How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

The food has been good lately. Even the eight nephews who came to Chen Feiyan's house couldn't help but raise their thumbs and couldn't say a word.

time flies. In a blink of an eye, it’s the busy farming season again.

At the end of August, autumn begins in the northwest.

Thinking that the cold winter would come earlier this year, Chen Feiyan urged her family to harvest all the wheat and soybeans.

Especially wheat.

The wheat must be dried quickly while the weather is hot.

Dried wheat will not sprout easily.

Therefore, Chen Yixuan took his five sons, his brother and nephew, and his wife's eight nephews, a total of 14 people, to work in the fields from morning to night.

The harvested wheat is carried home in load after load. Even at night, they didn't get much rest. Sometimes I sleep in the wheat field.

After the wheat is ripe, the wild boars on the mountain often smell the smell and come down to steal food to eat.

There are only a few strong laborers in our own land to watch, and they will use up all the grain in the twenty acres of land in one night.

Everyone in Chenjia Village knows about this. Every family who regards food as their own life will not go home at night. Also set up a simple shed in the ground and watch.

Not only were they afraid of wild boars stealing food, they were also afraid of thieves from the same village stealing food.

Chen Yixuan's family spent five days harvesting all their grain.

It's very hot and dry. In addition, the labor intensity is too high. ... Even though Chen Feiyan gave them salt water to drink and lard dregs porridge to them every day, they still lost a lot of weight.

In order to replenish their health, Chen Feiyan had to cook all the goose eggs saved at home for them to eat.

Seeing that his wife felt sorry for him, Chen Yixuan asked, "You and your sister-in-law weave linen at home every day. How much have you knitted?"

Chen Feiyan said with a smile: "We are still a little slow in weaving. We can only weave ten meters a day. Sitting here every day makes my back hurt. I must think of several ways to improve the efficiency of weaving in the future." Come up."

Thinking that she had pondered the working principle of a sewing machine before, Chen Feiyan suddenly sighed in her heart, if only she could build a sewing machine by herself!

In this way, you can make a large number of ready-made clothes at home and then sell them in the county.

Chen Yixuan didn't know what she was feeling. Knowing that she also suffered from back pain, he felt distressed and said, "Daughter-in-law, don't be too honest."

"If you feel uncomfortable, just rest for a while."

Feeling that he would never get ahead as a farmer, Chen Yixuan suddenly said: "Daughter-in-law, if our family can save more than twenty taels of silver, I will send our fourth or fifth child to study."

"Farmers' life is still too hard! I don't want my children to be like us, digging in the fields all their lives."

Chen Feiyan said: "Then we have to work harder. Like us now, even eating is a problem..."

Speaking of eating, Chen Feiyan thought of another thing.

"But daddy, we don't have to worry about food this winter."

"Our new harvest this year is more than 2800 kilograms of sorghum!"

"2800? Are you sure there are that many?" Chen Yixuan was shocked when he heard this number.

"Yes! I calculated correctly. If you don't believe it, you can do the math yourself. Our family has planted nearly a hundred acres of wasteland on the river bank. More than half of it is planted with ramie. Nearly twenty acres of the land are planted with sorghum."

“One mu of sorghum field yields about 150 kilograms of sorghum seeds, so wouldn’t nearly twenty acres of land yield 2800 kilograms of sorghum seeds?”

"Then, if you think about it, we will plant wheat and soybeans this year..."

Chen Yixuan rolled his eyes and his heart immediately became excited.

I rented twenty acres of land from landlord Zhang as a tenant. Soybeans are grown in more than half of the lower lands. Seven acres of medium-sized land leased were used to grow wheat. This year is considered to be a smooth one, with no illness or disaster.

According to his conservative estimate, the twenty acres of rented land and the two acres of his own fertile land can produce a total of about 2600 kilograms of grain.

If you pay half of it, you can get at least 1200 kilograms.

Adding sorghum...that's 4000 kilograms of grain.

The family now supports eleven people and consumes about 20 kilograms of food every day. It can last about 200 days.

Thinking of this, Chen Yixuan became happy.

"Daughter-in-law, if the government doesn't mess things up, we will indeed have a good year this winter."

Chen Feiyan smiled and nodded: "Isn't it?"

As she spoke, she held up the needle and thread to sew.

She has been sewing this men's down jacket that is wider, larger and thicker for more than half a month.

To be honest, people in ancient times lived a really miserable life. The clothes are all sewn by hand. She pricked her hand bit by bit with a needle and thread. She didn't know how much blood was drawn from the prick on her hand.

Thinking of this, she just finished sewing the last stitch of this down jacket.

Feeling that this was a piece of clothing she had made for the first time in her previous life and this life, Chen Feiyan suddenly stood up, hugged the heavy down jacket, and stuffed it on him.

"I finally made this dress for you. You try it on first and see how it fits. If it doesn't fit, I will change it for you today."

Hearing this, Chen Yixuan also stood up.

When he picked up the clothes and put them on his body, he immediately realized that these clothes were indeed very valuable.

It was bulging inside, like a big bag containing something.

Moreover, this dress is very thick, as if it has three layers inside and three layers outside. The weight of the clothes is almost five kilograms.

"Daughter-in-law, are these clothes too thick? As a grown man, I don't need to wear such thick clothes. I just need to stuff more straw inside my winter clothes. Why are you so particular? They are made of cotton and goose down. And this linen cloth is layered one after another, I think there are almost six or seven layers, right?"

While Chen Feiyan was arranging his clothes and collar, she replied with a smile: "This clothes is more than six or seven layers?"

"I was originally worried that the goose down, goose feathers, and duck feathers inside the cotton liner would fly out, so I added four layers of linen inside and outside."

"Look at the cuffs, the elbows, and your shoulders. I sewed two extra layers of linen."

After saying this, Chen Feiyan suddenly showed a regretful expression. "It's a pity that this linen is still too thin. Even though I have made the warp and weft threads dense, it still doesn't meet my requirements for making a down jacket."

Chen Feiyan really put a lot of thought into this dress.

Chen Yixuan felt extremely hot within a few seconds of wearing it. There were layers of sweat on my body.

"Daughter-in-law, this dress is too warm. It's too thick. I'm worried that I'll sweat even if I wear it in winter."

As he spoke, he took off his linen down jacket.

When Chen Feiyan heard this, she smiled: "How can these clothes keep you warm? Those wealthy families wear all kinds of fur coats in winter. Deerskin, sheepskin, rat skin, fox skin. There are even bearskin coats. .”

Speaking of fur coats, Chen Feiyan suddenly thought of her own pigs.

"My father, you said that our family will kill pigs in the future, save the pig skins, and think about making pigskin shoes and pigskin clothes. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Chen Yixuan said frankly: "Daughter-in-law, this leatherworker is not something ordinary people can do..."