take a wife to support the family

Chapter 204

No matter how scary things are, they can slowly fade over time. In the case of Dongshan Temple, after all, neither Baihe nor Li Caifeng suffered any substantial harm, and after a long time, they gradually returned to normal.

However, two groups of people heard about this one after another, and their reactions were mixed.Chen Bin said to Xueniang: "Usually, I think that Song Haonian's family is just an ordinary woman, and I don't expect to have such insight and quick wit."

Xue Niang said: "If I had been younger, I would have taken her as an apprentice, maybe I would have a bright future in the future, but now it seems like a waste of her intelligence."

"Haha, you are willing to accept apprentices, but I'm afraid they won't be willing to be apprentices." These two people are called husband master and concubine, but in fact they have another relationship, they are Shangfeng and subordinates, and they are not like ordinary couples when they talk.

Xueniang snorted coldly: "It's her destiny to be my apprentice!"

After finishing speaking, I was also taken aback. She is capable and well-known among Tiqi, but she has to be Chen Bin's concubine. Li Baihe's ability is far behind her. It's just a matter of marrying an ordinary farmer and living a loving life. , but this farmer is very unusual...

The fate of this person is really hard to say.

Then there are the people from the Rose Manor, after all, they sent two spies in the county. When they heard about this and reported it back, Manager Lu became more vigilant: "It's Tiqi's people after all, such things can be done casually." That’s right, there’s not a single word leaked beforehand.”

Then one of his subordinates asked, "Since that's the case, the Taiping County staff has been withdrawn?"

Guanshi Lu pondered for a moment, and said: "Don't retreat yet. Taiping County is a small place, and it's strange for Tiqi to send people there. They even found a man with such a face, and I don't know what their intentions are..."

"Don't delay the matter that you were asked to investigate earlier, and investigate it as soon as possible." Manager Lu finally made up his mind.

"Yes!"

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Song Haonian doesn't know how these people react and how many games they have. Now he only guards his small home every day, gets up in the morning to make tofu to buy, and then goes home to take care of the flower fields and vegetable fields, and his wife prepares three meals a day At night, I hugged my daughter-in-law and made out with each other, and my childhood was as happy as a fairy.

Unexpectedly, there are unpredictable things in the sky, and there are many things in this world that are full of joy and sorrow.

Since entering March, there has been no rain in the sky. Several times, I watched the dark clouds gather, and the thunder sounded faintly.

The farmers are most afraid of this. While praying in their hearts for rain, they carry water from the river to ensure water supply for vegetable and flower fields.

Thanks to the fact that the field is right next to the Baishui River, going back and forth is not a hassle. Song Haonian heard from the old man that the weather was bad a few years ago, and when the drought and locust plagues broke out, there were fights over water in many places, and people were killed. .

Because there is Baishui River in Qingliu Town, there are big families in the town with a good reputation like Liu Mansion, so there has never been such a thing, and there are no less deaths in other places.

Lily didn't expect that in the first year of planting flowers and investing a lot of savings, she encountered bad weather that she hadn't seen in many years. She was so anxious that her mouth started to burn, her mouth was red and swollen and painful, and she couldn't eat anything except porridge.

Song Haonian was more worried about her than about Huatian. He said: "Even if all these flower seedlings are paid for this year, our family will not be able to reach the point of poverty. I lived a hard life and had nothing. We can all get through it, so what if it's just a temporary difficulty?"

Lily laughed and felt helpless: "Life is easier, you don't take it seriously."

Song Haonian said: "No matter how much money you earn, what's the fun if you break your body?"

Lily was also touched when she heard his words, but she lived a hard life as a child, and she didn't have any savings in her hands, so she didn't know what to do. When she had savings, she wanted to earn more, so she didn't listen to Song Haonian's words much , still anxious.

Song Haonian had no choice but to run to the flower field three times a day, the crowd was dark, at least to keep the flower seedlings to grow luxuriantly.

In April, the rain still did not come down, and not only they, but also other people in the town became panicked, and some people swore that the Bodhisattvas in Dongshan Temple were efficacious, and those monks worshiped them thoughtfully. I'm afraid that the Bodhisattva will be punished by the government's actions to anger the Bodhisattva.

Encountering such rumors, the county magistrate, apart from lamenting the ignorance of the villagers, had to find ways to appease the hearts of the people. After all, he personally sacrificed to the Dragon King.

Legend has it that the Dragon Kings offered in Taiping County were the great generals at the founding of the country. It is said that after their death, the Taizu personally anointed the gods. Therefore, they are the righteous gods recognized by the court, not the kind of obscene priests who deceive the villagers and coerce the public opinion.

The county magistrate offered sacrifices to the Dragon King, and all the towns sent pig heads and other sacrifices. There was a sacrifice with gongs and drums, a god dance, and a rain watch. The watch written on the jade tablet was tied with a golden dragon and thrown into the river. Here, so that the gods can see it.

There was a light rain within two days, and everyone cheered, saying that the drought was about to pass.Unexpectedly, since that day, the weather has not changed again. No matter how the villagers toss, it just doesn't rain.

In the future, when someone talked about Dongshan Temple, the county magistrate quickly arrested the person on the charge of lying and deceiving the public. The county magistrate did not dare to delay any longer and wrote an official document to the province to report the severe drought.

