It's now mid-May, and there is just over half a month left before the normal harvest.

Jiang Pheasant Yue thought about it, and she didn't expect that Chen Zhicai and the people of Jiangjia Village in the original plot started to flee because of something, whether it was an earthquake or a flood or something else, but no matter what, they must have left before harvesting the grain, so this grain must be collected in advance.

In the end, she still made up her mind to call the Jiang family together, and suggested in a somewhat heavy tone: "Grandpa, let's collect the grain in advance." ”

"Collecting grain? The grain will be harvested in half a month, so why should it be harvested now? Sun asked with a puzzled expression.

Although there is only half a month left before the harvest, it will cost a lot of food, at least three or four percent less, and Sun feels distressed when he thinks about it.

Jiang Yuan thought of something and asked Jiang Pheasant: "Did the old man in the dream tell you something again?" ”

Jiang Yanyue shook her head, she didn't know about this matter, if she said what the old man told her, she would be exposed.

She pondered the wording: "It's because I've been uneasy these days, and I always feel that something big is going to happen." ”

"We haven't had rain since the beginning of winter last year, and even the river behind our village is now almost touching the ground, and locusts are easy to multiply in large numbers in this weather, if it is ......."

The Jiang family was shocked, if there was a locust plague, it would be useless!

"Granddaughter, are you sure you can't." Old Lady Jiang asked in a bit of a panic.

After asking, she slapped her face in annoyance, what kind of stupid thing she was asking, how could her granddaughter know if it happened or not.

However, now that the grain has been harvested, although it will lose three or four percent, the remaining six or seven percent will be saved.

What Mrs. Jiang thought of, the rest of the Jiang family naturally thought of it, and finally unanimously decided to collect the grain in advance, and start from tomorrow.

The Jiang family does not have many fields, there are five or two acres of fertile land and three acres of dry land, and the Jiang family has a lot of land, and they will be harvested in two days starting tomorrow.

decided to do this, and the Jiang family fell into another kind of entanglement, whether they should tell the villagers about it.

In the end, the old man Jiang and Jiang Yuchao went to Hengrong's house together to say something, and if they asked, the reason would be pushed to Jiang Yuchao's body, saying that it was his inference from the book, and he couldn't expose the moon girl.

And the three of the Jiang family's concubines will each go back to their parents' house early tomorrow morning, and try to persuade them to collect food in advance.

……

At Hengrong's house in Jiangjia Village, they had just eaten and were about to go back to the house to rest, when they heard a knock on the door.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

"It's coming, it's coming."

It was Jiang Ziwen, the eldest son of Jiang Hengrong's family, who came to open the door, and when he saw the people outside the door, he hurriedly turned sideways and let them in: "Uncle Xingde, Brother Yuchao, why are you two here at this time." ”

Old man Jiang's name is Jiang Kangcheng, and he is the same generation as Jiang Hengrong.

He said: "I came to discuss something with your father, but your father is not at home." ”

"At home, I'm going to go into the house for dinner, I'll call him." After Jiang Ziwen finished speaking, he hurriedly ran into the house.

Jiang Hengrong's house.

Old Man Jiang and Jiang Hengrong sat together, and after a few words of greeting, they entered today's topic.

A room full of people listened to the news brought by Old Man Jiang and Jiang Yuchao, and it was definitely a bolt from the blue for them.

"Brother, this matter is a little certain, we don't dare to inform you casually about the big thing, right?" Jiang Hengrong asked tangledly.

"I'm fifty percent sure, after all, it's just my eldest who has studied for a few years to deduce it, and I really don't dare to give any guarantees."

Old man Jiang said: "But the big guys are all villagers, we have to tell everyone the reason for the decision to collect the grain in advance, and if you believe it, you can also collect it together." ”

"You've decided!" Jiang Hengrong asked in surprise.

I thought they thought of this possibility and came to ask for opinions, but they even made a decision.

Only fifty percent of them were sure that they would dare to collect grain, could it be that they got some news in the town, Jiang Hengrong was a little shaken in his heart.

"I'll tell the people in the village about it early tomorrow morning, but we can't do anything about it." Jiang Hengrong replied.

"What Uncle Hengrong said is, let's just tell this thing, and it's up to them to do it." Jiang Yuchao said.

Jiang Ziwen sent Old Man Jiang and Jiang Yuchao outside the door again, and when he entered the house, he heard his mother talking to his father about it.

"What do they think about this, how much less do they have to collect the grain now?" Jiang Hengrong's mother-in-law pursed the corners of her lips, thinking that Jiang Yu was crazy towards them, and said that the scholars were not as good as her.

Jiang Hengrong squinted at his mother-in-law and ignored her, still fighting between heaven and man in his heart.

He didn't believe that Jiang Yuchao dared to collect the grain without any certainty.

