Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 80
While Mai Xiang was lamenting that people are poor and short-lived, Er Fu in the opposite room was also painting cakes for the two children to satisfy their hunger, lamenting that the life of the poor is hard.

It turned out that Ye Erfu had just come back from the field, and these days he had been working in the field without black or white, so the dinner at his family had just been served on the kang table.

After all, Ye Erfu connected the stove with his own house, and built a kang opposite the stove, and moved the wheat seeds and grains back to live here.

"Elder Sister's family is eating egg pancakes again." Mai Zhong said casually, children's noses are always particularly sharp.

"Mom, I want to eat egg pancakes too. Our family has never eaten egg pancakes before." Mai Li sniffed hard, looking at the bowl of corn mush in front of her, she lost interest in an instant.

"Eat, eat, eat, you can ask for it yourself." Qian Shi impatiently scolded the child.

"They won't give it if you ask for it." Mai Zhong said, he was already eight years old, so he knew something.

"It's none of the children's business, which child is not greedy?" Er Fu glared at Qian's unhappily.

"It's none of the children's business. If you are capable, you can feed our children egg pancakes." Qian muttered dissatisfiedly.

Qian felt that the life after the separation of the family was not as good as before. In the past, at any rate, he didn't have to be so tired. He could do housework once every three days, and he could still free up his hands to do some private work, and he could also save a little money to buy some snacks for the children. What's the matter, at that time, it was Mai Xiang who suffered from hunger and tuberculosis all day long, but now it's good to separate the family, the children can't eat enough, there is more work, and the private house earns less money, the life of the old people Fortunately, the resentment in Qian's heart is not as deep as usual.

When Ye Erfu heard this, he put his rice bowl away, and was about to reprimand Qian Shi when he saw that Qian Shi was breastfeeding Mai Jin in his arms. The adults couldn't eat enough, and the milk was naturally insufficient. Both adults and children were skinny. Fu sighed, swallowed the words, and hugged the two sons.

"Son, listen to Dad, our chickens will be able to lay eggs in a few months, and you can eat them when they lay eggs. Also, Dad planted sesame seeds on an acre of land, and when the sesame seeds are harvested, Dad will give You cook rice with sesame oil."

After the wheat was harvested, Ye Erfu did not plant corn like in previous years. He planted sesame seeds on an acre of land. Not only that, he also planted a lot of sunflowers along the edge of the ditch. This was his first attempt. Want to see which one is more profitable.

"Father, I understand. Why don't we raise ducks and geese with Elder Sister? I can go mowing grass with Erya and herd ducks and geese. In this way, we will be rich in the future." Mai Zhong listened to his parents. I feel like I have grown up suddenly. He is the eldest in the family, and he is still a boy, as old as Mai Huang. If Mai Huang can do it, he can do it too.

"Hmph, do you think you can earn money by raising a few ducks and geese? The money for your eldest sister's family is earned from those rich people who went to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. You are also eight years old, why don't you have her cleverness?" Qian snorted dissatisfied.

"Shut up, my son is so easy to understand, and he knows to share our worries. Not only do you not boast about your son, but you also say that there are some things and nothing. Can this person be the same as others? When will he eat on his own ability? It’s true. Yes, Da Ya has earned some money these days, but Da Ya’s money, to put it bluntly, is different from begging. If people are happy, they will reward you a few times, but if they are unhappy, who will take care of you? Let’s talk The big girl is growing up every day, can she always go outside to earn money like this?" Ye Erfu put his arms around Maizhong and said a few words about Qian.

"Son, don't listen to your mother. Dad knows that you understand better than your mother. From now on, it's not bad to raise ducks and geese with Erya. Geese don't need to eat food, they can grow up by eating grass."

Erfu regretted not raising geese with Mai Xiang earlier, because the ten geese in Mai Xiang's family already weighed three to four catties, and Mai Huang and Mai Qing would rush to the ditch every day, and they would come back in the afternoon, so there was no need How to worry about.

Through the matter of raising geese and ducks, Er Fu really got some opinions on Mai Xiang, thinking that this child is really smart and can always be different from others.

Because there is really no precedent for raising geese in Huangye Village, and the aquatic plants in the small river ditch are very fat, which is cheaper than Maixiang's ten big geese.But now, can you still buy goose seedlings?
Not to mention how Erfu's family worked so hard to plan, Sanfu's family in another room was also sitting on the kang table at the moment, because Sanfu had just returned from pulling a donkey cart, so their meal was relatively late.

Sanfu’s meals are of better quality than Erfu’s. They are dry rice with coarse grains and two kinds of vegetables. Sun’s only child is Mai Miao, and he refuses to wrong the child, so every once in a while, he will steam an egg custard for Mai Miao to eat. can watch.

"Can you bake me two egg pancakes too?" Sanfu said after smelling the aroma.

"Pancakes? That's a lot of money. It's oil and white flour. How can our family have this condition? I want to save money and move out earlier. Look, even the second brother has two houses, so our house Little, what is this room enough for? The child is growing up day by day, and I want to send my son to study next year, our family..." Sun muttered again.

