Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 196 The New Life
Li Xin felt very beautiful when she thought about it in her heart, and a smile appeared on her face naturally.

Yang'er pinched Li Xin's face and said, "Mother, are you happy?"

"Well, happy!"

Li Xin was in a good mood, leaned on Yang'er's pink and tender face and kissed her with a "chirp", the sound was very loud, Yang'er immediately covered her face and screamed excitedly.

Amei smiled and said: "It seems that Yang'er also wants to come out to play. He is not very happy at home every day."

Li Xin let Yang'er go to the ground, let him walk slowly, tied his clothes up and said, "You still talk about Yang'er, don't you also stay in the house and sit on the embroidery building? The winter sun doesn't sun, you won't You get tanned, go out more often when the weather is good, stay indoors all the time, beware of mold."

A-mei laughed, answered "Yes", and said playfully, "I listen to my sister-in-law."

Amei's smiling face is particularly bright under the sun. She is already a 15-year-old girl, just at the age of youth and freshness, like a fresh peach waiting for someone to grab, no matter how you look at it, she is a pink and tender flower.

A-mei was a little embarrassed by Li Xin's sizing up, she covered her face and asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, what are you looking at?" Her voice was charming.

Li Xin laughed twice, and said, "It's nothing, let's go to that place and have a look."

The river beach is quite far away from Li Xin's new house, after all, it takes half an hour to walk around the top of the mountain.There is a shoal in front of them now, with sparse aquatic plants growing, and the water quality is not bad.

A-mei wiped the sweat from her forehead, pointed to the corner in front of her and said, "It should be here. I used to come here when I was young, but I almost never came here after that."

Li Xin nodded, hugged Yang'er and turned the corner.

Looking around, there is a watery river beach ahead. Indeed, as Guan Wu said, the rest is silt, and there is a stone wall at the end.

The river beach is very wide, roughly as big as a football field, and it would take a long time to walk around it.

The middle of the river beach was glowing white in the sun, and there should be some stagnant water.Going to the outside, it gradually dries up. There are weeds growing around, but there are many trees growing near the stone wall. If the river beach is filled with water, it will be like a natural lake, although the lake is relatively small. But it was enough for Li Xin.

Li Xin squinted his eyes, and saw that the center of the river beach was sunken, and the top was covered with mud, so there might be some foundations underneath.The height of the depression is estimated to be as high as a person. If it is filled with water, the silt will settle down. Because the river beach is big enough, it will not become muddy if you stir it.

If it is really possible to store water, it will become a fish pond with a little care...

Li Xin grinned, beckoned to A-mei, and said, "Come and see, is this where we looked out through the hole?"

A-mei took a closer look, her eyes lingering on the stone wall, and then she pointed to a place and said excitedly: "It's here, it's here! Sister-in-law, look, there is that crevice in the stone, and water is flowing out from under it, isn't it? The small river in the cave came out!"

Li Xin smiled, put Yang'er down and let him stand here, greeted A-mei himself, walked around the river beach and approached the edge of the stone wall.

Coincidentally, that stone crevice is right next to the river stand, if you can get out from the stone wall, you can reach the bank with a big step.If the road in the cave is opened, won't it save a lot of time to come to this river beach?
Li Xin buried himself down again to smell the smell of the mud, carefully inspected the color and composition of the mud, and found that there were still some moving aquatic animals inside, no matter what it was, it was organic matter, and the content should be quite rich .

As for the reason for the silt beach, it is probably lack of water?
Since there have been lotus flowers in full bloom here before, and there has been no other pollution, it should not be difficult to develop them again.

Li Xin looked at the top of the mountain again. This mountain belongs to the Guan family. The old house of the Guan family and the new house of the Guan family are on this side and the side of the mountain respectively. The distance between the two is not too close but not too far.It can be seen that this acre of mountainous land is quite broad.So in this way, does this Hetanzi also belong to the range of the Guan family?

Li Xin walked back after thinking, and A-mei asked her, "Sister-in-law, what are you thinking?"

"Well...it's nothing." Li Xin asked after a pause, "Sister, tell me, if the river beach is filled with water, lotus flowers and fish fry will be planted, the annual income will not be low, right?"

A-mei opened her mouth slightly, and said in disbelief, "Sister-in-law wants to grow lotus flowers and raise fish?"

