Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 144

Sun Dacheng's family has a horse, and today he came to deliver saplings to the old man's family, so he drove the carriage.

Xiuyao also ran out in a hurry, and saw Sun Dacheng wearing a cotton robe and a leather hat, and his aunt wearing a pomegranate red jacket, a begonia red skirt, and red embroidered shoes, with a braid on his head and a bright red red Silk pomegranate flowers, red coral pendants on the ears.

Dressed in red, like a coral tree, Xiuyao ran over happily and said with a smile, "Auntie, you are so festive."

Liu Xu pouted, and glared at Sun Dacheng, "It's your mother who made me dress like this." She said while pulling Xiuyao to ask for warmth.

Sun Dacheng was just silly, although Liu Xu often complained to him about what her mother-in-law did to her, but every time in front of her parents, she was respectful, talking and laughing, very obedient, and did not treat him at all. That's so powerful, so he also enjoys her sweet complaints. "Ask Yaoyao if she looks good."

Xiuyao smiled and said, "Well, my aunt looks good in red."

Liu Xu said angrily, "You're the one with the sweet talk, let's go, I told my mother-in-law to come back and stay for two days, and they all agreed."

Xiuyao said happily: "That's good, we all miss you."

Qin Yang pestered Sun Dacheng to ride a horse, but Sun Dacheng didn't refuse, and asked Liu Qi to help unload the car, then directly picked Qin Yang up and put him on the saddle, leading the horse and carrying him around.

Mrs. Chen saw it, and hurriedly said: "Oh, it's too scary, come down quickly."

Sun Dacheng smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, it's okay, my horse is honest."

Liu Xu brought Xiuyao a present, another set of jackets and skirts, a begonia red jacket, a pea green skirt, a pair of begonia red embroidered shoes, and a few embroidered handkerchiefs for her to wear. Take it back, and all the sisters have a piece.

Xiuyao said happily: "Auntie, my clothes from last year haven't broken yet, and you made me new ones."

Liu Xu smiled and said, "As I said, I will make you a set of clothes every year, and you can wear whatever you want." After speaking, Liu Xu asked her how her glove knitting business was doing, whether she made money, and how about Fu Dou.

Xiuyao told her one by one, and Liu Xu was also happy for them, "Although this business can't make a lot of money, it's still a lot, and it's better than staying idle all winter. If it weren't for you weaving gloves, your elder brother's medicine money would be worthless." It's the problem."

Everyone was chatting and laughing, Lao Liutou asked Sun Dacheng to go back early after dinner, don't be too late, the road is not easy to walk.

Although Sun Dacheng was reluctant, he still had to listen to his elders, so that his parents would not have any objections to Liu Xu when he went back late. Before that, his parents were still complaining to him about the matter of retiring.He begged and begged, and half-threateningly asked his parents not to show Liu Xu any sympathy, so that he could always be so safe.

Sun Dacheng took the carriage and said goodbye, "Father, mother, then I will go first, and I will not help you plant trees. I will come to see you in two days."

Mrs. Li was busy sending things back to him again. She accepted the duck eggs from Chakou Village, and sent him back some snacks, as well as a large square of rice cakes that she herself made with millet flour.Anyway, Sun's family is better off than their Liu family, so they don't lack food and clothing, so it's just a wish to give back a gift.

At night, Xiuyao, Liu Xu, grandma, and Qin Yang were on the kang. Liu Xu didn't avoid Mrs. Li, so she took out a pair of silver bracelets and a string of money to Xiuyao, "This is your lucky money."

Xiuyao hurriedly waved her hand and refused: "Auntie, I'm already this old, so I don't need lucky money. Our family is making money now, and we will raise pigs with my grandpa's family later, and we will have money too. You can keep your money yourself."

Liu Xu's face sank and said: "What do I save, my house is mine, I give it to you and you keep it."

Li Shi also said: "Yaoyao, take it if your aunt gives it to you."

Xiuyao had no choice but to accept it, and said to Li: "Grandma, I put it here, and the little sheep has to come to study. We don't have any money to pay for it now, so you and my grandpa have to help him."

Mrs. Li smiled and said: "You are a little sensible child, don't worry. Yangyang is my grandson, and I pointed out that he will look good to us in the future. Your grandfather and I will take care of him. Yes, don't worry about it."

Xiuyao still gave the money to Li Shi, and Li Shi knew that she was sensible, so she didn't refuse, and kept it for Qin Yang to buy paper and pens.

On the second day, Lao Liutou led Xiuyao and others to plant trees in the south. This time, Sun Dacheng gave more tree seeds, which were half bought and half asked, anyway, they were brothers from his own family.If it is a sapling that has been carefully cultivated, I will buy it. If it is a small sapling that grows next to a big tree, I will also buy some other ordinary saplings. Anyway, Sun Dacheng asked the old man for a big cart.His mother was so jealous that he was not the son of the Sun family, but from the Liu family. Sun Dacheng laughed and said, "Mom, the old Liu family gave us such a good wife, and I will return it to our grandson and great-grandson in the future. Let's give some saplings." What, I need to give more, right?" His mother was so happy that she didn't feel jealous any more, she kept laughing, and said yes, hug her grandson early, and give the old man whatever he wants.

