Farmer's happy event

Chapter 35 Harvest
After sending fifty catties for the first time, I earned back three taels of silver.Lianzi originally thought that at this time of year, buying a catty of roasted seeds and nuts and getting a tael of candied fruit would take a lot of time, at least ten days would be enough.Unexpectedly, after only five days, shopkeeper Zhang sent a servant to send some over as soon as possible.

Now sales are no longer a concern, but where to buy fresh strawberries has become a problem again.

Because strawberries are not easy to store, most people have not planted them in large quantities at present, and at most they can be planted on an acre and a half.The lotus seeds were originally going to be a hundred catties this time, but the farmer who bought strawberries last time could no longer provide so many strawberries.There are many in Caojiawanzi, but Lianzi doesn't want to go there.

Later, for some reason, the person who grew strawberries in Caojiawanzi came to the door and asked them if they wanted more strawberries.

Isn't this a good time to come? Of course, it just solves the immediate difficulties.

It is no secret in Liujiazhuang that Lianzi's family makes these preserved fruits and sells them for money.A few days ago, I drove the bullock cart every few days, pulling in and out with a large basket of goods, how could I hide it.

People in the village watched their family make a lot of money, and many people wanted to learn to try it, but they just didn't know how to do it, and they didn't succeed after trying several times. I would say, so I gave up.

Until the strawberries were off the market in June, Lianzi's family went to the town to deliver the goods several times on and off, each time weighing one or two hundred catties.

These days really exhausted the family, but after counting the money they earned, there were more than a dozen taels of silver, plus the rest of the family, it was more than enough to buy a cow.

So taking advantage of the dog days, with less land and less work, Liu Jingren called Zhou Tongli, went to the town to buy cattle, and worked at home for a few days by himself, building a new kang in the West Room.

Lianzi was very happy, and when the kang was finished, she and her sisters moved to the west room to sleep.Sleeping with parents is always very inconvenient sometimes.

It has only been less than half a year since the separation, and the family has changed from having nothing at the beginning to what it is now, with all kinds of household utensils and utensils, and there is no shortage of food, it is really comfortable.Although I almost spent all my money on purchasing items, and my family has no savings, but fortunately, there are many kinds of fruits in summer, and there are many kinds of candied fruits, so I don't worry about making money.

Time flies, as if in the blink of an eye, autumn is here.In the past few days, Lianzi went to the field to check almost every day to see how the peanuts were growing.Their family only has two acres of land. Although they can make money by making some preserved fruits now, firstly, this is not a long-term solution, and secondly, the director of lotus seeds is not here, so they still put most of their thoughts on this land.

Although peanuts cannot be eaten as food, they are economic crops, which are used to extract oil and sell for money.Two mu of land is too little, and if all the peanuts are planted, no more food can be grown.Lianzi decided that after the peanuts were harvested, one acre of land would be planted with wheat, and the other acre of land would be abandoned.Wait until two crops of peanuts are planted in the next year, so as to ensure high yield without wasting the land.

Although harvesting peanuts is troublesome, it is much simpler than growing peanuts.You only need to use a hoe to loosen the soil, then grab the peanut seedlings and pull them up, shake the soil, and arrange them neatly on the ridge, then pick up the fallen peanuts, put them into the basket, and finally put them in a row. Put the row of peanuts together with seedlings on the bullock cart and take them home.

When the family was not separated before, the whole family shared a field for drying food. Now that the family is separated, Yang naturally does not want to go there again.Anyway, her house is a single courtyard, and there is a large open space in front of the door, which was flattened by Liu Jingren early on, and now it happens to put the collected peanuts on it.

It only took a little more than a day, and all the peanuts in Ermu had been harvested and shipped back home.If there are no more peanuts in the field, it means that the harvest is over, and other people can dig the ground with a hoe to find the peanuts that have not been picked up.

Yang was afraid that the field would be dug up by others tomorrow, so she didn't even bother to eat lunch, so she carried a hoe and a basket and went to the field again.Lianzi and Lizi followed her to the ground, while Guzi and Douzi, together with Liu Jingren, threw peanuts on the field and dropped the fruit from the seedlings.

When Mrs. Yang returned home after digging the ground with her two children, more than half of the peanuts she took back fell off.She called to her busy husband and children to rest while she went into the kitchen to cook.

Early the next morning, taking advantage of the coolness, the family got up to work again, smashed the rest of the peanuts, put the seedlings on one side of the field to dry, and waited for the wind to lift the fallen fruits and put them on the other side of the field to dry. with.

Millet and Douzi are sweeping the field with brooms, while Li Zi is barefoot, jumping up and down on the field.

Lianzi likes this time the most, especially in the morning, before the sun has fully risen, when she takes off her shoes and runs around on the court.The feeling of stepping on the cool, soft ground is not to mention how comfortable it is.Call a few friends in twos and threes, or play hide-and-seek or other games.This long-lost feeling, Lianzi really can't imagine that she can experience it again, and experience her childhood again.

