It's time for the silkworms to harvest their cocoons again. Qujiaao and other silkworm farmers with small squeezing forests began to rush to harvest silkworm cocoons.

Perhaps this year's water flow has passed through the forests, and often when water is released to irrigate dry land, water from the upstream dam overflows. And this overflowing water is just enough to supply the needs of the pressed tree, and the leaves of the pressed tree grow fatter and more juicy than in previous years. Therefore, this year's silkworms are growing very well, and the cocoons are fat and white. In addition, this year's stocking has been increased, and the same grove has more than tripled compared to last year.

The Qu family in Qujiaao has had a good life this year, because of the spacious cement road. They listened to Erya's suggestion and built a restaurant on the side of the road, and built an inn next to the restaurant that could accommodate 200 people at the same time. Then, according to their own wishes, each family built a tea shed with open wind on all sides, providing a place for pedestrians to rest and drink water when the weather is hot.

There are not many pedestrian caravans coming and going in the first half of the year, and business will certainly not be good. However, there are nearby workers who are far away from their hometowns and open up wasteland here, and groups of three or five come to fry two dishes and ask for a pot of wine, and they can fill the house every night, but they make a little profit. In the second half of the year, there are more and more caravans from afar to the west to trade, and the benefits of this cement road, the same distance, it used to take ten days to complete, now it only takes three or four days to walk, and the horses are not tired and comfortable, and gradually the surrounding pedestrians will detour this side even if they want to detour. There are more and more pedestrians on such roads, as well as more and more people drinking tea, staying in hotels, and having a meal.

Business is easy to do, and it is more convenient to buy things. They don't need to go to the city to buy and sell everything. Just wait at the restaurant, and when a caravan passes by, ask them to buy something. People are usually willing to sell to them. Then a department store came out next to the restaurant, and people from near and far would come to buy things. The business is very good, and the monthly profit is not worse than the income of the restaurant.

There is also crop income, because of the high potato yield, all the potatoes harvested by their family this year were purchased by the surrounding county capitals, state capitals, and Anxi provinces at high prices as growing grain.

Although it is not yet the time to settle the income at the end of the year, everyone knows that there will be no less this year, and some of the Qu family will estimate that this year's family will not be less than fifty taels of silver.

Zero-hour workers who have cleared the land here this year. Although the work has been stopped, no one is in a hurry to go back, and most of them are busy with the houses that have just been built. Pack up the house. If you need to go back to your hometown, you can settle down here for a long time. Everyone's mood is conflicted with excitement and sadness about being away from home.

Father Cai and Daddy Tang are the most active of these people.

"Brother Tang! Your family wants so many houses at once, if your three sons don't want to come, don't you waste it? ”

Daddy Donald used a big shovel to fill in the potholes in the yard. While smiling happily, he replied to Cai's father, who helped clean up his yard together: "Although my sons are not good-natured. But they will all listen to my decision. Since I've decided to move here, they'll have to come along. If it weren't for the government's restriction that each main house could only have a maximum of nine rooms, brother, I would like to have three more! How cheap this house is! If we were to build such a brick house by ourselves, it would cost at least ten taels of silver for an average house, and we can now win it for only three taels of silver. And don't give it right away, how can you miss such a good thing?! ”

"Brother Tang said the same, my eldest also wanted to have a few more rooms. Just I thought! There are not so many people at home, and it is a waste to be empty. Besides. The government also left a house base of more than 10 zhang in our backyard to prevent us from adding people to our family to build another house in the future. If the family population increases in the future. When I need to build another house, I fence the back. Like the previous one, the main house and side house can be built, and at least a dozen rooms can be added. How many people are there to live in? Big brother, you said, what I think is right? ”

"Your family is different from mine, the population is so small, and the houses that your boss wants are indeed enough. It's not cost-effective to have so many empty houses. That's right! My brother has always forgotten to ask you, this time when you go back and move, do you plan to treat yourself in Zhuangzi? ”

Cai's father shook his head: "No invitation!" There are so many people in Zhuangzi, it will cost four or five taels of silver to ask for a meal, and it is better to use it to pay off the house money next year. Big brother, do you want to please?! ”

"I didn't plan to invite, after all, I'm an outsider, please don't invite it all, I just want to bring some candy back, and the family will be scattered. My son and I are doing well this year, and we have earned nearly 20 taels of money together with the money from selling potatoes. Leave fifteen taels to pay back the house money, and bring five taels of silver back, and the cost of moving next year is also in these five taels of silver. If it's a treat, it's not enough to spend. ”

"Roar! When the eldest brother did this, I found out that the two of us in the family did not earn more than half of the small bag. ”

