Villager of Daming

Chapter 5 When and Where is Slack Farming

Time flies and it's time to harvest rice, and the whole village goes into battle.

Pieces of rice were laid down, twisted with straw, twisted into a rope, tied into bundles, and stood on the ground.

Everyone helps each other, and the benefit of having village guards is unity.

Three days later, all the rice has been harvested and must be placed in the field and guarded by someone.

At this time Zhu Wentian got a pole, hung two bundles on one end, and went to the grain drying field.

"Hanhan, don't pick it away, put it in the ground first, let it dry in the sun, wait for the water to dry out before moving it." Li Chang ran to Zhu Wentian to stop him.

"No, picking, planting, planting, hehehe." Zhu Wentian was in a hurry!

"I won't plant it anymore. I will plant it again next year. It was like this last year. You forgot?" the head of the village was even more anxious.

"Plant, plant rapeseed, hurry up, hurry up. Hmmm!" Zhu Wentian walked around the head of the village and quickened his pace.

"Grow rapeseed? Lichang, can you grow it?" The villagers looked curiously.

"Shouldn't the other fields be planted, and they will be harvested next year. There are still rice stubbles in this rice field."

The head of the village is entangled, to plant, or not to plant.

"The head of the village, the village guard said to plant seeds, so let's try it. I found that Hanhan seems to have become smarter, and the perilla seed oil is very fragrant."

Another villager thought it was right to listen to what the villagers said, Hanhan had never harmed anyone.

The head of the village looked at the rice field and gritted his teeth: "Planting, this year is tiring, next year I will harvest a large piece of rapeseed, and life will be easier."

"Fight hard, plant, Hanhan lets grow rapeseed, everyone picks rice and goes to the sun-drying field." Others shouted.

The villagers cheer up and work, isn't it just a lot of hard work!
"Buy seeds, buy rapeseed seeds, not enough seeds." The head of the village yelled.

The rapeseed planted by everyone in the village has been seeded, and the oil is squeezed out, leaving only the seeds for next year's planting.

It is obviously not enough for such a large rice field at present.

The next day, everyone finally picked all the rice to dry in the grain drying field, and everyone was too tired to walk.

Zhu Wentian was equally tired, but he was in good physical condition, and even if the villagers didn't have enough to eat, they wouldn't make him hungry.

The villagers went back to eat, and Zhu Wentian followed alone.

"Hanhan, you go to my house for dinner? My food is not as good as that of the Li Chang's." The other party asked him with a smile.

"Hey hey hey..." Zhu Wentian just smirked.

The two went to each other's house in this way. There were a lot of bamboo in the yard of the other's house, and there were tools for breaking bamboo beside it. He was a bamboo craftsman.

A family of five has a table made of bamboo, and everyone sits around.

The rice is last year's rice. After working hard, I eat dry rice, pickled vegetables and a few pieces of salted fish. The fish were caught by the children!

Zhu Wentian added two extra pieces of fish meat to his bowl, and he didn't refuse, so he ate a bowl of rice with the meat. The other party wanted to add more rice for him, so he shook his head vigorously, turned around and ran outside, and gestured with the divided bamboo sticks .

After a while, the bamboo craftsman came out: "Hanhan, do you want to weave bamboo?"

"Hey! Temple, sleep, the teacher on the stage, taught."

Zhu Wentian finally found a way to explain why he knew things, which was taught by the mountain god in his dream.

"Hey! The mountain god gave you a dream? What did you dream about?" the man believed.

Zhu Wentian picked up a piece of bamboo to draw pictures and sketches on the ground, and he drew crab pots.

There is a big belly at the bottom, a neck in the middle, and an opening on the top. There are bamboo strips running from the outside to the inside at the opening.

This thing is good for catching crabs. When the crabs climb in, the bamboo strips are smooth, but when they come out, they are stubble.

"Huh? It really is from the Mountain God Sect." This person believed even more. The village guard is a fool, and he wants to teach fools to draw pictures, but ordinary people can't.

Zhu Wentian continued to smirk: "Hey hey hey! Make up, put the stinky fish in, crab."

"Okay, I'll make it up." The man nodded seriously, took the tools and started making things up according to the diagram.

Zhu Wentian followed by and also picked up things to learn. Now that the rice is harvested, it is time to eat crabs.

