Rebirth of the Poor Girl

Luo Yaoguang and the others stayed at Tian's house for two days, saw that Tian Huairen had come back, and gradually became a member of the council, and saw Tian Minyan say that they were really not needed by the land reclamation people, so they left.

When they came, Mrs. Gao and the others caught two chickens, brought a bucket of fish and two baskets of wild goods, and when they returned, Tian Minyan specially made a few trays of cakes for them to take home. Uncle and the others sent them away.

After seeing off the uncle, Tian Minyan and Luo Shi tidied up the inside and outside of the old house, locked the east wing and the north room of the main house, the main house, and the two rooms where the sundries were kept. After tidying up, one is used as a guest room, and the other is used as a living room for entertaining guests and discussing matters.

All the housework was handed over to Luo Shi. Tian Minrui and Xiao Wu still helped with some farm work or housework when they were not going to school in the town. Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen were closely preparing the regulations for land reclamation, and everything was in order. In progress.

On this day, Tian Minyan rang the gong under the banyan tree at the head of the village, and attracted all the villagers from Yangmei Village, including Li Zheng.

"Girl of the Tian family, what's the good thing to do to beat the gong?" When the crowd was getting more and more, some folks asked.

Tian Minyan was small, so he stood on the stone bench under the banyan tree, looked at the black heads, and said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, as all the villagers know, my family bought the wasteland in the back mountain. If you want to bloom it, you can plant a crop in autumn."

"Yan girl, your land is poorly purchased, and you can't grow crops." An elderly man said loudly.

"That's not right, the money is in vain."

"It's a pity."

"It would be nice to buy a few acres of paddy fields."

Tian Minyan only smiled, and stood calmly on the stone bench, the voices of people discussing gradually fell down until there was no sound.

"Everyone doesn't care whether I can grow it or not. I invite you to come here because I want to ask the big guy to help reclaim the wasteland. The adults pay [-] yuan a day. If you have livestock and farm tools, it is [-] yuan a day. The wages are settled every five days. Women and children who can’t do heavy work, who help pick up some branches and grass roots, will also give six dollars. If the big guys are idle, we don’t think our wages are low. .”

"Twelve coins, is it real or not?"

"It only costs about ten dollars to carry it at the dock. It's tiring and hard work."

"Children have six dollars. Isn't it just a trick?"

As soon as Tian Minyan's words fell, the voices of discussion in the crowd rang out again, and the doubts were even louder than before.

"Girl from the Tian family, you are just joking, are you really paying this much money?" Someone asked suspiciously.

"Li Zhengdu is still standing here, how can I say it's fake?" Tian Minyan smiled and said: "If you guys think you can do it, you can come to my place and sign up, and if you sign up, tell me if there are any animals and farm tools. "

Nowadays, people’s farming tools are iron hoes, short gangs, plowshares, and harvesting sickles. Farming tools are very poor. The kind of rake used by Zhu Bajie in Tian Minyan’s Journey to the West is also common in modern times. It is the best for plowing wasteland. It is necessary to draw a picture and ask Uncle Zhu to type it out.

Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle, and Tian Minyan paid a high salary, and soon people signed up, one after another, and soon formed a long queue.

There are a lot of people who sign up, but Tian Minyan doesn't want everyone. Those who choose are young and strong laborers. They don't want elderly people, and don't want anyone who is sneaky, raped, and slippery. However, more than twenty people were selected, and among them there were ten families with livestock, and Tian Minyan registered them one by one.

One hundred acres of wasteland, two or thirty people are enough, and Tian Minyan came here for a meeting in the afternoon when he proposed to sign up again, to talk about the preparations for land reclamation.

The crowd dispersed one after another, Tian Minyan put away the list of applicants, and prepared to go home to perfect the regulations for land reclamation.

"Yan girl."

Someone stopped her, and when she looked back, it was the sister-in-law of their Tian family, the He family who let her discover the mulberry fruit.

"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Tian Minyan asked with a smile.

"Yan girl, are there enough people to sign up? Do you want more people?" He asked with a smile, looking at her expression cautiously.

Tian Min raised her eyebrows and asked, "Didn't sister-in-law sign up?" She also remembered that Mrs. He also signed up. Anyway, if she was idle, she would get six dollars for picking up tree roots, so there was nothing wrong with it. .

