Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

The sun is gradually setting in the west.

Lin rolled up his sleeves and kept changing the shape of the dough in his hands.

Last time I boiled lard, there was some lard scraps left. I rolled some hand-rolled noodles, made a soup with mushrooms and eggs, and added the lard scraps. The lard scraps that had absorbed the soup tasted fragrant and chewy.

The noodles were put into the pot and were boiling and tumbling in the pot. Suddenly, Mrs. Lin remembered that Xiaoliu had not come back yet, so she called Cui Zhaozhao.

"You watch the pot. I'll go call Xiaoliu back."

As soon as he took off his bib, Xiaoliu rushed into the house like a gust of wind, holding his stomach mysteriously.

Lin leaned over and wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Why are you holding your stomach?"

Xiaoliu giggled, opened his shirt, and revealed a gray ball of flesh.

Lin looked over and was stunned.

"It was just born, why did you take it back?"

The puppy was soaked all over and was rubbing its head around with its eyes closed.

It was obvious that the baby was stolen just after it was born. It was so pitiful that it didn't even get to drink its first sip of milk.

Xiaoliu begged, "Mom, it's so cute, just keep it. I'll eat less from now on. We've decided not to eat more of the food at home."

Cui Zhaozhao chuckled. In Xiaoliu's eyes, his mother was like the stick that broke up a pair of lovebirds, while Xiaoliu and the puppy in his arms were each other's only destiny.

Lin glared at Cui Zhaozhao and pointed at her, saying, "You, send the puppy back."

The smile on Cui Zhaozhao's face disappeared instantly.

It turns out she is the stick.

Xiaoliu held the puppy and refused to let go no matter what. Cui Zhaozhao gently persuaded him.

"Little Six, be good. Mom never said that you can't raise her."

Xiao Liu raised his head and snorted, "Really?"

"Of course it's true, but the puppy is still too young. It needs to be with its mother to grow up."

Xiaoliu pouted: "But we can also feed it."

"But he can't pee or pee on his own yet. He needs his mother to help him."

Xiaoliu curiously asked how the mother dog helped him pee and urinate. After hearing that, he frowned and became confused.

After a long time of determination, his face was full of determination.

"I can help it!"

Cui Zhaozhao was very upset.

How can this not be true love?

After much persuasion, he was finally convinced. Reluctantly, he held the puppy in his arms and personally sent it back with Cui Zhaozhao.

In order to distinguish them, a thin rope was tied around the puppy's neck.

The dog in Mr. He's family is pure black and quite big. Cui Zhaozhao nodded silently, thinking that it has good genes.

Feed it well and it will be strong enough to guard the house when it grows up.

Dahei gave birth to five puppies in total, three of them were pure black, but two were gray.

I don’t know if I ran out of ink while giving birth.

Xiaoliu especially liked the gray puppies. Cui Zhaozhao waved her hand and booked both gray dogs, so that they could keep each other company.

When Xiaoliu heard that the puppy could only be taken home after a month, he felt a little disappointed for a while, but soon he smiled again.

Anyway, I can go see them during the day, so if I endure it, a month will pass quickly.

The next day.

Before daybreak, the lights in the east room were lit.

"Mom, if you have anything you want, just tell your son and I will buy it for you!" Cui Jingwen was full of generosity.

Two hundred wen, you have to think carefully before eating a pound of meat.

Lin couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm and squeezed out a trace of emotion.

"Just give the money to Zhao Zhao. She manages the money in our family and knows what to buy."

Cui Jingwen smiled foolishly. He earned money and his sister managed the finances.

Good!

These days, Cui Zhaozhao secretly bought water for his family to bathe, and had spent nearly four taels of silver.

This trip will only cost six taels of silver.

When I went out, the sky was hazy.

The village is quiet, as if covered with a veil.

I thought I had arrived early enough, but the oxcart was already full of people.

Seeing that it was the Cui siblings, the people in the car squeezed out two empty seats.

A gray-haired grandmother asked with a smile, "Are you brothers and sisters also going to the city?"

Cui Zhaozhao recognized her, Grandma He, Mr. He’s wife. She always smiled every time they met, as if she had no worries.

The villagers loved gossip, especially since they had hope for the future recently, so they all pricked up their ears, and two women even reached out to pull at Cui Zhaozhao's backpack.

"Why is it empty..."

The chestnuts were discovered by Lin, and the news that chestnuts could be exchanged for food was also brought back to the village by Cui Laosan. The Cui brothers and sisters went to the city early in the morning, thinking that there were other ways to make money, but they saw an empty backpack.

People are always greedy. Cui Zhaozhao is only ten years old now, but he is an adult at heart.

She smiled and took out a thick stack of papers from her arms and flipped through it casually.

"My brother usually copies books for others. Today is the agreed date, so we'll take them to the city to exchange for money."

A stack of papers rustled as they flipped through the pages, and neat small characters flashed before everyone's eyes.

"Wow, this handwriting...it's really well written." The woman next to him racked her brains and praised it.

The people on the ox cart were full of envy. Scholars were different from them. They could earn money by sitting at home, sheltered from the wind and rain.

Cui Zhaozhao calmly put away the book. She said this not to show off, but to tell the whole village that her family would not be short of money even if they did nothing.

In the future, be careful about what you eat and use to avoid gossip from the villagers.

I copied for more than ten days and earned two coins of silver.

Cui Jingwen touched the copper coin and smiled from ear to ear.

Cui Zhaozhao thought to herself, fortunately there was cheating in the mall, with just this little money, the four of them could barely eat half full.

Just then, Cui Jingwen was pulled away by an acquaintance to chat, so she went to a secluded place and bought things quickly.

Rice, flour, spareribs, pork...

I bought a basket of eggs.

He didn't stop until the backpack was full to the brim.

Cui Jingwen almost dropped his jaw when he saw the backpack stuffed to the brim.

Here, two hundred coins can buy so many things.

Finally, he went to the cloth shop and bought a piece of fine cotton cloth. Passing by a bun shop, he spent ten cents to buy five big meat buns, and then hurried out of the city to meet up.

We went there late in the morning, and we had so many things on the way back, so we might as well grab a good seat.

When he found the carriage, Cui Zhaozhao was dumbfounded.

The car was packed with people, with not a single space in between.

Uncle Ma Zi, the coachman, cleared a space.

"I'm waiting for you two. Sit tight, we'll be back soon."

If everyone's faces were filled with anticipation before coming, now they are all filled with joy, and even their voices are trembling.

"It was like a dream. I traded half a basket of chestnuts for a whole bag of grain. I tried grabbing two handfuls but couldn't move them. I almost broke my back."

People in the same car communicate with each other to see who has the highest price and who has something fishy about weighing.

The ox cart moved slowly.

The sun was hanging brightly in the sky. There was only one ox cart on the dirt road, squeaking as it moved forward. The people on the cart hung their heads due to the sun.

When passing through a forest, a dozen people, both men and women, suddenly appeared and surrounded the ox cart.

"Please, please be kind and give me something to eat."

A group of people were begging for food, but their eyes were fixed on the middle of the ox cart.

Uncle Ma Zi waved his whip and said, "Let's go, let's go. We can't afford to eat either."

The scarred man in the lead changed his expression instantly, grabbed the cart board, and in the blink of an eye, he had a hoe in his hand.

"If you're heartless, don't blame us for being rude. Get in the car and move!"