Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 2622 Happy (two more)

In the evening, before the sun set, Da'an was writing Spring Festival couplets in the main room, while Luo Fengtang and Yang Huazhong were helping each other.

Xiao An also poked his head, followed Da An to watch Da An write, raising his hands from time to time to trace in the air.

Seeing this, Luo Fengtang touched Xiao An's head with a smile, and said, "If you want to write too, brother-in-law will prepare a pen and paper for you?"

Xiao An quickly shook her head, "I won't write. Many Spring Festival couplets here are sent by other people in the village and begged my brother to write them. I'm afraid I might ruin them."

Luo Fengtang laughed, and said: "It's okay, the Spring Festival couplets at brother-in-law's house let you practice your pen. Write!"

Xiao An was very excited, quickly rolled up his sleeves, picked up a brush, and went to write on another table.

Luo Fengtang looked at Xiao An'an's concentrated appearance, his eyes were filled with relief.

Yang Ruoqing came from the backyard, and was also very happy to see this scene in the main room.

"Oh, is it all written?" She asked.

Xiao An raised her head and stuck out her tongue at Yang Ruoqing's playfulness, "Sister, I'm writing Spring Festival couplets for you, brother-in-law asked me to write them, sister, do you have any objection?"

Yang Ruoqing glanced at Luo Fengtang, said with a smile: "Your brother-in-law's opinion is your sister's opinion, you can write it openly, it's okay if it's broken, there are plenty of red papers."

After saying this, she went to the yard outside to collect her clothes.

I saw someone poking around at the gate of the yard.

"Who is it?" Yang Ruoqing yelled over there.

"Who's there? Come out and talk if you have something to do!" She said again.

Immediately, two women came over, and at first glance, they were a pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law from the old Lin's family at the entrance of the village.

The mother-in-law is about the same age as the Sun family, and the daughter-in-law is about the same age as Yang Ruoqing. The clothes they both wear are the most common ones in the village, with patches on them.

This old Lin's family, Yang Ruoqing knew, the conditions in the village were below average.

It's not that people are not diligent, but that there are few people, just like Wang Hong's family.

An only son is still sick, and the father-in-law and daughter-in-law are supporting the family. The mother-in-law does housework, feeds the pigs and ducks, takes care of the three grandchildren, and makes medicine for the sick son.

In the past, life was extremely difficult, but two years later, my daughter-in-law joined the herbal collection team and made a little money, and the family conditions gradually improved.

But this year, the mother-in-law broke her leg in the spring, and the daughter-in-law was unable to work in the herbal collection team, so the money for living water was cut off again.

"Aunt Lin, sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"

Yang Ruoqing turned her head and asked while packing up the dry clothes.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Lin family looked at each other, both of them looked embarrassed, neither of them was embarrassed to speak, and they all expected the other to speak first.

At this time, Mrs. Sun also came to the front yard to help Yang Ruoqing pack her clothes. When she saw the Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law coming, Mrs. Sun was a warm and friendly woman.

"Sister-in-law of the Lin family, nephew and daughter-in-law, why do you have time to come here? Hurry up, sit in the room."

The older mother-in-law said: "Miss Qinger, don't be so polite. Today, my wife and I came here with the cheek, but actually... actually want to borrow something from you."

"Huh?" Sun was taken aback.

The woman immediately laughed, "Sister-in-law of the Lin family, what do you want to borrow?"

The Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, and then, as a mother-in-law, she continued, "I want to borrow ten catties of rice and ten catties of wheat flour from you, at least to fool around with the rations for this year and the New Year's greetings of a few relatives..."

Hearing this, Mrs. Sun was a little surprised, but the woman still didn't ask any questions, and nodded cheerfully: "Okay, just wait, I'll get it right away."

"I'll go with you." The mother-in-law of the Lin family said, and quickly followed Sun's pace to the backyard.

In the yard here, there was only the daughter-in-law of the Lin family standing at the door with her head down, twisting her clothes with both hands.

Yang Ruoqing came to the daughter-in-law and looked at her sallow face.

Xindao Lin's life seems to be getting more and more difficult, the head of the family is not healthy due to hard work, and has to spend money on medicine.

The father-in-law's body is also failing day by day, and the children have not grown up. In this era of farming where the harvest is hopeful, it is really hard for people struggling on the line of food and clothing.

"Sister-in-law, your family doesn't have enough rice and wheat flour for the Chinese New Year. Don't you also have no fish and meat for the Chinese New Year?" Yang Ruoqing asked with concern.

The daughter-in-law of the Lin family raised her head and said with a face of shame: "Qing'er, I'm not afraid of your jokes. There are fish. They were salvaged from old Luo Uncle's fish pond a while ago. My father-in-law went to buy twenty catties of fish on credit."

"I don't have pork, but my mother-in-law raises five or six chickens. During the first lunar month, there are also meat dishes for guests,"

"What's missing is nothing but rice and wheat flour."

"During the summer, my husband was sick, and my mother-in-law's legs couldn't get off the ground. I had to stay at home to take care of them, and I couldn't go to the fields to serve the rice."

"More than half of the rice in the three or four acres of fields has dried up and been eaten by insects. The harvest is not good, and the family is short of food." Lin's daughter-in-law said in a low voice.
"Dried up?" Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows.

"I remember that in the summer, my father and the others carried the keel water truck to fork water for the villagers day and night," she said.

The daughter-in-law of the Lin family nodded, "The location of my field is not good. If your father hadn't helped us fork the water, I'm afraid there will be no harvest."

"After the water was forked, countless eels came out of the field, and many holes were drilled in the field dam. The water in the field could not be kept, and the rice was still dry." She said again.

Yang Ruoqing was stunned.

As for eels, that's all I like.

However, with what Lin's daughter-in-law said, Yang Ruoqing felt that she had been busy expanding her business in the past few years.

The fields in the village have been neglected, um, when the end of spring and the beginning of summer next year, a large-scale eel catch operation will be launched.

It is a delicious delicacy to supply rice field eels regularly for several restaurants in the family.

He secretly made up his mind, and at this moment, news of the Lin family's daughter-in-law's business came into his ears again.

"Qing'er, your family should have enough rice grains, right? If it's not too much, it's best not to go to the town to buy rice during this time," she said.

"Why?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

"What's wrong with the rice in the town? Is it bad rice?" She asked again.

To be honest, whether it is the rice that the family eats all year round, or the rice from restaurants in several places.

There is never any need to go outside to sell, all are the output of Yang Huazhong's family's dozens of acres of fields.

Therefore, Yang Ruoqing has not paid attention to the situation of rice outside for a long time.

The daughter-in-law of the Lin family continued: "At first I didn't want to borrow rice and wheat noodles from Aunt Yang. It's the New Year's Eve. It's really shameless to borrow these..."

"But there is really no way. The price of rice in Washi has risen too much. Our family originally kept [-] catties of rice money."

"At this moment, let alone thirty catties, you can't buy even three catties, and you have to find someone to go through the back door,"

(End of this chapter)