Farmhouse Chronicle [Farming]

Chapter 63

Yang Tianlin hadn't lived in that thatched hut a few times, but it was quite complete, except for food.They carried sheets and quilts in the carriage, as well as a lot of thick clothes. They took them to the thatched cottage and spread them on wooden beds, so that they could sleep comfortably.

"Mantou, let's pack up our things now, and then go to the village for dinner. After dinner, I'll take you to see the mulberry tree." Yang Tianlin's small thatched cottage is not big, and the things in it are simple, just a wooden bed, a cabinet and a pair of tables and stools.All the things they brought were put on the bed. There were a few quilts on the bed before, and it was only necessary to spread the things they brought over.

"Mulberry tree? Brother Lin, what is this mulberry tree for?" Mantou was arranging the clothes they brought, and Yang Tianlin was making the bed. When he heard about the mulberry tree again, he got up and sat by the bed, wanting to hear about Yang Tianlin's Tell him in detail what it is.

"Mulberry trees don't have many uses, but a worm that can use mulberry trees is very useful. Does steamed bun know about silk? It's a precious thing, and it's made of the silk spit out by worms that grew up on mulberry leaves. "

"Brother Lin, I know, that kind of worm is called silkworm, but we don't have silkworms here, how could you think of raising silkworms?" There are quite a few. There is no shortage of books in the study room at home. Although his father is not a book lover, he is a book buyer. There are a lot of strange books in the house.Mantou saw silkworms when he was less than ten years old. At that time, he asked his father why his father didn't raise silkworms. After that, Mantou's father replied that it was because they didn't have mulberry trees here. , and no one wants to raise silkworms.

Yang Tianlin really didn't expect Mantou to know about silkworms. He has never heard of mulberry trees or silkworms since he was a child. Mantou has never been to any place. He probably read it in books. He has no chance to read so many books. Thanks to the fact that I went out to do business with Brother Hua at that time, otherwise I would not have the chance to see and figure out many things.

"Mantou, I went to a small town the year before last. It wasn't a big town, but it was very rich. People there lived by raising silkworms for generations. I grew up in Yangjia Village. I know better than anyone what a person lives all year round. Mantou, I have already known the climate of that town all year round. The climate there is quite similar to Wanjiaba and the villages near Wanjiaba. , I think since mulberry trees can grow there and silkworms can survive, then we must be able to do the same here.

The farmers here have lived on the corn, wheat, and millet in the fields for generations, but there is nothing else in the other crops. Even the soybeans they grow are mostly for their own use, and they will not sell them for exchange. silver.The crops in the world can only be planted once a year. After the harvest, in addition to the taxes paid to the court, most people have to pay more than half of them to the landlord. Poverty, even providing for a child to go to school is a problem. "

Although Yang Tianlin had never been to school, he was smart since he was a child. He remembered everything Yang Tong taught him, and he even remembered the books he had read.He never knew that his performance at that time was called a photographic memory, and he didn't know that if he was sent to school, he might have a better future than now, but those things might have happened when his father hated him. It's completely impossible.

"Mantou, although I know a few words, I have never been to school. When I was a child, when Dad didn't hate me so much, he would ask me to read and write every day, and would praise me for being smart every day. Later, Dad After marrying Wang Ying, I gradually stopped asking me to read. Later, those steamed buns probably knew that I didn't say anything.

Mantou, do you know how many people have been slaves all their lives because they couldn't read and were tricked into pressing their fingerprints?I think that even if the children from poor families do not rely on studying to have a way out, at least their families can afford to let them go to school for a few years, so that they will not be biased and let others drag their lives or freedom . "Yang Tianlin suddenly thought of the time when he was almost sold to a trafficker by his father. Ordinary children might be really sold in such a situation, and they will not be able to be their own masters in this lifetime.

When Yang Tianlin was talking, Mantou didn't bother him. Although Yang Tianlin's expression was always calm, Mantou felt that brother Lin seemed very sad, and his mood suddenly became very depressed. He mentioned Dad, did he miss his family?Although Mantou can't imagine his father being cruel to him, but he can't even imagine the situation of not being in touch with his family for the rest of his life. Although he has brother Lin, he will never be willing to leave his father and father. There are people who leave their families.

