Rebirth of the Poor Girl

The Tian family is hiring short-term laborers again!

Tian Minyan asked Xie Chengzhong to take the announcement of the recruitment of short-term workers and post it on the bulletin board at the head of the village, and soon it was full of people.

"Ah? I'm just asking for a woman." A man looked at it, made an embarrassing sound, and walked away.

"Xie Gouzi, why are you inviting a woman this time? What can a woman do?" Some men seemed very disappointed, but they didn't walk away, and only asked Xie Chengzhong coolly.

"My name is Xie Chengzhong now." Xie Chengzhong gouged out the man's eyes and said, "It's not that I have to hire a woman, but this time, the work my boss has to do is delicate work. Men are rough and have no patience, so I just Ladies are invited. Of course, girls who have knife skills can also sign up."

"That dog, what is the Tian family doing now?" Someone asked.

Xie Chengzhong then took out a potato, pointed to those bud eyes and said: "See, such a potato needs to be cut into pieces, cut along these bud eyes, and the root cannot be cut off. Laiwang, can you big men make it?"

"What is this?" Someone looked closer.

"This is an object from the west. It is called potato, and the name of the soil is potato. Our second girl said that if such a potato is cut into pieces and planted, the crops it grows are no worse than sweet potatoes. They can also be used as vegetables. It is an excellent crop that can feed the hunger." Xie Gouzi looked at everyone triumphantly and said, "My second daughter said that this will be planted, and after serving it, the yield per mu must exceed three stones."

"Goofy, just brag about your cowhide, it's not broken yet." Someone in the crowd laughed, and then they all laughed in unison.

Xie Chengzhong snorted, remembering what Tian Minyan said and didn't say much, just yelled: "Is it bragging? Let's see when the harvest is harvested. Brother Laiwang, let's not gamble too much, just gamble with two cups of wine, will it work?"

"Success! If it's really like what you said, so what if I invite you to eat three cups."

"Okay!" Xie Chengzhong said in a loud voice: "You guys have already witnessed us! Okay, I'm busy with work, sisters-in-law and girls want to earn some money to buy flowers and wear, come here to report Names, we only invite fifteen people, first come, first served."

The wages paid by Tian Minyan's family have always been good. Although cutting potatoes is delicate work, it is not that difficult, and it is the slack season.Soon, those who signed up formed another small team.

Tian Minyan looked at it from afar, and seeing Xie Chengzhong take out a few sweet potatoes to have someone try the knife skills on the spot before registering, he couldn't help laughing.

"Second Miss, Brother Xie is really good at playing." Xiao Xing shrugged his nose and said, "You must teach him later, look at his complacency, it will definitely ruin the girl's reputation."

"Sometimes this is the effect." Tian Minyan pursed her lips and smiled, "Let's go."

High-profile publicity is actually a very important lesson in marketing. She made Xie Gouzi so high-profile, but she was actually calculating for the future.Today they say that, in the future, potatoes will be grown as much as three stones, and they will be grown from wasteland, so people will come to ask for them. At that time, there is no need to sell them, and there is no need to worry about not being able to sell the potatoes.

The people Xie Chengzhong invited were all excellent knife skills. On the second day, Tian Minyan vacated a piece of land in the courtyard of the house at the head of the village. Tian Minyan demonstrated how to cut potatoes and how to put them. Yan's specially made rubber gloves went to work.

Tian Minyan took a look, and found that they were all cut well, and some of them were very flexible in their hands and feet. After a while, they cut out two or three potatoes, which made her feel a little relieved.

Fifteen people, plus Tian Minyan and the others, were talking and laughing, and within a few days, they cut five hundred catties of potatoes into cubes, and put them layer by layer in a large special wooden box to encourage seedlings.

At the beginning of August, after the autumn planting was over, most of the farmers were idle, but the Tian family was very busy.

During the time of promoting seedlings, Tian Minyan asked several long-term workers to open the floodgates to irrigate the wasteland again, and fertilized again. When the seedlings were still a week away from emergence, they also sprinkled quicklime for disinfection.

In the rice field, she did not relax. In order to prevent people from stealing the fish fry, the Tian family built a thatched house in the field, and let the long-term workers take turns to guard it at night.20 days after the fish fry were put in, she baited with bran wheat, sprinkled young grass to raise the fish, and applied manure once. Seeing that the fry had grown up, she breathed a sigh of relief.

The days are flying by in a busy way, and the scorching hot summer is about to pass. After the beginning of autumn, Tian Minyan's [-]-acre wasteland started to sow.

