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

Chapter 71 Cotton Harvest
After school this afternoon, Mrs. Wen said that she didn't need to go to school in the afternoon, so Ying Bao took her two younger brothers and A Niang to pick cotton on the southern slope.

The cotton planted on the southern slope has all bloomed and is ready to be harvested.

The Jiang family members and some villagers helped to pick cotton in the cotton field, and the harvest has been almost the same.

When Yingbao and A Niang arrived, the snow-white cotton they had picked was piled up on the bluestone slabs in the yard, three big piles.

"Yo, this is cotton." Chen Cunzheng and the patriarch had nothing to do, and also wandered to the Jiang family's new house on the southern slope. Seeing a yard full of white cotton wool, he couldn't help but grab a handful to check.

"It's really soft." Patriarch Chen couldn't put it down because of this soft cotton, and asked Jiang Sanlang, "Sanlang, can you sell this cotton?"

Jiang Sanlang nodded: "We can sell what we keep for ourselves, but not all of it."

The daughter said that the cotton can be spun and weaved, so he planned to let his family spin some thread first, and try to weave some cotton cloth.

Spinning thread with cotton is much easier than using ramie and kudzu silk.

As long as they are harvested carefully, not stained with broken leaves and grass clippings, and then the cotton seeds are removed, they can be directly put on the spinning wheel, unlike ramie and kudzu vines, which have to be soaked and peeled, and then beaten to spin.

This year, Jiang Sanlang's family didn't grow much ramie, and didn't even pick the kudzu vines in Beishan.

Chen Sanyou asked: "Sanlang, where did you find these seeds?"

"My Bao'er bought it from a peddler, saying it was Fanbang's seeds." Jiang Sanlang didn't hide anything.

The girl did buy a lot of seeds from the peddler, but he didn't know which peddler she bought them from later.

The patriarch looked at Yingbao and said with a smile, "Your Yingbao is indeed very lucky. My husband lived to be 60 years old, and I have never seen a child who is more beautiful than her." This kind of luck is no one else.

He can easily buy cotton seeds from the peddler that he has never seen in his life. Hey, those ugly things in his own house should really be thrown into the cesspit for composting.

Jiang Sanlang smiled, but didn't answer.

It is estimated that more than 2000 catties of seed cotton can be harvested on the four acres of cotton this time. If the cotton seeds are removed, there will be about a thousand catties of lint cotton.

After one thousand catties of lint is dried and softened, it can make two soft new cotton clothes for everyone in the family, and it is more than enough to make more than a dozen bedding.

The items needed for beating cotton were also told by his daughter, who also drew a longbow for playing cotton, saying that she could use it to bounce lint into a soft cotton tire.

It is said that this is what the salesman told his daughter.

"Sanlang, do you sell these cotton seeds?" Chen Sanyou asked, "Can you sell some to my family?"

Jiang Sanlang scratched his head, hesitant.

He's not ready to sell all the cotton seeds yet.

Because my eldest brother and second brother, including my parents, have to plant the dry land on the southern slope, and I will definitely plant more than ten acres next year, so this seed is probably not enough.

Seeing that Jiang Sanlang was in trouble, Chen Sanyou said: "Sanlang, I don't want too much, just enough to plant two mu of land."

Upon hearing this, Patriarch Chen immediately stretched his neck over, "Sanlang, my family needs two acres of land, alas, my old cold legs, I can't stand the cold."

A villager next to him laughed and said, "I said, Uncle Chen, how many years have you had cold legs, and I didn't see your legs get cold when there was no cotton."

Patriarch Chen stared straight at the man, his beard raised in anger: "Little brat, you're the only one who talks too much."

Several people laughed and said: "We also agreed with Jiang Sange to buy cotton seeds. If you want it, you have to line up according to the rules."

Jiang Sanlang helplessly smiled.

These five people came to his house to help, and I have promised to sell them twenty catties of cottonseed each, which is one hundred catties.

Now the head of the patriarch and the village want to buy it, but he has no choice but to sell it. In this way, another forty catties will be removed.

I plan to plant another [-] acres of cotton next year, which means [-] kilograms of seeds per mu.

The eldest brother, the second brother, and parents also need to plant ten acres, which is three hundred catties of seeds.

It is estimated that I still have four to five hundred catties of cotton seeds left.

These seeds are rare items, and if they are sold to people from other villages, he would not want to sell them without a tael of silver.

Of course, it's not easy to tell the patriarch and the others about this.

After picking cotton, the most tiring thing is to pull out the cotton stalks.

Those cotton stalks are like small trees, which must be uprooted before the next step of plowing the fields can be carried out.

Fortunately, Jiang Sanlang is very popular now, and there are many people who come to help.

Just shouting in the village, twenty or thirty young men came, and it only took one day to pull out the cotton stalks in the four acres of cotton fields.

Yingbao took her two younger brothers and stayed with their parents in Nanpo for one night, and was sent back to the village the next day.

As soon as she got home, Erni ran over and told Yingbao the shocking news that it was Chen Zhao's family.

"You don't know, Chen Zhao's eldest sister jumped into the river yesterday." Erni said with interest.

Ying Bao was taken aback.

Chen Wan jumped into the river?
"What happened next?" She asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

How should she feel about Chen Wan, she is a familiar stranger.

In fact, the children of the Han family have no family relationship with each other, nor do they have the kind of sisterhood that ordinary people have. Their way of getting along is indifference.

They will not sympathize with each other, nor will they help each other.

This also includes myself.

Of course, I only have no family or sisterly affection for them, but I feel sorry for the twin brothers to the bottom of my heart.

Thinking that I had suffered so much in the Chen family in my previous life, and sometimes almost died of illness, they wouldn't even take a look.

At that time, Chen Wan was already in her teens, and Chen Zhao was only two years younger than her elder sister.

However, since the Han family gave birth to that son Chen Xu, her two sisters liked him very much, especially in front of the Han family, the two sisters almost flattered the younger brother.

In my previous life, when I first came to Chen's house, I tried to treat them as my own sisters. When my eldest sister was beaten and scolded by Mrs. Han, I would feel sorry for her, stand in front of her and push her to run away.

As a result, he was beaten up by Han Shi, and locked in a chicken coop at night without food.

Ying Bao really thought that the eldest sister would also pamper herself, at least bring her some food.

Because the Chen family is not poor, there are hundreds of acres of land alone, most of which are leased to other people's families, so there is no shortage of food in the family, and sometimes the food is better than that of Jiang's family now.

Even though Chen Wan was often beaten, she would not deprive her of clothes and meals.

In the end, no, Chen Wan didn't even ask her a word the next day, and it was even more impossible to let her out secretly.

"I heard that she was rescued." Erni blinked and said, "It was rescued by a passing fisherman."

"Fisherman?" Could it be the last fisherman Chen Wan married?
Chen Wan later married a fisherman six or seven years older than her, and it is said that she lived well.

"When she was rescued, she had no clothes on, and she was lying naked on the ground, and the fisherman held her water and patted her stomach."

Erni said with joy, "The whole village sees Miss Chen Zhao, so what will you say about her in-law's family in the future?"

Yingbao: "...Sister Erni, you are not yet nine years old, how do you know so much?"

Erni snorted, "Who doesn't understand this?"

The children in the village mature early, and some of them set up their husband's house at the age of eight or nine and start to go to the ceremony.

During the Chinese New Year, when someone from the mother-in-law's family comes to give gifts, they will definitely give the girl a piece of red cloth to make clothes.

So all the girls in the village would come to see the girl's little son-in-law, until the boy's head hung down to his chest.

(End of this chapter)