hongjuo, who went out to hunt pigweed: "For two or three catties of pork, you and the second sister will see the pigweed, and these pigweeds will be added to the maize scum given by our family, and we will be able to raise a big fat pig ourselves." ”

Liu Hongzao sighed and said, "Who says it's not, but a little pig seedling costs a lot of money, and our family can't afford it at all, and it takes two or three years for a little pig to grow up, so how can our family have those grains." ”

A little pig seedling is about five or six hundred yuan, if Liu Guiyuan goes to the house to be a girl, it is just five hundred yuan a month, plus food and housing together is six hundred yuan, so she didn't go to Yang's mansion, wouldn't the Liu family miss a dozen little pigs?

Liu Guiyuan quickly shook his head and drove away the thoughts in his mind, how can she compare herself with a pig? She is a wealth creator.

"Eldest sister, you wait, it won't be long before our family raises a pig."

Liu Guiyuan released a bold speech, Liu Hongzao only said a joke, nodded and didn't speak, but Liu Chongshan laughed while sitting in the hall to clean up farm tools.

"How many pennies have you earned? Look at what you can, and still raise pigs? You can just feed yourself. Liu Chongshan will take Liu Guiyuan when he gets the opportunity, in his opinion, if this family does not have himself, adults and children will have to starve to death.

Liu Hongzao hurriedly gave Liu Guiyuan a look, signaling her not to contradict Liu Chongshan, and hurriedly left with the dung basket on her back, Liu Huahua was still waiting for her in East Lake.

Liu Guiyuan had a trick to deal with Liu Chongshan, she walked up to Liu Chongshan and stretched out her hand, and said: "Dad, I earned 16 wen in the town the day before yesterday, and you give me another 5 wen, which is enough to buy a pound of sand sugar, and our mother has to eat sand sugar to replenish her blood." ”

"What kind of sugar, yesterday your milk sent so much rice and noodles that are not enough to make up for it?"

Liu Chongshan thought about the crockpot hidden under the bed, there was no two hundred dollars in total, how could he be willing to pay for it, it was all saved last year.

"Can that be the same? Rice and noodles are only full, and sand sugar is only responsible for qi and blood, how can you give birth to a younger brother if you are not strong in qi and blood? Dad, you can't be reluctant to give up money. Liu Guiyuan was horned, and Liu Chongshan immediately wilted.

At this time, Zhang Shi heard the movement and came out of the back room and said: "Guiyuan, my mother knows that you are filial and love your mother, but the sugar is expensive, and our poor families can't afford to eat it, so we can eat some eggs and white noodles." ”

Zhang's only when she gave birth to her eldest daughter Liu Hongjube ate half a catty of sugar, which was sent by her mother's family, and then her mother's family was in difficulty, and Grandma Guiyuan looked at her unpleasantly, how dare she mention the matter of sugar.

"That's not possible, mother, you have to eat sand sugar, if you are afraid of spending money, just use the millet sent by our milk yesterday and go to Liu Jindi's house to exchange a little, is it feasible?"

Liu Jindi's family has sand sugar, she knows it, plus she often goes to Liu Jindi's house to milk cows, and she gets along well with this cousin with a lively personality.

After Zhang's was persuaded by her, Liu Guiyuan mentioned some millet and went to Liu Jindi's house.

When I arrived at Liu Jindi's house, the eldest aunt was not there, only Liu Jindi took her younger brother Liu Jinbao to play sandbags at home. Liu Jindi saw her holding her hand vigorously and asked questions, of course, her eldest sister Liu Hongjube asked the most.

"The eldest sister has gone to pick up pigweed, come back later, I asked her to come to your house to teach you how to embroider shoe insoles?" Liu Guiyuan still remembers that Liu Hongzao said that he wanted to teach Liu Jindi about double-sided embroidery, but unfortunately there is no time in the future.

"Do you speak effectively?" Cousin Liu Jindi glanced at her, she knew the situation of the Liu family, Liu Hongzao was the eldest daughter in the family, and she had to take care of all the work in the house and the field, so she had to be disgusted by his father.

