【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

The next morning, Li Yanran was the first to discover the copper coins. She screamed happily, "Money! It's New Year's money!"

Li Xiaqing, who was dazed, suddenly woke up and quickly reached for the pillow. "Wow! I have one too! Ten cents!"

"It's mine too. Mom loves me the most!" Li Yanran hid the money like a treasure.

"You're talking nonsense, my mother likes me too!" Li Xiaqing was anxious.

"Okay, okay, no swearing or fighting during the New Year. Everyone will get lucky money. Now quickly put on your new cotton-padded clothes and go to the ancestral hall. Then come back and eat dumplings, and then go to the village to pay New Year's greetings."

Seeing that a fight was about to break out, Yun Xi smiled and changed the subject.

Everyone has two sets of cotton-padded clothes, but one set has been left unworn. Only one of them was worn. In winter, people sweat less and clothes don't need to be changed. Mei Zi made several overshirts to wear, so even if the overshirts are dirty, the cotton-padded clothes will not be dirty.

Before dinner, Li Chunsheng took Li Xiaqing to the ancestral hall to offer sacrifices. Mei Zi made dumplings and Yun Xi helped.

It was obvious that the two children had cried after they came back, and I could understand their feelings. Chunsheng lost his mother in his childhood and his father when he was a minor. Xia Qing lost his father at a young age, and even his body could not be found, so they could only build a cenotaph.

"System, if I hadn't come, what would have happened to this clan?"

Yun Xi still asked.

"All dead."

These three simple words summarize the ending of this clan.

There is great hunger in old age, and people eat each other.

This reminded her of the six words that recorded a natural disaster with starving people everywhere, summarizing the image of hell...

"The last few members of the Li clan managed to survive the snowstorm by eating rice and meat, but were buried alive in a cave by an earthquake and soon died."

……

"Today is New Year's Day, and I have prepared a gift for you."

The system may have felt that this topic was rather heavy, so it played fireworks on the screen for a while. The fireworks faded, revealing a gift box. Yun Xi watched the children finish their dumplings and go out to pay New Year's greetings, and gently clicked on the gift box.

"Ding ding ding ~ Congratulations to the host on obtaining a pair of top-grade jade bracelets. Do you like them?"

Yun Xi quickly composed herself, picked up the bracelet with a smile, and put it on her slender wrist through her rough fingers and calloused palms.

"I like it very much, it suits you very well. Thank you, Tongzi. I will give you a carnival!"

"Hahaha! Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year~"

A group of girls rushed in through the open door, giggling and kneeling in front of her, shouting "Happy New Year" and "Good Luck in the New Year" in uneven voices.

"Everything is fine, come on, come and get your New Year's money."

Each person gave ten coins.

These ten girls have not yet married when they reach the age. The clan leader means that the girls should take a year to recover their health before getting married. After all, the oldest is only seventeen, and she will only be eighteen in a year.

Before lunch, the children came back hand in hand, their pockets full of copper coins.

The four children are the biggest winners today. The rule here is that they don’t need to be given New Year’s money after getting married.

"Mom, I received a lot of money." Little cotton-padded jacket Li Yanran took out all the New Year's money and handed it to her mother, "Mom, spend it for you."

"My daughter is so filial. Mom has money. There is an empty clay pot at home. You can put the money in it and save it. It will be your pocket money in the future." Yun Xi smiled and said, "Let's prepare dinner. Heat up the vegetables and meat buns from last night."

"Great."

After dinner, everyone was warming themselves by the fire at home. Li Chunsheng was studying how to make a backpack. There was a bamboo forest on his mountain, so he didn't need to buy bamboo products. So he went to his uncle to learn how to make one.

Li Meizi rarely touched her needle and thread, and closely watched Chunsheng's movements. The two little ones had no peers to play with, so they took out paper and pen to practice calligraphy out of boredom.

Yun Xi looked around and said to Chun Sheng, "Boss, can you weave a bamboo basket with a wide bottom and a small mouth? They say that if you put bait in this kind of basket and put it in the river, you can catch fish."

"I remember that. Uncle Shugen from the village used to like to do this. Unfortunately, after he passed away, no one knew how to weave that kind of bamboo basket. I'll give it a try."

Li Chunsheng suddenly realized that Uncle Shugen always avoided people when he went fishing because he was afraid that someone else would learn his skill. It turned out that he was using a bamboo basket with a large mouth and a small bottom.

From the end of the New Year to the 16th day of the first lunar month, after a good rest for half a month, they started to get busy again. Li Chunsheng went to ferment fertilizer, and Mei Zi took two children to pick out the seeds.

Yun Xi took the opportunity of going up the mountain to chop firewood and started carrying seeds to the tribe. Yes, it was rice seeds. There were not enough seeds for every household, and it was difficult to buy them. She couldn't bear to see the fields empty, so she had to find someone to buy them from in the system mall.

"System, is it correct that the entire village now has 2100 acres of farmland?" Yun Xi confirmed again when placing the order.

"That's right. We need a few kilograms of rice seeds. Several companies have decided to use the rice grown last year to grow seedlings. Although the yield is lower than that of specially selected rice seeds, it is better than nothing." said the system.

"Okay, I see."

Yun Xi quickly placed an order for a kilogram of rice seeds, at ten cents per kilogram, hoping not to lose money.

They pulled the ox cart up the mountain and transported the rice seeds to the entrance of the ancestral hall in six batches. The place was already surrounded by people and no one could get in or out.

Chief Li spoke first, "Sanniu's wife, what are you doing?"

"Clan leader, I bought some rice seeds from traveling merchants, shipped from the south. One acre of land yields about 700 to 800 kilograms. You can save the seeds, but the yield will drop slightly after saving the seeds. One kilogram is 20 cents. Would you like to buy some?" Yun Xi's calm words made the Li clan members explode.

Chief Li opened a bag tremblingly and looked at the plump rice seeds. He couldn't help but believe it. He had been farming for a lifetime and could tell whether the seeds were good or not at a glance.

“The seeds are indeed good seeds.”

Yun Xi explained, "Chief, the countries south of our Jin Nation all use this kind of rice seed. Furthermore, the weather there is hot, and they can harvest three crops a year, so they don't lack food. It's just that it hasn't spread to our country yet. If it did, everyone would definitely rush to buy this excellent seed. Think about it, buying ten kilograms of rice seed per mu of land only costs two hundred coins, and the yield is eight hundred kilograms, which can be sold for four thousand coins. It's definitely worth it."

In a good year, grain merchants can lower the price to two or three wen per catty, and in a bad harvest, it can go up to five or six wen per catty. Given the current situation this year, it should be able to sell for eight wen per catty. Didn't you see how badly the food shortage in Chengdu was? An acre of land could fetch at least six taels of silver.

"I want 1,700 kilograms!"

Patriarch Li no longer hesitated. He had a donkey at home, and his three grandsons were all married. There were ten people in his family. At most, he would have to work harder and cultivate more than 100 acres of land.

"okay."

The other members of the tribe followed the footsteps of Patriarch Li. After Patriarch Li bought it, the others no longer hesitated. Besides, they had distributed so much money and jewelry before, so they were not short of money.

Yun Xi sold out all the food she brought in and doubled her profits. "System, remind me to convert this money into gold before I leave."

She usually didn't take money from the families of her mission targets. For example, in the last mission, if she had taken all her own earnings, there would probably be a lot of gold, but that time and space would have been missing so much gold out of thin air...

But this time it was different. She bought things from the system to make up for it. Taking away some gold should not have much impact on this world.