The next day, Su Yu slept until three o'clock in the morning and didn't get up. He was really tired from traveling these days. When he came out of the house, he saw Mrs. Lian hanging clothes on a bamboo pole. It must have been a gray sky when she got up at dawn. She couldn't help but feel guilty. He touched his nose.
"Mom, why don't you sleep a little longer? The road was so hard the past two days."
Mrs. Lian kept moving her hands, hanging clothes behind her back while answering her daughter's words.
"Mom, you're not tired. I'm used to getting up at home. You must be hungry. I've left breakfast for you. Go and eat."
Su Yu takes water to wash his face.
"Why don't you see dad and brother? Where have they gone?"
"Your father and your eldest brother went into the mountains to cut firewood early in the morning. We don't have any firewood at home, so we don't need to prepare more."
Su Yu became even more weak, and she was the only one sleeping in the family.
Thinking that Su Yu had entered the kitchen, breakfast was just a pancake and a bowl of dried vegetable soup. The dried vegetables were dried in Wangjiacun. After breakfast, he started sweeping the yard, finishing the front yard and the backyard, and then used a rag to wipe the door frames of the house one by one. After wiping it down, there was nothing else to do. They moved into three empty rooms last night. You could throw a stone into the house without hearing a sound.
There are a lot of things to buy, and I only have a little more than two taels left at home. This little money is not enough to buy anything, so I simply don’t buy it yet. The bed can be made of wooden boards, and the same goes for the table. Su Yu suddenly felt a sense of crisis and raised chickens without delay. However, his father and elder brother were not at home now, so he had better wait until they came back.
After figuring out what to do in the future, Su Yu went to the backyard to clean up the vegetable plot with Mrs. Lian. She couldn't dig the ground now, but she could still do the weeding work.
They waited until noon, but Su Laoer and Su Sheng didn't come back. The mother and daughter were a little worried, so they took the basket and went to the mountain to look around and dig some wild vegetables. Nowadays, although the wild vegetables are a bit old, they are still edible. Their family had just moved here and had no other vegetables, so they had to make do with it. As for going to other people's homes to buy food, Mrs. Lian has no such idea at all, and neither does Su Yu. She only has a little money at home, and every copper has to be spent wisely. Bear with it now, what will you want to eat when you make money in the future? , I don’t care about these two days.
The two dug a large basket of wild vegetables before they saw the father and son appearing on the mountain path, each carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back.
"Dad, big brother."
Seeing his daughter, Su Laoer was very happy. Yesterday he almost lost his whole family. He never expected that he would settle down in Yujia Village today. Thinking about it, a smile appeared on his face, and his big white teeth were particularly conspicuous.
"Daughter, why are you and your mother here?"
"My mother and I were worried if you didn't come back, so we came to take a look."
"What's there to worry about? We're only nearby and don't go into the mountains."
As he spoke, the father and son arrived. They put the firewood on their backs on the ground and wiped the sweat on their foreheads with their sleeves.
"My dear, you take your daughter back first."
The Su family father and son walked back in the direction they came from.
"Mom, where are dad and brother going?"
Mrs. Lian obviously knew what Su Laoer and his son were going to do, but she didn't say anything.
"Let's go home and cook and leave them alone."
After hearing what her mother said, Su Yu had no choice but to follow her.
Back home, Su Yu lit a fire, and Mrs. Lian kneaded the dough she woke up in the morning into steamed buns and steamed them in a pot. After steaming, she put them aside. Using the water used to steam the buns, she poured the washed wild vegetables into the pot and sprinkled them with salt. This is what the family will have for lunch today.
When the meal was ready, there was movement from the courtyard gate. Guessing that it was his father and eldest brother who were back, Su Yu brought water and planned to put it on a wooden stake in the courtyard so that they could wash their faces easily.
The father and son placed the firewood on their backs against the courtyard wall, then turned and left the courtyard. When Su Yu came out of the stove with the wooden basin, he only saw their backs. After a while, another person came in carrying a large bundle of firewood. Seeing this scene, Su Yu felt sour and unhappy.
"Dad, do the work at home slowly. If you collapse from exhaustion, it will be a good thing."
How could Su Laoer not be in a hurry? The family only has more than two taels of silver now. Look at this family, which has nothing. Just buying things costs five or six taels of silver. Let’s count on the cheapest. The two taels of silver at home are not enough at all. , and besides, their family has no harvest from their fields this year, so eating has become a problem.
Su Sheng was too tired to talk, so he went to the side and washed his face. The heat on his body was reduced by more than half, and he felt much more relaxed.
During the meal, Su Yu was busy picking up food for her parents and eldest brother. Except for Su Sheng's disdainful looks from her parents behind her back, the scene was very warm. The couple felt very relieved that their daughter had grown up after all.
After finishing the meal and cleaning up, Su Yu expressed his thoughts.
"Our family only has more than two taels of silver now. This little money is not enough to buy anything. Why don't we use it to buy eggs and hatch chicks according to the previous method. Our family can raise some and take the extra chicks to the town. If you sell it, you will definitely make money.”
No one in the family objected to Su Yu's proposal this time. Even Su Sheng thought it was a good idea. Because of the chicks that had been hatched earlier, the family still had confidence in Su Yu.
"The family left five hundred coins to buy grain, and the rest was used to buy eggs."
As the head of the family, Su Laoer immediately expressed his stance.
Su Yu was very happy when he heard this. He didn't expect that his father would be so generous. Now he still had two taels of silver left at home. After excluding the 500 taels used to buy food, he still had one tael or seven cents left, which could buy 850 coins. egg. But Su Yu then thought about it and remembered the small river next to the yard. There were many small fish and shrimps in it. The family could also raise ducks. With the river, the cost of raising ducks was reduced by more than half, which was definitely more profitable than raising chickens.
"Dad, we can raise some ducks in the river next to our house."
"It's all up to you, my daughter can raise whatever she wants."
Su Lao Er spoke very arrogantly and left all the matters to his daughter. He was not worried at all about Su Yu losing money. He thought very clearly that his daughter had this ability. If she failed to succeed in the end, it would not be the daughter's fault, but that he, Su Laoer, did not have wealth in his life.
Well, before this even started, Su Laoer had already made an excuse for Su Yu in his heart.
Su Yu was lying when she said she wasn't moved. In ancient times, the mentality of favoring boys over girls was quite serious. It wasn't that she wasn't worried when she first traveled through time. However, after getting along with him for a period of time, she sincerely regarded her father as her biological father.
The family discussed and took a break and went out each other. Lian and Su Yu were responsible for collecting eggs and duck eggs in the village, while Su Laoer and Su Sheng and his son went to the mountains to cut bamboo. The fences in the front and back yards of the yard were in tatters. The place where I live is next to the foot of a mountain, and it is not practical to build a wall, so I can only cut bamboo to surround the yard. Thinking about raising chickens and ducks in the future, the front and back yards must be fenced. This project is not small. The father and son will have to work for more than ten days. In addition, during this period, they have to go into the mountains to collect firewood. The construction period will only be delayed longer, he said. Maybe all of Su Yu's chicks will be hatched, and the courtyard wall hasn't been built yet. The father and son will have no free time at all, so they have to hurry up and work.
