Chapter 44
Millet nourishes people. Before Xiugu left, she left two bags of millet in the cellar of the side house for Xiao Youran to eat.
A bag weighs fifty pounds.
Aunt Xiu had not left for two days when Xiao Cao borrowed a bag, and the remaining bag was eaten by the people in the third room, leaving only four or five kilograms.
Ye Dacai did not find millet in the Li family cellar, but he found more than 100 kilograms of sorghum rice, more than 30 kilograms of black flour, more than 200 kilograms of potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other crops.
Ye Youran said, "My family brought potatoes, about thirty kilograms, and two pumpkins."
Mopan pumpkin is the most commonly grown by people in Shiban Town. A pumpkin is as big as a millstone, a big one can weigh hundreds of kilograms, and a small one can weigh forty or fifty kilograms. Local people call it Mopan pumpkin.
Ye Youran's pumpkins are all grown by Ye Dashan on the mountain, and each one weighs hundreds of kilograms.
Pumpkins can be eaten as both rice and vegetables, so Ye Dashan kept three of them at home to eat and sold the rest.
"There are only three pumpkins in my family. My aunt borrowed two of them, and the third one was eaten by my third wife and her family."
When Mistress Ye heard this, she asked Ye Dacai and Ye Dawen to go to the cellar to carry out the two pumpkins. "Forget about the potatoes, I will treat them as aunts and daughters as filial piety to the two elders."
Two pumpkins were worth more than 200 kilograms of grain. Xiao Cao panicked, ran over, lay down at the entrance of the cellar, and shouted, "Come on, there are outsiders coming to steal the grain..."
Several strong men from the village rushed over with shovels and hoes.
Mistress Ye made a solemn face and said in a loud voice, "We are from Yejia Village, Li Xiugu's husband's family, and we are here to collect debts today. You can take care of this matter if you want, but first help Li Wanxi's family pay what they owe to our Ye family."
The food and money were returned."
A group of men immediately looked at Xiao Cao, and saw Xiao Cao's eyes dodge. They didn't understand. They were being used as a weapon by Xiao Cao.
A young man with a bad temper said angrily, "Auntie, it is only natural that you must pay back your debts. If you have any, pay them back as soon as possible."
"Yes, Auntie, people have asked questions at the door of our house. You refused to pay back the debt and even yelled. Isn't this a disgrace to our Lijia Village?"
There was a middle-aged man who said directly to Li Wanxi, "Uncle Wanxi, you are in charge of this family. Don't let a woman come in the way. Dafu, what are you doing? Even a woman can't do it."
Can’t manage it well?”
"Dafu is out." Li Wanxi's old face turned red with shame. He whispered to his daughter-in-law, "Jin Wanniang, can you let them take the pumpkin?"
"Take it away, and ask your family to drink the northwest wind?" Xiao Cao's eyes burst into tears, "Xiao You, your grandma is sick and has emptied all the family's money. The family has no money and no food.
, this family will starve to death, Xiaoyou, you are not here to ask for a debt, you are here to kill my family."
"Auntie said this as if I was impersonal. Auntie, the more than one hundred kilograms of sorghum rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and Chinese cabbage in the cellar...can't survive this year. After the new year, maybe the court will
The relief food has arrived."
There are still more than 100 kilograms of grain?
Everyone was surprised and looked at Xiao Cao.
Mrs. Cao was so filled with hatred that she had to explain, "The old couple saved them from between their teeth. They said they were going to be eaten by their children, who are growing up."
Chapter completed!