Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

At this moment, the grandmother, who was drinking her soup, looked up and found that everyone at the table was staring at her in amazement.

The grandmother stared at her son Jiang Chenghai and said, "What I want to say is that Yueyue is not like someone who only talks but does not practice."

"Grandma, what you just said is so knowledgeable." An Yue gave a thumbs up and said in amazement.

"Pfft..." My uncle was drinking soup. After hearing what An Yue said, he couldn't help laughing and choked on the soup.

Grandfather frowned and said, "This is outrageous! You are so old, but you are still so unruly!"

The grandmother rolled her eyes again and said, "Your wife has run away, and you're still laughing!"

At this moment, Uncle Jiang Chenghai suddenly stopped smiling.

An Yue watched her uncle being scolded, and laughed and whispered sarcastically: "Uncle, are you laughing? Why aren't you laughing? Are you born not to like laughing?"

"..." Uncle Jiang Chenghai glared at An Yue with gritted teeth, then looked at his parents' faces. He knew better than to speak another word.

An Yue and An Nian stuck out their tongues, feeling a little proud.

Grandma took a bite of the sweet potato and said angrily, "What a shame, Wei always runs back to her mother's house! How can we live like this in the future?!"

"Okay, okay, that's enough! Stop talking! Ah Hai, when you come back from hunting, bring some mountain products to Old Wei's house and quickly bring your wife back to celebrate the New Year." Grandfather Jiang Wuwen finished his soup, put down the bowl and said.

"I understand, Dad." Uncle Jiang Chenghai was much more obedient now.

After dinner, my uncle began to prepare tools for hunting in the mountains tomorrow, while Anyue and Nian, as usual, collected and washed the dishes, put them away and returned to the main house.

Grandma prepared the water for washing feet and waited for the brother and sister to come over and soak their feet together.

Another busy day came to an end. After soaking their feet, the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren returned to their beds exhausted and soon fell asleep.

The next day, early morning.

It was still dark when I could vaguely hear someone knocking on the door. It must be Zhang Kai from the village. He and his uncle had made an appointment to go up the mountain together.

An Yue couldn't sleep either, so she got up and swept the house, then poured the firewood they had brought back from the backpack and spread it out to dry.

After finishing these tasks, it was already dawn. She washed her face and prepared to start making breakfast.

At this time, grandpa and grandma also got up and walked out of the house. They looked at the clean house inside and outside. Grandma couldn't help but say: "Yueyue is a child who is always worried! She has cleaned the house inside and out before dawn."

My grandfather didn't say anything. He just picked up a stool and sat in the yard, lowering his head and smoking a pipe. He looked very calm.

An Yue cooked a small pot of corn and sweet potato porridge, which was enough for four people, including grandparents and grandchildren. The dish was shredded radish mixed with wild garlic. This simple breakfast was ready.

After the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren had breakfast, the grandmother refused to let An Yue wash the dishes. An Yue was afraid that cleaning the dishes early in the morning would upset her grandmother, so she had to let her do it.

An Yue thought about it and decided that when her uncle came back, they would go to the market to sell fish together. First of all, she would have to learn how to use the scale.

So she found the beam scale at home and went to ask her grandfather for advice.

The beam balance of this era is almost the same as the modern old-style beam balance, both of which are composed of a hook, a weight, a scale pan, a beam, a rope and a lifting rope.

Grandfather took the scale, squinted his eyes, looked at it closely, pointed at the graduated holes on it and said, "One small hole is one ounce, two small holes are..."

An Yue also looked closer and listened carefully to what her grandfather explained to her.

Thinking that she still needed to practice after learning it, she took out a few sweet potatoes from home and put them on the scale one by one. After her grandfather confirmed that she had not read the number wrong, he put away the scale and sweet potatoes with peace of mind.

Early in the morning, my uncle went out early and didn't have time to fetch water. There was very little water left in the water tank at home. With her skinny body, she couldn't carry two buckets of water, so the task of fetching water naturally fell on my grandfather.

When grandpa knew that there was not much water at home, he put away the bamboo basket he had been weaving for several days and prepared to fetch water with a shoulder pole. The brother and sister thought that it was a good opportunity for them to follow grandpa to the pond to catch fish.

An Nian carried his own small backpack, and An Yue took the big basin from the kitchen and a sickle, thinking that they could cut some grass to feed the chickens when they came back. After everything was ready, the brother and sister followed their grandfather.

When they arrived at the pond, the brother and sister did the same as last time. An Yue put An Nian's small backpack in the gutter.

When the grandfather saw the two children trying to catch fish again, he said, "Yueyue, hold the basket down! I'll drive the fish over to the pond."

After saying that, my grandfather picked up the carrying pole and struck the water surface with the other end.

Sure enough, the fish in the pond were frightened and swam straight towards Anyue.

Seeing that there were already fish in the basket, An Yue immediately lifted the basket and counted them carefully. There were actually five fish, two big carps and three small crucian carps.

When An Nian saw that he had caught so many fish in a short time, he jumped up and down in excitement and said, "There are too many fish. This basin will not be able to hold them all in a while."

An Yue poured the fish in the basket into the basin and put the basket back into the gutter.

An Nian picked a handful of green grass by the pond and threw it into the basin, saying that he was feeding the fish.

An Yue took a look and said with a smile: "Niannian, this is a carp. They don't like to eat grass."

"Ah? What do they eat?"

"Carp like to eat small fish, shrimps, earthworms, and various small insects."

"I see! No wonder I always saw my uncle's brother digging earthworms before. It turns out they were used to catch this kind of fish."

An Yue held the backpack and looked at her brother thoughtfully.

Looking at An Nian's old coat, which was so short and small that a large part of his wrists and wrists were exposed, and seeing that the New Year was approaching, he didn't have the nerve to ask his grandmother to buy him a coat.

Their grandparents were old, but they still took them in despite their aunt's strange look. It was a blessing in disguise.

If I can make some money by selling some fish at the market this time, I will buy a new coat for my younger brother first, and then I will see if there is anything missing at home and help to buy some.

In the future, you must save the money you earn well, learn to think three steps ahead and make plans for the future.

Half an hour later, there were already more than a dozen fish in the basin, and it was almost full.

My grandfather has already made four trips back and forth to fetch water, and the water tank should be full by the last trip.

Before he knew it, the grandfather had come to Anyue and said, "Yueyue, pour the fish into the bucket! Don't catch too many yet. If you catch them all dead, it would be a waste of time."

An Yue recovered and replied with a smile: "Grandfather is right!"

An Yue actually thought the same way. First, she thought that if she caught too many fish, she would have no place to put them at home. Second, if they all died, all her efforts would be in vain.