This time, in addition to a large number of jujube trees, there are also some hawthorn trees, as well as some flowers and plants, such as hibiscus.

After planting the decent sweet-scented osmanthus saplings, the place where the ginkgo trees had to be left, Xiuyao saw that there were still so many saplings, she was afraid that grandpa would give them to others, so she immediately said: "Grandpa, let me willow the remaining saplings." Brother Fei sent me to my house, and we fell too."

Old Liutou laughed and said: "I know you want it, I will keep it for you."

Xiuyao looked at it, and said to Old Liu: "Grandpa, turn around and you can plant a piece of cotton locust tree on the field near the river, that is, above the sycamore tree, south of the mill. It can be used as a wall, and it can also receive notes and dogs when the time comes."

Dog meat is wolfberry, which is a traditional Chinese medicine. After drying, you can sell it to the pharmacy for money, or you can eat it at home.

A few people stayed at grandpa's house for a few days, planted the tree, and then Xiuyao picked sweet potatoes for planting together with them, and the rest were cooked, sliced ​​and dried, and saved as the last batch before February [-] .

Because the old Qintou said that he also wanted to plant two acres of sweet potatoes, so Xiuyao asked her grandfather to keep some sweet potato mothers and children. At that time, in addition to a whole plate of kang, they would also dig a sand bed to make a fire in the south mill to avoid sweet potato seedlings in time. Not enough seedlings.

After working for a few days, Xiuyao asked Liu Fei to take them to the sapling's house in a donkey cart.Qin Yangsheng was afraid that he would be left behind, so he shouted: "I'll come back on February [-]." Xiuyao smiled and said: "Got it, let's go home together, and we'll all be here when the time comes."

Seeing that Qin Ye couldn't move his hands, Old Liu told Liu Qi, Liu Sheng and Liu Fei, "Go to your second aunt's house and help plant the tree before coming back."

The mill at Lao Liu's family has not yet opened, and spring plowing will take a few days, so Lao Liutou and his uncle have finished picking up farm tools, so they don't have much to do, except for fine work such as threshing grass and fertilizing.

Liu Qi and Liu Sheng went to Grandpa Liu's house to borrow a mule, and drove the mule cart to deliver Xiuyao and the others and the saplings.

As soon as they entered the village, they caused quite a commotion, and the nearby villagers all watched the excitement.Last year they saw that Qin Dafu's family opened up such a piece of wasteland, but they didn't grow a grain of food, so they spent all day digging, picking up stones, digging ditches, and digging silt from the bottom of the river into the ground.Later, it was planted, and it turned out that a piece of spinach was planted. Can spinach make money?If you don't eat enough, no one wants to sell it.Who doesn't have a bed of spinach at home?One bed of spinach in early spring is enough, and it will be the same if there are too many.It’s not enough to feed spinach to the livestock, it’s easy to get diarrhea after eating it, and I heard that the spinach in the field can be dug casually, everyone thinks that Qin Dafu’s family is fools, so old Qin is so angry that he doesn’t help to defend himself, and stays at home all day The seats are not facing the other side.

Seeing that they actually brought the saplings to the house, they all got excited and followed to Qin Dafu's door.

"Yaoyao, are you going to plant trees?" Someone asked.

Xiuyao said with a smile, "Plant whatever you want, even if the land is empty, it will be empty."

Someone asked again: "Oh, there are jujube trees and peach trees here. Is your family going to plant an orchard? Can you grow fruit trees on that piece of land?" They couldn't help feeling a little regretful. Why didn't they think of planting trees back then? Food is useless if it cannot be eaten.Some people wondered whether they should also open up a few acres of wasteland. Qin Dafu's family opened [-] acres of such a large piece of land, which had already been registered and smashed the boundary stone. If they wanted to open it, they could only go to the side.

Xiuyao said: "Anyway, let's try it no matter if it works or not."

Someone said: "When people plant trees, there is a place to get tree seeds. If you want to plant them, are you willing to spend money to buy them? You can't get enough to eat, so you still have to toss about that. This car of tree seeds is worth a lot of money. You decide ?” Everyone thinks about it, it’s the same thing, seeing things that can make money, you may not always do it, after all, whether you can make money is unknown, and you also need technology, luck, and sales. It’s very tiring and worrying. It’s not that easy. Where There is comfort at leisure.

Liu Shi and Xiuqin Xiurong were still knitting gloves, so they missed work, so Xiuyao and her father cooked a meal, everyone ate quickly, and then went to the wasteland in the northeast corner to plant trees.

