Beloved Plantation King

It was the twelfth lunar month, and it got dark early in winter, the biting north wind was blowing, and the windows were clanging, making it feel cold.

After Yin Peinan healed the wound, he lay on the bed and thought about things for an hour. After making a decision, the sky darkened.

In order not to arouse suspicion, he healed the inside of the wound, but the scab on the face remained and was not removed.It looked like the wound had just scabbed over, but in fact everything inside was already healed.It's just that he lost too much blood before, and he was still a little dizzy.

Yin Peinan picked up the cloth padded jacket on the bedside and put it on, put on his shoes and went down to the ground.

There was light snow again in the sky, one after another.

He wrapped his cotton coat tightly, but still felt a little cold.The batting inside this cotton coat is hard and stiff, and it doesn't keep warm very much. Yin Peinan misses his down jacket very much.

Entering the kitchen, Yin Peinan saw that there were still only Shuizhu and Brother Ning, and asked, "A-mei, has A-niang not come back yet?"

Shuizhu and Ning Ge'er warmed up by the fire while preparing dinner in front of the stove.Seeing Yin Peinan got up, Shuizhu moved the wooden stool inward to make room for a place outside, "Brother, you are awake, come over to enjoy the fire. Auntie hasn't come back yet, depending on the weather, it should be soon."

Yin Peinan went over to sit down, stretched out his hand to the stove, and felt much warmer all of a sudden.Poor people can't afford charcoal at home, so they warm up in front of the stove in winter.

"I'll go out and have a look." Brother Ning got up and ran towards the door.

"Just don't run away from the door." Shui Zhu warned.

"understood."

Shuizhu turned back after giving instructions, reached out to touch Yin Peinan's forehead, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Yin Peinan's fever subsided.

"It's not hot anymore, brother, how do you feel?"

Yin Peinan dodged Shuizhu's hand subconsciously, but he didn't dodge, he nodded and replied: "It's much better, my head is not so dizzy."

"It's really great." Shuizhu was very happy, thinking that the medicine had worked.She pushed the firewood into the stove and said, "Aniang must be very happy when she comes back. She was worried before she left this morning."

"Well, I'm fine, I'll be fine in two days." Yin Peinan replied, looking up at the empty cauldron on the stove, it was still clean, it was different from what I remembered, there was no pig in it Food.In the memory he got, this big pot was specially used for cooking pig food, and there was always pig food in it, even after feeding, the pot didn't need to be cleaned so clean.

"A-mei, there's no more pig food." Yin Peinan said.

"Oh, the pigs were sold yesterday, so there's no need to cook them." Shui Zhu answered while opening the lid of the small pot on the small stove. There were four sweet potatoes steaming in it. With the last poke, it is easy to pierce through, and the sweet potatoes are cooked.

She pulled out her chopsticks, closed the lid, and then pulled all the firewood from the stove to the other side to boil the bath water.

"The two smaller ones are also sold?" Yin Peinan asked.

The family fed three pigs, one was bigger, weighing an estimated [-] to [-] catties, and the other two were smaller, only about [-] catties, and they were not yet ready for slaughter.

"It's sold, even the six chickens are sold."

Yin Peinan lowered her eyes and sighed inwardly.

The productivity here is low. The yield of rice per mu is usually only more than 200 catties, and the year is good. If the year is not good, the yield per mu is only more than [-] catties. If there is a natural disaster of drought and flood, there may be no crops.

The peasants live a hard life, they are busy all year round, and the harvest is not much. After handing in the imperial grain and leaving the grain seeds for the second year, there is not much left at all.Those who rent other people's fields have to pay the rent, which is even more difficult.

People can't eat enough, let alone have extra food to feed pigs.So the three pigs in the family were all raised by them with sweet potato vines and wild vegetables and weeds. It is a pity that the two half-sized pigs were sold like this.

But there is no way, I still owe 60 taels of silver.They originally fed the pigs to pay off their debts.

Yin Peinan asked: "How much did you collect?"

