"Ah?" Yan Qingyao turned her face to her in confusion, and saw a very beautiful hairpin flower in regular script on the letter paper. Is this written by the eldest brother?
No matter how you look at it, you look so delicate.
Zhao Cuihua saw the confusion in her eyes and said, "Your sister-in-law has read the book and it was written by her."
After looking at the words for a long time, Zhao Cuihua handed the letter to Yan Qingyao: "Can Yaoyao understand this letter?"
There was a literate master in the village who used to be a teacher in the town. Later, fewer and fewer people could read. Another teacher came to the town who said he was from the capital, and no one wanted him to teach him anymore.
He stayed in the village doing small jobs, and occasionally made a little money by reading letters to others.
"We know each other." Yan Qingyao thought to herself, this is the good thing about studying history. To her, these traditional Chinese characters are no different from modern characters.
I read a letter, and the general meaning was that he was living a good life there, and he was in harmony with his sister-in-law, who was also pregnant.
"It's so good, so good!" Zhao Cuihua held Yan Qingyao's hand and cried with joy, but she felt really sad when she was crying.
Yan Qingyao asked the system where her eldest brother had gone and which girl he married, but it didn't answer. She was left with only the memory of her third brother being captured and sent to the army, but no memory of her eldest brother at all.
"Mom, what's wrong? Isn't it a good thing that my eldest brother has a child?"
"Yes." Zhao Cuihua nodded, but turned around and thought for a moment, and then continued: "Originally, we have a few fields at home, and because your father and your eldest brother work hard, although the family is not rich, it is still pretty good. .”
"Later, your second brother owed a lot of gambling debts and was chased to our house. He lost all the family fields. He cried and knelt and said that he would change. Our whole family cried together and believed him. It’s just that without the fields, life is a bit more difficult, Ergou has repented, and the three coolies in the family are not afraid that they will not have a good life in the future.”
"But I didn't expect that two months later, they would come to visit me again. Your eldest brother was mortgaged to the house of a former magistrate in the town and became their son-in-law."
This incident made it difficult for the family to support him. Being a son-in-law was something he could only do if he was so miserable that he had to sell his son and daughter. Moreover, even after becoming a son-in-law, Ergou still died under their sticks.
Originally, for Yan Qingyao, this was just another person's story, but now that she was in the middle of the game, she felt inexplicably more emotional.
"The gambling den was opened by the former prefect?"
Zhao Cuihua nodded, holding the letter in her hand as if it were some rare object, smoothing it out, then putting it back as it was and keeping it.
"This is the second letter your eldest brother wrote to me." Zhao Cuihua took out a wooden box and put it in preciously. The first letter was still inside.
Yan Qingyao couldn't help comforting her: "When eldest brother comes back to visit us when he has time, he will be very happy to find that we have moved to a bigger house."
The corners of Zhao Cuihua's mouth curled up, looking particularly bitter, but she still lived up to her daughter's desire to comfort her: "Yeah!"
She just said it was a town, but she didn't say that it was not her home town. It took two days and two nights to walk from their town to Chenjiacun, and he was "married" and would never come back.
Yan Qingyao also suggested that he go to the town to find his elder brother and send some supplements to his sister-in-law. Unexpectedly, he was rejected directly.
Zhao Cuihua threatened that she could not let go of her family's rice fields and chickens, so she refused.
The wheat ears at home are particularly powerful. They are planted a few days later than others, but they start to taper earlier than others. They grow better and are greener than others.
No, a neighbor came to Zhao Cuihua early in the morning and asked her what the seedlings were used to grow so well.
Zhao Cuihua looked at her seedlings, then at her own seedlings, and couldn't explain why.
I just happened to see my daughter coming this way, and immediately waved to her: "Yao Yao."
Yan Qingyao took a look and walked over.
Zhao Cuihua immediately threw the question at her, and the two of them looked at her with round eyes full of curiosity.
Yan Qingyao didn't think twice and replied: "It's because our seedlings are not the same as yours."
The aunt continued to ask: "Where did you buy your seedlings? I bought my seedlings from Aunt Qian, and her daughter said they are the best seedlings in the whole town."
Now it seems that she must have lied to her.
Yan Qingyao: "This is a gift from a friend. I brought it from the capital."
In this case, the aunt put away her questioning eyes again and looked at her Miao with envy. The things brought from the capital were naturally very good.
"But." Yan Qingyao changed the topic and saw that the leaves of her seedlings were yellow and there were traces of insects crawling everywhere: "Do your seedlings need to be sprayed with insecticide? The leaves are going to change a little." It’s yellow.”
"Yeah!" After being reminded by Yan Qingyao, she realized: "Yes, these seedlings need to be sprayed with insecticide, three times a month."
After saying that, the aunt looked at her seedlings with envy: "Your seedlings are so good, they should spray more!"
"Of course not. My seedlings only need to be sprayed twice from growth to sowing."
However, Yan Qingyao also learned her knowledge about rice farming from Baidu. It looked like it only needed to be sprayed twice with pesticides so it was easy to maintain, but in reality, she saw insects growing everywhere in the surrounding rice fields, and her field happened to be in the middle.
If the surrounding rice is allowed to have insects, sooner or later it will be infected in your own rice field.
"Whose piece of land is this?"
The one on the left belongs to this aunt, and whose is the one on the right?
"This belongs to my family. They are all rented from Aunt Qian's house."
She has great trust in Aunt Qian’s family, and her family has all the rice seedlings, cornworm medicine, and rented land. She said that renting her land will make it cheaper for her to buy seedlings and medicine at her home.
Thinking that she could buy some other things for a few cents cheaper, she naturally agreed.
Yan Qingyao immediately took out a bottle of pesticide from her arms: "This is for you."
The two people stared at the unfamiliar plastic bottle with puzzled faces.
Oops! I haven’t changed my habit of taking it out immediately after buying it.
Yan Qingyao clenched her hand into a fist and put it to her mouth, coughing twice to cover up her embarrassment: "Ahem... This is also a gift from my friend."
"Your daughter is really promising. She knows people who ride carriages in the town, and now she has friends in the capital."
Zhao Cuihua smiled after hearing her envious words.
Seeing the two people going back and forth and not thinking about the plastic bottle, Yan Qingyao breathed a sigh of relief and handed over the instructions for the medicine to her aunt, asking her to kill the insects according to her method.
The unknown seedlings planted at home also sprouted new buds a few days later. Zhao Cuihua, under the command of Yan Qingyao, cut a lot of bamboo in the back mountain, sharpened it and inserted it next to the land.
Zhao Cuihua looked at the fence at home that was taller than one person, and then looked at the vegetable plot inside the fence...
