"Lan'er, you don't know. The people in our village are very grateful to you now. If it weren't for you, everyone would have to suffer from the spring famine. It is because of you that no one will suffer from hunger this spring. Now everyone My son is learning how to raise chickens like you, and the days to come will definitely get better day by day, you are really a lucky star in our village!"
After listening to Shen Ruolan's explanation, Zhao Dapaozi's daughter-in-law was very moved.
"Yeah, the same girl from the old Shen family, one is ashamed and angry, and the other is able to make such a success. You said that Lan Ya was not indifferent when she was young. I didn't expect her to be so capable when she grew up. It's really impressive. I lost my sight." Da Shen also said with emotion.
Shen Xiuying hurriedly laughed and said: "This child's ability to live is up to my second sister-in-law. I think my second sister-in-law would live a life like a thief when she came in. At that time, when I was cooking, I checked to see if there were any grains left on the burnt straw. I thought it would be a pity to burn it, so I used the shovel that was pounding clothes, one by one, and I could get one grain a day, three liters a month, three buckets and six liters a year, and I accumulated about the same amount, so I took it away. In exchange for cotton, we planted some hemp in the open space of our house. With the hemp and cotton, my sister-in-law spun cotton in spring and weaved hemp in summer. Ever since my second sister-in-law came into our house, all the clothes worn by the young and old were made of cotton. My sister-in-law wove the cloth herself, so I don’t have to go out to buy cloth anymore. My sister-in-law wove the cloth, then dyed it, and sewed it into clothes. Wenggu always came first, her husband and sister-in-law came second, and she was next. After marrying my second brother for three years, I saved up a full box of clothes and cloth."
"At that time my father was still alive. He was used to living in poverty. He was overjoyed and very happy when he saw so many things. He said that his daughter-in-law's hands are really amazing, and she also raised a lot of chickens and ducks. She also raised a few pigs. , Chickens and ducks lay eggs, pigs are raised, and they can earn a lot of pocket money a year after selling them to supplement the family's shortage. The years when my sister-in-law came in were the best years for our family , so to say that Lan Er is so capable, she followed my sister-in-law!"
After finishing speaking, he pretended to wipe away his tears, sighed and said, "It's a pity that my sister-in-law is gone, otherwise I would be so relieved to see Lan Ya so capable!"
When Shen Ruolan heard the words of the second aunt, she was very emotional. She never thought that her mother, a daughter of everyone, could put down her figure and live with her father wholeheartedly. She respected her in-laws and was considerate of her sister-in-law. After the mother left, he insulted and slandered her so viciously, completely forgetting the friendship in the past, and even showed no pity for her motherless child, turning a blind eye. If she hadn't been able to bear it now, the second aunt would not be able to think of her mother!
It's so cold in the world, and people's hearts are not old!
The second aunt Shen talked about a lot of old things in a random way, just to touch Shen Ruolan, and then the aunt and nephew would talk together and cry together...
However, Shen Ruolan's expression was always calm, she was neither moved nor interested in responding to her. Shen Xiuying's words were not interesting, and no one else wanted to talk to her, so she shut her mouth embarrassingly and stopped talking.
Everyone talked for a while, and Shen Dapihu suddenly said: "Lan'er, the aunt is here not only to see you, but also to treat you to a wedding wine. Your sister Cuiqiao is going to get married soon. The family is getting ready tomorrow, see if you have the time to go over and have a wedding wine?"
When Shen Ruolan heard that Cuiqiao was going to get married, she said happily: "Oh, sister Cuiqiao is getting married? That's great, so it's the right time for me to come back this time. How are your family's preparations, ma'am? Do you need my help? If you have anything, just ask."
Shen Da said with a smirk: "No need, just go there early and just decorate our house to save face!"
After hearing this, Shen Ruolan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely be there early tomorrow!"
Shen Ruolan's current status in the village is no longer that of the little girl in Shen's second family who does Racha, but a big man who can put on face for others. This change of status makes Shen Ruolan feel quite useful.
Everyone has vanity, it's just a matter of how much, she has merged with the Shen Ruolan in the past now, thinking about how humble she was in the village when she was a child, and looking at her current position in everyone's hearts, she always has a feeling of elation Feel.
Everyone talked for a while, and then left one after another.
Dachun's sister-in-law said before leaving: "Lan'er, I went back to my mother's house the day before yesterday and heard that Eryong and the others were coming back. It seemed that the business in Qingzhou was not doing well, so I decided to withdraw and quit. Probably this Be back in a few days."
It’s summer now, and vegetables such as radishes and cabbages have come down one after another. With these vegetables on top, spiced peanuts are not so easy to sell. Zhang Xingwang and his two sons worked there for more than a month, but they didn’t make any money. I decided to come back and rest for a few months, and wait until there is no food to eat in winter before going out to work!
When Shen Ruolan heard that Zhang Eryong was coming back, she was very happy, and she just wanted to discuss with him about entering the mountain. It is already the middle of June, and she can enter the mountain at the end of the month. Many things should be planned now up...
