Chapter 893 Auntie
Caojia Village is not rich, and each household does not have much land. The food they grow in a year, except for the taxed food, is just enough to feed the family. I want to save more food and exchange it for oil and salt. , then you have to extract food from a family.
Therefore, people in Caojia Village basically do not have enough to eat on weekdays, especially women and children, who have less to eat. Men are the head of the family and the labor force in the family, so they must eat enough.
Because of this, the people in Caojia Village are all thin, especially the children. They are all as thin as bamboo poles, and they look malnourished at first glance.
In winter, people in Caojia Village eat two meals a day, porridge in the morning and porridge in the evening. However, they drink thin porridge in the morning and thick porridge with sweet potatoes and pumpkin in the evening.
In the previous life, when Xia Zihan was in Cao's family, the Cao family's life was the best in Cao's village, but Mrs. Cao deliberately didn't let her eat enough in order to tease her.
She could only eat enough in the summer. In the winter, she had to drink porridge for both meals and was not full at all. Sometimes when she was hungry, she would secretly go to the vegetable field to pick vegetables, wash them, blanch them in boiling water and eat them directly. eat.
When winter comes in the capital, the vegetable fields will freeze, and no vegetables can be kept in the vegetable fields. However, the temperature in the south is higher than in the capital. In winter, the vegetables in the vegetable fields will still be green and green, and the vegetables will not freeze to death.
Also, in the capital, many people like to eat lettuce with sauce at home. There is no sauce in the south, and southerners don’t eat lettuce. They eat it fried.
Sometimes when Xia Zihan is really hungry, she will eat raw vegetables.
She has eaten carrots, lettuce, rapeseed, potatoes, etc. raw.
Sometimes, when she was in charge of cooking, she would secretly stuff a few potatoes into the stove pit. After everyone had gone to bed, and she woke up hungry, she would go to the stove pit to dig potatoes to eat.
These are some of the things she did out of desperation when she was forced by life, forced by hunger, and oppressed by the environment.
Thinking about those things now, she only felt deeply desolate for herself in her previous life.
She obviously made a lot of money by doing embroidery work for a month, but all of it was taken away by Mrs. Cao. She worked day and night doing embroidery work just to support Mrs. Cao, mother and son, and to save money for Cao Zian's gambling, but she didn't I can't even get enough to eat.
Thinking about it now, she deeply lamented the weak and incompetent self in her previous life.
"Master, the food has been moved away." Chu Fei came over to report, and also called back Xia Zihan who was immersed in his previous life.
"Put all these on the carriage." Xia Zihan ordered his two attendants to load all the things sent back by the villagers onto the carriage and take them back to the inn.
Then he said to Chu Lin and the others, "Come to the village chief's house with me."
"Master, don't we have to watch Mrs. Cao move? What if they don't move..."
"They don't dare." Xia Zihan interrupted Chu Cong, "Unless she doesn't want to stay in Caojia Village."
Xia Zihan has no doubts about whether the Daxu family will move. The Daxu family does not dare to occupy her house and refuse to move. As long as she dares not to move, she can make her stay in Caojiacun without shame in the future. .
A group of people arrived at the village chief's house. The village chief's wife was catching chickens. Seeing them entering the yard, the village chief's wife smiled and said, "I was just about to catch two hens and give them to my wife to eat, but my wife is here. Come on, please come to the house." Sit inside.”
He quickly tied the legs of a chicken he had just caught, threw it aside, then washed and wiped his hands, and led Xia Zihan and his servants into the house.
The village chief and his two sons were stacking grain in the warehouse. They came out when they heard the commotion. The village chief patted the ashes and laughed and said, "Madam is not coming. I was about to ask her to stay and have a meal at home." .”
His daughter-in-law went to pick vegetables in the vegetable field and came back soon.
Xia Zihan was not pretentious and said, "I came to the village chief because I have something to tell him. It just so happens that I can ask the village chief to give a certificate."
"Oh, what's the matter? Madam, please tell me." The village chief asked Xia Zihan to sit down, and he also sat down at the front seat. However, he had just carried food on his body and was covered in dust. He originally wanted to go in and change into something clean. As for clothes, I felt that it would be bad to keep your lady waiting, so after thinking about it, I decided not to change them.
Xia Zihan didn't mind, and directly explained the purpose of his visit, and told the village chief about Mrs. Cao's house being sold to her. Then, he told the village chief, "I will give this house away, and when the time comes, the deed will also be transferred. We have to ask the village chief to come with us to be a witness.”
To transfer a house in a rural area, in addition to writing an agreement, you also have to ask people in the village to testify and sign, and then go to the government office to apply for the house deed.
Without the testimony and signature of people in the village, the government will not process the house deeds for them.
Of course, as long as Xia Zihan revealed her identity, the government would not dare to face her. However, Xia Zihan did not want to use her power to oppress others. She wanted to follow the normal procedure. In this way, in the future, the family to whom she donated the house would After moving into Cao's house, with the village chief's testimony, no one else dared to say anything.
"Giving it to someone? Who is the lady going to give it to?" The village chief was very surprised, and his heart was churning.
As expected of a noble man, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was willing to give away such a good house for nothing.
You know, Mrs. Cao's house is the best in Cao's village. Mr. Cao spent a lot of money to build it.
Who among the people in their village is not greedy?
But the noble lady in front of me gave it away as she said it would.
This is a big deal.
The village chief did not dare to neglect. After asking who Xia Zihan wanted to give it to, he personally took Xia Zihan to that house.
That was Cao Zian's cousin. In her previous life, she had taken in Xia Zihan and Ying'er. When Xia Zihan was in the most difficult and hungry period, she took Xia Zihan home and gave her and Ying'er a meal. Bowl of leftovers.
Although it is just leftovers, it is still very precious in the eyes of rural people.
The bowl of leftovers is boiled with some water in the evening and becomes vegetable soup and rice, which is a meal for the family.
Xia Zihan always kept the kindness of that bowl of rice in his heart and never forgot it.
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When the village chief led Xia Zihan and others to his aunt's house, the four members of his aunt's family were busy stacking food just like the village chief's house.
Seeing them coming, he quickly stopped his hand, dusted himself off, and enthusiastically led a few people into the main room.
My cousin's family is considered poor in Caojia Village. Their house is made of adobe, without a single brick. One wall of the house is actually made of straw. In winter, there will be air leakage on that wall. However, , my cousin is diligent, she keeps the house clean, even the table is polished and shines like a mirror.
After Xia Zihan and others sat down, the aunt was not idle. She boiled water for them to drink, found some fruits to wash for them to eat, and also put a basket of freshly fried peanuts for them to eat.
The aunt smiled and said, "It's still a bit hot to the touch when I just took it out of the pot. I originally planned to wait for the peanuts to dry and give them to Madam to eat. Now that Madam is here, I will try them first."
He has a very enthusiastic attitude and a very honest and honest smile.
(End of chapter)