Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 6
After lunch, none of the people moved, they just looked at Mrs. Yang and Old Man Yang on the main seat, waiting for them to speak.

In the Yang family, before and after eating, the head of the family must speak before leaving. This is one of the few family rules in the Yang family.

The old man Yang looked at the people on the left and right, coughed, and was about to wink to show off, but then he saw Yang Li's flying knife eyes beside him, touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, and said, "Today I am because I met There was a happy event at Landlord Wu's house, and the other party was in a good mood, so we got five taels of silver. When we came back, we bought some cloth, sugar, salt and other things in the town. 300 two to seven hundred words" After Old Man Yang said that, he looked at the reactions of the people around him. Everyone, including Chunqiu, looked like you are really amazing, which made Old Man Yang very satisfied, and he instantly straightened his back.

Mrs. Yang and Li kept winking at the side. Seeing that old man Yang was unmoved, he secretly reached out and touched him. Seeing Mrs. Yang's expression, Mrs. Yang was unhappy, and he didn't want to make him happy. Knowing what kind of virtue Yang and Li are, old man Yang was slightly dissatisfied, and then reached out to take out a small purse from his left cuff. Chunqiu kept staring at everything in front of him, staring at it intently. She was actually very curious about the ancient silver coins. What does it look like? The purse embroidered with lotus leaves looks very old, and the pattern on the side has been worn out. Old man Yang opened the tie on the purse, and took out three irregular pieces of silver from inside. piece.

Except for Chunqiu staring closely, Mrs. Yang and Li have never paid attention to Old Man Yang since seeing the purse. His eyes were fixed on the three small silver pieces, as if he wanted to stare at them, but looking at the three in front of him A piece of silver, Mrs. Yang and Li are a little unhappy, what about the agreed four taels of 700 Wen? "En? Why only two or three? What's the rest?" Seeing the money in front of her, Li Shi Yang was happy, but when she thought of the missing money, Li Shi Yang felt distressed, and asked the old man in front of her in a rather angry tone. .

Seeing Yang Lishi's performance of doubting himself, old man Yang glared at the old woman beside him angrily, and said in a buzzing tone, "I didn't catch this wild boar alone, I don't have a son." Contribution" Old man Yang said here, glanced at the sons beside him, and took a puff of cigarette, "One son gave [-] Wen, and the remaining [-] Wen is here." He took out a string of copper coins and put them on the table, "here, here you are"

Chunqiu sighed throughout the process, it turns out that in ancient times, cuffs could really hold money.

Yang Lishi looked at the bunch of copper coins, and immediately smiled, and didn't care about the other party's tone of not buying a house, and didn't even continue to complain about the other party. He kept his eyes on the money, reached out and took the money in front of him, and put it in his cuff , "It should look like this, I'll keep the rest of the money, and we'll give Jun'er and Brother Ming'er this month's bundle repair." After Yang Li finished speaking, she left alone without waiting for everyone to reply. Now, looking at the other party's faster pace than hers, Chunqiu couldn't help sighing, her grandma is really a cute little old woman.

"Okay, you all go back too," Old Man Yang spoke while smoking a cigarette, and then left.

Because Mrs. Gu was responsible for tidying up at noon, Mrs. Yuan did not interfere with the dishes and chopsticks on the table. She just stretched out her hand and grabbed the daughter and son beside her, signaling her husband and family of four to leave.

Chunqiu followed his mother back to the room, just as the door closed, he saw his mother begging his father for money, Yang Weibo smiled and took out a bunch of copper coins from his waist and handed them to Yuan Shi.

Seeing her flattering husband, Yuan Shi was rarely angry, but gouged him with angry eyes, turned around and put the copper plate in her hand into the wooden box under her wardrobe.

Yang Weibai, who was hot all over at the sight of his mother-in-law, swallowed secretly, then looked at Chunqiu and Huzi who were playing not far away, thought of something, and walked towards Yuan Shi with a smile.

Mrs. Yuan was calculating the money for the wooden box, thinking about things in her heart, and didn't notice the people behind her. Although Brother Ming's Shuxiu and the others only need to pay a small amount every year, the various expenses of five taels of silver a year are still It's too big, and Huzi is already five years old, and he is about to reach the age of enlightenment. Although there is no need for so much money in the village, 100 cash per month is also necessary. Thinking of this, Yuan's She lowered her head and frowned, and at the same time she was a little worried, she was afraid that they would not be able to afford it.

