Chapter 442

Little Qian greeted his parents and said with a smile, "they're going to sell it in the county tomorrow."

Uncle Qian was stunned and said suspiciously, "can this thing also be sold? Isn't it everywhere? "

"Erlang took it. He said yes. Man Bao also said yes. That should be possible." Little Qian smiled and said, "they are more familiar with business at home."

"Erlang is more clever," Uncle Qian looked at the wormwood piled in the yard, didn't take it to heart, smiled and asked his daughter, "where's your father-in-law?"

"Go to see the wheat. My mother is in the back chicken house. I'll call my mother back."

Three heads volunteered immediately, "Mom, I'll go, I'll go."

"OK, you go."

Uncle Qian was looking for Zhou Erlang everywhere. He found that there was a pile of wormwood in the yard. He was taking Zhou Sanlang to tidy up. He immediately came forward with a smile.

Seeing the third uncle, the brothers immediately moved their hips and made room for him, "third uncle, why are you so early? Old five, old six, hurry to greet your uncles. "

On Friday and Saturday, Lang Zhou left wormwood and ran away. They don't like this job yet.

Uncle Qian asked Zhou Erlang, "how do you sell this thing? Can you really sell it?"

Zhou Erlang smiled and said, "I haven't sold it either, but I guess it should be OK. There aren't many wormwood in the city, but not everyone in the city is willing to go out of the city to cut it."

Zhou Erlang planned and said, "I'll divide the wormwood into a handful, a handful and two Wen. If you want to pay directly, choose one. I won't lose if I don't want it. It takes some effort anyway."

On Wednesday, Lang nodded deeply, which was different from before. In recent years, his family began to involve some business, and his concept was also different from before. "Now it's not busy farming. Anyway, being idle is also idle. Try it."

Uncle Qian felt that what they said was very reasonable, so he helped them tie wormwood as soon as he rolled his sleeve.

Zhou Silang went to the firewood house to pull two handfuls of straw, which were left last year. A handful of wormwood was tied with two straw and placed aside. Later, he would hold it in the shadow and put it away. Tomorrow, he would just put it on the car and pull it away. Such a business is easy and not difficult. How good.

Yes, Lao Zhou agreed that they would go out tomorrow with an ox cart, mainly because there were many people and a lot of daughter-in-law and children.

Of course, what's more important is that Lao Zhoutou wants to enjoy the feeling of driving an ox cart to the market.

As soon as the sun jumped into the sky, Lao Zhou came back from the ground wearing a straw hat and carrying a hoe.

Uncle Qian asked him, "are you looking at the wheat?"

"Well, there are two fields that are a little late. Let me have a look." Old Zhou said, "I was thinking that if my sister-in-law came today, I had to ask my sister-in-law to send a message. Is there enough food in your family now?"

Uncle Qian coughed and said, "some are missing, mainly because he planted more than five mu last year. The front wheat was cut off at home as soon as it was collected, so he dried the wheat flour early. Now the rest of the family is rubbed out from the back, with about three bags."

Old Zhou said, "that's enough to eat. The summer grain will come down soon."

Uncle Qian said helplessly, "it was enough, but when I went back yesterday, I remembered that my uncle and brother had agreed with me a long time ago that he would borrow two bags from me this year. He only planted two mu of winter wheat last year and borrowed grain from others since February. Now he has to return the wheat as soon as he collects it, and his family is not enough."

Old Zhou couldn't help muttering, "they have a lot of families. Why did they plant two mu?"

What can uncle qian do?

He sighed: "last year, his family was really unlucky. The river directly washed down the river bank. His family's large wheat field and rice field were flooded, and no wheat could be recovered, not to mention the rice that had not been grouted at that time. It didn't last long to borrow food. The children at home were not sensible and ate some wheat seeds..."

In order to maintain soil fertility and have enough land, they rarely grow winter wheat. Their family is not sure about the harvest of winter wheat, so after enough spring wheat seeds are left, the remaining seeds will be enough to grow two mu.

Ordinary wheat seeds are not like their new wheat seeds. They only receive two sacks of wheat per mu, or the smaller sacks commonly used by their farmers.

Uncle Qian said, "his two little grandchildren are only three or two years old. They can't watch the children starve to death."

Old Zhou tou asked, "what about the second brother and the third brother?"

"They are better. They have enough to eat."

Because of the limited manpower, they wanted to pick more wheat, but didn't they pick it?

So there was barely enough to eat, but it was impossible to lend uncle Qian to the Yue family.

Moreover, uncle Qian also had some other ideas. He wanted to leave the existing wheat at home and lend it to his relatives as wheat seed, so that they could try to grow new wheat seed.

At least the harvest will be better next year, won't it.

Old Zhou tou didn't have any opinion and said, "master Bai used to exchange wheat with the people in our village. There are nine bags left at home. I'm going to buy three bags, which will be enough for the family to eat summer grain. If you want it, I'll buy more later."

"How much is a bucket?"

"Thirty words."

Uncle Qian nodded, "it's much cheaper than that in the county. My brother-in-law said that the wheat in the grain shop in the county is 40 Wen a bucket, but the grain merchant is only willing to charge 28 Wen a bucket when he goes to the village to buy it?"

”What“ Lao Zhou couldn't help shouting.

Uncle Qian smiled and said, "OK, we can't buy it. Those grain merchants come to our village to collect grain and confiscate every catty. Now it is difficult for every family. There are relatives outside the family. If there is surplus food, it is first lent to relatives who want to live. How many families are willing to sell food? "

There are so many in other villages occasionally, but they don't dare to buy it, for fear of disputes in the future.

Lao Zhou touched the cigarette rod and didn't dare to smoke in front of his brother-in-law, "do you borrow money or food? If you borrow grain, your family will not be short of grain now. "

"Let's lose some. It's also a blessing to eat some losses." on this point, uncle Qian and Qian's ideas are surprisingly consistent. He said with a smile: "they are all relatives. Are the two families still making trouble for such a little food?"

Aunt, aunt, several children are also old, and the Yue family did not help him less in the early years. And he promised to borrow food before. How can he change to borrow money halfway?

Uncle Qian said, "help me buy three bags, too. Tomorrow I'll ask Da Lang to pick them up."

"No," said old Zhou. "Let's go later. Let Dalang directly pull it over with an ox cart."

Lao Zhou tou didn't expect that his brother-in-law would buy so many three bags. You know, he still has wheat at home. Is he going to buy two bags and lend them to the Yue family and change another bag of wheat seed to give to his relatives?

Old Zhou was shocked and said in his heart: Fortunately, his daughter-in-law listened to her, otherwise the family would have no money if it failed like his brother-in-law.

Uncle Qian suddenly asked about cattle, "I heard that your cattle are on credit?"

"Yes, I have three liang of silver on credit."

"It's good to buy a cow in twos. It's still on credit. Unfortunately, my family was coming to our village at that time and said that there was not much money and food stored at home. At that time, if I knew that winter wheat could be sold as wheat seed, I would also go on credit. I don't know whether the county government still has cattle on credit."

Lao Zhoutou:

Uncle Qian also regretted that he had to see how much it cost to buy three bags of wheat. In fact, he also wanted to buy a cow. It would be much faster to work like that.