Chapter 69 Harvest Sweet Potatoes

Mrs. Mei saw that Mei Lao Er was going to take the cow away, and she didn't care what Mei Lao San said, so she hurriedly said to Mei Lao Er: "Second, why are you taking the cow away? Why don't you hurry up and take the cow home? Go, you unfilial son."

Mei's second child stopped in his tracks, and said embarrassingly: "Sanya was afraid that it would shit in the yard, so I..."

Mei Luomei shook her head, it seemed that her father had always been at a disadvantage when he met Mrs. Mei.

"Father, give the cow to the milk!"

"What?" Mei's second child was surprised. He didn't expect his daughter to say such a thing. He was reluctant to give the beef he just bought to Mrs. Mei!
Xiao Zhang: "That's right."

Mei Laosan: "It's still Sanya who knows the general idea."

As long as he takes the cow back, he won't bother with this girl.

Old Madam Mei grabbed the rein, held it in her hand, and said impatiently: "If this is the case, it will be over, and I have to let my mother run away."

This loser, this time for the sake of being a bull, I won't scold her!

Seeing that Mrs. Mei was going to take the cow away, Melomei stood in front of her and said expressionlessly: "Slow down, milk is going to take the cow away, that's fine, but we bought this cow at a high price. In order to buy this For a cow, we borrowed 150 taels of silver, and now that the cow has been given milk, the debt must also be paid along with it.”

Melomei took out a contract from her pocket and handed it over, "This silver is usury, three per cent per day, 150 taels of silver, probably doubled in a few days, when people come to your door, don't worry about it." Blame my granddaughter for not reminding you beforehand!"

The so-called loan sharks are modern usury.

Mrs. Mei was taken aback for a moment, then she reacted and yelled:
"Okay, you lose money, I said why you are so kind all of a sudden, you want me to owe loan sharks, you damn girl, why are you so dark-hearted? You want to kill my mother, don't you?"

Losing the reins, he jumped up and down angrily, "Second Mei, you black-hearted bastard, and you still say you are honest, so you are also a treacherous villain, and you dare to help your daughter lie to me, so I hope my mother will not beat you to death." .”

Mrs. Mei stepped forward and wanted to hit Mei's second child, but Mei Qiying opened the door and walked out to block her.

"Mother, go home, don't bother the second brother again."

Mei Qiying grabbed old lady Mei and dragged her outside.

"Qi Ying, why are you turning your elbows outward?"

Looking at her little girl in disbelief, she felt that she had changed, but she couldn't think of a reason why it was different.

Mrs. Mei couldn't break free, so she had no choice but to follow her. She didn't want to get usury.

"Third Uncle and Third Aunt, you still don't leave after your grandma is gone, do you want to come in for tea?"

Seeing that the third and third couple were still sticking around in the yard, Melomei looked at the two with a half-smile, and imitated Xiao Zhang, talking in a strange way.

"No, no need, we'll come back right away, right away."

Mrs. Mei left, and the two of them knew that they would not get any benefits if they stayed any longer.

This damn girl, who dares to send her own grandmother to prison, and even her own uncle who dares to put a kitchen knife on her neck, their uncles and aunts really dare not make too much noise.

The two smiled awkwardly, backed away slowly, backed up to the gate, turned around and ran away.

"Bah... bastard!"

Things that bully the soft and fear the hard.

"Sanya, I didn't expect you to be so powerful in combat that you are not even afraid of your grandma?" Mei Qihai heard that there was no sound outside the house, so she came out with a cane.

"Of course, otherwise you think I'll let you hide in the house?"

When Mrs. Mei came just now, Mei Qihai was ready to come out to deal with it, but was held back by Melo Mei, after all, raising his legs was important.

"Sanya, did we really borrow usury?"

Mei's second son was still in a daze. He would never have imagined that his daughter would borrow usury to buy a cow.

Seeing the worried faces of the two, Melomei had no choice but to explain: "Father, uncle, what are you thinking! How can I borrow loan sharks? bother!"

After stuffing the piece of paper into his sleeve and throwing it into the system backpack, he felt that this cheating artifact really works, and he can even buy fake contracts.

The bullock cart incident came to an end, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.After that, do the work that should be done, and prepare the things that should be prepared.

With the help of Mei's second child, Melomei put away the big tank she bought, and asked him to carry water to fill it up.

Mei Lao Er had to fetch water first, and then went to repair the cattle pen.

Merlot brought out the dried mushrooms in the cellar, and asked her sister-in-law and uncle to help them make mushroom sauce at home.

The three of them were busy until it was dark, and Merlotao and Merlot Xing, who went out to help, came back to help at night, and then they made a few bags of dried mushrooms into mushroom sauce and put them in jars.

This is the next meal prepared by Melomei, so it is natural not to be sloppy.

In order to be delicious, she bought two chickens and cut them into diced meat.

Time flies to the end of the year, it is already winter, but there has never been a snowflake, not even a drop of rain, the Shuangzi River has almost bottomed out, and every man, woman and child in the village are frowning.

