Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

Li Mengyue didn't know how to use the ancient scale, so she asked the village chief's wife to help her. She kept accounts and settled accounts nearby.

When she handed the two copper coins to Li Yan.

"Ow..."

Li Yan, a grown man, actually burst into tears in front of everyone.

I have two cents, and I made two cents in one afternoon. If I catch locusts in the field all day, I can make five cents. If I could catch locusts earlier and sell them for money, Zhao Lei would not have broken off the engagement."

After crying for a while, Li Yan's face was covered with tear marks.

Li Mengyue casually handed a piece of paper used for accounting on the table to Li Yan and comforted him, "Don't cry, wipe your tears quickly."

When Li Yan saw the paper in front of him, he was already very sad, but suddenly he became extremely embarrassed.

He is about the same age as Li Mengyue, and is even two years older than Li Mengyue.

He actually cried his eyes out in front of Li Mengyue. This was definitely the darkest moment in his life. Even when his fiancée broke off the engagement, he didn't think it was a big deal. The worst that could happen was that he would be single for the rest of his life. Now he felt too ashamed to face anyone.

Li Yan cried in front of everyone and no villager laughed at him. Instead, they all thought it was normal. If they also got the copper coins, they would probably not be much better off than Li Yan.

However, it was Li Yan's crying that gave the villagers hope that they could really sell the coins for money. Didn't you see that Li Yan was still holding the copper coins tightly in his hand?

Even if they can only catch locusts for more than a month, they believe that if the whole family goes to the fields, they can catch a lot in a day and sell them for a dozen cents.

How much would it be in more than a month? At least three hundred coins, possibly more. If you catch them quickly and have a large family, you can probably sell them for one or two taels of silver.

Most families in Xinghua Village could not earn more than one or two taels of silver in the whole year, except for the grain grown in the fields, let alone save any.

Now that the girl from the Li family is collecting locusts, they must take this opportunity to go to the fields and catch more locusts to sell for money.

After crying, Li Yan's excited mood improved a lot, and he wanted to take the money and show it to his parents as soon as possible.

However, he did not take the paper that Li Mengyue handed to him, but just wiped it casually with his sleeve.

You must be kidding. Paper is such a valuable thing, how dare he use it to wipe his tears? What's more, it was brought by the village chief's wife. If his parents knew about it, he would definitely be beaten with a bamboo board.

So he thanked Li Mengyue and left quickly.

After Li Yan left, it was Goudan's mother's turn.

She brought the locusts that her son and daughter caught yesterday afternoon, and she was still very nervous when she came to Li's house.

Seeing that Li Yan got the copper coins, she was not only happy for Li Yan, but also felt relieved.

After all, she was the one who grew up with Li Yan, and she felt bad when she heard that Li Yan was broken off from engagement.

You should know that Li Yan, a very energetic young man, has become very decadent since he was broken off engagement by Zhao Lei from Zhaojia Village.

One time when she went to the river to wash clothes, she saw Li Yan sitting on a rock by the river in a daze. She called him several times, but Li Yan did not respond.

Seeing Li Yan like this, she was very worried. She didn't even wash her clothes and quickly ran to Li Yan's house to tell her parents not to do anything stupid because of the broken engagement.

Fortunately, Li Yan came to his senses only after his parents passed away.

Li Yan saw that his parents were so old and still had to rely on him for support in their old age. If he passed away, his parents probably wouldn't be able to survive.

Although Li Yan never went to the river again after that, he looked visibly more haggard.

She felt like she didn't know what to do every day, like a "corpse" without a soul that could eat, walk, and sleep.

Now seeing that Li Yan has changed because of selling locusts, the whole person seems to have come alive in an instant, and the smile on her lips has never faded.

"Goudan's mother, hand me your small bamboo basket and I'll weigh it for you."

The village chief's wife was waiting to weigh the locusts. Seeing Goudan's mother looking dazed, she couldn't help but remind her.

"Oh! Okay, please help Aunt Li!"

"Why are you being polite? I'll weigh it for you. After you get the money, you can go home."

"Four pounds and eight ounces."

When Li Mengyue heard the weight, she wrote it down on a piece of paper, took out five copper coins and handed them to Goudan's mother.

"Li's girl, my family has less than five catties. You can give me one more cent. Otherwise, you can take eight taels and put it on the account first. I will give it to you when I have enough."

"No, just pay according to five kilograms."

Li Mengyue didn't want to bother about such a trivial matter and directly blocked Goudan's mother from saying the next thing.

Besides, she also admired people like Goudan's mother. Even though she was at the bottom of society, her family was poor and she couldn't even afford to eat enough, she still insisted on her principles and was unwilling to take advantage of anyone.

"next."

Goudan's mother wanted to say something when someone behind her heard her and called her.

"Hey, I'm here. Goudan's mother, go back quickly, eat, take your son and daughter to the fields, catch more locusts, and you can sell them for more money."

As he said this, he pushed Goudan’s mother aside.

Seeing that Li Mengyue and the village chief's wife were busy, Goudan's mother pursed her lips, said nothing, and hurried home.

Instead of arguing about these two taels of locusts, it would be better to catch more and give them to the girl from the Li family later.

After Goudan's mother left, the locust harvesting continued.

It took almost an hour to collect all the locusts, and the sky was completely bright.

After Li Mengyue counted the numbers, she found that she had collected nearly 100 kilograms of locusts. She didn't expect there would be so many.

As for letting the villagers raise ducks, she had mentioned it to the village chief and had originally thought of forcing the villagers to raise ducks. After all, once a locust plague breaks out, the biggest impact will be on the food in the villagers' fields.

But when she saw Grandma Wang, Li Yan, and Goudan's mother, she no longer had the idea of ​​forcing the villagers to raise ducks.

Anyway, she plans to run a breeding farm, and when the villagers see that she raises thousands of ducks without feeding them any grain, they will realize how low the cost of raising ducks is.

Even if she didn't say it, the villagers would still come to her to buy ducklings. Maybe Xinghua Village would become famous for its ducks in the future.

Li Mengyue did it as soon as she thought of it. She looked at her mother and the village head grandmother, and the two of them worked together to collect all the locusts.

He said, "Mom, you and the village head's grandmother take out twenty kilograms first, I'll fry them, and we'll go to town when they're done."

"Don't worry about the rest for now. I will buy some ducklings today and keep the rest for the ducklings."

Li heaved a sigh of relief when she heard that her daughter had a plan.

Because she saw that she had collected so much in the morning and spent so much money. If she kept all the food at home, the locusts would have nothing to eat and would slowly die. That would be a huge loss.

It’s not that she didn’t want her daughter to make it, but she collected too many and couldn’t make enough fried locusts.

"Village head grandma, how is the person I asked you to help find?"

"Girl Yue, I have a few people in mind. How about I call them over now and you can see what happens?"