Yoshida Mii

Chapter 187
After harvesting the grain, it is time to rake and pick up the remaining crop roots on the land, and then plow the land and sow the seeds.

The land of Li Hongqin's family has been planted by others. After harvesting this year's new grain, Li Hongqin hired several cars and took them all to the shop, and said with a smile: "These corns are enough for us until this time next year, so we don't need to buy them." Food."

The newly harvested grain tastes delicious, and it is better than buying grain from other people's shops.

"How can this work!" Mrs. Li waved her hand, "I'll pay you according to the market price for how much food you have."

Li Hongqin got annoyed now, "What do you mean? I have nothing to give you as a sister, can I just give you and your niece a little food? You still count money with me, what do you think of me? "

"My sisters have to settle accounts!" Li said with a good-tempered smile, still wanting to subsidize Li Hongqin more.

Li Hongqin snorted, "Okay, let's pay back the bill today clearly, how much does the three of us eat in the shop every day? How much are the clothes, shoes, and quilts you made for Xiuyu Xiaoqian? You Do the math, I'll give you a lot of money."

"What kind of money is this? As a aunt, I can still ask for money to make clothes for my niece and nephew? How much can I spend on food? You and Xiuyu help in the shop, and I can't care about the food?" Li said with a smile.

Li Hongqin laughed, and patted Li's shoulder, "Why don't you spend money on food? Whose family feeds white flour pancakes to the helpers, and eats fish and meat twice a day? It's okay, please be polite to me." I'm so angry!"

Seeing that the eldest sister insisted, Mrs. Li had no choice but to give up and accepted the food brought by Li Hongqin.

Dong Bao laughed. In fact, getting along with relatives is so simple. If both parties are reasonable and generous people, you treat me better and I treat you better, and they get along very harmoniously. If one party is mean, it will be difficult to get along well. up.

Like the Song family, during the autumn harvest, Mrs. Li asked Aunt Qiuxia to send two catties of tofu every two days. The Song family benefited, but no one thanked Mrs. Li. a piece of grain.

It's not that Mrs. Li wants to repair the relationship with them, but the kinship is here. Mrs. Li has made money, and she would rather give tofu to outsiders for cooking than to order tofu for her in-laws. It is said that people will not say that old man Song Huang People will only think that Mrs. Li has no filial piety for treating her daughter-in-law harshly.

At this time, old man Song was full of irritability, and his mouth was bubbling with anger.After harvesting the crops, it is time to start plowing the land. The land waits for no one. The plow is early and the planting is early. At this time, the temperature is suitable and the wheat will grow quickly. When it grows too high in winter, it is difficult to carry the snow cover. However, if the plow It's too late, when the weather is cold and the wheat doesn't germinate, it will be even worse.

Planting crops is competing with God for time, and if you miss a moment, you will regret it for a year.

At this time, most people's land has been plowed and ready to sow, but the roots of their crops have not been cleared.

He had calculated well at first. The second daughter-in-law was already out of confinement and was able to work in the fields. The three children of Zhaodi, Da Mao and Er Mao could be worth a strong labor force. Plus him, Huang and the second child, almost Individuals can easily remediate ten acres of land.

But what he didn't expect was that after the second child's family reluctantly harvested the crops, they stopped working. No matter how much he and the Huang family yelled and scolded, they didn't even step out of the house.

"If you want to eat, you have to work. If you don't work, you don't have to eat! I didn't catch the honest man and bully me! My poor girl, she died before she opened her eyes to see her mother!" Song Er My aunt was crying in a high voice in the room.

Old man Song and Mrs. Huang both knew in their hearts that Erfang was dissatisfied with Song Bai's behavior of reading and not working in the house.In the past, when Song Bai didn't take the exam, everyone still had hope in their hearts. Even if there was resentment about it, they didn't behave too much. There was also the girl who couldn't open her eyes to see the world...that was the second couple. The pimple in the hearts of the two is a good reason to threaten them.Now Song Bai didn't pass any exams, and he had to live this kind of life at home, the second child's family was unwilling.

In fact, from the perspective of the Second Uncle Song’s family, even if Song Bai is admitted as a scholar, he may not be able to do anything, but he is exempted from the corvee and taxes of the third child alone, can receive food with good grades, and can sit in the library to earn money for teaching. .And with Song Bai's temperament, it is unlikely that he will take care of them like his elder brother Song Yang.

Uncle Song's family threatened to "strike", which was very effective. Farming should not be delayed, otherwise you will be hungry next year.

Song Bai also had to go to work in the fields.

After Song Yang passed the examination as a scholar, Song Bai never went to the land, and had been concentrating on studying in the town. Ten years had passed, and he didn't even remember where his family's ten mu of land was.

After all, old man Song loved his youngest son very much, and he didn't want to let Song Bai be tired at all. However, the five people in the second room watched intently.Old man Song had to try his best to arrange easy work for Song Baiqian. He was pulling the plow in front, and Song Bai was behind the plow cart.

