Jinxin

Chapter 78 Military Provisions
"It's God's blessing to your ancestors that made you know such a strange person." Mr. Su patted his thigh and sighed, and said to his two sons and shopkeeper Yan who were sitting next to him: "Since that girl is so fond of brocade... How can you guarantee that she won't weave yarn or silk when she's ready? When the time comes, brocade, gauze, velvet, oh my god, this... this is really a blessing that God bestows on us."

Su Liutian and Su Liuyun hadn't seen their father so happy for a long time, and they couldn't help being very pleased, and then they heard old man Su say strangely: "Yes, I see that Miss Ruan is clearly dressed as a woman, why do you all call her that?" girl?"

Su Liuyun smiled and said: "It's nothing, it's just that she is still young, and she met a heartless person, she was dismissed from the church, and she is not a widow and chaste woman, so I guess she probably doesn't like being called her Sister-in-law and the like, because they are called girls..." Before finishing the sentence, seeing their father stroking his beard, his eyes were full of sparkles, the five young masters suddenly came to their senses, and hurriedly said: "Daddy, don't have other thoughts, I I'm innocent with Miss Ruan, we're just friends, there's absolutely no love between men and women, it's a trivial matter that you don't harm me, and you also made Miss Ruan unhappy, if I don't cooperate with you then, I think you'll go and get blind."

Mr. Su pouted his goatee and said: "That's right, my son is not good enough for her in terms of character, appearance and family background? We don't care about her being divorced once. Does she still pick on you, but it doesn't make sense... "Before finishing speaking, the fifth son rolled his eyes angrily and said: "You should be sober, don't think that all women in this world are like a few aunts, and they all live by looking at men's faces. With these skills, even if she doesn't have them, according to her son, she would rather toil weaving than marry again."

Shopkeeper Yan, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help laughing beside him and said, "The young master is Miss Ruan's confidant, and he understands it so clearly." Before he finished speaking, Su Liuyun glanced at him and said displeasedly: "Say Everything is fine, in a word, we just cooperate with Miss Ruan to make money conveniently for each other, and we are not allowed to think about other things."

Coincidentally, at this time in the carriage, there was also a conversation similar to that of Su's family.Zhong Nan was praising Su Liuyun in front of Ruan Yunsi, and said with a grin: "Sister Ruan, I see that these five young masters are elegant in appearance and gentle in speech. Although they are not as good as Young Master Su, they are considered good men that are rare in the world. The most important thing Yes, although their Su family is also a big family, they are not like those luxurious nobles. My sister has these talents and crafts. Are you afraid that they will not worship you like a Bodhisattva? So let me say..."

Ruan Yunsi just listened casually at first, but after hearing it, the more she listened, the more wrong she became, she hurriedly stretched out her hand and said, "Stop, stop, what's going on in your mind, brat? Believe it or not, I'll kick you out of the car ?”

Now that Zhong Nan has gotten along with her for a long time, he also knows the nature of her sharp mouth and bean curd heart. He shrank his neck, but he was still not afraid of death and said: "Sister has no thoughts about the fifth son, could it be because of the young master..." Without waiting to say After that, Ruan Yunsi's face turned cold, and she looked at him with extremely sharp eyes. He suddenly remembered what his sister-in-law said. It was obvious that he had violated the taboo of the other party, and he was so scared that he dared not say any more.

"Don't let me hear a word related to this in the future." But Ruan Yunsi said coldly: "Just do what a child should do, and don't worry about this boring heart for me." She He had never talked to Zhong Nan in such a cold tone before, and he was shocked immediately, and secretly made up his mind that he would never talk about this matter again. Sister Ruan was obviously different from other women.

Because Ruan Yunsi's face was cold all the way, Zhong Nan regretted it very much, but there was nothing he could do, so he had to tell a few jokes clumsily, hoping to make Ruan Yunsi laugh, and expose his fault, but the effect was minimal until When the carriage arrived at Xiaowang Village, Ruan Yunsi jumped out of the carriage and ordered him to follow the coachman to the owner's house to pay the bill. The boy came back after paying the bill dejectedly, only to hear bursts of laughter coming from the house, among which was Ruan Yunsi's voice , he finally lifted his spirits, and secretly thought Zhong Nan, Zhong Nan, from now on you must remember that you must never mention your sister's life, well, not only you must remember, but also let your sister remember, otherwise The angry sister Ruan is really scary.

Ruan Yunsi was chatting and joking with Yun Niang and others, and the big 5000 tael bank note was placed on the kang right now, and the bright red seal was extremely eye-catching.Ruan Yunsi smiled and said: "These days, Miss Xiu and I will work harder to get some gray cloth dyed and sold before the cold winter. From the beginning of spring next year, we will try to weave brocade while dyeing cloth."

Yun Niang smiled and said, "Tell me, with all this money, why not buy a carriage? Didn't my sister think that renting a car was too expensive? And the new loom you mentioned, let's go and have a look."

Ruan Yunsi smiled and said: "Don't worry about that. Girl Xiu and I will rush to work first. After the Chinese New Year, isn't there a big market in Lushui City? There must be such things for sale, and they are still complete. Let's go and choose slowly. It's too late. That's right, let Brother Nan let him help you to work in the fields in the next few days, and the mountains are about to be harvested, how can you be so busy as a woman?"

