Chapter 6 Crying into a ball
When a woman gets angry, she is never a rational creature. The grains of wheat in a trough were knocked over to the ground by Zhang Xier.
"Hey, you little widow, you're not stingy when you get angry. I want to find a safe place to live, why are you a bastard?" Yu Qiu said a little annoyed when he saw that Zhang Xier had no intention of pounding flour.
"You ran into the mountains after eating the grain, but have you ever thought about the fate of the whole village? At that time, the people in Lu's mansion will peel off all the people in our village." Zhang Xier shouted to Yu Qiu in a crying voice.
Yu Qiu didn't expect that these ordinary people's fear of wealthy families had already penetrated into their bones. In order to be able to eat pasta smoothly, Yu Qiu felt that it was necessary to explain it to Zhang Xier clearly.
"I did this not to harm the villagers, because I have calculated that the people of the Lu family will spread your words and let the people of Mingzhou borrow more grain from their Lu family. In this way, during the autumn harvest, the Lu family will receive more white flour in return.
However, now there are more and more corpses floating down the Mingshui, which proves that the battle between Liu Heita and Li Shimin is becoming more and more intense. In order to save his lair, Liu Heita will do his best to raise military funds. If he attacks the Lu family and destroys the Lu family's branch in Mingzhou, then all the people who come to Lu family to borrow grain from the Manfu in Mingzhou will not have to pay it back. I am benefiting the people of Mingzhou!"
"But if Li Shimin could not defeat Liu Heita, or if Liu Heita would not attack the Lu family! How could the villagers who borrowed too much grain to pay back so much debt?" Zhang Xier raised an objection.
"First of all, Liu Heita will definitely not be able to defeat Li Shimin. Another thing is that if Liu Heita doesn't attack the Lu family, then I will find a way to induce him to attack the Lu family. You just need to remember that you don't have to pay back the grain you borrowed." She analyzed the general trend for the little widow, but she didn't understand it, so she wouldn't tell her thoroughly! She kept chasing and asked, and Yu Qiu said anxiously.
"How do you know that Liu Heita must not be able to defeat Li Shimin? Everyone says that he has never lost after he launched an army in Hebei." The argument can make people's IQ higher. At this moment, Zhang Xier and Yu Qiu were on the verge of each other and said tit-for-tat.
"Hey, I said, you little widow, why are there so many problems? I calculated my fingers and Liu Heita could not beat Li Shimin. This is something from the fate of the way of heaven. What do you know, you have never been to a woman who has a radius of 100 miles? Be honestly grind me noodles. This is nothing, I can solve this problem with just a little idea." Yu Qiu was finally asked by Zhang Xier, remembering what he had said in his heart that he would not explain to Zhang Xier anymore, and said loudly.
Tough and right are the most effective way of communication he has figured out in the past half month.
Seeing Yu Qiu looking like he didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, Zhang Xier said weakly, "You, you shouldn't have a grudge against the people of the Lu family?"
"Shut up, don't say it anymore. You know enough. I'm too lazy to tell you." When asked about this question, Yu Qiu said with a somewhat unnatural expression.
"Then why do you have to plot against them like this?" Zhang Xier seemed to have made a major discovery and continued to ask. At this moment, her intelligence point almost reached the peak of her life.
"In recent decades, which poor people in Hebei have not celebrated the festival with the Lu family? Are you talking nonsense?" Yu Qiu took Mo to Zhang Xier's hair and pointed at the stone to pound it, indicating that she would collect the wheat on the ground quickly.
His explanation was very powerful, which made Zhang Xier not know how to persuade him for a moment. But when he saw Yu Qiu pouring grain from the bag into the stone trough, she said with fear, "Can you lose it..."
"No, you should eat it so much."
“It’s already a lot.”
"It's not enough, at least you have to get a basin of flour."
