The Lu family is even busier.
It's August all of a sudden, and it's time to harvest the wheat in the fields.
This time of year is when farmers are happy. With food, they can survive the winter and survive.
Mrs. Zhang couldn't be happy.
The wheat in the fields is not growing well. When harvesting the grain, you can clearly see how bad it is. Whether there is enough to eat can be seen at a glance.
Moreover, harvesting grain is also laborious work. It is really tiring for four women to work, and they work for many days.
The most important thing is that Mr. Zhang has now tasted the benefits of doing business and can take home more than 300 yuan a day!
If you don’t set up a stall, you will lose more than 300 yuan a day. If you set up a stall, no one will collect the grain in the field...
What should I do?
Seeing that other families started to harvest one after another, the village chief who collected the public grains led two officials and drove a donkey cart into the village.
Mrs. Zhang was so worried that she sighed.
The two sisters-in-law were also restless. In the past few days, they still went to town to sell pancakes. Although they made a lot of money, the long-standing tradition made them feel like they were not doing their jobs properly.
"Or, starting from tomorrow, I will go to the town alone to sell pancakes, and the three of us will be left at home to harvest wheat?"
Seeing that Su Ruyi was still reluctant to speak, Mrs. Zhang suggested.
Liu Cuier echoed: "I think so too, Ruyi, either you go to town every day, and the three of us harvest wheat in the house."
Harvesting wheat is hard work, and Su Ruyi was not willing to do it in the past.
She is now the head of the family, so she deserves some privileges.
Besides, when it comes to setting up a stall in the town, Su Ruyi dares to go alone. They all go together in two. Now let one person go... I feel timid, so let Su Ruyi go.
Zhang and Li Baozhu also nodded, this is the best arrangement without any delay.
Even if it delayed Su Ruyi from going up the mountain, I don't know what she is doing now. She just likes to go up the mountain to dig herbs. In the end, no one in the family found any herbs.
Zhang and others naturally thought that she gave all the herbs to Hu Langzhong. After all, now that he is a master, the apprentice's income should be given to the master.
Su Ruyi didn't go to the fields. When she saw others in the village starting to collect grain, she knew it was time.
She smiled and said, "Mom, don't be anxious. We don't have much wheat, so we won't be able to harvest it for long. Tomorrow, my sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law will go to the town. Mom, go to each farm and see who can harvest it quickly. .”
"What do you want to do?"
"They've almost collected it, so we went to find two trustworthy and capable men. They paid fifty cents a day and asked them to come over and collect it for our family. Then my mother and I would work together at home and keep an eye on it. It wouldn't take long. day."
"this……"
It is actually quite embarrassing for the farmers in the village to hire someone to collect grain.
A family with a large number of people is a matter of pride. A family with a small number of people would find it difficult to raise its head in the village.
A farmer's destiny is to cultivate the land for food, but the family's population is so small that he has to spend money to hire people... and he will probably be laughed at behind the scenes.
Moreover, fifty cents, that much money was given to others in vain——
Fortunately, Mrs. Zhang suddenly thought, 100 articles a day is not as good as 300 articles a day!
If you are laughed at, just laugh at it. Having money to buy food is better than anything else!
"Okay, listen to Su Ruyi!"
In this way, everyone felt at peace.
The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law went to town early with their carts. Mrs. Zhang took her time and went to various places to look around.
Hu Langzhong traveled quite a distance on this trip to see a doctor. He didn't come back until half a month later. Su Ruyi came to deliver the nine taels of silver and five hundred coppers that he owed.
Hu Langzhong weighed his money pocket, feeling a little confused and a little excited. He had never received ten taels of silver at once in his life.
The family members around him were also confused. The doctor's wife was the first to react and called her daughter-in-law to move a bench quickly, and called her eldest grandson to bring out a bowl of water.
Su Ruyi waved her hand and said with a smile: "Master, don't be so polite. I won't stay. The family is going to collect food in the next few days. I'll go back and check the situation."
The word "Master's Mother" made the doctor's wife beam with joy. She had never been a Master's Mother before, so this was what it felt like.
"Okay, you're busy——, wait, I'll bring you some eggs back!"
After that, he trotted into the house, then came out and took out a cloth bag with a dozen eggs and stuffed them into Su Ruyi's arms.
"Take it! You're tired of harvesting food. Eat something good!"
Su Ruyi politely declined it twice and then accepted it.
The doctor's wife enthusiastically sent her out of the hospital, grinning from the corner of her mouth to her ears. When she turned around, she saw her old man staring at her strangely.
"You woman, before I said anything, you started shouting!"
The doctor's wife was stunned and said: "Why, don't you plan to accept it?"
"receive."
Hu Langzhong pinched his money pocket again, raised his head and put his arms behind his back, making his body stand upright.
He had never thought about taking on a disciple, but now that he became a master, his inner feelings changed. He seemed to have grown taller instantly, and the responsibilities on his shoulders were also heavy... But it didn't feel bad.
"This Su Ruyi...how is their business going?"
He had only been out for half a month, and this woman took out ten taels of silver in one breath...
Such a large sum of money put him to shame as a master, and he felt a little envious, but also a little worried about the source of the money...
Even if you go back to your parents' house to rob, you won't be able to get so much money, right?
The daughter-in-law exclaimed in a tone of wonder: "Dad, you don't know, the Lu family has made a lot of money these days when you have been away from home!"
The two women at home chattered and reported to the head of the family what had happened in recent days. How the Lu family's stall in the town made money? A group of rich people from outside came to live and eat at their house and made a lot of money. They also heard that Nasu Ruyi found precious pecans and sold them to Tongzhou for a huge price.
In short, the Lu family made a lot of money in just half a month. They hid in the house and ate meat every day, which was a very comfortable life.
Every household in the village was so jealous that they stretched their necks to look at the Lu family every day, and their mouths were sour that they couldn't say anything good.
But there is nothing you can do. If you don't have the skills and luck of others, you don't dare to provoke her in person. Even if Su Ruyi is smiling now, she might give you a big mouth.
After hearing this, Hu Langzhong was filled with emotion.
"Things in this world are really unpredictable. Su Ruyi was really a fool before, but she didn't expect to support the Lu family now. That collision may have been God's will. God opened her eyes."
Since it was a reasonable amount of money, he could accept it with confidence.
"You guys are not allowed to say that Su Ruyi is my apprentice when you go out. It is inconvenient for her to be a woman."
Not only was it inconvenient for Su Ruyi, but for a grown man to accept a married woman as his disciple, it was not a glorious thing to tell anyone.
Several people in the family nodded.
