Chapter 13 Negotiation
The next day, Su Yu slept until three o'clock in the morning and didn't get up. He was really tired from traveling these days. When he came out of the house, he saw Mrs. Lian hanging clothes on a bamboo pole. It must have been a gray sky when she got up at dawn. She couldn't help but feel guilty. He touched his nose.

"Mom, why don't you sleep a little longer? The road was so hard the past two days."

Mrs. Lian kept moving her hands, hanging clothes behind her back while answering her daughter's words.

"Mom, you're not tired. I'm used to getting up at home. You must be hungry. I've left breakfast for you. Go and eat."

Su Yu takes water to wash his face.

"Why don't you see dad and brother? Where have they gone?"

"Your father and your eldest brother went into the mountains to cut firewood early in the morning. There is no firewood at home, so you don't need to prepare more."

Su Yu became even more weak, and she was the only one sleeping in the family.

Thinking that Su Yu had entered the kitchen, breakfast was just a pancake and a bowl of dried vegetable soup. The dried vegetables were dried in Wangjiacun. After breakfast, he started sweeping the yard, finishing the front yard and the backyard, and then used a rag to wipe the door frames of the house one by one. After wiping it down, there was nothing else to do. They moved into three empty rooms last night. You could throw a stone into the house without hearing a sound.

There are a lot of things to buy, and there are only two or two taels left in the house. This money is not enough to buy anything, so I simply don’t buy it. The bed can be made of wood, and the table is the same.Su Yu suddenly felt a sense of crisis, raising chickens was an urgent task, but now that his father and elder brother are not at home, let's wait until they come back.

After figuring out what to do in the future, Su Yu went to the backyard to clean up the vegetable field with Lian. She couldn't do the digging now, but she was still able to clean up the weeds.

They waited until noon, but Su Laoer and Su Sheng hadn't come back yet. The mother and daughter were a little worried, so they took a basket and went to the mountain to dig some wild vegetables.Even though wild vegetables are a bit old in season, they can still be eaten. Their family just moved here and has no other vegetables, so they can only make do with it.As for going to other people's houses to buy vegetables, Lian's family has no such idea at all, and neither does Su Yu. There is only so much money in the house, and every copper coin has to be spent wisely. Now bear with it, what do you want to eat when you earn money in the future? , I don't care about this day or two.

The two dug a large basket of wild vegetables, only to see the father and son appearing on the mountain road, each carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back.

"Father, brother."

Seeing his daughter, Su Laoer was very happy. Yesterday, the whole family almost disappeared. How could he expect to settle down in Yujia Village today? Thinking about smiling, his big white teeth were particularly conspicuous.

"Daughter, why are you and your mother here?"

"My mother and I were worried if you didn't come back, so we came to take a look."

"What's there to worry about? We're only nearby and don't go into the mountains."

As he spoke, the father and son arrived. They put the firewood on their backs on the ground and wiped the sweat on their foreheads with their sleeves.

"My dear, you take your daughter back first."

The father and son of the Su family walked in the direction they had come.

"Mom, where are dad and brother going?"

Mrs. Lian obviously knew what Su Laoer and his son were going to do, but she didn't say anything.

"Let's go home and cook and leave them alone."

After hearing what her mother said, Su Yu had no choice but to follow her.

Back home, Su Yu lit a fire, and Mrs. Lian kneaded the dough she woke up in the morning into steamed buns and steamed them in a pot. After steaming, she put them aside. Using the water used to steam the buns, she poured the washed wild vegetables into the pot and sprinkled them with salt. This is what the family will have for lunch today.

When the food was ready, there was movement from the courtyard gate. Guessing that it was father and elder brother coming back, Su Yu brought water and planned to put it on a wooden stake in the courtyard, so that they could wash their faces.

The father and son put the firewood on their backs against the courtyard wall, and turned back out of the courtyard. When Su Yu came out of the stove with the wooden basin, he only saw the backs of the two.After a while, another person came in carrying a large bundle of firewood. Seeing this scene, Su Yu felt very sour.

"Dad, do the work at home slowly. If you collapse from exhaustion, it will be a good thing."

How could Su Laoer not be in a hurry? The family only has more than two taels of silver now. Look at this family, which has nothing. Just buying things costs five or six taels of silver. Let’s count on the cheapest. The two taels of silver at home are not enough at all. , and besides, their family has no harvest from their fields this year, so eating has become a problem.

Su Sheng was too tired to talk, so he went to the side and washed his face. The heat on his body was reduced by more than half, and he felt much more relaxed.

During the meal, Su Yu was busy picking up food for her parents and eldest brother. Except for Su Sheng's disdainful looks from her parents behind her back, the scene was very warm. The couple felt very relieved that their daughter had grown up after all.

After eating and packing up, Su Yu spoke out her thoughts.

"Our family only has two or two taels of silver now. This little silver is not enough to buy anything. Why don't we just use it to buy eggs and hatch chicks according to the previous method. Our family can raise some, and the more chicks can be brought to the town. If you sell it, you will definitely make money."

This time, no one in the family objected to Su Yu's proposal, and even Su Sheng thought it was a good idea. Because of the chicks that were hatched earlier, the family still had confidence in Su Yu.

"The family left [-] Wen to buy food, and the rest to buy eggs."

As the head of the family, Su Laoer immediately expressed his stance.

Su Yu was very happy when he heard this. He didn't expect his father to be so generous. Now there are still two taels of silver left in the family. After excluding the 850 coins spent to buy food, there is still one tael or seven coins left, which can buy [-] eggs.But Su Yu then thought about it and remembered the small river next to the yard. There were many small fish and shrimps in it. The family could also raise ducks. With the river, the cost of raising ducks was reduced by more than half, which was definitely more profitable than raising chickens.

"Dad, we can raise some ducks in the river next to our house."

"It's all up to you, my daughter can raise whatever she wants."

Su's second son spoke very proudly, and handed over a whole mess to his daughter, not worried at all that Su Yu would lose money.He thought very clearly that his daughter had this ability, if it didn't work out in the end, it must not be because of her daughter, but because he, Su's second son, didn't have money in his life.

Well, before this even started, Second Su had already found an excuse for Su Yu in his heart.

Su Yu was lying when she said she wasn't moved. In ancient times, the mentality of favoring boys over girls was quite serious. It wasn't that she wasn't worried when she first traveled through time. However, after getting along with him for a period of time, she sincerely regarded her father as her biological father.

The family discussed and took a break and went out each other. Lian and Su Yu were responsible for collecting eggs and duck eggs in the village, while Su Laoer and Su Sheng and his son went to the mountains to cut bamboo. The fences in the front and back yards of the yard were in tatters. The place where I live is next to the foot of a mountain, and it is not practical to build a wall, so I can only cut bamboo to surround the yard.Thinking about raising chickens and ducks in the future, the front and back yards must be fenced. This project is not small. The father and son will have to work for more than ten days. In addition, during this period, they have to go into the mountains to collect firewood. The construction period will only be delayed longer, he said. Maybe all of Su Yu's chicks will be hatched, and the courtyard wall hasn't been built yet. The father and son will have no free time at all, so they have to hurry up and work.

(End of this chapter)

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