The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 1321 [1320] The story of the buried female farming 48 (5000)

Next is the season to eat wild vegetables, Chinese toon, elm money, syringa, sophora japonica, broom shoots, gray vegetables, amaranth, etc. You simply can't finish it.

Good news came one after another.

First, the house in Tangjia Village was tidied up, and the godmother and sister-in-law set up a stand outside the county seat selling soy products and cold dishes. hope!

Besides, after Wei Ying left home, he would send her a letter every time he passed by, which introduced the people, customs and conditions of each place in detail. Fortunately, he can't write classical Chinese, otherwise she would have trouble brain.

Xiaomang would bring these letters back for her when she went to the city to visit her mother.

The most important thing is that they were really lucky and found a Zhuangzi with a hill tens of meters high. They planted fruit forests, and there were about 1000 mu of land under the hill, including dry land, paddy fields, and With fertile land, the asking price for the bare land reached 3000 taels, plus the mountain, the total asking price was [-] taels of silver, which can be transferred after the summer harvest.

Baihe also went to look. There are wells and waterwheels in the paddy fields in Zhuangzi, and there is a well in the fertile fields. Although there is nothing in the dry land, it is also a good flat land.

The farm has pig pens, sheep pens and poultry houses, as well as adobe houses where servants and long-term workers live, and blue brick houses where the master comes to live on vacation.

The owner of the family said that if the son hadn't made a fortune in Fucheng, they would still be reluctant to part with this Zhuangzi. 3000 taels is the lowest price, a buy it now, and they refuse to bargain.

Bai He went to the Escort, and asked the people in the Escort to check on Zhuangzi, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, they transferred Zhuangzi to Xiangzi before Lixia.

Why Xiangzi? Because she is a woman, unmarried women cannot register a household, so Xiangzi's name has to be used.

Before Wei Ying left, she told her that if she had something to ask for help, she could go to Escort Lu of the Escort Bureau. She felt that this Zhuangzi could not be missed, so she went to visit him with fruit.

Unexpectedly, the head of escort Lu was quite forthright, and he found out for her in three days. She didn't dare to say that she wanted to buy Zhuangzi, but only said that she was asking for a friend.

So as not to be hated by others.

Zhuangzi registered before the beginning of summer, but Zhuangzi could not receive it until after the summer harvest. All the profits of Zhuangzi during this period belonged to the original owner. This Zhuangzi must be in a state of no one.

During the summer harvest, even the godmother and sister-in-law rushed home to participate in labor, while Xiaomang and godfather were already sweating profusely in the fields.

In previous years, she and Liu'er would give them meals, and this year was no exception, as usual, they gave them cold noodle jelly and other heat-relieving foods.

They planted rapeseed in the wasteland, which was harvested before the summer harvest, and then soybeans were planted, and some soybean paste was made later.

The harvest in the wasteland is not good, mainly because the location is not very good, lack of sunlight maintenance, and the pests and diseases are serious. In ancient times, there were no pesticides, and they all depended on the sky. If there were too many bugs, Liu'er would catch them and come back to feed them. Chicken, I am a little tired, but the effect is immediate.

After all the grains are returned to the warehouse, the next season's rice will have to be tossed.

Soon, Xiangzi came back and said that the Zhuangzi had already cleaned up, and he could take the poultry at home to the Zhuangzi, which also meant that the scope of poultry breeding could also be expanded, but this is not the most important thing, the important thing is to contact the long-term worker Come to plant the next season's grain for their Zhuangzi.

"I've already closed the noodle stall, sister, we've built such a big village, a hundred acres of land, I'm now a proper landlord, and I'm not allowed to set up a stall anymore, so I just I can close the noodle stall, and then I will dedicate myself to this farm."

