Since Jiang Sui nodded, Xiao's mother had no more concerns and she signaled Xiao's father to take it.
She must have her reasons for doing this every year.
Father Xiao finally accepted the jade pendant, and Su Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief.
Before getting on the carriage, Su Yanqing turned around and looked meaningfully at Xiao Lanlan who was standing behind him, with some reluctance in his eyes.
Xiao Lanlan was also looking at him, but she had a decent smile on her face. Only after Su Yanqing's carriage drove away did her smile become a little bitter.
Jiang Sui who was beside her saw it all. It was obvious that Lanlan admired the Second Young Master Su. But it was normal. The Second Young Master Su was a man as handsome as the bright moon and the gentle breeze, and as elegant as jade. It would be hard for an ordinary girl not to be moved, right?
After Su Yanqing and Mr. Zeng left, the Xiao family devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the street stall business.
After the vermicelli and sweet potato skins are dried and everything is ready, you can choose a day to set up the stall in town.
In terms of personnel allocation, Xiao's mother, Jiang Sui and Xiao Yi were in charge of the stall together. Xiao Yi was responsible for driving the ox cart and watching over the place.
Zhou and Lanlan could stay at home as logistics staff, or they could take turns. When Xiao's mother and Jiang Sui were tired, Lanlan and Zhou could go to the stall. Anyway, Zhou had to go to the town for acupuncture every half a month.
I even looked at the almanac and decided on the day for the stall, which would be three days later. Then I would go out with Father Xiao.
Father Xiao doesn't spend much time at home. The reason he came back this time was, first, to report safety to his family, and second, to check on the farmland at home.
It has not rained for nearly two months. The wheat in the fields needs water. Without water to nourish it, the wheat will not survive and there will be no harvest in the second half of the year. Without a harvest, how will this family eat to survive?
He went to look around the wheat fields. Because there was no rain, the wheat was growing poorly. Every household had dug ditches to draw water from the river.
The water level in the river has also dropped significantly, which is not a good sign.
Father Xiao didn't know what was going on until he saw it. He was so angry because the ditch in his wheat field was blocked and the water was diverted to his own field.
Right next to the Xiao family's wheat field is the Jiang family's, that is, Jiang Sui's adoptive mother Chen Jinhua. She didn't have much land to begin with, and she also diverted the Xiao family's water. So what did the Xiao family get from their wheat fields?
Father Xiao was very angry, thinking that Widow Chen was not a good person either, as she had always humiliated his fourth son's wife. So he did not hesitate and took the water back.
Chen Jinhua was not happy with this and immediately stood on the edge of the field and started to curse:
"You heartless person! Who stole the water from my farm? Do you think it's easy to bully an orphan like me and my widow? God is watching you and you will be punished."
How dare she yell at that? It was clearly her who snatched the water from others first, but she started yelling first.
Father Xiao was not afraid of her and confronted her directly:
"I did it, so what? You blocked my ditch and diverted the water to your field. I haven't said anything yet. If you want water, go dig it yourself. You're just trying to take advantage of others."
Chen Jinhua is just lazy. She thinks it is troublesome and tiring to go to the river to fetch water from a long distance, so she steals water from other families. The victims are not only the Xiao family, but also several families next to her fields whose water has been stolen by her. However, the other families have a tough attitude, and Chen Jinhua is a bully, so she has no choice but to turn her attention to the Xiao family.
She thought that since she was a relative of the Xiao family, they would not do anything to her even if they found out. However, she still underestimated how much a farmer valued his own land.
It's impossible that your whole family would go hungry just because of that insignificant in-law relationship, right?
Besides, Jiang Sui is an adopted daughter, and she didn't really raise her as her own daughter. She has been bullying her since she was little, so why should she be afraid of what she might do? The worst that could happen is that they would break up with each other, and she could live in peace in the future.
Chen Jinhua didn't expect Xiao's father to react so strongly. Just as she was about to start scolding him, Xiao Yi came over, carrying a hoe and looking aggressive:
"Who dares to steal my water? I'll make her pay for it. I'm going to stay at home and look after the land this year. I won't go anywhere else. Let's see who has the stronger fist."
In previous years, the men of the Xiao family were all working outside at this time, leaving only a few women and a silly son at home. There was no shortage of rain in previous years, so there were no such disputes. But this year is different. God just won't rain, and the sun is getting hotter day by day. If they don't take the trouble to grab water, then there will be no harvest in the fall.
This year is also strange. Xiao Yi is still at home at this time. Chen Jinhua is thinking that there will be no man at home in the Xiao family at that time, and no one can beat her in her shameless skills, so she is so blatant.
When Xiao Yi's big head stood there, her momentum instantly became much smaller.
If this tall guy slaps him, wouldn’t there be five finger marks?
Faced with the father and son, Chen Jinhua subconsciously became scared and ran away with a hoe.
After she left, Father Xiao turned around and told his third son:
"After I go back to the county, you should come to the fields more often. I see that everyone's wheat is not growing well. We can't have a shortage of water, otherwise our whole family will have to starve for the rest of the year."
In the eyes of farmers, the food from the fields is heaven.
"I got it, Dad. I'll come here every day from now on. This widow Chen is not the first time to steal the water from our fields. I didn't say anything the first few times, and I blocked it myself."
Xiao Yi saw that she was a woman, so he didn't get angry for the sake of his fourth brother's wife, but this guy actually went even further.
"This is a matter of food, there is no need to consider anyone's face. Besides, Widow Chen treated your fourth brother's wife badly in the past, so there is no need to be nice to her. At worst, we can break up with her, and our family can still have peace in the future."
Father Xiao also received a letter from Mother Xiao, saying that Jiang Sui didn't care about the Jiang family and she didn't have time to hate them.
Anyway, there is no need to worry about Jiang Sui, as Jiang Sui has always disliked Chen Jinhua and her daughter.
Xiao Yi nodded in agreement. Looking at the weak water flow in the ditch, both father and son felt a little uneasy.
This year is not an ordinary year.
While having dinner in the evening, Xiao's father talked about this, saying that the weather was dry and hot, there was no water to drink the crops in the fields, and every household was scrambling for water. The water in the river was so high that the riverbed could be seen. If it continued like this, the river would dry up.
For the country people, it is not good if it doesn’t rain, and it is not good if it rains too much either. Anyway, the harvest of the year depends on these few months.
Xiao's mother was also worried, but what could she do? We can only take one step at a time and see what happens.
Jiang Sui was eating a steamed bun. When he heard them talking about this, he couldn't help but frown.
Thinking carefully about the contents of the book, the heroine Xia Wanning at that time was about the same age as her, also fifteen years old.
She is the unfavored daughter of the Marquis's family. When she was a child, she was sent to a villa by her stepmother. Not long after returning to Beijing, she is about to meet the male protagonist. The plot of the novel has just begun.
She still clearly remembered that in the first year after the heroine returned to Beijing, there was a severe drought in some place in the Daqing Dynasty, and there was no harvest, and the people were suffering terribly.
If I remember correctly, the year when the heroine returned to Beijing seemed to be the eighteenth year of the Jingzhao period of the Qingli period.
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