Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 762 Son-in-law and husband-in-law

"Xiaoxi, just marry Eryin. Don't let the fat and water flow to outsiders - besides, she is still young, so don't worry." Fu Buer said confidently, "Marry Eryin to save a lot of gift money, and she will be a capable person in the future." People. As for Yijin, I think Xiaofu is a good kid. He will definitely prosper in the future. Now that he is in a relationship, he can't lose money in the future."

The couple spent half the night together before going to sleep.The next day, Fu Fu woke up early and went to the field with everyone with a hoe. The attitude of Fu Buer and his wife at the banquet yesterday made him feel that there is a way to marry a wife.Although he is no longer related to the Fu family, he may be the son-in-law and father-in-law in the future.Of course, Fu Fu has to work hard to perform.

Although Fu Buer is still a bit wimpy on weekdays, he is a good hand at work.Before going out, the work is assigned to each person. Everyone has a specific job, such as digging ditches, clearing fields, accumulating manure, building pigpens, herding sheep, and planting gardens... in good order.

Although Fu Buer's family has more people, it also has a lot of land, and they have to engage in sideline business.Labor is not abundant.Recently, the wages of short-term and long-term workers have skyrocketed, and it is difficult to find manpower, and there are fewer people he can hire.Fu Buer was inspired by the agricultural equipment sold to him by Tiandihui, such as threshing machines and windmills, which greatly improved production efficiency—since manpower is not economical, more machines should be used.During the autumn harvest, I used a bank loan to add a cow, and bought a small trailed harvester and seeder from the Tiandihui store from the farm tool factory.Two oxen pulled agricultural machinery for animal power work, making the land of Fubujia the first to complete harvesting and sowing.

While other farmers are still busy threshing grain and planting green manure and winter wheat, Fu Buer's family is already starting to repair water conservancy, accumulate manure and engage in sideline business.

Fu Buer also intends to win over Fu Fu, and work together with him to start a ditch. The farmland water conservancy in Meiyang Village has been repaired not long ago. The farmland water conservancy standards here are not as high as those of the farms directly under the agricultural department, and the facilities are much more primitive. , The ditch has not been hardened yet, and after a summer of use, especially after the rainy season, the ditch is heavily silted up.The village will dispatch workers to dredge the main canal and the branch canals. As for the silt in the irrigation and drainage ditches, each family will clean up the silt according to the principle of who benefits and who maintains it.In this way, the water conservancy facilities can be maintained, and the silt in the ditch can also be used as raw material for composting.

The black and smelly mud was shoveled out one by one and thrown into the basket on the shore.From time to time, alive and kicking loaches could be dug out from the mud. At this time, Fu Fu would hold the loach's gills, thread them on the side with wicker sticks, and pick up the loaches that had been broken into several pieces. Take it up and throw it in a small basket-eat it the same way back home.In the past, this was a rare opportunity for them to fight teeth.Even now he hasn't broken the habit.

Fu Fu only wore a homemade double-breasted gown—the army issued a cotton underwear in winter, and Fu Fu was reluctant to wear it—a standard army towel with the words "Defend the Home and the Country" hung around his neck, and his dark muscles The beads of sweat glistening in the sun, Fu Buer thought that his daughter would definitely not suffer if she gave it to him-where can I find such labor?Seeing him stop temporarily to take a breath, he smiled and picked up a bamboo water bottle for Fu Fu.

Fu Fu took a big sip of water and wiped his sweat with a towel.He took a breath of satisfaction, and doing farm work gave him a sense of joy.Fu Buer said: "Let's take a break first! There is a long ditch here. I can't finish it in one breath!"

Fu Fu wiped his mouth, went back to the side of the ditch, rubbed his muddy feet on the withered grass by the ditch, and sat down.

"My lord, I have added a lot of land to my house."

"Yes, yes, it's all thanks to the Chief. A lot of land has been added, but a large part of it is considered public land, which was planted by Chief Wu for me. The land is harvested and shared. The harvest is good, and they also have more land. accounted for." Fu Buer took out a cigarette as he spoke, and Fu Fu took out a pack of matches from his trouser pocket and lit it for him.

Fu Buer squinted his eyes happily and spit out a smoke ring. "The head of Wan Lihui of the Tiandihui is a man of God. There are so many ways to cultivate the land, and all the farmers here can't match one of his toes." He praised Wan Lihui in his mouth, but he was actually proud of his original foresight in his heart. , if he hadn't joined the Tiandihui first, how could there be such a situation today?Fu Buer can see it clearly: Australians like to set up "pacesetters". They make troubles. It is always a great benefit for you to be the first to jump out and go along with them, and it is far behind to follow up.

"It's not that you see far, Mr. Fu." Fu Fu complimented.

This time he scratched Fu Buer's itchy spot, and he opened his mouth and smiled happily.He pointed:

"Look at this land, there are mounds in the east, groves in the west, and the ditch in the north..." He showed off his property.

