Portable Space: Small Peasant Girls Farm to Get Rich

Chapter 55
After the meal, Liu Qingcao placed their family in a newly built tile house with nothing but a bed.

The three of them were ill and couldn't do much work. Liu Qingcao had to move the laborious things into the house by herself, and let them do the rest of the work of making the bed and cleaning.

After the house was cleaned up, Chen Cuizhi began to sit on the head of the bed and sew the quilt cover, with a quiet and serene smile on his face. Pan Yong sat in the yard, holding a piece of wood, making a drying rack. Pan Ping'an nestled in Chen Cuizhi's arms, sleeping Sweet and satisfying.

It will take another half a month to dig the canals in the ground. Near the river, Liu Qingcao has already transplanted the seedlings to the ground, and the survival rate is almost 100%.

Liu Qingcao was walking on the ground, with a smile on her lips, the sun shone on her face, which was getting rid of her tenderness day by day, making her skin delicate, rosy and shiny.

"Qingcao, are you here?"

Jiang Dafu raised his head, wiped the sweat off his face, and looked at Liu Qingcao with a smile, and Liu Qingcao also smiled, looking like him.

It's dark again?
With such a big sun, it’s normal to get dark all day long, at least you don’t have to worry about not being able to pay taxes.

"Brother Jiang, let everyone rest when you are tired, and don't get tired."

"If you have a rest, you can take a quarter of an hour's rest every hour, which is easier than working at home."

Jiang Dafu patted the dirt on his hands, picked up the water bowl and took a long gulp.

Jiang Dafu was right, they worked here, close to their homes, not to mention the high wages, it was easier than working for their own family.

A few days ago, he heard from other villages that it costs fourteen or five yuan a day to move goods at the wharf. Except for eating and sleeping, he never rests for a moment. There is mung bean soup here every day. Other villages are very envious. The trustee asked him several times if he still needs people here.

He said at the time that there were enough people, no nonsense, life in his own village was more difficult than that of the surrounding villages, and he was not stupid to let the villagers earn more than a dozen pennies a day, but to let people from other villages earn.

There are more people here, the work is done quickly, and I don't know when it will be available when it is finished. If my village can eat, there is no need to distribute it to other villages.

"That's fine, Brother Jiang, you guys are busy first, I'll go over there and have a look."

Liu Qingcao raised her feet and walked on the ridge of the field, heading for the land at the foot of the mountain.

Rows of fruit tree saplings appeared neatly before her eyes. It is not known how many of these saplings will survive, but as long as some saplings die later, she will immediately fill them up again.

The open space among the saplings was still vacant, waiting for her plans.

"I hope that next month, the profits of the two stores will come down and I can use them. Otherwise, the completion of this land will have to be delayed for a while."

For a thatched house on five acres of land, the area of ​​each house is about [-] square meters, and a total of [-] rooms will be built. According to the division, some intermediate connections will have doors.

The construction of the hut, washing room, and warehouse is more troublesome. The work here is a big project, and everything costs money. She hopes that the construction here can best catch up with the speed of the vegetables and fruits in the field. .

Liu Qingcao walked around in the field, then went back to the yard and started to get busy.

After dinner, the old man Niu left and Liu Qingcao called Pan Yong and the others.

"Brother Pan, can you still get used to it here?" Liu Qingcao saw that he was doing woodwork all afternoon, and the speed was very fast and the work was very delicate. No wonder he was called by the county people to do the work.

"Girl, I'm used to it. Living here, eating, and using things are much better than before. It's our good fortune to be able to follow you."

Pan Yong was sincerely grateful, and also fortunate to have met Liu Qingcao. When he had nowhere to go and sold himself, he could already think that his life in the future would not be as good as before.

During that time, the family feared that the seller would be a tormentor, but also longed to meet a kind family.

Unexpectedly, they would meet a master like Liu Qingcao, not only would they not torture them, but would even see a doctor and buy medicine for him.

"Get used to it, Brother Pan, can you tell me why you sold yourself to the dentist? Although you are sick and can't do heavy work, but apart from being weaker, Sister Chen can actually find a job, and you can too." Even if you don’t earn much a day by doing some simple woodwork, if you save on food, you can still live, and you won’t get to this point.”

Liu Qingcao opened up her words, hoping that they could tell the truth, and if there were other factors that were unfavorable to her, she could make arrangements in advance to avoid trouble.

Hearing this, Pan Yong straightened his body instantly, while Chen Cuizhi knelt directly on the ground, and Liu Qingcao stepped aside with a frown.

"Sister Chen, get up and say, don't just kneel down at every turn in the future, I don't like this kind of thing here."