Shuizhu stopped the hand holding the firewood, and replied in a low voice: "The two loads of millet at home are also sold, and they are less than five taels."

Yin Peinan rubbed the thick calluses on his palms, his face was solemn, the situation was more serious than he imagined.

After the family paid the imperial rations in autumn, apart from the grain seeds, there were only two loads of millet left. Originally, one load was to be kept until the first season of rice was harvested in June next year.Now that the two loads of rice have been sold, they only have about twenty catties of rice that they milled before.

The Chinese New Year is half a month away, and I don’t have any New Year’s goods at home. If I hadn’t traveled here by myself, how I will spend this year and how I will spend this winter are all problems.

The whole family may not be able to get together.

Fortunately, I have already arrived here, so it is impossible to watch them starve to death.

Yin Peinan touched Shuizhu's head, and said in a deep voice, "There will be a solution."

Hearing this, Shui Zhu raised her head to look at Yin Peinan, with obvious surprise in her eyes.She didn't expect her brother to say such a thing.

Yin Peinan patted Shuizhu's shoulder again, and said, "Don't worry, brother won't let anyone sell you."

The suspicion in Shui Zhu's eyes was even worse, but she couldn't help being moved by her brother's words. She had a sore nose and asked, "Brother, did your head get smashed?"

It's no wonder that Shuizhu asked, her elder brother used to dare not speak out loud, he was very cowardly, even a child in the village dared to bully him.Shui Zhu used to dislike this elder brother a little bit, but he has grown up for nothing, and he can work fairly neatly, but he doesn't have the courage and responsibility of a man.

But the day before yesterday, brother brother was still in front of him desperately fighting for her and brother brother. It was the first time she saw something that could be called bravery in brother brother, which made her look sideways at brother brother.

It's just that the deep-rooted impression of more than ten years is too difficult to get rid of, and brother brother actually said such words to her just now, with such a firm tone, she couldn't believe that the person in front of her was brother.

Yin Peinan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but felt blocked in his heart.

Yuan was timid and cowardly, and A Niang was similar, these few years, they were orphans and widows, it was inevitable that someone would bully them.Both A Niang and A Brother are unreliable, the little drops of water erected spikes all over their bodies, she can stab others all over their body if they want to bully them, even if they are called a tigress by the villagers .

Yin Peinan has already decided to take good care of his family for the original body, so the previous image must be changed, this time knocking his head is just a good opportunity.

After all, it can be regarded as "death" once, and some changes in temperament make sense.

He looked at the 14-year-old girl and said sternly, "I'm sorry, sister, you have worked hard all these years. I am obviously older than you, but I am still a man, but I want you to protect this family. Brother, I'm sorry. Brother, think clearly Now, this time I am alive, I can't be so cowardly anymore, I have to be brave and take on this family. Sister, let's tide over this difficulty together."

Brother, when did you ever say such a responsible thing?

Waterdrop's nose was even more sour, but she tried not to shed tears, looked down at the burning firewood, and muttered: "It's best to do what you say." Obviously still can't believe him.

Yin Peinan didn't explain any more, and it will be proved by actions in the future.

"Brother, sister, Ma'am is back." Ning Geer trotted in and shouted happily.

It was already dark outside, a woman was patting the snow off her body at the door, and came into the house after it was cleaned.

Yin Peinan looked up and thought for a moment that he saw his own mother.The mother of the original body is 37 years old this year, and she looks a lot like Yin Peinan's mother, but because of years of hard work, she looks older than when his mother died at the age of 46.

Yin Peinan felt his eyes a little sore, he opened his mouth and called, "...Aunt."

Zhao Xiu'e was very happy to see her son wake up. She came over to touch his forehead gently, and asked with concern, "Ah Nan woke up? How do you feel? Does your head hurt?"

Yin Peinan felt A Niang's concern, shook her head lightly, and said, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

"That's good, the temperature has also dropped." Seeing that her son woke up without any serious problems, Zhao Xiu'e let go of a big stone in her heart and asked, "Have you eaten?"

