The appearance of his enemy from the previous life actually did not have much impact on Pei Shaorong. After a brief moment of anger, what remained was calm.
Rebirth is not only about making up for regrets and taking revenge, but also about making you cherish what you have now and what you have missed.
Pei Shaorong’s biggest goal and wish now is actually very simple. He just wants to live a good life with Abao without becoming rich.
Even if he stayed in this small place for his whole life, as long as there were people he loved and cared about, he would be happy. The world is so big, and a person doesn't need much land...
However, Pei Shaorong is not a tolerant person. Since he has met his enemy, he does not intend to ask for forgiveness from a saint.
Anyway, we have plenty of time now and life is so long, it would be so satisfying to kill someone with one knife. It is also very pleasant to have some fun by causing trouble for others when we have nothing to do. Let's wait and see!
However, Pei Shaorong did not expect that in this life, he did not need to do anything, because Meng Wan, who was reincarnated as Mo Lanzhu, was able to commit suicide on her own...
The hot summer passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was autumn in October. The persimmon trees transplanted during the spring planting period grew well, and this month the branches were full of big tomatoes!
In fact, it stands to reason that the fruiting condition of the trees transplanted in the first year should not be ideal, but for some reason, the trees planted by the Pei family are growing very well.
This left Pei Shaorong completely confused. Could it be that he had such a good talent for farming that whatever he planted would grow?
October is a good season for persimmons to ripen. Not only have the persimmons planted by the Pei family grown fruits, but the wild persimmons on the mountain have also grown. After the villagers have harvested the crops in the fields, the whole family will go up the mountain to pick wild persimmons!
This is the life of farmers, living off the land and water. In Pei Shaorong's view, Linjiang Village is truly a paradise with abundant resources.
It is not an exaggeration to describe it as "beating roe deer with a stick and scooping fish with a ladle, and pheasant flying into the rice pot".
Once you get to the mountain, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely not return empty-handed, especially in the harvest season of autumn, there are so many good things on the mountain.
However, the situation seems to be a little different this year. In the past, there was an abundance of wild fruits on the mountains, but this year the number has been greatly reduced and many trees have no fruit.
Although there are still a lot of wild persimmons this year, they are not as abundant as in previous years when the mountains were flooded with them. There are also pheasants and rabbits, and I don’t know about Pei Shaorong, the outsider.
But the men who have lived in Linjiang Village since childhood have seen much less prey in the outskirts of the mountains recently than in previous years, which is really strange...
Everyone just looked at this phenomenon and got over it. The joy brought by the autumn harvest made everyone unable to see anything else except food and money.
However, there were still a few people who noticed it and became alert. Old Man Mo was one of them. Although he seemed stingy and annoying, he had a good brain.
You have to know that the Mo family actually moved here from outside to escape famine. They didn't have many relatives in the village, and the old man of the Mo family died early, so Old Man Mo was only ten years old when he started to support the Mo family.
If he were a little weak and stupid, he would not be able to support the Mo family, let alone provide the family with a fortune of several dozen taels.
So, Old Man Mo is a man who should not be underestimated. He has lived to such an old age and has experienced more than the younger generation!
After collecting the crops in the fields, Old Man Mo dug up the soil, squatted on the ground and looked at it for a while, then looked at the sun in the sky. He didn't return home until he felt dizzy and carried the things on his back.
After going home to wash and eat dinner, Father Mo took a few puffs of his pipe and said to Aunt Mo, "Old lady, go to the Sun family tomorrow and ask the Lanzhu family not to sell the grain this year, and save it for after the New Year..."
"What's the matter? Boss, we heard that the price of grain in town has gone up a few days ago. Everyone is counting on making money from it. Will Lanzhu listen to us?" Aunt Mo put down the rag and said in a low voice.
"I think the weather this year is not right, it's very strange..." Old Man Mo frowned, thinking of the days when he and his parents fled as a child.
"Anyway, I'll feel more at ease if you let Lanzhu's family keep the food... I'll go to Xiaobao's house tomorrow. I'm always feeling uneasy. No matter what happens, it's always a good thing to have food at home!"
It is said that one knows one's destiny at the age of fifty. As people get older, their sensitivity to many things changes. It sounds mysterious, but there is some truth to it.
This year, the number of wild fruits and wild animals on the outskirts of the mountain has been decreasing. The situation is not serious, and the harvest in the fields is normal, but Father Mo always feels that something is wrong.
He had also experienced disasters and famine when he was a child. Although it happened many years ago, he was instinctively sensitive and afraid of these things, and he felt uneasy...
The next day, Father Mo and Aunt Mo went out separately.
The Sun family has been having a hard time recently. They failed to borrow money from Old Man Mo and the Pei family, and were forced to write a letter to Old Man Mo about adopting their eldest son. Mo Lanzhu and Sun Yaocai left in embarrassment and anger.
Without money, not to mention opening a private school, the debts owed by the Sun family to everyone were still a problem, and there was also the matter of adopting the eldest son. After writing the contract and leaving the gate of Linjiang Village, the two realized that they had been impulsive...
Adopting the eldest son is not a trivial matter. Male heirs are important to the Mo family, and they are equally important to the Sun family.
The two elders of the Sun family have been dreaming of having a grandson for three whole years. If they knew that their legitimate grandson had been adopted, wouldn't they be so angry that they would die?
After they realized what was happening, Mo Lanzhu and Sun Yaocai began to regret it, but they were too embarrassed to run back to find Old Man Mo.
Besides, how could these two thin-skinned and self-righteous young men be his match for Old Man Mo? After hesitating for a while, the two returned to the Sun family and chose to conceal the adoption...
