Chapter 87 The Prime Minister’s Mother 27

Mingyue had only seen words describing the miserable conditions of corvee labor in history books, with corpses floating thousands of miles away, rivers of hidden blood, and countless dead souls crowding the hell.

Although Mingyue has never seen such a scene, Mingyue can still imagine the scene of corpses and bones everywhere. It is impossible for Mingyue to gamble with the lives of the original owner's brother and father for a few taels of silver.

Mingyue returned to her yard first. She originally wanted to have a meal, but as soon as she wanted to go to the original owner's parents' house, she sat in the main room and ate a small cake, then closed the door and walked to the original owner's parents' house.

There was almost no one on the road. It was lunch time. Even if such a big thing happened, the family would definitely get together for lunch and discuss the matter after lunch.

Mingyue walked to the courtyard gate of the original owner's natal home, and as soon as she walked in, she saw a large family in the main room. The original owner's father, mother, younger brother, sister-in-law and four girls were all eating.

The four girls didn't know what the corvee was about, and although the four adults were eating, their faces were still frowning and worried.

The old Sun family has been in this situation for so many years. The food they grow every year is enough for themselves. Mingyue can guess without thinking that the family's savings will definitely not exceed 500 Wen.

After Mingyue entered the courtyard gate, she bolted the courtyard door.

Several people eating in the main room were absent-mindedly eating, and when they heard the sound of the courtyard door, they looked towards the courtyard door and saw that the bright moon was coming.

When Wang Honglian saw that her daughter was coming, she quickly put down the rice bowl in her hand and called Mingyue to come over for a bite to eat. She was about to go to the kitchen to get a bowl for Mingyue.

Mingyue directly grabbed the original owner's wife and said, "I've finished eating long ago! Let's sit down and talk about the corvee first!"

When Wang Honglian heard her daughter say that she had eaten, she did not insist anymore and directly pulled Mingyue to sit on the stool next to her.

The family began to eat quickly. After finishing the meal, they took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen and sent the four girls to their rooms to study.

Five adults were having a meeting in the main room.

Five people sat at the table in the main room, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

The father and grandson of the original owner, Youhua, had a straight face, and the brows on his face were wrinkled fiercely. His face, which was already full of wrinkles, wrinkled even more. He sighed deeply through his nose, and said in a deep voice with determination:

"I will do the corvee work this time, and Mingyu cannot go. The canal construction must be very heavy. Mingyu is still so young, and it will be bad if he hurts his body. Anyway, I am an old man, so I can't do it."

I don’t have many years left to live, so I can still make my final contribution to this family!”

When the original owner's father said this, the other four people couldn't help but feel their noses sore, and the tears in their eyes spread quickly, filling their entire eye sockets.

Sun Youhua is forty-three years old this year. In an era when the average life span of ancient people was short, it could be considered that he had half a foot in the coffin. But seeing that Sun Youhua is still so motivated in farming every year, he will definitely live to be fifty or sixty years old.

At this time, Sun Mingyu couldn't help but objected excitedly, and slapped the table hard involuntarily. He had never disobeyed his father since he was a child, but this time he would definitely not do it! He was going away this time, and he would never come back.

So he excitedly said: "No! I have to go! I will come back alive if I go. Dad, if you go, you will never come back. It is a lot of hard work to build the canal! I heard the old man in the village say

At least half of the people in the village who lived in the village during the last time the canal was built have not returned. How can we let you go?

I absolutely do not agree with this matter. If others knew about it, I would not be stabbed in the spine for the rest of my life. How could I hold my head high as a human being and how could I be worthy of my ancestors?"

Sun Youhua listened to his son's words. Although he was very submissive in his heart, he still had a serious face on the surface and shouted angrily:

"What are you talking about, you little bastard! If you hurt yourself, you will really feel sorry for your ancestors. Your father and I are dead, and you are still carrying on the family line! If you die, our old Sun family will be extinct!"

Sun Mingyu didn't dare to refute this time, but he still clenched his fists tightly, and his whole face clearly said I disagree! Absolutely not! Absolutely not!

Mingyue looked at the confrontation between father and son, and suddenly interrupted and asked Wang Honglian:

"Mom! How much money do you have at home?"

Wang Honglian wiped her tears with her rough hands, and said in a low voice with dejection:

"There are still six hundred pennies! So many people have eaten for so many years. I wish I could break one pennie into two pennies, but I can't save much money!

Moreover, the harvests in the past few years were not good, and I still owed a lot of foreign debts. If my parents' family hadn't subsidized them, I wouldn't have been able to repay those foreign debts, let alone the 600 Wen deposit!"

Wang Honglian then remembered that Mingyue also had an independent household, and the number of female households could be reduced by half, so she worriedly asked her daughter: "My daughter! Do you have 500 yuan at home? It is impossible for you to build the canal, this money must be given

take it out!"

Mingyue saw that although Wang Honglian was very sad at home, she still worried about herself, and her nose couldn't help but feel sore.

Mingyue tried her best to suppress the tears in her eyes and said, "I have it! I will take out another four hundred coins from home, and I will lend it to you first, and you will pay it back to me later."

Wang Honglian opened her mouth to speak.

Mingyue quickly spoke again: "As long as the person is here! These four hundred cents will always be saved and returned to me. The most important thing is that the person is here. Four hundred cents can't buy a single person in our family!"

Wang Xiaohua listened quietly to the discussion. Although she was very anxious, it was useless to be anxious! Because she didn’t know how to choose. If she chose her father, how could she be worthy of her mother’s love for so many years? If she chose her husband,

, I don’t know what to do either.

When I heard that the second sister was a widow and could still say such things, I took out four hundred coins and finally couldn't help but shed tears in my eyes.

Wang Honglian didn't want her son and the old man to do the corvee work, so she made the decision and agreed: "Okay! My daughter, I will write you an IOU, and I will definitely pay it back to you in the future!"

Seeing that Wang Honglian agreed, the other two men didn't say anything. Are they afraid that they won't be able to earn the four hundred coins as long as they are here? If it doesn't work in one year, it will be two years. If it doesn't work in two years, it will be three years.

At this stage, the matter is almost settled.

Wang Honglian dug out 600 cash from a small floral handkerchief in the room, and Mingyue dug out 400 cash from her purse and handed it to the original owner's mother.

Wang Honglian took it and strung it up with a rope to form a hanging coin.

I am going to hand over this small amount of money to Li Zheng now. Mingyue also goes with Wang Honglian, and it happens that she also has to pay half of the money.

The two women walked to Li Zheng's house and knocked on Li Zheng's courtyard door. Soon someone opened the door, it was Li Zheng's mother-in-law Jin Hua.

When Golden Flower saw that it was Wang Honglian and Mingyue, she quickly opened the door, invited Wang Honglian and Mingyue in, and said enthusiastically: "Why are you two, mother and daughter, here today?"

Huang Jinhua is the mother-in-law of the village chief. Although the village chief's family is not very wealthy, they can still spare a few taels of silver, so they are not prepared to let a son take the risk, so Huang Huanghua will not have this worry.

Wang Honglian said: "Where is the gentleman? We are here to pay the money to be exempted from the corvee."

When Golden Flower heard this, she didn't dare to delay and immediately led Mingyue and Wang Honglian in.
Chapter completed!