6. Rumors

"How to make money, do you want to go to the hospital as a temporary worker like Grandpa Zhao said? Can the salary income be spent by the three of us? ”

"Of course, the income from working as a temporary worker can't support the three of us, I want to go into business and make money to support my family."

"Eldest sister, it's harder to make money in business than farming, right?"

"For me, it should be easier to make money in business than farming."

Erniu was surprised: "How do you know that it is easier to make money in business than farming, and you have never made money in business."

Zhang Yu couldn't answer for a while, so he could only argue: "I just know."

"If you plant the land, throw the seeds into the soil and the grain will grow. But to do business, to do what? How? ”

"I haven't thought about what business to do yet."

"I haven't thought of what to do for the time being, so you dare to say that it's easy to make money in business?"

Zhang Yu sighed and was speechless, this sister has a sense of family responsibility, in the future, an eleven-year-old girl, in addition to studying and playing, will not consider the family's livelihood at all. And think so specifically, this kid is really not easy to fool, it turns out that it is not so easy to be a sister.

"Erniu, you take care of Xiaobao, study hard, and make money to support your family, I, the eldest sister, will consider it."

Zhang Yu asked Erniu to accompany her to the village chief Tian's house.

The reason why Erniu was accompanied was because she didn't know where the village chief's house lived, who the village chief was, and everyone else in the village, she didn't know her.

She was afraid that someone would see the flaw, so she let the second girl walk in front of her, the second girl had a sweet mouth, and greeted everyone she saw, and Zhang Yu followed her uncle, aunt, and grandparents.

When he arrived at the village chief's house, Zhang Yu explained his intention.

"Uncle Tian, you know, after Grandpa died, he entrusted the three of us siblings to a friend of his, and today they came and said they wanted to bring us to the city."

The village chief took a puff of dry tobacco and coughed twice.

"Good! That's a good thing! ”

"Uncle, after our household registration is moved to the city, the family's responsibility field can only be returned to the village, and now, the rice in the field can be harvested in another month, I want to sell the rice now, so that we can have money to settle down in the city."

"Now that the paddy is not fully ripe, how can I sell it?"

"Uncle, my parents sacrificed because of the rush to repair the reservoir, and the village gave our family the best three acres of land in the village in order to take care of us, so our family's rice has a high yield, and each mu can beat 1,600 catties of rice, let me say less! According to the yield of 1,500 catties per mu, three acres is 4,500 catties, rice milled into rice, according to the yield of 70 percent, that is, 3,150 catties of rice, who helps me harvest, I only need 2,500 catties of rice, the remaining 650 catties of rice to him, in fact, according to the yield of 1,600 catties per mu in previous years, he can get more than 800 catties of rice. If it is a family of three, it is enough for a year's ration. ”

At that time, the most expensive thing was grain, and the cheapest was labor, and it only took one month's labor to get almost a year's ration, which was a good deal. So Zhang Yu believes that someone is willing to accept her proposal.

The village chief smiled and nodded.

"Big girl, you're pretty accurate."

"Uncle, the conditions I gave are not low!"

"The conditions you put forward are neither high nor low, they are almost acceptable! That's why I say you're pretty accurate. ”

"Then please ask Uncle to help me publicize it in the village, I hope to get this matter done as soon as possible."

"No problem, I can help you ask, people with large families who don't have enough food to eat, they will definitely be willing to take over."

The village chief's wife came over and said: "Girl, this kind of thing, you can go to the pond at the entrance of the village to publicize it, there are many people there at any time washing clothes, washing vegetables, and carrying water, as soon as you go there to publicize, you will spread the news throughout the village in half a day."

The so-called pond is a pond next to the village well, which was built by the villagers with stones and cement, and the water in it overflowed from the well, and the villagers washed clothes and vegetables here, so there were people there at any time during the day.

"But it's getting late now, I'll go tomorrow morning."

Zhang Yu thought that he had heard that the wells or ponds in the village were the places where women gathered the most, and the places where women gathered in the village were the birthplaces of the news.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yu packed up some of the family's clothes and went to the well to wash clothes, and sure enough, there were many women there washing clothes and laughing, and some went to fetch water.

Seeing Zhang Yu, someone said curiously: "Big girl, tell me, how do you know that yesterday, Yingzi would meet a bad guy when he went up the mountain."

Zhang Yu had no choice but to continue the previous lie, "You may not believe what I said, I dreamed of it." ”

"Hey! It's really a dream, it's too godly. ”

"Hey! Yingzi is also pitiful, only sixteen years old, and he was left by that, how to find his in-laws in the future. ”

"Yes! It's a pity! ”

Zhang Yu felt something was wrong when he heard it.

She said dissatisfiedly: "What's that, what's so hard to find her in-laws, and she hasn't been dropped, why is it difficult to find her in-laws?"

"Big girl, you little girl, what do you know? The little girl's house is broken, and it is difficult to find her in-laws. ”

"Who said Yingzi was broken? She didn't. ”

"How could it not be, I heard that the clothes were torn, and the people were also trampled to faint to death, and the man was a brute."

"Don't talk nonsense, I was there yesterday! So I have the most say in this matter, Yingzi was just stunned by that brute, and her clothes were torn when she was struggling, she was not killed by that, don't talk nonsense, this is a matter of a girl's reputation. ”

"Didn't you say that by the time you arrived, the man had already run away? That's the end of it! ”

"That person heard us shouting Yingzi, so he was a thief and let go of Yingzi and ran away, wasn't he caught by us just running? So please don't say anything like this again, it's a rumor, it's worse than that brute's behavior. ”

Zhang Yu knew how hurtful these rumors were for a girl, so she spoke very angrily because of her anger.

Everyone was not annoyed, but laughed and laughed, they took Zhang Yu's words as a child's angry words.

"Look, I've made the big girl anxious, the big girl, she really deserves to be Yingzi's best friend, it's good, she didn't get that, you said no, there was no one."

"It's not that I said no, there is no, there is no." Zhang Yu emphasized again that Yingzi was not beaten by that, but she felt that her argument was pale and weak.

No one said anything more, but they were there talking to each other and whispering.

It seems that they don't believe Zhang Yu's words at all.