"Your reaction is quick. I was just about to tell you about it, but I didn't expect you to arrange it. If that's the case, then stop setting up a stall and toss your Zhuangzi wholeheartedly. Next, my arrangement Yes, [-] acres of paddy fields are planted with rice, [-] acres of fertile land, [-] acres of medicinal materials, [-] acres of vegetables, and [-] acres of dry land are planted with wheat, soybeans, sorghum, millet and other miscellaneous grains. How can I find long-term laborers for farming? "

"It's easy to find. You don't have to look for them yourself. When the time comes, they will take the initiative to deliver them to your door. However, our family is too small, and I can't do it alone. Even if Uncle Wei helps me, I think it will be too much, sister. Otherwise, you can go to help me? That Zhuangzi is also close to Tangjia Village, and Xiaomang and Liuer also go there. There are many people and strength, and you have to buy some people. The long-term and short-term workers will go home after work. At that time, the normal order of Zhuangzi will have to be changed."

Just thinking about it, Bai He felt dizzy, "The Zhuangzi we bought is too big, so why don't we take care of the fruit trees on the mountain?"

Xiangzi also found that it was beyond his ability. He felt that when he entered this Zhuangzi, there seemed to be problems everywhere. When he opened his eyes, he had to think about how much work he had today and how many mouths to eat. One meal for one family, one hundred acres of land, and less than thirty people can't be transferred.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and Xiangzi should be worried. Unless she becomes familiar with this procedure in the future and Zhuangzi's rules are established, it will not be too late for her to be lazy and live in the mountains. Now, it may not be so easy to sleep until she wakes up naturally.

So the two donkey carts made four trips back and forth, and finally transported all the family's poultry, livestock, pots and pans to the Zhuangzi, including some things from the Wei family, in Uncle Wei's words.

"The daily necessities are all put away, so it's better to bring them over and use them. Anyway, I won't be able to go back for a while. It's fine to keep a set for temporary use at home."

Things like bedding, clothes, and jars of sauce, everything that could fit on a donkey cart, were all packed, but if they couldn't fit, she secretly moved to the space.

The village couldn't bear to see her moving. Once she left, they would get sick again, so they wouldn't have to spend money?

Bai He could only comfort them: "I come back every now and then. Look, our house is still here. How could it be possible that we won't come back if we don't come back?"

But when they asked her where she was going to move to, she just said: "It's not like our relatives have built a village, let us go there to help, and take care of food and housing. I will go to help for a while, as long as I have free time, Come right back,"

After all, she didn't tell them exactly where she lived, not because she was afraid of them going to the autumn wind, nor because she was afraid of seeing a doctor for them, but because she hadn't stabilized yet, and she didn't want to add unnecessary trouble out of thin air.

"Our little house doesn't look big, but we didn't expect it to be able to hold things. We didn't finish it four times, and the rest is enough for us to go home occasionally."

When they came to their new home, Xinzhuangzi, adults and children were very happy. Uncle Wei only said that the money she earned from selling medicines, except Xiangzi, no one knew that it was money from robbery.

Xiangzi and Uncle Wei went to Fucheng, and brought back five middle-aged women who cook, five middle-aged men, and ten teenagers, ranging in age from ten to thirty, a total of twenty people, all used to For those who work, those who have been farming in the village for a long time, he also selects hard-working people who have experience in farming, planting trees, feeding livestock and poultry.

After the manpower was bought back, Xiangzi sent experienced middle-aged men to start to greet those long-term workers who were farming. The literate ones were responsible for recording the working hours. salary.

Five hours is ten hours. Considering that it is not easy to support a family, Baihe gave them three copper coins, and then gave each of them four big corn buns and a portion of pickles, which is equivalent to almost five copper coins per person per day. Why is it so? In other words, because their family has unlimited meals, they can eat whatever they want until they are full.

It can be said that the long-term workers are full from the meal at noon, and the four wotou a portion of pickles in the evening can be taken home and shared with the children. This kind of humanized arrangement is definitely the first in ten miles and eight villages. The long-term workers are all grateful , Bai He also felt that it helped them and maximized her own interests, so why not do it?

