Chapter 46 People are different from each other. Some people are bad from the beginning.
Shuiqing didn't know how to comfort Fan Jin.
Sometimes relatives don't support each other, but are the ones who can't stand seeing you do well.
After all, people are different, and some people are bad from the root.
After a moment of silence, she changed the subject: "When I go to the market the day after tomorrow, I can ask my father if there are any richer merchants in the distant prefectures. I can use their names then."
Fan Jin nodded lightly and reminded: "I know that our Guangning Prefecture, Nanning Prefecture, and Xingning Prefecture are all under the jurisdiction of Nandu, and there is the Bai family in Nandu City, known as Baibancheng.
The Bai family has countless properties. If we use his name, firstly, it is far away from us and there is no place to verify;
Secondly, the Bai family has a high status, a small population, and few masters, and they are very precious. They will not be seen easily. If we use his name, we are not afraid of my eldest brother and eldest cousin asking for verification."
With the status and position of my eldest brother and eldest cousin, they should not be able to see the Bai family, who are high above and unparalleled in wealth.
Of course, they can't see it either.
But because of this huge difference, Mr. Bai would never know that someone in the remote Shanshui Village would use his name to collect small chicken head rice.
Shuiqing thought this was feasible.
After finding an excuse, villagers came to exchange chicken head rice after lunch.
Seeing the brand new ox cart and the strong ox, he was envious again.
"The Fan family really needs to change their status."
"It's different from us."
"The second kid of the Fan family is a scholar, and he is different from us. Look at the kid Changlin from the old village chief's family. Can he be the same as our kid?"
Now their kid can still run around the mountain, and Changlin is studying. He can't see what he is doing, but within ten years, Li Changlin can at least be an accountant or copy books like Fan Jin, which are all light jobs.
Their kid can only dig in the soil for food, and be exposed to the wind and sun like them.
The topic suddenly became heavy. The person who had been talking before sighed and said, "Speaking of which, we also borrowed the light of Fan Jin and Shui Qing. It's only been a few days. Every household has exchanged hundreds of kilograms of rice.
The day after tomorrow, there will be more. We can exchange hundreds of kilograms of black flour in Niutou Town. We don't have to worry about winter."
"It's great that there is a capable person in the village. It's good to bring us incompetent people with us. Isn't this the chicken, duck and dog mentioned by the storyteller?"
"You are not a cultured person, but you still pretend. That's called chickens and dogs rising to heaven!"
"Yes, I'm not illiterate."
"Our good life depends on Fan Jin's family. No matter what happens in the future, we will stand on his side!"
"Of course, what else can I say."
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A group of people exchanged rice and talked and laughed on the way home, and reached a consensus tacitly.
They knew who was good to them.
They knew who they had food to eat.
The people in Shanshui Village were busy, and Shui Qing's family was not idle either.
After having his own ox cart, Fan Jin changed his work of carrying rice to the afternoon.
The morning was used to teach the five children. In the afternoon, he went out to carry rice and came back. The five children went to work in the vegetable garden and do housework.
Shuiqing was responsible for logistics work - cooking.
He supplemented the family's nutrition in various ways and tried to improve the family's physical fitness.
Not to mention, once the food was provided, people's recovery ability was really strong.
Several children had obviously gained weight, and their sunken cheeks gradually bulged. Although they were still a little thin, at least they were not scary thin.
Shuiqing and Fan Jin also looked much better.
Shuiqing felt a sense of accomplishment and was particularly enthusiastic about working in the kitchen.
The family studied, worked, earned money, supplemented nutrition.....multiple things went hand in hand, and nothing was left behind.
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On the fifth day of September, the family got up early.
Yan Qiu first followed her mother's instructions last night, made a fire and boiled a pot of cornmeal porridge, and boiled a dozen boiled eggs - the old hens that the family got when they divided the family property, the old hens that the aunt compensated, and the old hens that Dad bought from time to time, now there are 37 chickens in the chicken coop!
More than 50 eggs of different sizes can be picked up in a day.
The old hens in their family seem to be particularly good at laying eggs, and I don't know if it's because of the addition of bran.
Mother said that these eggs don't need to be exchanged for salt, just to supplement the nutrition of the family.
Boiled eggs are easy to carry, so I boiled more when I went out today.
Xinghui took advantage of the bright color of the sky, first tied her hair, and then arranged for her three younger brothers to comb their hair and tie it up.
Fan Jin was feeding grass to the cow.
Shuiqing took out a pile of new clothes from the side of the wooden bed and shouted to the five children: "Come, come, come and get new clothes."
This is the cloth that Fan Jin bought for them on the first day he went to the city.
Everyone in the family has it except Fan Jin.
She secretly asked Aunt Li from the village to make a set of clothes for each of them, hiding it from the children just to give them a surprise.
Yan Qiuxinghui and Jianghehu turned their heads slowly, thinking they had heard wrongly.
New clothes, can they wear them too?
Aren't the clothes worn by adults altered to become their clothes?
In the past, Dazhu and Erzhu wore them first, and they got their turn when they couldn't wear the old and worn clothes anymore. Now that the family has been divided, they don't have to pick up Dazhu and Erzhu's old clothes to wear, but they are happy to pick up their parents'!
"Mother, why do we wear new clothes?"
"Yes, mother, don't you and dad have old clothes?"
It's okay as long as they can be worn after altering them.
"It's not the New Year yet."
No, there are no new clothes to wear during the New Year!
Shuiqing said: "If we are going to grandpa's house, of course we have to wear good clothes. Let's go clean and refreshed, so that your grandparents and uncle will have face, right?"
Yan Qiuxing replied to Jianghehu: ..... What A Niang said seems to make sense.
As if wearing clothes is not only for yourself, but also for your uncles and others to earn face!
"Come on, come on, try to see if it fits." Shuiqing continued to wave.
The five children ran forward with light steps, stretched out their hands and carefully touched the new clothes that belonged to them.
"Big sister, it feels so soft."
"It's not linen, nor is it coarse cotton, A Niang, is it fine cotton?"
"It's fine cotton, no wonder it feels as soft as cotton, so comfortable."
Several children touched it again and again, their eyes full of surprise.
Fan He looked up and said, "Mother, you should have told me earlier, so I could be happy for many days."
Shui Qing snorted, "I was afraid that if I told you earlier, you would not only be happy, but also be so excited that you couldn't sleep"
Fan He thought that it was definitely like that, and smiled, "Mother still understands me."
Yan Qiuxing changed into a light pink dress with a jacket and a small skirt, Jiang Hehu and the other two changed into light blue short clothes, Shui Qing wore a sky blue skirt, and Fan Jin still wore a half-old long gown.
After breakfast, Fan Jin brought the ox cart, put the gifts prepared for his father-in-law and the other two, and the family got on the ox cart and drove towards Niutou Town facing the rising sun.