"Brother Lin, do you miss your family?" Mantou asked a little cautiously, because he knew about Yang Tianlin and his family. Those who hate that person will have even less affection for him after knowing it!If Brother Lin really missed his family and wanted to go back and see them, what would he do?He doesn't like that family!I don't like them at all!At that time, the father who bullied him and brother Lin who bullied him, they were really bad, and they were not worthy of forgiveness at all!

Yang Tianlin didn't expect Mantou to come to such a conclusion after talking for a long time, he couldn't laugh or cry, he pulled Mantou who was sitting next to him, tapped on the man's head twice, and said with a smile: "You, you This head is thinking about what to write, I have nothing to do with that family, and now I am afraid to avoid them, because I am afraid that they will stick to me, so why would I want to go back?"

"Brother Lin never mentions them, why did he just talk about them for no reason?" Yang Tianlin mentioned the Yang family very rarely, or not at all. Usually when they were together, they talked about messy things. He didn't know what Mantou was talking about, he just remembered that Brother Lin would never mention his family.

"Oh, my young master Ping, I was negligent, but it doesn't matter, I will never go back to the Yang family, and you will never face that family." Yang Tianlin hugged the steamed bun tightly Here, talking about reassuring Mantou, he also wanted to understand why Mantou mentioned the matter of the Yang family just now.

"Hmph! Brother Lin, are you trying to put me off? What did you want to say just now? Even if I made a mistake, you can tell me well. I'm not stupid. I'll know when you say it."

"Okay, I'll tell you again tonight, let's go to dinner now, shall we?"

"Ok."

Mantou is different from himself. Mantou has never had to worry about clothing since he was a snack. He has never experienced the embarrassment and helplessness of having no money and no food and clothing.Before I was ten years old, what I worried about every day was whether I could eat enough, and whether I could wear a warm cotton coat in winter.Therefore, what Mantou fears and worries most in his heart is never whether he has money in his hand, but whether his family can be together.So when he mentioned his family just now, what he could think of was not that he wanted the poor in the village to live better, but that he was worried that he was homesick.

"Brother Lin, I don't like Yang Tong, I don't like their family members. My grandma told me that my father was bullied by them when I was a child. I hated them before I met you! Also, Yang Tong is you Dear Dad, but he treats you badly! He almost deafened your ears and tried to sell you, anyway, I don't like him at all, you said it yourself, don't go back!" Mantou himself said He has always expressed his position so clearly, and now he also wants to make it clear. Anyway, even if others say that he is bad or unfilial, he doesn't care. He just hates those people and doesn't want to go back!

"Don't worry, Mantou, I won't like anyone you don't like." Yang Tianlin didn't intend to continue explaining the past to Mantou. He needs to think as much as himself, as long as he lives happily all the time.

After the two packed up the house they lived in for the past few days, they went to the village. Their house could not be used for cooking, and they had to go to the village if they wanted some hot food.

There are tenants in the village who are tenants of Yang Tianlin's fields. The mulberry seeds brought back by Yang Tianlin were planted for them. Now it's time to transplant them, and they will be transplanted to the mountains behind in ten days.

They went to the house of one of the tenants. The family obviously knew that Yang Tianlin was going to come to the house. When they arrived at the house, the family's dinner was ready.

"Boss, you are here, sit down quickly, you can eat." The owner of the house is a sweaty man in his thirties. He already has two sons in his family, and now his wife is still pregnant. is about to give birth.

Although the rules of the villagers are not as good as those of the people's congress in the city, the whole family usually eats at the same table, but women and children are still not allowed to sit at the table when there are lovely people at home.

Yang Tianlin had already seen the man's wife and children before, and now seeing that there were only a few of them at the table, he knew that this man had brought out that set of rules again.

"Brother Zhang, let my sister-in-law and the children come to the table to eat, let's have fun together, and my husband likes children, let the big treasure and the second treasure come over." When talking about Fulang, Yang Tianlin glanced at the steamed bun, and the steamed bun also She smiled sweetly at Yang Tianlin.When eating in this family for the first time, Yang Tianlin thought that one day Mantou could come with him, and it would be even better if he and Mantou had become a family at that time.