Through the small days of farming

Time passed day by day, and the snow was falling intermittently. Soon it was the beginning of March, and the snow fell from time to time, and the snow outside showed no sign of melting.

The people in the village are almost covered by dark clouds. They will miss the spring plowing. The weather is not warming up. The temperature is so low that they can’t find any land to plow. The fields are all under the snow. At this time of the year, the snow has almost melted. Preparations for plowing the fields should begin.

But the snow has not stopped at this time, and occasionally there will be rain, sleet, and the road becomes more slippery after the water freezes.

The road outside the village can't be seen, but the road in the village is unimpeded.

People in the village have begun to consciously control the amount of food they eat every day. Those who sold their food early have no more food at home. They listen to the village chief and those who want to wait for the price of food to rise a bit before selling food , I am extremely fortunate that I did not sell the grain.

At that time, the price of grain was high, and there was not much left for the family to eat. When the spring came, the imperial court would definitely open warehouses to release grain, and the price of grain would drop. Go to the town to buy some grain, and wait for the next harvest , there is no need to buy it.

But now it’s snowing all the time, and it’s impossible to go out at all. The people in the village are basically related to relatives. If one family borrows a little, the other family borrows a little, and they can make do with it.

Chen Mingren made almost all of the wood cut back from his body into various furniture when he was idle in the past few months.

"Brother Nian, are you knitting this again?" Ning Geer came in with a lunch box and saw Brother Nian making small clothes for children, "See what I brought for you?"

"Tofu?" Brother Nian looked at the lunch box in his hand and guessed.

"No." Ning Geer shook his head.

Bai Niannian moved his nose, he seemed to smell the smell of meat, "I can't guess, what is this?"

Ning took the lid away, took out the bowl of meat inside, and said mysteriously, "This is rabbit meat. Thirty percent went to hunt it back."

"Li Sancheng knows how to hunt?" Bai Niannian asked curiously, took the bowl politely, poured the meat into his own bowl, washed Brother Ning's bowl with hot water, and returned it to him.

"It's also the first time I know that he can also hunt. When he was in the army, he learned a hand from the people he was with." Ning Ge'er explained.

"It smells so good, I haven't eaten this kind of fresh meat for a long time." Bai Niannian's Adam's apple twitched, all the food at home now is bacon and sausages, bacon is hard, and I don't like it after eating it.

The sausages are delicious, but they are not made in large quantities, so they should be eaten sparingly.

"There are still a lot of bacon at home, you should take some back to eat!" Bai Niannian took out a palm-sized piece of bacon, put it in a bowl, and asked him to take it away when he left.

There is a coming and going, and the relationship can last for a long time.

Every time they take something to each other's home, the other party will always give something back, not much but it is also a heart.

Ning Ge'er was not polite to him, so he just accepted it. The bacon they make is not enough, and they have already eaten it. Otherwise, Li Sancheng would not want to go hunting.

"The things are delivered, and I'm about to go back to eat, so I'll go back first."

"Yeah, be careful on slippery roads! By the way, I still have a lot of dried persimmons at home, open a jar to eat tomorrow, remember to come here tomorrow." Bai Niannian suddenly remembered this, and stopped Brother Ning.

"That's a good thing, just don't dislike us when our family comes over tomorrow." Brother Ning said with a smile.

There are still a lot of dried persimmons and sweet potatoes left at home. After the dried persimmons were made, they were worried about getting damp and moldy, so they were sealed in different jars.

Once a jar is opened, one jar is eaten. There are many people in the family, and a jar can be eaten in ten days.

"Ming Ren! Is Ming Ren here?"

"Are you Thirteenth Aunt? What's the matter? What do you want Mingren to do?" Hearing someone outside calling him a man, Bai Niannian put down the things in his hands and wiped the water on his clothes.

He had a little impression of the person who came, was he the fifth aunt in the village? Everyone called him that, and Bai Niannian followed suit.

"Well, I have something to do with Ming Ren, I wonder if Ming Ren is at home?" Fifth Aunt looked at him cautiously, not knowing how to speak.

"Yes, it's cold outside, Fifth Aunt, why don't you come in and sit for a while?!" Bai Niannian called him in, poured him a cup of hot water from the kitchen, "I'll call Ming Ren out, you wait here first .”

Chen Mingren was practicing his craft in the room at this time, when he saw Bai Niannian coming in, he hid something, "What do you want me to do?"

His movements were too fast, Bai Niannian didn't see clearly what the hidden object was, thinking he just put away something.

"Aunt Wu is looking for you, he is waiting for you outside now." After Bai Niannian told him, he walked outside. His bean sprouts were half washed, but he hadn't finished washing them yet. After the water cooled, washing vegetables felt uncomfortable. up.

