Yipin Farmer's Wife

Chapter 494 Go Your Own Way, No Matter What Others Say (2)
Looking carefully at the records in the account book, Han Chulan didn't know who was keeping the account books, but the accounts were very clear and the numbers were clear.Every year and every quarter, there are records of how much rent is collected per mu of land, and there are also detailed records of how much the tenant farmers harvest.Who else rented and planted the fields, how many acres they rented, how long the lease was for, and when it expired, they all remembered clearly.

Bringing a charcoal pencil, Han Chulan put a tick on the ones whose rental period has expired.She can use those expired fields to replant vegetables and fruits, and return to her life as a farm wife in the countryside.

Since Shangguan Zi's hidden guards are hidden everywhere, she doesn't have to worry about someone poisoning her vegetables, and she will hire someone to guard the vegetable fields like she did in Zhangjia Village.

If spring plowing hadn’t started, she would have wanted to grow rice. Now that spring plowing had started, it was too late for her to plant rice, so she would plant vegetables first. When the second season of rice plowing started, she would change the vegetable field into a farmland and plant it for one season. The paddy rice that has been planted with vegetables is repurposed into paddy fields, and it grows very well.In the 21st century, she witnessed with her own eyes that in the town where she lives, there are many rice fields in the village that are rented out for others to use as vegetable fields. The living conditions of modern people are better, and many rural people no longer farm, but the fields are still barren. It's a pity that some people contract their fields to grow vegetables, and they charge a little rent every year, which is not considered a waste of land.And the people in the vegetable farm, after planting vegetables for a period of time, will plant the rice of the previous season. The people in the vegetable farm do not need to fertilize at all, and the rice grows better than others, because a lot of fertilizer is planted when growing vegetables. , the land became extremely fertile.

Furthermore, one piece of land cannot be planted with one thing all the time, otherwise, those plants will become diseased at the end of the planting. Some people use a piece of land to plant peanuts, and the harvest is very good at the beginning, but they have been planted on that land, and the harvest will be harvested later. Worse, even plague, so that you have nothing to gain.At this time, either leave the land barren for two years, or replant it to change the soil quality.Those who grow vegetables, after planting for a period of time, switch to rice, or sweet potatoes, peanuts, etc., change it, and then replant vegetables.

If the lease term has not expired, it will continue to be leased to others.

After looking through the land books, Han Chulan began to calculate how many lands were fully leased.

A total of four tenant farmers’ leases have expired. They did not continue to rent. They should have changed their land. Life in the imperial capital is too stressful, and it is a bit difficult to live on rented land.Although other places are not as prosperous as the imperial capital, they have a small population and a lot of land. They change places to settle for a long time. As long as they register a household registration in the local government, according to the laws of the big star, they can get some Susukida from the government, even if it is Susukida. , at least it is your own land, if you have some savings, you can buy some land by yourself, and live and work in peace and contentment from then on, it is better than working hard all your life in the imperial capital without even being able to build a house.

Besides, the output of rice fields in ancient times was low. An acre of land only produced two to three shi of rice, and two seasons a year only produced five or six shi of rice. In a bumper harvest year, it was only eight or nine shi. Between forty shi and sixty shi, the family’s one-year rations are removed, and the rent is paid, and the rest is sold. The price of a shi of rice at the rice shop is one tael of silver, but when the farmers sell the rice, You can’t get one or two taels of silver for a stone of rice. In a year, at most, you can earn more than twenty taels of silver. This is still a good harvest year. If the harvest is not good, it is very good to earn more than ten taels of silver a year up.In the imperial capital, with such an annual income, I really can't live on. If I have such an income a year in an area like Zhangjia Village, I can live happily.

This is also the main reason why the four tenant farmers chose to leave the imperial capital after the lease expired.

Each tenant farmer rents [-] mu of land, and the four households have a total of [-] mu, of which only [-] mu are concentrated, and the other [-] mu are divided into fragments.Han Chulan decided to plant the [-] acres of land together with vegetables and fruits to meet the needs of the people in the city. She was quite experienced in growing vegetables.The other [-] mu of land that has been torn apart can be planted with sweet potatoes and corn, and it will not be wasted.Sweet potatoes are usually the rations of poor people in the countryside. Although the selling price is very low, they are heavy.

When she was in Zhangjiacun, she forgot one thing, that is to dry sweet potato slices, not raw but boiled sweet potatoes, peel off the potato skin, then cut the sweet potatoes into pieces with a knife, spread them on the dustpan, After drying in the sun, it becomes sweet potato chips after drying. However, although unprocessed sweet potato chips are delicious after drying, they are very dry and hard, which is particularly durable.

Now Han Chulan, who is the eldest concubine of the Prince Regent's Mansion, is still thinking about farming and growing vegetables, which will make the nobles in the entire imperial capital laugh at her for being a dog and eating shit. After Dai Qing's reminder, Han Chulan woke up like a dream, She doesn't want to be a profiteer in stealth anymore, she can do whatever she wants to do, even if someone wants to frame her, wouldn't it be possible for her to be invisible?It's better to be aboveboard.She just can't change her old job, she just likes farming, how about it?Go your own way, no matter what others say.

In fact, after returning to the imperial capital with Ye Qianze, Han Chulan already felt that she was swallowed by the imperial capital, and she was no longer the confident and daring Han Chulan she used to be. She always thought about how to avoid her limitations, and her acting style became cautious, and her whole person was changed.

Conspiracies and calculations will always come, and all she has to do is to prevent them.

Han Chulan was looking at the account books in the room, and Dai Qing, who was still in the Liuyun courtyard, was talking to a person. That person's back was facing Dai Qing. She was still wearing that red cape, but it wasn't a fox fur cape.

"You're finally back."

The man sighed and said softly, it was a woman's voice, the voice was gentle and pleasant.

"Lan'er was plotted against in the palace, can I not come back?"

"If it wasn't for Lan'er, would you plan not to come back for the rest of your life?" The woman's words contained a little resentment and a little helplessness.

Dai Qing didn't look at her, but still focused on Shangguan Zi's portrait, and said coldly: "If Lan'er doesn't need Dai Qing's training, Dai Qing will not come back. Ze'er is the only blood of the princess. Lan'er is the wife of Er'er's life, and when Ze'er is not around, Lan'er is the one Dai Qing wants to protect."

"Is she always the only one in your heart?"

The woman sighed again.

"Dai Qing's life is for the princess. Even if the princess passes away, in Dai Qing's heart, she will always live on."

The woman stopped talking, and sighed again and again.

Between her and him, is Shangguan Zi separated?She only complained that when she met him, she had no chance to love again.

"It's late at night, you go back, be careful, don't let people find out."

"Are you caring about me?"

(End of this chapter)