After lunch, everyone sat in the main room to cool off. The old woman Zhang was fanning the cattail leaf fan with a bang bang bang bang bang, and at the same time she kept complaining, "This thief, I don't even know what he is this year."
What's going on? It's been raining for so long, and if the sun continues to shine like this, people will be hot to death."
Wang Yun poured a bowl of cold water to each of the old men, and said as if unintentionally, "Isn't that right? If the sun continues to dry like this, many people won't be able to harvest their crops this year.
Dad, Mom, you don’t know. I took my two children back by car before. The soil in the crop fields I saw along the way was all hard, and even the crops were withered and in disarray.
You said that we have been driving since about six or seven in the morning, and it was only eight or nine in the town when we arrived. The sun was not very bright at that time, but the crops in the fields all looked listless, and not only did the leaves curl up,
, the plant is still short and has yellow leaves, as if it is going to fall down at any time.
Many rice fields are cracked by the sun, and some of them are as wide as an adult’s thumb. You said it’s the time for the rice to ear and bloom. If the sun continues to shine like this, what kind of harvest will there be?”
Old man Xiang took out his dry pipe pot and smoked there again.
Mrs. Zhang sighed there, "Fortunately, Yang Juyun, the old woman, planted our crops early, otherwise we wouldn't have had much harvest this year."
After Wang Yun heard her words calling Yang Juyun a "bitch", her face immediately showed an unnatural look. Yang Juyun came from Baijiamen, and she also came from Baijiamen. She could call Yang Juyun so smoothly today, but it would not guarantee her another day.
She would scold herself so smoothly, and naturally she felt a little unhappy.
The old man Xiang still had some scruples, and then he glanced sideways at Mrs. Zhang, but Mrs. Zhang didn't notice.
Wang Yun calmed down her mood, and then pretended not to care about what she said about Yang Juyun, but agreed in a flattering manner, "Yes, fortunately our crops have grown like that, and the production will not be reduced."
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If I continue to do this, the price of food will probably increase this year."
As soon as Mrs. Zhang heard that the price of food was going to rise, her eyes immediately flashed with gold, "Really?"
Wang Yun nodded, "Yes, you see, it's been a dry year this year, and grain production has been reduced everywhere. It is estimated that many people will not have much food left after paying taxes. If this continues, sooner or later the price will have to rise.
So, Mom and Dad, please don’t sell the food our family produces this year. If you sell it, you will have to pay a high price to buy it. This buying and selling is not only troublesome, but also not cost-effective.
For example, during the Tianqian years, in the years of famine and hunger, it is better to keep some food at home. If nothing else, it is difficult to raise livestock such as chickens, ducks, and pigs, let alone eat eggs and meat.
, it is definitely not expensive.
If you have surplus grain at home, like the rice bran and wheat bran used for grinding rice and flour, mixed with other vegetables, leaves and weeds, you can raise a few chickens to lay eggs."
Mrs. Zhang's face suddenly fell. She didn't say anything to the old man, but she looked thoughtful as she smoked.
Wang Yun knew that some words should be kept to the point and should not be overdone, otherwise it would be counterproductive, so after she said that, she stopped speaking.
Sure enough, after a while, Xiang said to the old man, "Well, I think what the boss and his wife said is reasonable. Our family will not be busy selling the food for the time being. We will wait and see for a while. If the price of this food increases significantly by then,
, let’s keep enough to eat at home, and it won’t be too late to sell the excess.”
Mrs. Zhang was a little disappointed, "You won't sell it? You really won't sell it?"
Xiang said to the old man, "I won't sell it anymore. I won't sell it anymore. Let's just put it away after taking it back. If we sell it now, the price has not gone up yet. If the price rises sharply in the future, our family will have to eat it."
Why don't you spend a lot of money to buy it?
You see, the great famine of 1942 was just like that. Rich people couldn't buy a bushel of grain no matter how much money they spent. What's the use of that?
