Lin Yuan brought Lin Zhi to Zhang's family.s

The kitchen roofs of the three brothers' houses were all emitting smoke. The mud was trampled into the flat large yard. Three or five and a half children were chasing and fighting, having fun.

Old Mrs. Zhang sat under a jujube tree and was chatting and laughing with her two younger grandchildren, pinching this face and then pinching that chin.

Zhang Guicai, the youngest son of the Zhang family, stood in a corner of the yard with his elder brother, talking, and maybe talking about something interesting, and the two of them laughed at the same time.

This is a happy family.

Lin Yuan felt envious.

The fence gate was half open, Lin Yuan pushed open the door and walked in. She greeted Old Lady Zhang first, "Grandma Zhang."

Lin Zhi also shouted, "Grandpa Zhang."

Old Mrs. Zhang raised her head and waved to the siblings with a smile, "So it's Yuanzi and Zhi'er. Have you finished planting the seedlings in your house?"

Lin Yuan nodded, "It's only one and a half acres of land. My father, my mother, Cui'er and I have all gone to the field and they've been put into it all... I'll come to ask Uncle Guicai for something."

Old Mrs. Zhang pointed ahead, "He is there." She shouted loudly, "...Guicai, Yuanzi is looking for you."

Lin Yuan smiled and waved his hand, "I'll walk over."

Lin Zhi ran to the Zhang family's children to play.

Lin Yuan walked towards Zhang Guicai, "Uncle Guicai." He shouted to the other son of Mrs. Zhang, "Uncle Zhang."

Zhang Guisheng, the eldest son of the Zhang family, smiled at Lin Yuan and went back to his home.

Zhang Guicai walked towards Linyuan, "It's the garden that is here."

Lin Yuan nodded and smiled, "Zhi'er said, are you going to the county town tomorrow?"

Zhang Guicai said, "Yes, isn't Huzi's uncle working in the county? He bought a lot of good pens and ink for Huzi, and asked someone to send me a message and asked me to go to his place to pick it up. I'll buy some things for my family. What do you want to buy? Tell me, and I'll bring it back together."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Uncle Guicai, I want to go to the county town with you, will you succeed?"

Zhang Guicai was stunned, "You? Do you want to go?"

Lin Yuan nodded, "Well, I haven't been to the county town yet. Just so happen that my seedlings have been planted. The farm work in the fields is no longer busy. I will go out for a walk in my spare time."

Zhang Guicai thought for a while, nodded and said, "Ximei also said she wanted to go to the county town to have a friend."

Lin Yuan said happily, "That's great, thank you uncle Guicai."

Zhang Guicai smiled and waved his hand, "My fellow villagers, thank you, let's go tomorrow, we will go the second time we call. You have to get early."

It is more than 30 miles away from the county town, and you have to rush back in front of the gate of the city and do things in the middle, so you have to get up early.

Lin Yuan nodded, "Okay, I'll come to find Uncle Guicai tomorrow morning."

After the matter was made, Lin Yuan called Lin Zhi, greeted Mrs. Zhang, and returned to his home.

Lin Zhi ran to see the calf, and Lin Yuan came to the backyard.

Lin Cui was collecting the dried clothes. When she saw her coming back, she turned her head and said, "Dad and mother are in the kitchen."

"Well, I'll go and help my mother cook." Lin Yuan rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the small tung oil lamp placed next to the stove had already lit up, emitting a dim light.

But Madam Lin did not make dinner, but stood by the stove, pursing her lips, looking at some point, and pinching a handful of wild vegetables and silently.

Lin Dazhu sat on a wooden stool beside the stove, smoking a dry tobacco silently, looking down at the ground, wondering what he was thinking.

Something was wrong.

Lin Yuan blinked, walked up and asked, "Dad, mom, what happened?"

"Oh, it's all right, Yuanzi, help me cook." Madam Lin came to her senses, put the wild vegetables in her hand back into the basket beside her, and held the basket into Lin Yuan's hand, "Take it outside and choose clean."

Lin Yuan held the basket and did not leave.

She glanced at Lin Dazhu and then looked at Madam Lin, "Mom, are you hiding something from your daughter? My daughter is so old, I can share some of it with my daughter if I have something to do."

Madam Lin frowned and looked at Lin Dazhu, "His father..."

Lin Dazhu took the tobacco pole away from his mouth and sighed, "Just now, Uncle Qin came to the door."

"Uncle Qin? What are you doing?" Lin Yuan blinked and asked in confusion.

"Our family owes him money, and we are here to ask for debts." Lin Dazhu said.

"How much money do you owe him?" Lin Yuan asked, "Have you returned it to him?"

That day, under her questioning, Lin Dazhu and his wife said that their family owed seventy or eighty taels of silver, plus hundreds of kilograms of rice.

They didn't say how many people they owe.

Lin Dazhu shook his head.

"I owe his family seven taels." said Mrs. Lin, "There is no money to pay back now. Your father said a lot of good things before he persuaded him to leave." He sighed, "This is the same as the seven taels of silver you borrowed from him when your grandfather was buried. The second house didn't pay the money. Our family didn't have much money. It's been more than three years since the seven taels of silver..."

