Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 96

As soon as Qin Xian got home, he shouted: "Mother, I smelled the fragrance before I entered the village. I told my elder brother that it must be because mother made delicious food at home."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "There is really nothing delicious at home, but I just made some bean noodles and vegetable dumplings and rolled out a few cakes. Let's get to the front of it first."

Qin Ye and Qin Dafu came in, and Qin Ye said: "Father, mother, why don't we go to a few grandpa's houses to borrow some food first, the family can't hold on to the autumn grain harvest, borrow some until the wheat and millet are harvested in the coming year Return slowly."

Qin Dafu also said: "It is necessary to do this, otherwise it will not be enough."

Mrs. Liu also agreed, "In my opinion, let's go to his second grandfather and Li Zheng's house to borrow. His third grandfather's family also has a large population, even if there is surplus food, it is not a lot."

Qin Ye hummed, "I'll go and have a look after dinner."

Everyone washed their hands and ate. The cakes were rolled with bean noodles and vegetable dumplings, and then they were sandwiched with fresh onions, miso, and steamed eggplant mixed with mashed garlic. It was not very rich, but it was very delicious. The whole family ate very sweetly.

Before the meal was finished, there was a knock at the door, and a person from outside pushed the door in and shouted, "Have you run out of panels?"

Everyone turned their heads and saw Mrs. Zhang walking in quickly, seeing them eating, they were unhappy and said, "Why don't you call me Xiuqin when you eat?"

Several people got up to say hello, Xiuxian said: "Nurse, my eldest sister is helping you unpack and wash clothes, we thought you left her for dinner." Called to help, don't you even care about the meal?Do you want to be so stingy?

Mrs. Zhang glared at her, "She'll be fine if she's not hungry." As he said that, he slid his eyes towards their dining table, and saw that there were rolling cakes and bean, flour, and vegetable dumplings, and his face sank.

Qin Ye and the others hurriedly said to go to work, but they all left. Qin Dafu glanced at her and said, "Mother, I'll send you the panel."

Mrs. Zhang snorted, "No need, I can handle it myself, you can go about it yourself."

Qin Dafu said to take a break before going, and Mrs. Zhang said loudly: "Boss, although we have separated, I am still your mother. Our land has not yet been divided. We still work together. Don't just do your few jobs." acres of land and leave the others alone.”

Qin Xian who walked to the gate heard it and turned back and said: "Nurse, my father is not like that. My father asked me and elder brother to work on your land first, but I have never been in the land allocated to us. Work." After speaking, he was afraid of being reprimanded, so he ran away quickly.

Mrs. Zhang didn't believe it. The youngest and the others said that the people in the big house only did the work in their own field, not those of the other two houses. It's time to come over and reprimand him in person.

In the end, before I finished talking about this matter, I saw that there were pancakes and bean noodles and vegetable dumplings in the noodle basket on the dining table, and I was naturally even more unhappy, so I immediately taught Liu Shi: "I said Daye Niang, this is the first time you are in charge of the house. If you are not in charge, you don’t know the value of firewood, rice, oil and salt. There is no one like you who is in charge of the house. If you eat like this, you must be poor.”

Mrs. Liu wanted to ignore her, but she was a mother-in-law and an elder, so she could only say: "Mother, this way of eating saves food."

Mrs. Zhang immediately said: "How can you save food by eating like this? You let men eat like this? Why do you have to make steamed buns for men to eat? Girls can just eat some porridge and eat cakes too? How much food do you have to eat?"

Xiuyao saw that the families were separated, and the old woman came out to point fingers, so she couldn't help but said: "Mommy, we are not a rich family anyway, we are so poor if we eat, women also work, why do we only eat What about porridge?"

When Mrs. Zhang heard the words, she immediately became furious. As soon as the family was separated, these little hoofs turned backwards, and they didn't listen to her own words. It was all instigated by Mrs. Liu.

Seeing that her face was pulled like a donkey's, Xiuyao immediately said again: "Mama, we have separated. You and grandpa are still my family, but others are others. Don't let my eldest sister wash away their two families." Clothes and quilts, I can’t make my elder sister exhausted.” She knew that the elder sister must be soft-hearted and embarrassed to refuse after being scolded by the mother, and she must be there to wash clothes for the whole family.

It's too much!

Zhang's complexion changed, "You little hoof, you will become a white-eyed wolf just after the family is separated."

Xiuyao didn't like to hear her chatter, so she said loudly: "I'm going to mow the grass." After speaking, she turned her head and ran away.

