Crossing the Splendid Farmhouse

Chapter 9 Borrowing Food
Mr. Tang grabbed a handful of mooncakes with his own hands, and gave each of Tang Xing'er and his brother one in order.

When Mr. Tang put the mooncake into Tang Jie's hands, Tang Jie's stomach let out a "cuckoo—" sound in coordination.

"Master, it wants to bark. I didn't make it bark..."

Little Luobotou, who had a big head and a small body, suddenly yelled out in embarrassment.

He blinked his bright black eyes and looked at Mr. Tang pitifully. He looked aggrieved and sad. Even if Mr. Tang tried to save face and looked at the obviously malnourished little radish head in front of him, he could no longer speak harshly as usual. blurted out like that.

"Good boy, go to the side and eat moon cakes. After eating this, come to find me, I still have..."

Mr. Tang paused for a moment, then touched Tang Jie's head with his hand, and said with a sigh.

"I can't get enough of such a big mooncake? Just now Lingzi and Yu'er ate the mooncake separately..."

Hearing Mr. Tang's generous opening, Mrs. Wu couldn't help but speak again.

She looked at the mooncakes in Tang Xing'er's hands with great reluctance, wishing she could grab all the mooncakes back.

At first glance, these mooncakes looked like high-end goods in a big shop, completely different from the usual mooncakes that Tang Yue and Tang Wei paid tribute to her.As for Tang Kun, Tang Lian, Tang Jun and her second daughter, Tang Bin, it is even more impossible for her to have such a good mooncake to honor her...

It's just that she didn't mention Tang Ling and Tang Yu's brothers and sisters, but it's okay. Whenever they mentioned their brothers and sisters, Master Qin couldn't help but look at Tang Yu, who was standing beside him in white and fat, wearing a fine cotton robe.

Tang Yu, Tang Xinger, Tang Qiao, Tang Lier, the brothers and sisters didn't look like they came from the same family at all.

They are more like people from two worlds.

A young master who seems to be from a rich family, and a child who seems to be picking up waste with his parents.

"Uncle Tang, the reputation of a scholar family is the most important thing. If the reputation is damaged, no matter how great the knowledge is, it is impossible to have a chance to stand out. And you and the aunt have to be careful when doing things..."

Seeing this scene, Master Qin finally couldn't help shaking his head and spoke.

Mr. Tang also noticed Mr. Qin's sizing up, his black face couldn't help turning white and blue, blue and red again.Especially, when Master Qin paused for a moment, he added as if he didn't think it was enough: "You must not spread any reputation for treating your own grandchildren unkindly..."

Now, the expression on Mr. Tang's face is really as wonderful as a palette.

"Master Qin, the conscience of heaven and earth, our family is not the kind that treats the grandchildren and grandchildren harshly. Go out and inquire, the family has been separated for so many years, except for their share of filial piety, we two old people did not charge them a dime s things…"

Naturally, Wu Shi was unwilling to admit that his partiality had gone to the limit, so he wailed without hesitation.

Tang Lier couldn't help feeling very funny after hearing her words.

The "share of filial piety" in Wu's mouth is not low.

Taking their family as an example, the family has a total of more than three acres of paddy fields, which can harvest more than 2000 catties of grain every year.At this time, there was no so-called double-cropping rice or hybrid rice.At this time, the yield per mu of the paddy field is at most six to seven hundred catties, and God has to cooperate properly. Not only the weather is smooth, but there are no serious pests and diseases.

However, no matter how the harvest is every year, after the rice is dried, it has to be weighed out and sent to the hometown immediately before it is put into the warehouse.Among them, there are three dans of millet that they should honor.There is also a load of grain that they planted on the land of their uncle Tang Wei, and they gave it to Mr. Tang and Mrs. Wu's filial piety on Tang Wei's behalf.

They still have to pay about 1000% of the tax on the remaining two thousand catties of millet.The remaining [-] catties are the rations for their family of seven.

In fact, every year, Mr. Tang's family of four receives more than 200 catties of rice from their sons.When the collection was not good, they received even more food than Tang Kun, Tang Lian and Tang Jun brothers.

Not to mention that the chickens, ducks and pigs they feed every year also have to honor them according to their share.If it wasn't for Tang Kun and Zhao's husband and wife who were really diligent, using all their free time to reclaim wasteland, and forcibly using sickles and hoes to reclaim the stone mountains that others in the village despised, and planting corn and sweet potatoes every year to satisfy their hunger I'm afraid that their five radish heads will starve to death if they don't grow so big...

Even so, their family's corn and sweet potatoes have to honor Mr. Tang Wu's and the others.

They naturally have no shortage of these foods, but corn and sweet potatoes can also be used to feed chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.Wu's hands and feet are nimble, so he naturally fed a lot of chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.

However, the ones she feeds naturally don't need to be filial to anyone, except for the food and drink of the four of them, the rest are naturally exchanged for silver.

These memories were naturally retrieved by Tang Lier from the memory of the original owner.

Thinking of this, Tang Lier couldn't help but sigh heavily.

Since ancient times, "filial piety" has always been a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.However, she did not expect that in this wonderful world, their family would not have enough food and clothing for the sake of "filial piety", but Mr. Tang and Wu's couple who needed their filial piety would have surplus food in exchange for silver every year .

However, even so, when Tang Yue came up with Tang Lier's idea, Wu decided to exchange her for silver without the slightest hesitation, so that Tang Yue, Tang Wei, and Tang Yu, who she had always favored, could live a better life …

Tang Lier, who was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, and even successfully started a business in the countryside, has never met eccentric parents.However, the eccentricity to this point is unprecedented, and there will be no one to come after.

And people like them who don't like her can be abandoned or sold by them without hesitation as long as they can get benefits or money.

"Grandma, grandma, I heard that you sold a hundred catties of grain to Uncle Sun at the village head yesterday. Can you lend us some grain first? Our family hasn't eaten dry rice for more than a month. Don't worry, grandma, we'll see you soon." It’s been a few days since we’ve been fishing, and we’ll definitely pay you back when the time comes.”

Wu Shi's snarky shouts made Master Qin stop.

He is a scholar, even if he doesn't like Wu Shi's aggressive behavior, even if he feels pity for Tang Li'er's family in his heart, he can't do anything to confront a shrew like Wu Shi.

Wu's heart felt proud for a while, she just took a fancy to this, so she made this shrew's swearing posture.

However, just as she had time to start, the great situation was completely ruined by Tang Lier's words.

As a parent, there is nothing wrong with accepting support from your son.However, the children and grandchildren were almost starved to death, but as parents, they sold the life-saving food to outsiders. This is not only unkind, but also very cruel and even vicious...

"Father, mother, if you have any surplus food, please lend some to your son. The son's harvest this year looks pretty good, and I will definitely pay you back..."

At some point, the third uncle Tang Lian and the third aunt Li Shi were also attracted by Wu Shi's howling.

He didn't understand what he said before, but he heard Tang Lier's idea of ​​borrowing food clearly, and immediately followed Tang Lier and shouted.

(End of this chapter)