Defeat natural disasters with farming

Most of Maodong's farmers are extremely boring, but they can gossip for ten days and a half months about any gossip, not to mention that Ye Cheng's family is closely related to them.

After breakfast, they squatted at the base of the wall with their hands in their hands in twos and threes, chatting while basking in the sun.

"Hey, have you heard? Ye Cheng's family was separated by their old lady."

"It really deserves it. When my boy married his wife, he took a pair of chickens and ducks, and a basket of eggs as a bride price. Their family doesn't talk about money, and the eggs can always be brought out."

"That's right, you can't take advantage of small advantages. Fortunately, our village chief didn't allow them to send Fang Zi there. Otherwise, their family would be sinners in our village, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to remove them from the family tree."

"Don't say that, Ye Cheng is a good kid, as long as the matter can be resolved."

While they were chatting, Ye Cheng's family suddenly came out from the other side of the corner, which startled them, and they didn't know if they heard the discussion.

Someone couldn't hold back and shouted loudly: "Grandma Song, where are you going?"

Grandma Ye Cheng is called Granny Pine in the village, because the pine nuts fried by her hands are always more fragrant than others. People in the village often ask her to help fry pine nuts. As a price, they will bring something to her every time they invite her. , Sometimes it’s eggs, sometimes it’s cloth. Although the quantity is small at a time, it’s a lot of savings. This is why she can support her three sons with a small amount of land at home, and at the same time marry them and have children.

In fact, this is also a kind of care that the villagers secretly take care of their orphans and widowed mothers. After all, pine nuts are delicious but can't be eaten as a meal. Why do they need someone to help fry them.

Granny Pine herself is a tall, thin, serious old man, with her gray hair neatly combed into a turban. Although the seams of her fingernails have been blackened by years of frying pine nuts, it can be seen that they have been carefully cleaned.

Behind her was Ye En's family, including Ye Cheng's daughter-in-law Qian Shi, who frowned and shrugged.

"Take the second child to the county to make up for the dowry."

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the pole carried on Ye En's shoulder. The interrogator looked inside, and what caught his eye was a bundle of things wrapped in oiled paper, and a stamp was stamped on the oiled paper, which seemed to be the county seat. Wufangzhai, the largest dim sum shop in the village.

"Oh, don't bother you, go quickly."

After Ye Cheng's family left, the villagers got together to chat again.

"Do you think people can agree?"

"I think it's difficult, and this time they can be regarded as emptying their family. Doesn't Ye En's brother have any objections?"

"How can there be no?" Speaking of this, a villager who is familiar with Brother Ye En quickly said, "It costs a lot just to set up the banquet, but I just think that the new daughter-in-law is from the county and can bring them benefits. Now, seeing that they are going to spend a lot of money again, how could they have no objection, it was they who proposed Ye En to leave the house."

...

By the time the news reached the ears of Ye Yu's family, the matter had basically been settled.

Ye En's family was separated out. Although they didn't leave the house completely, the difference was not too big. There is a saying that a broken house is worth a million dollars. Things like needles, threads, and brains may seem inconspicuous, but in fact, it is not cheap to buy them all.

After they separated, they still had to build a house separately, and they didn't have much land, so they probably had to live frugally for a while.

As for the betrothal gift, Granny Song used her own coffin to make up for it. The reason why the Qian family let go was because the village chief talked with the Qian family. In the future, the tofu in their village could be sold at the same price as it was sold to Li's restaurants. Give it to Qian's restaurant, and if the village wants to sell tofu recipes in the future, they will be the first to sell them.

Ye Yu didn't expect that the village had kept the tofu recipe to death, and it has not been revealed until now. In fact, it was because he underestimated the current clan culture. Everyone in the village has a strong clan concept. As long as the village head and the elders If the prescription is not allowed to be disclosed, they will not disclose it.

If it is really removed from the family tree, it is equivalent to rootless duckweed.

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"I went to the river to fetch water just now, and met Ye Cheng's wife. She looks similar to our peasant family now, but she is very kind. She watched me fetch water and helped me dig ice."

The Liuhe River has been covered with a thick layer of ice, and every time you want to get water, you have to cut the ice layer, because people in the village use the same place to get water, and the ice in that place is repeatedly cut and frozen, so It is thinner than other places, but no matter how thin it is, it is not easy to chisel it.

The second sister-in-law Ye's first reaction was, "Why didn't you call me? It's not easy to fetch water." Then she said, "She's a nice person."

Auntie Ye poured a glass of water to warm her hands, and smiled, "You were cooking just now, I thought it wouldn't be too much trouble to carry a bucket of water."

Mother Ye went out to look at the big water tank in the yard, and sure enough there was only one bottom left. After she came in, she discussed with them, "Let's take the donkey to get water later, and we'll talk about filling the water tank."

"Okay, I just happened to look for Ye He. This guy doesn't know where he has gone, and he doesn't come home all day." Aunt Ye's tone sounded a bit resentful.

"You're still a child, it's normal to love to play." Mother Ye said as she walked, and the three sisters-in-law walked towards Liuhe together.

But at this time, Ye He and the others were also beside Liuhe.

