Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 183 The Strange Bai Family
After the family finished the presents happily, Bai Shao told Wu Shi that the magistrate's daughter-in-law wanted to order clothes, which aroused Wu's great attention.

Calculated, this should be Jinse's first ready-to-wear business, so Wu and the embroiderers attach great importance to it.

Therefore, Bai Shao painted flowers, Wu's master embroidery, and the embroiderer assisted in embroidery. After nearly a month of busy work, the embroidery was finally completed.

The next step was to embroider pearls, but since the end of October had already passed, Wu shi put the clothes aside for the time being.

Because the rice in Izumo Town is ripe.

The Bai family is now considered a small landlord. The 35 acres in Izumo Town, plus the three acres in Shilipu, add up to 38 acres. This is not a lot of land in Izumo Town. But compared to ordinary people, it is obviously a lot.

A lot of land means that the family is rich, which is a good thing.

But when it comes to busy farming, it's a little worrying.

Because Bai Shao's family doesn't have enough manpower to harvest rice.

Fortunately, in this era, there is a status called "temporary worker", which is similar to that of a shop assistant. You sign a contract for a period of time. During this period, Bai Shao's family pays them to help harvest rice, beat rice, Grow wheat.

At first, when Bai Chuanbai heard that his family was going to hire a day laborer, he was a little surprised, because just half a year ago, he was still the day laborer who was hired.

Unexpectedly, in just half a year, he could already hire part-time workers.

This change made him full of surprises and emotions.

When it was time to harvest the rice, he saw more than a dozen day laborers busy in his field, and his eyes even moistened quietly.

In order not to let his children find out, he ran to wipe the corners of his eyes secretly.

Bai Wei realized that she was going to go, and Bai Shao gently pulled her arm, shook her head, then continued to stand on the ground, watching a group of people cutting rice in full swing.

In this era, there was no cutting machine, and it was all cut by people with a sickle. After harvesting, it was spread out on the flat ground, and a cylindrical stone was pulled by people or cattle to roll back and forth on it, so as to press down the rice.

As for the cylindrical stone, it is called a mill in the Shilipu dialect.

Bai’s family has a mill, but Bai Shao’s family does not have one, so Bai Chuanbai went to buy a new mill two days before the busy farming season, and picked a prime-aged ox, and asked the day laborer to lead the ox back and forth on the straw over and over again. Crush, take off the rice, lift it up, put it on a piece of cloth to dry in the sun, and then put it away.

Although 35 mu of land looks like a lot, with the busy work of more than a dozen part-time workers, the harvesting, plowing, and wheat planting were completed in just three to five days.

The rest is only three acres of land in Shilipu.

According to Bai Shao's meaning, two short-term laborers were left to plant the three mu of land together.

But Bai Chuanbai didn't want to, he was already thin-skinned, and now in Izumo Town, it's fine to call day laborers to harvest the seeds. After all, there are not many people around who know him.

But Shilipu is different, that is the place where he grew up, and almost every villager has relatives, he can't hire two short-term laborers to farm the land, because it will only make the villagers talk about it, behind his back Pointing and pointing, and saying that he is a little stinky, and so on.

What he meant was that it would be fine to plant the three acres of land in Shilipu by yourself. It's not a big job anyway, and with the addition of oxen and plows, it can be said to be easier.

No one wanted to quarrel over such a trivial matter, so they all agreed with Bai Chuanbai's idea.

One morning at the end of October, Bai Chuanbai got up early, and after seeing that the food made by Shiweitian was all right, Rucai took the calf out with confidence, and tied the flat cart at home to the cow. Then he installed a plow on it, and got into the ox cart to go to Shilipu to harvest rice.

Who knew that the side door of the Bai house was opened before the ox cart started to move, and the two daughters of the Bai family, wearing simple trousers and coats, ran out of the yard in a hurry, boarded the ox cart in twos and found a seated down.

"You...what are you doing?" Bai Chuanbai was a little stunned.

"Father, how tired you are farming alone, my sister and I will help you." Bai Shao said with a smile.

"How can I make my daughter work, you two should stay at home with your mother." Bai Chuanbai wanted to persuade the two daughters to go down.

