In June, the fireflies were too confused.

In Baitu Village, a large mansion with two entrances has recently been set up, covering an area of more than one acre, with east and west wings, ear rooms on both sides of the hall, verandah corrugated, bluestone steps.

In the courtyard, in front of the hall, two podocarpus trees are transplanted, and the soil has just fallen, and the branches are implicated with iron wires, and the tree shape is fixed. On the wooden floor under the verandah, there are several potted plants, dug from the mountains, which are also full of greenery.

The courtyard is paved with green bricks, which are hard and straight.

In June, although it was summer, the temperature was just right, the heat and cold were moderate, the sun was still mild, and in the courtyard, there were two rattan chairs, and the two of them were lying separately, whispering softly.

"This is the information of the village people you asked me to collect, and everyone in the village who has joined the township soldiers or government soldiers is in it." The people in the rattan chairs didn't seem to be used to it, and simply sat up on the occasion of handing out the booklet.

The man in the other rattan chair took the booklet, shook his head, muttered that he didn't know how to enjoy it, and flipped through it.

The head of the household, age, members of the family, whether it is a village soldier or a government soldier, who is close to the village, the situation at home and other basic information are reflected in this booklet.

"Yes, with this, we can prescribe the right medicine and attack them one by one." Putting the booklet into the pocket of his robe, Chen Ping said to Lai Pingdong, who was constantly moving his buttocks on the side, "This rattan chair is a good thing for leisure, and when the sun is full, it will be even more wonderful to move to the small beach by the water." ”

"It's too soft, it's not going to be raw." Lai Pingdong replied, always feeling that there was nowhere to focus under the buttocks, and then there was the matter of the booklet, which made him uneasy, "When will we start?" ”

"What's the hurry, let's go, let's visit first, it's necessary to understand the people's feelings." Chen Ping got up and twisted his lower waist.

In the thirties, the restaurant in the county has already been completed, and the first batch of green bricks from the brick kiln was also out of the brick kiln two months ago.

In the Liuhe Mountain, the stable livestock house is also erected, a corresponding green brick, the top is covered with thatch, and the external wooden plank is used as a fence, and a grassland is encircled.

The new house of the Chen family is a little slower, it was completed seven days ago, and the layout is according to the style at this time, the standard courtyard house, the two-entry house, the wing room, the ear room, the cover room, the home is one person, and the kitchen has finally moved from the hall to the cover room.

The two of them did not step on the bluestone steps to the verandah from the main entrance, opened the side door between the west ear room and the west wing room, and went west along the village road.

Just out of the village, I saw a rammed and widened village road, extending to the foot of Liuhe Mountain, all the way to the brick kiln.

A carriage came slowly, and there were neat green bricks placed in the wooden planks behind the carriage, and the groom driving saw Chen Ping from a distance, so he raised his horsewhip and greeted loudly: "The owner is going to the brick kiln?" ”

Horses, carts, bricks, these are all provided by Chen Ping, but the groom was hired from the side village, the grandfather of one of Chen An's classmates.

There is a Chen family in Baitu Village, and the Chen family has a big man, who is the most benevolent, and works for his family, not only can he get a higher salary than the owner next to him, but also can take four days off in ten days, and another day off on festivals, and he can also get some oily noodles and meat for nothing.

If you work during this festival, your salary will be double that of a normal day.

The horseman who drove the horse and sent the bricks was named Li Er, and he came to Baitu Village during the Qingming Festival. Li Er also heard from Liu Fuzi's son who went to school when he came home that there was a family in Baitu Village who was hiring a coachman, and he had to drive a horse.

The wage is high, and the salary is doubled for four days off in October, and the holiday is doubled.

At that time, I heard my son say this, Li Er only regarded it as a joke, but for a few days, his son, who didn't know where to go after school on weekdays, actually kept persuading himself to let him go to work at the Chen family in Baitu Village.

Once or twice, Li Er didn't take it to heart, but this time there were too many of them, and the head of Master Xue's family was scolded in those days, so Li Er went to Baitu Village with the intention of looking.

When I arrived in the village, I inquired, and there was really such a thing, and when I heard the villagers talk about it, they were all praised, only saying that the Chen family was benevolent and kind, and it would never make people suffer.

Benevolence, a lot of wages, the main family has a good temper, Li Er did not enter the door of Chen Ping's house, this au pair has the mind, and when he enters the door, he sees a strong young man ushered in, and after learning the reason for coming here, he will talk about it one by one.

On the same day, Li Erzhi signed the contract and pressed his handprint.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, Li Er was busy worshipping his ancestors, and he did not greet Chen Ping in advance, so he did not go to work. was worried in his heart, but on the evening of Qingming Day, the half-grown boy rode a donkey, arrived at his door, and sent a pound of pork meat and five pounds of white noodles.

Li Eryi asked and found out that the half-grown son riding a donkey was his son's classmate and the younger brother of the Chen family.

"The owner is kind." Carrying the pork meat and the white noodles, Li Er choked up and said a word, almost crying.

What owner would want to help? Not only did he not blame him for not going to work, but he asked his brother to send pork meat and white noodles, and then he thought about working in Xue's house in the past, like a cow and a horse, and even had to be scolded for a few days, Li Er was even more grateful to Chen Ping.

"Well, go for a spin." Chen Ping nodded back, "Have you sown rice seeds in your field?" If you are busy, I will grant you a few days off, so as not to delay the farming. ”

Li Er lifted the reins, slowed down his steps, turned around and said with a smile: "No, the baby is also busy alone, there are not many fields at home, and it will be my turn to take a vacation in a few days, and it is not too late to go back to help." ”

In June, rice is sown and wheat is harvested.

Grandpa Chen Ping is now cutting wheat stalks in the wheat field in the north of the village, and the golden wheat is growing happily, and the rice ears are many and full. As for the more than ten acres of fields in Chen Ping's house, seedlings have already been planted.

Rice is sown in the paddy fields of the surrounding villages of Baitu Village, and it is planted once a year, and according to the time, it should be planted with late rice, which is sown in June and harvested in October. The timing of sowing conflicts with the harvesting of wheat seeds, so Chen Ping proposed to raise seedlings, and the seedlings raised in late March must be transplanted in mid-May.

Compared with others in the village, it is necessary to complete the rice field work half a year earlier, not only that, but the rice harvest in Chen Ping's family will also be twenty decades earlier this year, and the rice can be harvested in August.

Half an acre of seedling raising fields can be transplanted into more than ten acres of fields after the seedlings grow, and the utilization rate of land is greatly improved.

A field can be double-cropped in a year.

The wheat field in Chen Ping's house was sown some time later in the past, but this year, when the rice is ripe and harvested, the wheat seeds are sown, and the harvest can be done in May of the following year.

With this alone, the amount of food in a year can be doubled compared to the past.

After the brick kiln, the open space outside was already neatly stacked with green bricks, two carriages, and a donkey cart were loaded with green bricks.

Horse-drawn carts are delivered and donkey carts are used inside.

The brick kiln has brought Chen Ping an income of nearly 50 taels of silver, and in addition to the cost of wages, he can earn nearly 15 taels of silver every ten years.

"Which one to go to?" Just thinking about what had happened in the past few months, he came up to Pingdong to ask a question, and Chen Ping found out that Xia Tu Village had arrived.

"Zhang Shan'an." Chen Ping had already chosen a household. (To be continued.) )