Chapter Seventy-Six: Grape Seeds
Sister-in-law Chen looked displeased: "What are you talking about? It depends on the owner to beat the dog, I'll go to the county master and report our master's name, can he not give a few thin noodles?"
Ling Feng was completely confronted by Sister-in-law Chen, and was unceremoniously: "Cut, is your face bigger than the face of the county master's son?"
Hearing that the two of them were arguing endlessly, Zhao Qianqian stopped Ling Feng: "Okay Ling Feng, don't say a word."
Ling Feng wanted to argue a few more words, Zhao Qianqian said: "It's not interesting to play tricks here, it's not interesting to fight for a red face, Sister-in-law Chen, they occupy less than one acre of land, and it doesn't have much impact, besides, the family has lived there for decades, it's really people to move away, where to move?"
Fan Chen curled the corners of his lips and looked at Zhao Qianqian: "Everyone goes to occupy one acre and three points, is there anything left?"
These words seemed to ask Zhao Qianqian, and Sister-in-law Chen also heard the meaning, and said, "Isn't there anything I can't do? There is no land to earn money, the whole family lives on this mountain to collect firewood, and now the mountain has been bought, and I don't know how to live in the future?"
Several people were talking, and soon they arrived outside Dongcheng, Sister-in-law Chen's house was across the river, Sister-in-law Chen couldn't leave, and someone had to carry her over.
Ling Feng twisted his face to the side, he didn't want to carry Sister-in-law Chen anymore.
Fanchen asked the coachman to send Sister-in-law Chen over: "Little third son, you send Sister-in-law Chen over."
Little Third Son: "Yes, young master."
Zhao Qianqian wanted to send her over with him, but Ling Feng grabbed her: "Sister, it's enough for us to send her here, let's not go to this kind of family!"
Sister-in-law Chen heard Ling Feng's words and knew that he was still angry, and she didn't care about the child.
"Little brother, I'm sorry, thank you for carrying me down the mountain, I will remember your kindness!"
She also has no choice, if the life can go on, she will not want to occupy other people's land, now the family has a meal without a meal, the daughter-in-law is still confined, the old hens raised at home are not willing to give their daughter-in-law to eat, sold for some rice for the daughter-in-law confinement.
Zhao Qianqian glared at him: "What kind of person, that kind of person, don't talk nonsense, go and help."
Sister-in-law Chen thanked Ling Feng and Fan Chen, and then crossed the river on the back of the little third son.
The sister had spoken, and Ling Feng had to follow, leaving Fan Chen to guard the carriage.
Sister-in-law Chen's house has only a few thatched huts.
In the hall, an elderly man in his sixties and two young men are weaving straw mats.
"Dalang!"
Hearing Sister-in-law Chen's voice, the two young men looked outside the house at the same time.
Seeing a strange man carrying Sister-in-law Chen, knowing that something was wrong, he hurriedly ran out and helped Sister-in-law Chen down from the back of the third son.
"Mother, what's wrong with you? Why did you break your leg like this?"
The interrogator was a man in his twenties with a slightly thin complexion.
"Yes, mother, where did you fall here?"
The young man who answered the call was seventeen or eighteen years old, with dark skin, a tiger's back, and a strong body.
The old man turned his head to look, saw a few strangers, got up and walked out.
The old man had silver hair and was so thin that he seemed to be able to blow him down when the wind blew, which made people feel sad.
The seventeen or eighteen-year-old man put Sister-in-law Chen on the stool, turned around and walked out: "Big brother, you take care of your mother, I'll go and ask for a doctor."
"Second Tiger, come back!" Sister-in-law Chen stopped the man.
Erhu stopped, he understood what Sister-in-law Chen meant, and turned his head to look at Sister-in-law Chen: "Mother, how can you do this leg without asking a doctor?"
Sister-in-law Chen said, "What do you want to invite? Is your sister-in-law still in confinement? After these straw mats are sold, she has to buy some rice to cook porridge for her, and she can't eat wild vegetables with us during confinement!"
