pastoral fragrance

Chapter 245
When everyone met again, Qiulin brought Xia Yan, and Qiuyue brought Xiaoqing, and they all headed into the woods with their baskets on their backs.This way, I was stepping on the footprints that everyone stepped on just now, so I didn't feel that the road was wet with mud.This time everyone picked up a basket of mushrooms each, and returned happily full of loads.

In addition to the mushrooms picked up earlier, Qiulin's family had five baskets, which weighed about [-] catties.Now there is a well in the yard, so there is no need to carry the mushrooms to the river to wash them.Put the picked mushrooms into the cold well water, and everyone scrubbed them one by one, and then picked out the grass clippings, scooped them up with a silk ladle, drained the water, and put them directly on the shelf In the big dustpan, spread it out, and put it in the sun. The sun is not very strong now, and it will take ten days and a half months to dry it.

Everyone only has about ten catties of fresh mushrooms left, which were eaten in the past few days.Mrs. Han put a basket for Xiaoqing in a bamboo basket and asked her to take it back for her mother to fry and eat.He also asked her if she still had food such as rice, corn corn, and sweet potato. If not, he asked her father to come to the house to get some back.

Now their family is sold as slaves, and their food and lodging are also counted as Qiulin's family. Not only that, each of them has monthly money.Hu Manzi and his wife each have one or two taels of silver each, and Xiao Qing and Xiao Hei each have half a tael of silver. When they get older, the monthly money will gradually increase.

Xiaoqing quickly replied: "Grandma of the host family, there is still some rice and noodles at home, so don't worry about it." Xiaoqing's family is very grateful to Qiulin's family.With rice and noodles, and meat for holidays, Xiaoqing feels that life is better than when they were growing crops by themselves.At least there is food, drink, shelter and clothing, unlike before.She didn't want to go through those hungry days again.

The owner also said that if they saved enough money to redeem her body, they would return her bond of sale to them.Xiaoqing thought hopelessly, life is not bad, if after redeeming her body, life might not be so good!
Mrs. Han nodded, "Well, you are quite tired from work, so you don't have to be frugal about eating and drinking. Let your father come over to pack the grain tomorrow, and you don't have to wait all day for the crops and saplings on the slopes, just water some. Sprinkle some manure with water, and it’s enough to pull the grass every few days, it’s too busy and tiring.”

Xiaoqing replied crisply: "Hey, Xiaoqing remembered, thank you grandma." So she went home with a whole basket of straw mushrooms.

In mid-April, the loquats in the forest are ripe, and everyone rushes to the forest to pick loquats together. One jar of molasses can be bought for 250 cash, and four jars can be sold for one tael of silver.At this moment, Qiuyue called Xiao Hei and Xiao Qing over, and they all carried their baskets on their backs and headed towards the forest. There are more people and more strength, and there are more loquats to choose from.

If Qiuyue thought so, it would be a matter of raising eyebrows and nose for others.This season is the time for the farmers to plant seedlings. The fields were busy, but the loquats were picked from the tree and put in a jar with sugar and honey. With 250 Wen, many farmers were jealous. with.I can only plant the seedlings in a hurry before going to the forest to choose loquats.

After all, the seedlings are a major event related to the family's livelihood throughout the year, so they can't be careless, no matter how eye-catching the loquat is, they can't leave the work of planting the seedlings alone!
So when they finished planting the seedlings and came to the forest to pick loquats, they saw that there were not many loquats left on the loquat trees in the forest.And these are not very yellow, only the loquats on the top of the tree are still growing well, but I am afraid that only monkeys who have been climbing trees for many years can pick them.There are only a few loquat trees that have not been touched, and there are many yellow-orange loquat fruits on the branches.

This time, those people were very angry. There used to be many loquat trees in this forest, but when the loquats mature, people all over the mountains and plains can see the golden loquats!But now there are only so many crooked people left, can they not be angry?

"Hmph, Xu Nanshan's family is really ruthless. A few days ago I watched Qiuyue bring two servants to pick loquats. They must have picked all the loquats." Amidst the expression, a middle-aged woman with a broken mouth spoke like this.

Back then, Xu Nanshan's family was a well-known shabby household in Luoshui Village, so the three meals were all gone.But in the past three years, this is to build fish ponds and buy wasteland. Now, just like the landlord, he bought servants to serve their big family.Who in this village doesn't look down on their family?This aunt was also jealous, so she said this.

This stone stirred up a thousand waves, and as soon as the aunt's words fell to the ground, the grumpy woman answered indignantly: "Why, this forest does not belong to his family, pick all the loquats!" It’s all over, shall we go drink the northwest wind?”

"Yes, this forest belongs to all of us. Everyone has a share in the loquats. Why can't we pick them?" Can't be handed over.What's more, these four altars can buy loquats for one tael of silver?It's all gone, I don't know how much money I can sell!

"That's right, this family is really too black-hearted, isn't it?" Everyone pushed the wall down. At this time, everyone didn't think about Qiulin's family. They only felt that their interests had been encroached on by this family. The disgust is palpable!
Qiuyue and Qiulin here are particularly self-aware that there is a lot of quarrel in the forest about picking loquats for her family.A few of them were also enthusiastically going to the forest to choose loquats.

Qiulin vaguely felt that something was wrong. It was the busy season of farming, and those uncles and aunts were all planting seedlings in the fields. Their family didn't need to grow rice, and the Hu family was also worried about the soybeans and potatoes. The younger ones don't have to work hard, so they have free time to pick fruits in the forest.

To be honest, they have picked a lot of loquat fruits in this meeting, and they can make a lot of rock sugar loquats.Now that the busy farming is over, I am afraid that those aunts will also come to choose loquats, so it is better for them not to compete with them. Now there are not many loquats in the forest... Qiulin thought and thought, watching them He was sweating profusely but was still in high spirits, so he couldn't help but persuade: "Let's not pick loquats anymore, there aren't many left. I guess those aunts in our village will come to pick loquats too."

She hadn't forgotten that in the past few years, when the women and aunts in the village were picking acorns and digging herbs, they would quarrel and fight for the meager profits, and some even fought over it.These mothers-in-law and aunts are all powerful characters, so it's better not to meet them.

(End of this chapter)