Now, when father sees her, the first thing he thinks of is whether she is short of food, and even distributes the few grains in his family to her, so how can she hold back the tears that burst out of her eyes
Xiaocao's grandma, Yao Shi, saw her daughter kept crying without speaking, and immediately turned around anxiously: "What's the matter? What happened? Talk! Don't care about anything, let's figure it out, and we can always save the day." Get over it!"
Liu's sister-in-law, Han, also came over and looked at her with concern. Mrs. Liu wiped her eyes, grinned and said, "It's nothing, I just miss you. Let's see if you are doing well and whether you are short of food!"
When Liu Cunjin heard his girl said nothing was wrong, he immediately felt relieved. He smiled and said, "No shortage, no shortage! The family received a message that they had harvested a lot of green wheat, and every mu of land could see dozens of green wheat. A catty of grain. Plus the government’s disaster relief food, it’s enough for several months. How is your family? Can the corn be ruined by locusts?”
Yao shi gave his man a blank look, and said, "You father and daughter are going to chat here? Stop standing around the door, let the girl sit in the room!"
"Grandma, grandpa!" Little Shitou was carried down from the grain, rushed into the door, and shouted at Liu Cunjin and his wife.
Yu Xiaocao followed behind him, also called grandma and grandpa, and then addressed Mrs. Han and Mrs. Bian standing in the yard: "Eldest aunt, third aunt..."
Yao happily hugged Xiao Shitou in his arms, and then freed up another hand to touch Xiao Cao's head, narrowed his eyes with a smile, and said, "Hey! Our Xiao Cao and Shi Shi are here too? Look at this little face that is so tan , it’s all red. Go, come into the house and grandma will pour you some sugar water!”
Xiao Shitou said obediently: "No need, grandma, we are not thirsty! Shall I rub the green wheat for you?" As he said, he picked up an ear of dried wheat and rubbed it at the place where Yao Shi was squatting.
Mrs. Yao grabbed him quickly, and said, "Be careful, don't get pricked by Maimang! Our Shishi's hand is a hand for writing and learning. If it is swollen, how can we finish Mr.'s homework?"
Yu Hai outside the door was unloading the carriage. The neighbors of the Liu family came out to watch when they heard the movement. Looking at the grain in the carriage, his eyes were red with envy.
"It's said that the daughter of the old man Liu's family is well-off! As expected, look, look! Such precious food, it's a horse-drawn cart."
"That's right, that's right! This cart of grain must weigh four to five hundred catties, right? If you save it, it will be enough for Lao Liu's family for several months!"
"In the past, you still laughed at the daughter of the old Liu family for marrying a poor ghost, and the mother-in-law was so powerful that she was tortured to the point of torture! The old Liu family did not miss this married daughter. Looking at others now, if I knew that my son-in-law would be able to prosper earlier, it would have been earlier No matter how much the subsidy is, it will not be a loss!"
"Isn't that right! This cart of grain is worth more than a dozen taels of silver now! Didn't Uncle Liu earn back what he posted before?"
Under everyone's envious and jealous eyes, Yu Hai carried a bag of flour into the yard. Liu Cunjin, who has been paying attention to her since her daughter came back, only then found out that her son-in-law is still outside. Looking at the food he brought in, Liu Cunjin frowned hurriedly and said, "Come here! Why do you still bring food? Is our family too poor to afford a meal for our daughter and son-in-law?"
Mrs. Liu hurriedly spoke for the man: "Father, that's not what we mean! We prepared a lot of food earlier, and then the county prince sent two carts over. Our family can't finish eating, so I brought you some."
Liu Cunjin's expression was still a little displeased, and he said, "It's a disaster year, so it's good to store more food! Those locusts will freeze to death only in winter, and the field will not produce food until next spring. How much can your family have?" Food? How can you not finish it? Hurry up and carry the food back!"
Yu Xiaocao hurriedly said: "Grandpa, don't worry! I'll tell you quietly, the king of the small county brought us two thousand catties of grain, and left three thousand catties of the harvested corn for us. Let's open our bellies and eat for a while. Years, I can't finish it!"
Xiao Shitou followed suit and said, "Second Sister also made a potion that can expel and exterminate locusts. We have replanted a lot of vegetables in our yard, and they have grown so tall!" Xiao Shitou gestured with his hands.
Yao said pleasantly: "There is a potion that can kill locusts? Wouldn't it be possible to plant a crop of soybeans?"
Liu Cunjin thought more complicated than his own mother-in-law, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Cao'er, is the medicine expensive for making potions? How much money does the potion cost for one mu of land?"
Yu Xiaocao glanced at the excited grandma, and said in a low voice, "There are two kinds of medicines that are quite expensive to prepare a potion. A catty of potion costs at least five taels of silver, and it looks like it can spread four or five acres of land!"
When Grandma Xiaocao heard that an acre of land needed a potion of one tael of silver, she backed off immediately and said, "Planting an acre of soybeans can be sold for a few hundred renminbi, and with that potion, it's not too bad that you can't find a home." ! This deal is too bad!"
Yu Xiaocao smiled and said: "We can't afford to grow too much, we can plant less autumn vegetables and vegetables, so that we won't have no vegetables to eat in winter. Grandma, grandpa. I brought you a jar of potion, take a few drops of water every day Dilute it, water the vegetable field, and ensure that one of the locusts will die, and two will die if they come!"