When Qin Ergui found out, he brought Qin Chan to help. His name was Sanshun, but Sanshun refused, saying that he had a headache and rested at home.

This piece of land has a total of [-] acres, of which [-] acres have been taken care of and transformed and can now be planted with crops. Although some of them can only choose locations, they can be planted with trees, and Xiuyao has turned them into usable areas. The next ten acres are almost all stone land, Xiuyao is saving it for building a house or workshop or something.

Xiuyao drew the place with the least salt content and slightly better soil quality in this saline-alkali land. Last year, a lot of spinach was planted. Although the seeds were sown randomly and without much care, the growth was not bad.In winter, they were covered with wheat chaff, rotten grass, etc., and they still seem to be growing well.Their family started to eat it years ago, and now it is a frequent visitor on the vegetable table. Together with Chinese cabbage, they are called Qin's Winter Qingbai Shuangke.

The three Liu Qi brothers were terrified when they saw the large piece of spinach, Liu Fei said blankly: "Yaoyao, your family grows so much spinach, can you finish it?"

Xiuyao smiled and said, "If you can't finish eating, turn it over in the field and use it as fertilizer."

Qin Yang squeezed over and said: "Third brother, you don't know, our spinach has been stolen a lot. During the Chinese New Year, let's come and see, my sister and I have caught several."

Liu Fei said angrily, "Why don't we arrest them?"

Qin Yang shook his head, "My sister let them go, gave them a lot of spinach, and asked them to dig two catties of spinach to eat every day. Hey, look over there, they all poached it."

Just as he was talking, Qin Yang saw two people sneaking around, and when he saw that there were too many people here, he was about to run away, so he immediately shouted: "Hey, you are here to dig my spinach again, we don't beat people, you run away what."

Seeing that the two boys were discovered by them, they were quite embarrassed, but because they had come to dig a few times before, Xiuyao saw that instead of scolding, she let them dig, so now they are not afraid, so they chattered. When he came over, although he was still restrained and shy, he dared to speak loudly in front of others, saying: "We have helped dig the ground."

These two are older than Di Dan, and they look like teenagers.

Xiuyao smiled at Liu Fei and the others: "Our family has so much spinach, we can't finish it, and it's not worth selling. It's not as good as someone who wants to dig it up and eat it. It can be regarded as a harvest."

Qin Xian said dissatisfiedly to Liu Qi: "Brother, you have also seen that my little sister is getting poorer and more generous now, I really don't know where I learned the problem, my family can't have enough to eat."

Liu Qidao: "Yaoyao is also doing good deeds, if she can save lives, then she is also accumulating virtue."

Qin Xian didn't take it seriously, thinking it was a swollen face to pretend to be fat.

The two people who came to dig the vegetables immediately thanked them. The family was too poor and had no vegetables to eat. Seeing that there were so many spinach here and no one looked at it, they came to dig some from time to time. Conditions, they also slightly relieved the guilt of stealing vegetables.Seeing that they wanted to plant trees, they immediately put down their baskets and said, "Your family is planting trees, we will help."

Apart from them, there are also people from the same family surnamed Qin who came to help with shovels. Qin Dafu thanked them one by one, and they said: "The spring plowing will take place in a few days, and we are idle too. Do we have something to do to stretch our muscles?" These days They also have a good relationship with Qin Dafu and Qin Ye on weekdays. If they have problems at home, they will ask them for help. The favors that everyone has saved each other will naturally come to help when they see that they have something to do.

Seeing so many people coming to help, Xiuyao was also happy, and discussed with her father and elder brother to let them dig some spinach to eat back, anyway, it will grow other things here in a few days.Everyone was happy to hear this. After all, not everyone grows so many vegetables. In early spring, there are not enough vegetables.

They first planted the seventeen jujube trees they brought from their grandfather's house, as well as several pear trees and honey apricots. They plowed the ground while planting the trees. At that time, other crops can be planted after raking the land. Although food cannot be grown, Xiuyao has other plans.

Busy here, Xiuyao saw a lot of people, so she told her father again, and asked someone to help dig the tree pit next to the official field, where the tree pit was prepared for the saplings that Qi Feng bought for her in a few days .

Although the official land stipulates that wheat, millet, and cotton must be planted, as long as you pay enough land rent, no one cares what you actually plant.What's more, Xiuyao practiced intercropping between forests and grains. This piece of official land was regarded as Susukida, and the harvest of wheat and millet was average. Xiuyao felt that it would be better to use it to grow sweet potatoes.

During intercropping, taking into account other crops, the distance between the saplings is about [-] feet, and the distance between rows is about [-] feet. More than ten trees can be planted on one mu of land.In this way, both forest and grain harvests can be achieved without affecting the harvest of sweet potatoes and other crops below, and forest trees, fruits, etc. can be harvested.

A group of people worked for a whole day to plant the tree, and Xiuyao also gave away almost all the spinach, and kept a small piece for her family to eat.

(End of this chapter)