Xianggong farming

Chapter 3
Knowing that thinking too much is useless, Ji Xinmiao didn't want to think about the man surnamed Qi who might be married soon, but he didn't know anything about him. It is possible to be calm.

What kind of man is this?He still praised Wang's a lot, but Ji Xinmiao did not dare to compliment Wang's rural woman on how high her son-in-law's bottom line was.There are only three pieces of information Wang gave her: first, she was married, second, she was a soldier, and third, she was not young.Married is nothing to her, an older young woman. She has been a soldier and she admires soldiers very much. It's just that she is old, how old is she?
God, she won't be as old as Ji's father, right?Thinking of this, Ji Xinmiao couldn't help but tremble all over.

You must know that people in the countryside are exposed to the sun every day and don’t know what maintenance is. Men and women are the same. When they reach the age of 40, they are basically old men and women.

Even though he knew it was useless to think about it, Ji Xinmiao was still in a state of anxiety while sitting at the table.

After posting it for a while, I felt that I really couldn’t think about it anymore, otherwise the more I thought about it, the more worried I became.Ji Xinmiao stood up and washed the dishes and put them away. Just as she was about to go out, she suddenly felt her throat was a little dry, and she couldn't help coughing a few times.

Ji Xinmin, who ran to play in the yard after eating, ran in immediately when she heard her coughing: "Sister, Min'er forgot that you are not feeling well, you go to sleep now, I will ask sister Yan'er to dig out the roots of silk hairs together. Second Sister Hui is back, let her fry it for you."

Ji Xinmiao pulled her over and said, "Min'er, eldest sister is fine, but her throat is a little dry, maybe she wants to drink tea."

Ji Xinmin didn't seem to believe it: "Sister, are you really okay?"

"Well, big sister is fine, but I'm a little tired. I'll go to sleep later, and you can play by yourself."

"Okay, I'll go play with Sister Yan'er." Ji Xinmin obediently agreed.

Thinking of the whole family except for a little girl who was at home with her, what did they do?
"Min'er, where did the parents go to work?" Ji Xinmiao asked her.

Ji Xinmin said very enthusiastically: "Sister, just now my mother told me to stay at home and look after my eldest sister, saying that they went to the fields to cultivate crops. My father said at the dinner table last night that there are a lot of weeds growing in the fields. He Yun made the first trip, so this year’s grain harvest would not be good. The eldest brother and his parents went to the fields. The second sister went to hunt pigweed, and the second brother went to school. He was not in good health, and his parents told him to go. Go to school, and you can be a scholar in the future."

They are so poor and still send a child to school, isn't this a good parent?Parents who know how to plan for their children shouldn't find her a man who is too bad, right?
Seeing that the eldest sister was silent, Ji Xinmei said proudly again: "Eldest sister, the second brother is a good student, the master has praised him, if he can also pass the exam to be a scholar, he can also be a teacher in the village school in the future Woolen cloth."

Ji Xinmiao, who read a lot, doesn't know much about this unknown world, but she still knows about the history of ancient China.In ancient times, farming was the main thing, and people depended on the sky for food. Businessmen were discriminated against, and only reading was high.A scholar from a farmer's family is already superior to others, just like she was admitted to university back then.If you can come up with a Juren, then do it.

Looking at that chattering little mouth, Ji Xinmiao asked her curiously: "Min'er, what do you usually do?"

Ji Xinmin immediately said proudly: "Sister, I feed the chickens and ducks and watch the house at home every day. I have already fed the chickens today. I also rushed the ducks to the pond behind the house. Sometimes, I I will also hunt pigweed with my second sister, our two pigs may have eaten it."

It is also very realistic for an eight-year-old child to hunt pigweed. Didn't she learn to shoot pigweed and do farm work since she was a child?It is precisely because I feel that the farm work is too hard that I will work hard and leap into the dragon's gate.

Ji Xinmiao wanted to go to sleep after Ji Xinmin ran away, because she didn't know what she could do here.

But lying on the bed thinking about the ignorance of the future, she couldn't sleep, so she put on her shoes and went out.

Standing in the yard, I looked at this poor house carefully: a typical old ancient rural yard, a five-room thatched house built on the back of the mountain, facing south from west, with two bedrooms on each side of the hall.There is an earth wall about two meters outside the yard, and the yard is not big.

Because the earthen wall was as high as a person, Ji Xinmiao couldn't see the whole outside, so she walked out half of the courtyard door, standing by the door, she found a large vegetable garden in Zuoguo outside the door, and a large pond behind the vegetable garden, it might be Min'er It's the season for ducks.

Looking out again, there is a large piece of farmland, green and green.There are people doing farm work in the field all the time, Ji Xinmiao reckons that they may all be farming.Judging by the temperature and the young crops in front of us, this is probably the beginning of summer, and the early rice has become green in patches.

A woman in her 30s came over and saw Ji Xinmiao standing at the door and greeted with a smile: "Xin Miao, why are you standing in the sun? Are your parents out to work?"

Ji Xinmiao didn't know all the people here, let alone who the person in front of him was, so he could only smile vaguely and say, "Yes, I'm going to Yunhe."

"Oh. Your family has three or four acres of paddy fields, but it takes a few days to finish the work. You have not been at home these years, and your mother is not willing to let you do these rough jobs. Come to my house to play when you have time, my camellia I'm at home today."

camellia?

