After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 52 Big Calabash

On the third day of November, there were dark clouds and heavy snowfall early in the morning.

Snowflakes fluttered down from the sky one after another, soon covering the ground with a layer of white.

Jiang Sanlang, his two elder brothers, his father Jiang Laohan and his two nephews lit a fire in the new tile-roofed house, sitting around the fire and talking.

"Yesterday, the village is notifying the villagers that the imperial court wants to collect grain. Two liters per mu of top-grade land and one liter of low-grade land will be levied. Fortunately, our family's grain is not sold, otherwise... oh. Food, it seems that the price of food this winter is really going to rise."

The old man Jiang sighed: "I don't know how many people will freeze to death and starve to death after all the tossing and going."

Jiang Sanlang nodded, thinking that if his daughter hadn't found golden ears for him to plant, the life of the Jiang family would not be easy, they might not starve to death, but they would definitely not be full.

Looking at my brothers now, not only did they build a big tile-roofed house at the same time, but the family also wore thick cotton clothes and thick-soled cotton shoes on their feet.

There are hundreds of catties of wheat and hundreds of catties of rice piled up in the barn, and there are plenty of miscellaneous grains such as soybeans and red beans, not to mention that there is still a lot of money left in hand.

After living for so many years, Jiang Sanlang has never been so relaxed and comfortable like this winter.

"After the grain requisition, there might be another conscript." Old Jiang glanced at his three sons, "Once the conscription is over, one of our family will be conscripted."

"It's okay, we have money in hand, the big deal is spending money to buy pawns." Jiang Sanlang didn't care.

Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang also nodded, "Don't worry about this."

For the last batch of golden ears, Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang each earned another 20 taels of silver. After deducting the cost of building the house, they still had one or two taels of silver on hand.

It's a pity that the golden ears don't grow in winter, otherwise they could fill the newly built bamboo shed with mulberry trees.

However, winter also has its benefits. At least they can take a good rest and relax when they are free.

If you are busy all year round, you always have to take a break and do something you like, such as hunting.

Fishing is not ready to catch, because Saburo said that there is no bait, no fish can be caught.

But the three of them can go hunting rabbits and pheasants in the snow, and maybe even hunt roe deer and wild boar.

"When the snow stops, we brothers will go hunting pheasants and rabbits."

Jiang Sanlang poked the fire to make it burn more vigorously, "Bring some wheat grains and small yellow rice, and you can catch a few cuckoo birds." That stuff is delicious.

Jiang Dalang laughed as soon as he heard it: "Yes, we can catch cuckoo birds at the door, sprinkle some yellow rice on them, and cover them with baskets."

At present, the three of them are building houses here on Nanshan, and they have bought the surrounding low-grade fields, so it is very empty. As long as they sprinkle rice grains outside the compound, they will not worry about not being able to catch birds.

"Okay, okay." Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan raised their hands in approval when they heard about bird hunting.

They were arranged by their elders to live in a new tile-roofed house and look after the house, and they were very lonely and boring every day.

Once I heard that I can catch birds outside, I am 1 happy.

Hey, if you catch a bird, you can roast it and eat it. If you add some mountain honey, the taste will be amazing.

The Jiang family's old house in Dongchen Village.

Now there are only a few women and children living in the old house. Jiang Liu, his eldest daughter-in-law and their two granddaughters are sitting on the warm kang, cutting and sewing clothes.

Chinese New Year is coming soon, I have to make a new cotton coat for my family, so that I can go out to visit relatives and friends.

"Matchmaker Yang Xicun told me today that her niece from her natal family is 20 years old and wants to be Erlang's second wife."

Jiang Liushi twirled the needle and thread in her hand, and muttered: "But Erlang is unwilling to live or die, alas, that damn boy, you are so mad at me."

Zhou: "It is estimated that the second uncle is not willing to marry a wife early because he is afraid that it will be bad for the two children."

"With us watching from the sidelines, what's wrong?"

Jiang Liushi sighed: "I see him coming and going alone every day, with no one around to take care of him, so I feel bad."

The other family is monogamous, carrying hot and cold together, her second son is good, an old man takes the two children, busy here and there, even the clothes have to be washed by themselves when they come back.

After all, Mrs. Zhou is sister-in-law, so I don't have much to say, so I can only comfort my mother-in-law, "Don't worry, maybe it's the second uncle who hasn't met anyone he likes."

Jiang Liushi thought for a while, then smiled and said: "That's true, Erlang has built a tile house now, and he doesn't lack money, so it's good to see a few more."

This time, she must take good care of it, and she must never find another Leng for Erlang.

Jiang Sanjia, Yuanbao Huzi and Xiaojie Dawu ran around the house to play.

Running from the east room to the west room, and from the west room to the east room, chirping and laughing, never idle for a moment.

Ying Bao sat on the kang writing, glanced at the troublemakers from time to time, and shook her head helplessly.

Sure enough, boys are mischievous and mischievous. If you don't find a strict teacher to teach them all the time, your plan to cultivate prodigy will fail.

Two days later, the snow cleared and the sky was as blue as washing.

Early in the morning, Yingbao picked up seventeen eggs from the chicken shed, six of which had double yolks.

Put the eggs into the straw basket and cover with the lid.

These days, the new hens began to lay eggs one after another. Until this morning, I actually picked up [-] eggs at a time.

This is really overjoyed, and it is not in vain that I have worked so hard to feed it for half a year.

These eggs are actually copper coins, which can not only be exchanged for salt, but also used as money.

A while ago, a shopkeeper came to the village, and she exchanged eggs for toothbrush and tooth powder, as well as two packs of salt and a large jar of soy beans.

The soy beans are delicious, and there are small slices of kohlrabi in it. It is fragrant and crunchy. It is a must-have pickle for winter farmers.

It's a pity that A Niang can't cook, and the ones made by A Nai are not as delicious as the ones sold by the salesman.

After picking up the eggs and feeding the chickens, and filling Yoyo's trough with grass and water, Yingbao hurried back to the house.

It's too cold outside, not suitable for walking deer, so I'd better stay under the blanket.

It just so happened that the two younger brothers were also detained by A Niang from getting off the kang, so he could just lie down for a while.

Last night she was busy in the cave mansion most of the night, cut off thirty mutated golden ears, and hung them in the bamboo plaques of the cave mansion, which were full of two large bamboo plaques.

The rest of the roots are left to let them continue to grow.

She had also watered the white fungus several times with pond water mixed with Wudingzhi before, but now it was also harvested and left to dry on another bamboo plaque.

In addition, the gourds planted before have blossomed and matured, and dozens of gourds, large and small, have grown. The largest one is taller than her on the ground.

Such a giant gourd can shock people's jaws when taken out.

So she no longer grows gourds, and dares not take big gourds outside.

I really thought I was planting that kind of cute and exquisite little gourd, but unexpectedly, the little gourd turned into a giant, and it was no longer cute.

Yingbao counted, among these gourds, there are about ten of the largest ones, which are five feet high.

The next ones are as tall as her, and there are more than ten of them.

And it's about the size of a water scoop at home.

The smallest gourd is also about the size of the old man's palm, only four or five.

However, those big gourds seem useless, but in fact they are valuable. In her previous life, she saw one in a wine store, which was not as big as hers. It was hung in the wine store as a signboard, and a big wine word.

I heard from the shopkeeper of the wine shop that his big gourd was worth 20 taels of silver, but I don't know if it is true or not.

My gourd is much bigger than the one in the wine shop, and it should be worth 20 taels.

It will be great when she can go to the county seat, and then she will sell all these unlucky things, and she must get a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)