Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 340 Earn Everyone's Money by Yourself (Two in One)

First raise fish and then grow mulberry and silkworms. If you want to really make a fortune for your family, it is not enough to count on only three shops, and you have to plan other developments.

"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. It's rare that you have such ambitions, not bad." Wen Ding praised, with a flash of appreciation in his eyes, and then asked: "Contracting a fish pond, let alone the later stage The way to purchase fish fry, the cost, and the management fee are just the rent money in the early stage, and hiring people to dig ponds, divert water and inject water is already a lot of money.”

"That's right, don't you have to spend money everywhere?" Jin Xi smiled and said, but she is not afraid, the road has to be walked step by step, and the meal has to be eaten at one bite. She likes challenges, but she will not do things far beyond her ability too far a thing.

"If there is a shortage of money, don't lie to me," he said.

Jin Xi slightly moved the hand making the bed, then turned around and looked back at him.

Wen Ding thought she had misunderstood, touched his nose, and added: "I don't mean anything else, what I mean is that although you are very capable, Brother Wen also wants to do his best. Look at me like this... "

He pointed at his leg helplessly, and said with a bitter smile: "Brother Wen can't help you now, only in terms of money, I can help you a little bit."

Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled at him, compared to his carefulness, she seemed much more carefree.

He came over and patted Wen Ding on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's not a layman, then I'd like to say thank you first, and I will be the first one to think of your golden Buddha when I look back and find that there is a shortage of turnover!"

As she said that, Jin Xi paused for a moment, her expression became serious, and she said to Wending in an almost discussion tone: "However, Brother Wen, every time I opened a shop in the past, you stood in front of me and paved the way for me. Since the opening of the shop, you have always been standing behind and helping me. Overtly and secretly, you have cleared the obstacles for me. This time raising fish, I want you to let go and watch me give it a go. After two years of training, I, an apprentice Can my son become a teacher?"

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There was such a scene in the afternoon, and at night, no one in the family was in the mood to eat, and they all sat in the dining hall in the inner courtyard, sighing and dazed, and Wen Ding was there, sitting opposite Jin Xi.

"The fourth uncle came over and said that the second cousin carried him out of our compound. Before he had crossed the pond and dam, my father woke up and made a fuss on his back to get down. In the end, it was my father who walked back to the village by himself. No one was invited to invite Dr. Li!"

Jin Xi rested her chin on her hands, stared at the two dancing candles on the table in front of her, and said to herself.

"Your master is pretending to be dizzy at all!" Liang Yuzhong's thick eyebrows twitched into a pimple, and said: "He is finding a way for himself! Hmph, I really didn't expect that such a trick would come to me. It's really embarrassing Hateful!" Liang Yuzhong still couldn't let go of his hatred as he said that, he slammed his fist on the table.

Jin Xi and Sun Shi exchanged glances, Sun Shi lowered her brows and said in a low voice: "Today we have torn our faces with Dad, what should we do about this?"

Although Sun didn't mention his name, he was obviously asking for Liang Yuzhong's opinion.

Liang Yuzhong snorted angrily and said: "What else can we do, what we say is just water being poured out, from today onwards, none of us should go to the old house again, so as not to make trouble when we turn around!"

Sun raised her eyes and looked at Liang Yuzhong in surprise, and said, "Father Xi'er, you really want to talk to Master Xi... Forget it, talk in anger, just keep your mouth cool. After the matter is over, let's just talk about it." You can’t take those angry words seriously, otherwise, the outsider won’t care who we are right and who is wrong, just poke our spines and say we are not filial!”

"Filial and unfilial, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and we have a clear conscience! I am really fed up with this poor, vicious and wronged. And you mother and daughter, I can't recall the wronged you have suffered all these years. Thinking back, I feel as uncomfortable as being scratched by a dog!" Liang Yuzhong said stubbornly.

Sun looked at Jin Xi in embarrassment, Jin Xi frowned and remained silent, thinking in her heart.Sun turned her attention to Wending again, hoping that he could help enlighten him with a few words of persuasion.

Mrs. Sun didn't open her mouth, just a look, and Wending understood.

