CHAPTER 260: CHAPTER 253: LITTLE SECRET_4

Can you lend us a cart of grain?

My fourth uncle’s brewing skills are excellent, trust me, once we sell the wine and earn some money, we’ll definitely pay you back."

Before Sun Chunfang could speak, Yu Xiaolian said, "Aunt Dalin, do you think our family runs an official shop? That we can have as much grain as we want?

Grain now has to be bought on ration tickets and in limited quantities, you know that. We only brought back this cart of grain, didn’t you see?

This is also because we took turns buying over almost two months to save up these, if we give them all to you, what will we eat?

Being able to give you two bags is already the limit. Asking for a cartload, we really can’t help.

We are planning to ration this cart of grain to last us through the winter since grain is strictly regulated now, and even if you have money, there’s nowhere to buy more, right?"

Sun Dalin’s wife was speechless but could not refute, showing a silly smile, "I was being simple-minded, I thought you had connections in Luocheng.

If you can’t buy it, then forget it."

Yu Xiaolian looked at Mrs. Sun, "Mother, I already said grain is hard to buy, yet you’re sending away two bags, look, they think it’s too little, and don’t appreciate our kindness."

Mrs. Sun looked at Sun Dalin’s wife, "Go back and tell my fourth uncle, I can only help him this much, I can’t get more grain. You should take advantage of the relatively cheap grain prices now, and every ten days, have someone line up to buy grain. Anyway, you need to prepare the grain for the winter.

Whether you resent me or don’t appreciate my help, I can’t care anymore, I’m doing my best."

Seeing Sun Chunfang speak like this, Sun Dalin’s wife hurriedly said, "I do appreciate it, how could I not? Everyone is struggling now, I know, I understand.

I’ll have my son come to carry these two bags of grain."

Before Mrs. Sun left, she opened the bag, glanced inside, and saw coarse grain, she smacked her lips silently and left.

It seems that from now on, her family will never eat white rice again. During her time at the Yu Family, she had told her sons to eat more, which was the right thing to do. That fragrant white rice, in the days ahead, they probably won’t get to eat it again.

Though it’s two bags of coarse grain, these bags weigh over two hundred pounds, and if they ration, it can last over two months without problem. If they were to buy these themselves, it would probably cost ten taels of Silver, after all, coarse grain now costs fifty coins per pound.

Tsk tsk, fifty coins per pound, and it’s limited, really not a life anyone wants to live.

After returning home, Sun Dalin’s wife asked Sun Manying and Sun Manbo to go to the Yu Family to carry grain.

Then she glared at Sun Dongxue and Sun Qiuxue, "You two burdens, what are you still standing at home for? We’re almost out of rice to cook, hurry go dig for wild vegetables."

Sun Manbo’s wife guarded the two daughters, daring to speak, "Mother, we just moved here today, we don’t know our way around the village, if the kids get lost, it won’t be good."

"Lost? Get lost? If you throw them over the mountain, they’d roll and crawl back, huh, nuisances.

If they really got lost it’d be better, less mouths to feed!"

The voice of Fourth Grandpa Sun sounded displeased, "What’s all this noise? Don’t you know today is an auspicious day? With you, there’s nothing good, if I hear you picking on them again, I’ll throw you out."

Sun Dalin’s wife said aggrievedly, "Father, I’m just in a bad mood, originally thought that cart of grain from the Yu Family would at least give half to us, we have many people, don’t we?

But we just got two bags, we have so many people here, if we eat to our heart’s content, these two bags wouldn’t last ten days.

Yu State is different from our place, there’s greenery in the fields even in winter, I was thinking of sending two girls to dig some vegetables to mix with the grain, saving a bit where possible."

Fourth Grandpa Sun: "Those greens aren’t wild vegetables, they’re winter wheat grown by the villagers. Try pulling them and see?

Grains are so expensive now, anything edible outside has long been dug up, who would leave them for you to dig?"