In the next few days, Lu Ming ordered someone to transport the paper several times, and when the last trip came, four bags of grain were transported, and Chu Ying stuffed the collected cattail velvet into the sack and put it away, so that it could be put into the pulp to make the paper softer.

The water chestnuts and gourds by the lake were almost harvested by the villagers, and when Chu Ying went, he only harvested a back basket, but it was also full of nothing. "These are enough to pay the taxes, and some of the chestnuts in the grove have fallen on their own, and I have collected some of them, but it seems that someone else has gone in."

"Someone else?" If it was Aunt Wang, she would definitely tell herself, after all, Aunt Wang would not take too much, Chu Ying felt that when she harvested and transported chestnuts into the city last year, she let others know that she had a chestnut tree in her house.

"Well, it's better to finish it early, or let someone else take it." After eating, Chu Ying went to Aunt Wang's house and asked them to help harvest the chestnuts, if they only relied on themselves and Ye Qiu to harvest them, they would definitely not be so fast.

"Are your chestnuts ripe over there? Wait for the garden to come back from harvesting the husked millet and let him help, this day should not have fallen yet, it would be better for someone to beat it a few times. Don't worry, we'll go with him when he comes back. Chu Ying watched Aunt Wang feeding the chickens, but she didn't see the few white rabbits that Bai Yuhe bought from her last time.

"Mother, why don't I go too." Bai Yuhe walked out of the room with a big belly, he didn't do any work in the past few days, and he couldn't help the family, the last time Ji Yuan and his mother went to Chu Ying's place to do some work, they brought back a lot of food, and they could exchange some food by themselves.

"Didn't the doctor say to let you take care of it?"

"It's okay, this fetus has already sat firmly, and it's not that it's about collecting chestnuts, it's just picking up, and it's effortless, just wait for the garden to come back and go, it's good to move more." Bai Yuhe sat down slowly, reaching out to wash the pile of clothes.

"Don't move, I'll come, I'll wash these clothes, it's not comfortable for you to sit, let's help Chu Ying later." Bai Yuhe wiped her hands and looked at her mother-in-law who was bending over to wash clothes, she had never been scolded by her mother-in-law since she married here, and this mother-in-law really had nothing to say to herself.

Chu Ying vacated the back baskets one by one, soaked the bamboo slices in water to soften them, and then roasted them with fire and tied them with ropes, so that they could bend down a little to clamp the chestnuts, but this chestnut tree was still a little tall, Chu Ying couldn't beat it, and she had to wait for Wang Yuyuan to come back before she could start.

This harvest is more tense than last year, I am afraid that if I keep those chestnuts for a few more days, I will harvest less, Wang Jiyuan beat everyone on the side and picked it up, because there are many people, it will be harvested in 3 days.

gave Wang Qiyuan's family five bags of chestnuts, and the rest of Chu Ying was put away, and there were still a few Chu Ying in the grove that were not collected, and the person who came to steal the chestnuts last time could also take some more, after all, no one was having a good time at such an age, and the rest was only a little more than one bag.

When waiting to dry the chestnuts, Chu Ying cut the ramie and brought it back to peel the hemp in the yard, after all, it was better to leave someone in the yard, Chu Ying and Ye Qiu took turns cutting the hemp and came back.

"Chu Ying, this pheasant is hunting in the mountains, this time there are many hunting in the mountains, so I will send you one." Chu Ying looked at the pheasant that was still relatively fat, and didn't know that this autumn hunt had already begun.

"Are there many people who go hunting?"

"Of course, there are more, the prey near the mountains has been exhausted, and now you can only go into the mountains, other people have already gone into the mountains to hunt, but now that the autumn harvest is good, there are more people who go together, and there are fewer people who go into the mountains alone, you don't want to go, there are many wild boars in the mountains, and it takes several men to hunt back." Chu Ying looked at Wang Qiyuan, who had not yet unloaded the bow on his back, and began to itch again in his heart, waiting for the ramie here to be almost harvested, and then he also went into the mountain to try his luck.

Although there are only more than 20 rabbits left in the family that have been eaten now, there are now more than 50, but there are more young rabbits, Chu Ying still has to keep it in the winter when there is no meat to eat, and then kill it, now if you can get some food, it is also good.

Ye Qiu looked at Chu Ying, who was already shining with two eyes, and was very entangled, Chu Ying's archery skills were also known to him, Chu Ying would plan to practice archery when he was free, maybe it would be much more accurate than Wang Qiyuan, but let her enter the mountain Ye Qiu with a child.

In the next few days, the speed of hemp harvesting has slowed down, as long as the weather is cold for more than a month, the prey will become fewer, so that Chu Ying will not shout to enter the mountain, and this hemp harvesting day can be delayed a little more.

Chu Ying wiped the bow and arrow a few times when she was resting, this bow and arrow is her own pistol, her wife, you have to treat it well, but Ye Qiu may have been tired recently, and the action of collecting hemp has slowed down significantly, Chu Ying can only work harder by herself, quickly collect the hemp, and when the time comes, go and change the cloth to prepare all the taxes to be paid.

After waiting for the ramie to be harvested and dried, Chu Ying packed the dried ramie skin in a sack, and went to the neighboring village that Wang Qiyuan said to find the old woman Li who collected the hemp, Wang Qiyuan said that this old woman Li was the most fair, and she could exchange for better quality linen.

Chu Ying didn't understand these very well, so she asked people to slowly find Old Lady Li's house, but when she entered this big courtyard, she didn't see a few people.

"Changing the cloth? Put it here to weigh. Chu Ying poured the sack out of the back basket according to a man's instructions. Take it apart and see how it looks. ”

Chu Ying untied the sack, and the man took out some and looked at it, then picked it up and weighed it. "65 pounds. Boy's first time? Go over there and wait. ”

Chu Ying watched someone carry the sack away, someone was remembering something, and when she looked inside, she saw several looms, but now there was only a woman weaving.

"Daughter-in-law, get a piece of cloth, boy, the market has been bad recently, it's 40 pounds for a horse, you don't have enough for two horses, you can send some of the rest to you when the time comes, okay." Chu Ying watched the man tear the hemp skin into very thin strips, and then tie it into a long rope, but he didn't expect this man to look rough but he was full of fine work.

"Okay." There are only 7 people in this yard in total, and I'm afraid it's a family business, so I didn't hire anyone because of my bad age recently.

Chu Ying went back early or she could only eat lunch later hungry, waiting for the next day Chu Ying wanted to transport more hemp skin, but at most she could only move more than 60 catties on her back, because she had to walk a lot of roads, Chu Ying couldn't be greedy, this time she went to weigh 6 catties, Chu Ying came back with two pieces of cloth, and when she went back, she had to ask Ye Qiu if she still needed it, and she could change more when she took advantage of the bad market of this linen cloth.

Chu Ying didn't know why the market of this linen cloth was not good, and it was estimated that everyone went to Tunmi, so the purchase of cloth was not large, and those who had excess cloth at home were also exchanged for food, so it became more and more that the cloth was not as valuable as before.