The warm life of farming

A week passed quickly, and the wooden barrels that Mu Yuan ordered at the two homes were all healed.

Mu Yuan first went to Uncle Xu's house to pick up the goods and settle the bill. Because the wooden barrel was relatively large, Uncle Xu helped Mu Yuan transport the things back one by one.

After paying the bill, Uncle Xu went out. After Mu Yuan sent these wooden barrels into the space and sorted them out, he was going to go to Xu Er's house to pick up the second batch of wooden barrels. An Ran looked displeased.

Mu Yuan greeted with a smile and said, "You guys came back so early today!"

Old Man An smiled: "The crops in the field are all settled, so I don't need to go there for two days."

Mu Yuan looked at An Ran who was standing beside him angrily, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with An Ran?"

An Ran glanced at Father An angrily, turned her head and pouted without saying a word.

Seeing this, Old Man An smiled with a good temper and said to An Ran: "Okay, don't be childish!"

Mu Yuan was really surprised, it was the first time he saw An Ran and Father An get angry, and said in amazement: "It's the first time I saw An Ran get so angry, who offended you, pouting so high ?”

An Ran mumbled, "Who else could it be, not that Xu Anping..."

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Father An: "Okay! How have I taught you? How did you become so small?"

When An Ran heard this, her eyes turned red with grievance.

Seeing the situation, Mu Yuan didn't dare to ask any more questions. Obviously what happened today, seeing An Ran's red eyes, he didn't feel at ease to let the two of them go home together, so he quickly said, "Uncle An, go home first." , I happen to have something to do with An Ran! We'll go back later!"

Father An looked at An Ran, and knew that he had a heavy tone just now, so he finally left with a sigh.

When Father An left, Mu Yuan teased An Ran and said, "Stop crying, let Xiao Yu see, and I won't call you brother anymore!"

An Ran is being wronged, so she ignores Mu Yuan.

Mu Yuan saw that this trick was useless, so he said again: "This is outside, if you meet someone you know later, are you ashamed?"

An Ran was in her sensitive and shy teenage years, so when she heard this, she was really afraid of meeting someone she knew. By then, everyone would know that she was still crying at such an age, so she wouldn't be laughed to death.Thinking of this, An Ran hurriedly wiped away her tears, and argued: "Who is crying, I let the dust blind my eyes!"

Mu Yuan was helpless and didn't expose it, but asked, "Did something happen today? Or did that Xu Anping do something else?"

Bring up

The man said angrily: "Brother Mu, you don't know. When we came back today, we met Xu Dongping bullying Xu Anping again. Dad really didn't want to learn a lesson, and he even stepped forward to persuade him to fight. I stopped him at that time. Who knew that Xu Anping actually hid behind my father. My father protected him from Xu Dongping's beating, but when Xu Dongping couldn't hit anyone, he scolded my father as a dog and meddling with a mouse, and said my father was falling As long as you don’t die from a fall, the scars will forget the pain.”

Mu Yuan felt annoyed when he heard that, he held his breath and said, "What about the end?"

An Ran said sadly: "In the end Xu Dongping left, but he scolded my father very badly before he left!"

"Where's Xu Anping?"

"Huh! He just said thank you to Dad, and didn't mention anything about the previous thing!"

After hearing the cause and effect, Mu Yuan was also very angry, but he didn't know whether he was angry at Xu Dongping's bullying, or at Xu Anping's cowardice and incompetence that hurt others, or at Uncle An's soft heart.

Finally, Mu Yuan sighed: "Forget it, it's over, don't feel bad! Uncle An is such a person, you should know better than me! You have always been so good, don't get angry with Uncle An !"

An Ran suddenly burst into tears: "But I just can't stand Dad being scolded like this! Dad won't let me talk back! I almost lost my life last time, what if something happens again?"

Mu Yuan was taken aback by An Ran's sudden crying, and hurriedly comforted him: "Don't cry, don't cry! It's okay, besides, I'm still here, so something must happen to Uncle An! Don't cry!" While coaxing him, he wiped away his tears carelessly, because he couldn't control his strength well, and wiped An Ran's little face flushed.

"Eh? Why did you get hurt on your neck?" The wound was on the upper part of the throat, An Ran didn't look up just now, and Mu Yuan wiped his tears before he found out. "what happened?"

