Chapter Seventy-Five: Drainage Channels
In the end, the few people discussed going home and eating first, and then coming to drain the water. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Yang Yun went to the house to find paper, and then found a branch to burn black as a charcoal pen, and thought carefully and seriously to see how to help the wasteland group in the back mountain to repair a drainage channel. Yang Yun thought for a while and felt that sitting in the room like this, thinking that many actual things could not be drawn, it was better to take pen and paper directly in the afternoon, go to the wasteland for field investigation, and then draw them slowly.
After lunch, Yang Yun took pen and paper, and a ball of thread, and followed her grandfather to the wasteland group in the back mountain. After Yang Yun arrived at the Houshan wasteland group, she kept going back and forth around the wasteland group to see where to start building a main channel to drain water.
"Sister, you're always going around the wasteland, you're not tired, what are you drawing with a pen and paper in your hand?" Yang Yong watched Yang Yun always walk around the wasteland group, Yang Yun was not tired, he was tired of watching.
"It's not like it's raining in this wasteland group in Houshan, and the stagnant water can't be drained out, and it also affects the five acres of wasteland of Uncle Li's family. My sister wants to see if the wasteland in the back mountain can be repaired to drain the water, so that when it rains in the future, everyone's field will not always be drained of water. ā
"This thing is very difficult to do, our village people are not profitable early, you can see the road repair, the village road used to be busy with people when the farm was busy, but the villagers just don't repair it, anyway, they didn't fall to their family, they don't care at all, this will be if there is not the four-wheeled cart, the villagers want to use the four-wheeled cart, the whole village will build the road."
"The people of Zhoujia Village won't be like this."
"It's true, according to my brother's opinion, the fields near the river don't need to be drained at all, and the water can be discharged directly. After the spring ploughing, many villagers have to go out to work to make money to survive this green and yellow season. ā
"That is, after the spring ploughing, the labor of the whole village will have to go out to work?"
"Yes, sister, why did you forget, every year after spring ploughing, Uncle Xiao and Uncle Li have to go to the town to work and make money."
"It's not like there were too many things that happened last year, and my sister forgot a lot of things."
"Again, a lot did happen last year." Yang Yong sighed in his heart, his uncle died, he was sold to the Zhou family, his grandmother was sick, his sister fell into the river, and last year was the most unfortunate and painful year for the family.
"Then this will be busy for a long time, and this drainage channel will not be repaired." Yang Yun felt that her efforts had been in vain.
"This thing will definitely not work, unless it is said that the drainage canal is repaired, and there is any benefit to the villagers, they will be willing to repair it."
"Brother, why do you say the villagers are unwilling to change?"
"Change what?" Yang Yong had no clue about Yang Yun's question.
"It's to change the plight of our family, you see that our family used to be very poor, but we are willing to try to improve our family situation, but the villagers are all so poor, even if they are told to repair drainage channels, it will be good for the fields in the future, they are not willing to try to do it."
"Maybe this is what Grandpa Xu often said, the villagers only pay attention to the benefits they see in front of them."
"Grandpa Xu usually teaches you these things." Yang Yun was surprised.
"No, Grandpa Xu knows a lot of things outside, often tells us about the outside world, and tells us a lot of truths." It seems that Dr. Xu's identity is really not simple, Yang Yun knew that Dr. Xu had a lot of extraordinary experiences from the information that her grandfather occasionally revealed.
"It's been a wasted day." Knowing that this thing could not be done, Yang Yun sighed in her heart. Although she knew the result, Yang Yun still carefully observed the situation of the wasteland, asked Yang Yong to help her pull the line, and calculated the length and width of the drainage channel, Yang Yun decided to draw the drainage channel, even if she couldn't use it at this time, maybe she could use it in the future.
The two families worked hard in the wasteland in the back mountain for an afternoon, before draining the water in the five acres of wasteland of Uncle Li's house, Yang Yun checked the situation of the seeds, some of the seeds have sprouted a small sprout, some were soaked in the water and floated to the ground, it seems that some places are going to replant vegetable seeds.
After Yang Yun returned home, she carefully checked the drawings of the drainage channels, and made sure that there were no problems, so she collected the drawings, which may benefit the whole village in the future.
The next day, the two families spent a morning replanting the seeds that had been soaked. That acre of sweet potato land, because of the cultivation of a Longlong high soil, the sweet potato soaking is not serious, and there is no need to replant.
That night, Yang Yun took out the account book at home and cleared it to see how much money it cost to buy seeds during this time, like some staple grain seeds, rice, wheat, sorghum, and millet, which cannot be purchased in the store outside, and can only be bought at the place designated by the government.
The seeds of wheat are purchased at the direction of the government, and the government will issue a stamped certificate to pay taxes when the grain is harvested in the autumn. Without this certificate, when the tax is paid in the autumn, the tax is two layers higher than the certificate, and the people have to go to the places designated by the government to buy high-priced seeds in order to pay less taxes. Of course, compared with taxes, the seed money of sixty wen a pound is not very high. Collusion between officials and businessmen has been the norm in China for 5,000 years.
The six acres of the Yang family have sufficient fertilizer, and one acre of land is almost twenty-five catties of seeds, and six acres of land cost a total of nine taels of silver. Yang Yun sighed in her heart, she didn't know if wheat could be sold for nine taels of silver when the grain was harvested in the autumn. The money for wheat seeds, sweet potato seeds, and four acres of green vegetable seeds cost a total of ten taels of silver. Before the Lantern Festival, there are 21 taels of silver left in the house, which will deduct the seed money, plus the 1 tael of silver spent by the family during this time, there are 10 taels of silver left in the family.
The sweet potato seed money and green vegetable money were shared with Uncle Li's family, and it was said that the five acres of land would be cultivated by the two families together, and of course the seed money would be shared together, and when the harvest was made, it would also be divided into fifty and fifty.
Since Yang Yun has money in the family, although she doesn't eat meat every day, Yang Yun buys meat every other day or two, and it is normal for the family to spend much more than before. Yang Xuan's pen and ink are also going to be bought, and he doesn't know when the ten taels of silver will be able to top, and he only hopes that the green vegetables on the four acres of land can make some money.
Yang Yun calculated the ledger clearly and put it back, blew out the lamp and lay down on the bed to sleep. Alas! A sigh.
"Sister, why are you sighing?"
"Xiao Xuan, you haven't slept yet." Yang Xuan went to bed first, and Yang Yun sat next to the table in the room and counted the account books at home, thinking that Yang Xuan had fallen asleep.
"My sister didn't sleep, Xiao Xuan couldn't sleep either, why did my sister sigh just now."
"You stupid boy, my sister is sighing that after our family bought seeds, there is not much money left."
"Then Xiao Xuan has already eaten less, so that he can save some money."
"Hehe, you stupid boy, no matter how poor our family is, we can't save your rations, when you are growing your body, you have to eat more to grow taller, you can rest assured that my sister will definitely think of making money, it's very late, hurry up and go to sleep."
"Well, Xiao Xuan will sleep now."
Yang Yun took Yang Xuan in her arms, gently patted him on the back, and sang the lullaby of his previous life to coax him to sleep. Yang Xuan now has the love of his family, and he has become very cheerful. It's just that I don't know if the owner, who has a pair of ink-like and melancholy eyes, has also become cheerful? (To be continued.) )