After carefully calculating the various expenses, he got up and went into the firewood room, took out the silver, and counted it carefully. Chen Qing only left 3 taels of silver for self-defense, and the rest were stuffed into Ah Bi for his own money, except for the dowry.

When the embroidery is sent to the cloth mill, it can also be exchanged for half a tael of silver, which is all his family property. It doesn't cost a lot of money to buy chickens, just out of the shell for 2 yuan, half a month for 5 yuan, and a month for 10 yuan.

More than half of the autumn, if the chickens bought are too small, I am afraid that it will be difficult to feed when it is cold, Chen Qing gritted his teeth and decided to buy 10 yuan, buy 30 first, and raise them until the New Year's Festival for 3 months, slaughter a few to eat, and wait until the beginning of spring (February) to lay eggs.

After the beginning of spring, hold a few nests of chickens, and the chickens that come out of the shell in spring can lay eggs in 4 months, and then they can eat both eggs and chicken.

Thinking that he could make his own decisions and kill chickens if he wanted to, and eat eggs if he wanted, Chen Qing no longer complained about his current life, at least he had more autonomy than in his uncle's house.

Hurry up to complete the embroidery, Chen Qing is expected to buy chickens in three days. By the way, you have to build a chicken coop, this chicken cub must not be kept at home, so you have to find another place.

Throwing down the embroidery work in his hand, Chen Qing got up and went to Brother Yang's house to inquire about the news.

Brother Yang was settling accounts at home, and when he saw Chen Qing entering the door, he hurriedly invited him into the house. Knowing that Chen Qing wanted to raise chickens, Brother Yang looked entangled, "How smelly, there is no shortage of meat at home, it is all sent by tenants in a fixed season, if you want to eat, just tell Zijun directly"

"It doesn't cost much food to raise chickens at home, and you can also pick up eggs, and the surplus can also be taken to the county for money," Chen Qing said truthfully.

"You are short of money, you won't ask Zijun for it, you are his daughter-in-law, he won't even give you the family, right?" Brother Yang looked at Chen Qing with a shocked expression.

"Family, why did he give it to me?" Chen Qing had a knowing expression, and Brother Yang, who was looking at it, also sighed, "The land on the edge of the vegetable field is empty, if you want to raise it, just talk to Zijun."

"Well, I know," Chen Qing nodded.

"But how much money can you make raising chickens? Do you really want to return the silver to Zijun? He is not short of silver" Brother Yang disagreed, this is all over the door, and he still cares about what to do.

Chen Qing is not a little brother who doesn't know the sufferings of the world, and he can't ask his husband for money as a matter of course like Brother Yang, and his brother still has to settle accounts, between him and Liang Zijun, in addition to debts, it is an obligation to "repay debts, it is justified, since you have promised, you must keep your promise." ”

Brother Yang saw that Chen Qing said with a resolute face, so he no longer persuaded him, but just pouted and told him that he would come to him to borrow money if he was short of money.

Chen Qing went to the edge of the vegetable garden to see the land, and thought that it would be vacant if it was wasteland, but he didn't want it to be a family field, so he only planted half an acre of vegetables near the Liang family's mansion, and the remaining three acres of land were all deserted.

Chen Qing carefully checked the soil and found that they were all good fields, but because no one had taken care of them for many years, the barren grass was overgrown, and the cooked land was about to become raw land.

If you take care of it carefully for a year, apply fertilizer and then plant crops, it will be a fine field again in less than two years. Anyway, it is the land of the tenant Liang family, go back and ask if you can rent this piece, if Liang Zijun agrees, he is also convenient to serve nearby, and the manure of the chickens can also be used to fertilize and water the garden.

With an idea in his heart, he couldn't help but look forward to Liang Zijun going home early, boiling the bath water, and making dinner, Chen Qing waited for the owner to come back.

After the sun turned west, Liang Zijun rushed home, and today he wanted to laugh when he thought of Chen Qing's confused appearance, he didn't feel stupid, but others felt weird when they saw his stupid smile.

As soon as he arrived home, Liang Zijun shouted like an uncle, and after Chen Qing brought it to the table, he directly instructed, "Sit down and eat together, what kind of coarse food do you eat in the kitchen?"

Chen Qing pouted and took out his rice bowl from the kitchen and sat opposite.

"Isn't it that you won't be allowed to eat coarse food? The long-term workers in the family eat better than you, so hurry up and throw it away" Liang Zijun caught fire when he saw Chen Qing gnawing on the head of the nest, how could this person not listen!

"I didn't do that much, I'll talk about it next time" Chen Qing confessed honestly.

"What I eat in the future, what will you eat, do you hear?" Liang Zijun raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, the owner" Chen Qing asked for help, and happily agreed, since the owner has asked for it, he naturally has to comply, anyway, he is not ready to eat for nothing, the big deal is that in the future, all the chickens will be used for his own food, and he will not sell them.

Liang Zijun snorted with satisfaction, gave half of the rice to Chen Qing, and picked up another nest to eat. Chen Qing looked at him frowning and gnawing on his head, and he couldn't tell what it felt like in his heart, in short, it was weird~

"Look at what you eat is so fragrant, it's not very delicious" Liang Zijun took a small bite in disgust, frowned and swallowed.

Chen Qing returned half a bowl of rice to him, snatched back his nest, and did not dislike it, and directly bit down another piece at the gap, "If you don't like it, don't eat it"

Liang Zijun just wanted to get angry, but when he saw that Chen Qing had eaten something he had bitten, he swallowed his words back. Forget it today, forgive him once.

