Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 27
Chapter 27 Old Liangtou's plan
In the back yard, a large area has been circled as a vegetable garden, with cabbage, radish, celery, and lentils, and two of the beds are full of hot peppers. In late autumn, each hot pepper is bright red.

Lao Liang's family likes to eat spicy food, so they grow a lot of this kind of sharp red pepper every year. If they are well pickled, they can be eaten for a year.Add some flavor when cooking, or take it out of the pickle tank, pour a few drops of cooked oil, and put it on the table.

The chicken pen, pig pen, and cow shed are all on one side, built next to the wall, and the pens and sheds are covered with straw.At the back of Gong's house, between the livestock and poultry circle, there are piles of cotton stalks.

Yang's movement came from Gong's office, and the Jin Xi sisters were standing beside the cotton poles and talking.

"Sister, last night, the velvet flower my aunt wore was so pretty, if I could have one, it would be really beautiful!" Jinrou said intentionally.

Jin Xi sighed, and said: "Silly sister, don't think about it, it's useless! If we put it aside, maybe we can still think about it, but the situation at home is different now, didn't you hear what dad said when he came back last night? I want to borrow some money to redeem my uncle, and my grandfather will be in debt, and our family will have to save money!"

"Sister, I don't understand. Didn't the money be borrowed for the uncle? It was also used on the uncle. Why do you want our family to return it? I can't even wear velvet flowers!" The little girl's voice was a little bit aggrieved .

Jin Xi glanced in the direction of Gong's office, the movement in Gong's office stopped for a while, Yang must have been holding her breath to eavesdrop on what was said here.

"Father said, I want to borrow it in my own name, and maybe I have to use the family's fields and houses as collateral, and I owe the debt to my grandfather. Naturally, we have to cut down on food and clothing. Oh, our children's family Damn, how do you know that the adults are devious about borrowing money! Hurry up and pick the peppers and go back to the stove, mother is still waiting for the cooking to be put into the pot!"

Over there, the two sisters left with their vegetable baskets on their shoulders. In Gong's office, Mrs. Yang didn't care about Gong who was halfway out, so she pulled up her trousers and walked out of the backyard of Lao Liang's house like a gust of wind.

The breakfast bowls and chopsticks had just been removed, and in the dining hall next door, Old Liangtou called his children and grandchildren together again, and continued to discuss things that he hadn't had time to talk about last night.

With the help of sisters Jinxi and Jinrou, Mrs. Sun cleaned up the family's dishes as quickly as possible, and rushed to the dining hall with the two sisters.

In the room, only Lao Liangtou and Mrs. Tan sat on both sides of the table, while the others stood or squatted.

Jin Xi glanced quickly around the room, and found that apart from Liang Yuju who couldn't be there, Liang Yulin who fled before the battle, Yang Shi was missing.

Tan sat on one side with a sullen face and didn't make a sound.Liang Yumei stood next to Mrs. Yang, pouted, looking reluctant.

Just like what Liang Yuzhong said when he came back last night, old Liangtou repeated those words in front of all his children and grandchildren.

"Father, if you don't eat or drink 500 taels of silver, that's what our farmers have harvested for several years. Where can I borrow such a large sum of money?" Liang Yuzhou was the first to ask.

"I counted up, your mother, and some of the family property that our family has accumulated in the past few years. It is estimated that there are seven or eighty taels. The fields and houses are the foundation of our life and cannot be moved. The twenty chickens in the backyard , four ducks, only one laying hen and one rooster were kept, and the others were sold. There were three pigs in the pigsty, two were sold, and one half-grown piglet was kept for the New Year. The cow in the cowshed, Sell ​​it too!"

"Father, Cold Dew Seeds, Frost's Descent Wheat, it looks like we're going to sow rapeseed, grow wheat, and so on. Without that old cow, the work of digging and loosening the soil will be impossible!" Liang Yuzhou said again.

"We'll think about it at that time. Let's borrow it from someone in the village who has cattle. If we can't borrow it, let's raise our arms! In previous years, if there were no cattle, the work in the field would not be done?" the old man said. Liangtou raised his eyelids and looked at Liang Yuzhou, scoldingly said: "Fourth brother, father knows what you're thinking, but right now, your elder brother is still in the hands of others! Don't say anything about it!"

"Brother, it's his own fault. Who told him to do such immoral things, isn't Xi'er his own niece? Sell it if you say it!" Liang Yuzhou said, poking his neck.

Dark clouds appeared between the old Liang's eyebrows, glanced at Liang Yuzhong, who was hanging his hands, and taught Liang Yuzhou: "How did you teach your brothers to beat the little dad? Brothers of the same family, be kind, and hide your arms if you break your arms." Tuck it in your sleeves! Your elder brother has committed a bit of a mess this time, let’s worry about it when we get him out, now is not the time for internal strife! We must work together to get through this difficulty!"

Liang Yuzhou didn't refute any more, but his stern neck clearly showed dissatisfaction.The whole room was also very quiet, no one said anything, not even Mrs. Tan, only Lao Liangtou was there to continue his calculations.

"The 30 taels handed in by the second child will also be filled in. No matter what, we can make up a hundred. In the warehouse, there are grains laid down this year, cotton, peanuts, mung beans, etc., and the rations of the whole family are allocated. , It will be enough to eat for half a year, and it will be picked up when the rice is harvested next year! Well, in this way, I can make up another 50 taels!"

"Let's borrow the remaining 350 taels! We can't touch the usury thing. If we lose everything, I'll go back and ask those old brothers to see if we can move some big families from the village and town." More than 300 taels, as long as the interest rate is lower than that of usury, just make do with it!"

"That's all I can think of. If you have any other ideas, let me tell you."

After explaining everything in detail, the old Liangtou lit up the dry cigarette again, and smoked it with a click, his face was hidden behind the smoke, with a complicated expression on his face.

Then everyone in the room looked at me and I looked at you, and exchanged glances with each other.

Liang Yuzhong subconsciously looked towards the mother and daughter of Sun who were standing behind them. Sun did not dare to make any obvious movements in front of Lao Liangtou and Tan, and only looked at Liang Yuzhong eagerly. Jin Xi winked quietly at Liang Yuzhong.

Liang Yuzhong took a breath, turned around and took two steps forward, suggesting to Old Liangtou and Tan Shi to borrow the 300 taels of silver in Liang Yuju's name.

The room became quiet again, everyone looked at Liang Yuzhong, Jin Xi looked at the expressions of these people one by one, and found that everyone in the room was inexplicably surprised.

Only two people looked slightly different from others, one was old Liangtou, and the other was Liang Lihui who kept his head down and was silent.

"Old man, where do you get these absurd ideas?" Old Liangtou pulled out the tobacco stick from his mouth, stared at Liang Yuzhong with wide eyes, his face darkened.

Tan's eyelids lifted a glance at Sun who was standing behind the others, and snorted.

Old Liangtou stared at Liang Yuzhong, and asked: "Are we a family? A family should share blessings and share hardships, right? Whoever signs the name is not the same? You push your eldest brother out, How does this make outsiders think of our old Liang family?"

"Father, I don't mean that! I just thought about it, the eldest brother should also learn some lessons and take on more responsibility. It will be good for him and our old Liang family in the future!"

"You pushed your elder brother to come out to sign this name, besides what you just thought about, do you have something else?" Old Liang was a little angry.

(End of this chapter)