"You're here again. It's the same way every time. I just want to eat an egg pancake. What's wrong? Our house is short of this egg pancake? My son is missing this egg pancake for school? " Sanfu interrupted Sun's words impatiently.

"Eat, eat, don't I know how to eat? Am I willing to strangle myself like this? Who am I for?"

"Okay, are you annoying? There's no end to it, I just want to eat an egg pancake, and you're still nagging." Ye Sanfu got off the kang and wanted to go out for a walk.

It was rare for Sun to see her husband lose such a temper with her. Seeing that Sanfu was angry and wanted to go out without even eating, she felt extremely aggrieved, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"What are you doing? Vomit, vomit..." Seeing that Sanfu was about to go out, Sun suddenly vomited.

"Daughter-in-law, the child's mother, what's wrong with you?" Sanfu was frightened, and hurriedly turned around and came back to support Sun.

Sun pushed Ye Sanfu away, counted with her fingers, and then touched her stomach.

"Daughter-in-law, do you have it?" Ye Sanfu hugged his daughter-in-law.

"Are you going to eat egg pancakes this time?" Mrs. Sun shot her husband a look and said.

"Don't eat, don't eat." As soon as Sanfu finished speaking, he hurriedly changed his words and said, "Eat, daughter-in-law, you can eat, you have a baby, you have to eat something good. Starting tomorrow, I will come back later, so I will spend more time." Personally, earn a few more money, you and your son will eat first, don't wait for me, just leave me a bite in the pot."

Seeing her husband scrambling to please herself, Sun smiled through tears and said, "Well, I won't go to the field in the future, and I will do more embroidery at home. I think I can embroider three handkerchiefs a day and earn more than ten pennies." , let the fifth brother help you with the work in the field."

The Sun family finally had an excuse, and it happened that Wufu could help Dafu's family, so why couldn't he help Sanfu?What's more, Sanfu's family doesn't have much work, but they need help in the autumn harvest.

"Understood, let's go, tell them to go." Sanfu thought of a good idea.

Mai Xiang just picked up two egg pancakes and planned to send them to Wu Fu and Ba Fu.Because she heard Wu Fu pouring water into the water tank of her house, and Ba Fu burned wormwood at the door of her house to smoke mosquitoes.

Since the separation, the two have been taking on all the labor of their own family. Mai Xiang is really grateful, so she treats them as well as possible.

As soon as Mai Xiang got off the kang, she heard shouts from outside. After listening carefully, it turned out that it was Sanfu announcing the good news.

"Father, mother, Mai Miao's mother has it. With it, we Mai Miao will have younger brothers and sisters."

"Really? Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless you." Liu's excitement was obvious, and even his voice trembled a little.

Because Mrs. Sun hasn't conceived for three years, but his second child died last year, and the wheat seedlings have grown weaker. She is really worried about this son.

"Father and mother, I have to tell my elder brother, elder sister-in-law, second elder sister-in-law, and fifth younger brother about this matter. When I go out to pull the cart in the future, if there is any work that our child's mother can't do, I have to ask everyone to lend their hands."

"Should be, should be." Ye Tiezhu also nodded.

Just as Mai Xiang was about to ask Ye Dafu if Mrs. Sun was pregnant, should she show anything, Sanfu led Mrs. Sun into the door.

"Brother and sister-in-law, you are still eating. That's it, my wife is pregnant again, so I came here to tell my brother and sister-in-law." After Sanfu finished speaking, he stared at the eggs in the basket on the ground.

After hearing this, Ye Dafu didn't think too much about it. His younger brother's family is about to have a baby, which is always a happy event, and he said: "Good thing, good thing, the third brother will have to work harder in the future."

"It's a good thing, third brother and sister, sister-in-law congratulates you." Mrs. Zhao also replied, putting the last piece of egg pancake on the plate into her mouth as she spoke.

Mai Xiang naturally saw Sanfu's eyes change from the egg on the ground to the plate on the kang table, and then to the plate in Mai Xiang's hand.

Mai Xiang just wanted to give him the plate in his hand, anyway, Sanfu sent his family to grandma's house in the morning, but Mai Xiang didn't ask him for money.

"Third Uncle, you..."

Just as Mai Xiang spoke, Er Fu came in with Mai Jin in his arms.

"Third brother, I heard that my younger brother and sister are happy, congratulations."

After Er Fu finished speaking, he said to Mai Xiang: "Big girl, do you still have the rice soup you eat in Maidi? I don't have enough Maijin milk in my house, and I can't eat corn mush. I'm so hungry that I cry."

"Yes, but McGinn has been more than nine months old. Is it enough to eat rice soup? I still have some rice porridge and egg pancakes at home. Why don't you feed your child some of this?"

Mai Xiang looked at Mai Jin, who was yellow and thin, and was incomparable to Mai Di. At this moment, Mai Xiang felt compassion, and reasoned that the life of the two blessings should not be so difficult. It must be an adult I don't pay much attention to it in my heart or because of Qian's habit, the poor have to carefully count every penny in their lives.

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she gave the plate to Er Fu, and filled him with half a bowl of porridge. Er Fu sat on the kang to feed the child.

Mrs. Zhao watched angrily from the side. Just as Mai Xiang was about to persuade her, someone came outside.

(End of this chapter)