Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 30 Promise to the Dead
After talking, he came back to persuade Xianglai and Wu Zhaodi, saying: "It's New Year's Eve, you guys quarreled, everyone is kind..."

Wu Zhaodi couldn't say no to Xianglai, so she vented her anger on Xianglai's mother, tore up the red paper at her, and shouted: "What kind of year is Chinese New Year, where does the post look like Chinese New Year!"

As he said that, he bumped into the second aunt who was standing at the door, kicked the door open when he went to the outer room, and went back to the room angrily.

After she went out, the faces of Lai Niang and Second Aunt became gloomy, Tian Lai lost her voice, and the family lost the joy they had just now.

Xianglai let out a breath, thinking that it's not worth getting angry because of this kind of person, and said: "Mother, second aunt, don't take it to heart, she can't get anything cheap with me, we should celebrate the new year, or we will close the door Come to make trouble, she Wu Zhaodi is very proud!"

Xiang Lai Niang thought for a while, and said: "Yeah, it's not a big deal, but I just stumbled a few words, let's go, let's go pick chickens, pack it up and bring one to your uncle."

It is estimated that Wu Zhaodi did not dare to let the people in the East Room know that she had quarreled with Xianglai. When Tianlai went to deliver the chicken, Mrs. Zhang was very happy and brought him back a basket of fried hazelnuts.

The family just pretended that nothing happened just now, and celebrated the New Year happily.

Xianglai Niang put Xianglai's father's memorial tablet on the case, and specially got a chicken to offer, and asked Xianglai and Tianlai to kowtow. "Father" go at ease, she will make this family live a prosperous life, and his revenge will be avenged.

After staying for a first month, although Xianglai really wanted to make money, but after hunting, Biyi was not making a living, so he didn't go out to kill animals in the first month of the year.

When the first lunar month came out, she began to be busy planting rice.

In that era, there was no such thing as plastic film, so the heating of seedlings in the early stage became a problem, but Xianglai had already thought of this. Without advanced materials, we could use earth-based methods to build a warm shed. How big is the area.

The seven taels of silver that Yu Zixi had confiscated before was still more than forty taels left after buying new year's goods.

She used the four taels of silver to buy red bricks in the East Village, and then began to build a greenhouse in her own vegetable garden on the west side of the yard.

The land behind the house was cut into square pieces by her and soaked in water before, which aroused the curiosity of the villagers, but they thought that a few women who could not farm the land were tossing around, so it was fine to ask casually, but now she The vegetable garden started to be "constructed extensively" again, and many curious people came to ask, but Xianglai didn't bother to explain to them, she just said that she wanted to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables.

This kind of irresponsible answer was met with surprise and snickering. They all thought that the girl from Shen Er's family had something wrong with her mind. It was useless for the two women in the family to spend so much effort in order to grow and eat. I can't control it.

Chen Xianglai didn't take the reactions of these people to heart, waiting for how these people's jaws would drop in the future.

Dilong—the short warm wall doesn’t need to be very high, and it was erected within two days. Afterwards, Xianglai and her second aunt went out to cut foreign grass and make straw mats, saving them for future insulation.

After a lot of tossing, it was almost the time of Qingming, and Xianglai borrowed Dachang's ox cart to pull two carts of soil, and his second aunt raked a little bit of soil to cover the seeds when planting.

The seeds were soaked a few days before the Ching Ming Festival. On the morning of the Ching Ming Festival, the family went to sweep the behind-the-scenes for Daddy Xianglai, and when they came back, they began to sow the seeds.

Since the preparations in advance were well done, it didn't take long to sow the seeds. Three people were busy working, and the work was easily completed in one day.

Although the seedbed was covered with a layer of straw mats to keep it warm, Xianglai still lit the earth dragon at night and watched it burn slowly with a small fire, for fear that the temperature would be too high to suffocate the rice seeds.

At this time, she can hide the fact that she wants to plant rice from outsiders and from Shen Wanjin's family who live in a courtyard.

This time, not only Wu Zhaodi was gossiping sarcastically, but even Dachang, Zhang Shi and Guifang were not optimistic about this matter, they always looked at the seedlings with strange eyes, and felt that Xianglai had done something so stupid that it could not be any more stupid thing.

Under the skeptical eyes of everyone, Xianglai's rice seedlings are growing well. On the third day after planting, the small spikes have emerged in a neat manner. Afterwards, Xianglai removed the straw mat on the seedbed. Open the top of the greenhouse to ventilate, and when the weather gets warmer, it will be left to dry during the day and covered at night to heat up.

It's just that burning the fire every night is too tiring. Fortunately, my mother and second aunt helped her replace it, which made her feel more relaxed.

While raising seedlings, she put water in the field and went to rake the ground when she had time.

After more than 40 days, the rice seedlings were finally ready to go to the field. Xianglai took her mother and second aunt to shovel the rice seedlings and pick them up in the fields for planting.

Although Xiang Lai Niang and Second Aunt had never done this job, they understood when they saw Xiang Lai inserted, and they all rolled up their trousers and went to the field. Plug it in decently.

Transplanting rice seedlings and planting dry fields are at the same time. Although every household is extremely busy, they still take time to go to Xianglai's house to see what's new.

People in this place have never traveled far in their life, and they basically don't know what rice looks like, let alone see people planting rice seedlings. Out of curiosity, they asked Xianglai if they could really produce rice. If they could, next year they Also plant.

Xianglai nodded casually and dealt with it, but she didn't really intend to teach others such a good way to make money.

After the rice seedlings were planted, Xianglai's family took turns to watch them all day long, not because of anything else, because the field was just behind the village, where chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, pigs, cattle and sheep could go in and walk around anything, and there were also curious people. The children ran to the edge of the ground to look at it. If they didn't look at it, they might be killed in three to five days.

After that, when the rice seedlings took root, they had to wait for the water to be released. In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

These days, Yi Xianglai puts all his energy into the fields, ignoring the troubles at home, thinking that the family is peaceful.But this day, after sitting in the back of the house for a whole morning, Tian Lai had just brought him home for dinner, when he saw Shen Dachang digging a hole between the two courtyards and burying pillars.

Xianglai asked strangely: "Hey, brother Dachang, what are you doing?"

Dachang was a little embarrassed, and said, "Ah, I just... put up a fence."

Xianglai froze for a moment, looked up, and saw that the row of pillars he buried was indeed at the boundary between the middle room and the west room.

The two Shen families in the east and west are separated, but the houses are connected together, and the gate of the yard is still the same. With such a separation, the area of ​​the west yard will be much smaller. Besides, if the fence extends all the way to the edge of the yard, the Xianglai family will be afraid. I can't even get out the door.

Chen Xianglai knew without thinking, this must be Wu Zhaodi's idea again.

When they separated, they made it clear that they each wanted their own house, so it is understandable for Shen Dachang to build a fence between the two families, and Xianglai can't say anything.She took a look, then turned and went back to her home, thinking that it would be better to separate them, so as not to quarrel with Wu Zhaodi, at worst, she would tear down a road in the middle of the vegetable garden and pull up the fence there to make a gate.

(End of this chapter)