The only consolation is that the number of people growing potatoes and sweet potatoes in Taiping County has gradually increased in the past two years. With these two things, it is unlikely that people will starve to death.

Furthermore, the weather in this place has been good for many years, and most of the villagers have little money in their families. This year, at most, they are short of harvest. As long as the management is good, there will be no chaos for the time being.

As soon as the official document was submitted, the province also became nervous and immediately reported it to Beijing.It has only been a few years since the war was put down, and now the people's life is getting better and better. If there is chaos at this time, I'm afraid no one will be able to please.

Farmers in the countryside don't know that even the emperor on the cloud is worrying about them, and they still try their best to keep this season's harvest. Waterwheels save labor naturally, but those without waterwheels have to rely entirely on manpower.

The waterwheel was extremely troublesome to build, but there were two of them on the farm in the Liu Mansion, they fetched water from the Baishui River day and night, and irrigated the farmland, while the rest of the households mostly relied on manpower.

Song Haonian and Wang Yongxing carried one hundred and eighty loads of water a day, and their shoulders were red and swollen, which still couldn't meet the consumption of water.Lily saw that it was impossible to go on like this, so she dragged a few big moso bamboos from the mountain to build a water diversion channel.

However, this matter is also troublesome. The flower field is two feet higher than the river, and the water flows to the lower place. It is really a big problem to let the river water irrigate the flower field.

Before the irrigation problem was solved, another incident happened in the flower field—the roses just budded, and a kind of tiny insects came out, commonly known as "drought insects" in the countryside. In one or two days, the tender leaves of the flower seedlings can be eaten up, leaving only bare stems.

Lily went to the flower field and turned over the leaves of roses to look at them, only to see a layer of gray insect eggs on the leaves, which made people feel chills and goose bumps all over their bodies.

Drought insects are born when there is little rain, and they eat seedlings, which is more urgent than irrigation.If left alone, it won't be long before all the flower seedlings will wither or be eaten up by drought insects.

Lily's heart was so scorched that it seemed like a fire was burning, she mixed the ashes with water and sprinkled them on the flower seedlings.A few days ago, when people watered the flowers, they only watered the roots and didn't pay much attention to the leaves, which caused today's disaster. Now let's see if the ashes from the stove can be remedied.

It turns out that the gray water from the stove is really useful. When it is splashed on the flowers and leaves, the drought insects will curl up into a ball and die, crackling and falling down.Lily put the chickens raised at home into the flower field and told them to catch insects and eat them, at least to control the attack of insects.

Stove ashes and chickens are just improvised means when there is no other way. If you really want to keep these flower seedlings, the most important thing is to provide water.

Lily couldn't care less about hiding her clumsiness now, wishing to use up all the memories of her previous life in her mind to see if it could be used, but there was no good way for a while.

The waterwheel is difficult to build. She first thought of using a pulley to hoist water from the Baishui River to a high place, and then guide it into the ground with moso bamboo pipes. It's not as convenient as people carrying water.

When encountering such weather, the young couple, together with Wang Yongxing and his wife, Song Ermei, worked day and night to water the fields, and they were ten times more tired than usual.

Baihe was full of anxiety and had no appetite for the past few days. Song Haonian advised her to eat more, but she suddenly sighed to Song Haonian: "Do you think I am too greedy, and God deliberately punished me?"

"What did God punish you for?" Song Haonian thought, he didn't punish many dirty-hearted bastard seeds, "this drought has happened in several counties, how could they even punish you just for you of some people."

Lily was a little depressed: "If it wasn't for my greed and insisted on planting these few acres of roses, we wouldn't have to work so hard this year, let alone worry about losing money."

The cost of roses is too high, as long as they don't get a harvest for a day, they can't sleep with their eyes closed.

Hearing this, Song Haonian hurried over to grab Lily's hand and said: "Who will allow you to think about it? You are my wife, if I don't nod, you will not be able to make these things come out. If you say you are greedy, Am I not greedy?"

Lily knew that he wanted to comfort her, so she could only smile reluctantly: "People say that husband and wife are one, if I'm not good, you won't be good either."

"Isn't that the reason!" Song Haonian gave Lily a toon sprout with chopsticks, and said to her, "I have to work early in the morning, you should eat more."

If it is said that farmers usually get up early and work late in farming, these days are really competing with God for time.

Even a little doll like Xing'er knows how to carry a small wooden basin to help irrigate the ground. She is small and weak, and when a basin of water is brought to the ground, there is only half of the basin left, and the rest is poured on herself. Not enough for two pots, and the next day I was so sore that I couldn't lift my arms, and it still came.

Baihe couldn't see Xing'er working so hard, so she took her home and made sour plum soup for her, but Li Caifeng said: "My girl looks like a conscientious person now, it's not in vain that you love her every day."

"No matter how hard it is for me, how can I ask her such a small doll to do work? The riverside is dangerous, so I'd better not go there in the future."

Xing'er really refused to agree, so Lily had to give her another job: "You look after the tofu shop for me." The business of the tofu shop is also affected by the weather these days, and it is not as good as usual. The baby's father and mother looked at her, not afraid of trouble.

(End of this chapter)