Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Village

Chapter 86

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Du Yu's father has been teaching at Jinxi Academy for two years, and this is the third year.

This year, because it is the year of the rural examination, many scholars who want to go to the rural examination have begun to prepare.

Last year, Hu Xin passed the boy's exam and failed the college exam, but he is already a boy student, and this year, as long as he passes the college exam, he can become a scholar.

I have to say that people are very different. Hu Xin is really good at reading. Last year, he was only 14 years old and he could become a child student. It is considered very good in Yunyang County.

At the beginning of spring, Hu Xin went to the provincial capital, planning to pass the college exam this time, no, he has already passed the exam and is waiting for news.

"If big cousin passes, will he go with my father during the rural examination?" Du Yu asked.

Uncle Hu laughed and said, "How is this possible? Your eldest cousin is still young, so he will have to wait at least another three years before he can improve his knowledge."

Uncle Hu brought Ji's family to the county seat as well. After waiting for the news, he was very relieved of his eldest son. He loved reading since he was a child. Although he failed the first exam to be a scholar, he was not bad at his age.

In the past two years, there have been happy events in Du Yu's family. First, the third aunt Gao gave birth to a boy, Shiro, named Du Bo last year. Not long after that, within ten days, four Aunt Zhao also gave birth to a girl, and Mr. Du named her Du Ying. With these two little ones in the family, Qi didn't say that there were no children in the house, and she felt lonely.

But last year, the weather was good and the family's grain harvest was bumper, and the Qi family had more money on hand.

It's not like before, people who have to pick and choose in order to eat some meat.

Everything is fine in the old house, and Du Yu and the others are calm in the academy.When I went back during the Chinese New Year last year, Du Yu and Da Lang Erlang still continued to set up stalls and sell couplets. Hu Xin knew about it, and he also went to help those days. Of course, he didn't do it to make money, but he also told his father. It is better than anything else to know the world and know the world.

From the very beginning, they sold couplets and made money. Both Dalang and Erlang were handed over to Du Yu for safekeeping. As for Du Yu, he didn't want to put all the money in his hands and let him die. Wouldn't it be worth it?
It just so happened that the field that my family rescued rushed over to give gifts that year. Among them was a kind of rouge rice, to put it bluntly, it was purple rice. She suddenly thought that this kind of rice was very expensive, ten times more expensive than ordinary rice more than.

Thinking about the land at home, there is no need to pay taxes, why not plant some valuable crops, which will be more valuable when sold?
They are not people who still rely on a few acres of land for food now, so they have the conditions to grow this.

At home, the fourth uncle doesn't have any skills in his hands now, so we have to cultivate something famous in farming.

Du Yu knew that his ideas would definitely not be adopted. After all, people are small and talkative, and grandma would not be able to pass the test.

Thinking that my father is still very sensible, so I told my father about this idea.

Hearing what his daughter said, Du Youzhong smiled and said, "That's a good idea. If the rouge rice can really be grown, Yu'er will have a lot of credit."

This kind of precious rice, that is, people who have spare land and spare money at home, will only fiddle with it. Otherwise, people who can’t even eat enough to eat, who would spend so much time planting this, the first thing is to solve the problem of hunger.

Du Youzhong agreed to talk to Mr. Du and Mrs. Qi, but the three brothers and sisters were left to figure out how to find seeds and how to plant them.

"Don't you have private money on hand? Then use your private money to finish this matter. As for how much profit will be made at that time, you can discuss it with your fourth uncle and grandma." It means letting go The brothers and sisters had a lot of trouble.

Although Mrs. Qi reluctantly agreed, she felt aching in her heart. She felt that her eldest son was ruining the field, and she wanted to grow a good paddy field. If it couldn't be planted, that acre of land would be completely ruined!

But the eldest son is also for the good of the fourth child and the family. Anyway, there is no need to pay taxes now, so let them try it out. Anyway, if one year is not good, she will never agree to continue.

Later, of course, Fourth Uncle Du Yu agreed. If nothing else, he was good at growing crops. Isn't it just rouge rice? Isn't it rice?He took good care of it, and he didn't believe it could be done well.

As for this kind of child, Tian Chong is the nephew of Qin Yuanwai, and the Qin family also has a grain store, so they went to the grain store to inquire first.

People say that there is no such unhulled rouge rice seeds, but if they want to get them, there is a way, but the price is much more expensive than ordinary rice.

