Chapter 26: Grinding Wheat
The Qi family is a trio of brothers to support an old lady.
When Qi Lao Niang was young, she lit a lamp and boiled oil to do work, which hurt her eyes, and now she can only see people in a blur, and she can only walk freely in her own yard and rarely go out.
The Qi family didn't have only three brothers, they were five brothers.
The second and third children did not live there.
His family has little land, Qi Da can be busy at home alone, Qi Si works as a partner in the coffin shop in the town, Qi Wu is introduced by Qi Si, and follows the apprentice of Liao Carpenter, who specializes in coffins.
The family is honest and quiet on weekdays.
The people in the village know their duty, but the business of relatives and relatives is somewhat taboo, and they rarely have contacts, and they have gradually become a small transparent in the village.
Yan Xiucai's land is looking for someone to help every year, Qi Da was not ranked in previous years, this year's drought, the people in the village are staring at their own one-third of an acre, but it has fulfilled him.
As soon as the Yan family's words of grain OEM were released, I don't know how many people envied them.
It is not without reason that Village Chief Luo picked his family, first, the Qi family has little land, Qi 4 and Qi 5 just returned home, and the labor force is surplus.
The other is that the Qi brothers have a good body and are full of strength.
Otherwise, the owner of the coffin shop would not recruit Qi Si as a partner, he would top two people by himself, and it would not be too convenient to move and lift.
The same is true for Qi Wu, Carpenter Liao is different from other carpenters in that he only makes coffins.
They are all large slabs and thick materials, solid wood, and ordinary people should not come.
Qi Da honestly, except for the sentence shouted outside the courtyard gate, did not say a word, unloaded the stacks of bundled wheat on the trolley, carried it into the yard, and gave the yard neatly.
Qi Si came with him, after all, he was a buddy in the town, although it was a coffin shop, there were few people to deal with, and he would say a few polite words.
"Second Brother Yan, I see that your wheat is dry, when do you plan to grind it? Greet our brothers. ”
"Don't say it, I'm really in a hurry, I'm going to go over next morning, and I just happened to have a cow ...... at home."
Yan Lao Er wants to say let the cow grind, the speed must be good.
I didn't want to, but the eldest brother took over and said: "I added cattle to the house, just pull the wheat together, save a few more trips, and the matter of grinding wheat is annoying to the two brothers, you don't have to grind it finely, you can eat it." ”
Qi Si's face was happy, "Don't worry, Duke Xiucai, just leave it to our brothers." ”
Qi Da also grinned, looking very happy.
As soon as the two brothers came out of the yard, it seemed that his yard was much more spacious.
"Big brother, it's okay for our cattle to grind." Yan Lao Er was a little reluctant, there was no cost to grind noodles with three treasures, and with the Qi brothers, they had to give food to others.
"You saved that idea of wheat, the cow is tired, you carry me to Guanzhou?!" Yan Huaiwen especially looked down on Yan Laoer's picking.
"Our Sanbao has good physical strength, it's just a grind, what's it?" Yan Lao Er retorted in a low voice.
To tell the truth, if Yan didn't stare at him, he would speak quite smoothly, and when he stared, he would be inexplicably weak.
"Let's all go back to the house to clean up, our wheat is milled, and then wait for the people in the village, and we will leave in the next day or two." After Yan Huaiwen finished explaining, he went back to the house.
Yan Xiangheng leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, are we really leaving?" Why the North Side? ”
"Didn't your dad tell you?" Yan Lao Er asked.
"Dad said that we can't survive in this drought, and we want to take the people from the village to the north to Guanzhou, but uncle, we haven't reached that point yet, right?"
"You will go to fetch water later, and look at the old well in our village, it is all empty!" Yan Lao Er must cooperate with Yan in this regard, how serious is it:
"You don't go out of the academy, I don't know the situation in the town, those big families have already run away, so we are still stupid and leaning here, after a while, it will still be like this, not a drop of rain will fall, what do you think about it?"