Early the next morning, Shen Ruolan went to sister Cuiqiao's house. Today, Cuiqiao's house was preparing to entertain the young and old in the village. Shen Dashi was very popular in the village on weekdays. His family was doing business, and the village was similar. Everyone came, almost all with their families.
As soon as Shen Ruolan arrived, she immediately received a warm welcome. Sister Cuiqiao was wearing a brand-new cotton flower dress today, and she wore a purple silk flower on her head. and look of joy.
The young man who was following her was Cuiqiao's prospective fiancé. He was a big black and strong man, dressed in old and not old coarse clothes. His demeanor was a bit constricted, but he looked like an honest and responsible young man. , It's very right with Sister Cuiqiao.
"Sister Cuiqiao, congratulations!" Shen Ruolan stepped forward and presented her congratulatory gift.
It was a red envelope containing 100 Wen, and she had already written a gift of 100 Wen in the place where the gift account was written at the door.
One hundred pennies is nothing to Shen Ruolan, but in this rural area, it can be regarded as a gifted person. Generally, if someone has something to do in the countryside, everyone will follow the ten and twenty pennies, and then bring a big family When people go to eat, many people who prepared a sumptuous banquet will lose money. There are very few people like Shen Ruolan who come to the banquet alone to eat the banquet alone!
Cui Qiao had seen Shen Ruolan follow the gift just now, and it was a big gift at the same time, how could she be ashamed to accept her red envelope again, she declined and said: "Didn't you write the gift account just now? There is no need for this, put it away quickly, It's not easy for you to earn money outside, so save some money."
Shen Ruolan smiled and said: "What is on the account is on the account, and what is given to you is for you. It is more or less a part of my heart. If you don't accept it, I thought you didn't care about me!"
Cuiqiao rolled her eyes at her, and said with a smile, "Look at you, how crazy would you be if I still look down on you with so much money?" Then she took the red envelope and said, "Well, since you Having said that, then I will accept it, and I will take it with you when you get married next year."
Shen Ruolan said with a smile: "By the way, I forgot to ask, sister Cuiqiao, where did you marry?"
Cuiqiao snorted, and said with a smile, "What's wrong? You want to find out where I got married, so you can come and find me to repay the gift when you get married? If that's the case, just take it easy, I'm But I can’t run away, I will live next door to your house in the future!”
Shen Ruolan was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately realized, "Ah? So brother-in-law is from Taohua Village, or a neighbor of the old Zhang's family?"
Cuiqiao smiled and said, "It's not a big deal, speaking of it, we sisters are destined, and we can still be together in the future."
At this time, Dachun's sister-in-law intervened and said, "Cuiqiao's in-law's family is my second uncle's, and I'm a matchmaker." She pointed to the dark-faced young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and said, "This is my cousin's family. Brother, the only son of my second uncle's family."
"Oh, it's more kissing!" Shen Ruolan joked, "Then sister Cuiqiao won't have to worry about being bullied by her in-laws in the future, hehe..."
When Cuiqiao heard this, she gave the husband-to-be a look, and said, "Even if it wasn't for kissing, how dare he bully me?"
The young man with a dark face immediately waved his hands again and again, and smiled: "Don't dare, don't dare..."
The young man's performance made everyone laugh... ..
The village neighbors who followed Li came one after another, Shen Ruolan's eldest aunt Shen Xiuyun's family and second aunt Shen Xiuying's family also came, and her grandma Liu Shi also came.
At the beginning of the banquet, Shen Ruolan originally planned to eat at the table where a girl was sitting, but her sister-in-law enthusiastically pulled her to sit at the table of their family. That table was full of people from their family, grandma Liu, eldest aunt Shen Xiuyun, second aunt Shen Xiuying, second aunt's three daughters and eldest aunt's Wang Baogen, plus her, a total of eight people.
Shen Ruolan felt disgusted in her heart, but with so many people watching, she couldn't resist strongly, as if she was in trouble, so she had to sit at the table with her second aunt.
During the meal, Shen Xiuying and Shen Xiuyun kept praising her for being capable and able to live a life. Even the old lady took a bite of food for Shen Ruolan for the first time and said, "Lan Ya, you worked hard outside, eat more!"
Shen Ruolan's heart is clear, she shows courteousness for nothing, rapes or steals, the three of their mothers form a group to show courtesies to her, there must be something to ask her for.
As she expected, after complimenting Shen Ruolan a few words, the old lady Liu spoke up.
"Lan Ya, last time I heard from Fu Cun that your family's business in Jizhou is quite big, and you have hired a lot of people. Now it's the slack season, and your aunt and your old aunt are also doing business. It’s okay to be idle at home, why don’t you ask them to go to your place to work for a few days and earn some money?”
Mrs. Liu also got the benefit of the two daughters, so she came to open the mouth for them, otherwise, she wouldn't mind their business.
Shen Xiuying saw that Shen Ruolan was focusing on eating and didn't express her opinion, so she hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Lanya, we've been appointed to work hard, and we won't trouble you. Just a place to sleep!"
Shen Xiuyun also said: "Lanya, my aunt knew that I was sorry for you in the past, and she didn't have the face to beg you, but now the family is really too difficult, and it is almost impossible to get rid of it, so you let your uncle and your brother come to your place." Go for a while, otherwise, the money and food at home will last until the autumn harvest!