It turned out that Sister-in-law Chen's family was so poor that she couldn't open the pot, and her daughter-in-law was bleeding heavily when she gave birth, so she asked the doctor to buy tonic medicine again, and her daughter-in-law and grandson were saved, but the family's savings were all spent, and life was already clumsy, and now it is even worse.
Erhu was so anxious that he stomped his feet: "Oops! But you can't leave this leg untreated, I'll go to the doctor first, and I'll figure out a way to deal with the silver." Two
The tiger turned and ran out again.
The old man's dry hand pulled Ling Feng, his body seemed to be evacuated, and he spoke a little out of breath: "Sit in the house!" br>
Ling Feng bowed his head to the old man and followed him into the house.
"Second brother, wait a minute."
A woman with a delicate face came out of the back room with a swaddling baby in her arms and called out to Erhu.
The woman walked up to Sister-in-law Chen and said to Sister-in-law Chen, "Mother, why don't you send this child to Zhang Yuanwai's family, first cure your leg, Zhang Yuanwai's family is rich, and this child can eat enough in the past."
"No, how can my sister-in-law sell her child? No matter how rich someone is, they are not biological, can they be good to their children? No matter how poor we are, we can't sell our children!"
"Xiu'er, even if I don't want this leg, I can't sell the child, don't worry about this, you can't hurt your body during confinement, let Dahu and Erhu find some herbs to apply in a while, and you can slowly get better without spending money to find a doctor."
It's time to sell the children, and it seems that there is really no way.
"Can I borrow your latrine?" Zhao Qianqian interrupted the conversation of several people.
"Oh, please."
Xiu'er hugged the child, took Zhao Qianqian out of the hall, and pointed to a hut on the right: "Girl, the thatched toilet is there, the light inside is not very good, you be careful, don't step on the pit."
Zhao Qianqian didn't go into the toilet, but turned to the back of the toilet, took off the backpack, rummaged through the backpack, there were really bandages and medicine to bandage the wound, and he put the medicine into a small porcelain bottle and turned around and went back to the hall.
Sister-in-law Chen endured the pain and introduced everyone.
It turned out that when Sister-in-law Chen was young, the man went fishing, fell into the river and drowned, and it took a few days to catch it.
Sister-in-law Chen has a hard time with her deaf father-in-law and two sons who are a few years old.
Later, after being introduced, Sister-in-law Chen went to the Zhao family in the city to work as a servant, and the family could barely survive.
Xiu'er is a beggar picked up by Sister-in-law Chen on the street, raised to marry Dahu as a daughter-in-law, and is seventeen years old this year.
Zhao Qianqian said to Dahu, "You go and boil some hot water, I'll clean up your mother's wounds, and then bandage her."
Soon, Dahu brought hot water, and Zhao Qianqian didn't want anyone to watch next to him, so he asked everyone to wait outside.
After examining the wound, it was only a mild patellar cartilage injury, no fracture, anti-inflammatory drugs and knee pads, and daily quadriceps exercises, which could heal in a few months.
About half a day later, Zhao Qianqian helped Sister-in-law Chen bandage her wounds.
Walking out of the hall, he said to Ling Feng, "Ling Feng, let's go to the back and have a look."
Just around the corner, she caught a glimpse of a vine behind the house, and she wanted to see what was going on.
Sister-in-law Chen asked Erhu to follow the sisters and brothers, and asked him to pick some vegetables and give them to them, and other things could not be taken out at home.
After turning to the thatched house, you can see half of the East Mountain, and only the flat land at the foot of the East Mountain has not been planted.
When Zhao Qianqian found that the title deed of Dongshan was given to her by Xiao Chaoyang's master, he asked Ling Feng to start reclaiming Dongshan, and specially explained not to move the foot of the mountain.
No wonder Sister-in-law Chen regretted that she didn't occupy more land at the beginning, and only planted some vegetables behind the house, which did not occupy much land, but there was a Dapeng covered with vines, which accounted for more than half of the entire house.
"What's that?" Zhao Qianqian pointed to the vine and asked.
"Oh, that's grapes, it's been years, and we can still pick some every year to sell." Erhu replied.
Sure enough, it was grapes, and Zhao Qianqian's eyes lit up: "Can you sell me this whole vine?"
"You want to buy this vine?" Erhu thought he had misheard and asked repeatedly.
