Chapter 125

Xu Qing noticed the water level in Lingquan. The paddy field was almost full, but the water level in Lingquan had only dropped by five or six centimeters.

The paddy field is more than ten meters away from Lingquan, which makes Xu Qing very tired. He has done nothing else in the morning, just carrying water.

In the afternoon, Xu Qing took a hoe to turn over all the extra space in the second mu of land, and planted potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes. The normal growth period of these three crops is 3-4 months, with a space bonus, which can shorten almost half the time.

When there is not enough food, these three crops can be eaten as staple food, and they can be stored in the cellar for a long time.

Maybe it was Li Zhuang who went to the town the day before yesterday. Everyone knew that the situation in the town was worse than they thought, so someone had come to borrow money from Xu Qing these days, saying that they wanted to buy some food to save, otherwise they would have to eat grass roots in the second half of the year.

They are all from the same village. Whether these people live well or not affects Xu Qing's quality of life to a large extent. Therefore, Xu Qing will borrow three or five Liang for those who come here.

For most people in the village, three or five taels of silver is already a huge sum of money. If it is not for the second half of the year, who is willing to borrow so much money, it will not be enough to pay it back.

But now no one can take care of so much, there are children and old people at home, how can they live without food.

However, there are rules for Xu Qing to borrow money. She doesn't borrow money from everyone. If a family wants to borrow money, the IOU must be signed by all the members of the family. This is to prevent someone from cheating her on the money and shirking the debt at that time.

Those who really want to borrow money and have no intention of not paying it back in the future will naturally sign it.

And those who have little thoughts in their hearts are either hesitant or go back to think about it, and Xu Qing is too lazy to serve them.

This morning, Xu Qing was awakened by the knock on the door again. She sighed irritably and went to open the door.

"Good morning, Xu Qing." At the door stood a woman with a headscarf, followed by a pair of little girls. The woman flattered Xu Qing with a smile, and the two little girls were timid.

Xu Qing fixed his eyes. Isn't this Cao Laoer's daughter-in-law?

"You came to me to borrow money, too?" Xu Qing's voice is slightly cold.

Hearing Xu Qing's displeasure, Cao's second daughter-in-law suddenly fell on her knees and kowtowed to Xu Qing: "I know you have a good heart. Please help me!"

Xu Qing looks at the sky What if Temo doesn't want to help at all?

There must be something hateful about poor people. The Cao family used to live in a fish and meat village, but now there are only orphans and widows left. After all, no one owes her anything to the Cao family.

"What do you want me to do for you?" Xu Qing wants to know how much Cao's second daughter-in-law plans to borrow.

"Please Give us ten taels of silver as alms Cao's second daughter-in-law begged bitterly, as if the sky had fallen down and there was no way out.

"Alms?" Xu Qing said with a smile, "are you kidding? You still need ten Liang silver. Why don't you rob it?"

After that, Xu Qing closed the door directly.

"Wait!" Cao's second daughter-in-law rushed to the gate and said, "listen to me, please!"

I didn't expect that Cao's second daughter-in-law was still strong, but she was a woman, and Xu Qing was not good enough to ask Qi Feng to come out and beat her. He simply said, "you say."

She would like to see what the second daughter-in-law of Cao could say to convince her.

Cao's second daughter-in-law saw that Xu Qinggen was not willing to give to her, so she had to use the second method.

She began to cry wrongly and said: "two days ago, the official sent the news that the eldest Cao, the second Cao and the fifth Cao were frozen to death in winter, and the news spread slowly, so that I only received the news now. In addition, Cao Dafei and my son Cao min were sent by the government to catch mountain bandits a month ago. They were killed by mountain bandits. All the men in our Cao family are dead! "

With that, Cao's second daughter-in-law burst into tears. Before, she could still have some hope. Now that her husband and son are dead, this year is the same situation. If she was not desperate, she would not have come to ask Xu Qing.

Xu Qing frowned: "isn't Cao Dafei and Cao min in prison? How can they catch mountain bandits?"

Cao's second daughter-in-law cried: "the government is short of people. They are asked to be strong men. They say that as long as they kill five mountain bandits each, they will be free from prison and let them go home, but..."

But Cao Dafei and Cao min are lazy and lazy, and they have no strength to tie a chicken. They are just going to deliver vegetables to mountain bandits.

"You go on," Xu said She knew that Cao's second daughter-in-law must have something to say.

, "so, Cao family now only has two daughters, I and I, and Cao has no male. Cao's wife quickly remarried after she went to her mother's home. Now Cao has the final say. Although our Cao family was not a big family before, they also had some skills. Cao's mother-in-law, Cao's eldest brother and my family's house together had three acres of land! The fields add up to three mu. These three mu fields belong to our own family, not rented! I can sell you all my house and land! "

Cao's second daughter-in-law finished, looking at Xu Qing expectantly. She dared to ask for ten liang of silver, but she also had some confidence.However, the Cao family used to be tyrannical. It's hard to say how many of these lands were taken advantage of and robbed from others.

Xu Qing said: "your family is like this. The geomantic omen of your house is certainly not good. I don't want to buy it. I don't need a place to live."

In addition, Li Changting said that they may move out in the future. At this time, buying land is likely to be a waste.

"Xu Qing, please help me. Just take pity on my two daughters. They are still so small and have no money. They have to be hungry all the way!" Cao Lao's second daughter-in-law begged.

"Money?" Xu Qing thought of something and asked, "you sold all your houses. Where do you live?"

Cao Lao's second daughter-in-law wiped her tears and said, "I'm going to take my daughter to my brother. My brother said that there is a man of my age in their village who died of his daughter-in-law. He doesn't think I'm married and is willing to make a living with me."

Her brother tried his best to promote this. He also introduced two families to her, saying that he wanted to buy her daughter as a child bride.

She didn't agree at the beginning. After all, her daughter is so old that she can recognize others. How can she give up.

But now that she is struggling to support herself, she can't watch her two daughters starve to death.

Moreover, the sons of those two families are about the same age as their daughters. They say that they cultivate their feelings from childhood, and they will be daughters and daughters in law in the future, which will make them more intimate.

Cao's second daughter-in-law has no reason not to agree, but her family's harvest last year was not much, and the family's money has been gone for a long time. How can she live without money all the way?