While the two were talking, Hanzi and Datou, who had a meal of fish soup at home, also ran to Zhang Xier's house. According to the habit of the past few days, it should be Qiu'er's turn to tell them the story outside after dark.
However, today is different. When they saw Zhang Xier pounding wheat, they seemed to have seen something strange, and they surrounded her and watched the fun.
"What does this flour taste like when mashed from this wheat?" Seeing the yellow and white flour in the stone trough, Hanzi, Datou, and a group of friends who had just finished their meal, swallowed.
What a poor kid. As a Hebei native who mainly eats pasta, he still doesn’t know what flour tastes like.
Yu Qiu touched their heads and said, "After preparing the food, you will know what it tastes. Open it. Today, Brother Qiu, I cook myself. After eating, I will go to the mountains tomorrow to have the strength to hunt."
While saying that, he also used a bamboo shovel to shovel the alkali crystals that gradually condensed at the bottom of the pot into a pottery bowl. This is a good thing for noodles.
I heard that the little guys who had noodles were going to help Zhang Xier, so Yu Qiu waved his hand and asked all the little guys to go home to use stone trough and pound wheat grains.
However, when the little guys came back from the stone pestle, they almost attracted all the adults in the village.
Among them, Zhao Qiniang said anxiously, "Brother Qiu, do you want to eat grain? This grain is the life of you two, but you can't eat it!"
Wang Erniang also responded at this time, "Xi'er, you are the same. It's really not easy to pick up a man and raise him, but you can't spoil him so much! If you don't have white flour to pay off the debts of the Lu family during the autumn harvest, it will be light for you to be dragged by the Lu family to peel off the bones."
"Yes! Yes! This kind of grain is not enough to eat. Didn't Xier say that your master said that we should have good weather and achieve a bumper harvest that is rare in a century? The grain should be used to farm." The older Aunt Sun also advised.
As for the other women, they all spoke out every word and tried to persuade them, and even pulled the children who had taken the stone pestle and pounded the stone behind them, so that they would not let them pound the wheat seeds from Zhang Xier's house.
"You might as well tell everyone directly that I made up the master and the harvest matters, which were just to deceive the Lu family." Seeing Zhang Xier becoming more and more anxious as everyone persuaded her, she wiped her tears. Yu Qiu had no choice but to stand up and speak.
As soon as he said this, many women shook their bodies, and they felt a little dizzy in their heads.
My family had borrowed several bulls of grain from the manager of the Lu family before. If there was not enough harvest to pay off the debts during the autumn harvest, the Lu family would probably have to sell their children and even take them to the Lu family to be serfs for generations.
"Puff puff puff!"
The women who gradually understood the meaning of Yu Qiu's words sat down one after another. Before their next move was done, Yu Qiu had already figured it out. If they were either kicking their legs, slapping the ground, crying their parents, and rolling around, this was the most common reaction of the village women after encountering unacceptable things.
"Stop, hold back my tears." Yu Qiu made a pause gesture to the widows who were on the verge of collapse, and said in a very domineering tone.
Obviously, he underestimated the importance of this matter in the minds of these widows. At this moment, these widows who felt that disaster was about to come could at most resist crying, but their bodies were trembling constantly, and their tears were sliding downwards with large particles.
"Clang."
Shizhu and Shicao were thrown to the ground by Hanzi. He was already a teenager and could understand the adults' words. After throwing away these things, he quickly ran forward and grabbed Yu Qiu's sleeve, saying in a crying voice, "Brother Qiu, I don't eat wheat noodles anymore. Tell my mother, are you not lying to her? I'm most afraid that my mother would cry like this. When she cried like this last time, my father was gone..."
"Wuwuwu, the last time my mother cried like this, it was the Lu family who wanted to buy me to be a serf. My mother said that if you are a serf, you have to help the Lu family work hard all your life until you are exhausted and you can't even get married. I don't want to be a serf in the Lu family, and I don't want to be exhausted to death..."
Chapter completed!