"Father, it's okay. My brother is at home. It's good for us to measure the land for you." Bai Shao and Bai smiled, but they didn't want to go down.

Bai Chuanbai couldn't hold back his two daughters, so he had no choice but to drive the bullock cart and wandered to Izumo Town.

Because the roller was too heavy, it was hard to take it with me, so I had to go to the Bai family to borrow the roller, so I bought skewered pork on Baichuanbai Road, and bought some commonly eaten dishes, and gave it to the Bai family.

Bai Shao and Bai Wei didn't say anything.

If you want to borrow something from others, there is no one with empty hands.

Besides, Bai Chuanbai's awareness proved that he had finally separated his home from Shilipu Bai's family, which was a good thing, and Bai Shao would not stop him.

When they reached the gate of Bai's house in Shilipu, Bai Shao and Bai Wei jumped out of the ox cart first, one carrying the meat and the other carrying the vegetables, and when Bai Chuanbai parked the ox cart, they followed them in.

It was still the familiar small courtyard, and the same group of people.

It's just that it's always a little weird to look at, and it feels different from before.

Bai Shao tilted her head and observed for a long time, only to find that everyone's attire had changed.

In the whole Bai family, only Mrs. Liu had two good clothes, Bai Kou and Qian's were not bad, and Xu's family's help was not bad, but the others wore ordinary clothes, especially Bai Ying and Bai Zhi, The clothes are the most ragged in the whole Bai family.

But now, not to mention Liu's expensive dark red embroidered gold silk Baifu clothes, Bai Zhi Baiying's clothes are all very good.

Ever since Bai Shao's family opened the embroidery shop, their eyes on these fabrics have become poisonous. At a glance, they can see that the clothes on Bai Ying and Bai Zhi are at least two hundred yuan and ten feet, and the clothes on Liu's are more expensive, at least one. Two silvers are one zhang.

Moreover, they also wore all kinds of jewelry on their heads, among which Mrs. Liu was the most exaggerated. There were three hairpins of three or two weights on their heads, and they were not afraid of pressing their heads...

Bai Shao secretly slandered in her heart, but smiled on the surface, entered the hall of the Bai family together with Bai Chuanbai, and greeted the old man sweetly, "Master, we are here to see you."

"Hey, hey, Fifth Sister is here." Old Man Bai stood up happily from the table, holding a cup of tea in his hand, and when he saw Bai Chuanbai, he took a sip before saying loudly, "The third one is too. Here it comes, you come as soon as you come, why do you still bring something?"

"Buy me some meat to eat." Bai Shao smiled, and quietly took a look at the tea set, and found that it was exactly the same as the set she had seen at the tea set shop in Xieyang County yesterday, and the price was about the same as that of Bai Chuanbai , but because the pattern is a bit old-fashioned, it was given up by Bai Shao.

Now, it actually appeared in the hands of old man Bai...

All of this made Bai Shao couldn't help squinting her eyes, she secretly made a bold guess in her heart - did the Bai family in Shilipu suddenly get rich?
Otherwise, where can I get money to buy new clothes, new jewelry, and new tea sets.

What's more, in the past when they came to buy things, although Mrs. Liu looked down on them, she was very rare and always asked her daughter-in-law to take them away and put them in the pot house, waiting for the next meal. Greedy.

But now, Mrs. Liu didn't even care about the meat they bought. Sitting next to Mr. Bai, she raised her fingers and emphasized with a slightly deliberate tone, "Sir, if you don't want to come and see us, let's just buy it." What are these things, who doesn’t have any meat yet.”

Bai Chuanbai was a little embarrassed. He originally thought that there was not much money in Shilipu. With Liu's personality, he would definitely give some to the Liu family during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there would be very little left over. The family would definitely not be able to eat meat for a few days. Bring a little, just enough to make them have a good meal.

Unexpectedly, the family seems to be living a very good life, and they don't can't afford meat, and they seem to despise pork.

"This...mother..." Bai Chuanbai was stupid and couldn't say anything eloquent, so he could only stand where he was, and said with some embarrassment, "If mother doesn't like it, next time I come to Shilipu, I won't bring meat .”

"Next time?" Mrs. Liu snorted coldly, "You really don't need to bring meat next time, because we will not live in Shi Mile Pu."

(End of this chapter)