Chapter 39 I asked you to eat it, but you really did eat it!
Everyone in the Song family had no idea what was going on next door. They were halfway through eating noodles when they heard someone knocking on the door.
Song Yang opened the door and saw that Song Bufan was here.
After welcoming the person into the main room, Song Yang said politely, "Has the clan master eaten? If not, how about we eat some?"
"...I happened to have nothing to eat." Song Bufan smiled, "Then I'll have something simple?!"
Everyone in the main room, except Song Yang, hugged their bowls tightly and started eating noodles faster.
After several tug-of-wars between Chen Dongyue and Song Haopo, the food for the Song family is now rationed.
The amount of food for each meal was determined after several discussions among everyone, so the Song family now eats one portion per person, without any extra.
Seeing that her son was pretending to be polite but met Song Bufan who was really rude, Song Haopo originally wanted to show off her face.
But she thought about it, she is old, has bad teeth, likes to bite the noodles rather than suck them, and the noodle bowl has many sections...
If her bowl of noodles were given out, people would definitely dislike her as an old woman for her drool, so she just thought to herself that she, an old woman, would not be disliked by others.
The good-tempered Song Yun actually struggled in her heart.
Second brother, will you be hungry if you can’t eat noodles?
It should be...okay? After all, he just drank sugar water made from jujubes that Dezhu had found...
And these noodles were rolled by my sister-in-law herself. It’s not that she didn’t want to give them to her second brother, she just didn’t want to waste her sister-in-law’s hard work.
Forget about the other three, they won't think about it that much at all. It's not their business anyway, it's none of their business.
Seeing everyone holding bowls and pretending to be stupid, Song Yang, who really wanted to slap himself twice, had to push his bowl in front of Song Bufan, "Grandpa, eat this bowl, I haven't touched it yet."
"Ah?" Song Bufan seemed to be surprised, "Then you don't have to eat, don't you? It's okay, you eat, you eat, I just watch."
.....Chen Dongyue sucked her noodles and almost laughed out loud.
Song Yang gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not hungry, hehehehe, Grandpa Clan, you can eat."
"How about... let's share the meal?" Song Bufan was still a human being.
In the end, Song Yang chose his belly between face and belly.
So he ran to the kitchen and got a bowl of noodles. The two of them shared a bowl of noodles. After a few chopsticks, Xilihulu ate it all.
After eating the noodles, Song Bufan wiped the corners of his mouth carefully with his sleeve, and then lowered his voice and talked about serious matters with Chen Dongyue, "Dongyue, I have discussed it with your clan grandma, and we still plan to go to the county town to buy some. Stock up on food. So I want to ask you to borrow the oxcart tomorrow."
Chen Dongyue said "Ah", "But now I guess the grain stores are closed for the year... You may not be able to buy it if you go there."
"What?" Song Bufan, who was still a little hesitant about whether to stock up on food, was really anxious now, "It's only the beginning of November, why are you taking a break so early? Business is good during the New Year, and they have been Don’t you have any business left?”
"If you think about it carefully, how can any merchant not want to make money these days?" Chen Dongyue analyzed: "I heard what the waiter at the grain store told me before, probably because their boss got some news and knew that grain prices would be high in the new year. It will go up, so I plan not to sell grains now, and then sell them when grain prices rise sharply at the beginning of the new year.”
"What?!" Song Bufan was so anxious that his forehead was shiny, "Winter wheat won't be harvested until April or May, and our family may not have enough food to last until the end of the year. Hey, if I had known better, I should have made a decision earlier. Go to the county town to buy food!"
Everyone in the Song family frowned and said nothing.
The world is so difficult right now.
Because they had Chen Dongyue and got 22 pieces of silver from Song Ke, they stocked up on food early, so they weren't too panicked at the moment.
But in Qingshan Village, just like their family, how many families had received the news and had enough money to make preparations in advance?
Most families are similar to Song Bufan's family. The food on hand can last for a month at most.
Some who are more nervous can only store food for about ten days.
Song Haopo was thinking that she had a lot of food at home, but if she couldn't do it... she could just give two bags to Song Bufan.
But she saw that Chen Dongyue didn't mention it, and Song Yang even lowered his head. So even if she had this thought in her heart, Song Haopo opened and closed her mouth, but in the end she didn't say a word.
Seeing Song Bufan's anxious expression, Chen Dongyue suggested: "Otherwise, I will go to the county town tomorrow. I know the waiter at the grain store. If Grandpa Clan doesn't need much grain, I can help you go there." Talk, talk."
"That's the best!" Song Bufan clapped his hands, "Our family can probably buy two stones of food. Isn't that too much?"
"It's okay, it's okay," Chen Dongyue nodded, but then remembered something, "But I don't recommend that you drive the bullock cart.
It's very cold today. Even if it's not snowing, the road is still freezing. There are several narrow roads on the way to the county seat, and it's really unsafe for Song Dezhu to walk on them.
Two stones of food, how about you call on my clan nurse and me, and we can carry it back in equal parts. "
"And me," Li Xiucai volunteered, "I have to go back home before the Chinese New Year to deliver food and vegetables to my mother. I'll go with you, and I'll have a companion on the way. Otherwise, this whole journey... .I always feel a little unsafe."
Song Yang also said: "Otherwise, I will go too."
But Song Bufan refused, "Song Yang, forget it. The weather is cold this winter and the wheat in the fields needs to be covered with quilts. You'd better cover the wheat quickly so as not to waste the grain seeds.
By the way, we have some hay left in our house. You and Liuzi will get it tomorrow, and hurry up and cover it with food.
I heard from the elders in our clan that the heavy snow has been falling on the house today, and it might be possible for it to fall for ten days and a half at a time, and by then it will be impossible to build it even if I want to. "
Hearing what Song Bufan said made sense, Chen Dongyue asked Song Yang to stay at home and handle the farm work. She made an appointment with Song Bufan and prepared to go to the county town on her legs tomorrow.
After Song Bufan left, Song Haopo asked Chen Dongyue tentatively, "Dongyue, what are you going to do when you go to the county seat?"
Chen Dongyue raised her eyebrows and smiled mysteriously, "I'll tell you when I get back."
"But, don't buy anything to eat or drink. Our family has enough food to sell until next year." Song Haopo couldn't help but remind her good daughter-in-law.
"Hey, I get it." Chen Dongyue agreed happily.
But Song Haopo felt a thump in her heart.
Hearing this, he just didn't take her words to heart at all.
But what should she do with her daughter-in-law, who can chop a tree stump into four pieces with one axe?
The little old lady could only pray in her heart, hoping that her good daughter-in-law would never spend too much money and buy too much food and drink to go home.
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