Yun Niang smiled and agreed, "Yes, then I will take him to work on the mountain tomorrow."

The work was assigned like this, and in the following days, Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu rushed to weave day and night, and Yun Niang and Zhong Nan were only busy on the mountain.Because although Ruan Yunsi's house is big, all the yards are useful, so she took all the corn to Yunniang's yard and built two large granaries, both of which were piled with yellow corn, but all the straw was brought to Ruan Yunsi In the backyard of the house, there were also two high piles of haystacks. Because there were no cattle, sheep and horses in the house, these could only be used for fire.

This year is really a harvest year, although Yunniang and Zhong Nan are so tired that they lost their human form every day, they are sincerely happy.After the harvest was over, Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu also drove out twenty or thirty bolts of cloth. They also had backaches, so they smiled at Yunniang: "Tomorrow, everyone, take a good rest and don't do any work. Otherwise, this body will really be exhausted."

Yun Niang smiled and said: "You and Girl Xiu can rest, Brother Nan and I have to hurry up to turn those corn cobs into corn kernels, so that they can be regarded as real food. After paying the rent, there will be leftovers. If you buy a lot, even if the price of food drops, you can still sell some money.”

Ruan Yunsi wondered: "Huh? Don't you own the five acres of land? Why do you still have to pay the rent?" Before the words finished, Yunniang laughed softly, and shook her head: "You really don't understand the world, the five acres of land Although the land is mine, but I am so young, how can I only plant five acres of land? Naturally, I have to rent more than ten acres of land from the landlord's family to plant it, otherwise you think I can harvest so much corn with my little land? What kind of joke are you talking about?"

Ruan Yunsi was dumbfounded, looking at Yunniang's slender body, she couldn't believe that such a woman could plant more than 20 mu of land a year, how tired is she?Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a sound of gongs coming from the entrance of the village. This is Li Baochang's method when he wants to pass on news. Now it is after the autumn harvest, so the news is mostly about food, so Yun Niang got up from the kang and muttered He murmured: "I have to go and hear some news, maybe the grain shops in the city came down to collect corn."

Just about to get off the kang, Ruan Yunsi stopped her, and she rushed to the outer room and said: "Brother Nan, you have good legs, go over and find out, come back and tell your sister-in-law, that's all. Your sister-in-law and I won't go there. " After finishing speaking, only Zhong Nanjian in the main room outside agreed, and ran out the door.

After about half an hour, I heard the sound of footsteps, and then Zhong Nan came in excitedly, and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, great news, just now Chief Li Bao said that this year, the grain in our Jinfang Township will be used as military rations." For this purpose, a bucket of grain costs [-] Wen, which is [-]% higher than the price of those grain shops in the city.”

"Really?" Yun Niang also sat up excitedly, but Ruan Yunsi said with a smile: "Look at you guys, this news is the most useful for those big landlords, and it's just your twenty acres of land, which is so forty or fifty. How much money can there be with stone grains? Follow along."

Yun Niang pushed her and smiled: "Yes, I know you are rich and powerful now, so you don't care about such a small amount of money, but before you, didn't we small people just rely on this to live? How can we not be happy?" After finishing speaking, I heard Zhong Nan say: "By the way, there is one more thing, saying that because the military rations will be transported to the border soon, they will be collected from the tenth day of the next month, and will not be collected after the fifteenth day."

Yunniang was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "In such a short time? It's not easy to get the grain out. No, no, Brother Nan, let's go now. It's better to get a bucket of grain earlier." After speaking, no matter how Ruan Yunsi tried to persuade her, she refused to stop, and finally left with Zhong Nan, and even Zhong Xiu went with her. Here Ruan Yunsi lamented her fate, but the other three were all busy, so what could she do? I was ashamed to rest at home, so I rushed over to help.

For the rest of the time, I knew that dyeing cloth made a lot of money, but I was infected by the enthusiasm of the whole village to harvest food. Even Ruan Yunsi and Zhong Xiu also tried their best to help Yunniang and Zhong Nan get busy. After a day, often His calves were cramping from exhaustion, and even Rhubarb, because the hosts had been making do with the meals these days, and he and his son had nothing good to eat, they were so hungry that they lost a lot of weight.

Extremely tired, Ruan Yunsi couldn't help but think of the scene of going to the second aunt's house in the northeast in the previous life. The second aunt's house planted dozens of acres of corn fields.One year when I went there in the autumn, I also caught up with the grain harvesting. At that time, the countryside had not yet fully mechanized, but she remembered that there was a small cart for peeling corn, and the corn cobs were stuffed in from the top, while being shaken by hand. , the corn kernels splash out from the side, the long corn kernels after the corn is peeled off, and the things called corn bones in the countryside will fall out from below. That thing does not need electricity, although it is also completely artificial, but it is more backward than the current one. The food method is much faster and more advanced.

　Li Baochang walked around the column beating gongs and drums, yelling loudly: "Please ask for a monthly ticket, please ask for a pink monthly ticket. If you have a lot of monthly tickets, there will be more changes... Aww!"
　　
　
(End of this chapter)