This work is usually done by weak women or half-grown children. Not only did Song Bai not feel relaxed, but he complained uncontrollably. He just walked into the field, feeling that the roots of the corn in the field were getting stuck, and feeling that the grasshoppers were flying to the ground. He got stuck in the neck, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Don't sister-in-law's house have a donkey! Why don't you borrow it to help plow the land? If you borrow it, our little land will be plowed in a short time!"

"Hey, his third uncle, you are indeed a scholar. You think you can get things done just by talking about it? Go to your sister-in-law's house to borrow a donkey and see if they can lend it to you!" Second Aunt Song sarcastically said.

If possible, she would also like to borrow the donkey from the eldest daughter-in-law’s family to plow the land, but the eldest daughter-in-law told the person who wanted to borrow the donkey that the donkey is too young to do heavy work, and it has to grind beans at home every day, so I don’t have the strength to pull it again. plowed.

At this moment, a villager passed by the Song family's field and saw that Song Bai had also gone to the field, and said with a surprised smile: "Oh, the scholar also went to work in the field?"

The Song family could only smile awkwardly and didn't answer the man's words.

Even though the man had no malicious intentions, Song Bai was still ashamed and angry, thinking that he just failed once, and everyone looked down on him as a result.Now that he can't hold his head up in front of Li's mother and daughter, how dare he ask for a donkey?Holding his breath, Song Bai stopped complaining, and imitated others to support the plow.

Seeing that his son was silent, old man Song thought that his son had figured it out, and he felt relieved for a while, and he became more energetic in pulling the plow.

However, Song Bai is really useless. The old man took the plow and did not take a few steps forward. Song Bai couldn't support the plow cart behind him. The plow cart fell to the ground violently, and Song Bai couldn't stand still. I fell down.

He was fine when he fell on the dirt, but he hurt old man Song who was pulling the plow vigorously in front.

Pulling the plow is the hardest part. It depends on manpower to soften the hardened soil. The person pulling the plow hangs the rope on his shoulders, with his head in front and his feet behind him. The angle between his body and the ground is almost [-] degrees. It takes all the strength of the whole body to pull the plow.

As soon as Song Bai let go from the back, old man Song was still exerting force in front, the iron plowshare was pulled out of the ground and stuck to old man Song's leg, and blood mixed with the soil on the plowshare immediately gushed out.

"Ah!" Song Bai cried out in fright, got up and stood there at a loss, watching old man Song fall to the ground with cold hands and feet.

Song Yu, who was plowing on another field, ran over quickly, and was startled when they saw old man Song's appearance, "What's going on?"

Song Bai came back to his senses at this moment, and explained in a hurry: "I...we fell..." He wanted to clear up his responsibility, but he couldn't say anything for a long time. "Daddy, how are you doing?"

Seeing old man Song frown and close his eyes in pain, Song Baicai really became scared. Although he looked down on old man Song and felt that old man Song was worthless, incompetent, and unable to get on the stage, without old man Song, he really had nothing to rely on.

"Ouch! Uncle Song is hurt so badly!" The villagers in the surrounding fields also rushed over in twos and threes, talking in one go.

Mrs. Huang was also frightened when she saw the blood continuously bubbling from old man Song's leg, feeling helpless.

It was Song Yu who made the decisive decision, "Hurry up, my father's injury can't be delayed, I have to send him to the town to find a doctor!"

The men couldn't care less about their own land anymore, saving people was the most important thing, so they hurried home and removed a door panel, and carried old man Song to the town.Song Yu led the way, but Huang was worried and followed.However, Song Yu did not lead them to the medical center, but took a group of people to Baoji Store first, and shouted loudly at the door: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, come out quickly, ouch, what can we do! Something big happened!"

Li Shi and Dong Bao were picking vegetables in the yard, when they heard Song Yu shouting outside, they hurried out.

At this moment, Old Man Shang Song's trousers were soaked in blood, his face was pale, and he was lying on the door panel moaning softly, blood dripping down the edge of the door panel.

"What's wrong with this?" Li Shi also turned pale with fright.

Song Yu slapped his thigh, heartbroken, "I was scratched by the plowshare! Sister-in-law, what do you think we should do?"

From the moment Li Shi and Dong Bao appeared, Huang didn't look up at them, didn't make a sound, and just lowered his head to wipe old man Song's face.

If it wasn't for the wrong timing, Dong Bao really wanted to laugh out loud, "My mother is not a doctor, how would she know what to do? Second Uncle, why don't you take my grandfather to the medical clinic quickly, what are you doing here?"

"Isn't this... Isn't this a big deal, I need to ask my sister-in-law to make up my mind!" Song Yu spread her hands.

At this moment, Huang raised her head, squinted at Dong Bao and Li, and then lowered her head again without saying a word.

Dong Bao had already seen it. It was false to ask Mrs. Li to make up his mind, and it was true to ask Mrs. Li to pay for old man Song to heal his leg.

(End of this chapter)