Chapter 26 Wheat Grinding
The Qi family is three brothers supporting an old lady.
When Mrs. Qi was young, she worked with lamps and boiled oil, which hurt her eyes. Now she can only see people in a blur. She can only walk freely in her own yard and rarely go out.
It turned out that there were not only three brothers in the Qi family, but five brothers.
Neither the second child nor the third child was kept.
His family has little land, and Qi Da can get busy at home alone. Qi Si works as a coffin shop clerk in the town.
The whole family is honest and quiet.
The people in the village know their duties, but the profession of relatives and relatives is somewhat taboo, and they seldom interact with each other, and gradually become a little transparent in the village.
Yan Xiucai looks for helpers for his land every year, but Qi University was not ranked in the previous years. This year, there was a severe drought, and everyone in the village stared at his three-acre land, but it helped him.
When the Yan family’s word about substituting grain for labor was released, many people envied it.
Village head Luo chose his family for a reason. One is that the Qi family has little land, and Qi Si and Qi Wu just returned home, so there is a surplus of labor.
Another one is that the Qi family brothers have a good physique, great stature and great strength.
Otherwise, the boss of the coffin shop wouldn’t hire Qi Si as a buddy. He alone is two people, so it’s not too convenient to move around.
The same is true for Qi Wu. Carpenter Liao is different from other carpenters in that he only makes coffins.
are all large slabs, solid wood and solid materials, which are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Qi Da honestly, except for the words shouted outside the courtyard gate, without saying a word, unloaded the piles of bundled wheat from the trolley, carried them into the yard, and stacked them neatly.
Qi Si came with him. After all, he was working as a waiter in the town. Although it was a coffin shop, there were few people to deal with, and he could say a few polite words.
"Second brother Yan, I see that your wheat is all in the sun, when are you going to grind it? Just say hello to our brothers."
"Don't say it, I'm really in a hurry. I plan to go there in the next afternoon. It just so happens that the family has a cow..."
Yan Laoer wanted to say let the cow pull the mill, the speed must be awesome.
I didn’t want to, but the eldest brother took the conversation and said: "I have added cows to the family, so I just took the wheat away together, saving a few extra trips, and bothering the two Qi brothers for grinding the wheat. It doesn’t need to be finely ground, as long as it can be imported."
Qi Si looked happy, "Don't worry, Xiucai, leave it to our brothers."
Qi Da also grinned, looking very happy.
As soon as the two brothers came out of the yard, it seemed that the yard of their house was quite spacious.
"Brother, our oxen can also be used for milling." Yan Lao Er was a little reluctant. It costs nothing to use three treasures to grind noodles, but the brothers from the Qi family have to give food to others.
"You save that bit of wheat, the cow is exhausted, you carry me to Guanzhou?!" Yan Huaiwen especially looked down on Yan Lao Er's sloppy behavior.
"Our three treasures are in good physical strength, it's just a grind, what's the matter?" Yan Lao Er retorted in a low voice.
To be honest, if Old Yan didn’t stare, he would speak quite smoothly, but if he did, he would feel guilty for no reason.
"Everyone go back to the house to pack up, our wheat has been ground, and wait for the people in the village, and then we will leave in a day or two." After Yan Huaiwen explained, he went back to the house.
Yan Xiangheng leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, are we really leaving? Why is it north?"
"Didn't your father tell you?" Yan Er Er asked.
"Father said that we can't survive the drought, and we want to take the villagers to go north to Guanzhou, but Uncle, we haven't reached that point yet, have we?"
"You'll go fetch water later, look at the old well in our village, it's all empty!" Yan Laoer must cooperate with Lao Yan in this regard, how serious should I say:
"You don't go out in the academy. You don't know the situation in the town. Those big families have left long ago, and we are still here stupidly. After a while, it will still be the same, not a drop of rain, think about it What is it like?"