Chen Cuizhi lowered her head, still unwilling to get up, Liu Qingcao had no choice but to step forward and pull her up.

"Stand up and talk about it, I just want to understand, there is no other meaning."

"Girl, I didn't mean to hide it from you." Pan Yong looked at his daughter-in-law who was wiping away tears, but didn't speak, and opened his mouth first.

Liu Qingcao nodded and signaled him to continue talking. Pan Yong sighed and watched Liu Qingcao speak slowly.

"Girl, Cuizhi and I are both the sons and daughters of rich families in the county, and the parents of the sons and daughters are not favored by the father and the mistress.

Cuizhi and I have known each other since we were young, and we have known each other. When we reached the age of seeing each other, my family casually told me about a relationship, and the mistress took a fancy to that girl’s family. Marriage, offended the mistress, was broken off by my father, and kicked out.

Cuizhi was also kicked out..." At the end of Pan Yong's speech, he lowered his head, not daring to look up at her.

Liu Qingcao was speechless, thinking that her father and mother were going too far, so she refused a marriage and kicked them out, which was too shameful.

"Girl, after we were kicked out, we became husband and wife. At first we didn't have any money, but I was able to work, so I found some jobs. Cuizhi also helped others with laundry. Gradually, we could afford it." Let's go, we had a child later, Cuizhi was in charge of the chores at home, I earned it alone, and I could save a few taels a month, and my life was peaceful and beautiful.

But one day, Cuizhi's father suddenly found her and asked her to go back. He wanted to marry her to that cruel old man as a concubine, paving the way for his son! "

"..." What a devil plot!Liu Qingcao couldn't understand her father's brain circuit. Her daughter was married and had children, and he still wanted to marry someone to be a concubine, which is really weird.

"We disagreed and said that we would report to the government. His father didn't dare to rob me, so he asked someone to pretend to ask me to do some work to pay me off. As a result, I was robbed by bandits on the road. I was seriously injured and was sent back by the government. His father blocked people at the door, and the government shouted them away.

I was injured so badly that I spent all my savings over the years taking medicine. There was no other way, Cuizhi went to help others with laundry to earn money, but his father just didn’t let us go and came to make trouble. If you are disturbed, don't want her anymore, without income, life will become more and more difficult..."

"So you sold yourself?" Liu Qingcao looked at the two of them, feeling a little helpless in her heart.

"At first, we didn't think about it. We thought about coming here and staying away from the original place, so that his father would stop making troubles. However, even if we escaped here, his father was still relentless, and even bullied us even worse. We compromised and fled all the way here, those days, I didn’t have a full meal, and I couldn’t bear the trouble, and I didn’t have any money, so I had to come up with this method.”

"..., you never thought about it, if her father finds out that you are in the dental shop, buys your family back, and then sends you to serve as slaves and concubines, you will not even have a chance to resist."

"I didn't think about it that much at the time. By the time I thought about it, it was too late. We came quietly, so they probably didn't know."

Pan Yong was helpless. At that time, they only thought that if they sold themselves, they would not cling to them. Even if they were slaves in this life, it would be better than being sent back and losing their lives.

"It's nothing, since I bought you, you are my people, you can't be taken away casually, work hard in the future, I will pay you wages according to your performance, and when you have money, send Ping An to the academy. "

Such a young child can't do the work, and she doesn't want to use it if she is capable. At a good age, she should learn more knowledge and broaden her horizons so that she can have a greater role in the future, instead of turning her back on the loess. Upside down, wasting a lot of good time.

"Thank you girl, thank you girl, we must do well."

Chen Cuizhi hurriedly knelt down to kowtow to Liu Qingcao, Liu Qingcao sighed and walked towards her.

"Sister Chen, no matter how good you said, you didn't do it well. Let me say it for the last time. Don't kneel in the future. I'm not very old. Don't you hurt me like this?"

Chen Cuizhi got up busy, wiped away her tears, nodded and smiled.

"Understood, girl, our family will remember your kindness and work hard."

"That's right, go to rest, it's getting late."

"Yes, girl."

At night, Liu Qingcao fell asleep. In the room of Chen Cuizhi and his wife, the two were talking softly, probably tired. After a while, both of them fell asleep with satisfied smiles on their faces.

In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, there were still a few scattered stars hanging in the light blue sky.

Liu Qingcao stretched, pushed open the door and came out, and saw Chen Cuizhi already busy in the kitchen.

"Sister Chen, didn't I tell you to rest for a few days, why are you getting up to cook?" Liu Qingcao looked at her reproachfully.

"Girl, there is no reason why the master works and the slave rests. I am fine. I had enough food yesterday and am strong."

Chen Cuizhi didn't live well at home before, she was called around and used as a servant, so naturally she wouldn't be hypocritical and didn't even know the rules of being a servant.

