Chapter 21: The Fishpond
In the next few days, the summer solstice went to the king's butcher's house every day to buy large bones and pig intestines. Although there is not much money left in the family, Xia Zhi doesn't want to lose his family, especially the patient Grandpa. provoked Li to talk about her every time, but Xia Zhi was still the same, Li was helpless, and he never said it again after seeing that she didn't work a few times.
On this day, Uncle Tian took Uncle Tian and took the Tian family to catch up with the Lu family and sent it to the embroidery village in Niangniang Town. Tian Sanbo and Xia Zhi's father stayed at home to take care of Lao Luotou, after all, sometimes Lao Luotou has something to do, and the toilet is far away, which is always inconvenient.
Xia Zhi didn't follow this time, he thought that Uncle Tian should be fine after these few times. It's no wonder that the summer solstice, the peasant family of this dynasty, perhaps the trend of the times, most of them are shy and don't like to talk, and the first two summer solstices are always worried that their uncle and father have been deceived by others. This time this is to send life to the embroidery village, the price is negotiated, there should be no problem, and the proprietress will not be too much if she still wants a new style of winding. However, before leaving, Xia Zhi still explained a few words to the eldest uncle and the second uncle.
After the family's network was finished, the Tian sisters resumed their work of digging wild vegetables, and they were casually picking up pigweed. Xia Zhi didn't go out, it's embarrassing, since he bought pigs and chickens and ducks, Xia Solstice has never taken care of them, they are all Li and Uncle, Tian family A few slightly older sisters feed them all day long with food and water. Today, after eating, the sisters all went out, and Xia Zhi saw Zheng cooking pig food, carrying a bucket, and was about to feed the pig, so he followed her to the back of the house.
"A-Niang, is the vacant land next to my house ours?"
Xia Zhi looked at the open space around his house and couldn't help but ask curiously. It is said that the area around Lao Tian's house is very large, although the front is small, but in the summer solstice of the era of every inch of land and gold, it is not small, there is enough one and a half acres of land! On the right hand side of the Tian family is the Xu family, the two families are separated by a few hundred meters, and there is no one on the left hand side, it is all open space, isn't this land spacious!
"Yes, there is our family's land in front of it, on the right and on the left, this is all homestead, I heard that when the family still had money, your grandfather and grandmother prepared it, and they were ready to leave it to their grandson!" Zheng feeds the pigs while answering questions about the summer solstice.
"However, it's a pity that your grandfather and grandmother went too early, and the family is very poor, so this land has been left there." After saying that, Zheng lowered his head and bent down to get food for the pig again. Xia Zhi knew very little about the grandfather and grandmother, and only heard the Tian family say that the grandfather died of illness before the uncle married the eldest uncle, and the grandmother was hit by the death of the grandfather, and died within a year.
On the summer solstice, he observed the environment around the Tian family, and inspected his own vegetable garden of more than one acre in front of the river behind the village. I saw that more than one acre of land was divided into several vegetable furrows, and each vegetable furrow was planted with new vegetables by the Li family and several daughters-in-law. Some vegetables even sprouted.
The summer solstice followed the vegetable furrow to the bank of the Houcun River. Since the beginning of spring, the rain is abundant, so the village river has abundant water, the river water is clear, from time to time you can also see a small fish swimming from the water surface, look at the small fish leisurely appearance, the summer solstice can't help but envy the dark road, when you grow up, you are still swimming in this leisurely and leisurely, not early to go down to other people's stomachs. Down to the stomach? Wait, down to the stomach! That's right, you can raise fish and sell it for money!
I have to say that Xia Zhi can really think of making money in everything.
"A-Niang, is there a fish seller in the town?" Xia Zhi thinks it's better to ask about the situation before raising fish.
"Yes, what's wrong? Craving fish? On the summer solstice, A-Niang said that the family has no money and can't afford to buy good things for your sisters to eat, but during this period of time, you don't buy the big bones and pig intestines every day, and your grandma and I don't say anything about you, we can't be more and more hypocritical, how can we eat delicious food every day! Zheng thought that Xia Zhi wanted to sell fish again, so he couldn't help but persuade her bitterly. After all, the peasant family is poor, how can they eat big fish and meat every day.
"Auntie, where do you want to go, I'm just asking! So does anyone keep fish? ”
"Raise fish, how can you raise this fish, this river is not full of fish."
"The fish sellers are all fish caught from the river?"