Yan Xiangheng followed his words and thought: "After a while, we will have to pay the grain tax. Half of our wheat has to be removed. If it doesn't rain... Oh? No, uncle! Dad is going to take all the wheat to the mill. Let's take it What tax payment!"
Yan Laoer gave him a hard look, and said in a low voice, "Shut up, nephew! You've been studying for nothing, why did you ask such a stupid question, when did your father say we were leaving?"
"One or two days..."
"Then hurry up and pack your things!"
"Huh? Oh...oh!"
Yan Xiangheng suddenly realized, patted his head and went back to the house to clean up.
As soon as Yan Laoer turned his head, he saw her daughter looking at him very seriously with a sullen little face.
"Dabao! Can we stop squatting all the time? Still squatting with our hands in our hands, why don't you learn something from your uncle?"
Looking like an old farmer...
"That's great!" Yan Yu replied.
The barbarian country wants to squat but can't squat!
snort! Is she proud!
"Father, don't keep beating big brother. If people don't understand, just ask. If there is something wrong, you and uncle have a problematic attitude. Uncle doesn't say everything, and you tell big brother to shut up. You don't teach him well." Yan Yu gave advice to her father.
"He is a stinky boy, so he has to go through setbacks and education, and think about it for himself, so that he can become a talent." Yan Laoer has his own set of fallacies.
He has been taking care of his cousins and nephews in this way since he was a child. Who told those relatives to keep talking about him having a daughter?
"Brother is very kind to me. I just asked if you bought me snacks when I went to the town. I said no. He stuffed me with two coins and asked me to wait for the salesman to come to the village to buy sweet snacks."
Yan Yu spread out her palms and showed her father the two copper plates that were yellow in the sunlight.
Yan Er Er raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.
It would be nice for his cousins and nephews not to take money from his daughter.
Yan Yu continued to complain: "I also heard that big sister said that she would sew a cloth pocket for me to play with. Dad, you, as an uncle, also serve snacks, and show it to big brother and big sister!"
Yan's second son made his daughter amused.
"Okay, I'll remember, don't worry, I definitely can't do errands!"
"But girl, can we not take advantage of our small size and keep squatting at the door to eavesdrop, how bad it is to be seen."
Yan Laoer said again: "You are already a child, so you have to look like a child."
Yan Yu rolled her eyes and suddenly raised her voice: "Father! I'm hungry! I want to eat meat! I want broth! I want meat porridge!"
Yan’s second child: …
You little one is too fast!
Yan Laoer used the noodles made last night to steam steamed buns and made egg drop soup.
Meat, meat, family, eat meat every day!
It was still Sanbao who helped to time the time, and the **** steamed buns that came out of the pan smelled delicious.
Yan Yu took a bite without caring about the heat.
Ga? What's the matter with this mouthful of graininess?
She looked at her father in surprise.
Yan Lao Er sighed, "Is your throat too loud? There is bran in it, which is the outer layer of wheat, which is not ground fine enough. You also heard what your uncle said just now. From now on, our family will eat this, so let's get used to it. "
"Where's our flour?" Yan Yu asked aggrievedly.
"I weighed it. Rice and flour are ten catties, and the two are twenty catties in half a month, and only forty catties in a month, which is not enough to eat."
Yan Er Er stroked her daughter's soft hair, and comforted in a warm voice:
"Didn't you ask Dad to show off? Do you think Dad's expression is grand? Let's put it together for dinner. It's not bad for Lao Yan to be alone. Take him with you.
Trying my best to find out where to eat, isn’t it just for the convenience of taking it out, the food bought by Lao Yan looks good, but if you calculate it carefully, if you walk for a month or two, such an old person...
At that time, it doesn’t matter whose family it is, the folks in the village, you can’t just watch people starve to death..."
Yan Yu took another big bite and chewed vigorously: "Father, you are right, we are still struggling on the poverty line, we have to find ways to earn money and buy more food!"
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(end of this chapter)