Something is better than nothing, here I asked someone to buy the seeds, and Dalang and Erlang over there also tried their best to check the books on how to grow this rouge rice.

Du Youzhong said that he didn't care, but through his relationship, he also inquired about some methods that people in places that specialize in growing rouge rice said. They are generally the same as ordinary rice, but they need to be more delicate than ordinary rice. There are also some methods that are Farmers figured it out for themselves.

In this way, Du Youde can't wait to take it with him in that field all day long, that's called being attentive, more careful than taking care of children.

When it was time to harvest, there was actually a harvest!Although the output is not as good as that of ordinary rice, it still yields more than 400 catties per mu.

After harvesting the grain, he kept twenty catties of seeds, and sold the rest to the Qin family's grain shop, and then he earned more than eight taels of silver for this mu of land!

This is much more profitable than growing ordinary rice, although the harvest is not as good as ordinary rice.

Du Yu and the others used to have more than one tael of capital, but now it is four taels.

Du Youde himself got two taels, and the rest was handed over to the Qi family for more than two taels. The Qi family was very happy to receive this money, which is much more profitable than growing ordinary rice!Do you want to grow a few acres next year?
It was Du Youzhong who said: "There are not many families that can afford rouge rice. Our family can plant two acres of land. If we plant too much, there will be no market." The price of rouge rice will be reduced.

Of course, people in ordinary villages would never grow them, and they would not be able to eat enough, so where would they have the leisure to grow such things?Still have to pay land tax.

That's why the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting richer.

Many people in Yangliu Village know that the Du family has planted rouge rice, but no one has the confidence to plant it together.

This kind of seed is not easy to get, besides, the Du family planted it with the intention of wasting the harvest of an acre of land, who would dare to waste an acre of land?

There are also thick-skinned people who want to get some seeds on credit from the Du family, and Zhang's is one of them.

Mrs. Qi said directly: "My family doesn't dare to grow any more. You still want to follow suit. Planting your own rations is ruined. Then you will still come to trouble us. What's the matter, are we stupid or stupid?" Will you do such a thing? Let me tell you, people who accept rouge rice have already said that what they accept from our family is a favor. If it can’t be planted, it’s our fault! Where does it say that whoever wants to plant this thing can plant it?”

In the end, did Zhang Shi want to go there?Uncle Du naturally scolded Mrs. Zhang again, thinking that this woman just wanted to come out as soon as she came out. His family only has so many fields, so where is the extra field, let her toss about it?
"What do you know? The people who grow that thing are all landlords or gentlemen. You go to grow it? You want to drag us all to death! If you keep making trouble, the second brother will not even give you anything in the future." !"

For the sake of Uncle Du, the Du family will send some things during the holidays, such as fish and meat. After all, Mr. Du only has Uncle Du as his own brother, but the premise is that Mrs. Zhang does not want to do it. For two years, the Zhang family has been doing well, but when they heard that the Du family had grown rich by growing rouge rice, they couldn't help themselves.

There are still people in the village who need them, but Du Yu and the others don't care about them, and leave them to the fourth uncle. If they really want seeds, they can also introduce the source of the seeds. Anyway, as long as they have money, everyone can buy them.

It is precisely because this thing can not prevent anyone from planting. Anyway, the risk is relatively high. Just seeds, an acre of land costs about one tael of silver. If anyone has that kind of ruthlessness, then plant it.

Even Du Youde said that if anyone has planted the plant, if he doesn't understand something, he won't hide it if he asks him. It's all from the folks in the village, and he will help if he can.

Don't you say that this will make others stop planting?That is impossible.

To make money, you must first grasp the opportunity. If you think of it before others have thought of it, then if you put it into action, you will be half successful. The other half is that you put it into action and reap the rewards.

Otherwise it is a failure.At this time, there is no awareness of intellectual property rights at all, so it is impossible to keep it secret. At most, it can be hidden for a while. Everyone has a strong ability to imitate, and after a long time, they all understand the trick.

Especially in farming, it’s not like some secret recipe that can be written on paper so that people can’t see it. When Du Youde planted rouge rice in the second year, someone went to see it. Du Youde was also very generous to let people I went to see it.

As long as he was still living in Yangliu Village, he could only do this.

But this year, Du Yu and the three of them didn't mix in the matter of planting rouge rice. They let the fourth uncle do it all by himself. .

None of them are greedy people.That more than four taels of silver, plus the money from selling the couplets in the twelfth lunar month of last year, is already more than six taels.

saved up.

(End of this chapter)