Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 162

Old Suntou originally thought that Xiuyao was making money for her third grandpa, but now hearing what Xiuyao said, she seemed to want to find a bargain for the Sun family, so he smiled happily: "We are also in-laws, so of course we have to find jobs for ourselves." We don’t need to worry about doing it by ourselves.” Then he invited the third grandpa to drink tea in his room.

The third grandpa waved his hand: "I can't sit still, let's see what we are buying first, and it's not too late to drink tea after we're done."

The old grandson took the lead to look in the shop, and talked about the shelves needed for the small market that had been negotiated.

The third grandpa looked at it, walked up and down the shop, and said, "Middle, this is simple, it can be done, and it won't take ten days and half a month."

Xiuyao gave Old Sun another idea, "Grandpa, during this period of time, you should spread the word everywhere to let more people know about our small market. When the shelves are changed, it happens to be open."

The old grandson asked in surprise: "What is propaganda?"

Xiuyao explained with a smile: "I just go to other villages to tell people about our small market. Our small market has more things and is cheaper." But most of the people here are illiterate, and there are no leaflets. use.

The first couple of Lao Sun discussed the method of publicity, Xiuyao gave an idea, why not find those storytellers or allegro, give them some money, let them compile a series of Sun's small bazaars when compiling books, If it is sung in Siwai Village, people will know it.

The old grandson wondered which village sang such things again.

The third grandpa was happy to hear this, and he said: "I do know one person. Her grandma's family has a nephew from the same family who can do this. They also sing double reeds and perform small plays, and they keep it."

The old grandson hurriedly asked him to help make a deal.The third grandfather naturally agreed.

The rest is their own business, Xiuyao can't help much, so she goes back to the house to accompany her aunt.

Liu Xu stared for a while after lunch, saw Xiuyao come in, and said with a smile: "You are really a busy worker, you just order a girl like this and you can make things so easy. I remember you walked quite late."

Xiuyao was surprised: "Auntie, what does walking late have to do with this?"

Liu Xu laughed and teased her: "It's too early for a little girl to walk. Your aunt will leave before she turns one year old, and you won't be able to do it until you're over one year old."

Xiuyao smiled, it turned out that Yaoyao didn't walk until so late, it probably has something to do with lack of milk and malnutrition.

Xiuyao left after staying for a few days, and asked her uncle to take her back to her grandmother's house.

At this time, the carpenter in the grocery store was busy, and in less than ten days, the shelves were finished.During this period of time, the fast books in the small market of the Sun family were also rumored everywhere. In about 20 days, the Sun's small market opened. On the opening day, Lao Suntou invited stilt walkers to perform, which attracted people from Siwai Village to watch.

Seeing that there are many people walking on stilts, I have to buy some snacks, and then I look at the small market, which has everything. If this is missing in my house, everyone who comes will buy something to go back.After three days, the Sun family's small bazaar was full of business, earning a lot of money and gaining fame.In the future, many people will come here to go to the market. Even if it is a market day, they don't bother to go there. They would rather buy it at Sun's house. Anyway, the price will not be much higher than the market.

But these were what Xiuyao heard from her grandfather and the others later, when she had gone home.

The Qingming Festival is here, and it is time to get busy with spring planting.But this year when the family was separated, Qin Dafu's family was naturally not as noisy as in previous years. In addition, Qin Xian also realized his mistake and worked in a well-behaved manner. The whole family worked together and lived a busy but happy life.

A total of two mu of cotton was planted in the rented field to complete the official task. Qin Dafu felt that it was better to plant some cotton, after all, his own family also needed it.Seeing that Xiuqin and Daye are going to get married, it takes a lot of cotton to make quilts for the couple.The other three acres of land keep seedlings of sweet potatoes.Qin Dafu and his two sons and Xiuxian can work on these few acres of land, and there is no need to eat lunch in the field like the old Qin's family did before.

This year, there is plenty of rain, and we have rented cattle from the government. Instead of digging pits and digging holes with big plows like in previous years, we can directly plow the ground with plows, plant it, and then harrow the ground to cover the cotton ditch.In this way, it is quick and easy.

The Liu family also asked Qin Dafu and Qin Xian to lead the animals to help the old Qintou's family plow the land and plant cotton, but the old Qintou refused because he was afraid of wasting the seeds.He thinks it's better to dig the holes one by one, because the seedlings planted in the plowed field must not be as uniform as the holes that have been dug.

He scratched Qin Dafu: "The family is separated, and you are right to listen to your wife. If you want to save trouble, you can save trouble. I am an old bone who can't be lazy. I still have to dig a hole."

And Mrs. Zhang also had a lot of opinions on Qin Dafu. After such a run, Qin Dafu still felt pimples in his heart, but he didn't show it when he was in a hurry.

Xiuyao went to mow the grass as usual, and threw it into the cesspit to fertilize.

The family caught four piglets from Grandpa Seven's house, and the pigs ate sweet potato flour, bran and sweet potato leaf powder ground by grandpa's house.

In addition, the Qin family is still splitting two parts of the land next to the reclaimed field to use as a vegetable garden. They clean up neatly in a day, and they have all kinds of vegetables that they often eat.

The rest is the self-cultivated field, mainly planting sugar beets, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, etc., and a few acres of alfalfa.Now the cotton locust tree and wolfberry have gradually grown, and the growth is very vigorous. The trees planted before have also slowed down, so there is no need to worry about dying.