Zhenghe Lizi secretly picked a few sweet potato seedlings from other people's fields, cut off the stems and leaves to make necklaces and earrings, when Lianzi suddenly heard someone calling her.Looking back, it was Su Keyan.

He was wearing a sky-blue cross-neck single shirt, with the same color streamer hanging on his hair representing students, and white boots on his feet. Compared with the messy environment around him and their family members, there was a thick layer of stains from falling peanuts. People with thick dust are out of place.

He didn't seem to care about this, and walked towards Lianzi with a smile.

In the past few months, Lianzi's family has been busy looking at the peanuts in the field or making preserved fruits all day long. There is not much time at all, so there are few opportunities to see Su Keyan.I saw you today, and then I remembered that the school was on autumn harvest vacation, so it seems that he didn't go back this time.

"Come here, it's cooler here." Lianzi called him while sitting under a big tree.

Lianzi moved to the side, came out with half a stone empty, and stretched out her hand to beckon Su Keyan to come and sit here.

Su Keyan walked over a few steps, sat down beside Lianzi, and said, "Mother, someone sent some things, and I asked Lu Kun to pack a box for you to put at home."

Because it was right at the door of the house, and the door of Lianzi's house was not locked, Su Keyan first asked the boy to put the things at home, and then came here by himself.

Lianzi looked towards the door of her house, and sure enough, she saw Lu Kun standing on the threshold and made a gesture with Su Keyan, and then left.

"What?" Lizi asked impatiently when he heard that Su Keyan had brought them something again.

Su Keyan smiled and said, "It's just some food."

"It would be great if I could have some flowers." Li Zi was naturally referring to the velvet flowers on her head, but she was already very satisfied with good food.

Sometimes Lianzi is really speechless towards Lizi, she looks like a tomboy, but also very cute.If it weren't for Lizi sometimes acting like a boy, she would really suspect that she was possessed by wheat.

She has worn it through time travel, so what else is incredible?
Su Keyan just smiled and didn't answer, so it's impossible for his mother to ask someone to bring him some flowers.

"Young Master Su, drink some water, it's a hot day." Yang Shi rinsed it again and handed him the cup filled with cold boiled water.

Su Keyan took it, and smiled slightly at Yang Shi: "Thank you, ma'am, just call me Keyan."

"Hey, hey." Yang promised repeatedly.This kid is just nice, polite and doesn't put on airs.

Su Keyan's father, Su Mu'an, is the magistrate of this county. In the eyes of farmers, the village head is a big official, so the county magistrate is very important.Therefore, every time Su Keyan came, Mrs. Yang treated him with great care.At the beginning, he was quite restrained, but after he became familiar with him, he gradually let go, treating him like his own child, but still polite.

Mrs. Yang went to work, left Su Keyan to talk to the two children, and asked him to have lunch at home before leaving, and Su Keyan happily agreed.

"Is there anyone left in the school?" Lianzi asked.

Su Keyan shook his head: "It's gone, they all went back."

Although some of the children who followed Mr. Liu came from wealthy households, most of them were from farmers like Huzi. Whenever spring planting and autumn harvest came, Mr. Liu would let them go back to help the family with some work. .Su Keyan's father was very strict with him, and he himself was motivated, so he seldom went home.

"My father said that after a while, he will send my younger brother over." Su Keyan said again.

"Ah? You have a younger brother?" Lianzi asked in surprise. She had never heard of him before, and thought he was the only child in the family.

Su Keyan smiled and nodded: "Well, she is two years younger than me, and she is six years old this year." Then she added, "I have a younger sister named Kexin, who is only three years old this year."

There are quite a few children, Lianzi thought to herself.

"Your brother is coming too?" Lizi asked, seeing Su Keyan nodding, he suddenly smiled and said, "That's really great. Hey, will your brother catch tadpoles?" Lizi looked very interested. look.

Su Keyan shook his head: "No."

Li Zi was slightly disappointed, and asked again: "Will that catch dragonflies?"

Su Keyan still shook his head.

"Huh? I don't know anything." It's really stupid.Lizi was very disappointed, but quickly patted his small chest again, and smiled at Su Keyan: "It's okay, wrap it on me, and I will definitely teach him."

Lianzi rolled her eyes at her and said, "I'm here to study, not to catch tadpoles and dragonflies."

Lizi snorted, ignored her, and lowered her head to start picking sweet potato seedlings to make bracelets and necklaces.

When the sun was fully up, the field was almost cleaned up, leaving only the peanuts and seedlings to dry in the sun.

Mrs. Yang asked the children to go home to cool off, and took a bagful of peanuts in her apron to go home. She planned to chop them up and stir-fry them with chili peppers. It was considered a fresh dish.

　It's done, thank you guys.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)