Outsiders of Mianjia Dyeing Workshop

The continuous torrential rain for several days caused Suilin Village to be half flooded by the small river that had swelled due to too much rain, and more than half of the fertile fields outside the village to the northeast were also eroded. Moaning from inside the house to the outside.

Little Gouzi's mother, Mrs. Wang, got up early in the morning and opened the rice vat. Looking at the rice vat, which was cleaner than her face after washing, she suddenly had a sad face, and her already fat face was crowded into a ball.Because of her physique of getting fat even after drinking cold water, Wang has always been said to be blessed by outsiders, and she herself feels blessed, because she has a loving husband and lovely children, and even though she is powerful, her husband does not dislike her.It's just that Mrs. Wang, who has always felt blessed, is now sighing, how can she live without food?

In the past, the villagers used to mix coarse grains with wild vegetables, wild fruits, and delicacies to satisfy their hunger. Now because of the heavy rain, they have not gone up the mountain for several days. Qu Dalang's family even stopped.

Wang rummaged in the kitchen for a long time, and finally found a palm-sized sweet potato in a corner, threw it into the fire and roasted it, and put water in the pot to boil.Mrs. Wang walked out of the kitchen and looked at her husband who was squatting under the eaves watching the rain. After a long time of embarrassment, she said to Qu Dalang, "Father, our family is out of food. See if you can borrow some from your brother's house." , or go to code some?"

Qu Dalang rubbed his forehead in embarrassment after hearing Wang's words: "Brother's family has many more mouths than ours, I'm afraid it will be difficult to borrow. But this rain has flooded half of our village. In the past, we can go to the village chief's house." Credit, but now his family has moved! It’s not easy to go out now, even if it’s easy to go, our family doesn’t have much money, where will we go in a short time?”

Mrs. Wang looked at Qu Dalang, and asked tentatively and hesitantly: "How about, the head of the family! You go to ask the owner of Mianzhuang?"

"No! Master Mian saved our lives and is still taking care of himself! The clan elder told everyone not to disturb Master Mian's recuperation. How could we do that, no!" Qu Dalang was a little embarrassed said shaking his head.

At this moment, the door curtain was lifted, and the little dog came over.

"Mother, what are we having for breakfast this morning?" The puppy rubbed his eyes and came out of his den rubbing his growling stomach.

Somewhat embarrassed, Mrs. Wang took out a dry sweet potato from the kitchen, carefully broke off half of it and handed it to Xiao Gouzi: "Hey, eat first!" Then he handed the remaining half to Qu Dalang: "The head of the house ,you eat."

Qu Dalang looked at his daughter-in-law, then at the puppy who was already wolfing down half a small sweet potato, and finally took half of the sweet potato, divided it into two, and handed half to the little dog who had already eaten half a bite. A little dog who was still adding sweet potatoes, handed the other half of sweet potatoes to Mrs. Wang: "Mrs. Gouzi, I haven't been in the field for the past two days. I'm not hungry. You two can just eat."

As he spoke, he stuffed a quarter of the sweet potatoes into Wang's hand, and after Wang took it, he wanted to send it back to Qu Dalang. The couple refused in front of the puppy, and the puppy looked at it. The sweet potato in his hand, and looking at his parents' humility, the little dog quickly handed the piece to Qu Dalang: "Father, eat it, the dog is not hungry anymore."

Mrs. Wang looked at the little dog, and finally said to Qu Dalang with red eyes: "Father, the owner of Mianzhuang is benevolent, let's get over this knot first, and then work hard to repay the kindness of the owner of Mianzhuang!"

Qu Dalang looked at the sweet potato stuffed into Wang's hand, and nodded fiercely for a while: "Okay, I'll go say hello to the grandfather of the family!" Shi took a mouthful, stuffed the rest into his mouth and ate it, and then he was about to go out quickly.

Mrs. Wang quickly grabbed him, and handed him the bamboo hat hanging on the wall: "Master, wear some bamboo hats, don't catch cold." Qu Dalang nodded heavily.

The Qu family accounts for one-third of the village's population in Suilin Village, so there is a special ancestral hall in the village, and there are special clan elders to manage the affairs of the clan.Qu Dalang went directly to the Qu Family Ancestral Hall.

When Qu Dalang walked into the ancestral hall, he saw that most of the heads of the Qu family were there, and most of the absent ones were not in Suilin Village because they were fleeing the disaster.After everyone met and greeted each other, Qu Dalang chatted with his clan brothers and sisters, only to find out that they were going to borrow food from Mianjiazhuang.Seeing so many people for a while, Qu Dalang was a little worried about going to Mianjiazhuang to borrow food. Can the owner of Mianjiazhuang, who has just moved here, prepare so much food?

"No, it's really gone. The grain depot is almost gone! Sixth Master, we can't borrow any more! We can't tell when the rain will fall, and the people in our own village will have to eat too. The tenants who live in the Zhuangzi also have to eat! Liu Niangzi, hurry up and persuade Liu Ye not to borrow any more grain! If this continues, everyone may drink the northwest wind!" Xiaoying persuaded Mianli earnestly, looking at Mianli's expression didn't change, and she quickly pulled Buqi up.

