As soon as Xiang Jin returned home, Xiang Nan reported to her and complained, "Sister, you are finally back."
Xiang Jin put down his backpack and asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen at home?"
"You don't know, most of the lotus flowers we planted before were eaten by other people's pigs."
Xiang Jin frowned, "Whose pig is it?"
"Who else could it belong to? It belongs to Ai Can and his family! Their old sow gave birth to a litter of piglets some time ago, and they have been letting loose for the past few days." Xiang Nan was extremely angry.
"Why is it their family again?" Xiang Jin's brows furrowed even more.
Xiang Nan said, "Isn't that right? I think they did it on purpose. If Mr. Liu and the others hadn't seen it and chased it away for us, their pigs would have destroyed all the vegetables in our area."
"Does our mother know about this?"
"I didn't go to the construction site to tell my mother, but grandma went to find them."
"Then what did they say?"
"They said they would go to the street to buy seedlings and replant them for us." At this moment, Xiang Jin's grandmother heard the sound and walked out of the house.
Then I heard Xiang Nan murmuring and complaining, "It won't matter even if we replant, our seedlings have grown so big that they will be swollen in a dozen or two days.
My sister and I serve our vegetable seedlings like immortals. We have to carry water to water them every morning and afternoon. It is not easy to grow them to such a big size. It is good now. They are all in trouble for us.
Wouldn’t the family have to spend extra money to buy food on the street?
This family just doesn't like others, it's really bad!"
Looking at her indignant look, Xiang Jin comforted, "Okay, everything is ruined. What's the point of talking so much? Since they promised to buy seedlings and replant them for us, then we will
Be generous and just assume that they didn't mean it this time and that the little piglets just ran there and ate them."
Xiang Jin's grandmother smiled helplessly and said, "I told her the same thing, but she just didn't listen and has been complaining all morning."
Xiang Nan was still unconvinced, "That's right. You said that if there are so many people in their gardens, they won't harm others, but they will harm our family."
If that person doesn't deal with our family, then how could it be that their beasts are spiritual and they don't deal with our family? Then aren't all their pigs turned into sperm?"
Xiang Jin had no words to retort, "What you said makes sense." After saying that, she turned around, bent slightly and took out the plaster from the basket on her back, and then handed it to her grandmother.
"Grandma, I saw that you have been beating your leg these past two days. It must be that your rheumatism is coming back, so I bought you some plasters today.
But I don’t know which brand is more effective, so I bought you two patches. You can try them both first to see which brand is better, and we will all buy that brand from now on.”
Her grandmother immediately felt so comforted, but as she reached out to take it, she couldn't help nagging on her face, "Oh, what are you buying? Spending money indiscriminately is an old habit of mine. After two years,
The sky will be fine."
Xiang Jin winked at her, "Oh, it didn't cost much, just a few dollars. With this patch, you can save two days of pain, isn't it good?"
Besides, rheumatism cannot be eradicated, it can only be alleviated. I know all of this, post it, and I will buy it for you when the time comes."
Her grandmother sighed when she saw it, and then said with a smile on her face, "Then I'll put it on in the evening."
"Put it up now, why wait until night? It won't take much time to put it up," Xiang Jin said, pushing her to a simple folding stool aside and sitting down.
He picked up her trouser legs, then took a piece of plaster from her hand, then tore open the packaging bag, took out two plasters from inside, and then tore off the last layer of adhesive film attached.
"Where to stick it?" she asked.
Her grandmother said, "I'll do it."
Xiang Jin gave her the plaster, and then her grandmother put it on, followed by the other leg.
After both legs were plastered, Xiang Jin asked her, "How do you feel?"
Her grandmother smiled and said, "Well, it's cool and comfortable!"
Xiang Jin smiled, then helped her stand up from her seat, and then took out the manuscripts and title books he bought for Xiang Nan from the backpack.
Xiang Nan looked at it and immediately made a sad face, "Ah, just take the money and buy this for me?"
Xiang Jin just said, "It didn't cost you any money. I bought this for you out of my own pocket. I tell you that from now on, you will wake up every morning and recite an essay, and then you will do two arithmetic questions at noon."
Xiang Nan only cared about her potato seeds, "Really, how much did I sell in total today?"
Xiang Jin rolled his eyes to the sky speechlessly, "I'm talking to you, do you hear me?"
Xiang Nan said, "I heard it, I heard it. Isn't it just memorizing an essay every morning and doing an arithmetic problem every noon? I heard it all and I remember it, so how much did my potato seeds cost in total?"
ah?"
Xiang Jin didn't want to talk to her anymore and just threw the money to her.
Xiang Nan picked it up and opened it and counted it. He was so happy immediately, "Wow, ten dollars?! I didn't expect that I made so much money. That's great, that's great!"
