Depressed little landlord

Although Lin Xuan said that he wanted to teach Lin Xun to be independent, the child is still too young after all, and he can't remember the truth when he is told too much, so he should teach him a little bit in his daily life. Find a way to let him go to school to study.

After Lin Xun fell asleep, Lin Xuan thought for a while and took out a small broken jar from the hole in the corner. Xu Yang couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly when he saw it. He knew what was in there and where he put it, because Lin Xuan put it in front of him a few days after moving here, but usually he would never take the initiative to touch it: "What are you doing with this?"

"I didn't do anything." Lin Xuan replied casually, and then dumped all the contents on the bed without hesitation. The thing wrapped in a silk handkerchief fell out first, and the contents inside were exposed from the silky handkerchief. One side comes, and then comes the other stuff.Lin Xuan didn't go to get it, but carefully wrapped the things and put them back. Then he focused on the small pile of copper plates and counted them one by one.

"One, two, three... two thousand and one... oh!"

After counting, Lin Xuan couldn't help sighing, Xu Yang looked at him, and then sat down at the end of the bed.

"If the money is gone, we will find a way to make money. What else do we need to buy?" Although it is interesting to see this person counting money every time, but to be honest, he really doesn't like to see this look-frowning, worried look like.

Lin Xuan looked up at Xu Yang, shook his head silently at first, and then sighed: "Money is really not spent, look at the more than 40 taels of silver we brought from home, how long has it been? That's all there is left."

As he spoke, he pointed to the small pile of copper plates and the two five-liang ingots, full of melancholy and distress, and counted them with his fingers: "Buy plows, hoes, sickles, pots and bowls, and seeds for two acres of land. We have to buy the rice we eat...by the way, how long will our family have enough rice?"

These iron products also spent a lot before, and the grain seeds are also a lot, and the rations they will eat this year have not been planted for a long time, and it is estimated that they have just grown steadily.

Lin Xuan was very frustrated, but other things were fine. This food must be bought and eaten, and he was not in the habit of always saving some money for emergencies. If he didn't have any money, he would panic urgent.

If you save some money, like ordinary farmers, these are indeed more than enough for one or two years.The premise is that they also produce some food by themselves, but they just don't have it!

Now they almost eat rice porridge, and they cook it thicker for dinner, but he didn't want to miss Lin Xun's nutrition before. For the money, Lin Xuan was distressed again.

"Rice?" Xu Yang was taken aback by the question, although he would cook it occasionally in the morning, but he really didn't pay attention to how much was left, so he could only shake his head, "I don't know, how about going to cook it now have a look?"

Lin Xuan thought about it, and felt that he would be relieved if he went to have a look. If there were not many, he would go to the town to buy some more. No matter what, the new millet in the field would have to be harvested.Hastily put the money back into the jar, put it back in its original place and hid it well, then went next door with Xu Yang to look at the rice bag.

The rice bag and some other things were placed in the room next to Butler Hua, and at this time, Butler Hua had already fallen asleep. Lin Xuan and Xu Yang came here gently with oil lamps, trying not to wake him up.

Because rice is often cooked, the rice bag is placed near the door.Recently, they have changed to cook more porridge, so there are still more than half a bag left.

The two of them looked at the rice bag leaning against the wall, and were slightly relieved that they didn't need to buy rice yet.

"It should be enough for more than a month if you save some food, right?" Lin Xuan patted the bag with a little smile on his face.

"Okay. We will soon harvest what we planted." If it goes well.

Xu Yang tugged at the bag, let it rest a bit to see the quantity, and answered, but found Lin Xuan's expression was a bit weird, and he retracted his hand on the bag to look at it, and asked strangely: "What's wrong? What's wrong? ?”

Lin Xuan shook his head and did not speak, but reached for the oil lamp in his hand, then bent down and used the oil lamp to illuminate the surroundings of the bag. When the light reached the wall with his left hand, Lin Xuan's face turned black.

"It's really a little thief!" Lin Xuan said helplessly and annoyed, pointing to the root to signal him to see for himself.

Xu Yang quickly came over, and immediately understood why this person had a bad face—their house was patronized by mice.

It turned out that there was a hole bitten into the bottom of the bag, and there was also a hole at the base of the wall. Looking carefully, there was already a small pile of white rice inside. Before Xu Yang pulled the bag so that the rice leaked out, Lin Xuan just felt the amount of rice sinking and The speed is not right, only then noticed.

Lin Xuan patted his forehead, and said angrily, "I should have thought of it a long time ago. I should change something to store rice. I don't know how long these mice have been eating."

Xu Yang didn't speak, but covered the broken part of the bag with one hand, grabbed the mouth of the bag with the other hand and lifted it out, looked left and right to see where to put it first, so as to see how much rice was in the mouse hole. You can take it out and feed the chickens, how can it be cheaper for those mice?

"Wait, I'm going to get the basket." Lin Xuan also understood his intentions, so he brought the basket over while talking, "This is new, put it here." After finishing speaking, he put down the basket and went out again. After a while, he brought in a bowl.

"Let me do it." Xu Yang put the rice away, took the bowl and squatted down to grab the rice that leaked on the floor into the bowl, and took out the rice that was in the hole little by little, until finally he took out some broken soil .

The stoneware bowls were filled to the brim.