Mianli tapped her fingers on the table, her face contemplative.Buqi looked at Mianli's appearance and didn't bother her, just took the teapot from Xiaoyu's hand and filled the teacup in front of Mianli with mint water.

Mianli looked at it, smiled slightly at Buqi, then picked it up and blew it lightly a few times, took a sip, and said: "Xiaoying, I know the road back to town is difficult, you and Xiaolu have a hard time, please You two go back and buy more grain from the grain store! As for the villagers who came to borrow grain today, let the concierge inform you that they will borrow a catty to make ends meet today, and say that they have gone out to buy grain and let them eat first. Come back tomorrow!"

Mianli thought about the best way to get the best of both worlds. In this case, he could only spend money to buy new grain. After all, he was not short of money, and the villagers had to borrow food. The tenant farmers in the village will still count on them to cultivate the family's land in the future, not to mention that they are all human lives, so they can't just leave them dead.

Listening to Mianli's explanation, Xiaoying didn't respond, but hesitated to speak!Because Mianli lowered her head and didn't see it, Buqi asked suspiciously: "Xiaoying, what's wrong with you? But there are other things?"

"I have something to tell Liu Ye and Liu Niangzi. Whenever there is a natural disaster, food will be in short supply. I am afraid that the price of food in the town will be too high. If I want to buy food for so many people, I will ask Liu Ye for instructions on how much to buy. How many people are enough to eat for how long?" Xiaoying crossed her arms in a salute, and then bowed her waist without letting go.

After hearing this, Mianli tapped his head, is it so complicated?Didn't the tea, rice, oil and salt be explained, and it's fine for the servants to buy them?There are so many questions?Thinking of the price increase, Mianli frowned. Although Mianli didn't feel sorry for the gold and silver that came in vain, Mianli was a little reluctant to give it to a profiteer.

"There are so many things to consider? Then what can you do?" Mianli asked Xiaoying, knocking her head. Xiaoying said these trivial things helplessly. The money and resources in the village are very different from the usual ones. The so-called people who are not in charge of a family do not know how much firewood and rice are. If they want to feed hundreds of villagers, the money and food they spend is not a small amount.

Buqi stood gently behind Mianli, rubbing her head for Mianli: "You, just study hard, leave these to me, I will not let the villagers go hungry, don't worry."

Hearing Buqi's words, Mianli smiled and grabbed her hand: "That's right! I'm going to trouble my lady there."

Buqi pursed her lips and smiled, Buqi's support made Mianli feel calm and warm.

After Buqi finished speaking, she took Xiaoying and the others out, leaving Yu Mianli to sit in the study room thinking and reviewing books.Xiaoying and Xiaolu listened to Buqi's arrangement and thought about it for a long time before rushing to the town with the money in the carriage and the money in Buqi's handwritten letter.Bu Qi went back to the study and looked at Mian Li sitting there motionless.

Seeing Mianli's appearance, Buqi took off the writing brush held in Mianli's hand, and the thing in her hand was passive, and Mianli finally came to her senses: "Xiaoying and the others are gone?"

Buqi washed the brush with clean water and smoothed the dry hair.

"Yes, let's go! I went to the Bujia Grain Store with my handwriting. I think there is no problem." Bu Qi said nonchalantly.

After hearing this, Mian Li stood up and bowed to Bu Qi: "You are really a lady!"

"You and I are one husband and wife, what kind of silly things are you talking about!" Buqi said with a light smile.

"I still have to thank my lady! This is thanks to my lady. If I were me, I would be slaughtered like a big fat sheep!" Mianli sighed.

"After all, you have never paid attention to these things. The purchases at home are all handled by the mother in the inner courtyard. Why do you need to use these small thoughts? You! Didn't the book say that there is a specialization in art? You should focus more on reading In terms of academic studies, and all the little things at home, don't worry about it, you have me!" Bu Qi comforted softly.

"It is said that a useless scholar is a scholar, Li'er, thank you, Mrs. Xian!" Mianli said, sighing in her heart, she is a useless scholar, she is completely out of touch with the times, if it was in the previous life, disaster would have happened The businessman dares to drive up the price of food. The FBI invites you to drink tea in minutes. Don’t talk about making money, it’s good if you don’t lose money. So some thinking still needs to be adapted slowly. It can’t be solved by just buying and buying. .

The grain store in the town is not just raising prices, but selling them in limited quantities. Many people can hardly afford food even if they have money.And because of Buqi's handwriting, Xiaoying and Xiaolu quickly transported more than a dozen carts of grain. These are enough for the existing villagers to eat with the people of Mianjiazhuang for two months. It settled down, and the family no longer felt sad because of the continuous rain and the empty grain tank.

The villagers are actively and spontaneously thinking of ways to protect the fields that have not been flooded.Especially in the fields under the name of Mianjiazhuang, the villagers who had gained strength after eating covered the ditches with soil and released rainwater to the fields. village.Because of Mianli's borrowed food, under the instructions of the adults, the children put down the fish and shrimp and ran away. There was a lot of food every day, and Mianli had to teach the cook to make smoked fish in order to preserve it!This time, Suilin Village under the heavy rain is still living happily!