An Ran was crying hard just now, and now she can speak twitchingly: "When I was in the field, I accidentally fell and hit the hoe!"

Mu Yuan was shocked when he heard this, and quickly said, "Are you okay? How did you hit your neck?"

An Ran shook her head and said, "It's okay, Dad looked at it and said it didn't hurt the neck!"

Mu Yuan checked carefully, and felt relieved when he saw that the wound was just a bruise, but he still taught him a lesson: "Why are you so stupid? You fall down after doing a job!"

An Ran said dissatisfiedly: "I reacted so cleverly, I put my hands on the ground right away!"

Hearing this, Mu Yuan grabbed An Ran's hand and looked at it, sure enough, his hand was also bruised, Mu Yuan looked at it and said distressedly: "Let's go, let's go home and apply some medicine!" He held hands and was about to go home.

An Ran, this meeting is no longer what it was just now

I didn't cry when I was so emotional, I was very moved to see Mu Yuan caring so much about him.

An Ran stood still and said with a smile: "What kind of medicine do you need for this small injury? I just ignored it before!"

Mu Yuan said: "Then you have to go back and wash your hands, look at the mud in your hands, how many bacteria does it have?"

"bacteria?"

"What we say there is dirty things, bad things, things that make people sick!"

An Ran was a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "Brother Mu, you are so kind, father doesn't even care about me so much!"

"Cut!" Mu Yuan patted An Ran's head, and said smugly, "Who made me an older brother? It's all right to take care of you and care about you!"

An Ran's eyes were full of smiles: "Yeah! Thank you, brother!" Suddenly he thought of something and said: "That's right! What did you tell me just now?"

Only then did Mu Yuan remember that he had to go to Xu Er's house to get things. Originally, Mu Yuan planned to take the wooden barrel back and put it in the space quickly while Father An was not at home, or wait for Father An to come back and see these things. It is not easy to put the wooden barrel in the space again, so Mu talked about this problem to An Ran.

After hearing this, An Ran thought for a while and said, "I think it's best not to put the remaining five in space!"

"Huh? Why?"

An Ran said helplessly: "Brother Mu, you don't know. You are a newcomer in Xujia Village. In fact, people are asking about what you do! Someone will definitely know that you ordered wooden barrels at the two houses. By then, only It’s hard to explain where the others will go next!”

Mu Yuan suddenly realized that he was really confused once, so he said embarrassingly: "A wise man will make mistakes if he thinks about it, hehe!"

An Ran laughed and said, "Actually, we don't need so many wooden barrels at all. In a place with such a large space, why not just dig some fish ponds like at home?"

Mu Yuan paused and said embarrassedly: "Hey, I actually thought of it at the beginning, but I just want to dig such a big hole, I don't want to move!"

An Ran was stunned, wasting money just to save effort, and really didn't know what to say.

Mu Yuan was embarrassed by An Ran's look, so he changed the subject and said, "Let's go, let's go to Xu Er's house together, and I won't put the remaining barrels in the space!"

Seeing Mu Yuan's embarrassing but pretending to be okay, An Ran suppressed a smile and followed to Xu Er's house.

When they arrived at the place, several people tossed and tossed again and again, and it took a long time to move all the wooden barrels back.

Old man An stood in the yard and looked at the big wooden barrel in this yard, very puzzled.

"these are

What is it for? " Papa Ann asked.

Mu Yuan smiled and said, "Fish breeder! I'm going to send fish to the city in two days, and I have to ask An Ran to help me!"

Father An still didn't understand how to raise fish with these, he just nodded and said, "Let him go!"

As soon as An Ran saw Papa An's grievance, she came up again, and went straight to make lunch without saying a word with a pouted face.

Mu Yuan smiled and whispered to the worried old man An: "I coaxed you just now, it might be awkward, uncle, don't worry!"

Father An nodded with a smile.

Because there was nothing wrong with this meeting, Mu Yuan went to pick up Xiao Yu next door.It's not a problem to keep avoiding Xu Changlin like this, at worst, let him scold him, but Xiao Yu's sister did not teach him by himself, Mu Yuan thought innocently.

Standing in front of the door next door, Mu Yuan knocked on the door after preparing for a long time. After a while, the door opened, and he saw Xu Changlin's expressionless face.