Shuizhu replied: "I'm waiting for you to come back and eat together."

Zhao Xiu'e said: "Then eat quickly."

The four of them didn't go to the table in the main room to eat, but set up a small table in front of the stove. With the fire and heat in the stove, there was no need to light the lamp. Each of them had a sweet potato and a bowl of clear vegetable rice. Porridge, eat it.

Seeing Shuizhu, Yin Peinan scooped up the rice porridge and vegetable leaves for himself, picked up a spoon, scooped up the rice porridge in the bowl, put it into Ning Ge'er's bowl, and then gave it to Shuizhu and Auntie.

"Brother, eat by yourself, your injury is still not healed." Shui Zhu said with a frown.

"I just ate a bowl when I woke up, and I wasn't too hungry." Yin Peinan replied, and then divided half of the biggest sweet potato in front of her to Brother Ning.

In the year before the end of the world, he had seen too many people starved to death, it was horrible.Brother Ning was so thin and small, he didn't look like a six-year-old child at all, he was malnourished and hungry at first glance.

Brother Ning looked at the sweet potato in front of him, then at his elder brother, then at his elder sister, but he didn't dare to take it.

Shui Zhu sighed and said, "Eat."

With sister's permission, Brother Ning happily took it and ate it.

Yin Peinan smiled and looked at A Niang again, feeling some comfort in her heart.

In the previous life, because he was not in the same city as his parents, when the end of the world came, he couldn't protect his parents. This has always been a regret in his heart.

Seeing Zhao Xiu'e who looks so much like his mother now, Yin Peinan feels that God has treated him well, not only giving him a chance to be reborn, but also giving him a chance to make up for it with filial piety.Although this opportunity is also accompanied by some other difficulties, those are all surmountable, and compared with the desire to raise a child but not being close to each other, those are nothing at all.

After dinner, Shui Zhu asked A Niang: "A Niang, have you borrowed it yet?"

Zhao Xiu'e sighed and shook her head, "I borrowed a total of one or two from your uncle and uncle's house, and the rest is gone."

Several people fell silent.

In the past few years, this happened to them every year at the end of the year. People basically guessed what happened when they saw Zhao Xiu'e coming to the door.

The old debt has not been repaid, and the new debt has come. The uncle and the uncle can still borrow a little for the sake of the mother and compatriots, and the others are afraid of being borrowed by their family.

Besides, the Chinese New Year is just around the corner, money is needed everywhere, and the uncle and uncle's family can't borrow much. They are not wealthy people in the first place.

Yin Peinan thought for a while and said, "I'll go tomorrow..."

"Yo, are you eating?"

Before Yin Peinan finished speaking, a middle-aged man opened the kitchen door and walked in.

The man's name is Hu Dadi, who lives in the north of the village. He is 42 years old. He is a well-known lazy man in the village. He is also lecherous and likes to tease young girls and brothers.People in the village didn't like him very much.

Two years ago, his husband passed away due to illness, and he became a widower.

It is because of his good fortune that his two sons are more competitive. One went out to run a boat, and when he was a child, he was picked up by a doctor in the town and accepted as an apprentice. He followed him to study medicine, and now he can see a doctor independently.The two sons are promising, and Hu Dadi is getting more and more lazy. There are two daughters-in-law in the field, so he just eats and works. When he is in a good mood, he goes to the fields and spends most of his time wandering around the village.

Seeing someone coming, water drops lit the tung oil lamp on the stove, and seeing that it was Hu Dadi, he was a little puzzled. "Uncle Dadi? It's so late, what's the matter with you?"

Hu Dadi's dripping eyes circled around the water drops, and he sat down on the stool in front of the stove, and said, "I've brought money to your family."

Several people were confused.

Drops of water moved the low table away.Yin Peinan asked: "What does Uncle Dadi mean by this?"

Hu Dadi smiled and replied: "That's right. Everyone knew about what happened the day before yesterday, and I saw it too. My eldest son came back today and made a little money, so why don't I just come here?" .”

