Chapter 17 Rice Stocked for Many Years
As Liu Cuihua looked over, Su Jiuyue pointed to another cloth bag next to her.
"Mother, we can buy this kind of rice."
Liu Cuihua reached out and squeezed a handful of rice, she knew, at a glance, that it's the kind of rice stocked for many years. This kind of rice is cheap, but not too many people buy it.
"Jiu Ya, this rice is wormy."
Su Jiuyue said in a lowered voice, "Mother, the wormy rice is not deadly, and it's cheap, so we can buy more of it. I'm afraid the situation will be worse in winter, and then we will definitely have to suffer from hunger."
Liu Cuihua counted the potatoes and pumpkins stored in her cellar and felt that Su Jiuyue was right. The food she had stored was indeed enough to eat, but certainly not enough to feed everyone adequately.
When she was young, she had suffered famine when a bucket of rice cost a thousand dollars. According to the current situation, she is afraid that after some time, she cannot even afford to buy old rice.
It's different now. They have just earned 30 taels from selling ganoderma, which is perfect for buying some rice.
Liu Cuihua is a generous person. Thinking that there may be nothing to eat in the next six months, she decided to stock up more food.
So she simply took two taels out of her money bag and said to the shopkeeper, "Give me 180 kilograms of this kind of rice!"
The shopkeeper instantly froze, not expecting that this old country woman was actually a rich man. 180 kilograms? My goodness, his boss is definitely going to praise him today!
"Yes! Please come inside."
The young man hired a cart for them. When Liu Cuihua was ready to send the rice home, Su Jiuyue proposed, "Mother, we've better to go back the village at night. The old often say that money should not be revealed to the public, we've brought so much food back, it's not good if people see it."
She did not say the bad impact literally, but Liu Cuihua got it.
If people see it, everyone wants to borrow a little. That would be a disaster. They are all villagers in the same village, so it's not possible not to borrow them.
Su Jiuyue's thoughts are not quite the same as hers. Anyway, the methods used may vary, but the principle is the same.
Last night she had a dream that a group of people swarmed into the family Wu when the snow was falling heavily. They emptied their cellar, injured the families, and even burned their home.
This is just a dream, and no one would probably believe it. But Su Jiuyue woke up from the dream with a feeling of palpitations and a vague sense that these things could be happening.
The two of them agreed on this point, so they had the rice delivered to the village entrance overnight. Then Liu Cuihua ran home, turned to her husband and his two sons. And they finally moved the rice back home overnight.
Tian Xiuniang looked at the several bags of rice that were moved to the cellar and was so shocked that she couldn't even sleep.
Originally, when she was with Wu Ercheng, it was because the family Wu was well-off. Nowadays, almost every family does not have enough to eat, so she was very glad that she could marry into the family.
But now it seems that the family Wu is even richer than she imagined!
So many bags of rice! How much money would that cost? She didn't expect that her mother-in-law had hidden so much money behind the scenes.
Chen Zhaodi is also shocked, but she is more joyful.
She was originally worried about how to survive in the winter, and her mother-in-law solved the problem in time. That's great, when the snow closes down the mountains, they can spend the winter in their own home.
The men of the family had just put the grain in place when Tian Xiuniang rushed over impatiently. She opened one of the bags, reached out and grabbed a handful of rice, and rubbed it with her hands.
"My goodness, so much rice, huh? Mother, you bought this?" She turned around and asked.
There are surplus food at home, the heart is therefore in no panic. Liu Cuihua is quite happy to see so much food right now.
But in the end, it's actually Su Jiuyue's credit to be able to buy so much food this time. She, as a mother-in-law, naturally will not steal her daughter-in-law's merit.
By the way, it's a good chance to let the other two know that there is a reason for her to favor the Lao San's wife most!
"I didn't buy it! It's Jiu Ya."