Yan Xiangheng followed his words and thought: "After a while, we will have to pay the grain tax, and half of our wheat will have to be removed, if it doesn't rain yet...... Alas? No, uncle! Dad is going to pull all the wheat to grind, what will we pay the tax with! ”
Yan Lao Er glared at him fiercely and whispered: "Big nephew, you can shut up!" You've been learning in vain, why are you asking such stupid words, when did your father just say when we should go? ”
"The ...... of these two days"
"Then why don't you go and pack your things!"
"Huh? Oh...... Oh! ”
Yan Xiangheng suddenly realized, patted his head and went back to the house to clean up.
Yan Yu clasped his hands, squatted to the side, and shouted, "Dad!" ”
As soon as Yan Lao Er turned around, he saw her daughter looking at him very seriously with a small face.
"Great treasure! Can we not squat all the time? Still squatting, why don't you learn something good from your uncle? ”
An old farmer's pie......
"That's great!" Yan Yu replied.
The barbarian state can't squat if he wants to!
Hum! Is she proud?
"Dad, don't keep hitting the eldest brother, people don't understand, just ask, what's wrong, you and the uncle's attitude is very problematic, the uncle doesn't talk everything, you still let the eldest brother shut up, and you don't teach him well." Yan Yu gave advice to his father.
"He is a stinky boy, so he has to go through frustration and education, and ponder and understand himself, so that he can become successful." Yan Lao Er has his own set of fallacies and heresies.
has been taking care of his group of cousins and nephews like this since he was a child, who asked those relatives to talk about his daughter, he is rare daughters, daughter slaves, what's the matter!
"The eldest brother is very good to me, just asked me if you bought me snacks when I went to the town, I said no, he stuffed me with two cents, and asked me to wait for the merchant to come to the village to buy candy and sweet mouth."
Yan Yu spread out her palms and showed her father the two copper plates that were yellow and clear in the sun.
Yan Lao Er raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
His cousins and cousins don't take money from his daughter.
Yan Yu continued to complain: "I also heard the eldest sister say that she wants to sew a cloth pocket for me to play, dad, you are an uncle, and you can also serve snacks to the eldest brother and eldest sister!" ”
Yan Lao Er amused his daughter.
"Okay, I remembered, don't worry, you can't do an errand!"
"But girl, can we not rely on the small people, squatting at the door to eavesdrop, how bad it is to be seen."
Yan Lao Er said again: "You are a child, you have to look like a child." ”
Yan Yu's eyes rolled slightly, and he suddenly raised his voice: "Dad! I'm hungry! I want to eat meat! I want to drink broth! I want to drink porridge with meat! ”
Yan Laoer: ......
Isn't your little one too fast!
Yan Lao Er steamed steamed buns with noodles from last night and made egg drop soup.
What meat, what meat, what family, eat meat every day!
It's still the three treasures who help keep the time, and the big black steamed buns out of the pot smell fragrant.
Yan Yu didn't care about the burn and took a bite.
Ga? What's going on with this mouthful of grain?
She looked at her father in amazement.
Yan Lao Er sighed, "Don't you pull your throat?" There is bran in it, that is, the outer layer of wheat, which is not refined enough, you also heard your uncle say just now, and our family will eat this in the future, so let's get used to it. ”
"Where's our white flour?" Yan Yu asked aggrievedly.
"I weighed, rice and white flour are ten catties, two are twenty catties a month, and only forty catties a month, which is not enough to eat."
Yan Lao Er touched his daughter's soft hair, and said with relief:
"Didn't you say that Daddy said it? Do you see the atmosphere that Dad represents? Let's put aside to eat together, it's not bad for Lao Yan to be alone, take him with you.
Painstakingly find out where to eat for those people, isn't it just to facilitate it, the food that Lao Yan bought looks like it is not young and old, but you calculate carefully, if you go for a month or two, such old people ......
At that time, no matter whose family it is, the villagers can't watch people starve to death......"
Yan Yu took another big bite and chewed vigorously: "Dad, you're right, we are still struggling on the poverty line, we have to think of ways to earn money and buy more food!" ”
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