He put down the teacup in his hand, coughed lightly, and asked Jin Xi in a loud voice: "Xi'er, I heard you mention that in the future, you intend to guide the third and fourth children on the path of studying and becoming an official? Now, you still Is that the plan?"

Jin Xi stopped thinking, and looked up at Wending, this is considering the matter of the old Liangtou, why did he suddenly ask about the third and fourth?

Without thinking, Jin Xi nodded and said: "That's right, my parents and I have always planned this way." The farmer's hope is that the one-third of an acre of land will be so mediocre for a lifetime to make ends meet.In the event of natural disasters, there will be no crops in the fields, and maybe they will have to sell their children and daughters as slaves.

For those who do business, the sea of ​​business is ups and downs, the morning comes cold and the rain comes later, the wind comes later, and disasters change in an instant, and businessmen have no social status in this world to speak of.What Jin Xi wants most is to work hard to earn money, to train her two younger brothers to become officials, to become prominent, and to live a life different from theirs.

Wen Ding smiled knowingly, and immediately continued: "As far as I know, when the imperial court selects scholars through imperial examinations, when the household department examines the family background of scholars, it usually checks up the three generations of the family. Grandpa, father, and the scholar himself."

When Wen Ding finished speaking, a flash of light flashed in Jin Xi's mind, and she sat there stunned.

Although Wending didn't say it clearly, the meaning in that words was not only Jin Xi, Liang Yuzhong and Sun Shi both understood it.

That's right, they broke up with the old Liangtou, and their family is really happy now.However, in the long run, the one who suffers the most is his own side.

Everyone dispersed at night, Jin Xi accompanied Mrs. Sun back to the East Wing, Liang Yuzhong sent Wending to the front yard.

"How can it be so easy? It can be broken if you say it? After all, it is the blood of father and son! As a daughter-in-law, if I really try to persuade you to die, it will be untenable based on emotion and reason! Instead of this, it is better to persuade , at least, your father can still have some comfort in his heart." On the way back to the wing room, when Jin Xi asked Sun why she persuaded her to make peace, Sun said,

Jin Xi nodded, but Mrs. Sun is a transparent person.

"Mother, having said that, we are all satisfied with Daddy's performance and attitude today." Jin Xi said, it can be seen that Liang Yuzhong really put up a fight today.

Mrs. Sun shook her head helplessly, and said: "Well, with your father protecting us like that, no matter whether it is broken or not, what will happen later, I am also worried about it. Hey, it's just the old house, I'm afraid your father will When the bull's temper comes up, he will freeze there for a long time!"

"Both sides have been torn apart, even if it can't be broken, we have to let the Lord hang out, we don't dare to ask him to reflect on himself, just ask us to be quiet for a few days!" Jin Xi said, just wanting to be cold for a while Old Liangtou, let him know that soft persimmons can't be squeezed, they will explode as soon as they are squeezed, and they will stick to you.

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Ever since the old Liangtou and Liang Yuzhong had a big fight, Liang Yuzhong stopped setting foot in the old house for seven consecutive days.Even if he had something to do in the village, even if he met the old Liangtou face to face, Liang Yuzhong would turn his head aside and pretend not to recognize him.

Mrs. Sun doesn't stay at home at all, and the scope of activities is in the front house and backyard of the house. The farthest place is the two cabbage beds under the wall outside the yard.

Jin Xi was simply busy with business in the shop and had no time to go to the village. Jin Rou and the others went to play in the village like children. When they saw Lao Liangtou from afar, they turned around and ran away.

This made Lao Liang very angry, and wanted to grab the third-bedroom person to reprimand him, but he couldn't get rid of his old face.

So the old Liangtou also mustered up his energy, planning to take a gamble.What Old Liangtou didn't know was that in the first few days, Liang Yuzhong was really angry, but after that, he was really busy with his feet on the ground, because Jin Xi's family was planning a big deal under the twelfth lunar year. matter.

The days passed quickly, and after the second snow of this winter, it was the 21st of the twelfth lunar month in a blink of an eye.

