Dragging the family to flee famine?Don't be afraid, I have room to fill the granary

Chapter 180 180: Acknowledging the ancestors and returning to the clan

After all the oil lamps were lit, Tao Qiqi was asked to kneel in front of the spiritual tablets of all the ancestors.

At this time, Gu Bei opened a box placed in front of all the ancestors' spiritual tablets, revealing the family tree inside the box.

Gu Bei took out the family tree, opened it, and was about to write Tao Qiqi's name, but Gu Bei stopped again, then looked at Qiqi and asked: "Qiqi, your last name is naturally a retrospective one. But do you need to change the name?"

Tao Qiqi thought for a while and replied: "No, Qiqi is a pretty good name, and Qi, Qi, is a homophone, which happens to be my father's and mother's surnames. Gu Qiqi is also good."

"Okay." Gu Bei agreed and added Gu Qiqi's name to the family tree.

From this moment on, her surname Tao Qiqi has become a thing of the past. Her surname is now Gu, and her name is Gu Qiqi.

She is now a Gu family member, and her father is still the great general of Dayong.

Although she is no longer a general, she, Gu Qiqi, is still very proud of having such a father.

very nice.

In the end, Gu Qiqi offered incense to all his deceased ancestors, and it was only then that he recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan.

After the ancestral hall was opened, the genealogy was uploaded, and the ancestors were identified and returned to the clan, Gu Qiqi could finally have breakfast.

At the dinner table, Mrs. Qi looked at Gu Qiqi and asked, "Qiqi, in the past, at the end of every year, two pigs would be slaughtered in the village and distributed to the farmers for the New Year. Now that the village is owned by you, you can see if you want to make the same arrangements as in previous years. .”

Upon hearing this, Gu Qiqi thought for a while and asked, "Are the fields in this village rented to the farmers here?"

Mrs. Qi nodded: "Except for the man-made lake at the foot of the mountain and the fields beside the lake, which we arrange for people to farm ourselves, the rest are rented to farmers for planting."

Gu Qiqi: "Then how is the rent calculated?"

Mrs. Qi: "Thirty percent of the harvest belongs to us, and the rest goes to the farmer."

"Then they still have [-]% after tax." Gu Qiqi nodded. In fact, [-]% is really good.

You must know that there are some unscrupulous landowners who work very hard for a year to get the villagers in place, and in the end they can only get [-]%, and [-]% is considered very good.

If a family has a large population, they can rent about ten acres of land for farming.

One mu of land yields [-] to [-] catties of grain.

Only 120 to [-] kilograms can be divided into [-]% of an acre of land.

Ten mu of land is one thousand to one thousand two hundred catties.

Even if farmers live frugally and eat two meals when the farming is busy and one meal when the farming is not busy, two handfuls of rice can cook a big pot of porridge for one meal.

If you add some wild vegetables, a handful of rice can make a meal.

One pound of rice can last three to five days.

Eat one or two hundred catties throughout the year, and use the savings to sell money.

According to the price of raw grain, when the market is good, it costs 2-3 cents per catty. At this time, it can only be sold for two or three taels of silver.

If the market is not good, when the grain merchants suppress the price too hard, the whole family can only earn one or two taels of silver for a penny and a catty of gross grain.

This is still a family, and only those who rent ten acres of land can have this income.

Gu Qiqi's Zhuangzi accounted for [-]%, which is doubled. Then her grandparents are really super conscientious landlords.

However, there are pros and cons to renting land for farming.

Profit means that you can rent as much as you want based on your family's ability, and you don't need to spend a lot of money to buy land.

For some very poor people, this is the best choice. No capital is required, and if you have the strength to move, you will not starve to death.

The disadvantage is that you have to work in the fields all year round, and you can only survive after a year of exhaustion.

But even in such an ancient time, there were too many people who couldn't even afford a tael of silver.

So they can only become the villagers in the manor.

At least this way, we can still have land to grow and food to eat, so we won't become a beggar.

Gu Qiqi thought for a while and said: "Since this is a welfare all the time, it is naturally indispensable."

Nanny Jian on the side said: "Actually, it's justified not to pay. Our rent collection is considered very low. It's also our old lady who is kind-hearted, and gives them pig slaughter points every year."

Gu Qiqi smiled: "People with a kind heart are rewarded with blessings, so our family reunites again, but it's just two pigs. The farmers in the village live a good life, and we won't suffer. Everyone will plant carefully every year. Even two pigs can earn back the food."

"Look, we Qiqi can still talk." Mrs. Qi looked at Gu Qiqi with a look of relief and said.

Gu Qiqi: "In that case, I'll make arrangements after breakfast."

"Oh, by the way, Nanny Jian, go and take out some of those wild duck eggs. Later, Qiqi will take them down and give them to our families." Mrs. Qi suddenly said.

When Gu Qiqi heard it, he was pleasantly surprised: "There are wild duck eggs?"

Sister Jian replied: "The artificial lake under our mountain was flooded a few years ago, and a group of wild ducks came from nowhere, and your grandmother even asked people in the manor to build nests for them under the trees.

It turns out that these wild ducks can lay eggs in a day or two after they grow up. During this period of time, the weather is cold, so they don’t lay so often. But just like this, the family has saved a lot of wild duck eggs.

Your grandmother couldn't get used to eating wild duck eggs, so every time she saved up, she would give a share to our own households from time to time.Although the wild duck eggs are not as good as chicken eggs, the farmers are also very happy. "

"How many?" Gu Qiqi asked.

"I'm afraid there are probably a hundred or so. The old lady thought that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, so she saved up all the duck eggs in the past few months." Grandma Jian answered.

When Gu Qiqi heard this, he hurriedly said: "Then don't send duck eggs, send eggs or pork instead. There are also chickens in the manor, right? If there are eggs, then send eggs to them instead, I have other uses for duck eggs."

Aunt Jian: "What eggs are you going to give? It doesn't matter if you don't. Our own farmers are not other farmers. Those are the people bought by the old lady, and some of them came back from Yongdu. "

Gu Qiqi: "The duck eggs will be kept for me in the future, and I will use them to process delicacies."

Salted duck eggs, preserved eggs, Gu Qiqi can finally make a move.

Previously, in order to eat preserved egg and lean meat porridge, Gu Qiqi could not find duck eggs and used eggs instead, but no matter how he handled them, there was still a big difference between eggs and duck eggs.

As for salted duck eggs, it can only be made with duck eggs.

After breakfast, Gu Qiqi left the matter of killing the pig to Butler Jian to arrange. Of course, she had to ask Butler Jian to bring back the good things from the pig.

And she herself began to concoct the secret recipe for making salted duck eggs and preserved eggs.

Fang Yu and Li Xia help to select duck eggs, and the duck eggs must not have broken shells or bad ones.

After selection, the stolen goods on the surface of duck eggs should be cleaned, so that they can be processed.

Gu Qiqi divided the selected duck eggs in half, making half of them into salted duck eggs and the other half into preserved eggs.

After the production is completed, install the jar and seal it, and the rest will be verified by time.

(End of this chapter)