Several people looked at each other, Zhao Xiu'e hesitated and said: "Brother Hu family, are you willing to lend us money?" She had gone to the Hu family to borrow money before, but she didn't get it.

Hu Dadi shook his head and said, "It's not borrowing."

Yin Peinan said: "Is that...a loan?"

Hu Dadi shook his head, glanced at the water drops, and pretended to be angry again: "Pei Nan, who do you think I am? I'm from the village, can I be the kind of person who collects interest from you?"

Yin Peinan watched his eyes turn around the drops of water, frowned and said, "Then you are?"

Shuizhu couldn't bear the guesswork, so she said bluntly, "Uncle Dadi, don't be so convoluted, what did you just say?"

Hu Dadi looked at Shuizhu, smiled, and turned to Zhao Xiu'e: "Shuizhu's mother, Shuizhu will only be fifteen in the next year, should you consider telling her about her husband's family?"

As soon as the words came out, several people understood that they were here to say kiss to Shui Zhu, but they didn't know who he was going to say to.

Zhao Xiu'e glanced at Shui Zhu, hesitated and said, "I'm afraid it's hard to say about our family's situation."

Hu Dadi smiled and said, "No problem, the other party doesn't care."

Zhao Xiu'e asked: "Brother Hu, I don't know which family you are talking about?"

Hu Dadi laughed, "My family."

Zhao Xiu'e was a little startled, glanced at Shuizhu and Yin Peinan, and said to Hu Da: "Aren't your eldest and second... married?" Is this to make Shuizhu smaller?

Shuizhu frowned, and Yin Peinan's face darkened immediately.

Hu Dadi waved his hands and said, "It's not the boss."

"That's it?" Zhao Xiu'e had a bad premonition in her heart.

Hu Dadi licked his lips, and said with a hey smile, "Me."

Zhao Xiu'e was silent, and Shui Zhu didn't speak.

Yin Peinan stared at Hu Dadi fiercely, wishing to beat him up.He didn't expect this man to be so shameless, he was 42 years old, and his grandson was four or five years old, yet Xiao Xiang was only 14 years old.

Seeing that a few people were silent, Hu Dadi tried his best to sell himself: "Look, my husband passed away two years ago, and I am single now. Besides, your family is in urgent need of money in the current situation. If Shuizhu follows Me, I can immediately give a dowry gift of ten taels of silver, and I can also ask my son to help raise money..."

"Da, Di, Uncle!" Before Hu Da could finish speaking, Yin Peinan stood up abruptly, gritted his teeth and interrupted him word by word, and then said: "We call you Uncle because of your age." For such a big reason. Our family is short of money, but it’s not enough to sell our daughter to fill in other people’s houses!"

Yin Peinan's voice was not too loud, but every word fell loudly in the ears of several people.

Zhao Xiu'e, Shui Zhu and Ning Ge'er were all taken aback.

Hu Dadi was even more frightened by his sudden shock. He looked at Yin Peinan, as if he didn't know him, especially Yin Peinan's eyes, which were a little sinister.

Hu Dadi stood up, shrunk his neck unconsciously, and moved away from Yin Peinan.

He murmured in his heart, when did Yin Peinan become so courageous that he dared to stare at him?Is this still the submissive wimp from before?

But looking at the wound on Yin Peinan's head, and thinking of the way he stabbed someone with a knife the day before yesterday, Hu Dadi felt that it could be explained, this man was in a hurry but he could do anything.

"Wh, why sell your daughter, don't say it so ugly, I just want to help you." Hu Dadi defended his mouth, but his eyes swept over the watery and delicate face.

All the dirty thoughts in the old ghost's heart were written on his face, Yin Peinan said with a dark face, "No need. Shuizhu won't marry you, so don't think about it."

Hu Dadi: "I can help you borrow money to repay the debt, as long as..."

"No need!" Yin Peinan interrupted him, and said, "If you are willing to lend us money, we are very grateful. If you want to use water drops as a condition, please return."

