In the evening, before the sun set, Da'an was writing Spring Festival couplets in the main room, while Luo Fengtang and Yang Huazhong were working on the side.

Xiao An also poked his head and followed Da An to watch Da An write. From time to time he raised his hand to trace in the sky.

Seeing this, Luo Fengtang smiled and touched Xiao An's head and said, "If you also want to write, can my brother-in-law prepare pen and paper for you?"

Xiao An quickly shook his head, "I don't want to write. There are many Spring Festival couplets here that were sent to me by other people in the village and begged my brother to write them. I'm afraid I'll write them badly."

Luo Fengtang laughed and said: "It's okay, my brother-in-law's Spring Festival couplets are for you to practice writing. Just write them!"

Xiao An was very excited. He quickly rolled up his sleeves, picked up the brush, and went to another table to write.

Luo Fengtang looked at Xiao An's focused look, with a look of relief in his eyes.

Yang Ruoqing came over from the backyard and was very happy to see the scene in the main room.

"Oh, have you written everything down?" she asked.

Xiao An raised his head and stuck out his tongue at Yang Ruoqing's playful gesture, "Sister, I'm writing Spring Festival couplets for you. My brother-in-law asked me to write them. Do you have any objection, sister?"

Yang Ruoqing glanced at Luo Fengtang and said with a smile: "Your brother-in-law's opinion is your sister's opinion. Just write it openly. If you write it badly, it's okay. There is plenty of red paper."

After saying this, she went outside to collect clothes in the yard.

I saw someone poking around at the door of the yard.

"Who is it?" Yang Ruoqing shouted over there.

"Who's there? Come out and talk if you need anything!" she said again.

Immediately, two women came over and saw that they were the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the old Lin family at the entrance of the village.

The mother-in-law is about the same age as Sun, and the daughter-in-law is about the same age as Yang Ruoqing. They both wear the most common clothes in the village, with patches on them.

Yang Ruoqing knew that the old Lin family's conditions in the village were below average.

It's not that people are not diligent, but that there are only a small number of people, the same situation as Wang Hong's family.

An only child whose son is still a sick child relies on his father-in-law and daughter-in-law to support the family. The mother-in-law takes care of the housework, feeds pigs and ducks, takes care of three grandchildren, and prepares medicine for the sick son.

Life was extremely difficult in the past, but two years later, my daughter-in-law joined the herb collection team and made a little money, and the family's conditions gradually improved.

But this year, my mother-in-law broke her leg in the spring, and my daughter-in-law was unable to work in the herb collection team, so her livelihood money was cut off again.

"Aunt Lin, sister-in-law, do you have any business coming over?"

Yang Ruoqing turned around and asked while packing dry clothes.

The Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, both looking embarrassed. Neither of them was embarrassed to speak, and they both expected the other to speak first.

At this moment, Ms. Sun happened to come to the front yard to help Yang Ruoqing pack her clothes. She saw the Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law coming over. Ms. Sun was a warm and friendly woman.

"Sister-in-law of the Lin family, niece-in-law, why do you have time to come over here? Come on, come on, sit down in the room."

The older mother-in-law said: "Ms. Qing'er, there's no need to be so polite. My wife and I are here shamelessly. Actually... we actually want to borrow something from you."

"Ah?" Mrs. Sun was startled.

The woman immediately laughed and said, "Sister-in-law of the Lin family, what do you want to borrow?"

The Lin family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other, and then the mother-in-law continued: "I want to borrow ten kilograms of rice and ten kilograms of wheat flour from you, so that I can get the rations for this year and several relatives to pay New Year's greetings in the first month..."

Hearing this, Mrs. Sun was a little surprised, but the woman still didn't ask anything and nodded cheerfully: "Okay, just wait, I'll get it right away."

"I'll go with you," said the Lin family's mother-in-law, and quickly followed Sun's footsteps to the backyard.

The only one left in the yard here was the Lin family's daughter-in-law, who was standing at the door with her head hanging down, twisting the corners of her clothes with her hands.

Yang Ruoqing came to the wife and looked at her sallow face.

Xindao seemed to be having an increasingly difficult time in the Lin family. The head of the family was in poor health due to hard work and had to spend money on medicine.

My father-in-law's health is getting worse day by day, and the children have not grown up. In this farming era where the sky is the limit of harvest, it is really hard for people who are struggling to have enough food and clothing.

"Sister-in-law, your family doesn't have enough rice and wheat flour for the New Year, so don't you also have fish, meat and other things for entertaining guests during the New Year?" Yang Ruoqing asked with concern.

The Lin family's daughter-in-law raised her head and said with a face of shame: "Qing'er, I'm not afraid of your jokes. There are fish. They were salvaged from old Uncle Luo's fish pond some time ago. My father-in-law went and brought back twenty kilograms of fish on credit."

"There is no pork, but my mother-in-law raises five or six chickens. During the first month of the year, guests will also be treated to meat and vegetables,"

"What we lack is nothing but rice and wheat flour."

"My husband is sick during the summer, and my mother-in-law's legs can't go to the fields yet. I have to stay at home to take care of them, and I can't go to the fields to tend the rice."

"Most of the rice in the three or four acres of fields has dried up and been eaten by insects. The harvest is not good and the family is short of food." The Lin family's daughter-in-law whispered.

"Dry?" Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows.

"I remember that during the summer, my father and the others would carry the keel of the water tanker day and night to carry water to the villagers," she said.

The Lin family's daughter-in-law nodded, "The location of my field is not good. If your father hadn't helped us carry water, I might not have harvested anything."

"After the water was diverted, countless eels appeared in the field and drilled many holes in the field dam. The water in the field could not be stored, and the rice dried up after all." She added.

Yang Ruoqing suddenly realized.

This is what I like about eels.

However, with the words of the Lin family's daughter-in-law, Yang Ruoqing felt that she had been busy expanding her outside business in the past few years.

The farmland in the village has been neglected a bit. Well, at the beginning of late spring and early summer next year, a large-scale eel-catching operation will be launched.

We regularly supply eel to several restaurants in our family. It is a delicious delicacy that can make money, maintain health, and most importantly, it can also eliminate damage to crops.

I secretly made up my mind, and at this moment, the news about the Lin family's wife's business came to my ears again.

"Qing'er, your family should have enough rice, right? If not, it's best not to go to town to buy rice during this period," she said.

"Why?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

"What's wrong with the rice in town? Is it bad rice?" she asked again.

To be honest, it doesn’t matter whether it’s the rice that my family eats all year round or the rice that comes from restaurants in several places.

There is no need to sell it outside, it is all produced from the Yang Huazhong family’s dozens of acres of fields.

Therefore, Yang Ruoqing has not paid attention to the rice situation outside for a long time.

The Lin family's daughter-in-law continued: "Originally, I didn't want to come here to borrow rice and wheat noodles from Aunt Yang. It's so shameless to borrow these during the Chinese New Year..."

"But there is really nothing we can do. The price of rice in Wa City has gone up too much. Our family originally had thirty kilograms of rice left."
Chapter completed!