Chapter 62

Ye Xiaoxian didn't expect to mention Wang Xiucai last night. She saw him today.

I saw it in the county.

When Wang Xiucai saw Ye Xiaoxian, he asked tentatively, "aren't you Baoshan's sister-in-law? I've seen you."

"Oh, it's Mr. Wang!" It took Ye Xiaoxian a long time to remember who the man in front of him was.

"Xiao Sheng came to the county today to buy some four treasures of study. I didn't want to meet you!" Wang Xiucai looked at Ye Xiaoxian and said.

"Well... Nice to meet you!" Ye Xiaoxian learned the tone of Wang Xiucai.

Wang Xiucai looked at Li Hongmei again: "this is..."

"This is Baofeng's mother, mother, this is Baofeng's teacher, Wang Xiucai!" Ye Xiaoxian said.

Li Hongmei is enthusiastic. As soon as she hears that this person is Baofeng's teacher, she quickly asks Wang Xiucai to sit down. Before Wang Xiucai can speak, Li Hongmei has handed a bowl of jelly to Wang Xiucai.

This is an era of respecting teachers. Li Hongmei thinks that if Wang Xiucai doesn't drink her bowl of jelly, she doesn't respect her teachers. I'm sorry for Baofeng.

Wang Xiucai is a literati. Literati are a little lofty and will not accept this bowl of jelly so easily.

"Sir, drink quickly, drink!" Li Hongmei almost wanted to feed him herself.

Wang Xiucai couldn't refuse, so he had to drink.

After drinking, she had to give money, but Li Hongmei refused to accept anything. She also said that as long as he was willing to teach Baofeng well, this bowl of jelly was nothing.

This is probably why Wang Xiucai refused to drink jelly.

Ye Xiaoxian looked aside and wanted to laugh.

Before leaving, Wang Xiucai took a look at Ye Xiaoxian and said, "well... I'll come and patronize your jelly stand next time when I'm free."

Ye Xiaoxian only smiled. Just as someone wanted to buy jelly, ye Xiaoxian was busy again.

Wang Xiucai stared at Ye Xiaoxian for a moment, and two poems emerged in his mind: pulse eye medium wave, Yingying flower prosperous place.

In modern terms, there is an interesting soul hidden under Ye Xiaoxian's coarse cloth clothes.

……

"Come to your house as a cook?"

At noon, after ye Xiaoxian cooked the dishes, housekeeper Liu talked to her about Liu's plans.

"Yes, our master said that if you want to be a cook in our house, you can give you three liang of silver a month, or... Five Liang."

Ye Xiaoxian was steaming osmanthus cake and taro cake today. She smiled faintly after listening to housekeeper Liu.

Housekeeper Liu added, "in fact, five Liang a month is already a lot of money in Qinghe County, which is much more than the soap service in the Yamen. Our master also loves talents, so he asked me to come and tell you. Besides, you don't have to sell jelly every day when you come to our house as a cook. How long can the jelly be sold? There will be no business after the beginning of autumn."

Ye Xiaoxian still didn't answer.

Housekeeper Liu asked again, "isn't Mrs. ye afraid that her family won't agree? Why don't you go back and discuss it with your husband? See if he agrees?"

Ye Xiaoxian said, "I'm going to be busy farming soon. I don't know if I want to help my family with farming. I'll discuss this later. By the way, if I'm busy farming, I can't come over to cook. Later, I'll make some snacks that can be put for a few days so that Miss Qianqian can have nothing to eat."

"Ah, so!" Housekeeper Liu looked a little disappointed.

……

That day, ye Xiaoxian came out from member Liu's house a little late.

As soon as he went out, he saw xiaobaoshan again. He was standing quietly at the door.

"Why are you here?" Asked Ye Xiaoxian.

"Just now my mother came to me and said you haven't come back yet. Let me come and have a look."

"Oh, I'm fine. It's just that today's dessert is a little slow, because it takes time to save flour and steam in the pot. By the way, it takes some time to pinch the dessert."

"Is it so complicated to make snacks?"

"Miss Liu is very selective. If she doesn't look good, she won't eat." Ye Xiaoxian smiled bitterly: "young lady, it's not like our rough girls. No one hurts."

Xiao Baoshan moved his mouth and didn't speak. He just followed Ye Xiaoxian.

Ye Xiaoxian asked him again, "are you off work today? Do you want to go back to the Yamen?"

"I'm not going back to Yamen. Let me walk home with you." Xiaobao mountain road.

Ye Xiaoxian was a little surprised, but she didn't object.

This was the first time she had gone home with him. She had to walk more than ten miles for less than half an hour.

At the beginning, ye Xiaoxian was a little awkward because he didn't speak, but when he came to the central street of the county, xiaobaoshan saw someone selling ice sugar gourd on the roadside, so he asked Ye Xiaoxian, "leaf, do you want to eat ice sugar gourd?"

Ye Xiaoxian nodded: "have one."

Xiao Baoshan went to buy two.

Walking while eating candied haws is like a modern girl drinking milk tea while shopping. In this way, she will be much more relaxed when walking.

