Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 417 Li Yujiao

"Some children will take it for granted, while others will feel that these are far from enough. Anyway, human nature is complicated. Education accounts for part of the reason, and nature accounts for part of the reason. Anyway, it cannot be explained in just one or two sentences."

Good upbringing can still produce bad children, and bad upbringing can still produce good children.

Seeing Li Yujiao coming over with the child in her arms, she called out to her, "Yujiao, come over here and play."

Zhao Sanniang turned around and said with a smile, "I was afraid that you would sleep with the child at home, so I didn't go to your house and came here to talk to Wen He."

"He just woke up and kept crying at home, so I took him out for a walk. Now he's not crying anymore. Aunt Zhao, it must be hard to take care of a child who can walk."

"He's very hard to take care of. He always wants to get up and walk. He won't behave when sitting on my lap. But I don't want to help him walk because I have to bend over all the time. My waist can't take it."

"Can the child speak?"

"He can utter a few words, but I can't hear him clearly."

Zhao Sanniang stood up, bent down, supported the child, and let him walk slowly by himself.

"Yujiao, please sit down. It's tiring to stand and hold the child."

"Hey, thank you Aunt Zhao." Li Yujiao asked while sitting on the bench, "Sister-in-law, when will Yuanshan come to see you?"

"Go tomorrow. If you don't see anybody, go there over the next few days. If his brother does see you, we can get him settled sooner."

"If he gets engaged and Wenshan gets married, it won't take more than a few days for him to be the one. It will be very quick. You will feel much more relaxed when they start a family."

"My mother came to see me a few days ago and told me that in our village, within a month, two families held weddings to marry daughters-in-law, one family married off their daughters, and two other families held full-month banquets for their children. No one knew which family to go to for the banquet."

Ji Wenhe said: "Then your home village is a big village, right?"

"Yes, there are a lot of people in our village. I heard from my mother that there were two families holding funerals. Some were alive, some were dead. Many of them had never had a good life. In the end, they died without a good coffin. They were just wrapped in rotten mats and buried."

Zhao Sanniang took over and said, "We farmers can't afford a good coffin. A good mat is good enough."

Ji Wenhe replied: "Coffins are still affordable, but there are good ones and bad ones. It depends on whether the family is willing to buy them. Some people think that since the old man is dead, why spend that much money on a coffin."

"Some people think that the old man has worked hard all his life, so he should buy a better coffin. I have different opinions."

"That's true." Li Yujiao said, "Sister-in-law, I saw that the two plots of land behind your pigpen have been turned over. You are planning to grow vegetables on them."

"Yes, I planted corn and pumpkins. I also planted beans and peanuts in the plot next to the pig pen on the west side. I also bought some vegetable seeds from the town."

"After the broad beans are harvested, I will plant beans and green vegetables in the three-acre vegetable field in the north. Aunt Zhao, are you going to Zhaojia Village to buy eggplant and tomato seedlings?"

Zhao Sanniang nodded and said, "Yes, I heard from your Aunt Niu that we should go to Zhaojia Village. They know people there and it is cheaper than buying in town. The rice seedlings are also good."

Ji Wenhe walked from the ravine to the path with a rake, stamping the dirt on his feet: "Aunt Zhao, Yujiao, I'll take the rake back. You stay here, or go to my house."

Li Yujiao stood up holding the child and said, "Aunt Zhao and I are just walking around the river. Is the bench yours?"

"Correct."

"That's fine, sister-in-law, take it back."

"Okay, I'm back." He picked up the stool and walked home, put the rake in the utility room, washed his hands, and went to the kitchen to drink half a bowl of warm water.

Shen Wenshan sent the man home, and when he came back, he tied the donkey rope to the fence, walked into the yard and called out, "Sister-in-law."

"Hey." Ji Wenhe poked his head out from the kitchen, "You're back."

He nodded: "Where's Yuanshan?"

"It seems like Yuanshan is building a cabinet in front."

"Sister-in-law, I'll go to the front then."

"Okay, go ahead."

Ji Wenhe looked at the little donkey at the door, unloaded the cart, pulled it to the foot of the mountain, and tied it to the vines.

The other end was tied to a big tree. The vine was very long so he could wander around at the foot of the mountain.

Shen Rongshan and Shen Liang went out to cut grass for pigs. I originally thought they were going outside the mountain to find grass for pigs, but I didn't expect that they went up the mountain.

It rained heavily that day. Shen Rongshan was sitting in the main room peeling corn kernels. There was one basket left, but it was gone after he finished peeling it.

I didn’t peel the rice at home in winter because it was too cold and my hands hurt.

Shen Wenshan set the date for the 22nd. Fortunately, it rained today. If it had rained yesterday, they would have been soaked.

The two twins didn't come over. They should be playing something in the front.

Shen Rongshan said, "Wen He, do you think there is anything else you want to buy in Wenshan's house?"

"No, I went to see it, and the furniture was all there. He packed two more boxes himself, and bought other small things, pots, pans, oil lamps, and so on as well."

"As for things like oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, thread and scissors, Hongye and the others can buy them by themselves. I've also checked Yuanshan's house and there's nothing missing. As for other small things, I don't know what they need, so let them look for them themselves."

Shen Rongshan looked around the house and asked, "What is missing from our home?"

Ji Wenhe stood under the eaves and looked inside the house: "We don't lack anything at home, Brother Shen, do you think it's okay for Wenshan and the others to open a big grocery store?"

"Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, flour, grain, needlework, fabrics, and some miscellaneous fabrics. If it's all oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, few people will buy it."

He looked up at her back and said, "You always wanted to open a grocery store."

Ji Wenhe came to sit beside him and picked up the corn in the basket: "Yes, I still want to open a grocery store, but now the business of selling goods has been given to Yuanshan and the other two. How about we open a grocery store and not sell rice and flour, but only sell some cloth and farm tools. It seems that these things are too few and not very good."

The main way to make money is from rice and flour.

"Wen He, I think we should just raise pigs."

"I'm worried that it will be hard to raise pigs in the future. All the pigs will get sick and can't be sold. In the end, I'll just be raising them for nothing. So I want to have another way out."

Shen Rongshan comforted her, "The pigsty is cleaned every day. We take good care of the pigs so they don't get sick that easily. Don't think too much. I'm here for you."

"After we sell the 20 pigs in the pigsty, we'll build a few more next year and call Uncle Ping over to raise a few more pigs. If they sell well, the money we make in a year will be enough for us to use for several years."

As long as it is not used lavishly.

"Then we have to buy two more pieces of wasteland."

He nodded: "Yes, the wheat from the two plots of land by the road has been harvested and will be planted for Wenshan and Yuanshan's families."

The chicken coop was moved to the vacant space next to the pigpen. There was only a little space left, and with the two acres at the back, if we wanted to raise a few more pigs, two acres of dry land would be a bit too little.

If the corn and winter melon grow very well, two acres of land will be enough to feed the family's pigs for a whole winter.