Chapter 35: Complaining
Da Niu looked at Gui Yuxia, and the happiness in his heart was about to overflow, he said: "Actually, before I saw that after coming to Luzon, Jin Xia was pregnant again, Yinxia was also pregnant, and Gui Da's daughter-in-law gave birth to another girl. Gui Er's daughter-in-law is also about to give birth. It looks like the New Year is coming. We're going to spend our second year in Qingchun City. Everyone else has children. We haven't yet. I'm in a hurry, too. But, come to think of it, we're not like them. We are so old that we are married, and it is indeed difficult to have children. I thought that if we didn't have a child in a few years, we would adopt a child, forget it. That's it, God has been too good for us. You see, we live together now, we have food and drink, and there are big estates outside the city. There are also houses. This is already God's favor, even if you don't have children, it doesn't matter. God, we have children. ”
Speaking of this, Da Niu burst into tears.
Gui Yuxia listened, and didn't feel tears, and said: "Now that I think about the past days, I really can't think about it." I left the palace, got married, and now I have children. It's incredible. Thanks to the county lord. ”
Da Niu nodded and said, "Yes, we have to thank the city lord." ”
That night, Gui Yuxia couldn't sleep, looking at Da Niu's smiling face in her sleep, she suddenly thought of the former sisters in the palace.
Gui Yuxia got up lightly, took out the incense burner, lit the incense, and said in the courtyard, facing the bright moon, "Sisters, have you seen your spirits in the sky?" I got out of the palace alive, got married, and now have children of my own. I will definitely live a good life and live a happy life. Didn't you say that at the time? You want me to live, and you want me to live your share. I want to live a life full of children and grandchildren. ”
Speaking of which. Gui Yuxia's eyes showed the appearance of Wan Guifei beating the good sisters, and the appearance of Queen Wang sending someone to take the good sisters away, and then never returned. Her tears flowed uncontrollably.
The next day, Gui Yuxia went to Yamen in the morning and returned at noon. Now, the city lord said, as long as she is on the yamen for half a day. Took care of the important things. When the mission is dispatched, he goes home to recuperate.
When she got home, she found out. There were many more people in the house. Daddy, mother, and younger siblings are here, and now it's good, there are several pregnant women.
Gui Yuxia was a little blindsided. Q: "What's wrong?" Why did you all come to my house today? ”
Old woman Gui said with tears in her eyes: "The big cows have sued us, you are happy." Thank goodness for that. Mother's hanging heart finally landed. ”
Only then did Gui Yuxia understand what was going on. He glanced at the big cow who was smirking on the side, and his face was flushed.
At this time, Mrs. Gui was busy helping Gui Yuxia to sit down, as if she was made of glass. Be careful.
These relatives of the Gui family talked about it, and they all congratulated the two of them. Eventually, the women began to teach the secrets of raising children. Gui Laohan didn't sound like that. So he called all the men into the courtyard to drink.
A sumptuous banquet has been set up in the courtyard, and all the big cows have gone to buy fruits, vegetables and meat. instructed the mother-in-law who cooked at home to clean it up. Of course, because the mother-in-law in the family is just from an ordinary family, they cook ordinary home-cooked meals, but there are many kinds and the portions are enough. This does not affect everyone's appetite. After all, they were all from Zhuang families, and they were put aside a year or two ago, when they were in Dachu, these people could only eat meat during the Chinese New Year.
The men drank in the courtyard, and a table was set up in the women's house, and the slaves added food. The family was beaming.
After the men drank for a while, Gui Laohan asked Da Niu, "I heard that you have sold all your 500 acres of paddy fields?" ”
Seeing that his father-in-law asked, the people around him were all brothers-in-law, brothers-in-law, brother-in-law and others, all of whom were close relatives, so he said, "Yes, it was sold to a big Chu boss, and he gave the price of three taels of silver per acre of land." And now I made a thousand fifteen hundred taels of silver. ”
Everyone gasped, so much silver, they were a little unimaginable.
After a while, Luo Hu said: "Actually, I also sold part of my crops, which is the 300 acres of land next to Brother Da Niu. My geographical location is better, there is a small river next to the field, irrigation or something is very convenient, so the price is higher, three and a half taels of silver per acre, my three hundred acres are sold for one thousand and fifty taels of silver, but after paying taxes, there is not so much, only more than nine hundred taels. ”
Gui Laohan hurriedly asked, "What should you do if you sell the land?" ”
Luo Hu said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing, isn't it that Jin Xia asked me to follow Brother Da Niu to learn, and reclaimed more than 1,000 acres of wasteland in a distant place, and now they have been planted with sugarcane, which has been harvested, and I am preparing to use more than 900 taels of silver from this land sale to open a workshop to make a sugar workshop, not to mention anything else, that is, my more than 1,000 acres of sugarcane can be made for a period of time." I'm going to sell the sugar made from my sugar cane, and then I'll use the money to buy some sugar cane to make sugar. ”
Da Niu hurriedly said: "I happened to know a big Chu merchant who collects sugar yesterday, and I will introduce it to you later." ”
Luo Hu hurriedly thanked him.
