Xianggong farming

Chapter 18

In the evening, when the dark smoke water in several large wooden barrels cooled down, Ji Qiulin also brought back the shower: "You can go to the fields."

It wasn't until almost midnight that the brothers of the Ji family sprinkled the potion.

Even though Ji Xinmiao patted his chest to assure him, Mr. Ji was still worried. He went to the field early the next morning, sprinkled smoke and water for the second time, and stayed there until the evening of the next day before he yelled in the field: "Killed, killed!"

The clansmen who heard about this early in the morning did not really believe that the dark water of Ji's house could kill insects. At this time, every family was still catching insects in the fields.When they heard Mr. Ji's shout, they all ran to Mr. Ji's field, and suddenly, the edge of the field was full of people.

Seeing so many people gathered around, Mr. Ji was so happy that his beard shook, and he held a handful of dead bugs in the field and said to everyone: "Killed, really all dead. Come and see, yesterday In the morning, the rice leaves looked yellow, but today many insects curled up on the leaves and fell into the water! It’s great, it’s great.”

The second uncle took a step forward and carefully looked at the handful of dead bugs and asked, "Brother, where did you get that medicine? Can you give it to my family?"

Mr. Ji used everyone's well-prepared words: "God bless, our family was instructed by an expert. We used the medicine he gave and added soil smoke, and it worked after sprinkling it twice. It's really a good thing."

You can't blame Mr. Ji for not telling the truth. This second uncle is his own brother, but he never got his son to kiss him.

The second uncle heard: "Brother, do you still have this medicine at home? Can you share some with me?"

Master Ji said in embarrassment: "Qiu Lin spent a lot of money to get this medicine. If you want it, you have to charge some cost."

Everyone's faces tightened and one of the clansman asked: "Old man, how much money do you want? I only have a quarter of an acre of land. You can make a price. If it is not too expensive, I will try my best to give it. This year the insect is too powerful. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch it all."

Ji Xinmiao reminded that if the insects in other houses in the village are not extinct, it is very likely that your rice will be infected again, and this thing is not expensive, so Master Ji thought for a while before saying: "The village is full of people, There are no two foreign surnames. The clan is a family. We can’t just watch everyone’s rice being eaten by bugs and ignore it. Don’t worry, my Qiulin is here. Just ask him, he will definitely not take your money. "

When Ji Qiulin arrived, he understood, so he put on a good face and said, "Since everyone can trust this medicine, then I won't be conservative. My father is right, they are all from the same root, so we can't just sit back and watch everyone have nothing to do. How about this?" , although the medicine is still available, but I am afraid it is only enough for the fields in our village, and it is not easy to make this medicine. If you are willing, you can give me a hundred dollars per mu of land. If you don't have any now, you can use millet to pay for it when the rice is harvested!"

Everyone heard that one hundred dollars per mu of land sounds like a lot, but if there is no harvest for one mu of land, it is not a matter of one hundred dollars.So everyone said: "My family wants it, my family wants it."

"My family wants it too."

"And my house..."

The whole village has a total of 430 mu of paddy fields, of which the patriarch and village head's family has nearly [-] mu of land, so all Ji's family is struggling in rubbing tobacco leaves.In order to make the medicine more effective, she asked Ji Qiulin brothers to pick a lot of oleander leaves from a distant mountain, and added the broken leaves to the smoke water. These two poisonous plants were mixed together. One piece, it becomes a bigger poison, not afraid that the insects will not die.

On the third day, the land in the village was used up for the first time, but it had to be sprinkled three times in total. The three brothers of Ji Qiulin all went outside to collect tobacco stems and pick oleander leaves. Juice was so busy that even Ji Qiucheng's eldest son took on the task of taking care of his younger brother.

"Em, is Sister Xinmiao here?" Seeing everyone busy in the yard, Ji Liulan asked standing outside the yard door.

Because of the Yan Yangmei incident, Ji Liulan and the three sisters Ji Xinmiao got together.

Mrs. Wang was distributing tobacco leaves in the yard. Seeing that Ji Liulan had come, she said, "Lanzi is here. Your sister Xinmiao is busy. What's the matter?"

Ji Liulan said shyly: "I heard from my grandfather that your family is very busy these days, and there is no need to catch bugs in my field. I will help you."

Fang muttered vigilantly: "You want to help? Didn't you want to find out something?"

Ji Liulan's face became redder and tears were about to flow, she really wanted to help, her cousin guided her step by step to make bayberry, and she confiscated her money, she wanted to thank her.So she blushed and said, "Third Aunt, I am not such a person!"

Fang's face crooked: "I don't know what kind of person you are."

Seeing that Ji Liulan was choked by Fang's and couldn't get off the stage, Ji Xinmiao in the house hurried out when she heard Ji Liulan's voice: "It's Lanzi, you came to my house to help? Are you free?"

Ji Liulan felt better when she saw that there was no doubt on Ji Xinmiao's face, and then she nodded affirmatively: "My mother said, if I can help you, let me help you for two days. Sister Xinmiao , Lan Zi is not a person who has an eye for money."

After a few days of contact, Ji Xinmiao has some understanding of this cousin's character.Although she doesn't have golden eyes to see people's hearts clearly, this little girl's vision is clear.Moreover, she couldn't figure out how to make her own pesticides, so she said enthusiastically: "That's great, we are too busy, and we don't have time to cook lunch. Lanzi, can you help me?" , I'm so happy, come in."

Ji Liulan quietly wiped away her tears and went into the yard before saying, "Sister Xinmiao, I'll cook."

"Okay!" Ji Xinmiao pulled her into the kitchen.

After a while, Ji Xinmiao came out, and Mrs. Wang pulled her and asked, "If you let Lan Zi in, nothing will happen, right?"