This day Xiuyao cut the grass to fertilize, and dug some wild vegetables to feed the pigs.

Qin Dafu and Qin Ye came back from picking up rocks outside, and the family wanted to build two small houses in the self-cultivated field, so that they would not need to sleep in a straw shed.The structure of the small house is simple, larger than the few small houses in the mill of my grandfather's house, and there is a kang inside.There are no blue bricks in the house, and I am reluctant to buy them, so I pick up stones everywhere, and then add adobe to build a small house.

Mrs. Liu blew all the sunflower seeds with the winnow, knocked out the immature ones, and kept the mature ones to make seeds, then soaked them in water, and planted them after a few days when they germinated.

Xiuqin and Xiurong had finished cooking, and when the family was eating, they heard someone calling the door.

Xiuyao's seat was on the outermost side, she hurriedly got up to answer the door, and saw Sun Dacheng driving a donkey cart, grinning at her with bared teeth.

This time coming to Xiuyao's house was different from before, and Sun Dacheng was also very happy, "Yaoyao."

Xiuyao went up to greet her happily: "Little uncle, why are you here? My little aunt is okay." She shouted into the room again, "My little uncle is here." Everyone in the family came out when they heard it.

Everyone greeted and greeted each other, Qin Xian led the donkey over and unloaded the cart with his eldest brother, tied the donkey to a wooden post outside the wall, and went to feed the donkey with grass.

Sun Dacheng brought a lot of things, which were packed in baskets and boxes, and Liu said, "Dacheng, why do you bring so many things?"

"Not much, not much." Sun Dacheng said, looking for Xiuyao again, "Your aunt said that she will send you the loom after it has been repaired."

Xiuyao was overjoyed, and she and Qin Dafu helped carry the crate inside.

Everyone sat down, first talked about the current situation, exchanged a few pleasantries, and learned that Liuxu is doing well, and the business of the Sun Family Market is also very good, so they are very happy for them.

Sun Dacheng smiled from ear to ear: "Yaoyao, our small market is famous now, and there are a lot of wheat, rice and noodles for exchange, so we will send it to your grandfather's mill and let him sell it for you. Really busy."

He asked how the Qin family's land was doing, and Qin Dafu also told them one by one.

Mrs. Liu greeted them: "Let's eat first, you have come all the way, don't patronize and talk."

After dinner, Mrs. Liu asked Xiu Rong to make tea. During the Chinese New Year, the Qin family bought a set of tea sets. In addition, when they went to their grandma's house, Liu Xu brought the tea to them.Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "I'll treat you with Sun's tea, we don't have any better ones."

Sun Dacheng said happily: "The water from the second sister's house is also very sweet." He picked it up and drank it, then got up to open the box and basket.

In the basket were eggs, duck eggs, candied fruit, preserved fruit, and the like, and in the box were a few bolts of cloth and other things in bags.

Sun Dacheng explained to them with a smile: "This cloth is for Xiuqin, and two of them are dyed ready-made. In addition, I brought some dyes. If you like it, you can dye it yourself, or ask a cloth dyer to help you." become."

In the countryside, there will be people who carry burdens and walk through the streets to dye cloth for others, but it is not as good as buying from a cloth shop.

Xiuxian saw that the cloth inside was all bright red, she said: "Little uncle, why are they all red cloth, why do we usually wear this color?"

Xiuqin blushed, she hurriedly turned her back and went out, Xiuyao tugged on the second sister's clothes, Xiurong whispered: "Second sister, this is for the eldest sister's wedding dress."

Xiuxian suddenly realized, "Is the eldest sister getting married? Why don't I know?"

Liu Shi slapped her, "Why do you know so much, go mowing the grass."

Xiuxian scratched her hair: "Mom, I'm going to the field to chop cotton locust leaves."

Liu Shi smiled and said: "Anyway, whatever you do, you go." This Xiuxian, if she is at home, she can't finish talking about some things smoothly, she is curious and has a loud voice, and she doesn't know how to avoid it.

Mrs. Liu went to get money for Sun Dacheng, and Sun Dacheng pouted, "Second sister, what are you doing? It's not that we can't sell it, and you have to buy it after sending it all the way. We gave it to Xiuqin. A little thought."

Qin Dafu helped his daughter-in-law: "Dacheng, we have accepted your favor, and this gift is too much, there is no such thing."

Sun Dacheng yelled: "Yaoyao helped my father think of that good idea. Now that we make more money, we didn't do Yaoyao any favors, so we just sent a few bolts of cloth to Xiuqin. There's nothing wrong with it, so stop arguing. It’s all made of clothes, and the quilts are yours to buy.” Naturally, the materials used to make clothes are more elegant than those used to make quilts, and they are also more expensive.

Sun Dacheng was still afraid that they would balk, so he rushed to speak: "We are not the kind of people who slap our faces to make us fat, we all decide what to do, second sister-in-law, don't give in."

Liu Shi and Qin Dafu had no choice but to accept it.

After chatting for a while, Sun Dacheng didn't stay any longer, so he left and drove the donkey cart back.

Because Liu Xu was pregnant, the Liu family naturally didn't stay any longer, sent him out of the village to see him, and then returned home.

(End of this chapter)