"Is it delicious?" Xiao Baoshan asked Ye Xiaoxian.

"It's OK." Ye Xiaoxian said while eating.

Xiao Baoshan seemed relieved.

Ye Xiaoxian smiled and asked, "what's the matter with you? Are you afraid I don't feel delicious?"

"What you usually cook is delicious. I'm afraid you dislike this ice sugar gourd."

"How can it be that ice sugar gourd is delicious only in this era. It is sour and sweet. You can eat fruit and sweet." Ye Xiaoxian said.

"This era?" Xiao Baoshan doesn't understand.

Ye Xiaoxian then forked the topic: "by the way, the housekeeper of Liu's foreign family asked me today if I wanted to stay in their house as a cook. The salary was five or two months, but I didn't reply clearly."

Five or two months is a high salary in Qinghe County, but ye Xiaoxian doesn't agree.

But Xiao Baoshan said, "then you must have your own plan and plan."

Ye Xiaoxian smiled and asked, "do you think I will have any plans?"

Xiao Baoshan looked at her with a slight smile on his mouth. After a while, he said, "although I don't know, I think you are a girl with ideas. Just go according to your own ideas."

Then he added, "I will support you."

"Thank you! Then..." Ye Xiaoxian asked, "are you looking at my mother's face or my identity as your wife now?"

Xiao Baoshan just bit an ice sugar gourd. Until he swallowed the ice sugar gourd, he looked at Ye Xiaoxian and said, "there are all."

"..." they talked as they walked, and soon got home.

……

As ye Xiaoxian expected, that night, old man Xiao called all the people in Sanfang.

This time we mainly discussed the busy farming.

According to custom, men sit in front and women stand in the back.

The old man Xiao said, "although you are separated now, the autumn harvest is on my account, so all of you should participate in this autumn harvest, including the second room that has been divided."

Li Hongmei immediately said, "father-in-law, you didn't give us land when we separated. Didn't you agree at that time? When we paid for grain, our second room paid tax with money."

The old man Xiao looked at Li Hongmei and said, "do you still have a Xiao name? Are you from the Xiao family?"

Li Hongmei whispered in her heart: I'm not Xiao.

Lao Xiao patted his thigh again: "although your man is gone, you still live in the Xiao family's house. You are also a farmer in your name. If you have the ability, you can leave the farmer and become a merchant. That's a cheap nationality."

"I......" what else did Li Hongmei want to say, but ye Xiaoxian patted her on the thigh and motioned her not to speak.

The following is what ye Xiaoxian said: "Grandpa, we will naturally help with busy farming, but you can see that most of the rice in the field was dried by my mother, me and Baozhu. We did the loosening and transplanting. Now that the rice is ripe, it is certainly possible for us to participate in it, but we have a request. When we receive the grain, our share in the second room will be uniformly counted in the account of the Xiao family."

After hearing this, Wang Mudan immediately said, "isn't that good? There are five people in your second room. Each person has a fight, and there are five fights in total. It's OK to help you pay grain. We only pay three fights, and you'll still use money to offset tax."

"You die..." Li Hongmei is about to roll up her sleeves and fight.

But she was stopped by Ye Xiaoxian. Ye Xiaoxian said firmly, "if you don't give us enough five fights, we won't care about the work in the field. Also, the work in the field can't be divided according to the head."

Wang Mudan asked, "if you don't divide it according to the head, what's the score? It's better to follow the old rules. You cut rice in the second room, we thresh in the big room and dry the grain in the third room."

Those who have planted the field do not know that cutting rice is the hardest. If all rice is cut by Sanfang, it may not be finished if they bow down and cut for three days.

In this era, the yield of rice is not high. It's good to have five Dou per mu of land. A bucket is equal to 30 jin, and the Xiao family has a total of three mu of land.

Ye Xiaoxian said, "because our second room can only get public grain and can't share grain, our second room is only responsible for five parts of the field, including rice harvesting, threshing and drying. Your big room and third room are responsible for the rest."

"Oh, I'm only in charge of five fields. Do you want a face? In this case, we might as well not ask you for help." Wang Mudan said.

Others were also opposed, including Xiao iron tree and Xiao copper tree.

The men of the Xiao family always think that all the work at home should be done by women. Men just need to make money outside. Usually, during busy farming, the Yamen will take three days off. The two brothers also lie at home. They say that they work hard in the Yamen. It's not easy to have a holiday. They should take good care of themselves.

During the busy farming period, the women of the Xiao family not only had to do farm work, but also had to take care of the two ancestors, the old man Xiao and the younger children. They were so tired that they had to break their waist.

Lao Xiao has been listening to Ye Xiaoxian and Wang Mudan, and his eyes become more and more disdainful and disgusted.

When everyone in the family finished expressing their opinions, old Xiao sneered and looked at Ye Xiaoxian: "in this world, when is it the turn for women to say so much? You have to do what the men in the family ask you to do. How dare you bargain? Baoshan doesn't teach you how to be a wife?"