"Why does Aunt Wu come to our house when you have time?" Chen Mingren sat opposite him and asked, "I don't know why Aunt Wu came to see me?"

Bai Niannian tactfully left the place for them to talk, even after washing the bean sprouts, she would stay in the kitchen and not disturb their conversation.

"Ming Ren! I also know that your family is running out of food, but can you borrow some food for our family? We have eaten up all the food at home, and now we can't go to the town. Auntie came to you with the cheek Borrow some, and when the road to the town is cleared, we'll go buy food and return it to you." Fifth Aunt said in a low voice.

Bai Niannian could also hear clearly in the kitchen: Fifth Aunt has a loud voice, even if she lowers her voice, she speaks as usual.

Even if he didn't want to, he had to.

Chen Mingren didn't immediately refuse, so he thought about it.

This made Aunt Wu, who had been rejected many times, see hope. He had already been to other people with whom their family had a good relationship, but most of them had been lent to others, and their family could not afford to lend too much.

Chen Mingren thought to himself, their family has quite a lot of grain. Recently they eat and cook with the batch of grain they bought in the village. The grain bought in the town has not been touched at all, he thought Thinking about it, there is still a lot of food on the surface at home.

Their family and Shen Wei's family bought a lot of grain in the village, and others might be able to deceive them, but the villagers knew it well, and he was too embarrassed to refuse when Fifth Aunt came to him.

"Do you think this is okay?" Chen Mingren quickly made a decision, "How about selling this grain to you at the price we bought it?"

He added, "Of course, we also want to leave enough food for us to eat, and some extra food can be bought for you."

"Will this be bad?" Aunt Wu asked a little anxiously. Their family needed this food very much, but he couldn't do it to take advantage of others. It was all because he was lucky and didn't The old man who stopped their family bought almost all the food, and now he is going everywhere to borrow food and owe favors.

Chen Mingren said indifferently: "When we bought it at the same price, we are all from the same village, so why care about so much?"

Fifth Aunt seemed determined and said: "No, how can this make you suffer? If you buy it for our family and other people come to buy it, can you buy it for us and not for others? Just buy it at the current price! Twice as much as before."

Now the price in the village is actually a bit higher than this. Fifth Aunt also has her own selfishness, so she doubled the amount. Compared with Chen Mingren's original price, Chen Mingren is simply a good person! !

Chen Mingren said truthfully: "Our family doesn't have that much food, because you are the first person to come to the door, so there is still a lot. The extra food is enough to sell to the two families."

He's not stupid, other people come to the door when they hear the news!Anyway, their family's food is also sold, so you can't help others if you don't eat it yourself? !

He won't do such thankless things. He sold them at twice the price. He made money, but those people who sold grain to him didn't know what to say about them behind their backs. , and even complained about their family in my heart!

But selling the grain at the original price is not much anyway, and their family is not making a profit, and it can also improve their family's reputation.

With this idea in mind, Chen Mingren shook his head, "I'll sell it to you at the original price! Others come to the door, and our family doesn't have any extra food to sell to them. I can't make money from you. If you don't want it, I will sell it to you." Go find someone else."

Chen Mingren paused, and said: "There is no news about any surplus grain in our family, so I hope Aunt Wu can tell everyone that in addition to selling our surplus grain to your family, the other half will be sold to Brother Ning's family. Their family I don’t have much food prepared, please tell others that there is no need to come to sell food.”

Aunt Wu saw that his attitude didn't look fake and she couldn't change his mind, so she responded repeatedly: "Don't worry, I will definitely tell the truth."

"Then I'll go home now to get the silver and call them to bring the food back."

"Go, let's go! It's not easy to leave when it snows." Chen Mingren sent the man to the door, and did not go in until he was nowhere to be seen.

"Do you want me to help? How much grain do you plan to sell to Fifth Aunt?" Bai Niannian came out of the kitchen and looked at him.

"Sell it to him for three hundred catties!" Chen Mingren said, "You can just sit here, and I'll move the grain out, and a few trips are enough."

"That's good." Bai Niannian continued to work in the kitchen.

The news got out as expected, but there were still quite a few people who came to the door, but no matter who came, their attitude was, sorry, the surplus food has been sold out.

They didn't dare to procrastinate any longer, and after they left, they asked Li Sancheng to bring the money to carry the food.

The fat and water don’t flow into other people’s fields, and the other half of the surplus food must be left to Yugeer. Yugeer didn’t have much money at the beginning, and he made a lot of money picking chestnuts, but he was not willing to buy so much money to store food. Now their family The food was given by Aunt Chen and the others.