In addition to the larger and more solid bed, there were two more wooden chests and some low stools, and the diner also had an extra clay pot and a few stoneware bowls.

Qian Duoduo took the initiative to say: "My sons are all older, and the family is separated, and they all have another house. The eldest son had many children, so his two sons came to stay with us. ”

Zhao Ruxi nodded, got out of the house, looked at the low and damp house, and said, "Why build such a house?" ”

"A mud wall can only be built like this. No matter how high and wide it is, it is easy to collapse. ”

Zhao Ruxi still has a lot of questions in her heart, but she is not an indigenous, and her understanding of the countryside in this era is limited to Xiaorong Village. There are some things that she can't ask Qian Duoduo, so she has to wait for Wu Zong and Zhu to understand the situation before making a decision.

She looked into the distance. The surrounding area is surrounded by fields, and the terrain is relatively flat, and the paddy fields planted with rice are criss-crossed, and you can see sporadic people working in the fields.

"Weeding now." Qian Duoduo took the initiative to explain, "After a while, the rice can be harvested." ”

Zhao Ruxi knew that the rice here was only planted for one season.

"After harvesting the rice, do you still grow winter wheat?" She asked.

Qian Duoduo shook his head, looking a little nervous: "It's not that the villains are lazy, it's that they don't have enough strength." When winter wheat is planted, the yield per acre of rice will be very low. ”

Zhao Ruxi's brows furrowed.

However, she didn't understand these very well, so she changed the topic and asked, "Didn't you say that there are more than 1,000 acres of mountain forests?" Where is it? ”

Zhao Ruxi looked around and saw that there were mountains in the distance, some far and some near, but he didn't know which direction this Zhuangzi's mountain was.

"Over there." Qian Duoduo pointed to two not very tall mountains in the east, "Those two mountains are ours, this side of the mountain is ours, and the other side of the mountain is someone else." There is a stone monument on the mountain as a boundary. ”

Zhao Ruxi looked at the distance of the mountain, and it would take at least two or three quarters of an hour to walk to the foot of the mountain, and she dispelled the idea of going to the mountain to have a look.

Anyway, don't worry, this Zhuangzi is hers, you can come to see it whenever you want.

"What's planted on the mountain?" She asked.

"It's all trees, all kinds of trees."

"This grange, in addition to planting trees, is it planting rice?" She asked again.

"Yes, I also raise some chickens, ducks and pigs, which will be delivered to the house at the end of the year." Qian Duoduo said, "There are accounts in the house, and the villain will give it to the girl for a while." ”

Zhao Ruxi nodded, not expecting much from Zhuangzi's earnings.

With a single product, how much profit can this Zhuangzi have?

She asked, "Are you literate?" ”

"Yes." Qian Duoduo came to the spirit, "It was the villain's father who taught the villain." My dad used to be the head of the old bank. ”

"How many literate people are there in Zhuangzi?"

Qian Duoduo shook his head: "The villain taught his two sons and grandson to read a few words before going to bed every night, and the others didn't learn it." ”

Zhao Ruxi didn't speak again, took the account book, and left Zhuangzi with Wu Zong.

Qingfeng had already picked a lot of flowers and trees with Ma Sheng, and there were only two people left in the carriage where they were sitting, and the corners of Zhao Ruxi's mouth twitched when he saw this scene.

After getting into the carriage and sitting down, she asked Wu Zong from the window of the carriage: "Senior brother, is everyone's Zhuangzi like this?" Are the servants living like this? ”

Wu Zong himself doesn't care about household chores. The Wu family is a big family, and they have cousins and cousins who have no official positions to take care of.

But when he was investigating the case, he went to many granges.

"That's pretty much it," he said. Because the houses are made of wood, if so many families were left open to let them build houses, half of the trees on the hill would be cut down. It is easy to cut down trees, but it is difficult to grow them again, and the main family has to build a house with trees and make furniture. If they don't build houses and make furniture, they will sell these timbers for money, so the main family will not let them cut down trees. ”

"These granges seem to be quite large, but they don't make much money in a year. They work all year round, except for the grain and livestock that they give to the Lord's family, they can only live a half-hungry life, how can they have spare money to buy trees and build houses? So you can only use some bamboo chips to paste mud to build a house. The roof was also made of bamboo, and it had to be replaced in two or three years, otherwise the whole roof would have to collapse. ”

He shook his head: "Some of the masters are harsh, or there is no bamboo on the Zhuangzi, so they can only hollow out the ground and build thatch on it, and the house is half cut on the ground and half cut into the ground. ”

Zhao Ruxi listened, and his heart sank.

But she quickly picked herself up.

As long as she engages in ecological recycling farming and increases the income of the farm, not only herself, but also the income of the servants will also increase. Their days will surely be fine.

It wasn't that she couldn't show kindness and allow them to cut down the trees on the hill to build houses. But the Zhuang servant also has dealings, and if she does this, what should she do if someone else's slave makes trouble? What should I do if the servants on the Suiping Bofu Grange also ask for the same treatment?

And if she did this, would she not be grateful, but someone would think she was kind-hearted and ask her for more?

So the best thing to do is to win-win. She came up with ideas, the servants worked hard, and everyone created more benefits together. With money, the life of the servants will naturally get better.

And none of this can be done in a while, at least in a year or two before it becomes effective. It's useless to worry now, and the season hasn't come yet.

She's better to make the flower arrangement.

Seeing the three bamboo baskets just now, although they were not particularly exquisite, they had a clumsy beauty, and she remembered that she hadn't seen Xiao Ruotong for a long time, and she didn't know if she was sick or not, and what happened to the British prince. I'm going to visit her when I get back to the city later.

It's always bad to just visit the sick empty-handed. Zhennan Wangzhen doesn't eat the food sold in the small shop outside, and other things can't be used for a while, Xiao Ruotong can't look down on these vulgar things, she simply arranges flowers for Xiao Ruotong.

After the master and senior brother were busy with her, she wanted to send flower arrangements to Xiao Ruotong, so she simply made one for the master and senior brother. Maybe they don't like this kind of thing, and this thing is not valuable, but it can be regarded as a gesture of affection.

There were scissors, knives and other tools used by Qingfeng to make needlework when Qingfeng was usually waiting for her in the car, and Zhao Ruxi took advantage of the time of the carriage's return trip to insert two bamboo baskets of flower arrangements.

Qingfeng saw that her own girl was inserted in the east, and the extremely ordinary roadside grass, through her hands, cooperated with the flowers and trees, and showed a wonderful harmony and beauty, she was greatly admired.

The girl in her family is really worthy of being accepted as an apprentice by the deadwood monk, not only can she draw well, but she can even insert a few flowers.

When I returned to the academy, it was already dinner time, but the group of people who were addicted to painting had not left.

Zhao Ruxi took out the flower arrangement and gave it to Kang Shilin and Wu Zong respectively.