"Then you sit and light the fire, and I'll cook. You watch it, and when you learn it later, you do it."

"Got it, girl."

Liu Qingcao lifted the lid of the pot, looked at the rice that had just been put in, added another ladle of water, washed a bowl of rice and poured it in.

"We have a lot of people, so we cook more, and we can work hard when we are full."

Chen Cuizhi froze for a moment, then nodded hurriedly.

It's not easy to eat too greasy in the morning. Liu Qingcao made a stir-fried sauerkraut, a yam fungus, and an egg and cabbage soup. The portions are quite large, enough for the six of them to eat.

Yesterday, Pan Yong made a set of smaller tables and chairs and a drying rack in the afternoon, saying that he would eat them separately from the owner's house. This is the rule. Liu Qingcao thought about it and did not object.

It wasn't because she also felt that dignity was important, but because she was afraid that the three of them would take too much care of their meal, and Luo Shiyuan and Old Niu would finish the meal before they were full.

Liu Qingcao served the food for the three of them, and asked Chen Cuizhi to bring it out, while she brought the larger food to the big table.

The two tables were placed in the thatched shed in the yard, and it seemed that they were more popular than usual. Chen Cuizhi ate quietly and quietly, while theirs could be described as wind and clouds.

Not long after, Luo Shiyuan was full, propped his elbows on the table, and patted his belly indistinctly.

"It's great. I'm in the best mood when I eat every day."

"Young Master Shiyuan, it's better to eat less, or you will be so fat that day that you will not be able to marry a wife." Liu Qingcao teased him a bit.

Luo Shiyuan didn't care, if you can't find it, you can't find it, just eat what you have.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I'm really afraid that my face will be slapped in the future."

"Cut." Luo Shiyuan snorted, sat next to Liu Qingcao, and whispered:

"If I can't marry a daughter-in-law in the future, it will be you who cursed the crow's mouth. If I can't find it, I can reluctantly accept marrying you..."

"Snapped!"

"What's the matter, Uncle Niu?" Luo Shiyuan shrank his neck and spoke weakly.

Liu Qingcao was startled by the sound of the old man Niu putting down the bowl and chopsticks suddenly, she reacted and patted her heart.

"Uncle Niu, do you have hand cramps?"

"..."

"Delivery." After speaking, he left the courtyard with a dark face.

Luo Shiyuan stood up from his chair and timidly followed.

"Uncle Niu slipped his hands while eating, slipped his hands." Liu Qingcao turned around, looked at the fearful faces of the three people beside her, and quickly explained.

After the meal, Chen Cuizhi washed the dishes and came out, and stood awkwardly in front of Liu Qingcao. Liu Qingcao knew that she was frightened by the old man Niu's actions.

"It's okay. It has nothing to do with you. You are my people. Don't worry about them. In the past few days, you have made a few sets of clothes at home, and you have to make an extra set of quilt covers. You will have to change them after you wash them."

Chen Cuizhi nodded, and most of the panic in her heart disappeared because of Liu Qingcao's few words.

Seeing Pan Ping'an obediently sitting on the stool, Liu Qingcao thought for a while, and finally opened her mouth slowly.

"Sister Chen, you know some characters. If you have time, teach Ping An to write a few characters. Here, use a stick to draw on the sand. My brother also wrote like this at the beginning. Let him learn first, and send it to school when the time comes. Can keep up with other people's speed."

Chen Cuizhi looked at the sand table at the door and nodded.

"The girl is kind, I'll go right away."

Chen Cuizhi took his son to the sand table, squatted down, and wrote a word in it, and asked Pan Pingan to read it, and wrote it down. For the first time, he wrote crookedly, missing pens and strokes, and Chen Cuizhi didn't panic. Hold his hand, teach stroke by stroke, wait until after writing a few words, he can roughly draw a shape, and then Chen Cuizhi went to busy with her own affairs.

Pan Yong looked at his small back, squatting on the ground, with a loving smile on his black and yellow thin face.

Liu Qingcao also thought it was cute looking at it, thinking that Liu Jiangbei was also as small as him at that time, sitting there alone, paddling the sand in the sand table, not crying or making trouble, obedient and sensible.

He still doesn't know that there is a little brother in the family. If he finds out when he comes back, he should be very happy.

I don't know how Liu Jiangbei is doing in the academy, whether he is homesick, whether he is studying hard and obedient.

"We'll have a week's agricultural holiday in half a month, and then Jiangbei will be able to stay at home for a few more days." Thinking of this, Liu Qingcao happily carried a basket on her back and went to the back mountain to pick Guanyin leaves.

(End of this chapter)