Chapter 63: Not enough food
“I speak straightforwardly and don’t hide it, I just say it directly.”
Feng said, "We are farmers. We face the loess and turn our backs to the sky all day long. We earn hard-earned money and live a hard life. This year we harvested two more buckets of grain. This is God's blessing. The one who has given us good weather is ours." blessing."
"But there are times when you are blessed, and there are times when you are unlucky. God is unhappy. This year, there may be no harvest and no food to eat. So in this life, we have to pay attention to the steady flow of water, and we can't just think about it. Now, I don’t think about the future.”
"Take you for example right now. You still have some grain in your house, and you can sell it to get some money to buy one or two meals of meat for the tooth sacrifice. But your tooth sacrifice is a beating. I understand, but what happens next? If there is no food in the future, how will you and these four children live?"
"So you listen to my sister-in-law's advice, you have to live frugally, don't be lavish, spend all the money you have, and eat all the food in the house. You have to think about the long days ahead and think about the past. Then, otherwise you will be happy eating now, but won’t you be able to cry when you have nothing to eat?”
"If we wait until we can't survive and then think about saving, I'm afraid it will be too late. When we are hungry, will we have to drag four children around to beg for food? The people in our village are all kind-hearted people. , I definitely can’t watch you orphans and widowed mothers starve to death, but you guys are not particularly well-off. If I give you one mouthful of food, my family will have to eat less. One or two meals will be enough. In the long run, , I’m afraid no one can bear it…”
Especially her family, which is a relatively wealthy family in the village. If Su Mulan comes to the door with four children, their family will have to give them more steamed buns than other families for the sake of face, and the steamed buns will definitely not be enough. It's blackface.
The more Ms. Feng thought about this, the more panicked she became, "Anyway, I told you first, if you don't know how to live more frugally now, and if you can't survive in the future, my family won't be able to give you much in a day." I am a poor man, and I can only give you two or three at most. Even though my family is well off, Yonghe still goes to school, and the pen and ink that Xiu Heping uses in daily life are very expensive..."
Feng's words were like beans poured out of a bamboo tube, crackling, which made Su Mulan burst into laughter.
The author, Mrs. Feng, has been here for so long to persuade her to be frugal and live a careful life. Is it because he is afraid that she will ruin the family, so he leads Shuiliu and a few people to come to the door and ask for food?
Likewise, when she went to the market to sell dried sweet potatoes for the first time, she met Feng on the road and she expressed her worries and even said a few words behind her back.
At that time, Sumulan had just arrived here two days ago, and he still had a bad reputation. In addition, dried sweet potatoes were easily misunderstood as dried sweet potatoes for grinding flour. Sumulan didn't pay much attention to this matter, but it was getting longer. , when others know the situation, they will no longer misunderstand it.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Feng was still thinking about this matter, but she became more and more worried.
I’m so worried that I have to come to my door to persuade him.
At this moment, Su Mulan didn't know how to evaluate Feng.
If we say she is a top-notch villain, she is still thinking about Su Mulan really getting to that point, and will give him two or three steamed buns when the time comes.
(End of this chapter)