It’s just that I need to change a lot of change every day, which is quite troublesome, so after a few days of implementation, I adopted the method of bookkeeping, monthly settlement, of course, anyone who needs it urgently can borrow it at any time, and just deduct it at the end of the month. For those who live, with ten hours of work every day, facing the loess and back to the sky, Bai He feels that giving them a hundred and ten copper coins a month is also what they deserve.

As for the people who bought them, the women are around five taels of silver, the young men are ten taels of silver, and the middle-aged are eight taels of silver. Since they are bought, they exist like slaves. In order to motivate them to work, Baihe will give them a bonus system. According to each person's performance, rewards ranging from ten copper coins to thirty copper coins will be given every month. After all, they also have to live.

Bai He felt that he just opened a company, and there were temporary workers and permanent workers under his banner. These two types of jobs needed to be restrained in different ways.

Weicheng and Xiangzi were busy working in the field every day, while Liu'er and the women in front were in charge of cooking.

Bai He originally wanted to find a herb farmer to plant herbal medicines, but later found that time did not allow her to grow too many kinds of herbal medicines, so she simply let her plant all the vegetables, melons and fruits, so that she would not have to do things in the field Worrying too much, I lead San'er to patrol the field every day, watching these workers plant the land and vegetables.

The purpose of raising livestock in Zhuangzi is to accumulate manure. Otherwise, where does the manure come from?How much can you buy from outside to be a leader?

As a result, the scale of poultry and livestock on this side of the farm also suddenly expanded. Twenty pigs and twenty calves were caught in the pigsty. The calves were raised to prepare for the plowing, and eight donkeys were also bought. , got enough ten horses, and went to the horse market by the way, bought five horses, paid a little money to establish the identity of the eight horses in the space, so she used the thirteen horses three times to transfer to the village. .

Chickens, ducks, geese, quails and rabbits are also arranged, with more than fifty of each kind.

With such a large scale, even Xiangzi felt that their family did not have enough food, so he had to go out to pull a cart back from time to time.

After all, not only people, but also these animals. Chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits are easy to say. This season, there are grasses everywhere. Put them directly on the back mountain. No one digs wild vegetables on the mountain. Grass seeds and insects are their food, which can save They have done a lot of things, and they are not worried about being stolen. Not to mention that the whole mountain belongs to their family, and the back mountain is a cliff, and no one can climb it.

If it continues to develop on this scale, the chicken lays eggs and lays eggs, and it will soon be able to earn back its capital by selling chickens and eggs.

In order for these chickens, ducks and geese to lay eggs in a fixed place, so that they would not have to go all over the mountains to find eggs, they tried to circle a fixed place for them to move around. To prevent them from flying over, nets were woven in the sky and fruit trees were built, and sheds were built to prevent them from goingnorrhea before they could be transferred to the shed down the mountain when the weather was bad.

In the first year, the family's livestock were not big enough to help with the work, so they had to rent cattle to plow the land. The trouble is that it is a bit troublesome, but the workload of these long-term workers has been reduced, and the efficiency has also been improved.

Most of the women who come to grow vegetables are women from nearby villages. They are hired as short-term laborers. Regardless of food, each person pays two copper coins per day, but it is eight hours of work, and the work is not physical labor. Even so, there are still some people who come to sign up, and their rules are simple, don't eat and drink people who make up their numbers, and if they find a long-term worker who has no money, their family will also be kicked out.

The short-term workers recruited by the long-term workers are either their own sisters or relatives of their daughter-in-law. When it comes to joint and several responsibilities, who would dare to make up for it and be lazy?

After all, it's not easy to find a stable job these days, and this shop still manages food delivery, but after passing this village, there is no such shop.

So everyone cherishes this hard-won opportunity, but it doesn't mean that some people don't take chances. After Xiangzi decisively fired the five people, they realized that it was for real and never dared to do it again.

Liu'er fiddled with the abacus to settle accounts, seeing the money flowing out like running water, she felt very distressed.

