Before the day of the rush, Li Zheng's wife Wang came to visit the door, and saw this sac, and heard that it was Xiao Yu's Qibao Ruyi Dan, and he couldn't put down Xiao Pei's ingenious embroidery.

Xiao Yu smiled at Xiao Pei and said, "My sisters are really a perfect match. ”

Xiao Pei smiled and carefully put away the silver.

"Now that Qibao Ruyi Dan still has left, the fine brocade has not been used up, and Sister has been working hard to sew sachets in the past few days. I looked at the pattern of that Mo Lan is excellent, Sister Ah brought me an embroidery by the way? Xiao Yu begged.

"Okay." Xiao Pei replied, then turned his head and asked, "Yucheng, do you want it?" ”

Xiao Yucheng shook his head and said, "I'm not a girl, so I don't need that." ”

Xiao Yu said: "Your words are bad. Look at the handsome boy in the city, which one doesn't have a sachet and purse around his waist? By the way, Brother Hao Jun will give him a few when he comes, and it's good to give them away. ”

Xiao Yucheng couldn't help but think of the appearance of Hao Jun and the generals wearing sachets, and felt very weird.

But Hao Jun hasn't been here for a long time.

Xiao Pei sewed the sachet ordered by the Wang family and sent it to Lizheng Mansion and brought back a few strings of lychees. Compared with Kyoto, Lingnan lychees are not a rare thing, but they are so good and delicious that ordinary people can't eat them.

Xiao Yu ate the sweet lychee and praised: "It's really delicious." We will also plant a few trees in the yard next spring, so that we can feast on them next year. ”

"Do you know how to plant?" Xiao Yucheng said suspiciously. If it were that easy, the village would not only have a lychee orchard in the county seat.

"Yucheng, you have to believe that your second sister is omnipotent. And you can't learn it. Xiao Yu washed his hands cleanly and said, "What's so difficult about planting trees, if you find a good variety recently." Well, grafting may also be required. Although there are many fruits in the yard, the taste is ordinary. ”

Xiao Pei smiled: "In that case, I'll ask another day." ”

Xiao Yu changed the topic and asked, "Sister, I don't know how much silver we have saved?" ”

"Plus the five taels of silver I got back from selling sachets today, and the whole is nearly forty taels." Xiao Pei said without thinking.

"That's it. It's all because I spent too much money on the utensils that sold medicinal herbs and pharmaceuticals last time. Xiao Yu said with annoyance. Sure enough, although this incense medicine is expensive, the cost is also high.

Xiao Pei asked, "It's a lot." Ayu: Are you going to buy anything? ”

Xiao Yu nodded and said: "It's not a long-term solution just to rely on Yucheng to copy books and sell some pills with me, I want to buy some land products and plant some millet and vegetables, it will be safer." If conditions permit, he is also ready to let Yucheng go to school. ”

These words all went to Xiao Pei's heart. Her eyes were red.

Xiao Yucheng's hand copying the book was also paused, and then he said: "Actually, it's the same when I study at home." ”

"Learning at home is not as good as the master's teaching, and it is not as well-informed as the school, and there is a lack of connections among classmates and the appreciation and recommendation of the husband." Xiao Pei said, "Sister Ah has to do more embroidery." ”

"Sister Xiao!"

There were shouts outside, several people stopped talking, and the Li Zheng family walked into the courtyard with a spring breeze on his face, and said with a smile: "I tell you a happy event." ”

Xiao Pei let him into the house and poured tea: "What's the matter?" ”

"The palace has taken a fancy to your sachet! A tael of silver each, twenty at once! The Li Zhengjia happily gestured with his hand, and his words were full of envy.

Now who in the village doesn't say that the Xiao family sisters and brothers recognized this little girl, they really met a nobleman!

Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng were overjoyed when they heard this, but they saw Xiao Yu's face pale and didn't know what they were thinking.

The so-called palace naturally refers to the palace of Jingnan County, which is simply called the palace, but it is to follow the title of the original Yue Wangfu, which can be regarded as elevating them.

Xiao Yu was quite happy with it in her heart, but although she was not very happy, she would not get along with the money, so she still placed this order, and made a batch of Qibao Ruyi Dan in a decent manner, and worked hard for half a month day and night, in exchange for twenty taels of silver.

In this way, it is enough to buy land and for Xiao Yucheng to go to school, and the rest of the money is used for emergencies.

