Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3117 Too bad (one more)
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "It's fine to stay indoors, but it's a mess outside now, and there are too many things to do outside."

Zhao Liuer also nodded, "I send the cooked meals to my mother-in-law's house every day, and I will bring them back after they finish eating. There is no need for my mother-in-law to do anything, just stay with Fu'er wholeheartedly. I will take care of Hong Son, Yongzhi has no free time to earn money to support his family."

Yang Ruoqing asked Zhao Liuer: "How much rice do you have left? How long will it last?"

Zhao Liu'er thought for a while, and said, "The rice in our hands is about forty or fifty catties, and the wheat flour is also forty or fifty catties."

"Now we eat two meals a day, one hard and one soft."

"There are three of us in our family. The rations of my mother-in-law and Fu'er are also shared by my eldest brother and second brother. Based on this calculation, the rice grains in my hand are enough to last two months."

Yang Ruoqing nodded, "That's good, just tell me if you don't have enough rice, and I'll help you find a solution."

Zhao Liu'er smiled gratefully: "Two months is enough for us. What we are most afraid of is that after two months, although Yongzhi has been making money, we still have a few taels of money in our hands."

"In normal times, it's okay to use money to buy rice, but now I heard that the price of rice outside has risen. It used to be more than 200 cash to buy a bucket of rice, but now I heard it costs five or six hundred cash. .”

"Last night, I was discussing with your third brother. From now on, the price of rice will be one price a day. Should we hurry up and exchange the money we have in hand for rice?"

Yang Ruoqing shook her head: "Don't do it, it's too bad!"

Zhao Liu'er said: "Now it's only doubled, and the higher it is, the more it will be a loss. It's like the last time the twelfth lunar month said that the north would go to war to stir up prices. Later, the big guy was holding the silver in his hand. I can't even buy a few grains of rice..."

Yang Ruoqing said: "Don't worry, tell my third brother, don't rush to buy rice."

"Now that there is chaos outside, some merchants have maliciously hoarded rice, grain and other supplies. The price will be raised day by day. The rice on hand can last for two months. After two months, there will definitely be It's a turnaround."

……

When Yang Ruoqing came to Yang Huazhong's house, she saw two women from the village leaving Yang Huazhong's house together. The two women were carrying bags in their hands. The bags were bulging, and they seemed to contain rice grains, wheat flour, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

Yang Ruoqing frowned, and hurried into the yard.

In the main room, Mrs. Sun was nowhere to be seen, so she hurried to the warehouse in the backyard, where she found Mrs. Sun and Xiaohua Xiaoduo.

Mrs. Sun was tying the seals of the rice grain bags there, and Xiaohua Xiaoduo was helping.

Seeing Yang Ruoqing coming in, Xiao Hua said: "Sister, you came just in time, I was just telling my mother, we can't be too nice, anyone will borrow it, our family is running out of rice..."

Yang Ruoqing was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I saw two people leaving our house at the gate of the yard earlier, and they came to borrow rice again?"

Xiao Hua nodded, "This is the third wave this morning. In the past few days, there have been several calls to borrow rice almost every day."

"My mother has never refused once. When I come here, my mother can borrow as much as I want. I can't persuade her. Look, the big bag of rice and wheat flour over there has already bottomed out. It is the second bag opened today..."

Hearing Xiaohua's words, Yang Ruoqing's eyes fell on the two rice bags she mentioned.

Fuck me, that's true.

Then, she came to Mrs. Sun, who blushed and stood there smiling awkwardly.

"They're all from fellow villagers. If you don't borrow money, you won't be able to get rid of that face. If you borrow money from the owner, you won't be able to justify whether you borrow money from the west..." Sun explained weakly.

"I heard them crying with snot and tears, saying how hungry the elderly and children are, and my heart softened. They said that I had to refill as much as I borrowed, otherwise I would not feel at ease..."

Yang Ruoqing rolled her eyes depressingly, "My dear mother, you have to be kind if you want to be a good person. You can't feel soft when they come here with snot and tears. Our family isn't rich enough yet. It can feed the whole village!"

"Besides, there is a saying called Sheng Mi En Dou Mi Qiu, it's not good if you give too much." Yang Ruoqing said.

Sun's face was troubled, "Then what should I do, Qing'er? If you don't borrow a single grain, it won't make sense, especially if many of the people who come to borrow rice are related..."

Yang Ruoqing said: "In our village, every household is related to relatives."

"Changping Village is a big village with ten miles and eight villages. There are more than 100 households in our village. If every household came to manage our rice loan, if a family borrowed ten catties, more than 100 households would be more than 1000 catties of rice. Our granary It's going to be empty."

"What's more, the famine has just begun. It's only the beginning of June, and there will be at least a year before new rice comes out. Would it be useful if you lend them ten catties of rice?"

"I have to borrow it later after we finish eating? Can we get it out? We can't get it out!" Yang Ruoqing said truthfully.

Sun's face was troubled, "What should I do then?"

Yang Ruoqing thought for a while, and said: "Let's not slap our face to look fat, how about this, from now on, if you come to borrow rice again, you can just say it straight."

"Let's just say that this rice is only for the restaurant. You and my dad have borrowed all the food at home. If you want to borrow rice, let them go to me. I will do this wicked person!" she said.

"If mother, you can't save your face to be this villain, you can simply hide in the backyard and see no visitors."

"Someone came to borrow rice at home, you give it to Xiaohua and Xiaoduo, yes, leave it to Xiaohua, Xiaohua is now our family's prospective daughter-in-law, Xiaohua, you are the villain!" Yang Ruoqing said.

Xiaohua nodded, "Sister, you support me, I'm not afraid to be this villain."

……

While cooking lunch, Tuobaxian came over to call Yang Ruoqing.

"Two daughters-in-law from the village came over, holding bags of rice, and said they wanted to borrow some rice from you for cooking." Tuoba Xian said.

Yang Ruoqing wiped her hands on the apron around her waist a few times, told Tuobaxian to hand over the kitchen, and came to the front yard by herself.

Two women from the village were already sitting on the stool in the front yard.

Of these two women, one belongs to the Watson family and the other belongs to the fire winner.

The two families lived together, so they borrowed together.

The friendship between these two families and Yang Ruoqing's family is very shallow, and they usually meet the kind in the village who say hello, hold wedding events and so on, and they all follow along together, indifferently.

"The two aunts are here? Drink tea and drink tea."

Yang Ruoqing came over with a smile and poured tea for the two of them.

Huo Yingjia was a little shy, and sat there without saying a word after thanking him with a teacup, while Huasheng's family looked at the main room of Yang Ruoqing's house, and praised it inside and out.

Then he praised Luo Baobao and Dazhi again.

In the end, Watson's wife brought the topic to borrowing rice.

"It's really hard to live these days. There is no rice in the house, and the mice don't stay in my house anymore."

(End of this chapter)