The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 120
In the next few days, Lu Ming ordered people to transport away Ruzhi in several trips. The last trip brought four bags of grain. Chu Ying stuffed the collected cattail velvet into a sack and put it away. Put it in the pulp to make the paper softer.

The water chestnuts and Gorgon fruit by the lake were almost harvested by the villagers. When Chu Ying went there, she only picked one basket, but it was full of nothing. "These are enough to pay taxes. Some chestnuts in the grove have fallen by themselves. I collected some back, but it seems that someone else has gone in."

"Anyone else?" If it was Aunt Wang, she would definitely tell herself. After all, Aunt Wang would not take too much. Chu Ying felt that it was when she harvested and transported chestnuts to the city last year that she let others know that she had a piece of chestnuts. chestnut tree.

"Well, it's better to harvest the chestnuts earlier, or let others take them." After the meal, Chu Ying went to Aunt Wang's house to let them help harvest the chestnuts. so fast.

"Are the chestnuts over there ripe? Wait for Naiyuan to come back after harvesting the hulled millet and ask him to help. This day should not be over yet. It would be better if someone beats them a few times. Don't worry, he will come back Let's go together." Chu Ying watched Aunt Wang feeding the chickens, but she didn't see the white rabbits that Bai Yuhe bought from her last time.

"Mother, why don't I go too." Bai Yuhe walked out of the room with a big belly. She didn't do any work these days, and she couldn't help the family. I went to Chuying's place to work for a few days and brought back a lot of food, and I could exchange some food by myself.

"Didn't the doctor tell you to take good care of it?"

"It's okay, the fetus is already sitting firmly, and it's not about harvesting chestnuts, it's just picking them up, and it doesn't take much effort. Let's go when Naiyuan comes back. It's good to move more." Bai Yuhe sat down slowly Come down and reach out to wash the pile of clothes.

"Don't move, I'll do it. I'll wash these clothes. You don't feel comfortable sitting there. Let's help Chu Ying together later." Bai Yuhe wiped her hands and looked at the mother-in-law who was bending over to wash the clothes. I have never been scolded by my mother-in-law since I married here, and this mother-in-law really has nothing to say to me.

Chu Ying vacated the baskets one by one, soaked the bamboo slices in water to soften them, then roasted them over a fire and tied them up with ropes, so that she could bend slightly to pick up the chestnuts, but there were still some chestnuts in the tree. High ones, Chu Ying can't beat her down, she has to wait for Wang Naiyuan to come back before starting.

Harvesting this time was more intense than last year. I was afraid that if I kept those chestnuts for a few days, I would harvest less. Wang Naiyuan was on the sidelines and everyone followed behind to pick them up. Due to the large number of people, it took only 3 days to harvest them.

I gave five bags of chestnuts to Wang Naiyuan's family, and the remaining Chu Ying was collected. There were still a few Chu Ying in the grove that had not been harvested. The person who came to steal chestnuts last time could also take some more. No one is having a good time at the age of [-], and the rest is only a little more than one bag.

While waiting for the chestnuts to be dried, Chu Ying cut the ramie and brought it back to peel the hemp in the yard. After all, there were things in the yard and it was better to keep someone alone, so Chu Ying and Ye Qiu took turns to cut the hemp and came back.

"Chu Ying, this pheasant was hunted in the mountains. This time, there are a lot of hunts in the mountains, so I will send you one." Chu Ying looked at the fat pheasant, not knowing that the autumn hunt had already started.

"Are there many people going hunting?"

"Of course there are too many. The prey near the mountains have all been hunted down. Now we can only go into the deep mountains. Others have already gone to the mountains to hunt, but now that the autumn harvest is over, there are more people going. It's just a few people. Go together, there are relatively few people entering the mountain alone, so don't go, there are many wild boars in the deep mountain, and it takes several men to hunt them back together." Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan, who had not taken off the bow on her back, and thought again. It's starting to itch, and I'll go into the mountains to try my luck when the ramie here is almost harvested.

Although the number of rabbits in the family has been reduced from 20 to 50 now, most of them are young rabbits. Chu Ying has to keep them in winter when there is no meat to eat. It would be nice to get some food now.

Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying whose eyes were shining brightly, and felt very entangled. Chu Ying knew her archery skills. When she was free, she would plan and practice archery. Maybe she was much more accurate than Wang Naiyuan, but let her Ye Qiu was still worried that she would enter the mountain with a child.

In the next few days, the speed of harvesting the numbness will slow down. As long as the weather cools down in a month or so and the prey will be less, then Chu Ying will not clamor to go into the mountains. Delay.

While resting, Chu Ying wiped the bow and arrow several times. This bow and arrow is her own pistol, and her wife must be treated well. However, Ye Qiu may be tired recently, and the action of collecting numbness has obviously slowed down. Sakura can only work harder on her own, quickly collect the hemp, and then go to change the cloth and prepare for the tax to be paid.

After waiting for the ramie to be harvested and dried for more than a week, Chu Ying packed the sun-dried ramie skin in a sack and went to the neighboring village that Wang Naiyuan said to find the old lady Li who harvested the hemp. Wang Naiyuan said that this old lady Li was the most fair and could exchange To better quality linen.

These Chu Ying didn't understand very well, so they asked people and slowly found Li's old lady's house, but they didn't see many people when they entered this big courtyard.

"A cloth changer? Put it here and weigh it." Chu Ying followed a man's instructions and poured the sack out of the back basket. "Take it apart and see how it looks."

Chu Ying untied the sack, and the man took out some, looked at them, and weighed them. "65 catties. This is your first time here? Go over there and wait."

Chu Ying watched someone carry the sack away, someone was memorizing something, and when she looked inside, she saw several looms, but now there was only one woman weaving.

"Daughter-in-law, bring me a piece of cloth, boy, the market is not good recently, it is 40 catties for one piece, you don't have enough to exchange for two pieces, you can send some of the rest to you later, okay." Chu Ying watched the man tear the hemp skins into very thin strips, and then tie them into long ropes. She didn't expect that this man looked rough, but he was very delicate in doing this job.

"Okay." There are no more than 7 people in this yard. It is probably a family business. Because of the bad age recently, no one is invited.

Chu Ying went back early, or she would have to eat lunch late on a hungry stomach, and waited for the next day. Chu Ying wanted to carry more hemp skin over there, but at most she could only carry more than 60 catties on her back, because she still had to go There are quite a lot of roads, Chu Ying can't be greedy anymore, this time I went to weigh 68 catties, Chu Ying returned with two bolts of cloth, and when I went back, I had to ask Ye Qiu if he still needed it, taking advantage of the market price of the linen Not good, you can change more.

Chu Ying didn't know why the market for the linen was so bad. She guessed that everyone was going to garrison rice, so they didn't buy much cloth, and those who had extra cloth at home were also used to exchange for grain. It's worth it.

(End of this chapter)