"No, it's not me." He waved his hand, and said a little embarrassedly: "It's my natal brother. He has a lot of children in his family. My sister-in-law recently gave birth to a baby. There are many mouths waiting for dinner. My brother is naturally dull. Na, no one wants him when he goes out to look for work in the town. Yan girl, can I let him come to your house to open up wasteland? His children are all grown up, and they can also pick up tree roots. The eldest son is 17 years old Yes, they are also good at farm work. Don't worry, they have been doing farm work for many years, they are strong, and they are not cunning."

It turned out that this was the case, Tian Minyan looked through the list, and now there are 28 strong laborers recruited. She originally planned to recruit [-] people, and the more people, the more people, the land will be opened as soon as possible to fertilize as soon as possible.

So he said: "Sister-in-law, it's not impossible to add relatives, but if there are too many, you can let your natal uncle and his eldest son come. As for picking tree roots, there are also many people in our village who sign up, so naturally they will come first." Keep close to the people in the village, and it’s enough.”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'll let someone go to his house to report the news, and ask him to come over in the afternoon. My mother's house is in the next door to Bazi Village, and I will come here very quickly." When He heard that he could accept it, he was immediately happy. He narrowed his eyes with a smile, and hurriedly left after saying goodbye.

After Tian Minyan got home, he immediately began to draw a few pictures. They were all in the style of the rake, some were long, some were about half a meter wide and long, and there was a hole in the middle where a wooden stick could be inserted as a handle.

When he came to Uncle Zhu's house, he didn't go to the town to open a shop today, so he was doing some work at home, and Aunt Zhu and Zhu Yanyin were also helping.

"Sister Yan, are you here?" Zhu Yanyin saw her enter the yard with sharp eyes, and said happily, "They are all recruited? But leave two names for me and my mother." They can also do the job of picking roots, I had heard that Tian Minyan was going to recruit people, so I asked for it to leave my name.

"Well, I'm recruiting." Tian Minyan said with a smile: "All of them are kept."

"If it weren't for the many jobs in the shop in the town, I would also earn your twelve dollars." Uncle Zhu said with a chuckle.

"Uncle Zhu is doing big things, how can he do such rough things as land reclamation." Tian Minyan teased with a smile: "Besides, I can't afford to hire someone as capable as Uncle Zhu."

"Look, you girl really knows how to bury people." Uncle Zhu smiled heartily.

Tian Minyan followed with a smile, stepped forward and said: "I mean it. Uncle Zhu, I have an item I want to ask you to type out today, and I am in a hurry to open up wasteland. Can you type it for me first?" "As she spoke, she handed over the blueprint.

Uncle Zhu took a look and asked strangely, "What is this thing? I haven't seen it before."

The long sharp teeth, like a sharp claw, have long and wide shapes.

"This is called a rake. It's the best way to open up wasteland and dig grass roots and tree roots to turn over the soil. Uncle Zhu, these teeth have to be sharp for me, otherwise they won't be able to dig out." Tian Minyan pointed to the blueprint and said.

As Uncle Zhu listened, his mind became active, he hesitated for a while and said: "Yan girl, how many of these rakes do you want to hit?"

Tian Minyan pursed her lips, thinking that their family would have more and more fields in the future, even if they were tenanted out, they would still have to cultivate at home. These farm tools are not disposable, and they can be used for many years if used well. Don't be afraid to hit a few, so he said: "Uncle, give me ten for the short ones, and five for the long and wide ones. If it is not enough in the future, it will be the same if I ask you to fight again."

"Sure, I'll go back and mark you. But, girl, I have an idea to ask you for favors, but I don't know how to do it."

"You say."

"Looking at the freshness of this thing, I know that you are a quick-witted girl based on the labor-saving stone mill you gave me earlier. Since this is a farm tool, I want to make more and put it in the store Limai, look..." Uncle Zhu looked at her.

Tian Minyan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said: "Uncle still has such a brain, no wonder life is getting better these days. Uncle can beat this farm tool anytime he wants, but he has to give me what I want first."

When Uncle Zhu heard this, he immediately smiled happily: "That's natural, I only count your iron money, labor and so on, don't need it."

Tian Minyan resolutely refused, the two pushed and pushed, and finally settled on 150 yuan for each short rake, and 250 yuan for the row rake.

At the appointed time in the afternoon, Tian Minyan took the list to the head of the banyan tree, there were already some older people sitting there, some signed up, and some came to listen to the excitement, among them, Xie Gouzi was also inside.

