It's unusual for a farmer to have a girl

Chapter 20 Maybe...

There is no scale at home, but Mrs. Li suggested using a gourd scoop.

I found a gourd scoop of the right size and tried it with Li Zhengjia's scale. A gourd scoop of sugar snowball was just half a catty.

Anyone who wants half a catty can get one gourd scoop, one catty can get two gourd scoops, and so on.

With earning a living, the family immediately became busy.

Li Benshan could not move while lying on the kang, but he could cut bamboo sticks. Xiao Dao could also help with skewers, and even Xiao Sanshun also helped to remove the hawthorn pedicles.

While taking care of Li Benshan, Mrs. Li was busy helping Xiaomian.

In the cold winter, in the laughter and laughter of the family, it seems to become warmer.

Old man Li strolled over to see how his second son's legs were doing.

The old man appeared at the gate silently with his hands behind his back.The family was so busy that no one noticed him.

Old man Li saw his second son sitting on the kang and cutting bamboo sticks in high spirits.

The youngest grandson squatted beside a pile of red fruits and yanked at the stems.

The whole family is busy with their heads down, talking and laughing in harmony.

He stood here very abruptly, and he was stunned for a long time, but no one looked at him.

"Cough cough,"

Old man Li could only make a sound to remind everyone: he is coming.

Hearing the familiar voice, Li Benshan subconsciously became clever, his hand trembled, and almost cut his hand.

He looked up at his own father. "Father, why are you here?"

Old man Li also saw his son tremble.He was also taken aback.

He frowned and said, "How big a person, I don't know how to be careful when doing some work."

Crowd: ...

Xiao Sanshun pouted her buttocks and raised her head, her legs softened and she sat on the ground.

Sanshun sat on the ground and blinked, as if he didn't know why he was sitting on the ground?
The little guy held up the hawthorn and asked, "Grandpa, do you want to eat it?"

Old man Li smiled kindly in exchange for the cute little grandson, and he said softly, "Oh, eat it, I don't like it sour."

He touched the kang and nodded with satisfaction.

This kang is really warm.

Although the eldest daughter-in-law is outrageous, she is good at building a kang.

The kang is hot, and the whole room is warm, no wonder living here is not willing to go back.

Seeing that everyone was busy, he asked again, "What are you busy with?"

Sanshun said as if offering a treasure: "Make candied haws and eat snowballs."

Old man Li said with concern: "You are not in good health, you can't eat snowballs. Did you hear that?"

Sanshun shook his head, "It's edible, it's delicious."

Mrs. Li came over and said with a smile: "Oh, dad is here. You see, we are so busy that we don't have time to pour you a bowl of water all the time. Don't blame you for being so old."

As she said that, she sighed: "To show him his legs, I have paid a debt. We have no family, no relatives to help, thanks to my sister-in-law, I am not busy making candied haws to earn two salt money."

After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she turned her head and went out of the room.

The family started to get busy again, but no one spoke anymore.

Even Xiao Sanshun looked at this, looked at that, and finally bowed his head and went to work.

The atmosphere was suddenly a little oppressive.

Old man Li suddenly felt that the room was a bit hot, perhaps because of the kang built on it.

Maybe……

The second child was originally a seldom talker, and he didn't feel much if he didn't speak, but what the second daughter-in-law said seemed like a needle in the cotton.

What does it mean to have no family background, and what does it mean to have no relatives to help?
Could it be that the half taels of silver he took out were stones?

snort!Don't look at the smiling face of the second daughter-in-law, but he can still see how fake that smile is.

There are also these children, except for the little grandson, the others seem to have not seen him when they saw him.

Old man Li stood up aggrieved, and said displeasedly: "If you can't work, don't do it, just take care of it, I'm leaving."

Looking at the old man's back, Xiaodao asked Sanshun, "What are you doing here?"

Sanshun shook his head, he didn't understand.

Xiao Dao asked again: "What delicious food did the Lord give you?"

Sanshun: "I didn't take anything, I didn't give anything."

Xiao Dao glared at him: "You call it so sweet if you don't eat it?"

Xiao Mian said with a smile: "I didn't come to see my second uncle, I guess I came to ask for a bill, who did you see ask for a bill for food?"

Old man Li's footsteps trembled, "I'm a girl, don't tell me I have to bring a gift for my son?"

snort!The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, all caused by her mother.

Old man Li walked faster with his hands behind his back.

He did come to ask for the bill.

The old woman heard that the elders helped the second son pay off the debt.

There are two or two in Lizheng, and three or two in Zhao Qiang's house.

The five liang of silver was taken out with ease.

So, does he have to pay back the half taels of silver he gave back then?
But that was his own son.

My son is sick, why did he get some medical expenses?Does he have the nerve to come back?

Besides, the eldest daughter-in-law can pay five taels of silver. As an old man, how can he be compared to the eldest daughter-in-law?
So, he didn't come to ask for a bill, he just came to take a look, and he was relieved to see that his second son was recovering well.

Of course, if the second child insisted on paying him back the money, he would just take it.

Isn't this not repaid?

Did he not open his mouth to ask for it?

Just come and drop by.

Damn girl, why is your mouth so cheap?
The food is delicious, and the business is very good, especially the sugar snowball, which does not bring leftovers every day.

In just half a month, he quietly earned half a tael of silver.The family is even more motivated.

However, the good times didn't last long, and soon they encountered difficulties.

The hawthorns stored at home are used up, and unfortunately, the hawthorns in the mountains are also gone.

Every day, the Li family got up early and ran into the city late at night, especially Dazhu and Erwang, whose bright red candied haws couldn't be covered by anything.

Every day, the two children put out the candied gourds full of candied haws, and they sold them all when they came back, not to mention the candy snowballs of Song's and Damai's, which became famous in the county.

How much does the Li family earn a day?

There is a lot of guessing and a lot of jealousy.

So just like everyone looking for cocklebur, they swarmed to pick hawthorn again.

When the hawthorn is picked, they make candied haws at home, and some people wrap the hawthorn with noodles and learn to make sugar snowballs.

Everyone has seen candied haws a lot, and most of them have eaten them. Although they don't know how to make them, they know that they are boiled in sugar water.

Sugar snowballs are new here.

Some are willing to spend a few pennies to buy it and taste it, knowing that it is sweet, and some are reluctant to even buy one.

Regardless of whether you have eaten it or not, everyone agrees that the hoarfrost on the red noodles in the mountains is made of noodles.The difference is whether or not sugar is added.

Because only when it is wrapped in white flour can it be so white and so fine.

Qingshan Village is very lively, almost every household boils sugar and every household buys flour.

For a while, the village was filled with the sweet and greasy smell of boiled sugar.

Without experience, candied haws are either sticky or bitter, and sugar snowballs are even more ridiculous. Is it delicious to wrap them in white flour?

Therefore, handicraft work is not something that everyone can do well.

Although no one has done it successfully, and some people quarrel endlessly because of wasting things.

But regardless of whether it is successful or not, the hawthorn fruit in the mountains has been ruined by misfortune.

Mrs. Li said angrily: "What kind of person is this? It's not easy to meet people. If there is any movement, just follow suit."

Li Benshan sighed: "They are all poor people with no ability. If they find some ways to make money, they will swarm up to raise money."

Da Zhu frowned and asked, "Then what shall we do now?"

(End of this chapter)