Looking at some of the white rice in the bowl that had begun to mold and turn black, Lin Xuan's face turned dark.

"It's our negligence. The place where the rice is placed is easy to be bitten by mice. It's not too late for us to find out. I'll ask Uncle Zhang tomorrow if he has wooden barrels, or we can buy them when we go to town. A jar of rice." Xu Yang originally wanted to pat him to comfort him, but raised his hand and remembered that he had just dug out the mouse hole, so he put it back, and said in a warm voice.

Lin Xuan took a deep breath, staring at the mouse hole with a bit of ruthlessness: "Is there a mousetrap?" Now I don't know how many mice and how many mouse holes there are in their house?With so many meters, maybe they are all nests.

"what?"

"Mouse traps... are things for catching mice." Lin Xuan paused, realizing that there might not be such a thing here, so he changed the question, "How do you usually prevent mice? To catch and kill mice?"

"Cat." Xu Yang looked at Lin Xuan and said an answer.

In addition to raising cats to catch mice, we usually try to put them in containers that are not easy for mice to bite.

"I don't think I've seen anyone in the village keep cats?"

Xu Yang also thought about it and nodded, indeed, he has never seen a cat in the time since he came here.

The two looked at each other.

"It's better to buy the jar earlier. As for the cat, we'll ask someone else." Lin Xuan waved his hand a little weakly and said, "Go to bed tonight, we'll talk about it when we wake up tomorrow, and put the rice on the table first." superior."

"Yeah." Xu Yang was also a little guilty, because they slept so hard at night that they didn't even hear the rats.

Let Lin Xuan take the oil lamp, Xu Yang went to carry the baskets by himself, and walked towards them.

"Is that mousetrap you mentioned useful?"

"It's okay, I don't know very well."

"Is that so. How about we make a few first?"

Lin Xuan was a little moved. If it was made, it might really solve a problem. It can prevent rats, and the place where chickens are raised can also prevent weasels... It is said that it can also be hunted?

There are mountains, trees and forests all around here, so there must be wild animals, right?

Lin Xuan became more and more moved as he thought about it. He looked back at Xu Yang with sparkling eyes, and his expression was a little excited: "Let's try it? Let me think about how the clips are made, and how about some custom-made ones? There seems to be no hunting in the village, right?" ? Didn’t anyone catch the animals on the mountain?”

After several questions in succession, Xu Yang heard clearly and understood his meaning, and his eyes changed accordingly.

"Xiaoxuan, do you want to hunt and sell?"

"Well, yes!" Lin Xuan admitted directly after thinking about it, "There should be no restrictions on hunting here, right?"

"No, but the mountains are dangerous." Xu Yang didn't agree immediately, but explained, "We're not familiar with the surrounding area, and we don't know if there are any dangerous things inside, so it's not appropriate to go in and hunt."

Lin Xuan first went to put the bowl on the dining table, and then used another to buckle it on top, then went out to get a small stone to press on it, and then went back to the room.Here Xu Yang also buckled the wooden basin in the basket, trying not to let the mice crawl in, and then went to fetch a basin of clean water and came back.

Lin Xuan washed his hands first and then went to bed, instead of falling asleep immediately, he continued to sit cross-legged and watched Xu Yang wash his hands, explaining: "I didn't say that I would go into the deep mountains, it's just outside, there are always pheasants and hares, right?" Thinking about those delicious meats, he took a quick sip and continued, "And if we can't sell it, we can eat it ourselves."

Xu Yang looked back at him and couldn't help laughing. Seeing his appearance and tone, it seemed that he would really catch the prey soon.

"It's not impossible to say that, but let's get that thing out first, otherwise we won't be able to catch the pheasant and rabbit even if we go up the mountain with bare hands."

"Can't we still set a trap if we can't be caught?" Lin Xuan replied casually, then suddenly came to his senses, slapped his legs and shouted, "Oh, why did I forget that there is a trap? It doesn't have to be The beast trap is gone, just dig a trap and do anything!"

"Keep your voice down, be careful not to wake everyone up."

Following Xu Yang's words, Lin Xun turned over and snorted. Lin Xuan covered his mouth and looked at Lin Xun in fright. Fortunately, Douding just uttered a sound and fell asleep again.

Lin Xuan heaved a sigh of relief but still remained excited, and continued to ask with bright eyes: "What do you think? If we go tomorrow, maybe we will be lucky enough to catch prey before going to the market?"

Xu Yang stared at him for a while, and finally nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's try it tomorrow, maybe it's what you said, not only can you sell it for money, but you can also add meat to everyone."

"hey-hey!"

"Okay, it's getting late, if you want to go to the mountains, you'd better go to bed early."

"Well, you're right, go to bed early to be energetic tomorrow."

Lin Xuan quickly lifted the quilt and got in, hugging Lin Xun, and fell asleep within a while.

Xu Yang just blew out the lamp, turned around and heard the sound of even breathing from over there, he couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, and then he also lay down, counting silently in his heart, after reaching ten, as expected, a warm body rolled into his arms. hot body.

Replying his arms skillfully to the opponent's waist, he pulled up the quilt, then closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

A good night's sleep.

The author has something to say: It’s too late to help my mother wash rice dumplings and make rice dumplings today_(:_」∠)_