Lin Wan understood that Ye Shen was asking her to continue, and he was very cooperative, Xie Huang had indeed said something similar, so he followed Ye Shen's words and said, "Second Uncle Xie said that he wanted to ...... It is necessary to combine work and rest. ”

"Yes, yes, that's what Second Uncle Xie said, you should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest when studying." Ye Shen nodded again and again.

Father Ye frowned slightly, looked at Ye Shen and then at Lin Wan, and saw that the two children were serious, and such words were obviously not something that two four or five-year-old children could make up by themselves.

Obviously, Xie Huang really taught them this!

The combination of work and rest, yes, whether it is hard or brain, it is true that work and rest must be combined.

In the end, he was still swayed by the events of the Mid-Autumn Festival night, and he was impatient!

The grandchildren are still young, even the eldest Ye Qing is only twelve years old, and the time for serious study is still very short.

Even if the Ye family becomes a cultivator, Ye Qing and Ye Zhan are still farmers, can they really keep them from farming for the rest of their lives?!

Daddy Ye's mind was clear, Ye Zhan naturally kept the task of mowing the grass, and of course he was also taught a lesson by Ye Damin's good life that night, so that he could understand some of Daddy Ye's thoughts, restrain his temperament, and spend more time on reading.

Although Ye Zhan is still out of temperament today, he is already interested in reading, and he has listened to Ye Damin in his heart, and since then, he has naturally worked a little harder in reading, but it is not in vain for Daddy Ye's thoughts.

For his grandson's sensibility, Father Ye is naturally very pleased, and he will continue to urge his grandchildren to study hard, but more attention will be put back on economic development.

The balance of the wine had been settled on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the family suddenly had a few hundred taels of silver.

A few hundred taels of silver is naturally not good to put at home like this, Father Ye plans to buy some more land, but he doesn't plan to buy any more fertile land, after thinking twice, he decided to buy the remaining land on the slope of Hongfeng Village to plant grapes first.

The soil of this slope is thinner, but it is not impossible to save, but people have to suffer some hardship, but before they relied on manpower and shoulders to transform seven or eight acres of slope land, and now there is a donkey cart at home, and it will not be as hard as before to go to the river to pull silt.

But before that, there is another thing that is more important than buying land and clearing wasteland, that is, collecting rent and paying land tax after the autumn harvest.

Originally, this matter only needed to be handed over to Qi Zhuangtou to do, and Qi Zhuangtou was a capable person and quite reliable.

But considering that this was the first time that the Ye family had collected rent and paid field tax, Father Ye still decided to take Ye Damin to Zhuangzi to live for a few days, and personally stared at Qi Zhuangtou to complete this matter before he could rest assured.

This year, the area around Qingzhou Mansion is relatively dry, but fortunately, the Zhuangzi of the Ye family is close to the river, and there is no shortage of water for irrigation, and there is a good village head to manage, and Qi Anhe helps to keep an eye on it, although the drought has some impact on the harvest of rice this season, it is generally not bad.

According to Zhuangtou, the loss of the Ye family's yield per mu is not large, only less than 10% less than last year.

This Zhuangzi has a total of 77 acres of fertile land, all of which are planted with rice; Fifteen acres of sandy land are planted with corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

This year, the method and proportion of rent collection are the same as in the past, and the average yield per mu of the five acres of land planted by Zhuangtou is 70% rent.

The Ye family only harvested 15,000 catties of rice in the autumn harvest season, as well as 800 catties of corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

After the autumn harvest, the problem is to pay the land tax to the government.

The field tax of Dayu Country is quite reasonable, and after paying the field tax, looking at the two warehouses full of grain, Father Ye is very satisfied!

With so much food, his family will definitely not be able to eat it, and after full consideration, Father Ye plans to keep half of it and sell half of it.

"Dad, wouldn't it be too much to keep half of so much food? One meal of rice is enough for our family for two years. Ye Damin naturally had a number of rents in his heart, and when he learned about Father Ye's plan, he had some doubts in his heart.

Father Ye glanced at Ye Damin, although he sighed in his heart, he still explained to him carefully: "We can't guarantee that there will be this year's harvest next year, so we can be sure if we have more food." The rest of the food is not going to stay here like this, you have to work harder these days, and come and transport a cart home every day. By the way, there shouldn't be much life left in the field, if An He is free, let An He be with you. ”

Ye Damin nodded and said, "An He asked me today, but there is something he can help with." He must also want to bring back the grain he has received. ”

Although the five acres of land in Qi Anhe's hands still have to deduct the grain paid by the Ye family to the former tenants in advance, Qi Anhe still got hundreds of catties, which is about to exceed the harvest of the two acres of land in the Qi family's Hongfeng Village after paying the field tax.

In the past few days, I have been busy cleaning up the five acres of land, wondering if I can plant something more before planting wheat, which can not only increase the income of the Ye family, but also naturally increase my own income.

Ye Damin's father Ye Damin told Qi An and don't toss, let him help Ye Damin transport grain, there is still something in Hongfeng Village that needs his help.

In this area of Qingzhou Prefecture, two crops are generally planted, one season of wheat and one season of rice, and now although there is still some time before the wheat is planted, nothing can be planted.

Father Ye is going to make a time difference and dig a larger cellar in the backyard of the Banpo courtyard in Hongfeng Village.

Originally, he planned to build two more rooms, one for wine storage and one for grain, but after seeing Ye Shen and Lin Wan bury a small jar of wine under the tree, he suddenly changed his mind.

Wine should be stored in the shade to last longer, and the cellar should be a good place to store wine.

With a cellar, you can also store other things, such as Chinese cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.

Digging a cellar is not a simple project, but it takes a lot of time.

Of course, you can ask someone to help, but Daddy Ye doesn't want more people to know his secrets, so Qi Anhe has become the best helper.

On the day of paying the field tax, Father Ye gave Qi Zhuang the first explanation, and then returned to Hongfeng Village with Ye Damin and Qi Anhe with a donkey cart of grain.

Half of this donkey cart of grain belongs to the Ye family, and half is Qi Anhe's.

The cellar on the half-slope was not easy to dig, and after trying several places, I could only dig two feet down at most before I encountered rocks, and then I could no longer dig it.

Helplessly, Father Ye had to find a place again, and after looking for it, he really found a place that seemed to be quite suitable.

It's just that this place is not within the boundaries of the Ye family, so Father Ye went to Village Chief Xie to buy all this small hillside.

After the autumn harvest, the old village chief really handed over the village chief to Xie Hui.

On the day when the village meeting was announced, Father Ye and Ye Damin happened to be busy in Zhuangzi and were not at home, and it was the meeting attended by the Chen family on behalf of the Ye family, and it is said that the Xie family ancestral hall was very lively that day.

So the person that Daddy Ye was looking for this time naturally became the newly appointed village chief Xie Hui, but the old village chief was sitting on the kang.