It was sunny after the snow, and the sun was very good.Because the Chinese New Year is approaching, these days, by the pond at the entrance of the village, there are women carrying wooden buckets and tubs to wash the water all day long.At Jinxi's house, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Dong and Mrs. Jian are also hurrying up to do the washing and drying, keeping their feet off the ground.

Mrs. Sun still lives in Jinxi's house, helping to take care of the children. She has to wait until the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, when Sun Yubao and the others come back from the county to pick her up and go back to Sunjiagou for the new year.

Jin Xi didn't go to town today, but changed into a pair of leather boots and carried a big bamboo bamboo basket, which is extremely heavy, fortunately she is not weak anymore.

"Mother, I went over to Liujiatang!" Jin Xi greeted with a smile to Sun who was walking towards him after drying a batch of clothes.

"Hey, okay, be careful on the way, come home as soon as the food is delivered, don't delay!" Sun urged.

She is no longer a playful child, Sun still did not forget to tell her, Jin Xi nodded and smiled, and strode out of the yard with a basket on her shoulders.

In the area of ​​Liujiatang, the water in the pond had been drained clean a few days ago, and the rest of the water, Liang Yuzhong and the others brought a water truck and pumped it clean.Only at the bottom of the pond where there are hollows, there is still some accumulated water, which is no higher than the knees.

Jin Xi feared that the food in the basket would get cold, so she walked fast, and at this moment her body was hot.Drop the basket on the high dam and stand there panting.

Below the pond, a group of men were carrying shovels, hoes, and soil sieves for mud, digging the pond in full swing.

Cai Jinshan and Cai Qingyang brought four long-term workers in the family, Chunzhu, Daniu, Erniu from the village, two sons of Zhang Tuhu's family, and other men in the village who were close to Liang Yuzhong's family.

Liang Yuzhong and Liang Yuzhou, Liang Lisheng and the others were naturally also among them. The big guys divided the labor and cooperated, some shoveled and some were responsible for moving the pond mud.Standing on the high dam, Jin Xi saw them bring up baskets of pond mud and pile them on the edge of the pond.Then a special person came over to even out the pond mud and level it.

Jin Xi looked at the land on the edge of the pond, spread out in a circle, leveled by the pond mud, and nodded secretly.

When negotiating with Li of Liujia Village to lease the Liujiatang, Jinxi also leased a few acres of land around the pond, for the purpose of cultivating silkworms.

The soil in the pond is fertile, and putting it in these few acres of land can effectively improve the soil quality.

"Xi'er, are you here to bring us lunch?" Liang Yuzhou caught a glimpse of Jinxi standing on the pond here, and shouted loudly.

Jin Xi waved to them, calling them to come up to have a rest and eat.Liang Yuzhong stopped the shovel in his hand, and hurriedly called the big guys to go ashore to eat.

Liang Yuzhou washed his hands, climbed up the pond, and helped Jinxi bring out a stack of bowls and chopsticks, a large rice bowl, and a vegetable bowl from a large bamboo basket.

"There are so many things, thanks to you carrying more than three miles, why don't you get someone to deliver them for you?" Liang Yuzhou asked, while starting to serve the big guys.

"It's rare that the sun is good today, they are busy washing and drying at home!" Jin Xi said.

While speaking, other people also washed their hands and went ashore one after another, and gathered around here.

"Xi'er, what kind of food did you cook this afternoon?" Liang Yuzhong also came over and asked with a smile.

Jin Xi smiled, and untied the lid of the large vegetable bowl, and immediately, a strong smell of meat came out, and everyone was salivating just by smelling the smell without looking at it.

"Hey, what a great meal, it turned out to be a big piece of steamed pork belly! My sister-in-law is really willing to give it to us like this!" Chunzhu praised.

"My mother said, the big guys come here before dawn to dig pond mud and do hard work, but they are tired, so how can they cut down on eating? Here, here is a bowl of hot and sour radish sticks to appetize." Jin Xi said with a smile.

When Jin Xi's family released the news that they would lease Liu's Pond to raise fish, many people in the village who were close friends with Liang Yuzhong's family came over and offered to help dig the pond mud.

Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun are very grateful, which shows that they are very popular in the village, and when they do great things, others come to support them.And Jin Xi is also very happy about this.