"I have such an idea." Li Xin nodded and replied: "Does this river beach belong to the mountain forest? If so, it belongs to your elder brother. I can raise fish and pet lotus if I want. No, I have to spend some time..."

A-mei hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, you, you mean, you want to take care of this river beach here?"

Li Xin smiled, nodded and said, "Yes."

"But..." Amei was shocked again, and she was stunned: "But, no one in the village does this..."

"It's because no one is doing it, so I start to make money."

Li Xin patted A-mei on the back with a smile and said, "Let's go back first and ask your elder brother before we talk. By the way, A-mei, is this river beach considered to be in the mountains or forests?"

A-mei swallowed reluctantly, shook her head at Li Xin and said, "I don't know either, elder brother and grandpa should know..."

Li Xin quickly said, "Then go back and ask your elder brother and them."

The two sisters-in-law brought Yang'er back, and Erhei probably had a great time playing along the way. His whole body was covered in mud and dust, and was covered in grass clippings. He was still having fun on the way back.

It's true that he has been held back for a long time, maybe it's because he rarely has the chance to hang out with his master, that's why Erhei is so excited.

Li Xin ignored it, and went to call Guan Wen after returning to the new house.

Guan Wen and Lao Guan are tidying up the new chicken coop. They have built a foundation, left a space underneath, and placed a trough made of spliced ​​wooden piles. To collect chicken manure.Although Guan Wen felt a little incomprehensible, but thinking that the chicken coop would be easier to take care of and cleaner, he agreed to do it with all his heart.

I was studying the old juncture, and I heard my daughter-in-law calling me.Guan Wen hurriedly put aside the work in hand and went over.

Li Xin pulled him to the kitchen, and asked straight to the point: "Ah Wen, in that cave that day, the place that the second brother mentioned, the river beach in the back mountain, the place where lotus bloomed before, do you have any impression?"

Guan Wen washed his hands with water and replied, "I have an impression, what's the matter?" He said and looked at Li Xin who was sitting in front of the stove.

Li Xin pursed her lips and smiled: "It's nothing, I just want to ask you, is the river beach part of the mountain forest?"

"I don't know about this..." Guan Wenwangtian thought for a while and said, "The mountain and forest land is not actually the same as this mountain, but a rough estimate of the land that can be planted in the forest, about one mu, so it's a good deal. .But this mountain is usually used by our family to collect firewood, and it has always been our family. Others basically don’t come. After all, there are still many mountains, and this mountain is not too tall. Naturally, there is no shortage of this mountain.”

Li Xin frowned slightly: "Then you and your second brother go hunting..."

"It's on another mountain, and it's over this mountain."

Guan Wen shook off the water on his hand, took a rag to wipe it off, and asked, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

Li Xin didn't answer his question, but asked another question: "The place at Hetanzi, can we serve it to make a living?"

Guan Wen frowned: "What do you do for a living?"

"Growing lotus."

Li Xin blinked, and said to Guan Wen: "My sister and I went to see it today. It's a good place. We walked into the karst cave we found, and at the end is the river beach, which can be connected into a line. Wait. You opened the rocky ground, and the inside of the cave was well maintained, and the river beach was reclaimed..."

Li Xin smiled and rolled her eyes: "Are you still worried that our family can't eat rice every day?"

Guan Wen was a little moved, but he still couldn't believe what Li Xin said: "What kind of tricks can you grow by raising lotus..." He has never raised lotus, so naturally he doesn't understand.

Li Xin doesn't know too much, but she believes that there must be people who understand and know. She has some superficial knowledge of fish pond lotus cultivation, and then ask experienced farmers. If it can be done, the harvest will not only be lotus. Lotus seed, lotus root, fish, and aquatic animals such as eels... These things can all be her big profits.

Thinking this way in his heart, Li Xin told Guan Wen like this, but Guan Wen shook his head and waved his hands and said: "This is not good, digging lotus roots will be punished by the lotus god."

Li Xin glared at him: "Have you dug?"

"No."

"Then how do you know?"

"It was passed down from the ancestors..."

Li Xin sighed and said, "Ah Wen, how many years have passed since this happened, why are you so stubborn? Who knows whether the things passed down at that time are true or not, anyway, I don't believe it."

Guan Wen frowned and said, "It's better to believe what you have than to believe what you don't have. What the old man said is always reasonable, so it's better not to touch this business for a living."