Lin Yuan was stunned. What happened? The same father paid for the big house during the burial period, but the second house did not pay for it?

But everything happened, and Lin Yuan was useless to be angry.

She has to deal with what is in front of her.

"Dad, mom, don't we have more than five taels of silver for selling wolves? Let's pay him some first? If you don't pay back the 7 taels of silver for three years, his family will be anxious." Lin Yuan said hurriedly when he thought of the money for selling wolves.

Mrs. Lin smiled bitterly, "Yuanzi, Mr. Niu has been here before Uncle Qin came. Our family always borrowed his ox cart. He is a neighbor again. Your father is embarrassed to drag it back and return the five taels of silver to Uncle Niu's house."

Lin Yuan had no choice but to ask for debt together?”

"They live close to us. I know that our family sold wolves and you bought cows again, so of course I will come to ask for debts. Besides, this debt has been owed for more than a year or two, and it is reasonable for people to ask for it." Mrs. Lin sighed.

Lin Cui, who had put away her clothes, walked into the kitchen, "Sister, the treasure tree you are talking about is the cypress tree in the front yard? Such trees can be seen everywhere. What are the good treasures? When the firewood has not dried yet and the beams are not straight enough, what can I do?"

When talking about cypress trees, Lin Yuan immediately said, "Don't move my tree, I'm of great use." She smiled and said to Lin Dazhu and his wife, "The day before yesterday, I sold wolves. When I walked to Jinzhu Village, I saw someone carving objects with wood, including Taishang Laojun, lion, and birthday boy... He said that he could sell several taels of silver in the county town. I dragged the cypress trees to my home and learned to carve and earn some money to supplement the family's income."

Lin Cui opened her eyes wide in surprise, "Sister, can you carve it?"

Lin Yuan glanced at her, "Can I not learn?"

Lin Dazhu and his wife only thought that Lin Yuan’s children had sex, and did not take it seriously. They just said, “Whether you learn or learn, you don’t have to worry about too much skills.”

"Uncle Guicai went to the county town early tomorrow morning. I want to go to the county town with him to check the trading situation." I was afraid that Lin Dazhu and his wife would be worried that it would be safe for a little girl to go out, so they said, "His niece Ximei is also going."

Ximei is the daughter of the eldest son of the Zhang family, one year younger than her.

I heard that someone was a companion, but Lin Dazhu and his wife did not object, "Go and come back early, and listen to your uncle who is noble and wealthy, don't run around."

"I know." Lin Yuan replied.

The family had no money again, and Lin Yuan's dinner was in a dull state.

Lin Zhi and Lin Cui became more and more obedient and sensible. Seeing that their parents and elder sister were not talking much, they took a shower and went to sleep after dinner.

Lin Dazhu and his wife were busy for a day, and were tired and sleepy, so they went to bed early.

Lin Yuan washed the dishes, cleaned the house, went to the front yard to look at the cow before going back to sleep.

Lying on the bed, Lin Yuan opened her eyes and looked at the roof in the night to think about her worries. Tomorrow she must take advantage of the opportunity to enter the city to take a good look at the market.

The Lin family has few land and labor. When will it take only those two acres of land to pay off the debt?

And these three tilted wooden houses can survive the rainy season in the summer?

There is also the dowry of her and Lin Cui, and we have to prepare. In the future, there is also the money for Lin Zhi to study and marry a wife...

Thinking about it, Lin Yuan gradually fell asleep.

The next day, when the rooster crowed for the first time, Lin Yuan got up. She moved very lightly and did not disturb Lin Cui who was sleeping in the bed.

Lin Yuan put on his clothes in the dark and entered the kitchen.

After cooking wild vegetable porridge and eating a bowl of it, Lin Yuan picked up two wild vegetable cakes and put them in a cowhide bag of cold boiled water, put them in his backpack, and then touched the copper coin in the house. Just as he was about to go out, Mrs. Lin came.

"Yuanzi."

Lin Yuan turned around, "Mom, why did you get up so early?"

"I'm not at ease with you." Mrs. Lin stuffed a heavy purse into Lin Yuan's hand. "There is thirty cents here. If you buy food from Ximei, you can buy it too. Don't treat yourself too."

The Zhang family's conditions are better than Lin Dazhu's family. Is Mrs. Lin afraid that she will be jealous of Ximei?

"Mom, I've brought twenty folks."

"Bring more self-defense."

Lin Yuan didn't know what to say, so he had to accept it.

The same goes for accepting and not buying things, and bringing them back.

Aunt Lin went into the kitchen and found a small lantern to light it.

"It's hard to walk on the road when it's dark, I'll send you there."

"Mom, you were busy all day yesterday, so let's sleep a little longer. I won't be afraid of going alone."

"You girl, aren't you afraid of me, you're the first time you're going far away." Madam Lin said she would send her away.

Lin Yuan smiled, and she had to let her.
To be continued...