After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

When the couple returned home, it was completely dark.

"Dad is back!"

Si Niang shouted in surprise and was the first to go out. When she saw the pears in the car, she asked curiously:

"Daddy has brought back so many pears, can we finish them all?"

Liu Ji parked the ox cart, jumped out of the cart first, and turned to help Qin Yao. Not surprisingly, he was rejected and avoided.

Liu Ji shrugged and prepared to unload the goods. He carried the four baskets of pears from the car into the courtyard, one basket in each hand.

Then Dalang and others who came out exclaimed: "There are so many pears!"

Sanlang stretched out his hand to try one, but Liu Ji waved it away ruthlessly, "Go, go, daddy picked this for your grandma, and grandma hasn't done it yet."

Sanlang pouted and immediately ran to find his mother-in-law. He raised his head and said loudly: "Mom, I want to eat pears!"

"I want it too, I want it too!" Siniang said immediately.

Qin Yao pulled the dragon and phoenix twins away from her in a funny way, motioned to Awang to take away the ox cart, and told Yin Le and Li: "Wash a basin and come out and try it. You don't know whether such a small pear is sweet or not." sweet."

Yin Lehe agreed, and hurriedly brought a wooden basin, filled a dozen of them, and took them to the water tank to clean them. The greedy twins couldn't bear it any longer, so they immediately followed them, picked up the pears and took a big bite as soon as they were wet with water. .

It was crispy and the skin was a little thick, but the juice was sweet. Si Niang immediately ran to A Niang and stood on tiptoe to ask her to have a taste.

"It's very sweet." Siniang moved forward and handed it over again in anticipation. Qin Yao couldn't refuse at all. It was all brought to her mouth. The little girl wouldn't give up until she took a bite.

This pear is not a Sydney pear with thin skin and soft flesh, but a local native pear. The skin is yellow-brown, spherical in shape, as big as the clenched fist of a seven or eight-year-old child, and matures in August or September. It has already entered October. Probably the last batch.

Under Siniang's expectant gaze, Qin Yao lowered her head and took a small bite. The meat was thick and slightly hard, and the juice was not very abundant, but it was indeed very sweet.

"Did you pick all the pears on the mountain?" Qin Yao asked as she walked towards the water tank.

Liu Ji moved the basket that he was going to give to his teacher and senior brother to the corridor. He asked the children not to touch the basket. He jogged a few steps to follow Qin Yao and said with a smile:

"Yes, I personally selected each one. I don't want anything that's not sweet, not big, or round. How about it? Madam, do you think it tastes good? I heard from the original fruit farmer that one pound of it can usually be sold for seven or eight cents. .”

But now it’s almost winter. The weather is getting colder and pears are no longer easy to sell. Rather than letting them rot on the tree, it’s better to pick them back.

Qin Yao automatically ignored the first half of Liu Ji's nonsense and only caught the price of soil pears. Thinking that he had conducted an on-site inspection this time, she asked carefully about the year and yield of the fruit trees.

Liu Ji was very discerning and scooped water for her to wash her hands. "The mountain forest is very big, and all of them are planted with pineapples. The fruit trees are all more than ten years old, and they can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of fruit a year. When the year is good, It can be sold for one hundred taels of silver."

By the way, he also talked about renting out the shop and house, focusing on how he worked hard to find a reliable buyer and how he tried his best to rent it at a good price.

Qin Yao raised her hand. She didn't want to hear so much nonsense. She took the cloth handed by Liu Ji, wiped her face and hands, and asked directly: "Where is the money?"

Liu Ji hung up the cloth and took out his money bag and presented it like a treasure, "I rented the shop for thirty taels, the small courtyard in the suburbs for ten taels, and the ten acres of paddy fields given by the Deng family. I thought about leaving home too much." Far away, they were sold together to a wealthy household in the village for eight taels of silver per acre. The total is one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Madam, please order."

While Qin Yao was counting the money, he added: "I met many people who wanted to ask me for help when I went out this time, but I kept my wife's teachings in mind. As soon as they came forward, I immediately pushed them away!"

"I told them, Master, my wife will earn more money than she can spend in her lifetime. Master, I am not short of money. Don't bother me with all the dirty things!"

After saying that, his big eyes looked at her expectantly, flickering.

The money was correct. Qin Yao put the money bag in her pocket and patted his shoulder with satisfaction, "Wash your hands and go to the table to eat."

"Oh, by the way, I want to drink pear juice. You can make a bowl for me." After giving the order, he remembered something and turned back to ask the Yin Le Dalang brothers and sisters who were gnawing pears in the courtyard: "Do you want to drink pears?" juice?"

The four siblings said without hesitation: "Yes!"

Liu Ji stared. Yin Le and Awang, who were about to ask for it, silently closed their open mouths and bit into the peeled pear in their hands.

Liu Ji nodded with satisfaction and said to the four brothers and sisters: "Don't drink pear juice after you have eaten pears. Pears are too cold and eating too much is not good for your health."

After that, without giving the four siblings a chance to refute, they picked up the three pears Li had just peeled and entered the kitchen.

Chop the pears and mash them in a clean stone bowl, then filter them out with clean gauze. A bowl of fresh pear juice that doesn't look that good but tastes very good is ready.

The remaining residue can also be used to feed cattle and horses, so nothing is wasted.

At the dinner table, watching Qin Yao taking a sip of pear juice and eating delicious rice, Liu Ji was attentive beside him, adding dishes and asking if he wanted another bowl of pear juice. Yin Le, Awang and the four siblings were all together Shake his head.

Humble, too humble.

Liu Ji originally brought so many pears, and Liu Ji was worried that they would rot if he couldn't eat them quickly.

But now Qin Yao has three large bowls of pear juice a day, and the rest of the family hasn't had it for a few days. In the blink of an eye, the pears are gone.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of food at home now, so I don’t really miss it that much.

The weather is getting colder day by day. It's better to have the sun during the day. In the evening, the temperature drops sharply, so you won't feel cold if you burn a charcoal pot at night.

After a night of heavy rain, the cold air surged in, making the mountains so desolate that no one wanted to go out.

Qin Yao's family urgently put on last year's thick winter clothes, but the four Dalang brothers and sisters who had to go to school early were still shivering from the cold.

Sanlang sneezed out a bubble of snot, Yin Le quickly took out a handkerchief to help him wipe his face clean, and Awang put a water bag filled with hot water into his hand.

With the source of warmth, Sanlang's nose stopped. Not daring to delay, Ma Liu climbed into the wind-shielded carriage, got into the thick mattress prepared by Mrs. Li, and wrapped himself tightly.

Liu Ji crossed his arms and walked out, looked at the gray sky, and muttered: "It's such a cold day and the road is slippery. Why don't we go to school?"

As soon as these words came out, even the studious Juan Wang Erlang couldn't help but feel surprised.

Saburo, who had already gotten into the carriage and was wrapped tightly, climbed out immediately and looked at his father with his eyes wide open in surprise: "Really?"

Liu Ji raised his eyebrows jokingly and pointed to the main room with the door closed.

At this hour, Qin Yao would never get up and was still lazing in the warm bed.

Liu Ji urged Dalang to raise his chin and ask your mother-in-law. As long as she agrees, there is no need to go to school today.

Erlang, Sanlang and Si Niang immediately called out expectantly: "Brother!"

"Isn't this not good?" Dalang was a little hesitant. What if Aniang was woken up and went crazy?