Chapter Seventy-Five: A New House Must Be Built
"Then plant it again!" The third child said, clapped his hands, and said. "Look, I forgot, the beans on the back mountain range should have been washed away by the torrential rain!"
"Then there is no need to say, I'll go and see, the back mountain range is all slopes, can you not wash it away!" The boss said, glanced at Chen Chunhua, and said. "If you plant again, there will be no potatoes and melons to plant, and it is not cost-effective to buy them in other people's houses, and you have to plant hundreds of catties of one acre of land."
When Chen Chunhua heard this, she ate and looked at Lao Dao with her cheeks. "Why do you have to ask for 100 catties of potatoes and melons for an acre of land?" Is this a joke, not to mention a few acres of land, even a dozen acres of land do not need hundreds of pounds of potato and melon seeds.
"It must cost a hundred pounds, one pit per pit, and one acre of land will cost so much!" After Qiu Ju finished feeding Erzhuzi, she came out to pick up Chen Chunhua's words.
Chen Chunhua choked on the steamed bun that had not yet been swallowed in her mouth, and hurriedly took a few sips of water and said. "One pit at a time, there must be a lot, but why are you like this?" It's not that she hasn't planted sweet potatoes, but she has planted them many times, especially in the years when she lived in her grandmother's house, she had to dig sweet potatoes and plant sweet potato seedlings every year, and she had back pain.
"Huh? Isn't that what Chenjia Village is like this? When Qiu Ju heard this, her curiosity immediately came up. Chen Chunhua was stunned for a moment, didn't she say that she leaked her mouth, and quickly shook her head and said. "That's what I planted in my mother's house, I know there are other ways to plant, and I will definitely harvest well!" Yes, if the seed potatoes and melons are planted in connection with the whole potato melon, then when the autumn harvest is made, a big old potato melon will be dug up, or it can't be eaten, not only that, the potato melon will not be big, and the nutrients will be accounted for by the old potato melon.
"What's the idea?" When the three of them listened, they all looked at Chen Chunhua, Chen Chunhua put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped the corners of her mouth, and spoke. "In fact, as long as you plant potato and melon seeds first, wait for it to grow seedlings, pull the vines, and then cut the vines, and then burn some turf ash to cover the seedlings, and the pit does not need to be too deep, it is generally good."
The three of them listened to Chen Chunhua's words, and they didn't understand what this meant at all, Qiu Ju didn't say it, before she got married, she was a girl in the house, and everything in the field depended on this man to work, and after this marriage, he followed the second pillar, and there was very little work in the field. The boss and the third are veterans of potatoes and melons in the middle of the year, and they don't understand for a while after hearing these words.
Chen Chunhua saw that they didn't understand, and couldn't help but say helplessly. "I still have to read this to understand, and I won't understand it for you this time!" You don't know what's going on until you see it with your own eyes, but there's a process.
Seeing that Chen Chunhua didn't say anything anymore, the boss frowned and said. "Daughter-in-law, can you really do what you said?"
Chen Chunhua didn't think about replying. "That's definitely going to happen, if you don't believe it, just wait and see, this shop can't starve the whole family when it's open!" She didn't know what to do, if she had known earlier that they planted sweet potatoes like this, she wouldn't have to be so time-consuming and physically demanding, and in the end she would have worked in vain, not to mention this, natural disasters!
Seeing that his daughter-in-law was so energetic, the boss listened to her words and said. "Cheng, if the daughter-in-law wants to do it, just do it, it's a big deal, this new house will be built slowly."
Chen Chunhua was stunned for a moment, and then she realized why the boss was like that today, but he didn't realize that the boss was also a Gu family, but he was able to say this, which means that today's matter is in the past. "Big brother, how much money does it cost to build a new house?"
"Didn't you say that you want to build a blue brick house, this blue brick house is so big in our house, it must cost twenty taels." Twenty taels is too much, and it's not too bad.
"What, it's only twenty taels?" Chen Chunhua was stunned, the rent of this shop costs eighteen taels a year, isn't it the money for a house a year? After thinking about it, this is also, the location is different, after all, it is the town, and the business does not rely on this, and this yard is also quite large, two rooms, with a kitchen and a bathing hut, plus the yard of this vacant land, and a well, and a shop outside, it is worth it!
Qiu Ju looked at Chen Chunhua's strange appearance and said with a smile. "What's the name of only twenty taels, sister-in-law, you have made money, we haven't earned more than twenty taels in the house for several years, let alone repair a blue brick house."
"That's right, I feel that the rent of this shop is about the same as that of us repairing our own house!" With this comparison, it is natural to feel that twenty taels is not much.
"The village can be compared with the town, don't think about repairing a house in the town without fifty taels, just this shop, I think it should have cost a lot of money." Qiu Ju likes this yard very much, but unfortunately it is not in her house, if you want to live in such a good house, you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.
After nightfall, Chen Chunhua took out a small wooden box, unlocked the lock, and poured all the money inside on the kang, Dong Niang's money should not be, these money are earned, the cost is low, this Dong Niang sent her two carts of soybeans, except for the capital.
Carefully counted the silver coins, the total sum has been more than thirty-one taels and two dollars, can have so much money, is that the business is too good for a while, plus selling bean sprouts, sweet potato flour, tofu and dried tofu, it costs one or two silver coins to enter the account in the morning.
"Big brother, the money is enough to repair the house, or I have to wait for a while to find someone to go back to the village to repair it!" Chen Chunhua took out twenty taels of silver and put it aside, looking at the old avenue. "It's estimated that people are busy these days, and their wages have also risen." In those flooded villages, there must be a lot of people who want to repair their houses, and many people are looking for people to work on these repairs, and the wages of the people who come and go naturally go up.
The boss nodded and said. "Cheng, after a while, I won't find anyone to work at this time, besides, now I am looking for someone to do it, and the person who offers a high price will not come to do it if it is low."
What Chen Chunhua thought of, Old Nature also thought of. When the third child heard this, he said with joy on his face. "Do we really want to build a brick house in our house?" In the village, the village chief has a lot of green brick houses, thatched houses, and adobe houses, and compared to others living in thatched houses, the adobe houses in their houses are also considered good.
"Just build a brick house, big brother, you take this money first, if it's not enough, you're looking for me to get it!" After Chen Chunhua finished speaking, she handed the twenty taels in her purse to the boss and said. "The yard in our house needs to be enlarged, and there are other things to do in the back room, there must be an open space!"
The boss was holding the purse, and suddenly felt heavy in his hand, and he didn't know what to say. The daughter-in-law is her own, and the money to repair the house is still earned by the daughter-in-law, compared to his own daughter-in-law, he is useless as a big man. used to say that he let his daughter-in-law live a good life, but now, on the other hand, the daughter-in-law has made his three brothers live a good life.
Chen Chunhua doesn't know what the boss thinks in his heart, if he does, wouldn't he have to laugh off his big teeth!