Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

An Yue touched An Nian's little nose with her fingertips and said lovingly, "Look, you don't understand now, do you?"

"If you go to school and study hard every year, you will be able to read and count, write poetry and paint. Once you can read and write, you will naturally be well-versed in history and the present."

An Nian nodded, not quite understanding, and said, "Okay, when we earn enough money, we'll go to school."

"Money is not enough, but the best enlightenment only lasts for a few years."

"Then I will go to school next year to learn to read and count. I want to become as good as my sister in the future."

Hearing that An Nian agreed so quickly, An Yue felt relieved.

The three of them came to the wasteland. An Nian put down his backpack and said, "We will dig lots of wild garlic now to earn money to go to school."

An Yue and her grandmother smiled at the same time.

An Nian was like a little adult and started teaching his grandmother how to dig wild garlic with a knife.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren squatted in the wasteland, digging and talking and laughing. Time always passed quickly.

The sun sets in the west, the weather turns cold at the end of the year, and a chill rises with the wind.

Grandmother stood up and said to the siblings, "Niannian, Yueyue, let's go home! Niannian has just been sick, and the weather is getting cold now. It's not suitable for us to stay outside for long."

An Yue nodded to her grandmother, thinking that someone must have come to the yard to deliver fish in exchange for money.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren quickly picked up their backpacks and went home.

An Yue walked into the yard and put down the backpack. There was a man and a woman standing in the yard. The woman was Chen Dazhi's wife, and it seemed that the man must be Chen Dazhi.

An Yue hurried to the eaves to get the firewood and charcoal that had been prepared in advance.

Grandma and Chen Dazhi and his wife asked, "How did you two catch so many fish in just one afternoon?"

Chen Dazhi looked like a simple and honest man. He scratched the back of his head and said a little embarrassedly, "Aunt, this is the fish we caught with our two kids."

An Yue came over with firewood and charcoal and her backpack. Chen Dazhi's wife hurried over and said, "Yueyue, these are the two buckets of fish we caught. Do you think they are okay?"

An Yue walked over and saw that they were all big fish, and they were of very good quality.

An Yue smiled and nodded, then turned around and said, "Uncle, please come over and help uncle lift the scale to weigh the weight, while grandpa will read the number on the scale."

Lift up the wooden barrels one by one, quickly pour the fish and water in the barrels into the backpack, drain the water, hook the backpack with the scale hook of the large scale, pass the shoulder pole through the lifting rope, and two people lift it up to prepare to read the data.

Grandfather read the number on the large scale: "Forty-seven pounds."

But fish cannot be without water for too long, so the two men put down their backpacks and quickly poured the fish into the water tank.

Grandfather said, "Weigh the backpack again."

At this time, Zhang Dacai walked into the yard carrying a wooden barrel. He put the barrel down on his shoulder and said to Chen Dazhi and his wife with a smile, "Wow! You run really fast!"

Chen Dazhi said: "The weather is getting a little cold, and I'm afraid the two kids might catch a cold, so I came back early."

After An Yue recorded the first weighing on the wall, she also wrote the weight of the empty backpack.

An Yue walked in front of Chen Dazhi and his wife and said, "It's 47 kilograms in total. Excluding the 2 kilograms in the backpack, it's exactly 45 kilograms."

The couple smiled and nodded in agreement.

Then An Yue counted out ninety coins and gave them to Chen Dazhi.

"It's ninety coins in total. Count them and see if they are the right number."

Chen Dazhi excitedly took the copper coin from An Yue's hand and handed it to his wife.

His wife counted it, nodded excitedly and said, "That's right, that's right, exactly ninety coins."

Zhang Dacai opened his eyes wide in surprise, walked up to the couple and said, "You earned ninety cents just like that!?"

The couple was so excited that they didn't know what to say. They held the ninety copper coins in their hands and smiled happily.

The two asked An Yue in disbelief: "Can we leave now?"

An Yue smiled and nodded at them.

The couple happily walked towards the door in two steps.

The uncle laughed and shouted to them, "Brother, sister-in-law, take the silver and run. If you don't want the bucket, I'll keep it!"

Chen Dazhi ran back with a silly smile on his face: "Hehe...forgot about this."

Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Grandmother and An Nian sat in the yard and watched the excitement for a while. When she saw Chen Dazhi and his wife walk out of the yard, she took An Nian's hand to go to the kitchen to help.

Then he started to weigh the fish that Zhang Dacai sent, and poured it into the backpack as before.

Grandfather read the number: "Thirty-five pounds." An Yue wrote the number on the wall as usual.

After pouring the fish into the water tank, Zhang Dacai hurriedly put down the basket and walked towards An Yue curiously. An Yue counted out sixty-six copper coins and handed them to Zhang Dacai.

He said, "It's thirty-five catties in total, minus the two catties in the backpack, it's thirty-three catties."

Zhang Dacai looked at the copper coins in An Yue's hand and was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.

"This is sixty-six copper coins. Uncle, count them carefully and see if the number is correct."

Zhang Dacai's eyes sparkled, and he excitedly took the copper coin and said, "Logarithmic, logarithmic, I believe Yueyue."

Jiang Chenghai asked, "Brother Dacai, where did Brother Kaizi go? Why hasn't he come back yet?"

"It's almost Chinese New Year! Li Dazhuang and a few other people went up the mountain to collect mountain products. As a result, one of them broke his leg. I heard that several families even had a big fight over dividing the mountain products."

"Hey... there are so many things going on. Kaizi just took his wife and children to stay at her parents' home for a few days to help mediate the conflicts."

"I see!"

"Uncle, Ah Hai, I'm going home first."

The father and son smiled and nodded at Zhang Dacai.

Later, several more people came into the yard carrying buckets of water, and they were weighed one by one.

The sky seemed to be covered with a wisp of smoke, gradually darkening.

Grandfather said, "Everyone hurry up, it's getting dark."

The weights weighed later were: 20 jin, 30 jin, and 28 jin.

An Yue counted the copper coins one by one and handed them to them. Everyone took the money with incredible expressions on their faces and they were all very excited.

By then it was dark, everyone's fish had been weighed, and all the money had been paid.

Grandma and Wei had also prepared dinner.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were busy for the whole afternoon, then washed their hands and prepared to have dinner.

The food was ready and the family sat down at the table.

An Nian sat on the table early, swinging her legs happily, and said, "Sister, we have meat tonight."

An Yue looked at the table and found that there was indeed meat. Maybe it was because she had just eaten meat a few days ago, so she was not so craving for meat at the moment.

Grandma picked up a piece of meat for An Yue, put it in An Yue's bowl, and said with a smile: "You are so skinny, you need to eat more meat."

Grandfather asked An Yue: "How many kilograms of fish did you catch this afternoon?"