Bai He also persuaded her: "Because it's the busy season of farming, the cost of seeds, labor, fertilizers, renting cattle, fodder and food for animals, vegetables for people's rations, and the clothes and bedding bought for these people all year round. It’s all a waste of money? But when the autumn harvest comes, you will feel that the money spent is worth the money.”

"Actually, you don't have to wait until autumn. Look at these vegetables, those poultry, and the fruit trees on the mountain. Aren't they all net income? There are males and females in livestock, and they can be bred and sold in the horse market in the future. You can't just look at them Ah, you can’t see the more profitable ones in the later stage.”

The layout of the blue brick and tile house where the master lives is the same as that of Tangjia Village, with three main rooms and two east and west wing rooms. There is a lotus pond in the backyard, and there is even a small bridge pavilion over the lotus pond. It is very beautiful and suitable for living, but in summer, the sound of frogs keeps coming and going, not to mention the noisy mosquitoes!

The backyard is a lotus pond, and there are so many mosquitoes that it is unimaginable. After fumigation with wormwood, it can be cured for one night, and it has to be smoked again the next day. Poor Saner, who is carrying a big bag every day.

But the little guy is very happy to have fun here. There are many people, many animals, and the taste is very original. He follows Xiangzi every day to join in the fun without getting tired. He is curious about everything he sees. It is rare, that is, running around every day, the flesh on the human body does not disappear, but becomes stronger.

They also bought a ram specially, and after having the ram, one of the ewes became pregnant at an astonishing speed.

As soon as Xiangzi bought the native dogs for guarding the house, he bought six of them, because the site is so big that even with high walls, it still needs to patrol all day long.

In just one month, Xiangzi lost ten catties, which made Bai He's heart ache, and tried every means to replenish his body.

Of course, in this Zhuangzi, the food for their family is cooked alone in the small courtyard, either by Liu'er or by Baihe.

She never let the people in the village take care of her family. At most, she would let them take care of Saner when she was too busy. She would not let them wash and cook for the family. That group of people will do.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Baihe and the women sat together and made a lot of zongzi. Each person could get at least four zongzi as a gift.

The pattern of the rice dumplings is considered from both the north and the south, two sweet rice dumplings, two meat rice dumplings.

The zongzi leaves are the reed leaves that they specially picked at the nearby river. The sweet zongzi puts red dates and peanuts, and the meat zongzi puts marinated meat and rice soaked in marinade, which is very fragrant. But she is not used to it, because she is from the north, so it is only white rice dumplings and sweet rice dumplings. The white rice dumplings just don’t put anything in them, and they are eaten with some sugar, and they feel very beautiful.

This can be regarded as their first festival in Zhuangzi. Although the four zongzi don’t sound like much, each one is as big as a fist, and they are made of pure glutinous rice. Not to mention the taste, the ingredients inside are also very good. I didn't say it was bad.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, I worked hard for more than half a month, and all the short-term workers went home. Even if the long-term workers came to work, they didn't have to be busy from morning to night, and it took about half a day to get it done.

After the seedlings stabilized, they went to buy about [-] crucian carp and carp and put them in the rice fields.

At that time, including the purchase of Zhuangzi and the preparatory work, they had already spent almost 4000 taels of silver.

No wonder Liu'er felt so distressed.

The accounts in Zhuangzi were established by her, using the double-entry bookkeeping method of later generations, with debit on the left, credit on the right, and balance on the back.

This bookkeeping method is clear and clear, and she also has cash and bank journals, current accounts, and general ledgers. She also designed them according to the management methods of the farm.

In ancient times, there was no bank, she was the bank, and Liu Er borrowed money from her. She took the cash account, and she kept a bank account, which clearly recorded the amount of each transfer.

Although they haven't made any income yet, but they have spare money, they don't panic at all. As long as Xiangzi is free, he will make some pastries and send them to the city to sell. On the contrary, Uncle Wei wandered around the village all day long, looking at this and touching that from time to time. As long as there was anything that needed to be repaired, he would put in materials to do carpentry work, especially those sheds for livestock and poultry, which he relied on time to fill. The fine work that comes out.

(End of this chapter)