How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Chapter 47
As soon as the people in the village left, Chen Feiyan quickly pulled Chen Yixuan into the house.

"What's going on with those people?"

Chen Yixuan replied honestly: "Isn't it time to collect the poll tax? Some wimps said they couldn't even afford food, so they rented out their wives. They also said proudly that as soon as they Firstly, I can save some money on the poll tax. Secondly, I can save some rations. Thirdly, I can also earn some money."

When Chen Feiyan learned that the women who were tied up with hemp ropes just now were the mothers and wives of certain people, she looked extremely unhappy.

He couldn't help but curse a few words immediately. "What kind of beasts are those dogs?"

When Chen Yixuan saw her getting angry, he quickly spoke to comfort her: "Daughter-in-law, my family is a farming and education family. We cannot do such a thing that would disgrace our ancestors."

"None of them have read the books of sages. They don't understand benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom, trust, respecting the elderly, loving the young, and filial piety. When my grandfather was still alive, I didn't know how many times he scolded those people. But they are just uncivilized. . And they always say that my grandfather is a pedantic and ignorant old man."

"My grandfather used to teach me about village chiefs. But they only learned a little bit and knew a few words, but they didn't even understand some principles of life..."

Hearing Chen Yixuan complain, Chen Feiyan looked at Chen Yixing and suddenly sighed.

"No wonder your brother couldn't stay in this village!"

Chen Yixing, who was sitting next to him, immediately became excited after hearing this.

He patted his thigh and said excitedly as if he had found a confidant: "Isn't that right?! Sister-in-law, what you said is really right!"

"I was born in this village and grew up in this village. I don't know how many dirty things I heard about the old millet and rotten sesame seeds here. When people in the village bully others, they do it nakedly. Back then, our grandfather and father successively After his death, many people from the village came over to take advantage of our family... One time, my mother went to dry clothes outside our house. Several bachelors from the village saw her, so they hugged her and tried to rape her. Let’s go. Fortunately, I happened to come back from the fields at that time, and I saw them trying to kill my brother. I picked up a hoe and hoeed hard on them. I injured three of them with the hoe in a row, and then they ran away!"

Hearing that Chen Yixuan had experienced such a thing, Chen Feiyan looked at him in surprise.

Chen Yixuan saw her and nodded to her.

"Daughter-in-law, what my brother said is true. From that day on, my mother and I followed my brother all the time. When my brother went out to farm, we also followed him. So in the years when I was less than five feet tall, my family Things were always stolen. My mother had no choice but to pawn all the benches, tables, chairs, dishes, chopsticks, and other valuable things in the house, exchange them for money, and hide them on her every day."

Unfortunately, mother and son were unlucky.When he grew up a little, Chen Yixing, like those in the village, sold most of his family's forests and fields and moved to the city to marry into his wife.

Chen Yixing also thought of Chen Yixuan's unfinished words.

He suddenly patted Chen Yixuan's chest and said: "Brother, you know etiquette when you live in a warehouse, and you know honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing. If I hadn't sold my things at home and brought some money out, maybe our family wouldn't have survived. What would you do? My son was young and didn’t notice that the people in the village were all eyeing our land and our houses. I sold the land to landlord Zhang, and sold the six large brick and tile houses to six families respectively. ...They have gone to the county seat, and they won’t be able to squeeze much money out of you even if they want to cause trouble for you.”

After saying this, he waved his hand and said: "Brother, let the past happen. As a brother, I may have really done something wrong. Don't worry, I will definitely help you in the future and make this family prosperous." stand up."

Hearing his brother's shameless words, Chen Yixuan secretly sighed in his heart, "That's so shameless."

However, if you think about it carefully, many things in the past were really what he said.

Ever since he sold his land and house with great fanfare and ran away with a large sum of money, many people in the village stopped looking at his house.

Although many people came to his house at that time and laughed at his family for raising a white-eyed wolf, and they all gloated about his misfortune, the people in the village really didn't hate his family that much.From that day on, his mother also lived a stable life.No man would knock on his door in the middle of the night, and no bachelor would dare to kidnap her in broad daylight.

As for him, he also grew up peacefully.Married a wife and had several children of his own.

Seeing his brother deep in thought, Chen Yixing suddenly said: "Brother, I still think that if our family gets rich in the future and lives a better life, we won't even stay in the village. We will move directly to the county town. Although the county town is difficult Damn it, but I’m not cannibalistic like that..."

Chen Yixuan listened and shook his head.

"Let's talk later!"

"Our family is just like them now. We are all poor. There is nothing to worry about."

After saying that, Chen Yixuan was still thinking secretly, going to live in the county?That's easy to say!

A blue brick house in the county town costs 40 to [-] taels.

Even if you rent a house, like a courtyard house, the annual rent is not cheap.It seems to be about two taels.

His family is barely able to afford food and clothing, so where can he have the money to burn it?
Besides, after moving to the county town, how will the family make a living?
Abandoning the family and children to dig coal in the coal mountains dozens of kilometers away from the county town?Or working as a porter at the dock of Youshui River, carrying big bags every day?
Just thinking about it made Chen Yixuan feel unreliable.

What Chen Yixing said just now was just to test the tone of his brother Chen Yixuan.

Seeing that he had no idea of ​​living in the county town yet, he had no choice but to suppress his unwillingness and suddenly changed the topic.

"Brother, I followed the marking and tracking method you taught me and found another hornet's nest on a mountain more than ten kilometers away. Look, when should we set off?"

If you get a hornet's nest weighing more than ten kilograms, you can earn at least two to three hundred cash.After hearing this, Chen Yixing immediately raised his head.

"You can do it at any time. However, we still have to run over there a few more times to take a look at the surrounding environment."

After saying this, Chen Yixuan suddenly spoke to Chen Yixing with a serious face.

"Brother, I've heard people say before that all brothers have to settle their accounts. From now on, when you find something to make money, you can either do it by yourself, or you can find me to do it. You can do it by yourself, and you can earn money by yourself. You can keep it yourself. And if we get money from what we did together, we can split it half and half."

After hearing this, Chen Yixing shook his head and waved his hands repeatedly, rejecting it very thoroughly.

"Brother, you are too polite!"

"Since our family of three came to your home, we have eaten and lived in your home. I don't know how much it has cost your family! I am a person who knows what is good and what is wrong. I know in my heart that if this matter happened to other people in the village, they would definitely be in trouble. It’s impossible to do like you.”

"I, I still don't want you to split the money half and half. You take all the money and save it. After saving a lot, we will buy some durable and good wood next year and teach you how to make a loom. Children It will also be great to learn more skills by then.”

(End of this chapter)