"Then it doesn't work, but you have to do me a favor, I want to find the eldest aunt to exchange some sugar, exchange millet, one pound of millet for eight taels of sugar, and you will help talk about it when she comes back."

Nowadays, the price is high, rice costs 17 wen a catty, millet has always been called "golden rice", it should be more expensive than rice two or three wen, but Liu Guiyuan asked the aunt to change the sugar is to ask for help, and does not intend to take advantage of the few pennies, so it is calculated according to the general price of rice.

"Just this little thing, I don't have to wait for my mother to come back, I can change it for you." Liu Jindi thought to herself, she still has more than a pound of sugar at home, give her some more, and the remaining little is enough for her to drink for a while.

"That's not good, let's wait for the eldest aunt to come back." Liu Guiyuan touched his nose and said, you little girl is really a tiger, sand sugar is such a precious thing, if you don't ask the adult first, you will change it for me, and wait for the eldest aunt to come back to see how to clean you up.

After sitting at her house for a while, the eldest aunt Gu (Gu Yumei) came home from outside, Liu Guiyuan hurriedly stepped forward to explain his intentions, and Liu Jindi on the side also echoed a few words.

"Okay, one pound of millet for eight taels of sugar, but I, as an elder, took advantage of you." The eldest aunt Gu was as bold as ever, and after hearing this, she went to the house to get a piece of sand and sugar.

After the sand sugar was replaced, Liu Guiyuan asked a little more, and said to the eldest aunt Gu: "You don't have much sand sugar at home, do you want me to go to the town next time to help you bring some back?" ”

In fact, Liu Guiyuan is going to the town tomorrow to sell snail meat, and it stands to reason that she can buy sand sugar from the town by herself, but she is now short of money, and she still wants to save up enough five hundred yuan with the dozen yuan she earned before, so she came up with a way to exchange millet for sand sugar.

"No, your uncle will come back before the harvest, and my family will definitely go to the town to buy things at that time, so don't worry." Uncle Gu waved her hand, indicating that she didn't need to.

In Liu Jindi and Liu Jinbao's cheers of "Dad is coming back", Liu Guiyuan returned to his house with the basket. She handed the sugar to Zhang, told her not to forget to drink it, and then carried the basket to East Lake to exchange for her eldest sister Liu Hongjujube.

When they arrived at the place near East Lake, where her sisters used to pick pigweed, Liu Guiyuan snatched the shovel from the hand of her eldest sister Liu Hongzao, and said, "Cousin is waiting for you at home, you can go quickly, in addition to eating today, come home in the evening, ah!" ”

Liu Hongzao was a little uneasy and said, "Then do you still have time to fish for black snails?" She was embarrassed to delay Liu Guiyuan's plan to make money.

Liu Huaan, who was not far away, heard this, straightened up and beat his sore waist, and said: "Okay, if you are told to go, grind and chirp, this family will not turn around without you, I am not a person, so much pigweed is made by you alone, I didn't contribute?" ”

Liu Huahua was stunned, making the two sisters laugh at this end, Liu Hongzao glanced at Liu Huahua with disgust, said "You're amazing", and went home with a light smile.

After Liu Hongjube left, Liu Guiyuan looked at the dung basket that was only half full, said hello to his second sister Liu Huahua, and carried the basket to a distant place to look for pigweed. This place is about to be bald by them.

Liu Guiyuan walked all the way along the direction of the Huashi River, in addition to the wild grass and weeds growing in the open land, there were also fields of various households in the village, but because of the topography, it was divided into small plots of different sizes and strange shapes.

After walking for a while, Liu Guiyuan found that there was a large piece of safflower grass that pigs love to eat in front of him, and on the emerald green branches and leaves, there were purple and white gradient petals.

The terrain of this land is lower than other places, and the safflower grass itself is not high, it is estimated that this has not been discovered, Liu Guiyuan put down the basket and began to shovel with a shovel, she does not cut the grass and eradicate the roots, only shovels from the roots, so that it can grow after a while.