Shen Ruolan swallowed the food in her mouth unhurriedly, and then said: "I heard that every household in the village now raises chickens. Why, don't both of you raise chickens? If you raise more chickens, it will be the same Earn a lot, right?"
Although raising chickens well can’t make a lot of money, at least it can top up the family’s income from farming. I’m afraid that some people are too high-minded and think that raising chickens makes little money, and they just want to take advantage of others and make a lot of money!
Second Aunt Shen said, "If you do, you don't have many chickens. My family has more than 20 chickens, and your aunt's family has fewer chickens, only more than ten chickens. But these few chickens are not enough for what? "
Aunt Shen also said: "I wanted to raise more chickens at the time, but money was tight and I didn't have money to buy chicken seedlings, so I forced myself to scrape together some money to raise more than a dozen chickens, thinking about how much more I would earn in the future." Raise some."
Shen Ruolan chuckled lightly, and said, "How about I borrow some chicken seedlings from someone else's house for you, and return them when you have them later?"
"Uh, no need, I have to ask others, it's so troublesome, why don't I go to Jizhou to work with you to make money and save trouble!"
Aunt Shen and Aunt Shen rejected it outright, they both had an account in their minds, the news from Cong Yu Erbai's place a few days ago said that Fucun and Jin were working at Laoer's in Jizhou, and that Laoer would pay them every month for a month. The salary of two taels of silver for a person, two taels of silver, two taels a month, twenty-four taels a year, how much money can you earn by raising chickens? As for Zhao Dapaozi’s old chickens, they can earn at most fifty taels of taels throughout the year. In case of chicken plague, they will lose their hair. How can they catch up with the second child and make a lot of money
Therefore, the two of them rejected Shen Ruolan's offer to borrow chicken seedlings for them without even thinking about it.
With this refusal, Shen Ruolan became more sure of their purpose, and said coolly: "My family in Jizhou has enough people, and I don't need people for the time being, or else, I will look for you when there is a shortage of people in the future? "
Shen Xiuying saw Shen Ruolan's lukewarm attitude and ambiguous reply, and immediately understood that this girl was perfunctory for them, she didn't want them to go to Jizhou to work at all, and she didn't want to help them, so she felt so disappointed .
Shen Xiuying's ten-year-old eldest daughter, Qi Qiaoer, was a little annoyed when she saw her mother and grandma and aunts fawning over Shen Ruolan. If she grows up, she deserves it too
Just now, I had to suppress the dissatisfaction and anger in my heart because I thought about something at home asking her to do so. Seeing that Shen Ruolan didn't show any sympathy at all, and directly rejected her mother and her grandma and aunt, she became very angry. He raised his eyebrows and said, "You have already hired Brother Fu Cun and Brother Jin Cun, why don't you hire my father and my eldest uncle? Why do you treat the same relatives differently?"
Second Aunt Shen saw that her daughter was speechless, she hurriedly scolded her, then turned her head and smiled at Shen Ruolan and said, "Lanya, don't be like your sister, she is young and not sensible!"
Shen Ruolan laughed angrily at her absurd remarks, but she still said calmly: "I won't be as knowledgeable as a child who doesn't understand at four or six, so don't worry."
Second Aunt Shen's face froze, which made Shen Ruolan feel a little unhappy when she said that, mothers think their children are the best, who would be willing to listen to others bury their children
When Qi Qiaoer heard Shen Ruolan say that she didn't know anything, she blushed with anger and yelled, "You don't think about what you have done, and you have the face to bury others? Now you are capable and rich. , Even my own family members don’t recognize me, I help irrelevant people to earn a lot of money, I feed irrelevant people in my own home, my grandma and aunt will starve to death, you don’t care , are you worthy of your conscience?"
When Liu Shi and Aunt Shen saw Qi Qiaoer attacking them, they didn't say a word. They probably agreed with what she said from the bottom of their hearts. Second Aunt Shen just reprimanded Qi Qiaoer nonchalantly: "You child, don't be silly, look Your sister Lan'er is angry and ignores you."
Shen Ruolan put down her chopsticks, and said calmly: "Who says I don't even recognize my family when I'm rich? Aren't Brother Fu Cun and Brother Jin Cun working in my house? Let alone them, it's Mrs. Xie's family. Is there a lot of dragging around? I have doubled the repayment to those who have helped me in my most difficult times, so how can I say that I am sorry for my conscience?"
"As for grandma and elder aunt and second aunt...."
Shen Ruolan raised her lips and smiled, her smile was weird, and what she said before made Liu Shi, Shen Xiuyun and Shen Xiuying feel inexplicably guilty.
After laughing enough, Shen Ruolan said unhurriedly: "I didn't say I wouldn't help, but, isn't it free right now?"
The words are nice, but the eyes are obviously teasing and perfunctory, which makes Shen Xiuying and Shen Xiuyun feel cold in their hearts. It seems that Lanya really has their grudges, and she really doesn't intend to recognize their two relatives. ...
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