Li Xin was very displeased, he let out a long breath, and said to Guan Wen, "I want to try."

Before Guan Wen dissuaded her, she said, "I don't want to be poor like this. If nothing else, even the dowry of Axiu and sister, and Shuxiu after Yang'er, I have to earn it."

Guan Wen moved his mouth, sighed and said, "I know..."

"Awen, don't forget how we got the money now." Li Xin stretched out his ten fingers to Guan Wen and said, "The government rewarded 100 taels. You owe debts, built an attic, and installed a fireplace. Life is easier now, but you should know how much you have left. Although I am in charge of the money, but no matter how well I manage it, a smart woman can’t live without rice. There are times when you can sit and eat. How much can you do by working part-time?"

Guan Wen was speechless, and after a moment of silence, he said, "However, it's dangerous to make a living..."

"I don't believe it's dangerous." Li Xin raised his eyebrows: "I don't believe the words that have been handed down at all. It's not the same old saying, if you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't. If you don't believe it, the punishment of the lotus god will fall." Not on me."

Guan Wen looked at her for a long time, then sighed and said, "It's useless for you to persuade me. If you really want to do this, I'm afraid Dad won't agree."

"What does it have to do with your father?"

"Father believes this, if he knows, he will be afraid that you will offend the lotus god, and the lotus god will punish the Guan family."

Li Xin opened his mouth and paused for a while before saying, "But, the mountains and forests are allotted to us."

"That's what you said, but aren't we still a family with dad?" Guan Wen sighed: "And I don't know if the river beach belongs to the land of the mountains and forests now, I have to go back and ask dad. If he says no, You can't move either. If he says yes, he will definitely figure out what you asked that Hetanzi to do, and since you said that, it's no wonder he agreed to you to open that piece of land."

Li Xin frowned.

Ever since she separated from Guan Wen, she has had less contact with Guan Ming. It is said that this father-in-law has recently become addicted to gambling, and he often yells at people in the village.If he doesn't come to trouble her, Li Xin will naturally not provoke him, seeing that he and Guan Zhicheng have been peaceful recently.There was an accident at her natal family during the New Year's Eve last time, and she didn't see him come out to say something that made her unhappy. The most extreme thing was "bad luck", which she could ignore.

But according to her father-in-law's thinking, would she think that if she wanted to move that land and offend the lotus god, it would harm Guan Zhicheng's official career?
This is not necessarily the case, after the new year, in the fall of this year, the scholar will be able to take the exam. If her lotus pond is reclaimed, the first batch of lotus roots will be harvested in autumn.If Guan Zhicheng doesn't win, according to his attitude of shirking responsibility, can't he push this matter to her?What he said, what Guan Ming believed, and she still couldn't tell if it was really her own fault.

Li Xin was analyzing the pros and cons, and Guan Wen had been staring at her for a long time, seeing her frowning and sighing, he knew that she must have concerns.

After a long silence, Guan Wencai said, "Xin'er, I'll tell dad."

"Um... ah?"

Li Xin returned to his senses in surprise, Guan Wen smiled at her and said, "If you really want to try this business, I'll go and tell Dad, just say it's my idea."

"This..." Of course Li Xin is very happy that his man is willing to stand up, but he also knows that Guan Wen is like a soft-footed shrimp in front of his family. I was very upset, maybe I would say him again.When the time comes, Guan Wen will be holding back something in his heart, and if he doesn't say anything, he must be sad.

She was born unlucky and she couldn't bear him to be sad.

Guan Wen took her hand and rubbed it: "Don't think about it so much. Since you have found a job, let's do this, and I won't find any part-time job. I run my own job, earn money and lose money. Regarding my own size, I am happy not to bow to others, and when I receive the money, I feel a little worthless."

Li Xin shook Guan Wen's hand with emotion, knowing in his heart.

Guan Wen used to be a bodyguard master, and others respected him, so he stepped back from his position as a bodyguard master, and worked part-time during the slack season, he must have seen his master's face.How can he feel better when there is a contrast?
Let's live like this, what is lost and what is gained is called life.

Li Xin smiled at Guan Wen, patted Guan Wen's shoulder proudly and said, "Father, I will leave this matter to you! Please!"

Guan Wen laughed, saying that she was "making trouble", but the smile in his eyes was extremely warm.

(End of this chapter)