Yang Weibo didn't know Yuan Shi's plan, and wanted to scare Yuan Shi, but when he saw the other party squatting motionless on the ground, he was also a little puzzled, following Yuan Shi's gaze, it was just his family's past few years. money?

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with Yinzi?" Yang Weibo thought that something was wrong with Yinzi, so he stretched out his hand and poked Yuan Shi on the ground worriedly, and asked in a low voice.

Yuan Shi was thinking about something in her heart, and her expression was a little tense, and she didn't think that there was someone behind her, so she was frightened, her heart beat suddenly, and when she looked back, it turned out to be her own dead ghost, Yuan Shi felt and jumped fast Chest, couldn't help but glared at the other room angrily, in exchange for a flattering smile, Yuan Shi laughed angrily at his actions, "Why are you here?"

"Isn't this just to look at you, to see you looking at our money, what's the matter?" Yang Weibo was originally a stupid and rough guy, so he naturally didn't understand why Yuan was sad, so he asked anxiously.

Yuan Shi was taken aback when she heard it, and then looked at her husband who was worried about her. She couldn't help but think of something, and her eyes gradually became moist.

Seeing Yuan's appearance like this, Yang Weibo panicked, raising and lowering his hands, looking back and forth extremely clumsily.

This appearance obviously pleased Yuan Shi, Yuan Shi chuckled, took out the handkerchief in his cuff and wiped his eyes, "It's okay, look at your clumsy appearance" After finishing speaking, Yuan Shi also felt ashamed of herself. Feeling embarrassed, he reached out and patted Yang Weibo's shoulder.

Yang Weibo laughed silly, he was relieved after seeing that Yuan Shi was fine, he really couldn't hold Yuan Shi crying.

"I'm thinking about Huzi." Yuan's tone still carried the crying sound from before, "Huzi is about to become enlightened, but his Shuxiu is not enough." Yuan looked down at Yang Weibo carefully and said, isn't it? She didn't want to be a tiger's son, but their family really didn't have the ability.

It turned out that the Yuan family was just sad because of Hu Zi. Yang Weibo understood, "In any case, Brother Ming'er, we all confessed, and Hu Zi, we can't treat one more favorably than another." There is no need to count on that side, she said when she made offerings to Brother Ming'er and Brother Jun'er, she can only provide two, and the rest, if you have money, you can provide it yourself." After Yang Weibo finished speaking, he looked at Yuan's His complexion was suddenly not very good, no wonder, the palms and backs of the hands were full of meat, Yuan still complained that he could only offer one.

"Okay," Yang Weibo smoothed things over, "Don't blame the parents, there is still the third child who is going to marry a wife, and" Yang Weibo said here, paused, looked into Yuan's red eyes, and said, "Can our Yang family The confession of two is also relying on the money saved by parents before. The harvest has not been good in the past few years.

After Yang Weibo finished speaking, Yuan Shi lowered her head. She knew that it was wrong for her to blame her mother-in-law, and it was true that their family could not afford it. Not only Shuxiu, but also pens, inks, papers and inkstones all cost money, at least 10 taels for two people, and the total annual harvest of the Yang family is less than 20 taels, which is considered as the money from hunting. In fact, it is an eye-opener to know that a farm family can harvest 30 taels a year. Their family still has money for their children to study, so what is there to be dissatisfied with?
Yuan Shi sighed faintly, knowing that would make her even more dissatisfied, "I know it's not easy for my parents, let's find a way about Huzi, there are still two years left before we leave Meng, let's save some money in these two years." Yuan Shi told her husband beside her that she wanted to embroider more purses and pendants, so that Hu Zi could study for two more days.

"Well, when this period of time passes, I will go to work in the town," Yang Weibo said.

"Okay, let's go and change clothes, I'm going to do the laundry." After Yuan finished her business, she glanced at Yang Weibai's clothes with disgust. The result of walking at noon was naturally sweating profusely.

Yang Weibo was taken aback for a moment, and then he smirked again, Yuan Shi glared, said "stupid" and then laughed, the two couples smiled face to face like this, in the end Yuan Shi couldn't help but pushed each other, Looking at him sideways, the child is watching!
(End of this chapter)