Traveling through the famine years, the best old woman, I was gnawed into the richest man by my children and grandchildren Chapter 69 What are you asking if you can’t afford it? A poor family!
Chapter 69 What are you asking if you can’t afford it? A poor family!
After eating, Mrs. Xu put away the bowl and said, "Mom, please go back to the house and take a nap! If you walk, you have to walk for half a day! I will pack the buckwheat noodles to be packed with my sister-in-law in a while, and you can pack them when you get up.
I can carry my stuff and go on the road.”
Lin Tao nodded and stood up, and saw the eldest, second and third eldest brother, none of them dared to move. They just looked at her, as if waiting for her order.
Only the third child put the bowl in and went to chop wood.
After letting out a long sigh, Lin Tao said: "Okay, you four should go back to the house and sleep for a while. We have to leave before midnight."
"yes!"
Those three stupid sons, just like when they heard the instructor calling for dismissal during military training, they rushed into their respective rooms without even touching the ground.
"Okay, Third Brother, you should go and take a nap too."
"There is no more firewood at home. I will go to bed after chopping it."
"Okay, your sister-in-law will do it. Just go back to the house and take a nap."
"Sister-in-law is a woman, and the heavy work should be done by men." When Li San spoke, he never stopped working.
I have to say that this Li San is a really good man, much better than the glib San at home!
Zhu, who came back from feeding the cows, reached out for the woodcutter in Li San's hand, but Li San refused to give it to him.
"Third uncle, you won't listen to my mother anymore?"
When Zhu said this, Li San hesitated for a long time and then handed the knife to Zhu.
Then I obediently washed my face and went back to the house.
"It's up to you and the second child to work hard at home," Lin Tao said.
Mrs. Zhu shook her head: "Mother is the one who has done the hard work. Go to bed quickly. You can rest assured to leave the family matters to us."
Lin Tao nodded and returned to the main room.
As for the eldest daughter-in-law, she is as big as two ambassadors from the Xu family.
A few days ago, when we went up the mountain to collect tartary buckwheat seeds, Zhu and Lao San were the only two people who could carry a basket at the same time and carry the basket.
The second child is better. Although he only carries a backpack, he at least pretends to be honest.
The boss had no brains and could only grumble and say he was tired. She hit him a few times, but he didn't dare to say a word and did his job obediently.
The biggest headache is the fourth child. As long as she doesn't pay attention, that kid will use little tricks to be lazy and do less work.
At first, I deliberately injured my hand as an excuse to be lazy.
If she hadn't said that she was going to chop off his useless hands, that boy would have stopped thinking about it.
Later, he secretly packed only half of the buckwheat seeds in the basket, and then used grass and vines to make up for it. He pretended that the basket was full.
When I got home, I secretly exchanged my own backpack for the boss's.
The old lady came to complain, saying that the boss was lazy, and she even beat him up.
If Zhu Donghua hadn't come out to prove for Li Yi, she wouldn't have known about Li Si's act of cheating!
That night she gave Li Si a good beating, so that this boy could not dare to be naughty anymore and work honestly.
At three o'clock in the morning, Lin Tao was woken up by the old lady.
In the courtyard, a frame was set up on the back of the cow, and two buckwheat noodles were carried on its back.
They still have to carry it one person at a time.
Mrs. Xu handed the second child a basket. Li Er shouted as if he had been bitten by a snake: "Why do you want me to carry another basket? They don't have one!"
"These are the leaves I picked from the mountains. When I buy them later, I put a cushion on the back of the basket to prevent the buckwheat noodles from spilling out."
"Okay, okay! You're the only one who has a lot to do!"
It should be said that Mrs. Xu is the most attentive person in the family. Lin Tao didn't even expect it, so she quietly made it.
Lin Tao wanted to take the cow, but Lao San snatched it away.
Unable to walk on the main road, Lin Tao could only walk on the mountain behind her home.
It's hard to imagine how difficult it is to walk on a road that almost no one walks on.
Fortunately, this mountain road is not too long. It only takes a quarter of an hour to reach the main road in the village.
As soon as we entered the main road, we happened to meet a villager who was bringing food to sell in the town.
Lin Tao then remembered that these days were the time to collect grain, and she wanted to go to Master Li Zheng to pay the grain, but there was not much grain left, so she had to sell it for money so that she could buy more cheap staple grains.
These people are just familiar to each other in the village and have not had much interaction with them.
But when they saw Lin Tao, they were chatting and laughing just now, but now they fell silent.
One by one, it was as if a ghost was driving them away, walking as fast as the others.
Li Er joked: "Hey! From now on, when they see us, will they have to take a detour?"
The fourth child who was following behind said angrily: "Look how beautiful you are! If you really have to go around, you'll go around my mother! Who the hell are you!"
"Okay, okay! Walking is tiring enough, why are you two arguing? You have so much strength, you two will carry it for me." Li took two steps and panted three times.
"roll!"
“What a beautiful thought!”
Li Er and Li Si came in unison.
When we arrived at Fangshi, it was just in time for the market to open in the morning.
I haven't been here for a few days, and I didn't expect that there were many fewer people selling things in the market than before.
As for those who buy things, almost all they buy are bean sprouts. Nowadays, not many people even go to the millet stalls.
When passing by, Lin Tao asked: "Brother, how do you sell this millet?"
"Forty cents a liter."
As soon as he finished speaking, the brothers' exclamations rang out from beside him.
"What? Forty!?"
"Are you crazy? Who can afford to eat at forty!"
"That's right! Rice only costs twenty!"
The vendor looked at them and laughed: "Twenty? How long ago was that price? You don't have a hundred dollars, and you want to eat rice? You haven't been to the town for a long time, right? There is a drought now, and there is no food in the fields.
If there is no harvest, the price will change every day!”
"Auntie, don't think it's expensive. If you don't buy this millet today, tomorrow, you might not be able to buy it even if you're forty!"
Lin Tao nodded and said it was too expensive, so she left.
Behind me, a vendor yelled: "Why are you asking if you can't afford the food? The whole family is poor!"
Li Er was angry and turned around to argue with the vendor, but was stopped by Li Si and Li Yi.
"Let go of your hands and see if I don't beat him today! If he doesn't buy, he will scold him. What kind of business is he doing!"
"Okay, don't delay here. Go to the stall next to Aunt Yu and set up the stall. You won't be allowed to sell until I come back."
Lin Tao spoke, and Li Er just walked away cursing.
After walking around the market here, Lin Tao noticed that there was no rice seller. Thinking about it, what the vendor just said was true.
People like them can't afford food worth a hundred dollars.
Even if someone sells it, they won't come here.
In the market, the most popular seller is soybeans.
There were crowds of people in front of seven or eight stalls selling bean sprouts.
Lin Tao went up and asked the price.
The man looked at her and replied: "Thirty cents per liter! Hurry up, it might be fifty-six-ten tomorrow!"
When the vendor shouted this, the buyers became even more excited.
One by one, they seemed to be grabbing the money for free, holding the money in their hands and shouting: "Fifty liters! Give me fifty liters!"