There were no modern machines such as excavators in this era.When doing such a major event, it is the most human test.

Jin Xi and her parents talked together and proposed to calculate the wages for the big guys. Digging the pond mud is a hard job that consumes energy. The Liujiatang has an area of ​​about three acres, and it will take five or six days to dig at least.

However, these villagers who came to help were very determined not to be paid.Liang Yuzhong and the others were helpless.Jin Xi thought about it for a while, and decided to let it go for the time being, not to discuss the matter of wages, and wait until the spring of next year when the pond is filled with fish.

So, for the past few days, Mrs. Sun has worked hard inside for two meals a day, taking out the most real things as rewards.

"Big guy, let's make do with this lunch. We'll finish work in the afternoon, and then go to my house and have a drink!" Liang Yuzhong greeted loudly.

"Hey, okay, everyone heard it, work hard, don't waste your energy, we will still have wine at night!" Chunzhu said loudly, and the others laughed and said, "Okay!"

A gust of wind blew away the clouds, everyone had enough food and drink, and without a moment's delay, they got busy again in full swing.Jin Xi crouched on the pond and packed the bowls and chopsticks into a bamboo basket, greeted Liang Yuzhong, put them on and went home directly.

Because of everyone's concerted efforts, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Liujiatang had been almost dug up, and the soil in the pond in the several acres of fields next to it was almost level after being exposed to the sun for the past few days.

Long-term and short-term work, full work on the 24th.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the four long-term workers of Jinxi's family packed up their bedding and went to their homes for the New Year's Eve, and they will not return until the eighth day of the first lunar month.

The three shops of Jin Xi's family are closed for business.Cui Xique, sister Xiulan, and brother Baohong are all here. On the morning of the 24th, Sun Yuxia, Sun Dahu and his wife, as well as Sun Yubao, left the county seat in a carriage and arrived at Changqiao Town. They picked up Sun Erhu and Qin Ya, and they came to Jinxi's home in Jinjishan Village talking and laughing.

Sun Yubao and Sun Erhu pushed Wending to bask in the sun in the yard, talking and drinking tea.

Mrs. Sun, Mrs. Sun, Sun Yuxia, Jin Xi, Qin Ya, all gathered in the backyard to amuse the children and make daily routines.

"Yubao's school is closed for annual leave in his early [-]s. His second brother-in-law and I urged him to come here first. He said he wanted to take advantage of these few days to study hard." Sun Yuxia said with a giggle .

"That's right, when you come back to celebrate the New Year, when you visit relatives and friends, there is no one to stop and relax." Sun said with a smile.

When Jinxi came back from the county last time, she told her family about Sun Yubao's study in school, everyone was excited, surprised and pleased.

"It's rare for him to have such painstaking efforts. I only hope that he will be good, study hard and learn, and don't dare to expect to be successful in the future. As long as he can be like Xi'er and her cousin, a scholar with a reputation, can avoid some corvees at home. And taxes, we don’t need to kowtow and kneel when we meet the official, we are content!” Granny Sun said with a smile.

"The old lady is too shallow-minded. People in our village say that brother Yubao has been smart and clever since he was a child, and his head is good. He is not like our native mountain children. Now that brother Yubao has entered the school, he will definitely shine in the family! "Sitting next to each other with Jin Xi, Qin Ya couldn't help but support Sun Yubao.

Mrs. Sun shook her head with a smile, and Sun said: "Then it would be better if you borrowed your good words!"

Sun Yuxia was crazy by herself, and she hadn't seen Qinya for a long time, she was so affectionate and crazy, she couldn't help but reached out and patted Qinya on the shoulder, and asked her with a smile.

"Qinya, after the Chinese New Year, my uncle Erhu will be eighteen, and he's the age to talk about his wife. Or, when I arrive in the village tomorrow, I'll ask Dahu to buy a restaurant and invite your aunt and the others to talk?"

When Qinya heard this, two slices of wine red quickly appeared on Yuanyuan's face.It was a private matter between her and Sun Erhu, and Cui Xique and the others around her knew it well, but no one said it publicly.

Luckily for Sun Yuxia, the fig leaf was immediately lifted by Crazy People.