"Yes...... this is also a job to eat from the sky, it's not easy, when the water in the river is dry, you can catch fish, and the fish will be cheap!" Although Zheng listened to Xia Zhi's words, he still didn't believe it, so he euphemistically explained that he was buying the fish when it was cheap. Hearing what Zheng said, Xia Ju's fish farming is still feasible. As for A-Niang's euphemism, Xia Solstice just didn't hear it.
"Auntie, I'm going back!"
Xia Zhi hurriedly shouted at Zheng's family, and then ran back, he was going to find Daddy to dig a fish pond, Xia Zhi thought about it, and dug two ponds on the left side of the vegetable garden, next to the river behind the village, so that it was convenient to get water. And the left side is low-lying, suitable for drainage, and there is no housing on the left side of the Tian family, which is the most suitable for digging fish ponds!
"Daddy ~ Daddy ......"
"What are you doing? So in a hurry! Tian Laosi heard the shouting of the summer solstice, thinking that there was something urgent, so he hurriedly ran out and asked.
"Daddy, you dig two ponds for me!"
"Digging a pond? What are you digging a pond for? ”
"Daddy, dig a pond to raise fish, I heard Auntie say, no one raises fish in the town, if our family cultivates it, it will make a lot of money!"
"Fish farming? How do you raise it? ”
"I don't know what to do! Just grope and explore, anyway, pigs, chickens, and ducks can be raised, but what fish can't be raised! ”
"This ......"
"Daddy~Daddy~" Tian Laosi found that as long as the summer solstice asks for it and others don't agree, she will give you this. Helplessly, Tian Laosi was not immune to this, so he had to nod. And Lao Luotou, who was sitting in the room, saw this, so he said to Uncle Tian: "Third brother, you also go to help your fourth brother, I can see it, since the summer solstice has healed, it seems to have opened her mind, maybe she can really raise fish, if that is the case, it will also be the blessing of our Tian family." ”
"Daddy, don't worry about recuperation, I'll go to help the fourth brother, the summer solstice is a blessing." After speaking, Tian Laosan took the tools and followed Xia Zhi's father to the back village river.
"Uncle San, you also come to help me dig a fish pond!" Xia Zhi saw Boss Tian who was following closely and asked happily.
"Yes, I still count on Xia Zhi to raise fish, sell it for money, and build a house for the third uncle's family!"
"Don't worry, Uncle San, wrap it up on me!"
Xia Zhi knew that the third uncle was joking, but she was not joking, so she patted her chest and promised.
Tian Laosan regarded her words as child's words, and didn't think it was true, and Xia Zhi didn't care, facts speak louder than words, and he would talk about it when he earned money and built a house. So the summer solstice commanders Sanbo and Daddy dug up the fish pond.
Xia Zhi was going to dig two half-acre ponds, in fact, Xia Zhi wanted to dig two bigger ponds, but she didn't estimate that Daddy would let her do this. So I have to be smaller, and when Daddy heard about the summer solstice, he said it was big. Indeed, an acre of pond plus digging deep, is also a big project, and when he comes to the summer solstice uncle and their house in the afternoon, the summer solstice daddy they also dig a corner of the pond, the summer solstice thinks that the uncle and the second uncle's family come, should be dug before the farm is busy.
In the afternoon, when Tian Lao Da and Tian Lao Er came back, they were all beaming and harvested. Last time, Xia Zhi received 3,000 threads, and he played 3,250 new-style yarns, and Xia Solstice made up 800 bracelets, which totaled 2521 yuan and 50 yuan, in addition to the 5,000 strings that Xia Zhi let the uncle receive again, there are still 15,21 dollars and 50 yuan, which is a lot of money! The whole family was very happy to hear this amount, and Lao Luo Tou also felt guilty because of this, he felt that the money that the family had earned was because he had nothing left.
Therefore, when Lao Luotou divided the money at night, the family also gave two taels of silver, and the granddaughter gave five coins each, so that Lao Luotou and the Li family had three taels of silver and fifty dollars left in their hands.
The brothers of the Tian family felt that they didn't need to take so much money, so they thought that the money would be returned to the Li family for collection, but the Li family and Lao Luo Tou had confiscated it in their hearts when they made compensation. Besides, why do you say that they want so much money, it's not for the children, and it doesn't mean who owns the money.
In the next few days, Xia Zhi urged Daddy and several uncles to help her dig up the fish pond, because Xia Zhi heard Grandpa say that the rice planting would be done soon, so she wanted to complete the fish pond before then. However, Huang Tian lived up to his painstaking efforts, and finally completed the fish pond on the summer solstice before the farm was busy, and filled the fish pond with water. The next thing to worry about is the seedling problem, and Xia Zhi has to figure out his own way.