Mu Yuan carefully smiled: "Where's Xiao Yu? I'll pick him up!"

Xu Changlin gave Mu Yuan a hard look, then turned his head and shouted softly, "Xiao Yu, go back!"

An Xiaoyu was playing with the small sandbag Grandma Xu made for him in the house, when he heard the cry, he ran over quickly, seeing that it was Mu Yuan who came to pick him up, he was so happy that he rushed over.

Mu Yuan quickly picked up Xiao Yu, and then said cautiously to Xu Changlin: "Well... then I'll go back now?"

Xu Changlin had a half-smile, and said kindly, "Go back!" Then he closed the door.

Mu Yuan stood outside the door in a daze, so calm?

Mu Yuan asked Xiao Yu who was looking at him with a smile, "Did he tell you anything about me?"

Xiao Yu tilted her head and smiled happily: "I said it!"

Mu Yuan asked nervously, "What did you say?"

Xiao Yu pouted and shook her head, "Brother Xu didn't say that!"

Just as Mu Yuan was about to say something, the door in front of him suddenly opened again.

Xu Changlin lowered his head slightly and squinted his eyes at Mu Yuan, and asked calmly, "What's the matter? Why don't you just stand in front of the door?"

Mu Yuan, who was taken aback by the sudden opening of the door, said it was all right, and fled embarrassingly with Xiao Yu in his arms. He was relieved when he arrived at An's house.

Mu Yuan patted his chest and muttered: "A tiger with a smiling face is not scary, but a black belly is the most dangerous!"

Probably because of the good food in the past two months, Xiao Yu's face has grown flesh, and the round face looks very cute. Now he is staring at a pair of big eyes and curiously asking: "What is facial paralysis?"

Mu Yuan said angrily, "It's just like your sister Xu!"

"Oh~~" Xiao Yu nodded.

Mu Yuan put down Xiao Yu, patted his little buttocks and said, "Oh what, you little idiot, hurry up and eat in the house!" Xiaoyu ran into the house covering his buttocks and pouting.

The day after tomorrow, we are going to deliver fish to Yaocheng, Mu Yuan and An Ran have been very busy these two days!How many contracts did Mu Yuan sign? He only told An Ran about this, so he was not afraid of others suspecting the number of fish.Except for the carload of fish that was sent to Yaocheng in a bullock cart by Zhengdaguangguang, Mu Yuan and Anran took the others into the space in the dark, and the seedlings that were just bred a few days ago will also be difficult. If it grows into a big fish, the goods of these companies will be enough.

It was time to deliver the goods tomorrow, so Mu Yuan rented the ox cart first.Because the wooden barrel was really big, and it became heavy after adding water, Mu Yuan specially rented two oxen to pull the cart, and the rent he gave was a bit more expensive than what was originally said.

The next morning, before dawn, Mu Yuan and An Ran got up, first set up the ox cart and pulled it under the big tree, then lifted the big wooden barrel up and down, and then started to pass by barrel by barrel. Transport fish.There is really no way to do this. An's family lives on the hillside. If the car is loaded at home, it will be even more difficult to go downhill, so the two have no choice but to get up earlier than the planned time to load the car.

The two of them tossed and tossed for almost half an hour before installing the car, because the commotion was too loud, some old ladies in the village came to see it curiously, and the old lady who stopped Mu Yuan last time also came.This aunt was unequivocal, and she was about to lift the big lid of the wooden barrel as soon as she stepped forward to say a few words.Mu Yuan was not afraid of people knowing, but thought it would be best if people saw it, which also proved that he had indeed raised fish, so he asked the aunt to lift the cover to take a look without stopping.

As soon as the lid was lifted, all the old ladies around surrounded it, scrambling to put their heads out to look inside. They were all surprised when they saw that the inside was full of fish.Having achieved his goal, Mu Yuan reasoned that he was going on his way, and stepped forward to put the lid back on.

An Ran just went to get her luggage, and when she came back, she saw a group of old ladies talking about something around Mu Yuan.Mu Yuan was already dizzy from a group of old ladies. Seeing that An Ran finally came back, he didn't delay any longer, checked again and found that there was no problem before starting to set off.

In order to prevent the fish from dying due to lack of oxygen, Mu Yuan went into the space to add water to the barrel when no one was around, and walked slowly all morning before arriving at Yaocheng.