There is a river nearby, and it is difficult for the villagers to catch crabs. It is useless to eat a bite if you catch them, and there is no oil and water.

Only rich people are willing to taste it and sell it to them.

After catching crabs, go to the county town, sell them and buy meat to eat. It takes many days of work.

The bamboo craftsman made three of them, and Zhu Wentian made half of them, with a small cut made with his finger.

"I'll find two more people." After the bamboo strip craftsman became proficient, he decided to call the people in the village who could weave bamboo strips, and we all weaved together.

Two days later, people who were tired from harvesting, picking and drying rice recovered a little bit.

Four hundred crab baskets were placed next to the grain drying ground, and the villagers put the offal of the fish caught by the children into them, spread them out, and put them by the river.

The head of the village is preparing things, and tomorrow morning he will take people to Xuancheng, the seat of the Ningguo Mansion, in the village's mule cart, where there are many rich people.

Zhu Wentian wanted to follow. He needed to go to the city to see the prices and the things for sale. He remembered a lot of information, so he might as well see it with his own eyes.

The main purpose is to find opportunities to make money. People in the village cannot sit idle after planting rapeseed. He thinks that is a waste of labor.

The next day, before dawn, villagers picked up lanterns to fetch crab pots.

I don't know where some of them went, but the others are still there.

Some crab baskets are empty, and some have only one, depending on luck.

The crabs were taken out one by one, and the villagers tied them with straw ropes according to the method learned by the villagers in their dreams to prevent the claws from falling off.

A total of [-] crabs were loaded into the car, and the villagers did not eat them by themselves. The crab pots were still there, and they continued to put them in the river.

If this batch sells well, the car will be delivered to the city after returning, and it will be enjoyable to eat in exchange for meat.

It was dawn and ready to go. The little girl who had never been to Xuancheng cried and wanted to go together. In the end, her brother Hanhan worked, and she succeeded.

From Xiaqiu Village to Xuancheng, there is nearly a hundred miles of road, but fortunately it belongs to the plain area.

Two mules pull the cart, and they will arrive around noon.

The little girl was happy and chattered non-stop, while Zhu Wentian poured some water on the crabs after a while, since the crabs were worthless after they died.

The elder son of the village head was driving the car. The head of the village squinted his eyes to rest, and occasionally opened them to look at the village guards with a smile.

The villagers did not raise them in vain. They always dreamed that the mountain gods taught them how to grow rapeseed in the rice fields to have a good harvest.

Waiting for the harvest in the coming year, but earning money in vain!With so many rapeseed, good days are coming!

Thinking about it, he asked, "Hanhan, next year you can make money from rapeseed, what do you want to buy? I'll buy it for you."

"Ma, hehehe, grow hemp." Zhu Wentian seized the opportunity and said quickly.

"You don't need to buy hemp seeds, they are available in the village." Li Chang smiled and waved his hands.

"Plant together with rapeseed." Zhu Wentian gestured with his hands alternately: "Rapeseed, hemp, rapeseed, hemp, hehe!"

"Plant together? One row of rapeseed and one row of hemp? Can they be put together?"

The village chief understood, but was even more surprised, such a good thing?If it can be planted, what kind of land is left to grow hemp alone!

"Temple, temple, in the dream, renting cattle, soil, uh, soil up and down. Hmm!" Zhu Wentian felt uncomfortable.

"Build a ditch? Rent other people's cattle to plow the land? Oh~~~ That's it! It's true that you have to spend money to rent cattle, and people can't do it."

The head of the village realized it, and remembered that the ridge must be plowed. It was the land where the rice fields had been harvested, and there were rice stubbles. How could people be so busy?

His eldest son who was driving the car suddenly said: "Father, according to this method, after the higher-ups find out, will we become a heavily rented land?"

What his son pointed out was the heavily rented land that received a lot of land taxes. The local people harvested twice a year, and the payment was more, more than doubled.

Continuous farming in my own village, intercropping, after letting people know, can I let it go?
The head of the village closed his eyes and thought, and when he opened them again, he shook his head: "At least we have made money first. The rice fields are planted continuously, and the livestock are not enough. If we plant them all, who will rent them?"

"Yes, hehehe!" Zhu Wentian actually wanted to say more, so he could analyze it carefully for the chief.

(End of this chapter)