The sun is shining brightly.
After breakfast, all the men in the family went to work in the fields.
Ye Luoxin and Yang Feng stayed at home to clean up the livestock shed in the backyard.
Now there are one pig, ten geese, twenty rabbits and more than twenty chickens at home.
Xu Zhengxiang bought the pig after the Chinese New Year, and it has grown to half its size now.
Originally, he planned to sell it for money after he raised it. Now that his family's income is good, Xu Zhengxiang changed his mind and planned to keep it forever and keep it for his own consumption during the New Year.
Among the twenty rabbits, two female rabbits were pregnant again.
In another three months, the litter of rabbits will continue to breed.
At that time, the rabbits must be divided into nests and disinfected in time to reduce the possibility of getting sick.
For this reason, Ye Luoxin had already made preparations.
The sheds of chickens, rabbits, and geese are cleaned every day. Every half month, water is boiled with plant ash and all livestock sheds are sprayed and disinfected.
Ye Luoxin's first goal is to raise 500 rabbits next summer.
More may be needed later.
After cleaning up the barn, Ye Luoxin and Yang Feng went to the mountains to cut grass with sickles and baskets.
When they left, they called the big flower and the little flower next door.
Before, Ye Luoxin promised Dahua to cut pig grass and deliver it to her every day, and give her ten cents a month.
Dahua felt very sorry. Grass grew on the wild ground, so how could she collect money?
But Ye Luoxin insisted on giving money, so she called her sister to join her.
If two people cut together, they can cut more, so that they can be worthy of the money given by Ye Luoxin.
On the way, Dahua took out the pattern she had recently embroidered from her pocket and showed it to Ye Luoxin.
The blue background cloth is embroidered with two blooming wild flowers. The wild flowers stand in the wind and there are two drops of dew on them.
The thread Ye Luoxin gave her was not fully colored, so the colors were not so bright, but the whole flower looked very vivid.
"How many flowers have you embroidered like this?" Ye Luoxin asked.
"I only embroidered three flowers. I had a lot of work at home and couldn't see clearly at night, so I had to find time to embroider during the day." Dahua felt a little embarrassed.
"Then when you have embroidered five flowers, give them to me. I will take them to the city and sell them for you."
In the past, Ye Luoxin said that she would ask, but now that she saw the finished product from Dahua Show, there was no need to ask.
As soon as she heard that it could be sold for money, Dahua immediately became excited, "Sister, can it really be sold for money?"
"I've seen similar patterns at Xiuzhuang before, so it should be fine." Ye Luoxin replied.
The patterns Ye Luoxin had seen before were not as exquisite as this one. You can buy them for ten or fifteen coins in the embroidery shop.
But she didn't say it so clearly, lest Dahua would be disappointed if the price couldn't be paid.
When Xiaohua heard that her sister's trick could make money, she became excited.
"Sister Luoxin, I can also embroider. Can I join my sister?" she asked.
"Okay!" Ye Luoxin replied, "You two just embroider, and when the time comes, I will help you sell them together."
The two sisters were very happy and became even more motivated to cut the grass.
Now that they can make money, mom won’t have to work so hard!
Yesterday, grandma mentioned selling a girl to mother again. Mother said that as long as she was still alive, she would not sell her girl.
They don't want to be sold either.
If you are lucky, you may sell it to a wealthy family to make a living. If you are unlucky, you may sell it to a poorer place and then be used as a cow or a horse without enough food to eat.
But……
"Sister, if I have to sell my milk, can you buy me?" Xiaohua looked at Ye Luoxin and asked suddenly.
Xiaohua was still young. When she heard that the Xiao family was rewarded with one hundred taels of silver by the county magistrate, she thought that the Xiao family should be a rich family.
When Dahua heard her sister ask this, she quickly came over and covered her mouth.
"What nonsense are you talking about! My sister has helped us so much, why are you still making things difficult for her!"
"What's wrong with you?" Ye Luoxin stopped what she was doing.
Since the last time Zhao Dashan passed away and their family had a quarrel, things seem to have calmed down recently.
Although the old lady Zhao Qianshi cursed people in the yard from time to time, the three mothers did not reply. The old lady scolded herself for a while and then stopped.
I originally thought that their lives would get better little by little, but now why are they bringing up the issue of selling their children again?
"Sister, don't worry about it. Our family is very good." Dahua was cryptic.
Seeing Ye Luoxin asking, Xiaohua quickly said, "Sister, my mother is sick. She said she is going to die."
The Zhao family are all cannibals, and my mother doesn’t have any relatives.
Xiaohua knew that Ye Luoxin might be the only life-saving straw she could grasp.
"Wasn't your mother fine before?" Ye Luoxin asked.
She really had no impression of Mrs. Zhao. The only thing she remembered was the sentence she asked herself: "Is he good at loving others?"
She looked very alive then.
How could it happen so quickly...
"It's all grandma!"
Xiaohua said bitterly, "After my father died, my mother always tortured my mother. In the middle of the night, she either asked my mother to get up to carry the urinal, or she asked my mother to rub her legs."
"She is so capable, why don't you help your mother?" Yang Feng couldn't listen anymore.
At this time, Dahua, who had been unwilling to speak, spoke up: "We help my mother, but every time grandma deliberately finds trouble, saying that we are not good at serving her, and my mother must come."
As he said this, Dahua's eyes turned red.
“Every time my mother didn’t do what she wanted, she would sit in the room and scold me for a long time, saying that my mother was unruly and deliberately made my father angry to death.
How could my mother be so angry with my father? When my father was sick, my mother was obviously taking care of him! "
As soon as these words were spoken, both sisters shed tears.
Ye Luoxin's chest felt tight.
She thought that with Mrs. Zhao's character, she would not be manipulated by a blind mother-in-law.
It ended up getting to this point.
"Then your mother..." Ye Luoxin thought for a moment and said, "Has your mother told you, what will you do if she dies?"
"My mother just told us to run!"
Xiaohua cried "Wow".
"My mother said that while she is still breathing, let us run far away. In this way, even if she dies, grandma cannot find us and will not be able to sell us."
"But we can't leave mother alone." Dahua also burst into tears.
"We want to make more money so that my mother won't have to work so hard, and we can buy her medicine so that she doesn't die."
Dahua is fourteen this year.
In another year it will be time to get haircut.
But even if she gets haircut, as long as her grandma is here, she can't make the decision in this family.
If Mrs. Zhao really dies, the fate of these two girls will be tragic.
Ye Luoxin thought for a while and said, "Then you go home and ask your mother. If she agrees, I am willing to buy you two!"
