The moon is bright and the wind is gentle. I lie beside the bed and listen to my father telling stories about the past...

Yang Ruoqing and Da'an sister and brother had their ears raised high and listened with great interest.

It wasn't until Yang Huazhong finished speaking that the two siblings came back to their senses.

Over there, Mrs. Sun and Lao Suntou were also listening quietly. Everyone in the room was immersed in this dispute between the ancestors of the old Yang family!

"Dad, I still want to ask." Yang Ruoqing cleared her throat and moved closer.

"My father was born into a small landowner's family, with forty or fifty acres of land, and there were part-time and part-time workers in the family. How did he end up in this kind of family?"

"Ah?" Yang Huazhong didn't expect Yang Ruoqing to ask this, and was stunned for a moment.

"After your father was born, there was a famine, and the fields had no harvest for three consecutive years."

Yang Huazhong stuffed the last egg pancake in his mouth and continued: "At that time, many people starved to death in eight villages across ten miles. Although our old Yang family has some food reserves, we can't survive that long!"

"All the long-term and short-term workers in the family were laid off, and your great-grandfather began to sell off the family's property."

"This area has suffered from years of famine, and it is difficult to sell the land. Your great-grandfather also starved to death."

"I finally got through this disaster after receiving disaster relief food from the court."

"Your great-grandmother grew up in a widow's family, dragging your father along with her. She couldn't do any work in the fields, so she sold the fields or rented them out to others to work on. The family situation is getting worse day by day!"

That’s what happened!

Yang Ruoqing nodded secretly.

As far as she knew, in this era, it was really not easy for a widow to raise a child.

If you rent such a good field to others and charge some rent or something, your life will definitely get worse and worse.

Especially if the man is no longer the backbone of the family, he will inevitably be bullied by the villagers.

Those who have rented their land for a long time, and when you want to take it back and plant it yourself, you may not be able to pay it back!

Wrangling is inevitable!

"father!"

Yang Ruoqing interrupted Yang Huazhong and then asked: "I think cousin Lan'er is really good-looking! Her facial features don't look like the second uncle or the second mother!"

"Not only does she not resemble the second uncle and second mother, she also looks nothing like our old Yang family!" Da'an took over Yang Ruoqing's words and said.

"Yeah!" Yang Ruoqing nodded, and then asked: "Dad, cousin Lan'er, are you really the biological child of my second uncle and my second mother?"

Yang Huazhong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said: "Silly girl, asking such stupid questions!"

"Dad, it doesn't matter whether what I said is stupid or not, just say yes or no!"

"Yes, your cousin Lan'er is the authentic granddaughter of our old Yang family. But -"

"But what?"

"The elderly people in the village say that your cousin Lan'er takes after her great-grandmother from Ga Gong's side!"

"ah?"

Yang Ruoqing was startled, wasn't that the cousin-in-law who hooked up with her great-grandfather back then?

"The person in the next village asked Mi Po when she was giving Lan'er a birth date and told her that she was afraid that she was reincarnated by an ancestor of the old Yang family. This is cause and effect!" Yang Huazhong finally said.

"I see!"

Yang Ruoqing nodded suddenly.

She didn't dare to believe in reincarnation.

However, it is an indisputable fact that Yang Ruolan inherited the troublesome beauty of her cousin-in-law.

Moreover, Yang Ruolan is also an inefficient lamp!

"Qing'er, you've eaten what you should eat, and you've asked what you should ask. It's already late now. Should we wash up and go to bed to rest?"

Sun touched the heads of Yang Ruoqing and Daan and asked with a smile.

Yang Ruoqing stuck out her tongue: "Hey, I've had a good night tonight, okay, let's put away the dishes and go to bed!"

Tomorrow, Chang Geng and Uncle Daniu will come over to help their family grow rapeseed and wheat.

The seeds were all borrowed from these two families.

Cold dew seeds, frost-fallen wheat.

Now is the Winter Clothes Festival, and in a few days it will be the beginning of winter.

It can be said that my family has missed the golden season of growing rapeseed and wheat this season, and it is coming to an end.

The harvest of rapeseed and wheat planted at this time will definitely be greatly reduced next year, and it will not be as good as those planted in the middle of the season.

However, if you can gain something, you can count on it, and you can't let the land panic like this.

After dinner, Mrs. Sun went into the kitchen to clean up. Yang Ruoqing called Lao Suntou to come over and help weigh the soybeans.

According to the sales contract with Juweixuan, he has to deliver tofu to the restaurant in town every three days in winter.

Each trip will give you fifty pounds of tofu, one piece of half a pound, which is one hundred pieces of tofu.

Yang Ruoqing calculated based on her own experience in making tofu, if two kilograms of soybeans make ten kilograms of tofu, and fifty kilograms of tofu would require soaking ten kilograms of soybeans!

So, she and Lao Suntou weighed ten pounds of soybeans and soaked them in two large wooden barrels with water.

After the soybeans are soaked, it takes six hours before the soybean milk can be ground.

It's soaked now and will be almost ready for grinding tomorrow morning.

The family finished washing and went back to their houses to rest.

The next day, people from Uncle Chang Geng and Uncle Daniu came over.

Yang Ruoqing's family was divided this time and was allocated two acres of paddy field and two acres of dry land.

The two acres of paddy fields are untouched and are planned to be reserved for planting rice next year.

The half-acre of dry land in the woods was formerly reclaimed land by the old Yang family and was not suitable for growing rapeseed and wheat.

There is still one and a half acres of dry land available in the plains.

Sun plans to use three-quarters of this dry land to turn it into a vegetable garden.

The remaining one acre of land is divided into two parts, half of which is used to grow wheat and the other half to grow rapeseed.

In the morning, Sun and Chang Geng all went to the fields to plant rapeseed and wheat.

Yang Ruoqing stayed at home with Daan.

The two siblings spent a whole day grinding ten kilograms of soybeans into soybean milk. They filled a wooden bucket and placed it in the corner to dry, with a dust-proof bamboo sieve covering it.

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Guessing that it was almost noon, the two siblings shook their sore arms and began to prepare lunch.

What to have for lunch?

This is a question Yang Ruoqing wants to ponder.

She found a wooden barrel with some loaches and small fish in the water.

She got this by the way when she caught eels a few days ago. She kept it in a bucket for several days and changed the water every day.

Now that the loach has spit out the sediment, it can be put into the pot directly without killing it.

Use a bamboo spatula to scoop out the loaches and finger-long fish from the bucket, weigh them, and nod your head.

Yang Ruoqing decided to cook it with red chili peppers later, along with the fish and fish soup, which can fill a big bowl, making it a perfect side dish.

Cornmeal, some caramel, and a pot of fragrant and sweet cornmeal pancakes.

After the family was separated, all the vegetables in the house were provided by Aunt Guihua and Aunt Dayun.

Lao Suntou came over and brought some cabbage, lettuce and lentils.
Chapter completed!