Chapter 249 Letter from Hometown
When Sun heard Erlang's admonition for the first time, she jumped up in anger, her eyes were sharp, veins on her neck were bulging, and she was about to start cursing.
As a result, perhaps because I was too excited, I lost my balance.
His head hit the kang cabinet with a bang.
A lump the size of an egg immediately swelled up on her forehead and turned blue. Erlang suppressed his laughter and applied medicine to her with his own hands. It took seven or eight days for the lump to disappear.
After this lesson, Sun felt that Zhou Yunniang was a little weird and didn't dare to curse her easily.
In addition, Erlang often secretly gave Sun some pocket money so that she could buy snacks, and Xia Yougui often took Sun to work in the fields. On weekdays, Zhou Yunniang was also polite and tolerant to Sun.
Granny Qu didn't bother to argue with Madam Sun and only went to talk to Madam Zhou often.
Frightened by Zhou's control, Sun did not dare to bully Grandma Qu.
Therefore, Sun and Zhou Yunniang, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who got married halfway, have been living together for more than half a year without any major conflicts.
The third couple didn't want to farm anymore, so Xia Youxi found a job in the kitchen of a restaurant in the county.
It's said that you can help the chef and learn some skills, but in fact, you are helping the whole kitchen. You have to do all the hard work, such as lighting fires, fetching water, chopping wood, cutting vegetables, and kneading dough.
But Xia Youxi was very happy doing it.
He felt very distressed watching Mrs. Wu and her two daughters working hard every day doing needlework.
If I could earn more, Wu and her daughters could have a break. At least they could do the work during the day, which would not strain their eyes and save money on lamp oil.
Although I had to work for five or six hours every day and was sweating all day long, after working for two or three months, I became much thinner due to the smoke, heat, fatigue and heat.
But the restaurant provided food and accommodation, and he also received a monthly salary of 1,200 coins.
The most important thing is that the salary is not fixed.
If you break the boss's dishes, you will be deducted money, but if you do a good job, you will get extra money. If it is a festival or birthday, or if there is a happy event in the boss's family, the boss will give you a red envelope.
If you can work in the restaurant for a long time, your salary will increase every year.
They, the servants, didn't know the chef's wages, but Xia Youxi found out the wages of an old friend who also worked as a servant for more than three years - even adding up the holiday gifts and red envelopes, he could actually make three taels of silver every month!
In a year, that’s thirty-six taels.
Xia Youxi’s current goal is to reach the level of this old friend.
He had a wish in his heart that he didn't want to tell anyone - if he could seize the opportunity, learn a few tricks from the chef, and become a chef himself in the future, he might be able to earn more than that old friend.
The couple in the fourth room are concentrating on supplying goods to "Daohuaxiang".
Xia Youtian has sold three or four batches of the small baskets she has woven to Xia Daohua. Xia Youtian went to the store to see them and found that his daughter was not fooling him and that she actually used the baskets.
The large ones are used to hold fruits, and also those colorful drinks in glass bottles; the medium ones are used to hold snacks; and the small ones are used to hold candies.
The various shapes and colors are beautifully matched and arranged in an orderly manner, which is very attractive.
Xia Daohua specially added a lattice frame for Jiang's small embroidery.
In addition to her embroidery, there are also many exquisite and cute alien gadgets, such as dolls, pillows, porcelain, bracelets, etc.
Those embroidery works are already exquisite, and with this kind of contrast, they look even more precious.
Cheng brought Liu Lang and Zaohua to Xia Daohua's place several times, chatted with her, and quietly passed on news from the slum to her.
On the most recent trip, Cheng told Xia Daohua that she had received a letter from home.
Xia Daohua entrusted the affairs of the store to a second-in-command who was promoted from among the clerks, and leisurely returned to the backyard to find Xia Youtian and Jiang. Except for Wulang, the entire family of the fourth branch returned to the slum together.
Xia Daohua also specially brought a piece of Jinhua ham for the old couple.
It was a rare family gathering.
However, everyone's face was not very sunny.
Because the letter from home that Cheng mentioned contained some news that made it difficult to feel good about it.
This letter was not a reply from Wang Lizheng and others to Xia Daohua, otherwise it would not have been sent to the slum.
The village was like a plowed field. After three rounds of conscription, every family had a son serving in the army.
Because the Xia family had completed the formalities in advance and escaped quickly and efficiently, a clerk in the county government office who was in charge of the matter was given twenty beatings.
The man was nearly beaten to death.
Despite this, Beiguan Village finally fell after nearly seven months of tenacious resistance.
Not only Beiguan Village, but the entire Beiguan Town has become the territory of the Hu people.
It's not that our boys didn't fight bravely, but that Xiao Lubuhua used the same old trick again and instigated another general to rebel. This time he didn't make him surrender to the enemy, but instigated him to rebel.
It just so happened that they were saying this in a restaurant.
It was actually heard by a stranger who was drinking in the same restaurant, a drunk customer who walked into the wrong door.
When the drunkards heard about this big news, the alcohol in their bodies turned into cold sweats. They ran out into the streets, shouting and making a big fuss, for fear that the general would kill them.
It was not known whether the general was instigated by Xiao Lubuhua or because his conspiracy was discovered and exposed, he had to rebel even if he didn't want to, and he actually raised the flag of rebellion.
The Qianhu Suo of Beiguan Town was attacked from all sides, and the garrison commander was killed in the battle.
Xiao Lubuhua's men opened the city gates, attracting the Hu army. Now most of Bohai County has fallen into the hands of the Hu people. Wherever the Hu people pass, the people are in mourning.
The rebellious general claimed that he did not want to surrender to the enemy and only wanted to cooperate. However, Xiao Lubuhua thought that he could still be useful, so he let him pretend to be deaf and blind, and did not expose the truth.
Now, the whole Bohai County was in a panic, with people fleeing with their families everywhere. After all, those who were foolish enough to flee were basically wiped out by the wars one after another...
The letter received by the Xia family was written by Mr. Feng.
When the third conscription was launched, Wang Lizheng's family and Feng Juren's family fled south together. Wang Lizheng cried all the way, leaving many tear marks on the letter paper.
Mr. Feng was a shrewd man. When the Xia family left, he didn't want to leave his daughter behind. Seeing that the situation was not good, he simply packed up his daughter, son-in-law and his family and ran away together.
Before leaving, Mr. Feng wrote a letter to the Xia family.
Of course, the Zhao family and the Hu family also have a part.
He had a clear plan. When he arrived in an unfamiliar place, it was better to have someone familiar to help guide the way than to be completely in the dark.
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