Then there is the fruit grove, which now produces almost every few days.

It's just that this output has been worth the money for the Zheng family, and it can't bring pure income to the Xue family for the time being.

The biggest harvest is still the farm managed by Liu Huining.

1,200 pigs were slaughtered, and more than 1,400 taels of silver were exchanged for the Xue family.

If you remove the capital invested by your own family, you can make at least six or seven hundred taels.

Before the end of the year, Jiang Qianyue and others went to the county several times to contact their own pigs.

With so many pigs coming out at once, the town is basically unbearable.

For this problem, the Xue family had already considered it when the farm was being built.

Jiang Qianyue went to the county at that time to contact a number of butchers, butcher shops, butchers and middlemen, and also made an estimate of the time when these pigs would be slaughtered.

These people come in handy now.

The hunting team has been hunting for a long time, and the daily prey is not sold to butchers or middlemen through Gu Rongxuan.

These traders collect so much prey every day, and naturally they also have a lot of sales channels in their hands.

Xue Langjing is now a big supplier of meat, how can he help get rid of a batch of pigs.

And now is the best time for the pork market.

When the end of the year comes, those who have a little money at home will stock up on a lot of pork to make bacon, air-dried meat, and so on.

Even the poorest people will symbolically buy a few catties of meat.

The market is good, and the next family is contacted in advance, and it is not difficult for these 1,200 pigs to sell, and the price in exchange is not bad.

When the pigs were about to be slaughtered, the Xue family contacted them in advance.

After the slaughter, the more than 1,000 pigs were pulled away in batches.

It was only four or five days before the pigpen was emptied.

The Xue family only left three pigs to kill pork for the New Year.

In order to make bacon and air-dried meat, two were slaughtered in advance.

There is also a special one left until the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month to be slaughtered, begging for good luck.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, killing pigs and cutting New Year's meat is the most joyful thing for the people.

For these meats, as long as the entire village has worked for the Xue family, each family will give some shares, especially those who are relatively poor.

It also made everyone grateful to the Xue family.

In this year, the Xue family reclaimed mountains and forests, built new farms, dug ponds, tossed melon seeds, pecans, and other miscellaneous things, all of which required a lot of labor.

Most of these individual workers are recruited from the villagers of Zhaojia Village.

It can be said unceremoniously that more than half of the hundreds of households in Zhaojia Village have earned some silver from the Xue family.

The most is more than ten taels of silver, and the least is a few hundred cents.

Many villagers in Zhaojia Village have a better year because of these more incomes.

Those who have money in the family may disdain to work in the Xue family, or do little work.

But people themselves have money, and life is naturally good.

Those who are poor at home, or who have no land, finally have the opportunity to earn money, except for some lazy people who are unwilling to do anything, they will basically not miss it.

The Xue family has recruited a lot of people this year, and they have given a lot of work, as long as they are a little diligent and actively strive for it, they can earn some silver.

In fact, those who are as few as a few hundred Wen are not those who have a small family, but those who don't take it very seriously.

The real family is extremely poor, even if there are few people, as long as they are willing to work a little, it is absolutely no problem to earn a tael of silver in the Xue family.

For example, Widow Li's house at the end of the village.

The population of Widow Li's family is extremely simple, just their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law plus a granddaughter of six or seven years old.

Just a few people, an old woman, a little girl, and a young woman, they earned more than two taels of silver in the Xue family this year.

Every time the Xue family recruits, they basically won't miss it.

If it is a job that does not require labor, the whole family of three will go together, and if labor is needed, let the daughter-in-law Wang go alone.

For example, cultivating mountains and forests, processing melon seeds and pecans, the whole family can go together.

For example, planting fruit seedlings and vegetables, this does not rely on pure physical strength, but also requires skills, as long as young people are willing to learn, whether it is a woman or a man, the silver that Wang can get is no worse than a laborer.

But if physical work is needed, the Wang family can also do it, and the Xue family has taken pity on them, and they basically did not refuse.

It's just that the physical strength can't fight for men, so the salary is naturally less, after all, the Xue family is not doing charity.

That's it, as long as the Xue family has a job, this family of three will inevitably be indispensable.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are also unlucky.

Originally, when Widow Li's husband was still alive, her life was still very good.

But since her husband died, Widow Li took her son and two orphans and widows, and this life began to be difficult.

As soon as the husband left, the family's money and property were almost divided among the husband's brothers.

But fortunately, she still has a son, and the son is also a descendant of the Zhao family, and it is impossible to say that the uncles robbed him of his family property.

In the end, Widow Li invited Li Zhenghe and the patriarch to come out and administer justice.

Under their words, the brothers of the Zhao family left a house for their mother and son, a small piece of land in front of the house, and three acres of medium fields and two acres of thin fields.

Widow Li relied on these acres of land to pull her son, who was only two years old at the time.

This son is very diligent and quite smart when he grows up, in addition to planting these few acres of land, he will also go to the town to do casual work in his spare time.

After more than ten years, he bought two acres of medium fields and two acres of thin fields for his family, and married a capable daughter-in-law, Wang.

The family has nine acres of land, and the son works in the town, and the widow and daughter-in-law are doing embroidery work at home, and this life is not bad.

But her luck was so bad, a few years ago, her son fell down the mountain while working for a rich family and fell to his death.

In the end, the rich man was merciful, and gave three taels of silver.

It stands to reason that there are nine acres of land at home, plus the three taels of silver that are compensated, it is easy for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to live with a granddaughter.

I think that Widow Li didn't use five acres of land to support her mother and son.

Don't forget, this Zhao family still has a family of relatives.

In their eyes, this house and land are the property of their Zhao family.

Now that the men of the second family have gone, they have disappeared, so this property should belong to their Zhao family.

You have a Li family, a Wang family, and a granddaughter who will marry into another family after all, and the family is all outsiders, what qualifications do you have to occupy their Zhao family's property?

The brothers of Widow Li's husband divided the property of the 'Zhao family'.

Like last time, this time Widow Li found Li Zhenghe and the patriarch again.

But this time it's not good, the patriarch naturally helps his own clansmen, your branch is already extinct, without the people of his Zhao family, why should the things of their Zhao family be left to you outsiders?

In the end, it was easy to say that Li Zheng was thinking about the pity of this family of orphans and widows, and the decision left them the dilapidated house where they live now, as well as a piece of land in front of them, and two acres of thin fields.

The three taels of silver were only left with 500 wen.

Two acres of thin land can only produce three or four hundred catties of grain a year at most, how can you feed a family of three?

Even if they do embroidery at home all day, they can exchange some oil and salt money at most.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who do not have enough land in their hands, can only share other people's land.

However, now that the villagers do not have enough land in their hands, and everyone goes to tenant land to plant, why don't the landlords give the land to those who have labor at home, and give it to you women and children?

No matter how much they begged their grandfather to tell their grandmother, they only got two acres of land in the end.

Under such circumstances, the life of the three widows of Li is very difficult.