The Xiao family has plans to buy land, of course, they have to inquire as early as possible.

Daqi implements a system of equalizing fields, and farmers divide their fields according to their population. The Xiao family originally had land, but Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng were forced to sell it for their livelihood before their parents died of illness. Fortunately, the restrictions on land sales are relatively relaxed, and men like Xiao Yucheng can buy land if they have money, as long as they do not exceed their fair share.

Li is a big landowner, the Xiao family showed some intention to buy land, he remembered that Xiao Yu had helped his daughter-in-law give birth to a baby grandson, so he left them three acres of good paddy fields.

The paddy field has fertile soil, and the ditch next to it is connected to Pitang, and the water source is abundant. And the price is not too expensive, four acres of a total of thirty-five taels of silver. Li Zheng can be regarded as returning Xiao Yu's favor.

It was the time when the summer harvest was busy with another planting, and the tenants who planted the two acres of land in Lizheng yesterday had already collected the grain, and Lizheng sent someone to inform the Xiao family that the land was sold and transferred today.

Early in the morning, several members of the Xiao family came to the field as promised. Xiao Yu was dressed in caftan brown, and Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng were also wearing plain clothes.

The sisters and brothers saw Li Zheng's son Zhou Qingui and Jia Ding and several other people, and greeted each other for a while. Xiao Yu took a closer look at the freshly harvested paddy field again and was satisfied. Xiao Yucheng looked at the few families measuring the fields, and after a while, he reported the number, no more, no less, it was three acres.

Zhou Qingui is also very familiar with the matter of buying and selling fields, and invited the Chinese to come over, and immediately made a written contract, and the two sides looked at it. Then Zhou Qingui, Zhongren and Xiao Yucheng signed and pledged, and then went to the government to register and report, and the matter of buying the land was done. Because it was a field that Xiang Li was buying, it also saved a lot of heart.

In the afternoon, Li Zheng asked someone to send the title deed stamped with the official seal.

Xiao Pei carefully put away the title deed and said to Xiao Yu: "Now that the land is available, but I don't know anything about farming, so I have to ask Uncle Zhou Qi to find a few people to come over to help as you said." ”

"Didn't Aunt Seven say two days ago that she was looking for a good person?" Xiao Yu said, "The seedlings are enough." Ask someone to plow the field before planting seedlings. I have all thought about it, and each person will be paid ten copper coins a day. ”

Ten is not less.

Xiao Pei nodded: "I'll go and talk to Aunt Seven, and by the way, I invite Lizheng's family to plow the field, his family has ploughing oxen and plough tools." ”

"I'll go too." Xiao Yu picked up the hat and put it on, and handed Xiao Pei another one.

The two of them went out together.

Uncle Zhou Qi and Aunt Qi were not at home, and Yanzi was in the house with Huzi. Hearing what the two of them meant, Yanzi said crisply: "Sister Xiao, don't worry, I will tell my father and mother." ”

Xiao Pei smiled and thanked him.

Li Zheng's family is wealthy, and as soon as the two arrived at the door, they saw a few people in the courtyard shaking a windmill to blow rice, separating the chaff and grass clippings from the grains, which shows that his family has all kinds of farm tools.

Xiao Pei and the others went in to explain their intentions, and Li Zheng immediately agreed, and sent four long-term workers to drive two oxen to carry the plow and follow the two to the paddy field that Xiao's family had just bought.

Xiao Yu was a little surprised when she saw the plow. She hadn't noticed that she was still using a long straight plough with two oxen to lift the bars. This kind of ploughing is not flexible enough to turn and turn around, and it is laborious to lift the soil, and the efficiency is not high.

The improved Quyuan plough in later generations is light and agile and convenient for maneuvering, and only needs an ox to pull it, which is very suitable for the narrow paddy fields in the south.

"Looks like we'll have to think about that plough." Xiao Yu said in his heart.

The two of them dragged one person to help the plow, and only half an acre of land was ploughed in the afternoon, which was really slow. The next day, Xiao Yucheng was asked to go to the field to watch, while Xiao Pei and Xiao Yu were at home preparing the farm tools to be used for rice planting. After five days of this, the ground was finally ploughed.

Thinking that most of the Li Zheng family didn't look down on that little money payment, Xiao Yu had to make two sachets and send them to plough the fields.