Seeing the money-obsessed look on her face that shone brightly when looking at the money, Xiang Jin twitched the corners of his eyes and didn't notice. Then he waved his hand in disgust, "Take your money and get out of here, don't do it in front of me."
An eyesore!”
"Yes!" The little girl cupped her hands and ran away as fast as the words and deeds of the characters on TV.
Xiang Jin reminded, "Book!"
"Oh oh oh," the little girl ran over again, picked up the stack of books and ran away again. Xiang Jin explained, "Don't spend money randomly!"
"I know, I know, I'll save it!" After promising, the little girl ran away again!
Seeing her overjoyed expression, Xiang Jin and her grandmother also smiled.
After dinner, Xiang Jin told his mother, Yang Juyun, about the request Wang Yun made to her on the road today, and also said that she had agreed to Wang Yunzhi's request.
Yang Juyun frowned and said, "You agreed? How could you agree? That's only 10% of the harvest?"
Facing the reproachful look from her mother, Xiang Jin rolled her eyes and said, "Why don't you agree? Did you come here because of your busy schedule, or did I come here because of my busy schedule? Or do you really plan to let grandma and grandpa come here for us?
Family help for life?
Grandpa and grandma also have a family, and the two uncles have a lot of things to do at home. They also need manpower. Even if the two uncles don't say anything, can you guarantee that the two aunts have no objections in private?
We are not short of food, we are not short of food, so why should we take that job? It’s not much more, Tao Shen said, but it’s not much more. It’s only 10%, at most two or three baskets of millet and a few baskets.
Corn on the cob, is there any need to be busy?
They can just accept it if they want. You can get half as much more anyway, so what else are you dissatisfied with?
Anyway, I don’t want to put in the effort. Instead of harvesting an extra 10% of the grain, I might as well make a few more sets of tools for peeling corn kernels. Not to mention it’s easier, and I don’t have to dry it in the sun. The key is
The money earned is enough to buy 10% of the grain.
I hate being in the sun at the head of the sunbath the most. If I stay in the sun for a little while, I feel uncomfortable all over."
Yang Juyun thought of how she often blushed half of her face, and she couldn't get enough of her sex for a long time. She suddenly felt guilty and softened her tone, "It's not that I really can't part with that 10% of grain. It's mainly because I want to grow grain for one season."
It’s not easy either, but in the end it gives others an advantage.”
Xiang Jin calculated an account with her, "Have you ever thought about how many troublesome things you have to do in order to get that extra 10% of food, such as breaking corn, shelling corn, drying corn, packing corn, weighing corn, and selling corn?"
, the same goes for millet.
We are still living in Aunt Liao's house now. Aunt Liao's house is only so big and they also grow crops. Will the pavilions be opened by then?
Besides, the people of the Xiang family have never been unreasonable. What if they come back and accuse us of hiding their food?
I think it is entirely possible for them to do something like that. Not only will you not be able to get the 10% of the food, but you may also be in trouble. Therefore, it is better to do less than to do more, and let them toss it out on their own.
Well, let’s just take our half.”
Yang Juyun listened, then thought about it again, and felt that what Xiang Jin said made sense, so she said, "Okay, then let's each take what we have."
Xiang Jin said, "Each one should collect it from his own, but I didn't agree with helping them collect it from the beginning."
Yang Juyun suddenly changed the subject and said, "Why did she suddenly say that she wanted to take it by herself?"
Xiang Jin said, "I guess they don't want the old couple to continue to live leisurely as an old man and an old lady."
Yang Juyun was surprised, "She wants the grandparents to work?"
"Who knows? Now that we have food, we have food. Maybe it is to prevent them from easily asking for money anymore. Maybe it is to allow them to raise some livestock such as chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs at home. This way
It’s very convenient for them to get things at home.”
She had seen this kind of thing a lot in her previous life. For example, many families in the city would take rice, flour, oil, eggs, bacon, etc. from their parents in their hometown all year round, in order to reduce their living expenses in the city.
Yang Juyun sighed, "Hey, that woman really can't seem to be so fine?"
Xiang Jin said, "You just saw it. The first time I saw her, I knew she was not a simple person, otherwise Xiang Tao wouldn't be coaxed to move around by her and would eat to death.
You know that you are an honest person and you have to learn more from others. Sometimes there are certain things and you should not be so honest with some people. You should be flexible when you need to be flexible. You should be flexible when you should be flexible. This will not be easy.
You will suffer a loss if you are deceived.”
Yang Juyun said, "It's terrible, it's terrible, don't worry, I will pay more attention in the future. I suffered a loss and was fooled once, how can I suffer a loss and be fooled again and again? I will learn some lessons."
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"Yeah," Xiang Jin nodded, and then stopped talking about it.