"Sister Yuxia, you haven't eaten yet, why are you drunk, and you still make fun of me with all the drunken things you say, I won't talk to you!" Qin Ya is also a hot tempered person, and immediately turned back.

Sun Yuxia laughed out loud, and spat: "You're still talking hard like a dead duck like me. Outsiders don't know the pouch that Erhu wears in and out of his waist. We can tell at a glance that it's your handicraft!"

Mrs. Sun stretched out her hand and tugged at Sun Yuxia, but Sun Yuxia didn't realize it and was still giggling.

Qin Ya stared at Sun Yuxia with her mouth wide open, Sun Yuxia stretched out her hand and twisted Qin Ya's bull nose, and said with a smile: "What a stubborn girl, she wants to be my sister-in-law, and still stares at me like this, old man The Sun family is old and young in an orderly manner, come and come, while there are no outsiders here, call your sister-in-law to come and listen!"

Qin Ya stomped her feet, neither annoyed nor annoyed that someone like Sun Yuxia was going crazy, she quickly grabbed Jin Xi's arm, put her face on Jin Xi's shoulder, unable to lift her head in embarrassment.

"Hey, my sister-in-law asked you something. My uncle Erhu, such a silly boy who can't beat a fart with three sticks, how did you manage to capture him? Tell us quickly!" Sun Yuxia has not yet Let Qin Ya go, continue to make fun of her.

Qin Ya wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in, she put her head on Jin Xi's shoulder and dared not lift it, her feet kept stomping on the ground.

Jin Xi patted Qin Ya on the back while pursing her lips and smiling. Sun shook her head helplessly. He stopped her with a loud voice.

"You look like a grown-up, you're a rough man who's married, you just opened your mouth, didn't you see the two big girls sitting here!" Mrs. Sun stopped Sun Yuxia from saying, and Sun Yuxia pursed her lips and laughed.

Mrs. Sun shook her head helplessly, and shifted her gaze to Qin Ya who had raised her head, but her face was like a monkey's butt.

The old lady's eyes were kind and caring, and she asked: "Qinya, I also watched you grow up, and I treat you like Xi'er. There are no outsiders here, and your sister Yuxia is not laughing at you." , if you want, you might as well tell us about the matter between you and Erhu boy, when do you plan to settle it?"

"After the two tigers and eighteenth year, when all the boys in the mountains were sixteen or seventeen, my mother started to plan. Erhu's mother left early, and his father has been asking Xi'er Gapo to keep an eye on the good girl." Sun added on the side.

Jin Xi squeezed Qin Ya's hand lightly, and gave her an encouraging look.Qin Ya suppressed the embarrassment on her face, and looked up at Mrs. Sun shyly.

Mrs. Sun smiled slightly, with a trace of guilt and worry on her face, and said: "Er Hu and Yu Bao are the same age, according to the rules in the mountains, the two of them were planning to plan last year, but we big guys have been planning a plan in the past two years." Haven't you been busy making a living? It's only been a little bit stable this year."

"Girl Qin, what I mean is, if you and Erhu boy, both of you are interested in each other from the bottom of your heart, it's not a child's play..."

"Old lady, we are really rare, not children playing house..." Before the old lady Sun finished speaking, Qinya interrupted eagerly, and clarified the relationship between her and Sun Erhu.

Seeing Qin Ya's eager look, everyone in the room was stunned for a moment, and Sun Yuxia suddenly clapped her hands and giggled again.

Qin Ya soon realized her gaffe, blushing almost dripping, turned her head, and used Jin Xi's shoulder as a shield again.

"There's nothing embarrassing about it. You, shut up." Mrs. Sun glanced at Sun Yuxia, and said something to relieve the siege. Sun Yuxia immediately stopped talking, and sat there holding back smiling.

Mrs. Sun looked at Qin Ya and said with a smile: "In this case, let's invite the families of both parties to have a good talk when we go back to Sunjiagou to celebrate the New Year."

Mrs. Sun thought for a while, and then continued: "Although Erhu is old, but Qin girl is only thirteen after the new year, and she is fourteen years old. It's too early to get married."

(End of this chapter)