Although Jiang Sihai gave them a sum of money to stay at home and buy property, they had no one to talk to. They only had the old couple silently accompanying them, and the cousins and nephews in the clan were attentive and flattering. It's not just the little money they had, but now they are okay. The old couple can still move and live a peaceful life with the money he gave them. He is worried that when they can no longer move in the future, their savings will be robbed and their lives will be difficult. That's why he wanted to find a good place for them to lean on.
Xiao Ming nodded when he heard this, they are all pitiful people.
Here, Ms. Wang hurriedly returned home and looked around for her old man Liu Jisheng. Her daughter-in-law, Ms. Wang, was feeding the pig food. Looking at her anxious mother-in-law, she couldn't help but ask, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Damn Anzi, where is your father?"
"Dad went to the fields."
After hearing this, Mr. Wang said angrily: "This old man can only take care of those acres of land."
"What's going on? I heard you yelling so early in the morning." As he was talking, the village chief Liu Jisheng happened to come in, stood the hoe he was carrying in the corner, went to wash up and wiped his face.
"It's not very hot today anymore. It will be time to harvest the crops in a few days."
"Do you want to tell me what I told you last time?" Mrs. Wang looked at Liu Jisheng and asked. This old man is not doing anything. He has been working on the land all day long. No matter how much he works on it, he can't produce much food. come out.
"What's the matter? Really." Liu Jisheng asked. The old woman couldn't explain clearly, so he didn't know which thing it was.
"It's about asking you to go to Xiao Ming's house." Ms. Wang said, she couldn't help but feel angry, knowing that this old man was careless, so she might as well go to the house herself.
When Liu Jisheng heard this, he remembered that about half a month ago, the old lady asked him to go to Xiao Ming's house and talk to Xiao Ming about making fruit wine.
When this matter was brought up, Liu Jisheng felt uncomfortable and couldn't say it. Xiao Ming asked his old lady to help pick fruits. They provided them with delicious food and drink, and they also got wages. The fruits came in baskets. Take it home.
Xiao Ming also taught them a few methods of making fruit wine and canned fruit. Now, these people saw that fruit wine and canned food were being sold for money, so they decided to make fruit wine and canned fruit. Selling, wouldn’t this cut off Xiao Ming’s family’s financial path? Doesn't it mean that outsiders look down upon their Liujiacun?
Not only the people in the village had this idea, but what he didn't expect was that even his own old woman had this idea.
This is how he was able to open his mouth.
Liu Jisheng was thinking in his heart, but said: "I went, why didn't I go? Xiao Ming, girl, wasn't at home!"
Fortunately, Xiao Ming was not at home, otherwise there would be no room for his old face.
"Girl Xiao Ming is at home today. Go and talk to her quickly." Mrs. Wang said anxiously, watching the horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts outside come and go one after another. They were all filled with Xiao's wine. The fruit wine and canned food made her feel hot and eager at the same time.
After decades of marriage, she didn't know the twists and turns in the old man's heart. She added, "I know it's hard for you to talk about this. Didn't the Xiao family come here to borrow rice and grain years ago? There is only one in this village." You go and decide what's appropriate. Look at the carts of wine jars outside. How many have been pulled out one after another? How much money is this? It's enough for us to grow food for several lifetimes."
That day when the boy from the Xiao family came to her house to borrow food, he was wearing thin clothes, short trouser legs, and was extremely thin. He was standing in the cold wind, and his clothes were blown up by the wind from time to time. She looked pitiful. I was given a bag of grain and some steamed buns.
Today's Xiao family is different from what it used to be. Not only did they have money, but they also built a big house and bought land. Xiao Yatou not only knew medicine but also made wine. She never thought that the three children of the Xiao family were about to starve to death. But in a blink of an eye, they became the most famous family in Liujia Village, and they were also the richest.
Carriages would come and go in the village from time to time, and they didn't know which noble person in the city was looking for their home. She felt jealous in her heart, and knew that her old man couldn't wipe it off. She originally thought that the fruit wine brewed by Xiao Ming's family was not worth it. Silver, but a few days ago Daniel went to the city and accidentally saw Xiao's fruit wine. A small bottle can be sold for ten taels of silver. From this, his thoughts that were originally unaware of what was going on became warm and urged him. Liu Jisheng came to visit.
"I know it's wrong of me to do this, but look at what our old girl is about to say to someone else. How can we get it without a good dowry? And how can Xiao Anzi go to school for free in the future? Don't you want him to get ahead, or do you want him to be like him? You will be a farmer all your life like Daniel." Wang asked.
Listening to her mother-in-law mentioning her son, Xiao Wang secretly hid behind the door and listened with complicated thoughts. She had a good conversation with Xiao Ming and also liked the little girl. Her mother-in-law made this idea, which made her feel bad, but for the sake of her son's future. She chose silence and couldn't help but put her ear to the door to hear more clearly.
"That is to say, I asked you to go and tell Xiao Ming first. Look, Mrs. Li is secretly making wine at home." Mrs. Wang said. The village is only so big, and the east and west families are so small that they can't hide secrets. , Mrs. Li secretly went to Uncle Liu’s house to get a drink. People in the village knew about it the next day and thought she didn’t know.
"I've thought about this. Just go to Sister Ming and ask for three or five fruit trees. Her house is such a big fruit forest, and we can't influence her in this way." Ms. Wang said, her original intention was to ask for a few fruit trees. Planting fruit trees, she will make some fruit wine to sell in the future. If she has five or ten jars a year to sell, she will be satisfied. To Xiao Ming, they are just a small business. They are not a big deal and have no influence at all. she.
"Mom, how could you do this!" Liu Lin followed out from the west room, his face red, his eyes misty, looking at his own mother in disbelief.
Wang and Liu Jisheng were talking in the courtyard. Wang was so excited that her voice was a little loud, and Liu Lin, the embroiderer in the west room, heard it.
"Don't worry about this matter, go back to the house and embroider." Mrs. Wang pushed her daughter to send her away.
"Mom, no, dad, you can't go find Xiao Ming." Liu Lin said anxiously. This would make her face Xiao Ming in the future.
"Little sister, let's go back to the house." Xiao Wang came out quickly and dragged Liu Lin away.
"Do you want to go with this? If not, I'll go alone." Ms. Wang looked at Liu Jisheng who was squatting on the ground smoking tobacco leaves and asked.
"You still want to count on your obscure cousin. She has gone to the city to enjoy her life. She has been in the city for a few months and has not come back to see you once." Thinking of Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Wang sighed. , I think that when Liu Laosan came back to hold the wedding banquet, they helped her go up and down and greet the distinguished guests, but she luckily left as soon as the banquet was over, leaving nothing for them, not even a kind word.
