Fee Chapter (12 points)

The second watch, ask for pink.

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When Zhou said this, even Shouxin could only listen to it submissively, and he didn't tell Zhang these words later. But Zhou's search for Lian was trustworthy, and he didn't deliberately carry people behind his back. In this family, she is the sky, everything she says and does is correct, so she doesn't have to carry people behind her back. So Zhang's soon.

"Why should we raise some chickens and ducks, and harm his milk again?" Zhang frowned.

Lian Man'er nodded, Zhou's is picking bones in eggs. Their chicken pen is under the window of the west house of the upper room, which is a long distance away from the east house where the Zhou family lives. And the chick and duckling, even if they bark, how loud can it be. The farmer's family, accustomed to hearing the unique sounds of these crop yards, will not have any hindrance to life at all.

And these nights, the Zhang family has caught the chickens and ducklings into the west wing room for the night, and even the Man'er family is not sleeping very soundly, and it is not Zhou's business at all.

"I think my milk thinks we have too many chickens and ducks." Lian Man'er smiled and said, "Mother, don't you see, my grandmother has fed her chickens these days, but she is willing to feed them." ”

These days, as long as Lian Man'er or Lian Zhi'er feeds her own chickens and ducks, Zhou will then feed her chickens, even if she has just fed those chickens.

Zhang also smiled.

"Your grandmother is stronger," Zhang said, "I am afraid that our chickens and ducks are better than her, and she has no face." ”

Lian Man'er nodded, there was another thought, she didn't say it. The reason why Zhou was unhappy was also because she thought she was the person in charge of this courtyard, and she couldn't tolerate anything in the courtyard that was beyond her control.

However, people have to learn to adapt to their environment. Lian Man'er thought that in the future, there would be more people and things in this courtyard that were not under the control of the Zhou family, and the Zhou family couldn't bear it, so he had to learn to endure it.

Although Zhou said these words, and every time he saw Lian Man'er, his face was gloomy, but Lian Man'er's family had no intention of changing places for the chickens and ducklings.

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As the saying goes, melons and vegetables are half a year's grain. It can be seen that vegetables are important to the villagers. Even the vegetable garden that the old man gave to Lian Man'er's family only has two or three points of land, that is, vegetables are planted in every corner of the corner, and it is absolutely tight for their family to eat, I am afraid it will not be enough. In order to eat an abundance of vegetables, they need to open another vegetable plot.

The location of the vegetable patch has long been chosen, just behind the newly built shop, on the piece of land they had just bought.

The piece that Lian Man'er planned to use as a vegetable field, except for one that was the original people's vegetable field, the others have always been deserted. Before the new shop broke ground, Lian Shouxin set a fire and burned all the useless weeds and shrubs. The burned ash falls on the spot, and after a spring rain, it completely merges with the land and becomes the best fertilizer to nourish the land.

It's just that this kind of land can't be used to grow vegetables. Burning the grass and shrubs is only the first step in clearing the wasteland.

The next thing to do is to dig out the roots of these wild grasses and shrubs, and turn the ground, prepare the ground, and trim the vegetable furrow before you can start planting vegetables.

The weather is warm and cold, and there are still some days before grain cultivation and vegetable planting, but ploughing the land is imminent.

Lian Shouxin wants to take someone to build a house, and Gorou and Xiaoqi have to go to school, and they are limited in how much they can help with every day. The work of clearing the wasteland mainly fell on the Zhang family, Lian Zhi'er and Lian Man'er.

Zhang's is full of energy, and Lian Man'er is full of confidence.

After lunch, Zhang took Lian Zhi'er and Lian Man'er to the field with iron pickaxes and hoes, and Wulang and Xiaoqi also followed with iron pickaxes. There are still some things left to go to school, and the two of them have not rested, wanting to take advantage of this time to help the family do more work.

Lian Man'er wielded an iron pickaxe taller than her. The land is fertile black soil, and the soil is planted with almost no stones. But that doesn't mean the work of ploughing the floor is easy. Because the land has always been barren, some plots have a very hard surface, and they can only be cut with an iron pickaxe. And some shrubs have well-developed root systems, and they have to dig very deep to dig out these roots. The roots of the wild grass are relatively shallow, but they are everywhere.

The mother was sweating profusely, and it took half an hour before a small piece was opened.

"Brother, Xiao Qi, you two don't do it, hurry up and go to school, or you shouldn't be late." Lian Man'er said.

Gorou straightened up and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Man'er, this job is much more tiring than I thought. Just you, my sister, and our mother, how many days will it take to finish this? ”

"You two should go to school and don't worry about that. This vegetable plot, without you, the three of us will definitely be able to open it. Zhang also stopped for a moment and said.

"Mother, I can do it." Gorou said, "But we don't have enough time." You see, we still have a lot of chickens and ducks at home, and this shop has a lot of work in the morning and night, and you have to cook three meals for the person who built the house. If I open up this land again, even my father's labor can't stand it. ”

Gorou's question was very practical, and even Man'er looked around, in addition to the land that was to be reserved for the future homestead, there was also the miscellaneous forest, and she wanted to keep it alone, she planned to open up the large piece of land she bought.

