Chapter 144 The decline of the family
The moon is bright and the wind is gentle. Lying beside the bed, listening to daddy telling stories about the past...
Yang Ruoqing and Daan sister and brother, two pairs of ears Raised high, he listened with relish.
It wasn't until Yang Huazhong finished speaking that the two siblings came back to their senses.
Over there, Mrs. Sun and Lao Suntou were also listening quietly. Everyone in the room was immersed in this entanglement between the ancestors of the Lao Yang family!
"Dad, I still want to ask." Yang Ruoqing cleared her throat and moved closer.
“My father was born into a small landowner’s family, with forty or fifty acres of land, and there were part-time and part-time workers in the family. How did he end up in this kind of family?”
“Huh? "Yang Huazhong didn't expect Yang Ruoqing to ask this, and was stunned for a moment.
"After your father was born, there was a famine, and the fields had no harvest for three consecutive years."
Yang Huazhong stuffed the last piece of egg pancake into his mouth, and then said: " At that time, many people starved to death in eight villages. Even though our old Yang family had some food, we couldn’t survive that long!”
"All the long-term and part-time workers in the family were dismissed, and your great-grandfather began to sell off the family's land."
"This area has suffered from years of famine, and it is difficult to sell the land. Your great-grandfather also starved to death."
< br>“Finally, we waited until we received disaster relief food from the court before we could survive. "After this disaster."
"Your great-grandmother grew up in a widow's family. She couldn't do the work in the fields, so she sold the fields or rented them to others to make a living. It’s just getting worse every day!”
So that’s what happened!
Yang Ruoqing nodded secretly.
As far as she knows, in this era, it is really not easy for a widow to raise a child.
If you rent such a good field to others and charge some rent or something, your life will definitely get worse and worse.
Especially when the man is no longer the backbone of the family, he will inevitably be bullied by the villagers.
Those who rent their land have been renting it for a long time. When you want to take it back and plant it yourself, they may still be holding on to it and not return it!
Wrangling is inevitable!
"Dad!"
Yang Ruoqing interrupted Yang Huazhong and then asked: "I think cousin Lan'er is really good-looking! Her facial features don't look like those of my second uncle or uncle. "Second mother!"
"Not only is she not like the second uncle and the second mother, she is also not like our old Yang family!" Da'an took over Yang Ruoqing's words and said.
"Yeah!" Yang Ruoqing nodded, and then asked: "Dad, cousin Lan'er, are you really the biological child of my second uncle and my second mother?"
Yang Huazhong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said: "Silly girl, you are asking such a stupid thing!"
"Dad, it doesn't matter whether my words are stupid or not, just say yes or no!"
" Yes, your cousin Lan'er is the authentic descendant of our old Yang family. My granddaughter. But——"
"But what?"
"The older people in the village say that your cousin Laner's appearance is just like that of her husband. ’s great-grandmother!”
"Ah?"
Yang Ruoqing was startled. Isn't that the cousin-in-law who hooked up with her great-grandfather back then?
“The person from the next village asked Mi Po when she was giving Lan’er a birth date and told her that she was afraid that she was reincarnated by one of the ancestors of the old Yang family. This is cause and effect!” Yang Huazhong finally said road.
“That’s it!”
Yang Ruoqing nodded suddenly.
She didn't dare to believe in reincarnation.
However, it is an indisputable fact that Yang Ruolan inherited the troublesome beauty of her cousin-in-law.
Moreover, Yang Ruolan is also an inefficient lamp!
"Qing'er, you've eaten what you should eat, and you've asked what you should ask. It's already late now. Should we wash up and go to bed to rest?"
Sun Shi touched the heads of Yang Ruoqing and Daan and asked with a smile.
Yang Ruoqing stuck out her tongue: "Hey, I've had a lot of fun tonight, okay, let's clean up the dishes and go to bed!"
Tomorrow, Chang Geng and Uncle Daniu will come over to help their family grow rapeseed and wheat. . The seeds were all borrowed from these two families.
Cold dew seeds, frost drops wheat.
It’s the Winter Clothes Festival now, and it will be the beginning of winter in a few days.
It can be said that this season, my family has missed the golden season of growing rapeseed and wheat, and it is coming to an end.
The harvest of rapeseed and wheat planted at this time will definitely be greatly reduced next year, and it will not be as good as those planted in the middle of the season.
However, if you can gain something, you can't just panic like this.
After dinner, Mrs. Sun went into the kitchen to clean up. Yang Ruoqing called Lao Suntou to come over and help weigh the soybeans.
According to the sales contract with Juweixuan, he has to deliver tofu to the restaurant in the town every three days in winter.
Each trip brings fifty kilograms of tofu, half a kilogram a piece, which is one hundred pieces of tofu.
Yang Ruoqing calculated based on her own experience in making tofu, two kilograms of soybeans would make ten kilograms of tofu, and fifty kilograms of tofu would require soaking ten kilograms of soybeans!
So, she and Lao Suntou weighed ten pounds of soybeans and soaked them in two large wooden barrels with water.
After soaking the soybeans, it takes six hours before the soybean milk can be ground.
It has been soaked for a while, and it will be almost ready for grinding tomorrow morning.
The family finished washing and went back to their houses to rest.
The next day, people from Uncle Chang Geng and Uncle Daniu came over.
Yang Ruoqing's family was allocated two acres of paddy field and two acres of dry land during this trip.
Two acres of paddy field will not be moved, and it is planned to be reserved for planting rice next year.
Half an acre of dry land in the woods was formerly reclaimed by the old Yang family and was not suitable for growing rapeseed and wheat.
There is still one and a half acres of dry land available in the plains.
Of this five-quarter dry land, Sun plans to appropriate three-thirds of it and flatten it into a vegetable garden.
The remaining one acre of land is divided into two parts, half of which is used to grow wheat and the other half to grow rapeseed.
In the morning, Sun and Chang Geng all went to the fields to plant rapeseed and wheat.
Yang Ruoqing stayed at home with Daan.
The two siblings spent a whole day grinding ten pounds of soybeans into soybean milk. They filled a wooden bucket with it and placed it in the corner to dry, with a dust-proof bamboo sieve covering it. .
Guessing that it was almost noon, the two siblings shook their sore arms again and began to prepare for lunch.
What should I have for lunch?
This is a question Yang Ruoqing wants to ponder.
She found a wooden barrel with some loaches and small fish raised in water.
She got this when she caught eels a few days ago. She kept it in a bucket for several days and changed the water every day.
Now that the loach has spit out the sediment, it can be put into the pot directly without being slaughtered.
Using a bamboo spatula to scoop out the loaches and finger-long fish from the bucket, he weighed them and nodded.
Yang Ruoqing decided to cook it with red chili peppers later. Even with the fish and fish soup, it can fill a big bowl, making it a great side dish.
Cornmeal, some caramel, and a pot of fragrant and sweet cornmeal pancakes.
After the family was separated, all the vegetables in the house were provided by Aunt Guihua and Aunt Dayun.
Lao Suntou came over and brought some cabbage, lettuce and lentils.
After several days, we have almost eaten all the vegetables, leaving only the last few cabbages with slightly yellowed leaves and two lettuces.
(End of this chapter)