Chapter 280: Dare not ask for more
Qin Yilin immediately winked at the head of the family.
Ding Heli was confused and didn't know what he meant.
Didn't Yilin just say that she would return it, and he agreed. Now the girl took the initiative to return it. What's wrong?
Qin Yilin looked at the head of the family's expression and knew that he didn't react. Are all men pig-brains? The words of the girl last night showed that she liked Wenhua.
Now Wenhua has no intention of that, so shouldn't he let the girl take it easy?
She looked at the head of the family and said, "Jia Jia, let your father go to return it. It's not conspicuous, and it's easier for men to talk."
It's not that it's easier for men to talk, but the head of the family won't be emotional. If Jia Jia went, how would it end if she couldn't help crying?
To be honest, Wenhua can't be blamed for this matter. Maybe he often sees that he treats Jia Jia as a sister. If there is a good one, he wants to buy it back for his sister. In his eyes, there is not much difference between hairpins and cakes and sugar balls-mainly because Jia Jia mentioned that she wanted it before, otherwise he guessed that he, a grown man, would not buy things for girls.
Ding Heli thought so too. It was hard to say to let Jiajia go and return some things to Wenhua. You can't say that such a valuable silver hairpin should be kept for your future wife.
But he, as an elder, can say something and even give some advice.
Hu Wenhua, who was pacing back and forth on the high ground, saw a familiar figure. After a sank heart, he still strode to greet him, "Uncle Ding, why is it not Jiajia?"
She didn't want to see him?
Ding Heli said happily, "It's okay. She wants to dry herbs. Anyway, it's not a big deal. It's the same if I come to return it to you."
"Return?" Hu Wenhua didn't expect that a hairpin still needed to be returned. He asked puzzledly, "Why do you have to return it?"
Jiajia was willing to accept it yesterday.
"Well, Wenhua, you are young and don't understand. This hairpin for a girl has a special meaning. Jiajia didn't understand yesterday that she had to return it?
Also, you can't give the hairpin away easily in the future. You have to keep it for your future wife, otherwise she will be jealous when she knows." Ding Heli said earnestly.
It's not a big deal, but it still needs to be made clear, otherwise Wenhua's good intentions will be misunderstood and she will be disappointed.
"Uncle knows that you are kind-hearted and you really care about Uncle Ding's family. You treat Jiajia as your sister. Your aunt and I are the same. Let Jiajia treat you as her own brother!
So Jiajia accepted all the cakes and sugar balls. It's okay for her to eat them as a sister, but this hairpin is absolutely unacceptable. Uncle and aunt know your good intentions, so don't be estranged in the future."
Hu Wenhua felt as if her heart was squeezed and hurt.
So the hairpin has a special meaning, so she must return it? She doesn't have that intention towards him.
Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding asked her to treat him as her own brother. Is it a euphemism? The truth is that Jiajia has no interest in him, and the two of them are not a good match, but she can't say it directly because of her sister's feelings.
Yes, Jiajia is so good, quiet and gentle, and she also has the skills to collect and prepare medicinal materials. Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding are capable and pamper her. It is also a good match for her to marry a scholar in the city in the future. However, he is not only a rough man, but also looks too fierce and savage.
He doesn't look like a good person!
In the past, girls were afraid of him. It was good enough that Jiajia was not afraid of him. How could he still dare to expect her to like him...
"Okay, Uncle Ding, don't worry, I understand."
Ding Heli looked at Hu Wenhua, who was always energetic and seemed to have endless energy, and he wanted to say that he was worried.
Is what he said was clear the same as what he understood?
Ding Heli looked back every three steps, and finally comforted himself that it would be fine after a long time.
However, only the four of them knew about this matter. Generally speaking, it was a satisfactory solution, which was more serious than Wenhua's own Jiajia.
After all, one was intentional and the other was unintentional. It was much more difficult for the intentional one to let go. He had to go home to see Jiajia as soon as possible.
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After digging the soil for more than ten days, except for the two families of Fan Qian and Zhang Tuzi, all other families in Shanshui Village turned to farming.
Shuiqing's family was the same, and even one or two days earlier than them.
But the difference is that her family turned to farming after the soil in the field was transported, while the people in the village were about to plant potatoes, and it would be too late if they didn't cultivate the land.
Shuiqing could understand that one mu was equivalent to six or seven hundred square meters, and one square meter would have to have at least two baskets of soil, right?
If it was purely dug by manpower, it would also have to remove stones, dead branches, weeds, etc. from the soil, and then put them in baskets, and then transport them to carts. A full cart would be pulled to the fields by strong men. How many trips could be pulled in a day?
Even if all the laborers in the family were mobilized, after more than ten days, at most two or three mu of land could be cultivated.
It was different for my family. The good land I got and the land I bought from Fan Damu's family totaled only more than 20 mu, which was about the same as the old village chief's family.
But the old village chief's sons and daughters-in-law all went out, totaling six people, not to mention the twenty-three people in his family, including Feng Dafeng, Feng Erda, Ni Ni and Ni, and eleven animals.
Animals are much more durable than people in carrying loads. In the era of pure manpower, one animal is equivalent to two or three strong laborers.
So in more than ten days, the people in the village had paved two or three acres of land at most, but their family had already paved more than twenty acres of land and went to plow the land.
Needless to say, plowing the land is even faster with cows and donkeys pulling the plow, which makes the old village chief who can't go to the fields in the village envious.
"In the past, there were no livestock in the village, so I couldn't see the difference. Now I see the livestock of Jin Xiaozi's family, and I am really jealous. I wish I could have one of our own." Old Man Xu sighed as he looked at the cow pulling the plow in the field.
Pulling the plow is too tiring. Two hemp ropes are carried on the back, and you need to be strong, otherwise you can't pull it. You often have to use all your strength. When the women or young sons in the family are busy with farming, they will be so anxious that they cry.
After a whole day, the whole shoulder is red, swollen and painful, as if it is not your own.
Why did Fan Qian and his wife separate Jin Xiaozi's family before? It was because they thought that they had many sons and they were all grown up, so they didn't lack labor; and Jin Xiaozi's family had two daughters who couldn't carry anything on their shoulders or hands, and the three sons were young and couldn't help with farm work. They decided that the fields would be abandoned after they were separated.
But man proposes, God disposes. How could they have thought that the family didn't need to farm by themselves!
With servants and livestock, they were more relaxed and comfortable than any other family in the village, and their lives were even more prosperous.
As expected, having brains is the most important thing no matter what you do.
The old village chief looked at the livestock in the field, thought of his children who worked hard day and night, and said, "In the past, we dug for food in the soil, and it was not easy to take care of food and clothing throughout the year, but now, can the livestock also think?"