After Mr. Jiang and Jiang Yuchao came out of Jiang Hengrong's house, they went to Mr. Jiang's eldest brother Jiang Kangde's house, and they didn't believe it when they heard the news, but seeing Mr. Jiang's serious appearance, they couldn't help but beat a little drum in their hearts, and finally decided to follow Mr. Jiang to collect the grain in advance, after all, this is still a little bit, what if it doesn't collect a little bit?

……

Early the next morning, before breakfast was eaten, the families heard the sound of a gong, which the village would only ring when it was necessary to inform them of the matter.

On the threshing floor, the villagers of Jiangjia Village stood together in piles, asking each other what was going on.

"Hengrong shouted that we are coming, what is the matter, I haven't eaten breakfast yet." A woman asked someone close to her.

"I don't know, wait for Hengrong to say, you can't call us over if you have nothing to do." The person who was asked answered.

Hengrong stood on a relatively high stone platform in front of the crowd and knocked the gong in his hand to signal them to be quiet.

"Big guy, I called everyone out today to say a life-threatening matter!" Jiang Hengrong said solemnly.

Hearing that their lives were at stake, the people below all looked at them, and the sound of gossiping was gone.

"What's the matter?" Someone couldn't help but ask anxiously.

Hengrong beat the gong and drum again before saying: "Yesterday, Jiang Xiucai came to my house and said a news, we may have a locust plague, and now I am talking about this matter to let the big guy consider collecting grain in advance." ”

Jiang Hengrong also thought about it last night, even if there was no locust plague, the people who had collected the grain in advance would not be able to complain about him, but in case there was really a locust plague, he would have said it.

"Collect grain in advance, what are you kidding, now you will lose forty percent of the grain harvested."

"Yes, yes, how can there be a locust plague."

"If you want to accept it, my family won't accept it."

Sure enough, as soon as they heard the news, the crowd exploded, saying everything and more not believing it.

Suddenly, someone asked: "Hengrong, where did Jiang Xiu hear about this locust plague, you can't just say it for no reason." ”

Jiang Hengrong said the rhetoric that Jiang Yuchao said yesterday again.

After listening to this explanation, there were different opinions in the crowd, some said that Jiang Yuchao was the master in the town who knew more than them, and some people said that Jiang Yuchao spread rumors, and there was chaos below for a while.

Jiang Pheasant originally wanted to see what the way to notify the news here, so she came over with Mrs. Jiang, and heard that many people in the crowd pointed the finger at her father.

Old Mrs. Jiang also heard the words slandering Jiang Yuchao, and immediately shouted in a loud voice: "What's the matter, did my son put a knife on your neck and force you to collect grain." ”

The old lady who was scolded by Mrs. Jiang turned pale, she was the same generation as Mrs. Jiang, who was afraid of anyone who quarreled with her.

The old lady pinched her waist and said, "Who told your son to spread rumors about a locust plague, we have lived here peacefully all our lives, and we have never heard of any such thing." ”

Jiang Yanyue looked calm, and there was not much fluctuation in her heart, but the Jiang family's willingness to tell the news was also in consideration of them, so she couldn't let them spread rumors.

She said: "We are just speculating on this matter, and we can't give the villagers any guarantees, but we are willing to say it because of the feelings of the neighbors, but the ugly words are ahead, if something really happens to come to us to borrow food and can't borrow, don't say that our family is cold-blooded and ignores the friendship of the township." ”

Jiang Hengrong originally wanted to sit back and enjoy the success and let the villagers lead the fire to Jiang Yuchao, but he didn't expect that Mrs. Jiang and his girl would come.

I could only add embarrassedly: "The girl of the Jiang family is right, let's just tell the big guy about this, are you willing to watch everyone yourself, we don't force it, we don't force it." ”

Jiang Yanyue glanced at him coldly, don't think she doesn't know, what Hengrong just said just now is to lead the spearhead to their house.

The crowd was silent for a moment, and someone said: "The girl of the Jiang family is right, Jiang Xiucai is also kind to tell us about this, as for whether you are willing to accept it, it is not your business." ”

Some people thought he was right, and hurriedly agreed.

Zhou and Jiang Zhilan stood at the edge of the crowd, and when they heard that everyone began to praise Jiang Yuchao, they were very unhappy, because of the incident a few days ago, the people in the village avoided her mother and daughter like snakes and scorpions, and they hated them in their hearts.

Zhou said: "Then we received the grain in advance, do you have to deserve this loss to the big guy." ”

Zhou's words hit most people's minds, and they were also hesitant in their hearts, if they didn't accept it, they were afraid that there would be no locust plague, so if Zhou said this, wouldn't it be avoidable!

Immediately, a few people agreed, Song Furong couldn't see it, pointed to those who said that the Jiang family should compensate for the loss, and said: "They all say that people are invincible in the world without shame, I think you have no face and no skin, why are you embarrassed to say such things, why do people want to compensate you for food."