Tian Minyan didn't talk nonsense, just spread out the charter that he had listed, and talked about his plan to a group of people who were older than him.

The piece of wasteland she bought was full of bushes with many thatch roots and very rotten wild vegetables. There was even a large piece of dandelion. The dandelion seeds were the most rotten, and they could take root wherever they fell.

"Lansheng" is a local dialect of Yangmei Village, which means that things are too easy to grow and have great fecundity.

Dandelion is easy to deal with, and it’s okay to overturn the roots with a fire. The most difficult thing is those thatch roots, which go deep into the ground. They are also rotten, and their vitality is extremely strong.

Thatch root is the kind of grass root with small white stalks. It can be eaten raw. It is sweet and cold in nature. It is used to boil the grass root bamboo cane water. It can clear away heat and reduce fire, and can be used as medicine.

In the plot she read in the book in her previous life, the person surnamed Qi only bought land and never appeared. Busy work, and the fire, and the plow, and the land was opened within a few days.

What Tian Minyan meant was that she also used fire to plow, then plowed deeply, plowed the land, and finally fertilized the soil, which was her business. Of course, it had to be irrigated.

Those tall and strong men and old men were just listening lazily at first, and they were very disapproving of the rules and plans of such a girl film, but after listening to her words, they had a good appearance and were very neat. Well, there are some things that they didn't even think of, but it was her father who stood there like a decoration.

"I am also a monk halfway through farming. If you have anything to add, you can also mention it." After finishing speaking, Tian Minyan looked at the black heads with a smile and asked.

"Then what kind of rake is it? We don't understand this." Someone asked nonchalantly.

Tian Minyan pursed her lips and said with a smile: "It's just a farm tool that can plow the mud evenly. Everyone will see it tomorrow. Is there anyone to add to that fire plowing."

"Second girl, what kind of fire farming is a bit mysterious. There is a mountain behind that sloping land. There are many trees and bushes. If you are not careful, there will be a wildfire."

Just when everyone was looking at each other, Xie Gouzi suddenly spoke.

Everyone in the village knew why Xie Gouzi came to open up wasteland for Tian Minyan, and someone in the crowd couldn't help laughing and said, "Rascal Xie, you don't know how to plow the land, what do you know?"

Because Xie Gouzi's family is orphaned and widowed, and they came from other places, they don't have any land. Only his mother makes money by weaving. Seeing their pity, Lizheng gave their family [-]% of the land to grow vegetables. That's all.

"I can't, but my father can." Xie Gouzi blushed.

"Your father died a long time ago, how can you still ask him to come out of the underworld to plow the land?"

"He left a letter, I've read it." Xie Gouzi snorted: "Someone used this kind of fire to cultivate, and it caused a wildfire, and it was necessary to dig that kind of fire ditch.

This Xie Gouzi also went to school, but he can only read a few words. He failed to pass the exam and became a rascal who eats, drinks and has fun.

"Uncle Laiwang, don't talk about him. He is right. When plowing with fire, you are most afraid of causing wildfires, so you have to dig deep. The most important thing is that when plowing with fire, you must check in advance No one or animals are inside, especially children." Tian Minyan glanced at Xie Gouzi, and said, "Xie Gouzi, you have to shut down this fire farming inspection personnel, don't let anyone go in and burn it until it's brewed." become a catastrophe."

"to make."

Seeing someone talking about it, the people present who knew how to farm the land also talked about it, chattering, Tian Minyan was busy sorting out useful information, and the sun had already shifted unknowingly.

What made Tian Minyan satisfied was that among the invited crowd, several were good farmers. Among them, the eldest brother of her sister-in-law He of the Tian family, although he was a poor man, was also very proficient in farming. It's clear and logical, but it doesn't look so dull.

And his eldest son is also somewhat shrewd. Although he is not very old, he is somewhat calm because his family is poor.

As for Xie Gouzi, Tian Minyan suddenly felt a little grateful that the rascal came to the house that night and stole it. He is a rascal by nature, and he is not afraid of anyone. He can still sarcastically go back to anyone who speaks badly. , saving Tian Minyan a lot of trouble.

It wasn't until the sun had completely set that Tian Minyan finalized the initial schedule. According to the fact that Uncle Zhu would be able to produce the rake tools tomorrow, he decided to officially open up the wasteland the day after tomorrow.