Chapter Seventy-Three: Lin Zhu's Request
PS: Thanks for the pink ticket of the book of Chisakoto.
As the watermelon grows day by day, Linjia Village is becoming more and more unstable. Many people walk around the watermelon field of Linzhu, which is called a beautiful name. Lin Zhu couldn't stop complaining about them in his heart after knowing the road, and he hadn't even crossed a road. Because there are black beans guarding, people can only watch from afar, and no one wants to risk being bitten by black beans to get closer. As a result, the village chief's house, who was good friends with Lin Zhu, became the target of the villagers' questioning.
Lin Changqing, the village head, was annoyed, but there was no way to drive everyone out of the village, after all, the people of Linjia Village have been poor for too long, although his family is better, but because he has to support a scholar, it is still a little difficult, plus the eldest daughter-in-law is going to give birth, and the second son should also get married, in fact, he is also interested in watermelons, and the method of planting watermelons, because his family and the Wang family helped Lin Zhu plant them together, so he understands some, but he always has to inform Lin Zhu, and he is afraid that Lin Zhu will not agree. When he was in a dilemma, he discussed with Aunt Li in private. "Xiaozhu, this watermelon is growing now, it will definitely be sold for a good price, why don't you tell her, let's plant it next year, do you think it's okay?"
"Don't you know what kind of person this kid is Lu Dao Xiaozhu, since you asked us to help grow watermelons for her together, there is no intention of hiding it. Let's definitely agree. Aunt Li said confidently. Not only because of her understanding of Lin Zhu, but also because the two daughters have been getting more and more news from Lin Zhu since they learned embroidery from Chang's mother, which Lin Zhu intended to let the sisters pass on the news to them. Not only their family, Lin Daji is also the father of Lin Xiaowan and Lin Zhijie, as well as Lin Chunliu and Lin Xialian's father Lin Dawei. Even with Lin Changsheng's family, they knew that Lin Zhu intended to let them plant watermelons together. Not all of them are happy. I just didn't dare to say it, for fear that the people in the village would be jealous.
"I know that. But if you look at the appearance of the people in the village, if only we breed these families. It's not easy to explain, and besides, a few old people in the clan have spoken, saying that if possible, they will help the village more. Am I not embarrassed? Lin Changqing's face was bitter. Why don't you go and ask Xiaozhu about it? ”
"Okay, I'll talk about it. If she doesn't agree, you'll have to figure out how to tell the people in the village. Aunt Li ordered and went out to Lin Zhu's house.
Lin Zhu is playing with the cloth tiger he bought back to tease Fu Dou'er, Ruyu and Youqing and Xiaowan are learning embroidery with Chang's mother, simply drawing patterns, and the color matching has been learned. I'm learning how to get stitches. It's just that I didn't pay much attention to learning today, and my eyes always looked at Lin Zhu and Fu Dou'er who were playing. Lin Zhu really didn't have a wisdom root in the craft of embroidery, not only did she give up learning herself, but even Chang's mother couldn't bear to let her learn anymore when she looked at her full of needles. So Lin Zhu was free.
Fu Dou'er likes the eight cloth tigers that Lin Zhu bought, especially the general tiger, who always holds on to it, and the others are either thrown by hand or kicked with their feet, in short, they are very unpopular. Kicking around, watching the cloth tigers stagger. Fu Dou'er smiled like a victory, and before she had grown teeth, she was always jokingly called a toothless by Lin Zhu.
After Aunt Li came over, she first looked at Chang's mother and a few children who were sitting in a circle learning embroidery. To see which child's craftsmanship is better, they all praised it. I went to see Lin Zhu who was playing with Fu Dou'er. "Yo, Fu Dou'er had a good time." I saw Fu Douer holding the general tiger with one hand. With a weapon in one hand, the rattle defeated the enemy Lin Zhu and a few cloth tigers, and was smiling toothlessly. Lin Zhu lying on the side pretending to be dead. Seeing Aunt Li coming, she sat up and greeted her. "Auntie is here."
"Well, I'll come and have a look." Aunt Li also sat on the kang and played with a cloth tiger to tease Fu Dou'er. Lin Zhu felt that Aunt Li didn't just come over to take a look, "Auntie, do you have something to tell me?" ”
"There are some things, let Chang's mother listen to it and see how to deal with it." Aunt Li decided to tell Lin Zhu straight to the point. When Chang's mother heard her words, she also came to her.
"These days, Xiaozhu's watermelons are growing better and better, and the people in the village are envious in their eyes, not always someone comes to my house to ask if I can learn how to grow watermelons from Xiaozhu, these days even a few elders in the clan have come forward to ask, I just came to ask Xiaozhu what it means." After Aunt Li finished speaking, she looked at Lin Zhu's reaction a little nervously.
"Why do the people of Linjia Village, seeing that the girl grows watermelons, do they also want a piece of the pie? This method of raising seedlings has been given to the village, and the red-mouthed and white-toothed method of planting watermelons is not to see that our girls are easy to bully? Chang's mother was very angry, and she was a little rushed when she spoke, in fact, according to her previous temper, she could really blow Aunt Li out of the air, but for the sake of her taking care of Lin Zhu, she was just talking about it.
Aunt Li also felt that this time she came to ask a little abruptly, she couldn't rely on Lin Zhu's good temper, so she had to inch in, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed in her heart. I immediately wanted to apologize to Lin Zhu, but before I could say it, Lin Zhu spoke, "Auntie, don't blame Mother Chang, she is also thinking about me." Aunt Li shook her head, "Mother Chang is right, I'll let you Uncle Lin go and warn them when I go back, and I'll accept it when I see it." "After speaking, he will get off the kang and leave.