Speaking of Bao Zhengrong, Daddy Tang was full of praise. "Zhengrong, this kid, is capable. I heard that the money for his house has been cleared, and he also invited a carpenter to come to the house to make furniture, and the two younger sisters also found good relatives by the way, and arranged for his four uncles and four aunts to go to the prefect's brother's house to do long-term work, and give eight taels of silver a year to eat, drink, wear and live, and can also take the children in the family to raise them together. If this person is capable, he and his family will be benefited. I saw his fourth aunt picking up silkworm cocoons with his two younger sisters, and I had heard them muttering that the cocoons on this mountain were going to have a bumper harvest this year. Why do you think this kid is so flexible? My child was stupid at the beginning, and he didn't know how to plant this squeeze tree, otherwise we wouldn't be able to earn more than a dozen taels of silver this year! Ay! Now I can't plant trees if I want to, and it's not easy to squeeze saplings! ”

Daddy Cai has a more down-to-earth temperament, and he will not panic because others are better off than him. He laughed and said, "Brother Tang, take your time!" I think the days will only get better and better, this radius of hundreds of miles is wasteland, how much waste land we have only opened up this year! Do you want to plant a tree that you don't have yet? ”

"Hey! Dude is right! I also have a plan, when the move comes, and the sons are all here, I will be well assigned. The daughters-in-law and granddaughters let them raise their livestock, and the sons worked in the government to earn wages. I, the old man and the old woman, went to find saplings and planted ten acres of saplings in five years. ”

Cai's father listened to Daddy Tang's future plan, and felt good, and secretly wondered if his family should also plan like this!

The houses on both sides of the cement avenue have been built into a straight line, and less than a zhang away in front of the house is an artificial canal made of cement and rubble, which is not only used for irrigation of the soil, but also for the residents' daily water.

The canal is built very suitable for the use of residents, and there is a staircase in the middle of every four to five houses that can go down to the water, and there are also long stone slabs on which people can squat and bend down to wash vegetables and clothes. Tree stumps were buried around the slabs to prevent children and adults from accidentally slipping into the water.

In front of the long house, there are two newly dug wells, which are specially used to supply the residents with water. Although the well was very deep, because of the wheels that shook the water, ordinary women could draw their own water.

Some of the people who had already brought their families over in the spring had already moved their things into the house. Some take the things that need to be washed and washed in the canal to be washed, and some fetch water from the well to carry it home, wash and scrub the large things.

Some acquaintances by the well chatted while waiting for water: "Sister-in-law Li! Listen to your eldest brother say that you want to go back again this year? ”

"Yes! When I came here last year, I didn't know if I could keep it, so I didn't dare to bring some things. I will clean up when I go back this year, and when I get back to the New Year, I will hire a carriage to pull them all over. Sister Zhang, do you mean you won't go back this year? But I heard that you have two children in your hometown! ”

Zhang replied: "My sister-in-law didn't go well, so she won't go back." However, my man said that he still had to go back to say goodbye to his uncle and a few uncles, and wanted to ask them to come and confess. The two children at home came with their father, and I didn't need to go back to pick them up. ”

There were women from other places nearby, because we had been together for a year, and we knew each other. Hearing the conversation between Li and Zhang, he also joined in. One of them, surnamed Wang, was more familiar with Zhang, and she continued Zhang's words and said: "I also have a bad relationship with my sister-in-law, but my father and mother are still in the hall." This year, I want to go back with my man to leave some money for my father and mother to spend, my sister-in-law is very slammed, if my father and mother have a disaster or something, she will definitely not be willing to spend money on my father and mother to see. Ay! Speaking of which, my family is here, and I am full of joy, but I can't stand it at the thought of leaving my father and mother at home and not being able to take care of it. ”

Li is old and sees things more thoroughly, so he opened his mouth to comfort the Wang family, who was obviously uncomfortable, "You can't think like that!" If you think about it, everyone will move their families here when they can't survive in their hometown. Here you can also have the opportunity to give the two elders a little money for self-defense, if you are at home, you can't even live your own life, even if you live closer to the two elders, what can you do? They are sick and need money for treatment, you can't take it, they want to eat a good bite, you don't have the money to buy it. If they need to be taken care of, you can't just stay at your parents' house to take care of your parents. Do you think that's the reason? If your sister-in-law is really unfilial, you can discuss it with your man and bring the two elders with you. The two elders came and said that they could help you herd your livestock, look after your home, take care of your children, and point out some things that you young people don't understand. It is said that there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, if you explain it to your man, he may take the initiative to pick up your father and mother! ”

Zhang also nodded on the side and said, "Sister Li is really from here, what she said is good." When my father and mother were alive, I couldn't even afford a pound of brown sugar, and every time I went back, I was empty-handed. My sister-in-law has always looked down on me because of this, and she said that I just talk about it, and there is nothing real. I myself feel wronged, the poor children in my family can't eat enough, how can I have money to buy things. The two sides complained, and over time, this knot became deeper and deeper. Later, when my father and mother died, I stopped going back to my parents' house. (To be continued.) )

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