Ji Xinmiao blinked her eyes and deliberately raised her voice and said: "Mother, this prescription is not for everyone to see, and the rest of the medicine is also well placed, so it will be fine. Lanzi really came to help, I don't care. Doubt what."

Only then did Wang smiled contentedly: "You have to put away the medicine in your hand, it's because your father took a lot of effort to get it."

Ji Xinmiao also refused to comply on purpose: "Mother, do you still need to explain this matter? I'm not Min'er."

Ji Xinmin was not happy after hearing this: "Sister, I'm not the sloppy sloppy you said."

Seeing that the younger sister pouted her lips, Ji Xinmiao immediately changed her words: "Yes, yes, my Min'er is an elf. The eldest sister made a mistake, and punished me to buy you a bunch of candied haws tomorrow."

"No! I don't eat candied haws, I want bone soup noodles!" Ji Xinmin took the opportunity to find out about the eldest sister, who told her that the bone soup noodles she made were so delicious?

Ji Xinmiao pretended to be surprised on purpose: "Huh? You have to eat bone soup noodles to accept the big sister's apology? It turns out that my little sister is a snack!"

Seeing the scene where the sisters were bickering while working, Ji Wang smiled like a flower, and didn't feel that the work at hand was tiring for a while. It turned out that it was true as the eldest daughter said, as long as people are happy, they are happy no matter how tired they are.

After half a month of hard work, seeing that there was no more insect leaf in their rice, everyone in the village consciously sent the money to Ji's house: "Old man, I really have to thank Qiulin this time, if it weren't for He got this medicine and distributed it to everyone, I'm afraid this year's harvest will be really difficult."

"Uncle, brother Lu Cai is right. Except for our village, other villages have suffered a lot of losses. This cannot be compensated by a few hundred copper coins."

Ji's family received a total of 46 taels to three hundred taels of silver. Excluding the capital of more than six taels, they made a net profit of 40 taels of silver, which was more than Ji's family earned in a year.On the day of reckoning, Ji's house was more lively than New Year's Eve.

Mr. Ji looked at the pile of copper coins and said cheerfully: "This year, my eldest granddaughter helped to earn the money. First, I will take out five taels to add to Miaoer's dowry, and then divide the rest. Do you have an opinion?"

No one in the room could have any objection except Fang's, but seeing Ji Qiucheng's eyes, she only dared to mutter in a low voice: "Didn't you say that the second brother bought the medicine from Taoist Youfang? Why did you become a seedling again?" The trick you learned?"

Ji Qiucheng glared at her: "Miao'er belongs to a family of children. If you want to say that she got the medicine back, then if you pass it on to Jiang's family, it won't be an accident? You're the only one who talks too much."

Seeing this situation, Mrs. Liu took the lead in expressing his opinion: "If it wasn't for Miao'er, not to mention the money, even catching bugs would exhaust people to death. In previous years, bugs that weren't so powerful could make everyone toss for ten days For half a month, I was still so worried that I couldn’t eat or sleep. I was the first to agree with what Dad said, not to mention five taels for Miao’er to add makeup, even ten taels for our family to have no objection.”

Grandma Ji also smiled and squinted her eyes: "I like what the eldest daughter-in-law said. The old man should allocate twelve taels to add makeup to Miaoer. Our Ji family wants to show the Qi family. The Ji family's child is a treasure." .”

When Ji Xinmiao heard this, she immediately waved her hands: "Miao'er accepts the wishes of grandpa, grandma and everyone, but Miao'er should not take too much money, and divide it according to the original agreement."

Mr. Ji said boldly: "If you weren't careful in Jiang's house, how could you learn this method? I don't think ten taels is too much, so you can take it, Miaoer."

Ji Xinmiao decided not to accept it: "Grandpa, we are a family. If you have money, everyone uses it together, and if you have money, everyone earns it together. Grandpa and grandma are so old and tired for so many days. How can Miaoer take so much money?" ? No, I can't have it."

Seeing her daughter being so determined, Mrs. Wang knew that she really didn't want to take more, so she also expressed her position: "Miao Er is right, we are all one family, and we can't separate each other. Father, just follow Miao Er."

Grandpa Ji wiped away tears suddenly: "Grandpa is old, but I am not confused. It is impossible to turn this disaster into a good thing this year without Miao'er's idea. Since Miao'er said so, Grandpa still Stick to the division method at the beginning, you get five taels first, and everyone else divides, otherwise grandpa will be angry."

Ji Xinmiao's heart was stirred by Mr. Ji's words, and the corners of his eyes became moist.With such relatives, she is really grateful for God's blessing.And she found that after she transmigrated into this world, her heart was more easily moved. This is why God told her to cherish family affection, right?So she approached Mr. Ji and gave a big gift: "Granddaughter Ji Xinmiao thank you grandpa for adding makeup!"

"Okay, okay, this is my granddaughter. Second daughter-in-law, you take this money first, and then give it to my granddaughter to press the box. The remaining 35 taels, seven adult men, three taels each, and your daughters They all take two taels, Min'er and Yan'er each get five hundred, and Kun Wang also gets one hundred. There's still four hundred bucks, I'll show that kid Lanzi."

As soon as Mr. Ji finished speaking, no one disagreed.Ji Qiu married the most males, and the whole family got 14 taels in total.Mrs. Liu made a decision on the spot: "He'er, you go to the town and chop ten catties of meat for five catties of wine and come back, and have dinner at our house tonight."

Ji Xinmin cheered: "Sister Yan, we have meat tonight!" (My friends, Xiao Min'er is so ambiguous, do you have meat tonight?)
(End of this chapter)