"Mom and dad, you guys should eat too. Don't leave the table until you finish eating all the meat!"
When Su Wan looked back, she still had to worry about Su's father and mother, which made the couple feel very guilty. As soon as their daughter came in, they acted very coldly, but her daughter thought about them.
Although she is her own biological child, she has no feelings. Yueyue and the others have raised her for more than ten years. It is a lie to say that she has no feelings. Even if she is not her biological child, she is treated as one.
"Okay, Wan Wan will eat too!" Su's mother took the initiative to pick up some food for Su Wan.
"Thank you, mother!"
She was raised well by Mrs. Gu, sweet-tongued and polite, but they did not raise her daughter well, and she lived a hard life for more than ten years.
Su Wan naturally took a sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth.
"You eat rice, sweet potatoes don't taste good!"
Seeing this, Su's mother quickly stopped her. They specially steamed white rice for her. Japonica rice was very valuable in the market. Their family had little land, a total of three acres. They also had to grow potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes and other filling crops. Rice was only available every year. Plant two acres of land and go to the village chief to get the seeds when it's spring sowing time. Farming in ancient times was not like modern times, with all kinds of scientific products and no hybrid rice, so the harvest was average. Two acres of land could produce up to 500 kilograms of millet a year. , after shelling, there is still about 400 kilograms, and they still have to pay taxes to the government. The larger their family is, the more taxes they have to pay.
According to the rules, a person has to pay fifty taels of silver a year. The eight members of the Su family pay 4 taels of silver. If they don’t have money, they have to pay with grain. A pound of japonica rice on the market costs 10 taels of silver, and brown rice costs 6 taels of silver. Theirs is brown rice, so One person has to pay more than eight kilograms of rice, and the total payment is almost seventy kilograms.
For eight people in the family, 300 kilograms of rice is not enough for a year. They can only eat potatoes and sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger. In lean years, potatoes and sweet potatoes are not available.
Su Jing can receive thirty kilograms of rice every month, which is not enough to feed her family for a month.
I just got the rice back two days ago, so I kept it all for her to eat.
"It's delicious. The sweet potatoes are fragrant and sweet. I like to eat them!"
Su's mother came to snatch it, but Su Wan dodged it. She just read the original work and knew what the Su family was like, so she couldn't be pretentious.
She didn't waste food either. She ate a sweet potato, a wild vegetable pancake, and also finished the rice.
The first meal after returning to the Su family was finished. Except for the little episode with the fourth brother, everything else went smoothly. She should have left a good first impression on the Su family, right?
Neither arrogant nor impetuous, gentle and polite!
After dinner, Su Jing took her to her room. There were only three rooms in the house. Su's father and Su's mother had one room. She had one room by herself. The fifth brother squeezed into one room and made a big bunk for them to sleep in. It was quite cold in winter. It’s so warm, but it’s hard in summer, everyone is sweating.
The room is small, but it has everything it needs. She has her own bed and her own cabinet. Because she is the only daughter in the family, she enjoys a room by herself.
Although the living conditions of the Su family are not good, they feel sorry for their only daughter. In the original work, the five brothers never let Gu Yue work in the fields or cook. Although they were in the countryside, they never touched Yang Chun. Water, except for food, clothing, housing and transportation, is not very good, other aspects are impeccable.
There are several pairs of embroidered shoes in front of the window. The soles and uppers are all intact. Compared with the shoes of several brothers, either the toes are torn and the cloth is exposed, or the uppers are open, or they are patched.
The same goes for clothes, three years for new ones and three years for old ones, and another three years for mending. The eldest brother wears it and the second brother wears it. As long as it can still be worn, it will be worn down.
"You're tired today too. I'll get you some hot water. You can wash up and have a good sleep!"
The eldest brother still fulfilled his obligation as an eldest brother. Although he was still unfamiliar with his biological sister for the time being, he still took care of her feelings.
"Brother, go and have a rest. I'll do it myself. I've been walking all day. You have to go back to the academy tomorrow morning!"
He picked her up in the morning and took her back in the afternoon. It was not like she had been gone all day.
Unexpectedly, Su Jing just smiled:
"Now is the busy time for farming. The academy has a month's rest every spring sowing and autumn harvest. The masters in the courtyard also need a rest, so I have been busy harvesting at home this whole month!"
It's September now, the harvest time. Su Wan didn't expect this.
"Then big brother, please take me to the kitchen to fetch water, so I can get familiar with the house!"
"Okay!" Su Jing agreed with a smile, and then the two of them went to the kitchen.
Mother Su was still heating water and there was smoke in the kitchen which was very choking. When Mother Su saw her eldest son coming in with his new sister, she immediately blamed him:
"Boss, the kitchen is full of smoke, take your sister out quickly!"
"Mom, I'm not that squeamish. I'm a farmer now. Don't treat me like a young lady!"
Su Wan was not from a wealthy family in modern times, but she was actually very able to endure hardships, as they would know in the future.
When she said this, Su's mother no longer stopped her. That's all. Sooner or later, you have to get used to this kind of life.
At this time, the fourth child, Su Yun, came back. As soon as she came back, she rushed to the kitchen to find something to eat. Then she met Su Jing carrying a bucket of hot water and taking Su Wan back to her room.
"Help you carry the water back to your room!"
"Thank you, brother!"
"Why are you always so polite?" Su Jing is always so gentle.
"Why are you so squeamish? Do you need help from others to get water?" Su Yun asked with a frown.
Su Jing's face darkened when she heard this:
"Wan Wan is our sister. She has just come back to take care of her. You, as the brother, should let her go. Why are you acting like a child?"
"Is it true that Yueyue never saw you fetching water for her before?" Su Yun said forcefully.
"She is protected by you, so it's not my turn to fetch water. Besides, she is the daughter of the Gu family now, and she is served by a bunch of servants every day, so you don't need to worry!" This was the first time Su Jing had so many arguments with her brother.
This fourth child is so ignorant.
"Brother, why are you so malicious towards Yue Yue?" Su Yun didn't understand. It was clear that his eldest brother loved Yue Yue very much.
"It was you who was so malicious to Wan Wan first!"
Su Yun choked and couldn't find any words to refute, so he simply bypassed them and went to the kitchen to find something to eat.
As soon as he came in, Su's mother said that the food was hot in the pot. Su Yun saw the meat and wolfed it down. It was different when Jiaoqi Bao came back. There was still meat to eat, so much meat.
After he finished eating, Mother Su explained leisurely:
"Your sister Wan Wan specially left it for you. She didn't eat a few pieces of the fried meat for her. She shared it with her brothers. You ate the most!"
When Su Yun heard that the meat was left for him by Su Wan, Su Yun stopped, even paused, obviously not expecting that Su Wan would miss her so much.
Maybe Su’s mother waited until he finished eating to tell her because she knew him well!
He said nothing more and continued to eat.