Therefore, in a bad year, the key is to have a surplus of food at home. With a surplus of food, you will not go hungry, you will not waste money, and you will have the capital to survive."
Mrs. Zhang buried her head and thought for a while before she raised her head and said, "Okay, let's not sell them for now. Let's wait and see when it rains and what the harvest will be like."
After Wang Yun heard what she said, the stone in her heart finally fell halfway. The food was saved, but the key was that she had to find a way to raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.
But it seems a little inappropriate to say these words at the moment. Alas, forget it, let’s just go here today and find another opportunity to talk about it later. Anyway, they still have to stay in their hometown for a while.
So Wang Yun said again, "Mom, dad, do you think we should tell Yang Juyun and the others about this matter? After all, we had agreed with them at the beginning that they would help us collect the grain.
We sell it and then give them 10% more grain. Now that we don’t sell that grain, naturally they don’t have to collect it, and there’s no need to give them that 10% more grain?”
As soon as Yang Juyun Niang was mentioned, Mrs. Zhang's originally relaxed brows wrinkled again, obviously she didn't like to see them.
Then Xiang said to the old man, "Well, I have to tell them about this."
Mrs. Zhang said, "If we don't want them to harvest it, then we have to harvest the food from so much land ourselves?"
Mrs. Zhang was very unhappy. After all, they had not done farm work for many years and had been doing it for more than ten years. How could they do it when they were suddenly asked to do farm work again?
Old man Xiang was also a little confused.
Wang Yun was afraid that they would regret it, so she said, "It doesn't matter. Then we will call the eldest sister and the two of them back, and then add a few people from our own family. If it doesn't work, we will spend another ten or twenty yuan."
The same goes for hiring two more people." She did have the fifty yuan wages given by Xiang Hai.
In order to prevent the two old guys from asking them for money every once in a while in the future, the two families had discussed in the city before that they could not let the two old guys sell their family's food.
Since Sun Shuiyun was pregnant, Xiang Hai and the other two could not come back to help, so she took charge of it on behalf of them. However, they had to pay more than half of the money for hiring people to do the work.
Old man Xiang knocked his pipe pot on the armrest, and then nodded, "Let's do it then." Then call Xiang Jiao back, plus the boss's wife and two grandchildren, and then
It is enough to hire a few outsiders.
Wang Yun said, "Well, I'll go over and talk to them then."
The two old men had no idea.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Jin was almost busy with the work at hand, and then called Xiang Nan into his room, and then randomly checked her endorsement status today.
Although the little girl struggled to recite the article and was reminded several times, she finally recited an article.
In order to increase her enthusiasm, Xiang Jin still gave some appropriate affirmation, "Although she was not very proficient in reciting, she still recited it. From this, it can be seen that this memorization and learning is not difficult. The key is to persevere.
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From now on, you have to memorize one article every day. If you memorize it for a long time, you will gradually get used to it. Your brain needs to be used regularly to make it work. If you don't use it all the time, it won't work. It's like there is something there.
It's as if a big stone is blocking it, and you'll never be able to figure it out. Go ahead and do two more arithmetic questions."
Xiang Nan asked, "But I haven't finished my homework yet?"
Xiang Jin said, "It doesn't matter, we can do it together, or you can do three articles today."
Xiang Nan howled.
Xiang Jin said, "There's no point in whining. You could have relaxed, but you did it because you wanted to pile them all together. Who's to blame?"
Don’t say the third thing if you repeat it, just go ahead!”
The little girl had no choice but to go back to her room with her composition book dejectedly to write the topic.
Xiang Jin and her grandmother said from the side, "Are you being too harsh on Nan Nan like that?"
Xiang Jin said, "She is not stupid, but she is lazy in studying and has not developed good study habits, so we must get her back as soon as possible. Otherwise, as the grades get higher, the courses become deeper, and the homework becomes more, she will
If you can’t bear it, then you will really be useless.”