Chapter 121 I will wash it and return it to you
Yan Qiu silently handed over a white handkerchief.
The sky blue handkerchief, folded neatly, was bought by Shui Qing. There was no mark on it, and everyone used the same one.
If they wash their own, they won't get mixed up. Even if they get mixed up, it's okay, there's no difference anyway.
Ling Ran's slender body paused for a moment, and his bony fingers didn't reach out to take it.
Yan Qiu didn't say it, and said, "It's uncomfortable to get charcoal ash in your eyes. You will feel better if you wipe it."
It's almost the end of the year, and the New Year is a day for family reunion.
Her parents, brothers and sisters are all around.
Bai Ziqian used to clamor to go out to see the world and earn money to prove himself. Although he lives here now, he is completely different from Ling Ran.
He has parents who truly love him, a strong and wealthy family, and he has confidence, a way out, and full of love.
But Ling Ran alone has nothing.
She had never experienced the pain of being alone and missing her parents and home, but she felt that it must be unpleasant.
Ling Ran pursed his lips, raised his hand to take the clean handkerchief beside him, and put it on his eyes.
He closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he said in a low voice: "The handkerchief is dirty, I will wash it and return it to you."
Yan Qiu thought he would use it again, and smiled and replied: "Mother bought a lot, you don't have to return it, just use it."
Everyone has this handkerchief, everyone is the same, why should a handkerchief be returned.
Ling Ran's slender hands grasped the plain handkerchief and tightened it quietly.
The little episode here did not affect the overall atmosphere. Everyone ate a full stomach in the noisy.
After eating, they were afraid of indigestion, so they did not go to bed immediately.
The younger Fan He and Fan Hu cleaned the table, and Bai Ziqian and Fan Jiang washed the dishes.
Ling Ran went to check the livestock.
Yan Qiu and Xing Hui, one was making a fire, the other was boiling hawthorn water, which was sour and sweet, delicious and good for digestion, and perfect to drink after a meal.
Shui Qing discussed matters with Fan Jin.
Fan Jin hesitated for a long time, lowered his head and said softly: "I have told the elders in the village before that our rabbits can be exchanged for old hens, and we agreed to exchange one pound for one pound."
Shui Qing listened quietly without interrupting.
Local old hens are very expensive in China. After all, Chinese feed chickens grow fast and the meat is far less delicious than free-range chickens raised on rice.
But here, rabbits are more expensive because they are rare.
Every household has old hens, and they can hatch chicks, and there is an endless supply.
But rabbits are not often available, especially fat rabbits.
Her family is not at a disadvantage, and the people in the village are not at a disadvantage when they are exchanged. Is there anyone who is not satisfied?
Want to find fault?
How to find fault?
Fan Jin gritted his teeth and said, "It's mother. She learned that our rabbit had babies and said she wanted to exchange them."
They didn't hide it. Other families in the village also knew that their rabbits had babies. Everyone was looking forward to it happily, waiting for the rabbits to grow up before exchanging them.
Only his mother said she would come to exchange them as soon as the nest was born.
It's not that other families in the village are not as smart as his mother, nor are they unable to think of it. It's just that everyone knows that exchanging one pound for one pound is already taking advantage of his family, and everyone tacitly waits for the rabbits to grow up before exchanging them.
But his mother didn't care, she only thought about how to earn more.
Besides, it's impossible for his mother to raise this rabbit, it must be exchanged for the eldest brother's family.
Shuiqing: It's her mother-in-law, no wonder Fan Jin hesitated.
By the way, "Where did she get the old hen?"
When the old hen in the family was divided, they took half out, and didn't they give the other half to Xinghui as medical expenses?
Later, I heard that her family was reluctant to buy big ones, and would only wait for other families to hatch chicks in the spring of next year, and then buy chicks to raise.
"It was said that my sister-in-law went back to her parents' home to ask for them, and she also promised to help her parents' home to exchange rabbits to raise." Fan Jin told everything he knew without reservation.
Shui Qing asked in surprise: "Isn't this increasing the competition? Will other people in the village agree?"
Everyone exchanged meat rabbits with them and took them back, of course, they would not do the same as their family, but to improve their own meals.
Mowing, feeding, cleaning the rabbit pen, the hard work is to sell rabbits to make money.
Raising them in the same village is fine, if you also send a few out, and he also sends a few out, then won't they be everywhere in a short time?
Can they still sell them at a high price?
Can they earn money?
"The villagers don't know, this is what I got out." Fan Jin said sullenly, looking depressed.
He and Shui Qing agreed to make the people in the village a little richer first, at least they can have enough food and warm clothes.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. If they wear shoes, they will not be instigated by the eldest brother to be jealous of his family.
And eating well will improve physical fitness. No matter whether it is famine or war, hundreds of people in the village can fight against the enemy, and they will fight with hungry refugees for their own property!
So the meat rabbits that make money cannot flow out, at least not in the next few years.
Shui Qing pondered, and then suggested: "You go and tell the old village chief, and remind other people in the village, and supervise each other in the future.
My opinion is that raising rabbits can form an industry. Each family raises them separately, and they can only kill them when they sell them. Anyway, the wild rabbits hunted by hunters are rarely alive, and most of them are sold dead. This can effectively prevent the species from flowing out.
Then once it is found that another family sells the same ones, those who sell them must raise them. Each household in the village knows each other's roots, and they know where their relatives and mothers' homes are. If anyone is found to have sent them out, he will be expelled from the village.
No matter when it will flow out in the future, as long as it is guaranteed that it will not flow out in the next three to five years. "
If it really flows out in three to five years, the villagers will not be able to make money, and she doesn't care.
The war will be almost over by then, but it is due to internal reasons in the village. They will only resent the family that leaked it.
I am afraid that the person will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the village.
This is not like China. The village rules are the same as the clan rules. For the villagers, they are even more frightening than the law!
Fan Jin understood Shui Qing's meaning.
Only the old village chief can take care of this matter.
However, "My mother"
He said halfway and couldn't continue.
This time, the eldest brother and sister-in-law are smart. They don't want it for free, but exchange it;
It's not them who exchange it, but let mother come forward.
It's blatantly taking advantage of them.
Shui Qing smiled and comforted: "It's okay, exchange it for them. "
They want to take advantage?
That depends on who they are taking advantage of, not everyone can take advantage of them.
She wants them to lose more than they gain!
Fan Jin said in a low voice: "Shuiqing, they are not stupid, they know that they can't keep the young ones alive, so they will come to exchange them after they leave the nest."
He was very sorry that his mother and elder brother were so calculating and made Shuiqing live a troubled life with him.
"Well, they don't have many old hens, so they can't exchange them for many." Shuiqing didn't care.
Parents and relatives can't choose, it's not Fan Jin's fault, she won't vent her anger on them, and there's no need to vent her anger on them.
Anyway, these few can all be male.