One potato, one hole. Compared with the failed potato planting in the yard in the summer, Tian Minyan made a more detailed plan this time. The depth and spacing of each hole, she only planted without measuring the depth and spacing with a ruler.

When planting potatoes, people from Luo Huzi and Qishugong's family were invited, and Tian Minyan's uncle also came to help, and everyone in the Tian family went to the field except Luo Shi, who had a big belly.

Peasants don't have special small shovels, they use big fan bones from pigs to pick up dung. Tian Minyan took this bone shovel to apply base fertilizer to the pit to grow potatoes. At this time, someone ran over.

"Second girl, the county magistrate is coming to your place again, hurry up and pick him up."

Tian Minyan was taken aback, straightened up, frowned, Master Wen is here again?

"Ninny, do you want me to pick it up?" Tian Huairen also heard it, and trotted over.

"Yeah. Dad, you are the head of our family, so you're going." Tian Minyan nodded, then told everyone, and Tian Huairen walked down the mountain.

Just halfway there, I saw Wen Shanchu, but this time it was different from last time, this time he was only accompanied by Master Dai and a few yamen servants.Of course, when the county magistrate came to Yangmei Village, Li Zheng was naturally alarmed, and he was trotting behind to catch up.

"Minnv (Cao Min) has met Mrs. Wen."

Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen saluted together, Wen Shanchu quickly lifted it up, and said with a smile: "Why did you startle me, get up quickly."

When Tian Minyan stood up straight, he said again: "The little girl has grown tall again."

Tian Minyan asked with a smile: "Why do you have time to come to Yangmei Village?"

"The autumn sowing is here. I will inspect the situation of the autumn sowing in various townships. I heard that there is a big commotion in your farm, so I come over to have a look. How about it? Will it delay your work?" Wen Shanchu said with a smile: "Let's go together, Tell the officer a word."

Tian Minyan and Tian Huairen stepped aside, half a step behind, and slowly talked about their work in recent days.

Wen Shanchu nodded secretly while listening, and when he came to the wasteland of Tian Minyan's house, he saw a lot of people separated from each other, bent over and planting some crops.

He approached and happened to be standing next to Zhou Gui. Zhou Gui had seen such a big man there, and he immediately knelt down: "Kowtow to your lord." Others who were busy with their work also followed trot and knelt down and kowtowed

"Hey, get up, get up quickly, you are busy with your work, don't worry about me." Wen Shanchu quickly helped Zhou Gui and the others up, and said to Tian Minyan: "It seems that I shouldn't come, it seems to be hindering your work gone."

"My lord, they are also excited." Tian Minyan explained with a smile, and then said to the people who came forward to say hello: "Go to work."

Wen Shanchu picked up another potato seedling to look at, and asked, "Is this the potato you mentioned?"

"Yes, my lord." Tian Minyan nodded, and said again: "Potatoes are also a kind of sweet potatoes, with high starch content. Compared with sweet potatoes, they are equally filling and satisfying. In addition to cooking, they are all excellent crops.”

"There are such good things in the Western Regions, but I'm so ignorant. Girl, you know a lot at such a young age." Wen Shanchu narrowed his eyes and looked at Tian Minyan.

Tian Minyan covered her eyelids and said: "Actually, I also listened to the introduction of the shopkeeper of seeds, and I vaguely saw it in that book before, so I remembered it."

"If it can produce three stones of grain as you said, it would really be a great blessing for me, Hongjing Dynasty." Wen Shanchu smiled faintly.

"My lord, I'm just trying to grow it." Tian Minyan said modestly: "It's good if it can be done. If it can't be done, then we can only study it."

"Haha, dare to try, good, very good!" Wen Shanchu glanced at the shovel and potato seedlings on the ground, and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't been in the field for a long time, let me try to grow this kind of potato as well." .”

"My lord, you can't do it." Tian Minyan was startled, and quickly stopped him, while Tian Huairen was so frightened that his face turned pale.

"My lord, how can you go down to the ground with your rich body?" Dai Zhubo was also shocked, and he reached out his hand to snatch the bone shovel that Wen Shanchu had already grabbed.

"What kind of gold and precious body? I don't like to hear Dai Zhubo's words." Wen Shanchu gave him a cold look and said, "I also came from a poor family. I also went to the fields and planted the fields when I was young. Now, it's just a relive of old dreams. Dai Zhubo, don't say that next time."

Dai Zhubo was sweating from the training, and suddenly winked at Tian Minyan, Tian Minyan spread his hands, signaling him to calm down.