After eating, Chen Qing didn't move, and he didn't say what he wanted to say after opening his mouth for a long time. Liang Zijun was quite happy to see him entangled, and after admiring it for a long time, he asked impatiently, "Say it"

"That...... I heard Brother Yang say that the empty fields in the vegetable field belong to the Liang family?" Chen Qing finished speaking, and then he felt more happy, if he and Liang Zijun didn't quarrel, they felt awkwardly tight.

"Well, you want that piece of land?" Liang Zijun certainly remembered what he had promised.

"That's right, it's a pity, it's all high-quality fields, you can recover it after a year or two, I also want to build a chicken nest over there, and the fertilizer is also transported to and fro, just sow it nearby" Chen Qing looked at Liang Zijun with bright eyes, with a look of anticipation.

Liang Zijun avoided those black eyes, coughed secretly, and said, "Okay, whatever you want"

"Xie Dongjia" Chen Qing suddenly bloomed with a king-size smile, and his eyebrows and eyes swayed Liang Zijun's eyes.

After Chen Qing cleaned up the table and went out, Liang Zijun secretly called out. Damn, if you smiled like this earlier, you wouldn't have fought him ruthlessly.

Sneaking up and glancing at Chen Qing who was washing the dishes in the yard, Liang Zijun was a little unbalanced in his heart, he usually kept a cold face to himself, and he was willing to give a smile when he asked him, who is the master?

Chen Qing even became more and more energetic when he even brushed the dishes, thinking about the three acres of good fields on the edge of the vegetable field, his eyes never opened their round, the corners of his mouth were crooked, and from time to time he would let out a hint of pleasure.

After cleaning up the stove room, it was getting late, Chen Qing waited for Liang Zijun to take a bath, and then went into the firewood room to take out a change of clothes and enter the bathhouse.

After taking a shower, he stood at the door and hesitated for a while, before he raised his voice and asked, "Dongjia, do you have any more orders?"

Liang Zijun listened attentively, and immediately ran to the bed and half-leaned to clear his throat, "It's gone, you should rest early."

Chen Qing immediately breathed a sigh of relief, this generation of daughters-in-law is like a waiter, and before going to bed, she has to ask the owner if she needs it. Knowing that Liang Zijun didn't want to toss tonight, Chen Qingle was relaxed, returned to the firewood room and collapsed on the kang, rolled half a circle with the quilt, and immediately fell asleep as soon as his eyes were closed.

was sleeping half asleep and half awake, faintly heard Liang Zijun's angry call, Chen Qing rubbed his eyes, got up sleepily, and opened the door to see Liang Zijun standing at the door of the hall wearing underwear to call him.

"Does the owner still have orders?" Chen Qing half-squinted, his face slightly impatient.

"Why are you going, I won't be silent for a long time!" Liang Zijun was anxious to wait in the house, and he didn't see Chen Qing's figure, so most of his good mood immediately went.

"Sleep, didn't the owner give orders tonight?" Chen Qing lowered his head, slightly embarrassed.

"Do you still need to be instructed about this?" Liang Zijun's eyes widened, what is the structure of this wooden head? Squinting at the firewood room, he faintly came up with an answer that made him angry just thinking about it.

The bedroom was so tidy, it turned out that no one lived at all, and he was waiting for someone to come back to sleep in the bedroom. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Liang Zijun flicked his sleeves and entered the house, since he had already said "no orders" before, it would be embarrassing to bring Chen Qing into the house to do that thing at this moment, he was not hungry enough to that kind of Cheng dù.

Chen Qing stood inexplicably for a long time, and as soon as the night breeze blew, the person came to his senses, tilted his head and thought carefully for a long time, but he didn't understand why Liang Zijun was angry, so he simply stopped being entangled, and reflexively went back to the firewood room to sleep.

Liang Zijun leaned on the window and squinted at the people who got into the firewood room again, and the root of his teeth itched with hatred, okay! This is really taking himself as a long-term worker, and he didn't even enter the bedroom, so he only came to serve when he was ordered, so that he had to wait for the lord to name and serve like the three wives and four concubines of a big family in Beijing.

Liang Zijun raised his eyebrows, which could somewhat satisfy the self-esteem of his eldest man, but the excitement in his heart quickly disappeared. The taste of being alone in the empty room made Liang Zijun toss and turn and couldn't sleep. silently pondered how to let Chen Qing obediently move to the master bedroom.

Dissatisfied with his desires, he had a black face all morning, went out to inspect the crops after breakfast, and met a guy from the county who came to look for him halfway. Liang Zijun hurriedly confessed that he didn't even finish the work at home, and left home in a hurry, and went for seven or eight days, and didn't rush back until the rent was collected.

Shao Fengzhi learned the news from Wei Liang, and only scolded the third child a few words, just a few days after getting married, he was not at home all day, when will there be a doll?

The whole family knew that Liang Zijun was out, but Chen Qing didn't know. It is nothing more than everyone ignores the news that everyone knows, how can the daughter-in-law in the house not give an explanation? Wei Liang only notified Shao Fengzhi and Liang Zixian as instructed, and the rest of them mentioned each other intentionally or unintentionally, and they all knew that the third child had gone out again, and as for Liang Zijun's unfinished work, it was also taken over by the Liang family's capable lobby brother.