"Auntie, don't worry, listen to me." Lin Zhu hurriedly stopped her. "It's not impossible to tell the people in the village, I am also from Linjia Village, of course, I hope everyone can earn more money, but growing watermelons is risky, and I can't guarantee that every family will grow as well as me. You can teach them the method, don't blame me for not planting well, after all, I didn't force them to plant. ”
"Yes, yes, this crop is good or bad, God decides, how can it be blamed on you, Xiaozhu, Aunt Xie Lu thank you, thank you for your Uncle Lin Xie Lu. In the past few days, he has been embarrassed to have a lot of blisters on his mouth, and the elders in this village are not easy to offend. Aunt Li was overjoyed and couldn't wait to go home immediately to tell Lin Changqing the good news.
"Auntie, I want Uncle Lin to sign a contract in the name of the village chief to let those villagers who want to learn to grow watermelons sign a contract, saying that I am only responsible for teaching everyone how to grow watermelons, and there is no guarantee that there will be a good harvest. If you don't grow well, you can't come to me for trouble afterwards. Lin Zhu decided to say ugly things in front of him, and don't go to plant watermelons all the time. When the time comes, she won't be able to earn money to come to her, and she won't be responsible.
"Good. This is a big deal, I'll tell you Uncle Lin when I go back. Let him figure it out. "Now whatever Lin Zhu says, Aunt Li will do it. Besides, she still wants to plant with her mother's family, as long as Lin Zhu agrees, everything else is easy to say.
As soon as Aunt Li went home and told Lin Changqing, Lin Changqing suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the pressure in the village was too great. "Okay, do what Lin Zhu said, when the time comes, we will all go to the ancestral hall in the village, and everyone will get together to talk about it. It is up to them to decide whether they agree or not. ”
After Aunt Li left, Chang's mother asked Lin Zhu a little puzzled why she told the people of Linjia Village such a valuable method. She also remembered what Dr. Zhang said, and she was really right by him. "Chang's mother's wealth is moving, this watermelon has not been sold before someone always peeps at the edge of the field, if it is sold, people know that I have made a lot of money, and it will be troublesome if I have a bad heart, it doesn't matter if the money is gone, but if it hurts someone, I don't want to take this risk. Besides, I am an orphan girl, and I have just entered Linjia Village. If you want them to shelter, you must have the capital to let them shelter. It's just a way to grow watermelons, and if you give it, you will give it. "Chang's mother was surprised that Lin Zhu thought so thoroughly, and he would plan for himself at a young age." But. You can't give them in vain, and if you are insatiable in the future, you have to make them pay some price. Zhilu said that there is no free lunch in this world. Lin Zhu thought about it, what is the price that can make Linjia Village pay?
"Money doesn't matter to us. The important thing is personal safety. Why don't they give you all the land around our yard? Chang's mother thought about it and said that if she sold those watermelons, she would definitely get a lot of silver. Dr. Zhang will not treat Lin Zhu badly, with this money, it will not be a problem to expand the yard, and then enclose the fence, safety can also be guaranteed.
Lin Zhu thought about it and felt that Chang's mother's idea was very good, his house was surrounded by wasteland, and the land was barren, not suitable for farming, but he could plant wolfberry trees, Lin Zhu had always wanted to build a wolfberry garden, and he was worried that there was no place, and this time it was just an opportunity. "Okay, talk to the village chief when the time comes, he won't disagree."
Lin Changqing, the village head, has a very high prestige in the village, and as soon as he said that he wanted to open an ancestral hall and it was for the purpose of growing watermelons, the people in the village were very happy, and every family sent their family members over. The elders of several clans were also accompanied by their families to sit on the upper seat of the ancestral hall. For a while, the ancestral hall was full of people, and everyone was talking and laughing very noisy.
When the village chief saw everyone coming, he cleared his throat and said loudly, "Everyone listen to me quietly. When the people in the village saw that the village chief had spoken, they stopped talking and looked at Lin Changqing.
"Today's opening of the ancestral hall is for the sake of growing watermelons," Lin Changqing paused, and when he saw that everyone was concentrating, he said, "It stands to reason that this watermelon method is from Lin Zhu in the village west of the village, a little girl only has one skill, we shouldn't look at other people's skills, we also want to learn the skills." When Lin Changqing said this, he looked around, and some people showed disapproving expressions on their faces. He continued, "I see that the good people in our village who farm and grow the fields have not passed on their skills to everyone, haven't they also come here?" A little girl has a little craft, she just wants it, she wants to rob it, this is not bullying or what? Some people lowered their heads in shame when they heard Lin Changqing's words, they had already had this idea, and now they were spread out by the village chief, and their faces were a little feverish, after all, it was really disgraceful to snatch something from a child who was younger than themselves.
"Today, I opened this ancestral hall and called everyone here, not to say that no one is here, but to tell everyone a good news. I asked Miss Xiaozhu a few days ago, and she agreed to tell everyone how to grow watermelons. When the people in the village heard this, they all made incredible sounds, they didn't expect that they could get the method of planting watermelons so easily, everyone had gone to see the watermelon field of Lin Zhu, and the watermelons that were about to grow were shining silver in their eyes. Now the glittering silver can be in his hands, so it's no wonder if he isn't excited.
"However," Lin Changqing raised his voice again, "This method has been taught to us, but in the future, it can only depend on God's ability to plant good or bad, and a good harvest is naturally good, if it is not planted or the harvest is not good, don't blame the little girl." Whoever wants this method has to sign a contract first, saying that good planting, good planting, and bad planting have nothing to do with Lin Zhu. As soon as Lin Changqing's words fell, the ancestral hall was quiet. (To be continued......)