Traveling through ancient times with golden fingers to farm and raise cubs

Chapter 42 Figured it out

Yu Xiaoxiao continued to speak: "This year we will not save money into the family. This year's expenses and expenses are almost the same. The money in our respective money boxes is regarded as capital. After the Chinese New Year next year, we will save money in it. , do you think so?"

Shen Ye nodded. Although he felt that there wouldn't be much money to spend in the next year, he still wanted to keep some money on hand so that it would be convenient to use, so he agreed.

Shen Qi saw that he still had more than ten taels of silver, and said tentatively: "Mom, why don't you save some, I still have more than ten taels."

Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head and refused: "No, we still have 1,186 taels at home, these haven't been touched yet, you don't have to worry.

Besides, we are a family, if you save money, if mom and your eldest brother don’t save, we will feel uncomfortable in our hearts, you know?"

Shen Qi smiled sheepishly: "Yeah, then Xiao Qi doesn't exist either."

After Shen Qi finished speaking, he couldn't help but yawned. Now that there are more and more chickens, Shen Qi, a child, has to be busy from morning to night every day. Even during the Chinese New Year, he can't take a break. .

Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Ye had nothing to do long ago, and now they go to help Shen Qi whenever they have time.

Looking at Shen Qi who was yawning from exhaustion, Yu Xiaoxiao wondered if it was time to ask someone to help at home.

She and her eldest son have nothing to do, but the younger son Shen Qi is only nine years old now and has a heavier burden.

"Since there's no problem, let's pack up and go to bed."

Of course they are lean meat dumplings, because Yu Xiaoxiao doesn’t like to eat fatty meat, and the two children’s tastes follow Yu Xiaoxiao’s, and they don’t like fatty meat dumplings much, so Yu Xiaoxiao just made lean meat dumplings for convenience. .

The temperature is still a bit low now, it's cold after staying outside for a long time.

At noon, the three of us ordered some dumplings and ate them, and then everyone went about their own business.

In the end, Yu Xiaoxiao didn't go, and planned to talk about this matter in a few days. In the past few days, her family would be a little tired, so she would have to make do with it.

Inside the room, Shen Ye was sitting cross-legged on the kang, copying books on a small table. Shen Qi was not in the room.

There were two pairs of shoes that had been patched. Yu Xiaoxiao seemed to realize something. She turned to look at the clothes her eldest son was wearing, and then looked at her own clothes, remembering what she had ignored for three years.

After dinner, Yu Xiaoxiao took the extra dumplings out of the house and froze them in a vat outside, then quickly went back to the house to nest.

Since I won’t go out to look for anyone, I have to cook something to eat. Let’s eat meat dumplings on the morning of New Year’s Day.

After a dreamless night, Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Qi planned to go to the fifth aunt's house early the next morning, but before they even stepped out of the door, Yu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that today was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and everyone was visiting relatives. Isn’t it a little bad for our family to move up at this juncture?

Shen Qi had a great say in the selection of candidates. Almost as soon as Yu Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Shen Qi said: "Grandma Wu and Grandma Li are both fine. When I was in a hurry before, Grandma Wu and Grandma Li often came here. Help, even now."

Thinking like this, Yu Xiaoxiao said her thoughts without hiding it: "Ye'er, you and I can do the work by ourselves, but when raising chickens in Xiaoqi, the more chickens we raise, the more chickens we raise. It’s too busy at all, why don’t we ask someone to help?”

Shen Ye also felt a little sorry for his younger brother. Hearing what his mother said, he immediately agreed: "Okay, my younger brother now earns more money than us and has more things to do. He can afford to hire people to help, so that my younger brother can still help me." It can be more relaxed, we don’t have to rush to finish our own things every day, we have to help our younger brother, and we don’t have any free time.”

"Okay, I'll take Xiao Qi to the two houses tomorrow to ask. It's okay to invite both of them to help. But Xiao Qi, from now on, you will have to pay the wages of the two grandmas by yourself?"

One person ate 18 dumplings, a big bowl full.

After harvesting several baskets of eggs, Shen Qi became dirty, so the two of them took the eggs home and put them away.

Yu Xiaoxiao said while loading the coins.

Now Yu Xiaoxiao lives in a room with a heated kang by herself, and the two brothers Shen Ye and Shen Qi live in the same room.

I was in a daze, and for some reason my eyes fell on the two pairs of shoes placed beside the kang.

It was already evening, and maybe it was because I was busy doing something late today, but I was really tired.

"Okay, do you have anyone you think is a suitable candidate? If there is, let's go find it ourselves. If not, tomorrow I will take Xiao Qi to find Aunt Guihua to help find him."

Shen Qi nodded happily and said, "No problem."

After everything was done, Yu Xiaoxiao and Shen Qi had to go to the river on the edge of the back mountain to fetch water, then return and pour it into the water tank in the chicken coop for the chickens to drink.

It's cold in winter, and chickens don't want to come out and run around, so they stay in their coops.

Shen Qi filled the wooden troughs in the chicken coop with chicken food one by one, and Yu Xiaoxiao went to the back to heat the floor.

If it's broken, just patch it up and make up for it. Because most people in the village are like this, Yu Xiaoxiao didn't pay attention to it.

Yu Xiaoxiao knew that Shen Qi must be in the kitchen, mixing chicken food for the chickens raised in the next room, so she didn't bother her eldest son and turned to the kitchen to help her younger son.

The two children didn't know how to write. They quickly collected the money and carried the money box back to their own house.

Yu Xiaoxiao also told her two sons about this matter, and both of them said it was nothing, so the matter fell by the wayside.

After returning home, Shen Qi went to boil water for himself to take a bath. Yu Xiaoxiao washed her hands and lay on the kang. She didn't want to weave today.

In the past four years, except for the first year when I made clothes and shoes for three people in my family, the three of them have been wearing the same set of clothes and shoes in the past few years.

The two worked hard for a long time, mixing the chicken food, and each carried a bucket to the old house to feed the chickens.

The workload in the Shen period is still due to the fact that it is winter. The chickens do not run out so they can feed more. The workload in the other three seasons is almost three times that of today.

Shen Ye nodded and said, "Indeed, I could often see Grandma Wu and Grandma Li helping Xiao Qi before, and they are both close to our home."

Shen Qi's sleepy eyes were no longer sleepy now, and he nodded repeatedly, which showed how excited and agreed Shen Qi was.

After feeding the chickens, Shen Qi has to go one by one to collect eggs from the chicken coops. He has no choice but to pick up eggs without preparing food for the chickens first, and they will easily be pecked by the chickens.

Thinking about it now, in the past four years since time travel, everyone has been busy with life and making money. I finally have some free time. I either go out to inquire about news in the village, or I am learning about common sense that I don’t understand. I still have a little free time. , I can’t think straight, I feel like I’m going to fall down from exhaustion, I’m so mentally exhausted.

I don’t have time to care about my own image at all. Now that my family is not short of money, I don’t have to be so anxious to make money and live, and the pace of life can be slowed down.

After all, if you have a mental breakdown for a long time, you will collapse. It is better to enjoy life slowly.

After thinking about it, Yu Xiaoxiao stopped lying on the kang making salted fish and got up to weave.

(End of chapter)