183. 096 Let the sheep go
Also, in the spring ploughing season, there are suddenly 200 more cattle as the main force, and everyone has to be happy.
Shi Hai also said that in order not to make people doubt the origin of the cow to Mei Niang's head, he would wait for a few days to take out these cows.
Mei Niang doesn't care anymore, the prince is suspicious, others don't suspect her and don't care, anyway, she has space, there is a lion legion, and Chongzhi Mirror, and it is not so easy to harm her.
After that, Mei Niang followed her uncle and father to drive back with Chongzhijing and the villagers in the ox cart.
With the addition of five cows, the cultivation problem of the village has been solved, and the seeds do not have to worry, and all kinds of grain are sent down according to the estimates of each family.
This is tantamount to giving the villagers a reassurance, and they can farm with peace of mind after that.
The bud rice should wait until the end of March and the beginning of April to plant the best, look at the few days away, the first thing to plant is the potato, now the potato planting has been a few days late, and you have to hurry up.
Although these potatoes are also produced in space, they are potatoes with sprout eyes that were exchanged for Shi Hai, as long as the sprout eyes are cut off and planted in the ground.
The families got busy, and Mei Niang wanted to find five people to come out of the homes of people who were not short of labor, and let them plow the land every day, and she would pay for the work.
Those people saw that Mei Niang wanted to return so many seeds to Ding Gucheng, and they all selflessly distributed them to the villagers, which can be regarded as saving the lives of the villagers, how could they still ask for her wages?
Although they all expressed their willingness to help without pay, Mei Niang just smiled, although she has no money now, and rarely buys the things in the vending machine, but there is still a hundred thousand taels of silver placed there, and she really doesn't care about these wages.
But since people insist on not to, she will give it if she insists on giving it, and it's a big deal to see that she will make up for it elsewhere in the future.
Unexpectedly, Jin Sandeng also offered to come out to plow the land, and he didn't need to be paid, which was completely unexpected by everyone.
But no matter how sincere and insistent he is, Mei Niang didn't agree, the reason is: he is alone in his family, who will farm the land when he comes out to help plow the land?
Jin Sanding was anxious, "Mei Niang, I will plant after ploughing, and I can't delay anything." ”
Mei Niang just didn't agree, but seeing that Jin Sanding seemed to really want to do something for the village, Mei Niang didn't want to discourage his enthusiasm, so she said: "Otherwise, you plant your family's land first, and then I have other things for you to do, do you think this is good?" ”
Jin Sanding thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, if you have something, you can call me, and I promise that it will not be the same as before." ”
Mei Niang smiled, "Okay! That's it. ”
Jin Sanyuan really farms the land very seriously, and sometimes takes the initiative to help others.
Yun Laoer's family also found someone to repair the house and moved back, and the food that Meiniang promised her was not dependent.
In Chen's opinion, in the Jiang family, it is better to move back to relax, what if Meiniang asks her to help the Jiang family or her own family farm? Her own land will also be planted.
Xi Niang ran to Jiang's house all day long, pestering Su Huanyu inch by inch, Su Huanyu didn't chase her, as long as she didn't chatter and quarrel, he would be one more of a maid.
The land has been plowed, and the problem has come, other people's homes are fine, and the Jiang family is the most lacking in labor, originally the Jiang family was Jiang Chuye, but now Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan are gone, only Uncle Jiang and Su Huanyu are left.
Although Uncle Jiang doesn't like to take care of Su Huanyu, he still takes him to work in the field every day, but although Su Huanyu is a concubine, he has been pampered since he was a child, how can he do this? At the end of the day, the hands that are more delicate than the bride grind a circle of blisters, and you can't hold chopsticks when you eat.
Uncle Jiang didn't tease him with his eyelids, Su Huanyu could only grit his teeth and insist, he couldn't stand it anymore and scolded Xi Niang for being angry, Xi Niang smiled and didn't go to her heart, and called Su Huanyu waiting for a meticulous one.
In the face of such a bride, Su Huanyu couldn't get angry, so he asked the bride to follow him to the ground, and the bride resisted the shovel and pickaxe.
The eyes of the shocked people in the village are about to fall, who has ever seen Xi Niang working in the field with a shovel and a pickaxe in previous years? Not to mention that clothes come to reach out, food to open mouth, that's also pampered, I can't imagine that she can do this for a man, but that man doesn't take her seriously, and he can't say whether she is cheap or cheap.
Chen was in his own land, watching his daughter busy in other people's fields, his heart was sour, and he thought about it to say a few words, thinking that Su Huanyu was obviously different from the temperament of ordinary people, in case it was really a rich and noble background, their family was also wiped out, not only endured it, but also encouraged the bride in various ways.
It's just that Xi Niang and Su Huanyu are not people who work after all, and Su Huanyu's small appearance is quite attractive to stand in the field.
Su Huanyu, who changed out of the red cotton jacket and red cotton pants, was wearing a new dress processed by Mei Niang with straw in the space, and the moon-white material, although it didn't look so luxurious, it also brought out his son's temperament to the fullest.
When working, the small waist and small buttocks twisted and swung, many people couldn't work, and from time to time someone came to the field to take advantage of the opportunity to help with the work, including women and men.