Zhao Qianqian nodded: "Yes, I want to buy the whole tree."
Erhu hesitated: "Okay, I'll tell my mother about it."
He didn't ask Zhao Qianqian what he was doing when he bought the vines, but he thought that they had saved his mother, so he agreed.
"What, you're going to sell that grape behind the house?" Sister-in-law Chen had an unspeakable face
of color.
After hesitating for a while, he still spoke: "You saved me, it stands to reason that I shouldn't refuse you, but we have to rely on that grape for two months a year, and if we sell it, we will have two months of unfinished land every year in the future."
The two months that Sister-in-law Chen said was the season to eat grapes, when the river was so high that they couldn't cross the river or sell straw mats, so they picked grapes and went to the temple to sell them, and they could also exchange them for some food.
"How much can you sell grapes a year?" Zhao Qianqian asked.
Erhu said, "It's about two taels of silver."
"I will give twenty taels of silver, will you sell it?" Zhao Qianqian asked.
"Twenty or twenty taels of silver?" Sister-in-law Chen was a little suspicious that she had misheard.
"You're saying you're willing to pay twenty taels of silver for that vine?" Sister-in-law Chen confirmed again.
"Yes."
Zhao Qianqian did not hesitate to give Sister-in-law Chen an affirmative answer.
"Do you sell?"
"Sell, sell!"
Sister-in-law Chen was excited, twenty taels of silver was enough for their family to save money for two years. Usually get something else to sell for some silver, and you can use it for years.
"Are you going to move the whole tree, or do you come and pick the grapes every year?" Erhu asked.
There are no grape seeds, only cuttings can be used to obtain grape seeds, and the survival rate of cuttings is high, it only takes two years to bear fruit, and the cutting time is in March and April in spring.
Zhao Qianqian said: "Don't move first, you help me water it in time, and if it's colder, cover it with grass, don't let the frost and snow get drenched, and we will move it away in March next year."
"Don't worry, I'll take care of it!" Sister-in-law Chen couldn't hide her excitement and said.
Sister-in-law Chen is more worried than anyone else that she didn't take care of it, the goods haven't been handed over yet, and if it breaks, they will ask for a refund of the money, and it will be worth the loss.
Zhao Qianqian took out twenty taels of silver tickets from his backpack, and took three taels of broken silver and handed them to Sister-in-law Chen.
"Twenty taels for the vines, and three taels for your wages for helping to take care of the vines, twenty-three taels in all, you take it."
Sister-in-law Chen's hands trembled and took the silver, this is to meet the living God of Wealth, originally there was no dinner, and there were more than 20 taels of silver at once, it was really a blessing in disguise, how can Sister-in-law Chen be an excitement to describe?
She slapped her thigh: "This leg is worth it!"
The family was so happy that Sister-in-law Chen also forgot about the leg pain, smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into a slit, and called the big tiger.
"Big Tiger hurry up and buy some rice and meat and come back to entertain the nobles!" As he spoke, he handed Dahu a tael of silver.
"Hey!" The big tiger grinned, took the silver and ran out.
Erhu hurriedly said, "Mother, I'll go to the field to pick some vegetables and come back."
Xiu'er came out of the back room: "Mother, there are still three eggs here, let the second tiger be steamed in a while!"
"Okay, okay, I'll sell you a few tomorrow!" Sister-in-law Chen smiled from ear to ear.
Seeing that the family was busy cooking and entertaining them, Ling Feng's previous anger also disappeared a lot.
Zhao Qianqian said to Sister-in-law Chen: "My brother still has manpower there, if your eldest tiger and second tiger are willing, you can go to work with him, one or two silver per person a month, if you do a good job, you can also add silver, you are injured now and need someone to take care of you, you can wait for you to get better and they will go."
"You mean that a person has one tael of silver a month, and the big tiger and the second tiger have a total of two taels of silver!" Sister-in-law Chen has not yet recovered from her previous excitement, which is another great news.
Who said that today's luck is back, this luck is out of the charts, Chen's sister-in-law was so excited that she forgot that her leg was broken for a while, and she stood up from the stool.
"Ouch!"
"Mother!"