This means, they are going to migrate!
In the few days before the Chinese New Year, Melomei approached the village head and asked everyone to take back the sweet potatoes in the field, because if it didn't rain, if they stayed there, the blue vines might turn into dry branches.

Take it back while there is still a little water, and the sweet potato vine can be eaten as a vegetable, which can be regarded as adding a little ration to the villagers.

Although some people in this village are not good people, Melome believes that most people are still good.

Of course, her purpose of doing this is not just to help the villagers, but to not make her family a target of public criticism.

Think about it, when the time comes, everyone will have no food rations, only your family has it, and everyone has nothing to eat, but your family has fish and meat. No matter how you look at it, you are a fat sheep. The so-called two fists are hard to beat four hands, so Melomei sold sweet potato vines cheaply to the villagers for planting at the very beginning, which can be considered as a plan for the future.

On the way to escape, who knows what will happen!

"Father, let's go dig up the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the field!" Melomei walked to the cattle pen and said to Mei's second son who was feeding the cattle.

Ever since the family bought a cow, his cheap dad couldn't see anyone for a day, and most of the time he squatted in the cow pen to watch the cow.

"It's time to dig it back. If you don't dig it, it might be stolen."

Recently, food has been stolen from people's fields in the village, and the village head organized people to arrest them several times but failed to catch them.

Because Mei Qihai wandered around the fields every three days, their house hadn't been stolen yet.

Mei Lao Er fed the cows, washed his hands, took back radish, a dustpan, a pestle and a hoe, called a group of people from the family, and walked to his field in a mighty manner.

"Second brother, I saw that people in the village started digging sweet potatoes today, and I was about to come back to call you, but I didn't expect you to arrive."

Mei Qihai took a sickle and a handful of grass in his hand.

Since his legs recovered, he wandered around the field with a sickle every day, cutting some grass from time to time to feed the cows.

There is not much grass in winter, and if you search carefully for a day, you won't be able to mow much.

"There are a lot of thieves in the village recently, so dig it back early and rest assured."

Mei Laoer put down his back radish and other things, and went forward with only a hoe, and said to Mei Qihai: "We will carry two backs in a while, and they can just dig."

"I can do it." Mei Qihai had no objection.

Although the old doctor said that he could not carry heavy weights, but because he is young and recovering relatively well, there is no problem at all.

Mei Luoxing took a hoe and said: "Father, I will dig it with my eldest sister, my sister will carry it to pretend to be a pickle, and my third sister will just pick it up."

Everyone agrees with this arrangement, and Melome is even more happy, because it doesn't take much effort to pick up sweet potatoes, and she can sneak some into the system backpack.

After using it for so long, she finally understood some rules of the system.

Putting things into the system backpack, generally there is no problem with such self-produced things, but if it is ill-gotten wealth, it is absolutely not allowed, such as stealing other people's money, or stealing other people's things, the system is not allowed approved.

Unless the other party is heinous and takes ill-gotten wealth, then you can take it, but you have to use it to do good deeds, otherwise there may be something similar to karma.

Melome doesn't understand karma, but she knows that it's okay not to be greedy for things that aren't hers.

Several people dug together for several days, and finally dug up the sweet potatoes and potatoes, and they were so tired that they were about to collapse.

"Finally finished digging."

As soon as Melomei got home, she just sat down on the stool and didn't want to move.

"You girl, what you do is already considered easy. Look at your elder sister and second sister, their hands are full of blisters, then look at your father and uncle, their shoulders are all worn out, and then look at me, I can't even lift my arms."

Mei Qiying squeezed the arm of the other hand with one hand, and after a few days of lifting it, she felt that the arm was not her own anymore.

She seldom went to the fields before, but this year she suddenly felt a little overwhelmed by such heavy work.

"I know everyone takes care of me, can't I help but complain?" Melomei moved her buttocks and stood up, poured a cup of tea for Mei Qiying, and said, "Sister, we are too tired these days , rest for two days before dealing with those sweet potatoes and potatoes!"

Mei Qiying: "How do you want to deal with it?"

Melomei thought for a while and said: "We cut sweet potatoes into strips, boiled them, dried them, and packed them. We also cut potatoes into slices, boiled them in salt water, dried them, and fried them in oil. They are lighter and less expensive. It can be eaten directly after burning, which is more convenient.”

On the way to escape from the famine, there might be no time to eat, and if everyone ran out of food, it would be difficult to cook at home, so Merome felt that it would be convenient to eat when the time came.

This is her experience of eating alone when she was not separated.

Mei Qiying drank the tea in one gulp, and said: "This method is feasible. The weather is hot, and sprouts may grow after a long time. After ripening, there will be no such worries. But we still have to save some seeds until we find a suitable place to live. It’s easy to plant.”

Her niece has a really good head!
Since the separation, Mei Qiying often stayed with her niece, and Mei Qiying felt that she had realized something she hadn't realized before, which made her more convinced that her original decision was correct.

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