You love to accept it or not, anyway, my family is going to follow it, and when the time comes, there will be a famine, and you will regret it. ”

After Song Furong finished speaking, she walked over and took Mrs. Jiang's hand and walked out of the crowd together, she could ask a few more words, to see when their family would harvest food, she had to follow closely.

Jiang Nian, the son of Song Furong's family, also studied with Jiang Yuchao in the town school, and every time he came back, he praised Jiang for how powerful and powerful Master Jiang was, and she had a good relationship with the Zhang family.

……

The Jiang family's concubines also went back to their parents' house to tell them about it, and Jiang Yun accompanied Xiao Wang's family to Zhangjia Village next door early in the morning.

The Zhang family and Xiao Wang's side were quite smooth, and they were willing to gamble with the Jiang family, but the Sun family was very angry at his mother's house.

Zhang's maiden ......

"If you don't come back for 800 years, you will come back with such a little thing." Du Peony reached out and grabbed the basket that Sun was carrying with a mean face, opened it and saw a lot of eggs and dozens of fruits that couldn't see anything, and said dissatisfied.

Mrs. Jiang thought that the three of them might not have been home for a long time, so she took the same number of eggs and loquat for them to take with them.

When the Zhang family and Xiao Wang's mother's family received the gift, they both felt that their daughters were doing well in their in-laws' house, and Du Peony, who sold her daughters as goods, would dislike the few things she brought back.

Although he said that, Du Peony accepted the things and let Sun in.

Du Peony walked behind with a basket and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"We've been in drought for a long time, and my man and his brother are afraid that there will be a locust plague next, so I'll let me come back and tell you." Sun said lukewarmly.

If she hadn't cared about that little bit of affection, she wouldn't have wanted to come back at all, when she married into the Jiang family, she was half-sold and half-married, and in order to ask for a few more taels of silver, she was even forced to sign the deed of sale.

However, later the Sun family was very glad to have this deed of sale, and after she got married, Du Peony took her son to the door every now and then to fight the autumn breeze, which made the Jiang family block it back on the grounds of the deed of sale.

In the end, she asked for ten taels of silver from the Jiang family, and her second sister who was sold to the town's foreign mansion was only thirteen taels of silver.

She knew that the Jiang family had almost spent most of the belongings at that time when they married her, and Jiang Yuchao missed the second chance to participate in the second time after she fell off the list, so most of the reason for Jiang Pheasant's good was also to compensate for the big house.

"The brain was kicked by a donkey, and there is a plague of locusts, why didn't he say that silver would fall from the sky." Du Peony scoffed.

Seeing that Sun had nothing else to say, Du Peony began to pick people up: "Okay, you can leave if it's okay, it's a waste of food to eat lunch here, remember to take more eggs next time, your brother loves to eat this." ”

Sun's eyes were red with anger, he clenched his fists and rushed to Du Peony, snatched the basket from her hand, and didn't care if the eggs inside would break, and fell to the ground in one go.

"If you love eggs, let your good son earn it by his ability." After speaking, he strode out of the courtyard gate with a basket.

Du Peony also didn't expect that Sun, who was scolded by his predecessor, would dare to come up and grab the basket, and she was really easy to get her hands on, and after reacting, he wanted to beat her like before, but when he saw the broken eggs on the ground, he quickly squatted down to hold the eggs, and kept scolding in his mouth, and Sun also took the opportunity to walk out of the yard.

"You damn bitch, see if I don't kill you next time, I should have strangled you when I gave birth to you."

Sun walked out of the yard for a long time, and the sound of Du Peony's scolding echoed in his ears.

Sun felt that the good luck of her life was used to meet the Jiang family, but fortunately, her mother-in-law was sensible at the beginning, and when she heard about her mother's reputation, she asked for so much silver, so she decisively asked for a letter of renunciation and wrote a deed of sale, saying that it had nothing to do with the Zhao family.

Pity her second sister, she died not long after being carried to Yuanwaifu, and Du Peony only felt that she couldn't get any more benefits when she heard the news.

Don't think about it anymore, Sun wiped a handful of tears and left angrily, and he will not be this mother in the future!

On the side of Jiangjia Village, not long after Song Furong and Mrs. Jiang left, the crowd gradually dispersed.

Some people hurried home to discuss, while others dismissed it and thought it would never happen.

The Jiang family didn't care about everyone's opinions, rolled up their sleeves and began to harvest, and when the Sun family returned to Jiangjia Village, they also adjusted their mood and took a sickle to help.

The net worth here worked together, and the work was in full swing, and the people who were watching couldn't sit still for a long time, and saw that the Hengrong family had begun to harvest in the field, and many people also ran home to get sickles.