Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 78 The Restless Wang Family Picking Bayberry (4)
"Then Uncle Wang, I'll leave this to you." Xiao Hua thought about 10 people, 8 Wen a day, that's 80 Wen, even if it's 4 days, it's 320 Wen, of which excluding Uncle Wang and Ronghua, it's just over 200 Wen.The labor force in ancient times was really cheap.But it’s no wonder that a lot of money like Huangcun can buy 3 steamed buns or 2 eggs.

"Don't worry, I will find a good person for you tomorrow." Wang Changgui nodded his promise.

"Uncle Wang, let me ask you, did you bring your own tools, like hoes, as you know, my family doesn't have any tools." Xiaohua thought of this key issue, and it would be easier if their family provided it themselves.

"When I notify them at that time, let them bring it with them. Anyway, they are all from their own village."

"Well, thank you Uncle Wang first. By the way, Uncle Wang, I will pay your wages once every six months. Do you think so?" Now there are less than 6 taels of silver left, and it takes 2 taels to dig a well. , This money has to be saved, and I have to find a way to make money quickly.

"I don't care about you and Aunt Wang, any time is fine."

"Well, that's good, let's put it this way first. Aunt Wang Sun has to ask you to help me. I will give you 2 taels of silver for the bamboo shoots. Let's charge more for this batch. We won't collect it until mid-April. It’s too old. Take advantage of this time to charge more. If there are any from other villages, we’ll take it too.” The bamboos here are all green bamboos, and they’re usually spring bamboo shoots. The current bamboo shoots are not very good, but there is no way, collect more now, make more, and then dry them thoroughly, and sell them in August and September.

"Well, your mother told me about this. It's a coincidence. I have been asking questions from the next village one after another in the past few days. If this is the case, I will accept them all." Xiaocao's mother also wanted to earn more money. During this period of time, with Xiaohua's family, she has also made more than two or three taels. This amount of money was beyond her imagination before. In less than two months, she has earned the fruits of three years of hard work by her family in previous years. .They have many families and many children, and now the children are getting married one after another, asking for money in all kinds of ways.Fortunately, Xiao Hua's family gave her a hand.In fact, she was also very moved. Now she is working hard not only for Xiaohua's family, but also for themselves.

Time flies, and 20 days have passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period of time, during a market trip in the middle of the month, Xiaohua only went to buy some necessities such as oil lamps, tableware, needles and threads.The family bought cloth, because the family was poor in the past, there were no needles but no thread, and the old clothes and cloth shoes that Xiaohua was wearing before were borrowed by Jingniang from Aunt Wang's house.

In the past twenty days, another 200 catties of dried bamboo shoots and 30 catties of sour bamboo shoots have been sold one after another.Except for the distribution to Aunt Wang, Xiaohua's family earned 1560 wen.Xiaohua's family also bought another 2 mu of paddy fields, but the money for buying paddy fields was not enough. Xiaohua took out 5 taels from her private house money, plus the remaining less than 4 taels before, there was less than 1 taels left. Two taels of silver, plus 1560 for selling bamboo shoots, now the whole family only has 1 tael and 734 left. Adding the remaining money from Jingniang before, it is only a little over 2 taels, which is just enough to dig a well.

"Auntie, I brought you the man who dug the well." Cheng Wenqiang shouted in the yard early in the morning.It has been raining intermittently for the past few days, so it has been delayed.

"Hey, here we come." Mrs. Ruan hurriedly called people in, went to boil water, and exchanged pleasantries.The man who dug the well began to circle around to see the suitable position.

"Grandma, my mother and I have something to go out, you can greet them." Xiao Hua and Mrs. Ruan greeted each other, and went up the mountain with Jing Niang with the basket.

"Mom, have you brought a bag? I want to see if the bayberry is ripe?" Xiaohua thought, thinking that it is already April in the lunar calendar, which is supposed to be May or June in the Gregorian calendar, so at least the bayberry should be red. Yes, it's just that she doesn't know how ripe the bayberry needs to be to make wine, and she doesn't know the maturity of the bayberry on the tree now.I have to go and have a look today. If possible, I will pick some bamboo shoots today. If not, I will pick the bamboo shoots first. They stopped collecting bamboo shoots half a month ago, and now there are no bamboo shoots.The bamboo forest should not be trampled seriously, and there may be some bamboo fungus.

"Bring them all, you little girl, it's hard for you to think about these all day long. The family is supported by you now." Jing Niang looked up at the sky, and sometimes she thought, if the husband is still there, then now What will it be like?

I heard that some of the people who were conscripted back then in the town have come back one after another in the past few days, but none of the Chengjiakeng conscripted at that time has come back.

"Mom, what are you thinking about? You see some bamboo fungus have grown these days, please help pick some." Sure enough, the rain is a good thing, things grow fast.Although the mountain is still a little wet now, maybe because of this, the weather is warm and humid, so the bamboo fungus grows fast.

Jing Niang looked at her daughter, and thought of her husband again. This girl looks more and more like her husband, especially between her eyebrows and eyes. Sometimes when she looks at her daughter, she can think of her husband, but Xiao Zhuzi looks a bit like herself , I don't know if it's because the small pillar didn't grow up or what.

"Mom, don't be in a daze. Let's hurry up. We need money in many places in our family. We want to make money. We still owe shopkeeper Liu 5 taels of silver (Xiao Hua and Jing Niang, Mrs. Ruan said that the 5 taels of silver are Huang The boss paid in advance)." Seeing her mother staring at her in a daze, Xiao Hua couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

"Okay, okay, I got it." Jingniang came back to her senses and looked at her daughter's jumping feet, feeling a little amused.This girl is getting more and more impatient, and she doesn't know who she looks like.

"Okay, mother, let's go to the woods behind to see how the red bayberry is doing. If it's good, take some back and go to grandpa's house in a few days and ask grandpa to help brew the bar."

"Mother, shopkeeper Liu and Ershuan will come to pick up hot and sour bamboo shoots tomorrow. This time, let's sell more. The family needs too much money, and we have to pay off debts. Besides, it's the Dragon Boat Festival soon, and we'll go there the day after tomorrow. Let's go to grandma's house, when we have money, we will take grandma to see my sister-in-law. I don't know how she has been in the past few years, hey..." Xiaohua really wants to know what happened to her legendary sister-in-law , but now it is not allowed in various circumstances.

Although she can make money, she can spend it better.Now that the family has run out of money, she still took out the 5 taels of silver that she bluffed from Li Zhao, but even so, there are only a little over 2 taels of silver left at home. There are dozens of copper plates left.

As for the paddy field, she doesn't know much about planting water chestnuts, so she asked people to pick out the small ones from the previous digging and throw them into the 5-acre paddy field. She didn't know what the final effect would be. , if it is not good, it will be in vain.Fortunately, during this period of time, she and her mother secretly searched along the bank of the stream, and found another small piece.They dug them up secretly and piled them in the corner of Xiaohua's room. After a while, when the villagers were not following them, they were selling shopkeeper Liu and Boss Huang. But this time there were not many water chestnuts, only about 400 catties.I don't know how this water chestnut grew, but it is twice the size of modern florets.

(End of this chapter)