Shoveling and shoveling, Liu Guiyuan saw a more lush pigweed, this time she didn't need a shovel, she went directly with her hands, who knew that the force was too strong, the pigweed was not pulled out, but it broke the melon seedlings in other people's fields.

It's over, isn't this a watermelon seedling, there are two raw melon eggs on it, and I am stunned that I have broken it!

Liu Guiyuan hurriedly picked up the melon seedlings, looked around for fear of being noticed, and hurriedly received the melon seedlings into the basket and put them.

Liu Guiyuan, who had done something bad for the first time, patted his chest, comforted himself that he was fine, and was about to get up and leave, when with a shout, a teenage boy in gray, with a collar around his neck and a bamboo pole in his hand, stood in front of her.

"You melon thief, where are you going?" Tian Rubai glared at her coldly, unexpectedly that the honest little girl in front of her would come to steal melons.

Today happened to be the master's holiday, and he had nothing to do at home, so he took the initiative to invite Ying to come to the watermelon field in East Lake to see the melons. To say that such a small watermelon is not ripe, no one should steal it, but there are several unobtrusive boys in the village, who like to steal raw melons and eggs to play.

Liu Guiyuan opened his mouth and denied: "Hey, hey, don't open your eyes and talk nonsense, I'm here to pick pigweed, who stole your melon?" ”

Tian Rubai just saw the little girl "stealing" the melon, but he didn't expect her to be so sharp-tongued, and wanted to teach her a lesson, and remembered that the master often said that good men don't fight with women, so he picked up the basket on the ground and poured it down, and the melon vines and pigweed fell to the ground.

"This is not my family's melon vine, the evidence is here, do you still want to deny it?" Tian Rubai hatefully dropped the basket and stepped on it again, and the old basket that was not strong in the first place was completely scrapped.

Liu Guiyuan was so angry when he saw that his bamboo basket was trampled on, he pointed to the other party's nose and scolded: "Hey, why are you like this, you don't have the ability to reason logically, I accidentally broke it, and I didn't mean it." Besides, who has nothing to do to pick your raw melon to eat! ”

Liu Guiyuan picked up the broken basket with the bottom exposed on the ground, the grievance in her heart, thinking that she was a dignified college graduate, is it easy to wear it to this era? Not to mention suffering everywhere, he was also pointed at his nose and scolded the thief because he broke the melon seedlings.

Liu Guiyuan thought like this, her nose was sour and she wanted to cry, she picked up the safflower grass thrown everywhere on the ground, and at the same time put it into the broken basket, half of it was half and half of it was leaked, and half of it was half of it, and finally she cried aggrievedly in the same place, crying and saying that she would never come here to fight pigweed in the future.

Tian Rubai saw the little girl drop golden beans in front of him, and he was anxious and didn't know how to comfort him, and when he saw that the pigweed that the little girl had filled up to half of it was all leaking out, he couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, what's your name? Which little girl, why haven't I seen you before? Tian Rubai asked her with a half-smile, seeing that she was still picking up pigweed with a strained face, thinking that she was really wrong to blame the other party, and she shouldn't have stepped on other people's baskets.

"I broke your basket just now, I was too impulsive, don't cry, I'll make amends to you."

"No need, if you have the heart, you can compensate me for the original basket, otherwise my father will find out and probably kill me." Liu Guiyuan reluctantly packed the pigweed, supported it with one hand underneath to prevent it from falling, and was about to go back, and the words in his mouth were also half-truths and half-truths.

"Hey, you haven't told me your name yet?" Tian Rubai hurriedly shouted from behind.

"Liu Guiyuan!"

When Liu Guiyuan returned to the old place with pigweed, Liu Huahua had already loaded the pigweed, sat on the ground and waited for her, and when he saw her coming back at this point, he couldn't help complaining: "Do you still know to come back?" I thought you lost it! Why are your eyes red? ”

"Oh, it's okay, I accidentally made the grass seed in my eyes just now, it's okay, it's okay for a while."

Liu Guiyuan had regained her composure at this time, she felt that it was really embarrassing to cry in front of a teenage child just now, and she didn't want to talk along the way, so she lowered her head and walked back.