Farmhouse Green Plum

A hint of surprise flashed across Li's cloudy eyes. He turned his head and looked around to make sure no one was paying attention to them. Then he lowered his voice and asked, "How much?"

"I haven't counted yet."

Li held out her hand and motioned for Daya to give her the money. She counted it and was a little unbelieving. "Twenty cents?"

Although their voices were low, Yang, Song Tian and Song Yuan who were standing beside them could still hear them and were all very surprised. Twenty cents was not a lot, but it was barely enough to buy two pounds of meat.

"Count again." Li was worried that she had counted wrong, so she handed the coins back to Daya.

Daya counted and nodded, "It's twenty cents."

Song Tian was so envious that his tone turned sour: "You are so lucky, you picked up money again."

Yang smiled happily, "It seems that our Daya has some fortune."

Li thought about Daya's life carefully. It seemed that she had picked up money quite often, especially this year. She nodded and said, "The three children in our house are all blessed."

Yang liked to hear this, and she complimented Li with a smile, "You are the most blessed old lady. Your granddaughter knows how to be filial to you at such a young age. I will find you a filial grandson-in-law in the future to take you to enjoy a peaceful life."

Li's eyes were smiling, but her face was stern, "How can a grandson-in-law take care of you in your old age? That's against the rules."

"A son-in-law is half a son, and a grandson-in-law is also half a grandson. It is my duty to respect you..."

Seeing that their topic was getting further and further away, Song Tian hurriedly raised his voice to remind them: "Grandma, you should eat the money you find, so that there will be no trouble. Let's go buy some candy."

This is also the custom of Xinghua Village. There is a saying among the people that giving money can avoid disasters. Those who lose money lose disasters, and those who pick up money naturally pick up disasters.

At this time, you have to exchange the money you picked up for food and eat it as soon as possible to avoid disaster.

Daya suggested: "Let's buy some buns. It's cold, and eating steaming hot buns will keep you warm."

Song Tian disagreed. He said that he could still eat steamed buns occasionally when he came to the county, but candy could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year, except for weddings.

When the words of objection were on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly realized that his family would definitely buy candy for the New Year, and the New Year goods he was going to buy today also included candy. If he bought buns now, he could have both buns and candy.

He quickly changed his tone and agreed with Daya: "Yes, grandma, buy some buns, they will keep you warm!"

Li frowned, "It's not noon yet, and I'm not hungry. I won't stay too long today. I'll go back after I finish shopping. With these twenty coins, I can buy two or three more pounds of meat."

Daya pursed her lips and compromised: "Then I'll just buy you a bun, and use the remaining money to buy meat. It's so cold, your oven is almost out, eat a steaming bun to warm your body!"

"Daya is sensible and knows how to care for grandma." Yang smiled, "Mom, just do as Daya says. This is her filial piety. Maybe this money was specially picked up by my elder brother to honor you."

Hearing this, Li's eyes suddenly became a little sore. Of her two sons, the eldest was loyal and the second was smart, but they were both equally filial.

When they parted, the second son specifically asked her to buy two more kilograms of new cotton today to make her a new cotton-padded clothes. If the eldest son were still alive, he would definitely be concerned about whether she was cold or hungry.

"Okay, use it to buy buns. Buy all the buns. Let's eat to our heart's content today!"

Yang was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Li was so willing to spend so much suddenly. That was 20 cents, enough to buy 40 buns, which might not even be eaten up tomorrow!

She wanted to buy some buns to try, but she didn't intend to spend all the money on buns. In comparison, she would rather spend all the money on meat.

"Uh, Mom, isn't it too much to spend all of it on buns? I can buy 40!"

"Buy them all. Tianwa and his friends crave for steamed buns every time they come back to the county. The New Year is coming soon, so let them eat to their heart's content today. It's the only time in the whole year that they can have steamed buns."

Li was determined, so Yang could not persuade her anymore. She held out her hand to Daya and said, "There are too many people over there. Don't go squeeze in. I'll go buy it."

The section near the steamed bun shop is almost the most crowded section in the entire Zhuangyuanfang. When the girl came here just now, her hair was squeezed apart.

More people means risks, and since they include old and young people, the risk is even greater. Daya knew that Li would not object, so she handed the money to Yang without waiting for her to say anything.

After waiting for a while on the street, Yang came back carrying several large bags of oil paper.

She put them in her backpack, picked up one of the packages and opened it, saying generously, "Eat as much as you can. After you're full, we'll go to the cloth shop and make a new set of clothes for everyone this year!"

Song Yuan cheered, "That's great!"

He has been picking up Song Tian's old clothes to wear, and has long wanted to have new clothes that belong entirely to him.

However, Li was adamant about this matter, saying that those clothes were newly bought by Song Tian when he was a child, with very few patches, and buying new ones would be a waste of money.

Daya was a little surprised and asked uncertainly, "I have new clothes too?"

All along, her clothes were made from old clothes of Li and Yang.

"Uh," Yang was stuck and looked at Li.

Li shi groaned for a moment and said, "She is old enough. In a few years, it will be time for her to get married. It is time to start buying clothes. The money will come from the eldest brother's compensation."

Five years ago, there was a flood and the government sent people to the village to investigate the disaster. An official accidentally fell into the water and was about to be swept away by the flood. Dayadi rushed to rescue him. The official was rescued, but he himself was exhausted and swept away by the flood. When he was found, he was already dead.

For this, the government paid 50 taels of silver as compensation.

Yang had no objection to not using her husband, and she agreed with a smile: "It's time to make some clothes."

Song Tian was very happy and exclaimed: "Today is the happiest day of my life this year!"

We ate to our heart’s content, even though it wasn’t even New Year’s Eve!

Yang was influenced by them and felt that the buns in the oil-paper package were even more tempting. She took the opened oil-paper package and handed it to Li, "Mom, you take it first."

There were a lot of buns today, so Mrs. Li was not worried that her grandchildren would not have enough to eat, so she did not give them priority as usual.

She picked up one at random and started eating. Then, Yang asked Daya to come first. Although Song Tian was getting anxious, thinking that the money was picked up by Daya, he had to wait patiently.

Song Yuan was not in a hurry. He had eaten a lot of buns in the past few months, many of which were meat buns, so he was not that greedy for vegetable buns.

Daya said, "Second Aunt, you are the elder, you eat first."

Song Tian curled his lips, but considering that she was the one who found the money to buy buns today, he didn't complain about her for being a good girl as usual.

Yang was very pleased and said with a smile: "Our eldest daughter is sensible and polite, and knows how to respect her elders."

Daya had a gentle smile on her face, but she was completely unmoved in her heart. She knew very well how short-lived these compliments were, and she was afraid that they would forget her filial piety before she even returned home.

But it doesn't matter, she just wants to feel at ease.

Yang sat down, put the oil paper bag on her knees, picked up one, and said, "You three can take it."