After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 55 Sit back and watch the clouds roll and relax (third update)
The snow has completely melted, the weather is getting warmer day by day, and the water level of the river is rising. Qin Yao doesn't allow her children to play by the river.

The daily morning jogging of Dalang and Erlang resumed again because of the snow melting.

The first thing to do before spring plowing is to take back the wheat planted at the end of last autumn to make room for rice planting.

Regarding this matter, Qin Yao and Liu Ji reached a strange understanding of "I won't say anything if you don't mention it".

It's already halfway through February, and the fields are full of busy farmers. These days, the whole family, men, women and children, are out in Liu's old house.

Even Jinhua, who was just six years old, had to go out together with a small basket on her back. When the adults were busy in the fields, she and her cousin Jinbao would cut wild vegetables on the field ridge and take them home to feed the chickens.

Under the busy theme of Liujia Village, Qin Yao's family, who lived alone at the foot of the north slope, seemed out of place.

Waking up early in the morning, someone else would pick up a hoe and a pole and go to the field to harvest wheat. Their family was the stepmother and her four stepson, running all over the village.

After running, Qin Yao can occasionally be seen carrying the two super-large buckets she ordered from Carpenter Liu to fetch water from the village well.

It took two trips to other people's houses to fill one tank of water, but she filled two tanks in one trip.

Then, as the smoke rises, a strong aroma of food will drift from the hillside full of wild flowers.

When the villagers go home for breakfast, the sound of children reading can be heard from her house.

At noon, the farmers continued to go to the fields, and her house was unbelievably quiet. Occasionally, someone passed by the river and eavesdropped, and they could hear a slight snoring.

In the afternoon, there was another burst of "heheheha" martial arts exercises in the courtyard.

The smoke from the kitchen rose first on the hillside, and before the sun set, the smoke had already floated to the roof.

When the farmers carried their farm tools back home under the moonlight, there was no movement in the small courtyard on the hillside, and the whole family fell asleep.

What day have you been?
Just eat and drink, and just sit and watch the clouds roll and the clouds relax in the sky. This is a day that even gods dare not think about!

Finally, old man Liu couldn't sit still anymore, and all the wheat in the family had been harvested, so he immediately sent his second daughter-in-law, who was just pregnant, to sit idle and not work, to ask about the situation.

"Just ask the third child, can't we survive this day? If the wheat is not harvested and the land is not planted, do we have to wait for the northwest wind?"

Liu Zhong watched his wife take his daughter out, looked at the anxious old man Liu, and added to his anger.

"Father, don't you look at whether the two acres of land are rich in grass or wheat. The third family hasn't taken care of it all winter. I don't think they can collect a few catties of grain."

The fields created from the wasteland were originally low-grade and barren land. They were not carefully managed, let alone expected to be productive.

When Old Man Liu heard this, he stood up and said, "I'm going out."

He didn't say where he was going, and the big guy knew he was looking for the third child.

Land and food are the basis for farmers' survival. They can survive without food. Without land, they have no hope of survival.

Mrs. Qiu led Jinhua and walked slowly. As soon as they reached the river, they were caught up by Old Man Liu and told them to go home. He would do it himself.

Qiu looked at the small courtyard on the other side of the river, smiled helplessly, and led her daughter back.

Qin Yao guessed that old man Liu would come sooner or later.

No, as soon as the old man arrived at the gate, Qin Yao, who was basking in the sun on a bamboo chair in the yard, immediately kicked Liu Ji who was dozing off on the sink.

"Your father is here."

"What?" Liu Ji wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and raised his head in confusion. He still had a suave look, "What kind of father are you? What are you, father?"

As soon as Old Man Liu stepped into the gate, he heard these words, and seeing Liu Ji's sleepy, lazy look, he roared angrily, "Your father, I'm here!"

This time, Liu Ji woke up completely from his doze. He looked in surprise at the old man Liu who walked in aggressively, and asked cautiously while backing away:

"Dad, what are you doing? Have you eaten? Can you rest in the house for a while?"

"Rest?" Old man Liu raised his hand and slapped Liu Ji on the back of the head, "I've harvested all the wheat at home, and you're still dozing off here? The wheat in the field won't be harvested? What's the rule for this year's spring plowing? Do you have any ideas? "

Liu Ji hugged his head and rushed to Qin Yao's side, and said with a cowardly face: "Father, our family is a lady who is in charge of the outside and the inside. I don't understand these things. Why are you beating me? You can ask her!"

Qin Yao stood up uncomfortably, and coughed twice, knowing that he couldn't avoid the coming, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Father."

Reach out and don't hit the smiling person, let alone the other party's daughter-in-law.

Old Man Liu took a deep breath and managed to put on a kind look, but his twitching brows made him look irritable.

"You sit in the room." Qin Yao pointed to the main room.

While the old man Liu entered the room with his back turned and couldn't see, he kicked Liu Ji beside him with his backhand, "Go, bring daddy a bowl of hot water, I don't have any eyesight!"

Liu Ji rolled his eyes to the sky and waved his fist at Qin Yao's back in dissatisfaction. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw four little heads stacked on the windowsill, smiling so hard that his teeth were exposed.

"What are you looking at! Have you finished practicing calligraphy?" Liu Ji shouted sharply.

The four little heads shrank back immediately, and continued to sit at the big desk, using the branch as a pen, and writing on the wooden tray filled with fine sand.

Old man Liu took a rare look at the children's room, "Are you still practicing calligraphy?"

Qin Yao sat down on the stool opposite him, nodded and said: "Didn't Liu Ji go to the county to study for a year and a half, and you can't learn it for nothing. It happens to teach some characters to the four children in the family. The little ones have a good memory, let them learn more."

Old man Liu felt even more curious, "He can still be a teacher?"

Liu Ji came in with hot water, put the water in Old Man Liu's hand, and smiled proudly: "This is not simple, just teach them to read and write, and they will be able to do it with practice."

To put it lightly, only Qin Yao knew that he was so angry with the four children that he almost committed suicide by hanging from the beam.

But after all, it is a family, and there is no need to say these details.

Hearing that Liu Ji was still useful, Old Man Liu's anger calmed down quite a bit, but he never forgot the purpose of coming here. He asked Qin Yao if he had any thoughts on Chungeng.

Qin Yao knew at a glance that the old man had something to say, so he followed him and asked him for advice.

Old man Liu drank half a bowl of hot water, looked up at the stretch of fertile fields in the east of the village, and said shrewdly:
"Let me tell you, don't even think about buying land. Why don't you take advantage of your kindness to Liu Dafu and ask him to rent you twenty acres of fertile land."

He calculated that the output of 4000 acres of fertile land, minus the rent and one-fifteenth of the grain tax, could be grown two seasons a year, leaving more than [-] kilograms of grain in his hands a year.

All counted in silver, there is an income of 25 taels, and after deducting the expenses on some farm tools, 20 taels can be saved no matter what.

A family of two adults and four children can't afford to worry about food and clothing, but they can get by.

Moreover, it is not too tiring for two people to plant [-] mu of land, and Qin Yao has such great strength, I am afraid it is still easy.

After listening to old man Liu's plan, Qin Yao thought to herself, Dad, farming and killing people are completely different things, you really think highly of me.

She couldn't grow two acres of wheat last year, let alone twenty acres?
(End of this chapter)