In February, the weather gradually warmed up, and although there were cold spells from time to time, the earth began to thaw and everything gradually recovered.

The Ye family began to plough the land, and the land belonging to the Ye family in Houwu Village was about ten acres, half of which was medium and half was low-grade land.

Although it was the county lord who introduced the Ye family to settle in Houwu Village, this land and the courtyard where the Ye family currently lives were bought by the Ye family with money, not a gift from the county lord.

At the beginning, Father Ye was willing to accept the arrangement of the county lord to move his family to Houwu Village, the main reason is, of course, the obedience of habit, after all, the thinking that the people do not fight with the officials is almost engraved in everyone's bones in this era, and another reason is to fancy this land.

Don't look at the fact that half of this land is low-grade fields, but even these low-grade fields are not only thicker soil but also much more fertile than the land reclaimed on the barren slope in Hongfeng Village.

With such a plot, Daddy Ye is confident that a ten-acre vineyard will be built in Houwu Village within two years.

Even if you can't get all the vines to bear fruit within two years, you can guarantee that within two years the total grape yield will be ten times that of Red Maple Village.

The yield of grapes is ten times longer, and the yield of wine is not ten times higher, but it is also seven or eight times higher.

So I'm afraid that the Ye family's life will not be prosperous?!

After settling in Houwu Village, Father Ye and Ye Damin carefully maintained the fruit trees transplanted from Hongfeng Village to ensure the survival rate of the transplanted fruit trees, and at the same time deeply cultivated and fertilized the ten acres of land.

For these ten acres of fertilizer, Father Ye was heartbroken, and almost ran all over the various towns near Houwu Village to find enough fertilizer.

Now that the land is gradually thawing, Father Ye and Ye Damin are about to start deep ploughing and fertilization before cuttings, and the problem of insufficient labor in the Ye family is very prominent at this time.

After all, Daddy Ye is already in his fifties and almost sixty, if this age is in modern times, it should still be considered the prime of life, but in this ancient period when the lifespan was generally only fifty or sixty, Daddy Ye should not do this kind of heavy work at this age.

On this day, Ye Qing came back from school and saw Father Ye beating his waist with a painful expression, and felt very guilty, and instantly felt that he couldn't read this book.

He is thirteen years old, and at least half of the countryman's age like him can be regarded as a strong laborer, but now he sits in the classroom and lives an easy life, while the elderly grandfather works in the fields all day.

When Ye Qing said that he didn't want to continue studying and wanted to follow his grandfather and father to work in the fields, Father Ye was immediately angry.

Father Ye, who has always been kind to his grandson, shouted angrily: "What do you say, say it again!" ”

Father Ye roared suddenly, not only frightened Ye Qing to lower his head and not know what to do, but even Ye Zhan and Ye Shen, who had just returned to the study and were about to review and practice calligraphy, were also taken aback, and Ye Zhan and Ye Shen looked at each other.

In their memory, Daddy Ye had almost never spoken so loudly, and most importantly, Daddy Ye's voice was obviously angry, who was the one who caused the trouble?

The two brothers glanced at the study, except for Lin Wan, who went back to his house after school, Ye Qing was not there.

Could it be Ye Qing's trouble? How come?! Mischievous and naughty things have never been done by Ye Qing!

So will it be Lin Wan? Probably not! Even if Lin Wan caused something, Father Ye would not be so angry.

The two brothers moved to the window, pushed it open a crack, and peeked into the courtyard, which surprised them.

Because at this moment, in addition to Daddy Ye in the yard, it is really just Ye Qing, and it is Ye Qing who makes Daddy Ye angry!

When the brothers were in shock, they heard Chen's voice from the direction of the stove: "Ouch, old man, if you have something to say, what is the roar!" Look what you scared the baby into! ”

This is to surprise Chen, who is preparing dinner in the stove room, and is playing a round.

Soon the Wu family also came out of the stove room, although he didn't know what was going on, he only glanced at the situation of the grandfather and grandson in the courtyard, one was angry, the other hung his head and said nothing, he didn't need to guess to know that Ye Qing must have annoyed Daddy Ye.

At this time, the Wu family couldn't play a round like the Chen family, and I saw her slap Ye Qing's shoulder and scolded: "What did you do to make your grandfather angry, don't you hurry up and apologize to your grandfather!" ”

Being interrupted by Chen's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law like this, Father Ye seemed to calm down a little, only to see him drag a bamboo chair and sit down in the courtyard, take out a cigarette and smoke it, just look at the frequency of his smoking to know that his mood is still very uncalm at the moment.

Seeing Daddy Ye sitting in the yard smoking like this, Chen felt sorry for Daddy Ye and was worried that Daddy Ye's body couldn't stand it, so he persuaded him with good words: "What do you have to say back to the house, don't you feel very cold sitting here?" ”

Father Ye raised his eyelids, but obediently stood up on the back of the chair, turned over the ground for a day, even if he was pulling the plow, he was still sore, and he should really go back to the house and crook on the hot kang for a while.

But seeing Ye Qing who was still clubbing in the yard, the anger in Father Ye's heart rose again.

What did he work so hard for, he didn't want to make more money and give their brothers a good environment to study with peace of mind, but as a result, Ye Qing actually came to tell him that he didn't want to continue studying and wanted to work in the fields!

Biting the cigarette holder and staring at Ye Qing silently for a moment, Daddy Ye finally suppressed the fire in his heart.

Ye Qing has always cherished the opportunity to read, at the beginning, the family conditions were so poor, he would still find time to read and practice calligraphy, now that the family has the conditions for him to study, why don't he read?

Thinking of this, Father Ye felt that he was too impatient just now, and there was always a reason why Ye Qing didn't want to continue studying.

When Daddy Ye figured out what Ye Qing really thought in his heart, he really didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

In the past two days, Father Ye and Ye Damin are really tired of becoming dogs, and he is also thinking about the lack of labor at home.

If it weren't for the business of bean sprouts, the brothers Qi Zhenxing and Qi Zhenfei could be brought to Houwu Village to work for a few days.

It's just that now Qi Gui's family has to manage both Zhuangzi and the business of bean sprouts, and Qi Gui has to lead people to reclaim the mountains, and Daddy Ye really can't bear to take people from Zhuangzi anymore.

Of course, Daddy Ye also thought about hiring labor in Houwu Village and nearby, but when the earth thawed, every household was preparing for spring ploughing.

Although the grape cuttings cut back from the Lin family last year were only enough to cut half of the ground at most, he had already discovered a few days ago that many of the seedlings that Lin Wan had raised were grape seedlings, and there were also seedlings that he didn't know.

No matter what those seedlings would grow into in the end, Father Ye planned to plant these seedlings raised by Lin Wan into the ground.

In this way, there must be overlap with the spring ploughing of farmers, and it is more difficult to invite artificial nature.

But even so, Father Ye never intended to let the Ye Qing brothers suspend their studies and go to the field to help, not because they were reluctant to be affected, but because he hoped that they could study with peace of mind, so as not to let his hopes go to waste.

When Ye Damin came back from the field with an ox on his back and a plow, he heard about Ye Qing's matter, and his heart was sore and painful.

To be honest, Ye Damin has been very tired in the past few days, but seeing that Daddy Ye has to do the same work as him at such an age, he has to continue to work, and he has to take care of Daddy Ye, so he can't let the old man really damage his body, just like today is to let Daddy Ye come back more than half an hour early.