At noon, the city was bustling with activity, and the bucket was too big, so Mu Yuan could only drive the ox cart forward with difficulty, because he had no experience in doing this for the first time, and he should go to the first one after delivering the goods. It was only when I was at the second home that I realized that the fish were all in the space, and it would be a lot of trouble to take them out. The two of them

It took me a long time to find a dead end at the corner, and it took me a long time to deliver all the things.

In the morning, I didn't make breakfast because I had to go on the road. I only ate the pancakes that An Ran prepared last night. It would take a whole day to sell fish. The two of them were already hungry. Mu Yuan decided to take An Ran to a restaurant for dinner. This is the chance to catch my breath.

An Ran was so tired that she couldn't hold the chopsticks anymore, and said with a bitter face, "Brother Mu, will you always give them like this in the future?"

Mu Yuan smiled wryly and said, "What a mistake. I didn't expect it to be like this. It seems that we have to find a way, otherwise it would be too much trouble."

An Ran nodded her head and whispered: "We obviously have a 'pocket', but we can't use it openly, which is really frustrating." Because it is inconvenient to go outside, when it comes to space, Mu Yuan asks Enron used 'pocket' instead.

Mu Yuan said: "Our main problem is the wooden barrel. It is too big and it is inconvenient to do things. I will find a way when I go back! Now hurry up and eat, and go back to count the money after eating!"

An Ran smiled and said: "Hmm! This is my first time visiting a restaurant, and I have never seen these dishes before!"

Hearing this, Mu Yuan smiled: "There will be better ones in the future!"

After eating, the two rushed out of the city before the city gate closed. An Ran was so tired that Mu Yuan asked him to lie down on the wooden barrel to rest, while he walked back slowly.

When they arrived at Xujia Village, they saw Father An waiting for them with a lantern. After a lot of trouble, they drove the ox cart back to the yard, ate something casually, and went back to the house to rest.

An Ran's eyes sparkled, and she said hurriedly, "Brother Mu, hurry up and see, how much did you earn this time?"

Mu Yuan was also very excited, stepped forward and poured out the money and counted it, 60 taels and 3 cents! !

An Ran's eyes were about to pop out, and her jaw couldn't close.

An Ran couldn't believe it and said, "How could there be so many? Could it be that the calculation was wrong?"

Mu Yuan couldn't control his joy: "Stupid! Don't think about how many fish we sold! One family needs more than 300 fish, and eight families come down, isn't that the number?"

An Ran still couldn't come to his senses, and earned more than 60 taels of silver in a month, which was something he never dared to think about.

Mu Yuan said happily: "If I follow the steps I planned at the beginning, it will be next year before I can sell fish. Even next year, I won't sell it like this. Xujia Village is too far away from Yaocheng, and it is not easy to transport it. If we don’t have this space, we won’t be able to make so much money at all!”

"Then what should I do next?"

Mu Yuan smiled and said: "The contract was only signed for one year, and I can only work hard this year. When the contract is over, I am not going to sign it, because our market will have opened by then, and selling fish now The matter is considered monopolized by me, so there is no need to sign another contract. Our next step is to continue raising fish, because we have to send it again next month. We have sold all the fish this time, only the fish ponds are not. If you dare to fish dry, you have to keep some to cover up people’s eyes and ears!”

An Ran added: "I still have to think about how to not be so strenuous next time!"

Mu Yuan smiled, took 20 taels to An Ran, and said domineeringly: "Don't talk to me about what you don't want, I live here for free and don't work, you and Uncle An also helped me a lot, This is what you should do!"

Although Mu Yuan regards An Ran as his younger brother and Uncle An as a relative, after all, he is not their real relative, and it is impossible to live and eat for free all the time, not to mention that An's family has been helping him all the time.

Seeing that An Ran was still unwilling to accept it, Mu Yuan said helplessly, "What? Do you not want me to continue living here?"

An Ran hurriedly said: "Of course not, it's just..."

"Don't just stop, you want me to live in peace of mind, so you put away the money! You'll still have it next month! Let's not talk about it, I'm really tired, I'm going to sleep!" As soon as he took off his coat and got under the quilt, no matter how much An Ran pushed and screamed, he couldn't get up.