But according to this labor intensity, with the progress of the three of them, it will really take many days to complete this task.

It's a problem, and a more important problem is: as Gorou said, none of them are iron-clad, and they don't have enough energy to do a lot of work at home every day.

"Mother, it seems that we have to hire someone to help." Lian Man'er quickly faced the reality and proposed a solution.

"Yes." Wulang said, "Mother, you see, you can't do without you in the shop, Man'er has to keep accounts, and you have to take care of the laundry stall, and the work at home is pointed to my sister, and then open the vegetable field, I can't be busy at all." ”

Lian Man'er nodded, shop early, collect laundry, this is all a money-making business, and it can't be delayed at all. In other words, their current labor is very valuable, and it should be used to create greater value, that is, to make more money, instead of being tied to the ground to do such work.

"Now this vegetable field will be the work in the field in the future, and I'm afraid we will have to hire someone to help." Lian Man'er thought for a while and said.

They now have a total of 31 acres of land, and there are only two adult laborers in the family, Lian Shouxin and Zhang's, to plant these lands, obviously there are not enough manpower. Moreover, she still has some silver in her hand, and she plans to buy some more land in the spring ploughing money.

"Mother, what do you think it is?" When Lian Man'er was thinking in her heart, her eyes swept over the official road, and her heart immediately moved, pointing to a place for Zhang to see.

An old farmer drove a cow to walk slowly on the official road, the ox was tied to a gang, and a plow was dragged behind, the old farmer held a whip in one hand, and the other hand held the handrail of the plow, and the iron coulter was slightly lifted and raised above the ground.

"Plough stick" Zhang suddenly realized, "Man'er, do you want to hire a plow stick to help us turn over this land?" ”

Plough the ground with a ploughstick, so they only need to follow behind and pick up some grass roots and other debris, which is both labor-saving and time-saving. They can now afford to hire a plough stick.

"Mother, I think we should buy a plow," Lian Man'er said slowly, "and a cow, we should buy one too." ”

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Using oxen to pull the plough stick, instead of labor, can greatly improve productivity and reduce human labor intensity. But whether it is an ox or a plough stick, it is a very expensive tool of labor, and not every household can afford it.

Even in the house there were no oxen or plough sticks.

Of course, Lian Man'er has not experienced the past events of the Lian family, and she heard it from Lian Shouxin and the Zhang family. When the Lian family was the richest, the old man Lian bought a house and land in Thirty Miles, and the family did not move immediately. The land bought was cultivated by tenants.

Later, even the old man moved with his family, and the land was not collected at once. Later, because of the high expenses, even the old man began to sell the land and began to reclaim the land for his family to cultivate, but he was not willing to buy oxen and plough sticks.

Later, the Lian family had enough men, and at the same time there were even fewer, and they did everything by hand, so they couldn't afford it and were reluctant to buy it.

Buying oxen and plough sticks is a big expense, and it is also a major event for the farmer's family. So after dinner, Lian Man'er's family sat down and began to discuss the matter.

"Man'er, have you counted, do we have enough money?" Lian Shouxin asked Lian Man'er.

The new early shop should be built before planting, as well as tables and chairs, plates and bowls, spatulas, etc., all have to be purchased, even Man'er according to the budget, set aside a sum of money to come out, early shop also needs a sum of working capital set aside for turnover, in addition, even Man'er also set aside some money, planning to do farming expenses. Of course, in addition to this, Lian Man'er also left some silver as an emergency backup for emergencies. These four sums of money cannot be moved.

As for their daily expenses, as well as the cost of Gorou and Xiaoqi's schooling, the daily profits of the shop can be fully covered by the early ones.

"In this case, we still have ninety taels of silver to move." Lian Man'er said. These ninety taels are the silver that Lian Man'er plans to buy some more fields before spring ploughing.

"You really have to buy this ox and a plough stick." Gorou thought about it and said.

Even Shouxin nodded.

"I bought the oxen and the plough stick first, and then I bought less land." Even keep the word.

Given the priority, they already had thirty-one acres of land, and the urgency of buying more land lagged behind the purchase of the necessary means of production.

The family decided to buy it, and then they discussed it.

"Our family has never had enough of these, and I don't understand, so we have to find someone who knows how to buy them for us." Even keep the word.

"The set of the backing mountain, didn't Wang Pomegranate tell you that he was going to catch the market?" Zhang said, "I asked him to bring a letter to the child and his uncle, and asked my father to buy it for us." ”

Compared with the big market in Qingyang Town, the big set in Gushantun has a larger, more prosperous mule and horse market. Zhang Qingshan's family now raises cows, sheep, and mules, and has a plough and a cane at home. He used to sell horses and was familiar with large animals such as cows, horses, and mules. Even now, he has passed on these skills to Zhang Qingnian, and sometimes he still personally goes to the mule and horse market in Gushantun to help people and livestock, and act as a middleman for trading.

Lian Man'er's family wants to buy these and ask someone to help, there is really no more suitable person than Zhang Qingshan.

"Mother," Lian Man'er hurriedly slammed Zhang's and said with two big eyes, "In addition to buying cows and plough sticks, let's ask my grandfather to help us with something else."

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