Ye Minghui squatted on the ground and said doubtfully, "Can we really catch fish?"

Ye Shuan also asked, "The water is freezing, how can I catch fish?"

Ye He didn't speak, but puffed up his chest, stretched out his hands, and proudly showed them the fishing rod in his hand, "That's because you haven't found a way, how can you not catch it with a fishing rod?"

Ye Yu glanced at him, then picked up a small bowl, which contained the earthworms he had finally found, which could be used as bait.

Their fishing rod is made of bamboo, which is light and tough. The fishing line is made of silk. The most expensive part of the whole fishing rod is the hook, which is made of iron. No, Father Ye brought it back when he retired, and the usual fishhooks are made of stone.

After fixing the earthworm on the fishhook, several people gathered around a hewn ice surface and waited quietly.

Ye Yu couldn't squat anymore, he stood up and jumped twice to warm up his body, then took out a handful of pine nuts from his pocket and gave them to his friends.

The pine nuts were just fried today, and a little honey was added when they were fried. The taste is sweet and the children like it very much.

I don't know if it's because they were lucky today. It took only a quarter of an hour for the fishing rod to shake violently, and there was obviously a shadow rampaging under the ice.

"Hurry up and use your strength!" Ye He suddenly stuffed the remaining pine nuts into Ye Yu's hands, stood up by himself, with his feet slightly apart, and pulled the fishing rod out vigorously.

Both Ye Minghui and Ye Shuan were strong people, and the three of them worked hard together. After a while, the fish that bit the hook was thrown on the ice. It was a grass carp that was one meter long. It kept slapping the ice surface, splashing bursts of ice particles.

"I caught it." Ye Minghui clapped his hands happily, and ran to pick up the grass carp, ignoring its vigorous struggle, and threw it directly into the basket next to it.

With a smile on Ye Yu's face, she was so happy that she didn't even feel cold, "I'm so lucky today, how about catching a few more? Anyway, we still have earthworms."

Of course Ye He had no objection, he put the basket aside, replaced it with new earthworms, and continued fishing.

While fishing, he did not forget to tell Ye Yu, "Brother Bao, don't come over, just wait on the dike, don't let the fish jump out."

The luck was really good today, and three more fish were caught one after another, two crucian carps and one carp, all of which were very fat.

When they were still happy, the three of Mrs. Ye happened to come over to fetch water, and when they came, they saw them squatting on the ice.

"Don't stand on the ice, what if you fall?"

Ye He couldn't help trembling when he heard his mother's voice, and hurriedly replied: "I'm so happy, let's go now."

After he finished speaking, he stopped fishing, and walked over with a basket in one hand and Ye Yu in the other.

Second Aunt Ye looked at the almost full basket, and said with a smile, "Hey, you guys are lucky today, you caught so many fish."

Mother Ye held her son's hand, and said in harmony, "It's good to make fish soup. Fish in winter is the most delicious time."

Crucian carp soup and braised grass carp are delicious.

Aunt Ye knew that the two younger siblings were tactfully begging for mercy, so she let Ye He go and only gave him a look.

Then he took out two fish from the back basket and shared them with Ye Minghui and Ye Shuan, "You guys caught this fish together, so each of you should have one."

Before they could refuse, they put away the remaining two fish and handed the basket to Ye He.

Ye He breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly took the pannier and carried it on his back, "Mother, I'll send the fish home first, and I'll come over to help later."

"Don't come here either, the two of you happened to feed the chickens and ducks when you got home."

"okay."

When Ye Yu went home with him, she was quite puzzled, "My aunt has a good temperament, why are you so afraid of her?"

Ye He let out a long sigh when he heard the words, "I don't know, obviously my father looks much more bad-tempered than my mother, but I'm just afraid that she will surpass my father."

Loving father and strict mother?

Ye Yu thought about their daily relationship, and it was not impossible.

The two of them returned home to feed the chickens and ducks, and their little friends who had just parted for a long time came to their house by coincidence.

Ye Shuan came first, and he brought a piece of bacon with him. Ye Minghui also brought a pack of snacks, and they left after a short stay.

Aunt Ye and the three came back to fetch water and filled the water tank to eighty-tenths full. The swaying water made a small fish in it look swaying.

This is a small carp. It does not need to be fed when kept in the tank. It will eat the sticky microorganisms in the water by itself to keep the water clean. Such a fish can live for two years in the tank without any problem.

Second Aunt Ye picked up the dim sum bag on the table and looked at it, "It's Wufangzhai's pea yellow, it's not cheap."

In comparison, that fish is not as expensive as this bag of dim sum.

"There are coming and going. It's not a big deal for our children to play well with their children."

Mother Ye washed her hands after saying this, and trotted two steps to the stove to start decocting the medicine. The sour and bitter smell permeated the yard again, letting Ye Yu know that he was going to take medicine as soon as he smelled it.

This is the third time he has changed his medicine. This time, Dr. Wu directly prescribed the medicine for two months, which is enough for mid-January next year.

The author says:

Recently, Renaissance has watched several old dramas, and I found that my aesthetics have never changed, and I will always be the noble young master yyds