Parents are busy farming

In the evening, Ye Zifen took out her family's account book and reported the accounts to her parents.

"It turns out that I was the one who did the accounting when my aunt was still alive. This year our family spent a lot of money. First, it was my aunt's funeral. All the expenses and gifts were spent on this."

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, he handed a ledger to Wang Tinghe.

Wang Tinghe took it and flipped through it carefully. After reading it, the final number on the abacus exactly matched the number Ye Zifen remembered.

After Wang Tinghe read it, he handed it to Ye Yongwang, who handed it to Ye Zifen without even looking at it.

"The second thing is the separation of the family. The expenses of the restaurant, shopping for groceries, the food provided, etc., I totaled about thirty taels, of course not counting the old ginseng I bought. I’ve already paid for the old ginseng with my New Year’s money.”

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, Ye Yongwang and Wang Tinghe laughed and asked, "Have you used up all your New Year's money?"

After hearing this, Ye Zifen nodded shyly.

"No, I still have a few hundred copper coins. I won't dare to spend money randomly in the future." Ye Zifen said.

She used to be the richest of the sisters in the family, but now she is the poorest.

"How about your mother and I give you some?" Ye Yongwang asked tentatively.

This fifth girl has a very stubborn character. She won't take anything she shouldn't get, and she will remember it in her heart.

"No, it's always bad to give it to me but not to other sisters. I will find a way to make money on my own."

After Ye Zifen finished speaking, she pouted and handed another account book to Wang Tinghe.

The couple looked at Wu Yatou, who rarely showed an expression consistent with his age, and looked at each other, full of heartache.

Half a month later

Lu Dashan has been walking around here every day since the Ye family moved out. He is worried about the Ye family's livestock.

Ye Yongwang has done well in the fields over the years, but he is still not as good as an old farmer in other aspects, such as raising livestock.

But today when he was walking, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties coming out of the back door, taking some corn stalks and going in again.

Just when he was confused, the man came out again. He quickly stepped forward and asked: "Young man, what do you do and how did you get out of this house!"

When Lao Li heard someone calling him, he saw that it was an old man and said hello quickly, "Hello, uncle, I am a long-term laborer employed by this family. I am mainly responsible for raising livestock during the winter break."

After Lao Li finished speaking, Lu Dashan suddenly realized that he was the long-term worker invited by Ye Yongwang.

He felt relieved and sad at the same time.

‘What are you worried about? People know that they can’t do it well, so they just hire someone else to do it. ’

When Lu Dashan was in sour condition, Lao Li had already entered the house carrying fodder.

Looking in from the back door, he could just see two donkeys and a big ox. They were stronger and more energetic than when he was there.

Having said that, let alone animals, even people will gain weight if they have a late-night snack!

After reading it, Lu Dashan felt even worse. Even the animals became better after he left, let alone the humans!

When Lao Li came out again, he saw Lu Dashan's back walking away with a hunched back.

Lao Li didn't know who he was at this time, and he didn't take it to heart. He closed the back door and went in to cut grass.

*

After eating, Zhi Zifen moved a bamboo chair and placed it in the sun. She sat on it and thought about making money.

‘Selling bean sprouts, it seems that someone in the county grows bean sprouts in winter. Although the bean sprouts she grows are good, they can’t be sold at a high price! I have to run back and forth every day. No, no, you won’t make money even if you don’t mention the hard work. ’

‘Making tofu? The technology is not yet mature and needs to be tested several times. It's okay now. If you sell tofu in summer, it will go bad if you don't sell it all in one day. ’

After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't figure out a way to make money.

‘Is this how she became poor? Then how could she be willing to do so? ’

At this time, Ye Yongwang came out from the warehouse with wheat bran, and a flash of white light stimulated Ye Zifen's eyeballs.

‘Cotton, cotton, clothes’, three words appeared in Ye Zifen’s mind.

A confident smile suddenly appeared on Ye Zifen's face.

He immediately got up and ran towards the house, not even knowing that the bamboo chair behind him had fallen over.

When Ye Yongwang came back from the backyard, he saw an upside-down bamboo chair and shook his head helplessly.

‘Call this girl smart! No one can play with her. Call her reckless! He really has a fiery temper. Two contradictory personalities in one person are not inconsistent at all. ’

As soon as Ye Yongwang lifted up his chair, he saw the girl running out with a thick book in her arms.

The words on it are exactly that girl's. It should be from her diary, or something interesting that her aunt told her.

He had seen his aunt teach Xiao Wu, not to mention that he taught Xiao Wu his handwriting. He could tell by looking at the handwriting.

Ye Zifen sat down again and turned over, completely ignoring his father.

Zifen flipped through the pages for a while before turning to the page with a loom. This page was drawn by her.

She still remembered that when she was painting this, her aunt was guiding her and giving some pointers from time to time.

The old man seems to be missing something in this way.

My aunt is indeed a strange woman. She knows many things that others don't know, and she also likes to hide her clumsiness.

But no matter how much she hides her clumsiness, she cannot hide the fact that she is extremely smart, otherwise her family would not have hundreds of dollars in savings.

"Do you want to sell this for money?" Ye Yongwang watched for a while and finally couldn't help but ask.

"No, I promised my aunt not to do this, but I will make it and weave it myself, and then sell the cloth and clothes. This way I won't attract anyone's attention and I can still make some money."

Ye Zifen said this with bright eyes. It was obvious that she was very interested in these things now.

"Then what are you going to do?" Ye Yongwang asked.

“I went to two carpenters in the village and asked them to punch out these brackets, and then I came back to assemble them myself.”

Ye Zifen said it confidently, but Ye Yongwang didn't know if she could succeed, so he didn't say anything.

So Ye Zifen went back to the house, put away the diary, drew two drawings, and ran out.

Ye Yongwang looked at his daughter who ran out thoughtfully. He seemed to be able to understand why his aunt favored this girl.

Zifen went directly to a carpenter's house and heard a "clang" sound from a distance.

This is a carpenter knocking on wooden wedges. At this time, the carpenter did not know how to use iron nails, but used wooden wedges to fix the wood.

Not only that, most of them know Luban Suo.

"Uncle, are you busy?" Ye Zifen patted the door and said hello before walking in.

This is a custom in rural areas. Say hello at the door to prevent being attacked by other people's dogs.

It also tells the family that outsiders are coming to the door, and asks the family to put away certain things that they don’t want outsiders to see. For example, make food for children.

The family is not very wealthy, and it is difficult to get some food for the children. If outsiders see it, it is not worse than not giving it.

Therefore, people who know etiquette will shout outside the door, wait until the things inside are tidied up, and then go in after answering the call.

There are also those who are ignorant and directly break into other people's homes, even inside the house, and even worse, directly into other people's kitchens.