Mrs. Zhang was so annoyed that she asked Liu, "Is this how you teach the girl? It's not big or small, so you have to beat it with a broom."

Mrs. Liu glanced at her, changed the subject, and said, "Mother, you want to roll out pancakes, who will burn the pan for you?"

Mrs. Zhang snorted, and almost forgot the reason for her visit, "Let Xiurong go and burn the pan for me."

Xiurong immediately said: "Nurse, I have to mow the grass. We don't have any grass for fire in our house." Then she went out, chasing Xiuyao out, "Xiuyao, I'll go with you."

Originally Mrs. Zhang was angrily coming to reprimand Dafang for not doing other work in the field, but in the end she wanted to reprimand Mrs. Liu for not being able to manage the family, but was humiliated by the two little girls. The tepid eyes suddenly lost their temper.

She took the panel and muttered, "There's not enough to eat. You wouldn't go to your mother's house to ask for stone grains? You used to love to run away from your mother's house so much, why didn't you go when you separated?"

Mrs. Liu said indifferently: "In the past, my father delivered the food himself, and I didn't ask for it. Now I will ask for it as soon as the family is separated. Don't you think it's like we did it on purpose? I can't say that. , can’t pull that face off.”

Mrs. Zhang sneered: "If you can't hold back your face, then you have the heart to let men and children starve." Then he left the panel and the noodles, and went back angrily, muttering on the way, this daughter-in-law is too If you don't follow the Tao, you have too many eyes, and you don't take yourself seriously as soon as you separate.It's not for her own good to teach her by myself, what kind of family will she be?It's too much to change the rules set by her mother-in-law as soon as the family is separated!Sure enough, the third daughter-in-law was right. The eldest daughter-in-law has always had a problem with her mother-in-law. In the past, she pretended to be submissive and did not show it.

She had also concluded that Mrs. Liu had a temper, and she would definitely cry and resent her mother-in-law for giving too little food, so she wanted to come and see, and beat and beat Mrs. Liu, but she was greatly disappointed. Instead of complaining, Mrs. Liu had Talking and laughing.

After Mrs. Zhang left, Qin Dafu came out of the house, looked at Mrs. Liu and smiled, and couldn't help laughing, "Mother is like that, let's just listen." Originally, he thought that Mrs. Si was here to find fault. In this way, he still supported his wife at home, but in the end, the daughter-in-law could suppress the mother away without saying a word.

Mrs. Liu glanced at him, and couldn't help laughing, knowing that he was kind, she said: "Don't worry, mother will be fine, she just came here to have a good time, if she doesn't care, she can't help it, she has to worry about it." It doesn’t matter, you’ll get used to it in a few days.”

After all, she was in charge of the big family in the past, and they beat and scolded whenever they wanted, and everyone ate with her face.It's different now, the big house was assigned, although the food was very little, but the big house didn't look as sad as they imagined, crying and complaining, and everyone no longer looked at her face to eat, she must be unhappy Balanced.

When everyone came back in the evening, they found Xiuyao was squatting on the ground holding a fire stick and gesticulating, muttering something while she was doing it.

Qin Ye handed over half of the bag of wheat that he borrowed from his second grandfather's house to Mrs. Liu for a look, and then sent it to the grain tank. When he came out and saw that Xiuyao was still gesticulating, he asked curiously, "Little sister, what are you doing?"

Xiuyao said casually: "I think we have to grow some vegetables in the field, so as not to use the same vegetable garden with them, arguing all day over one vegetable, and annoying everyone." When she came back from mowing, she was very thirsty and passed the vegetable garden. Zizi wanted to pick cucumbers, but happened to meet Xiujuan and Xiuting there.Naturally, Xiuyao didn't get the cucumbers, and she even had a quarrel with the two of them. She couldn't beat the two of them by herself. Naturally, she wouldn't stay long and came home right away.

When she got home, she didn't complain to her family, but just squatted there and started making gestures.Grandpa said that the rented land would be divided into fifteen acres for them to plant. According to the regulations of the court and the landlord's family, no less than eight acres of wheat must be planted for the second crop of millet, and no less than five acres of cotton. One crop, so that they can make their own decisions on the remaining two acres of land.

According to his father's idea, he basically followed his old habits, planting beans, peanuts, sorghum, etc., depending on his needs.For example, if you need straws, you have to grow sorghum. If you want to get some peanuts for money or extract oil, you grow peanuts, and the same is true for beans.

However, Xiuyao felt that if the old method of planting was still used, there would be too many disadvantages. First, some grains could not be cropped continuously, heavy cropping would cause pest disasters, excessive loss of soil fertility, and some weed damage might also occur.