Su Huanyu will also summon people, and everyone who comes will be squeezed out of his greatest energy and completely free him from heavy labor.
Uncle Jiang, who saw it, pouted his beard, but he was working in the field, so he just opened his eyes and closed his eyes, but he tried to stay away as much as possible when working, of course, he didn't want to see Su Huanyu.
After the potatoes were planted, they began to plant buds again.
When planting potatoes, the villagers felt that the potatoes were really good, not only the sprouts were strong, but the potatoes that had gone to the sprouts also grew well, and they were not inferior to the new potatoes that were harvested at home in previous years.
Although Mei Niang knew that it was not good to eat potatoes with sprouts, people here all came like this, as long as the sprouts were cut off and eaten, nothing happened to them, so she didn't say anything.
In order to prevent the victims from pouring into the village to pick up the seeds planted to eat, the people in the village also organized people to patrol the fields day and night, after beating a few groups of people, due to the prestige of Baohe Village, no one came to fight the idea here, and the wild vegetables on the mountains in the field also emerged, rather than guarding the fields and digging seeds out to eat, it was better to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables.
After the buds were planted, it was the middle of April, during which Xiucai and his wife also left Baohe Village, but they did not go to Ding Gucheng, but chose to go back to their burned homes, and many people who lost their homes in the fire also returned home to farm with the support of relatives or the seeds they received from Shi Hai.
Mei Niang brought them some seeds, there are grain seeds and vegetable seeds, Xiucai Niang did not accept the food given by Mei Niang, after all, at this time there is surplus food at home, and the crisis to bear is a little more, and now there are wild vegetables on the mountain and the ground, I believe they will be able to survive this hurdle.
Since they have chosen this way, Mei Niang thinks that she has done her best with her good impression of Xiu Cainiang.
After learning from Su Huanyu that the three men and two women who died in the heavy snow before were the prince's people, Mei Niang paid attention to those outsiders in the village, and nothing happened after that, maybe the villagers' defense against them also made them restrain a lot, or it may be that there is really no prince among these people.
Jiang Chuye and Yun Xuan still haven't come back, and the prince hasn't done anything on his side, everything is calm.
Su Huanyu just moved a small wooden turn and sat in front of the door to bask in the sun all day long, and there were always different faces around him.
Mei Niang frowned when she saw it, instead of letting him be idle to attract bees and butterflies, she simply found him some work to do.
Take Chongzhijing to drive the ox cart outside for a turn, and when he came back, the cart pulled twenty lambs taken out of the space, and there were twenty big sheep tied to the back of the car, and a whip was handed over, "Let the sheep go!" ”
Su Huanyu took the whip, caught up with the sheep and went up the mountain, at the beginning he was also in a hurry to be bullied by the sheep, and a few days later he began to bully back with ease, and the sheep were also released.
Uncle Jiang couldn't see him in a good mood, Su Huanyu didn't have to look at Uncle Jiang's face all day long, and he was in a good mood from time to time, and from time to time he could bring back some wild vegetables that others taught him to dig back to add vegetables.
Mei Niang thought: Obviously it's not going well here, why doesn't he want to go home? Or are you afraid that the prince won't let him go back?
After driving people a few times in the open and secret, Su Huanyu pretended not to hear it, and Meiniang thought: Could it be that he really has a relationship with Xi Niang and is reluctant to leave?
When Jiang Chu came back at night, the potatoes in the field had grown more than an inch tall seedlings, and Mei Niang was sitting by the Duobao River looking at the fish fry in the river in a daze.
The water level of the Duobao River has risen sharply since the snow melted, much wider than in previous years, and the fish fry were put into the river again after the beginning of spring, and a lot of big fish were also released.
After the villagers know that there are fish in the river, they will often come over and catch a few and go home to try them.
Jiang Chuye rode a white horse, as soon as he entered the village, someone ran over to tell Mei Niang, Mei Niang's heart jumped wildly, he hadn't seen him for more than three months, and it was impossible to say that he didn't want to, he didn't know if the road was smooth or not, how much suffering he had suffered, and how much he had suffered.
Mei Niang hurriedly ran home, along the way, many people knew that Jiang Chuye was back, and when they saw her running fast, they laughed at her, and Mei Niang also responded with a smile, and the shy Shenma didn't want to see it from Mei Niang's face.
When Mei Niang arrived home, a row of carriages stopped in front of the door, many people were moving things into the house, boxes and boxes were heavy, Uncle Jiang, Yun Laosan and He stood in front of the door and laughed from ear to ear, and Yun Laoda and Yueniang also laughed.
There were a lot of villagers standing outside the courtyard to see the excitement, some laughing and some envious, and they congratulated her when they saw Meiniang coming back, and the congratulatory Meiniang was confused.
Aunt Cheng San pushed her eyebrows, "Silly girl, why are you still stunned?" The bride price of the Jiang family boy was sent to the door. ”
Mei Niang opened her mouth wide in surprise, she really didn't expect Jiang Chuye to send all the dowry gifts quietly as soon as she came back, is this preparing to get married? Anyway, you have to discuss it with her, right? She's only sixteen, okay? Don't be in such a hurry.
There was some resentment in her heart, but when she saw Jiang Chuye's soft gaze when she looked over, that resentment was gone.