"How did the master's land become so tidy? It's all newly bought?" Fu Fu suddenly discovered something, "Isn't that piece of land on the west side originally a wasteland?"

"But this piece is all my own. I sold all the sporadic land that I used to get, and bought around this piece of land when I got the money. I tried to save all the land into a large piece, and bought it next to this piece of land. Some wastelands have been opened up to form a single piece..."

"Open up wasteland?" Fu Fu was a little surprised.This piece of land was originally the largest piece of land of the Fu family, and it was originally opened up by Fu Buer and his family members.It is not easy to open up wasteland. Not only does it consume a lot of labor, but also the wasteland has a great demand for fertilizer. Without fertilizer, the land that has been opened up with great difficulty will not have much harvest.

"Tiandi will have a wasteland reclamation team. They have a special big machine, and a dozen oxen will pull it. The land will be leveled in three or four days. The fertilizer is also provided by Tiandihui, which is shipped in bags... ..." Thinking of this, Fu Buer was a little worried about his loan problem, and hired Tiandihui's mechanical farming team and fertilizers to use bank loans.

Fu Fu saw this kind of machine when he was supporting agriculture. It is all made of iron, and its size is surprisingly large. It can be used to do various farm work by replacing different parts, such as plowing, harrowing, plowing, sowing, and so on. Harvesting... is almost omnipotent, that is, the plot of land must be large enough to be used-so so far it has only been used in the chiefs' own farms.The local aborigines, even big landowners, rarely have such a large piece of land.

Unexpectedly, Master Fu actually got such a piece of land!Fu Fu thought, needless to say, the master wants to use more Australian farm tools for work in the future-saving labor and labor.

"Master wants to use more Australian machines for work in the future."

"Shou Wan said that machines are the way to go, and people work too slowly." Fu Buer said, "Call it...efficiency? Yes, it's called efficiency. He said our efficiency here is too low."

Fu Buer's method of gathering scattered places into one place was not for the purpose of using machinery at first, but was inspired by chatting with Wan Lihui-he had been inspired many times in chatting with chiefs.It turns out that chiefs are always farsighted.

Wan Lihui talked about labor efficiency during the chat.He believes that the current labor efficiency of the East Village is not as good as that of the West Village.Because the land of the new immigrants in the West Village is uniformly distributed, and the land of each family is together, the farmers in the East Village seldom have their own land together. , The tenants are still long-term laborers who work for others, and it takes a lot of time to travel between the fields every day, which adds up to a lot of consumption.

Concentrated cultivation of a large area of ​​land has other great advantages, such as the layout of farmland water conservancy construction is easy to arrange.Fragmented small pieces of land involve the specific interests of each household, and it is difficult to form a consensus of the whole village.Meiyang Village was able to complete the infrastructure construction, and to a large extent, it played an exemplary role in its rapid fortune-everyone believed in the Heaven and Earth Association, which enabled the relatively smooth progress of farmland water conservancy.

"No matter what, the chiefs like to be big!" Fu Fu said with a smile, and Fu Buer also smiled.

Fu Buer took a few puffs of cigarettes before he said slowly, "Xiao Fu, you have been in my house for more than ten years. Although you are not my son, I have supported you for more than ten years after all," he smoked Take a puff of cigarette, as if trying to figure out what to say next, "I understand all your thoughts."

Fu Fu's face turned red: "Master Fu, you just need to understand."

"I agree to this matter." He stopped Fu Fu, who was beaming with joy, "I can promise you a piece of gold, but you are still a soldier, and you can't get married. You live in a group house as a soldier. , I have to practice every day, and maybe I have to go out to meet the battle. Yijin is a girl, so I can't go to the barracks with you."

"Yes. I'm also thinking about when I can retire..."

"What are you doing after retiring from the army?!" Fu Buer hurriedly interrupted him, "What are you doing after retiring from the army? Do you want to be an ordinary farmer? You have done a good job in the army, you must be self-motivated..."

Fu Fu is not stupid, and soon understood that Fu Buer needed him to become an officer before he could get married.Immediately said: "Master Fu, don't worry about this. I will join the teaching team during the Chinese New Year and become a sergeant. I look at those who are officers, and they have only fought a few battles with the chiefs. Wait for another battle , I will become an officer.”

Fu Buer was very satisfied with his attitude, and put on the air of an elder: "You are still young. One gold is not too big. Wait a few years, and get married when you carry a sign on your shoulder. Wouldn't it be more dignified than now? "

"Master is right." These words aroused Fu Fu's ambition to make contributions, and he nodded, "I will definitely become an officer and marry a gold again!"

"Don't worry. When you get married, I won't treat you badly." Fu Buer said.

"Thank you dad..."

"Hehehe," Fu Buer laughed triumphantly, "It's too early to call daddy, you can yell casually at home, don't yell when you go out..." He waved his hand, "Keep working."

(End of this chapter)