At present, among the fifteen acres of land allocated to them, ten acres of wheat and five acres of cotton.Xiuyao marked out several fields on the ground, five acres of wheat in Yangjiaxie, five acres of cotton in Nanhe, and five acres of wheat in Xiheya.

Of course, the wheat field is full of millet now, and the cotton is still cotton. After the millet is harvested in autumn, wheat must be planted, and the cotton harvest is empty, and cotton will continue to be planted next year.

Xiuyao thinks that it can be handled flexibly. In this era, farm tools are not well developed, and the columbine for growing wheat is not very scientific, so the distance between the ridges of wheat is relatively large, so it can be intercropped or intercropped with other crops, such as intercropping in spring. Cotton, cabbage, spinach, mustard greens, radishes and other vegetables are intercropped in autumn.In the cotton field, wheat can be intercropped in autumn, and some melons and fruits can be intercropped in spring, such as watermelon, noodle melon, and melon, which can not only solve the food problem of the family, but also exchange for food if there is excess.

As for the vegetable garden, that’s a better solution. Those who don’t need a shelf can be intercropped in the crop field, and those who need a shelf can be planted directly in a small yard. Although it’s not big, there are cucumbers, lentils, and beans. For gourds, two gourds are planted at the base of the wall, which is enough.As for life-saving hanging melons and the like, they must be planted. They can be used for relief in winter. They can be planted on the fields and along the river ditches, and they can grow large melons without hanging them.

Calculated in this way, the rations of the family can basically be solved, otherwise the food alone will not be able to support it for half a year.Of course, the best way is to rent a few more acres of land, but now that the family's land has been rented out, it is impossible to come back and rent it to their family alone.

Qin Ye thought that Xiuyao had a childlike heart, and said with a smile: "Let's grow vegetables in the small courtyard later, so we don't need to go there to pick them."

Xiuyao figured it out, and then she saw her eldest brother looking at her. She smiled and waved, "Brother, come and see, and I will tell you what I think." She used the fire stick just like she gave Lao Qin last year. The first suggestion was to talk about her own thoughts like that, and after only a few words, Qin Ye motioned her to wait.

Xiuyao looked at him in surprise, Qin Ye turned his head and shouted into the room: "Father, mother, come and listen, little sister, this is a good idea."

Qin Dafu and Liu Shi heard from the eldest son that they knew that Qin Ye never talked nonsense, so they came over, and Qin Xianxiuxian and others gathered around after hearing it, "What are you talking about? Let's listen too."

Xiuyao felt a little embarrassed when everyone approached with so much fanfare, but she was not timid. Thinking back to when the city held lectures for farmers and entrepreneurs, she gave a speech on behalf of their farm, and the city leaders praised her.

Xiuyao explained it to them clearly. Since she started to read and borrowed books from Mr. Ren, she has an excuse. Now that they are all her family members, she is not afraid anymore.

Gu Ning has such big ambitions at a young age, no one said he was abnormal, she was just offering some advice, let alone anything.

After listening to what she said, Xiurong was the first to say happily: "Oh, there are melons to eat? In the past, we didn't grow a single melon in our sixty or seventy mu of land. It was so hard to find a melon in the field. Grandpa had to say goodbye Wasted fertilizers are pulled out."

Qin Xian was also happy, he said: "It's really good to cover the cotton field with wheat, and the wheat field with mung beans, or cotton again."

Qin Dafu also said: "This method is good. Last year we left those cotton seeds in the wheat fields, and the harvest was not delayed at all. It is even better than others."

Xiuyao smiled sweetly, "Father, we don't have to follow what they say. We need wheat and millet. If cotton makes more money, we will grow cotton. It may be cheaper to buy millet later. We are now The inside is millet. When the millet is harvested and wheat is planted, we will interplant cabbage and spinach. Then we harvest the cabbage in winter and keep the spinach. We can also eat spinach during the Chinese New Year. Spring will not cut off the fresh vegetables. Wait. Next spring, all the spinach will be dug out of the wheat fields, and we will interplant cotton and mung beans."

Mung beans are a good thing. In summer, you can cook mung bean soup to relieve heat and detoxify. If you are tired from working under the scorching sun, drinking a bowl will make you feel better than anything else. You can sell it for money.In the past, the old Qin's family thought that this kind of food was not a decent food, so they refused to grow it.

Qin Dafu was a little hesitant, the things his father taught him were a bit ingrained, and he couldn't resist for a while, "Mung beans are not a meal."

(End of this chapter)