But leaving aside the issue of adoption, not being able to borrow money is also a very serious problem. Apart from the debt owed to Old Man Mo, the total foreign debt of the Sun family village alone is about 20 to 30 taels!
In the past, everyone had not mentioned the repayment of the money because they thought Sun Yaocai had a promising future. Now that Sun Yaocai had failed the college entrance examination, it was still unknown whether he could pass it again in three years, so naturally these creditors came to their door.
The Sun family failed to borrow money from Old Man Mo and the Pei family, and faced with the villagers who were aggressively demanding repayment, they did not dare to refuse to pay the debt. They could only take out the family savings of many years and sell part of the land to pay back everyone's money.
The Sun family was not rich before and was at most middle class in the village. But ever since Sun Yaocai passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, the Sun family's life has improved several levels.
Not to mention that Sun Yaocai's status as a scholar meant that the Sun family did not have to pay taxes, saving a large amount of food expenses.
The villagers wanted to bask in the glory of the Sun family in the future, so they sent gifts to the Sun family every few days. The gifts were not expensive, but the amount given by each family was not a small amount.
Most of the money Sun Yaocai spent on books and writing materials when he was studying was borrowed from villagers by the Sun family, with the help of huge sums of money sent by Old Man Mo from time to time.
Therefore, although the Sun family did not seem wealthy, they actually lived a more comfortable life than most people. The white rice and pork that everyone only ate during festivals could be seen on the Sun family's table every other day.
Now that they have lost everyone's help and are forced to repay a "huge debt", the Sun family is not completely emptied of money, but most of their money is gone, and their hearts are bleeding.
The most direct manifestation of this is in the daily diet, which consists of white rice, fatty pork, coarse steamed bread and pickled vegetables.
The attitude of the people around them made the Sun family, who had enjoyed themselves for several years, feel very uncomfortable. They were very angry at their relative, Old Man Mo, who was unwilling to help!
At this moment, Aunt Mo was naturally not welcomed. Mo Lanzhu, the daughter of the Mo family, was also very angry at her parents' taking advantage of her misfortune. The Sun family's life became worse, and she gradually felt the poverty of being a poor peasant woman...
After hearing what Aunt Mo said, Mo Lanzhu was very angry, "Mom, am I your biological child? Does Dad want me and my husband to suffer and be poor?"
This year, every household has a very good grain harvest, and the grain price in the town is several cents higher than in previous years. It is definitely profitable to sell grain now.
If I listen to Old Man Mo and don't sell the grain now, I will suffer a huge loss if the grain price drops again in a few days. As for keeping all the grain, that is simply crazy!
The harvest is so good this year that the Sun family doesn’t have to pay taxes. They can’t finish eating all the grain in a year. If they leave it behind, it will become stale grain next year. If it’s not stored properly, it will get moldy and rot. What on earth is Father Mo thinking?
"Mom, do you know how hard life is for the Sun family now? Dad only cares about money and not me, his daughter. If the Sun family doesn't sell these grains, how can you get money for your husband's studies?"
"I'm about to give birth again. Not only is there no milk powder here, but I can't even get goat's milk or cow's milk. Dad obviously has the ability, but he won't help me. In his heart, there's only money!"
Mo Lanzhu sounded aggrieved and angry. Aunt Mo in front of her was so worried that she couldn't speak. She didn't expect that her daughter would be so angry and complaining about the money this time.
To be honest, she is the head of the household, stingy and patriarchal, but she is actually very good to her eldest daughter. Her attitude towards her is completely different from that towards her younger brothers.
In addition to wanting to take advantage of the Sun family and caring about the male descendants of the Sun family, Father Mo also supported the Sun family because of their bloodline.
Aunt Mo, the head of the family, understands this better than anyone else. She has been married to Old Man Mo for so many years. Old Man Mo's miserly character is engraved in his bones, but he is not a big shot.
The family's support for the Sun family over the years had already been emptied out, and Mo Lanzhu came in with dozens of taels of silver. Not to mention that the family really didn't have that much silver, even if they did, they couldn't really lend it all out.
It is important to support the son-in-law and daughter, but the Mo family is also a family. The Mo family has no sons, so of course Old Man Mo has to plan for the rest of his and her husband's life.
After all, it would be no problem for the two old men to live for another twenty years. Moreover, they had agreed to adopt a male child from the Sun family. In the future, the two old men and the old woman would have to spend money to raise him...
After being silent and worried for a long time, Aunt Mo said softly, "Lanzhu, your father didn't mean that. He said he felt something was wrong on this day this year, and it's safer to keep food at home..."
"The weather is not right? Are you at ease?" Mo Lanzhu sneered, "I think Dad is not feeling well and is afraid that we will default on the money, so he asked us to keep the food to pay off his debts!"
She could see that no one in the Mo family was a good person. All they cared about was money. They were obsessed with money, just like that hateful social scum Pei Shaorong.
They are all people who look down on others. Things will change over time. Her husband will surely have a day to come to the fore, and then he will make these short-sighted people regret it!
Aunt Mo left and went home feeling upset because her daughter actually looked at her parents' home in that way. When Old Man Mo found out, he was so angry that he slammed the table.
His kindness was taken for granted. Even if he was stingy and loved money, he would not harm his own child. That would be a truly heinous act that would make the Mo family extinct!
It's fine that outsiders look at him like that, but his own daughter also looks at him like that. If Old Man Mo says that he doesn't feel sad, he is definitely lying. He can't help but wonder again if this is really his daughter. A stingy man is also a human being, so he will feel sad...
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