Hu Dadi turned to Zhao Xiu'e again: "Mother Shuizhu, I'm kind enough to help you."

Zhao Xiu'e turned her head and didn't answer.

Although she is soft-tempered, she doesn't want to trade her daughter for money.No one knows better than her what life will be like if she marries a bad husband-in-law. She doesn't want her daughter to follow in her footsteps.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Hu Dadi said again: "Mother Shuizhu, you should think about it clearly. If Shuizhu is caught by the people in the gambling house, you don't know where she will be sold. Instead of doing this, then You might as well follow me, don't you think?"

Yin Peinan stepped forward to stand in front of Zhao Xiu'e, and said to Hu Dadi, "Shuizhu won't be taken away, and brother won't be taken away either, so don't worry about Uncle Dadi."

"Hmph, I don't know what's good!" Yin Peinan was so tough that Hu Dadi couldn't help it, so he snorted and left.It is naturally impossible to lend them money, and who knows when they will be able to pay it back.

After the people left, Shuizhu went to close the door, then put away the bowls and chopsticks, washed them silently, and finally sat down in front of the stove.

Yin Peinan and Zhao Xiu'e didn't speak, Ning Ge'er was frightened by the situation just now, and silently nestled in A Niang's arms.

After a while, Yin Peinan said: "Tomorrow I'll go to the mountains for a walk." He was going to hunt, and with his abilities, hunting some animals was easy.

But Zhao Xiu'e didn't think so, she said: "Your wound is not healed yet, so you can't go. It's snowing, the mountain is dangerous, and not many prey will come out."

"I'm fine." Yin Peinan retorted, "It's snowing and those beasts have nothing to eat, so they come out to look for food."

But you are so timid, what can you hit?Zhao Xiu'e frowned tightly, but she didn't say that.Now there is really no other way.

Shui Zhu glanced at brother, then lowered his head and picked the firewood casually, and said, "Hu Da said that he can help raise money..."

Before she finished speaking, Yin Peinan interrupted immediately, "Don't even think about it!" Yin Peinan looked at Shuizhu and said, "Shuizhu, you are only 14 years old, Hu Dadi is definitely not a good match, ah Brother, I hope you can marry someone you like in the future."

Shuizhu tightly gripped the fingers of the poker, she didn't want to do this, "But we can't get that much money together."

Yin Peinan's eyes were firm, and he said: "Brother will find a way. There are still seven days, brother will definitely get the money out."

Shuizhu looked sideways at brother, the orange-red flames imprinted on brother's face, his face was firm like never seen before.Shui Zhu thinks that elder brother has never been so tall.

Zhao Xiu'e sighed softly, wept silently, wiped her eyes, and said to the three children, "It's all because Auntie is useless and can't make money."

"Aniang, it's not your fault." Yin Peinan comforted her.

At night, after A Niang and the others fell asleep, Yin Peinan got up quietly, twisted a few grains in the seed tank, took a small sweet potato from the basket beside her, and sneaked out the door.

He went to his own ground behind the house, and used supernatural powers to give birth to those few grains of millet and sweet potatoes.

Their wood-type abilities can take the seeds of plants into their bodies, and then use them when needed.Yin Peinan actually absorbed many seeds of modern crops in his body, but the taste of these seeds is probably not the same as that of the crops here. He was afraid of being discovered by the water drops, so he had to use the seeds here first.

He didn't dare to produce too many millet and sweet potatoes at one time, so he only produced one or two catties of millet, and separated the rice grains with supernatural powers, and harvested seven or eight sweet potatoes.

He didn't eat much for dinner, and his stomach was growling with hunger, so he made himself a big jelly potato and gnawed on it. Then he cleaned up the crime scene and went back and quietly put the rice and sweet potatoes into the rice tank and the sweet potato container. the bottom of the basket.

Do it once every other day, and it should last for a while. When you have money, you don't have to be so sneaky to buy rice again.

After finishing, he quietly slipped back to lie down again, without disturbing Brother Ning who was sleeping with him.