Ji Xinmiao has a very good memory, otherwise she would not have been able to go from university to graduate school and then to Ph.D. all the way smoothly.

Camellia is the one that Second Young Master Lin went to, right?
Why did Second Master Lin come to her house and heard that something happened to her, and then went to Camellia's house?There must be something wrong here!
Ji Xinmiao's heart moved: "I won't go today, I heard that your house has guests today."

The expression on the woman's face was different when she heard the words: "You mean Mr. Lin, right? He said he had something to do in the village today, and he came to ask about Zhushi, my family, after the matter was over."

Ji Xinmiao observed the expression on the woman's face, she was very uncomfortable!

However, whether she is at ease or not, what Second Young Master Lin does here has nothing to do with Ji Xinmiao, she is not Ji Xinmiao!

"Oh, then next time I come to play with Camellia, Auntie, go slowly."

Walking along the way, I can see that the side of the mountain is full of people in the village. Some courtyards are connected to courtyards, some are separated by ponds, and some are separated by vegetable gardens. Almost all of them are surrounded by a half-height earthen wall. There are a few adobe houses or firewood sheds, and most of them are cattle pens or pig pens behind the houses.

Along the way, people greeted her with a smile, and she responded with a smile.When she came to an old tree, she saw a group of half-grown children playing.

Suddenly Ji Xinmin's voice came over: "Sister, come here to play, there is no sun here."

Another voice: "Cousin, there are a lot of silky roots here, and Min'er and I have dug a lot for you."

Seeing the enthusiasm of the two young girls, Ji Xinmiao had no choice but to walk over: "Where did you dig it?"

The two of them pulled her around the big tree and landed on a small soil. Only then did Ji Xinmiao see that the loess had been dug into a pile of pits, and the roots of the silk hairs that hadn't been pulled out were white and fat, still exposed in the soil. Outside.

"Look, elder sister, the silk hair root here is really sweet. Last time my second brother coughed, it was the silk hair root that my sister Yan and I dug up and stewed licorice for him to drink together. He will be fine after drinking it three times." Chirping like a bird, she said to Ji Xinmiao.

"Well, the silk hair root is really good. My cousin, grandma also stew this to eat when she coughs. The doctor in the village said that the silk hair root can clear the fire. If you have a sore mouth or a sore throat, you can dig it and stew it." Ji Xinyan has never seen such a kind lady in the lobby. When she saw her a few days ago, she gave her the wrong look.Why did she get better if she couldn't hang herself today?
If Ji Xinmiao knew that Ji Xinyan had such an idea, she would really be shocked.If her sudden change caused the child to have negative thoughts, isn't she a sinner?
When the three of them got off the ground, Ji Xinmiao saw that there were only a few boys playing under the tree except for the two sisters of the Ji family, so he asked, "There are still little sisters in the village, why don't they come to play with you?"

Ji Xinyan immediately rushed to tell her: "Sister, there are only five of us in Xiacun, about the same age as me and Min'er. Chunying is staying at home with her younger brother, but her younger brother is asleep, so she can't come out. Qiuju went to her aunt's house and said It's her eldest cousin who came to propose marriage today. Erlian is learning embroidery at home."

"Learn embroidery? Yan'er, Min'er, don't you need to talk about embroidery?" Yes, in this era, there are not sewing shops everywhere, and they are all handmade. If you want to buy a ready-made garment, the price is at least the price of buying cloth and making it yourself. More than two compensation?

Ji Xinmin looked up and told her: "Sister, Sister Yan and I have also learned needle and thread, but we can only mend clothes, but we don't know how to embroider. To learn embroidery, you need to hire a master, because you can embroider handkerchiefs and sell them in the town for money." I heard from Erlian that a good-looking handkerchief can be bought for three renminbi, and if it is carefully embroidered in a month, it can be sold for a lot of money. If it is paired with a net, it will be even more expensive."

Both children had envy in their eyes, so Ji Xinmiao asked, "Does Min'er and Yan'er both want to learn?"

"Think about it, think about it. If we learn how to embroider, we will be able to earn money. But the master wants to spend money, and my mother said that there is no money at home, so I can't let me learn." Ji Xinmin said hastily.

Ji Xinyan also said: "My sister-in-law's younger sister has learned embroidery. When my sister-in-law came in, her dowry was embroidered by her sister. It was beautiful! Both my aunt and second aunt said that the craftsmanship is really good. If you pick up the job, you can also get it.”

"Sister, do you want to learn?" Ji Xinmin asked her suddenly.

"Me?" Ji Xinmiao really didn't want to learn how to embroider. People in the countryside rely on embroidery to earn a few pocket money, but they are desperate, and there is really no way to make money.And she, a majestic doctor of agriculture, earns money by embroidery in the countryside. Isn't that a waste of watermelons and even sesame seeds?
He didn't want to break the little sister's hope, so Ji Xinmiao said: "If there is a master, I want to learn it too. It's just that the elder sister has no money to give the master now, so she can't do it if she wants to. When the elder sister earns money, I will definitely give it to you." Please master."

As soon as Ji Xinmin heard this, she immediately pulled her down and said a few words softly. Immediately, Ji Xinmiao's mouth was wide enough to hold an egg...

(End of this chapter)