The first peasant daughter of the green garden

Chapter 75 Picking Tea Seeds (4)
"Mom, I just have a rough idea now. Planting off-season vegetables is just my idea. I'm also afraid that if it doesn't succeed, it will fall short, so I plan to try planting an acre of land this year."

Yu Shi nodded, "If you have any difficulties, you can bring them up to your family."

Li Caiwei knows that there are so many fields in the family, and she and Jiacheng must not have enough manpower, "Mother, I think so, there are so many fields in the family, it is necessary to hire people, isn't the elder brother going to marry a wife? You need to have your own business, and then I would like to ask my elder brother to come and help."

Yu Shi nodded, "That's good, Jiaxuan doesn't have to go out to make a living."

"Before the end of this year, I want to hire a group of people to reclaim ten acres of barren hills, plant tea trees, and plant fruit trees on part of the land."

Listen, Mrs. Zhou, this is a huge project. I have never heard of such a thing before. They are all village women who have never been to the outside world. They stay in the village all year round, let alone at home.The traditional concept is that when a woman marries her husband, she should honestly do housework at home, serve her husband and raise children, and leave these major tasks to men.

Yang's complexion also changed, it sounded scary, "You have become a daughter-in-law, you should think clearly, this is not a child's play."

After all, Mrs. Yu was born in a scholarly family, so she still knows the general idea, "Caiwei, now that you have made your plans, you should be serious and down-to-earth. If you have any difficulties, let's find a solution together."

With such a big career, Li Caiwei has no idea in her heart. Once it starts, there is no way to turn back, so she can only bite the bullet and go on.

She said that one is to relieve the pressure in her heart, and the other is to get everyone's support. After seeing everyone's attitude, she felt relieved a lot.

In the evening, the family discussed for a while after eating, and then dispersed.

The next day she didn't follow up the mountain, but stayed at home to dry tea seeds. She didn't know how to dry tea seeds, so she specially invited Yu Shi to come over.

Mrs. Yu brought several complete bamboo mats from home and lined them up.Li Caiwei was helping at the side, "How long does it take for the tea seeds to dry?"

"Dry the shell of the tea seed first, until the black kernel of the tea seed bursts out, about five days."

Li Caiwei nodded, poured out the tea seeds one by one, and then flattened them with a rake. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law worked all morning to dry all eight or nine bags of tea seeds.

Li Caiwei moved two stools and sat under the eaves.

Shaking the palm-leaf fan, Yu looked at the tea seeds in front of the yard, "This tea oil is a rare commodity. Even if the oil I fry at home is almost taken out during New Years and festivals, I usually don't want to eat it."

"This tea oil is really precious. The mountains here are acidic soils, which are suitable for the growth of tea trees. That's why I planned to open a tea garden to plant tea trees and produce tea oil."

"It's a good idea, but it's not a small project to reclaim the barren hills. You have to think about it in the long run."

Li Caiwei thought for a while, "The Mid-Autumn Festival will be in half a month. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the busy farming season is over, so taking advantage of this gap, I want to hire the farmers in the village to dig a pit, and by the way, transfer the remaining ten acres of land Also dig out."

This is a big change for Mrs. Yu, Caiwei is indeed a shrewd and capable girl.

"Since you mentioned the Mid-Autumn Festival, what did you buy at home?"

"Mom, I'm busy these days, I haven't had time to buy anything yet."

"It's the first time you're at home for the festival, so you need to prepare more things. When you visit relatives and friends, you will inevitably have to give gifts. If you don't understand any etiquette, you can ask me. Don't make a mistake." Yu is a sensible person, It is impossible for Aunt Nian's three sons to give up the land for no reason. There are also rumors in the village that there are noble people helping them, maybe they are unusual people.

"Last time Liu Dongming came home and told you that there is a noble person helping you, is it a friend from your county?"

Li Caiwei froze for a moment, she really didn't know who helped her.She suspected it was Hu Qixuan, but with the attitude she had towards him that day, she shouldn't be doing this again.Could it be that faint soul that day?But I only met him once, and he didn't even know his own name, so how could he rush to help?
Except for these people, Hu Jingxuan certainly wouldn't. He didn't know about the land, let alone Pei Shaoqing. She didn't have a choice in her mind who it was.

"Mom, I'll find out."

Mrs. Yu hummed, "Since he has done our family such a big favor, we must pay him back."

The two talked for a while, Yu Shi said he wanted to go back, so he didn't stay for dinner.After three or five days, all the five acres of tea hills at home were harvested, and the tea seeds were dried every day, and the tea seeds were dried back and forth three or four times before the tea seeds were dried.

The tea seed harvest season is coming to an end, and every household is drying tea seeds, and after drying, the tea seed kernels have to be picked out of the shell.Then dry the tea seeds for one or two times before they can be sent for oil extraction.

After working hard for nearly a week, almost all the tea seeds at home have been picked up.

All the tea seeds that have been sun-dried are packed in bags, only a few of them have not been cracked in the sun, and now we just need to pick out all the tea seeds.It was getting dark, and she was still picking tea seeds.Afraid of the dark, she purposely brought a kerosene lamp to facilitate her work at night.

In the past few days, the two of them didn't have much communication. He went up to the mountain to pick tea seeds every day, and he was too tired to rest early at night.Today is finally a little leisurely, she has prepared washing clothes and towels.After he finished washing, she began to wash.

As usual, he stood in front of the bucket with his back to himself.

Li Caiwei carefully took off her clothes and walked into the bucket, she had too many things to think about, too many things to do, the current economy is not very rich and she can't hire people, she has to make plans for everything.The temperature of the water was moderate, and she leaned against the wooden barrel, a little tired, and fell asleep without knowing it.For a long while, he frowned, but he didn't hear any movement behind him.

And in his heart, he finally understands one thing, that is, his past does not belong here, nor does his future belong here.Memories of the past gradually came back with this injury.He clenched his fist tightly, turned around, picked her up from the water, covered her with clothes, and hugged her to the bed.

Feeling a warm input, Li Caiwei slowly opened her eyes, looked at the person in front of her tiredly, "Jiacheng."

Liu Jiacheng blinked his eyes, and hummed.

Li Caiwei hugged his neck tightly, and shook her head at him, "Jiacheng, can you just hug me like this?" She knew he was shy and introverted, and it would be difficult for him to take the initiative to show kindness to her .

Liu Jiacheng was a little cautious, and stood on the bed holding her. Seeing that she was holding his neck and not letting go, he didn't know what to do.

(End of this chapter)