Gui Da was a little uncomfortable.
Gui Er said, "You all sold the land? Then I'll see if I can sell the land too. ”
Gui Laohan hurriedly asked, "Why do you want to sell land?" ”
Gui Er said: "The one in my family is about to give birth, and I can't take care of the family's affairs, so I have to help." We can't plant so much land, so we plan to sell the 200 acres of land on the edge of the city, so that we can spend a little money to build a house on the more than 2,000 acres of land that has been cleared outside the city, and we will move there to live for a while and take care of the crops. I have already told a master of the Hei family that he will be free next month, and when the time comes, he will design a house for me. When our house is built, I'll invite you to stay for a while. I don't want to do business, I don't want to learn a craft, I just want to farm well, there is still a large piece of wasteland in the south of my Zhuangzi, I am ready to buy it too, and continue to cultivate the wasteland. It's best to have the size of Brother Niu's 5,000-acre Zhuangzi in the future. By the way, since you are all going to do business, I won't plant anything else, so I'll keep some land to grow crops, just enough to eat, and the remaining half will be planted with fragrant flowers and half with sugar cane, and I will sell it to my two brothers-in-law in the future, which will be much more worry-free. ”
Yinxia's husband Liu Sanpang said with a smile: "I'm not as good as you, my family reclaimed 300 acres of land in the city, and I only gave me 50 acres after I got married. Later, Yinxia told me that she wanted me to take out a loan to open up the land in a farther place, but now we have only cultivated 500 acres of land, and the sugarcane planted has not yet matured, and the bank loan has not yet been repaid. Yinxia is pregnant again, and she doesn't dare to stop working, she is now in charge, and the monthly money is quite a lot every month, so I don't want to plant so much land, so I went to a master, a carpenter master, after studying for so long, she is already a junior carpenter, and now she can get a monthly salary of five hundred big dollars a month. I used to have some foundation, and I used to do a long job with the carpenters in the village, so the master said that my foundation was good, and I would probably be able to try to rely on a second-class carpenter in the next assessment. If you can get guò, you can also get a monthly sum of 800 yuan. My husband and wife didn't want to plant so much land, so we simply sold my 50 acres as soon as possible, leaving 500 acres farther away to plant sugarcane for good harvest, and sell it to my second brother-in-law in the future. It's a hassle-free. It's not bad for us to live as a husband and wife. ”
Gui Da was even more cold. Old man Gui glanced at Gui Da with contempt and said, "Your plans are very good. By the way, I seem to remember that Sanfat's 50 acres of land are on the edge of your big bull's 500 acres of land, right? It's better to ask your big brother Niu to introduce you to the boss of Da Chulai, and ask him if he can buy it, so you can sell the land early and repay the loan a day earlier. ”
The three fats hurriedly looked at the big cow.
Da Niu said with a smile: "This is easy, that Boss Huang originally wanted to buy more land on the edge of the city, since the fifty acres of Sanfat are connected to mine, he must want to buy it, so that the land is connected into a piece, which is easy to take care of." I'll ask tomorrow. You wait for my news. ”
The three fats hurriedly thanked him.
Everyone ate and drank late before going home.
Answering the family, Gui Da couldn't help it, and lost his temper at the daughter-in-law who had just entered the door and said: "It's all you losers, I was going to open up the wasteland in a farther place, you have to say that it is too troublesome, you see, now everyone has repaid the loan, sold the land in the city, and there is a manor in a farther place, now we either want to get a craft, or do a business, what about us?" Just guarding those 300 acres of land, it's really infuriating. ”
Gui's daughter-in-law's face also turned cold. In fact, when she was eating in the house just now, these ladies talked about the family's industrial problems, and when she heard that these people's families were all going to do business, and there were estates in the suburbs, she couldn't sit still for a long time. Now when I enter the house, sure enough, my husband has begun to lose his temper.
Gui Da wanted to scold, but Gui Laohan said with a calm face: "Why do you complain about others, don't you have a brain yourself?" Didn't your eldest sister tell you before? And give you a guaranteed loan, let you go to the wasteland, what do you say? You said that you can't wipe off people's hands, and you say that planting these 300 acres of land is already very worrying. You said that the Japanese slaves you bought in Xinguang City were cheap, but at that time, there were fewer of them, only five, and these five had to plant these lands, and they had to open up wasteland, and there were not enough people, and the Japanese slaves in Qingchun City were too expensive, and it was not cost-effective to buy, who said this? Now that you see how people are doing, you will be greedy and start complaining about your wife again? ”
Gui's daughter-in-law didn't dare to squeak. Gui said angrily: "Can I not blame her? When my eldest sister told me to let me go to open up the wasteland, didn't she let me go? Why is there not enough manpower in the family, it's not that her mother's family didn't buy Japanese slaves at the beginning, but she came to Qingchun City, opened up wasteland, and there were not enough people to farm the land, she wanted me to work for her mother's family? Now look at other people's lives, and then look at ours, huh, can I not blame her? (To be continued)