Liu Feiyan, Han's little girl, looked at the ceramic pot in Yu Xiaocao's hand in amazement, and said in a low voice, "So powerful? Mother, let's go clean up the vegetable garden now? We can plant the vegetables as soon as possible."
The quiet and gentle Mrs. Bian shook her head slightly and said, "You can't grow vegetables in the vegetable garden! Think about it, other people's homes can't grow vegetables, only our vegetable garden can grow them. It's strange not to attract thieves. In my opinion, it's still Clean up the backyard, sprinkle some radishes and cabbage, and add the dried vegetables at home, it can also deal with the winter!"
Liu Feixu, the youngest daughter of the second uncle's family, blinked her big eyes, and said: "Anyway, the chickens at home are all slaughtered, so why don't you chop the chicken rings and sprinkle some vegetable seeds on that corner, so we won't have to worry about eating vegetables in autumn." !"
Except for the eldest uncle, the second aunt, the younger uncle, and the second uncle's eldest son Liu Zhiwei who is not at home after going to work, everyone else in the Liu family gathers around Xiaocao, talking about growing vegetables.
Yao pushed aside the crowd, rescued Xiaocao from it, and scolded with a smile: "What are you supposed to do! Let's talk about planting vegetables at night! Cao'er, come in with grandma and wash your face to cool off! "
The two aunts took the children back to their seats and continued rubbing the green wheat. The second uncle Liu Han, together with his brother-in-law Yu Hai, moved the grain from the carriage into the cellar of his family. Liu Cunjin and his wife watched from the side, and couldn't help saying: "Why do you send so much food? Is your family enough? Why don't you take half of it back?"
Mrs. Liu pulled her father and mother back into the house one by one, and said with a smile: "Father, mother! This is for your daughter and son-in-law to honor your elders! You can keep it at ease? If the cheap food cannot be brought back in two months, my daughter Send it to you again."
Two strong-aged laborers moved all the grain into the cellar four or five times back and forth. Liu Han rubbed his hands, and said to Liu Cunjin, "Father, what my sister brought over is fine grain. There are seven bags of white flour and three bags of cleanly pounded rice. Look..."
Yu Xiaocao jumped in front of her grandfather and said, "Grandpa, the King of the Little County gave us fine grains. If you want to ask us for coarse grains, our family really can't get them!"
Hearing this, Liu Cunjin swallowed his words again, looked at his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren with a smile on his face, and said, "I won't say anything if you are being polite! If your family is too busy in the future, please remember to support me. Not to mention, there is a lot of labor! Even that kid Zhimin can account for more than half of the labor force!"
At this time, he suddenly remembered the ten acres of corn that his son-in-law's family had planted for the official's family, and said, "Dahai, how is your corn harvest? Has the yield been reduced? Alas! Who would have thought that the harvest is about to be bumper, and there will be another plague of locusts! If not If the old god warns, the corn will not be able to keep, and the court will blame it...God bless! Finally, we will leave a way for our family to survive!"
Yu Hai chuckled, and said: "The production of corn is not bad, the county prince is very satisfied. He came over a while ago, pulled away more than a dozen carts, and said he wanted a reward for us!"
Liu Han is a good farmer, so he calculated in his heart, if there are more than a dozen carts of grain, each cart must weigh at least five or six hundred catties, so the ten mu of land of his brother-in-law's family can produce at least ten thousand catties... Horrified look: "A dozen cars? You can't harvest a thousand catties per mu of land! Such a high yield of growing corn? One mu of land is about the same as our six or seven mu of land!"
Yu Xiaocao said with a smile: "Second Uncle, if corn is popularized, it can only be regarded as a coarse grain! It's almost like millet flour, and it can't be sold at a high price!"
Liu Han was very clear in his heart: "The price of normal coarse grains is half or one-third of that of fine grains. After this calculation, growing corn is still a good deal! Another point is that if you grow high-yield crops, how can you not be full in the future? Open it up and eat it, but you can't finish it!"
Yu Xiaocao nodded her head, "Mmm, yes! If you can't finish eating, you can also feed chickens and pigs. If you grow up, you can kill and eat meat. In the future, you won't be willing to eat meat only during Chinese New Year!"
Liu Zhimin looked at Xiaocao with bright eyes, and said, "Cousin, according to what you said, our family will be able to eat meat every day!"
Mrs. Bian nodded her son's head with a smile, and said, "Look at you as a greedy cat, and you are not afraid of your cousin's jokes. In this year, have you lost your meat?"
The life of the Liu family is now one of the best in Xishan Village. The eldest and second son of the Liu family sold watermelons with his brother-in-law and made some money. The third child was skilled in craftsmanship, and was hired by Prince Jing's mansion to build the Xishan Courtyard. He was paid two taels of silver a month, and he earned a lot in a year. The food at home has also risen sharply. Although they can't eat meat every three days like the Yu family, they can still eat three or five times a month.
At noon, Liu's two sister-in-laws cooked the bacon and duck that Xiaocao brought into dishes, and fried the few eggs left at home, filling the table with dishes. There are a lot of people in the family, the adults sit at the same table, the children sit at the same table, and have a good conversation.