nycdaug Chapter 239 Talking about Donkey Carts
Chapter 239 Talking about Donkey Carts
Lan Qiuhua smiled and waved at her: "Erfeng, come and see the new donkey cart that the Rongshan family bought."
"What?" Did she hear it wrong?
"I said Rongshan's family bought a donkey cart. This donkey cart was just bought by them."
Wang Erfeng looked at the family of four next to her in shock and asked, "Did your family really buy this?"
Ji Wenhe smiled and nodded: "Well, can we still deceive people?"
Shen Rongshan said beside her: "I'll go to the fields to take a look."
"Okay, go ahead."
Shen Wenshan said: "Sister-in-law, we are going too."
"it is good."
She walked to the donkey cart and touched the donkey's ears.
It is very well behaved and hasn't barked since it came back.
Wang Erfeng said, "You two are really capable. You bought a donkey cart so quickly."
"How could it be so fast? It took me almost a year to buy it. I saved all the money by living frugally. Now I've bought a donkey cart and I don't have any money left."
She had discussed this with Shen Rongshan and if anyone asked about it, she would say that the donkey cart was bought with borrowed money and she had informed Zhu Danian about it.
"In order to buy it, we even borrowed money from Uncle Da Nian, all for the convenience of doing business."
"It will be cold in the future. The roads will be covered with snow in the winter. It will be impossible to push the wheelbarrow. It will slip everywhere."
"If you accidentally spill the rice and flour, you won't be able to save it. You will be heartbroken."
"You're right. To do business, you need a donkey cart." Wang Erfeng stroked the donkey's head and smiled. "In the future, our village will also have a donkey cart."
Lan Qiuhua said: "Their donkey carts are used to sell goods, so they can't be lent to the villagers to farm the land."
Ji Wenhe nodded and said, "I'll harvest the rice in a couple of days, and go out to sell the goods by myself. I bought ten kilograms of meat and I have to go back to the village to sell it."
"Then we have to buy the meat back soon, or it will be sold out." Looking at Shen Yuanshan coming from the east, "Yuanshan, come here quickly, Auntie will weigh three taels of meat."
"Here comes Aunt Wang."
The news that the family bought a donkey cart quickly spread throughout the village.
After Niu Guilan found out, she came to the foot of the mountain and looked at the donkey tied to the tree: "Your family must have made a lot of money from business. It hasn't been long since you bought a donkey cart. It must be worth ten taels."
She walked around the donkey cart again and again, her eyes filled with unstoppable envy.
Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "How can I have so much money to buy a donkey cart? I even borrowed money from Uncle Da Nian."
I repeated to her what I had said to Wang Erfeng before.
"You two are really capable. When you first came to the village, you didn't look like you could make money."
At that time, the villagers said behind her back that she had difficulty giving birth. Shen Rongshan already had two younger brothers to support him, and now there was another one.
Niu Guilan came up to her and asked mysteriously, "Are you still selling the puppets and bracelets you made? Are you making money?"
"It's not profitable. I learned that style from others. Now someone in town is doing it, but I can't make it and can't sell it."
"Yes, my wife told me that Jinxiufang has produced many styles, and many girls go to her house to buy them. It's very profitable."
"Whether we make money or not has nothing to do with us." Ji Wenhe fed the donkey grass, "We just need to live our own lives. Aunt Niu, it's getting late, you can go home and cook."
"Okay, I'm going back now." She glanced at the donkey cart and said, "It's good to have a donkey cart."
Having a donkey cart is good, but the money is spent.
When I thought about the ten taels of silver being gone, I felt heartbroken.
October 2nd.
Shen Rongshan drove the donkey cart out to sell goods, the two twins went to the mountain to chop firewood, and Ji Wenhe sewed cloth strips in the shed.
The cloth bag is very large, one and a half meters long and two meters wide, and is used to spread on the ground for threshing after the rice is harvested.
I originally wanted to keep the rice to make clothes, but if I didn’t spread anything on the ground, the rice would fly away and be difficult to pick up.
He Yuxiang ate dried pumpkin seeds and walked slowly to her side: "Wen He, why are you sewing such a big piece of cloth?"
"I want to hang it on a pole and spread a little on the ground, so that the fallen rice won't fly out and it will be easier to pick up on the cloth."
If there wasn't so much cloth left at home, she would have wanted to make it bigger.
She held out the pumpkin seeds in her hand in front of her: "Eat some."
Ji Wenhe shook his head: "Thank you Aunt He, I don't want to eat it."
We dried them at home, but they were reluctant to eat them and said they would wait until the New Year to eat them.
"We are not so particular. We can just pick up the trash by dropping it on the ground with a sieve. But your method does save a lot of trouble. Lend it to me when you are done with it."
"I'm sorry Aunt He, we have to give our family money when we're done, and Aunt Miao's family has to give her money when she's done."
"Forget it then, let them pick it up, so that our third child won't run out to play all day and disappear." He Yuxiang spit out the melon seed shells in her mouth, "Hey, have you heard that Shen Zhiyan is engaged?"
"Ah?" Why do they get engaged so quickly? Although I know it's like this, I still can't help being surprised every time.
"Has Aunt He seen that man? What are his family conditions like?"
"I haven't seen it, but I heard it's okay. Your Aunt Zhang's family is not that good either. How can they be called a wealthy family? They gave two taels and eight cents as a betrothal gift." She still listened to what Niu Guilan said.
Ji Wenhe looked at Shen Zhiyan who was collecting firewood on the southern hillside and asked: "If they don't hold a banquet, when will they hold it?"
He Yuxiang replied, "On the 10th or 12th, they told her to harvest the rice and plant the wheat at home before letting her get married."
Now that Shen Zhiyan is married, there are only three people left in the family, which means one less labor force.
"It's better to get married early. Maybe you can live a good life like Shen Guyan. Look at the life she lives at home. It's pitiful to see."
Yes, life is already hard at home, maybe if you get married, you will have a better life.
"Aunt He, do you want to send the gift money?"
"No, it's not like they didn't accept the betrothal gift. They just didn't want to hold a banquet after accepting it, so they saved the money." She was silent for a while, and then said, "Like your uncle Ping's family, they really can't afford to hold a banquet, and we won't be so picky."
"Remember this from now on. If a girl in the village gets engaged and receives the betrothal gifts but doesn't hold a banquet, don't send her the gift money. If her family is too poor to hold a banquet, we don't have to worry about it."
Ji Wenhe nodded in understanding.
He Yuxiang ate the last pumpkin seed and clapped her hands: "There are fewer and fewer girls in our village. In two or three years, there will be weddings in the village one after another, and we will have to spend a lot of money on gifts."
The ages of the children in the village are all very close. Within three to five years, there will be wedding ceremonies every year, and that is when the life becomes lively.
"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I'll go check out the fields. We can harvest the rice tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, Aunt He, take care." She had also finished sewing the cloth bag.
The mouth can be tied up by pulling the rope in, or it can be spread out and laid flat.
On the morning of the 4th, the villagers got up before dawn and went to the fields with sickles to harvest rice.
Ji Wenhe prepared breakfast at home, put it into a jar, and went to the fields with a basket.