Although Wen Shanchu went to the field when he was young, he has been pampered and respected for a long time after all. With the help of Tian Minyan's father and daughter, he managed to plant about twenty potato seedlings.

Seeing this, Tian Minyan quickly took the farm tools in his hand, and said: "My lord, although it's the beginning of autumn, it's still hot today, my lord, why don't you take a rest."

Wen Shanchu also nodded, followed her to the sun-shaded melon shed, took a sip of the tea Tian Minyan handed over, and said mockingly: "It's because I'm old, I haven't been in the field for so many years, and I can't straighten my waist when I move it." gone."

"My lord is just in his prime, how old is he?" Tian Minyan stood up and laughed.

"Old man." Wen Shanchu put down the tea bowl, sighed, looked at the farmers who were busy in the field, and said, "I think back then, when I was a young man, I was like your brother. After school, I went home to help with planting. Even if I turn on the light and read at night, the days were hard! Do you know that there was a famine more than [-] years ago, and I..."

Tian Minyan stood aside, folded her hands in front of her belly, listening quietly, smiling without saying a word.

Wen Shanchu chattered for a while, seeing her smiling lightly all the time, he said: "Ah, look what I've been talking to a child, are you bored?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I didn't expect my lord to suffer so much." Tian Minyan said.

Wen Shanchu chuckled, stood up and said, "I've been there, so I'm particularly interested in crops and farming because I have experienced it. Let's go, take me to see your rice fields and fish farming."

Tian Minyan hurriedly agreed, took Xie Chengzhong and Xiao Wu, and Wen Shanchu to the field.

It has been more than [-] days since the fish fry were put in, and the fish swimming in the field have doubled in size, fighting for the tender grass in groups, which is very gratifying.

Wen Shanchu watched carefully, and went down to the ridge to take a closer look, and then invited Tian Minyan to ask about the breeding situation in detail, including how to dig the fish ditch, when to release the fry, and how to manage the breeding after release.

Tian Minyan also knows that the technology of rice field fish farming cannot be mastered alone. Once their crops are harvested, they will definitely spread the situation. I am also happy to give this favor.

So, when he saw his question, Tian Minyan answered in detail, and Dai Zhubo behind her, while being ordered to quickly write down the main points with a pen, looked at Tian Minyan in surprise, and thought, this girl speaks clearly and logically. Is it really possible to raise fish?

"If it's true as you said, the rice field and fish will both harvest crops and fish, girl of the Tian family, do you know what you will bring?" Wen Shanchu stood up, looked at Tian Minyan and asked.

"My lord, we are just peasants. What we know is based on books and the experience handed down from our ancestors. I am in the Southern Kingdom." Tian Minyan replied with a faint smile, and said: "Of course, this also depends on the adults leading us farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich."

"Girl, you know too much. I really don't know whether it's luck or misfortune. If you were a man, you would definitely not lose to many men in this world." Wen Shanchu seemed to be deeply moved.

Tian Minyan rolled her eyes, and said: "Even a daughter, she should not let a man down! However, no matter how smart I am, I am just a country girl who knows how to farm. Those big achievements should be left to men to earn." Well, my lord said yes or no?"

Clever, general knowledge, advance and retreat, this girl can't just be described by the word "intelligent", she is gentle in her heart.

"Girl, don't worry, your Tian family should have got it, and there will be no less." Wen Shanchu said with a smile: "I'm just waiting for the freshness of this fish, and I'm also waiting for the good news from your Tian family."

"My lord, I want to eat fish, may I ask my lord for a favor?"

"You said."

"Your Excellency also knows that my family has raised fish in this rice field. Although there are long-term workers guarding it at night, it is impossible to guard against it. I am afraid that I will not be able to guard against it. My lord, can you let a team of yamen guards walk in my field occasionally? "

Tian Minyan has thought about it, their family will get better and better, the rice field raises fish, seeing the fish grow up day by day, there will naturally be more people who are jealous and want to make up their minds, she has to guard against it.

"This is easy to handle. When I go back, I will ask someone to make a notice. Your paddy field fish farming is a new technology, and it is an experimental field in the county. If someone cheats and fishes in troubled waters, the worst case will be taken to jail and face a lawsuit." Wen Shanchu After thinking for a while, he said: "In this way, no one will dare to make a decision."

"Thank you, sir." Tian Minyan was overjoyed, and quickly blessed the body, so that anyone who wanted to think about it would have to touch it.