"Sister, what's wrong with you, wake up, wake up."

"What's wrong with me?" After Huang Yiyun was woken up by the second sister, his eyes were still a little confused.

"Eldest sister, are you having a nightmare and crying?" The second sister said with some worry.

"It's fine. Don't talk to your parents tomorrow, lest they worry. Huang Yiyun looked at the color outside, and after seeing that it was dark, Huang Yiyun said in a somewhat depressed mood.

The things that I didn't want to think about because I was sealed in the bottom corner of my heart, wandered around at midnight tonight, and dreamed of Mo Chenyi.

When he broke his leg, how did he walk, without saying goodbye, and there has been no news since then?

When you wake up from a dream, open your eyes until they are bright.

Yesterday, the Huang family came back late, and they were tired again, and when they woke up, they all had breakfast.

After Huang Li also made breakfast, others also woke up one after another, began to wash up, and ate breakfast.

After eating breakfast, Huang Congjiang took out the bag of money.

By the way, he also took a handful of straw rope out, asked the family to count the money, counted a hundred copper plates and strung them into a hanging coin, tied them up, and put them aside.

Counting money is the fourth brother, fifth sister, sixth sister and seventh brother, their favorite thing to do.

Let them count from one to a hundred, either one or two less or one or two more, so Huang Yiyun let them have dozens of copper plates in a pile, dozens of piles of ten copper plates, is a hanging of money, in this way, counting a ten, is simple and not complicated, and there will be no mistakes.

The Huang family gathered around the hall to count the money, stringing it into a hanging money, and it only took a quarter of an hour before and after.

All the copper plates earned from selling lotus lanterns yesterday were strung together to hang the money.

"Yesterday, we made nineteen taels of silver and three dollars." In the end, after stringing all the copper plates into a hanging coin, Huang Congjiang collected the money and counted it twice.

"So much." Huang Li knew from a few babies early in the morning that yesterday's family sold lotus lanterns in a good business, and the selling price was high, knowing that he made a lot of money yesterday, he didn't expect to make so much, which was somewhat unexpected.

"This is not thanks to the eldest sister, the names of these lotus lanterns are good, and the meaning is good, so there are more people who come to our house to buy lotus lanterns.

Also, the lotus pendant woven by the third sister is also selling very well, but it is not enough to sell? If there were more, we would be able to sell them? Huang Jiang said.

Huang Pingcheng on the side couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, when he saw the third sister weaving the lotus pendant before, he originally wanted to say a few words, if weaving is useless, fortunately no, otherwise less weaving, not only will he make less money, but he will also have to slap his face?

"Now that the money is enough, after we build our new home, the house we live in now will also be built together, and all of them will be fenced off together." Huang Li's heart quickly calculated, his family had saved forty-nine taels of silver before, plus the nineteen taels of silver here now, there would be sixty-eight taels of silver.

The money to build a house is more than enough, and there is still a lot left, and the remaining money can just build the house where they live now, even if the eldest and the second child are separated in the future, it just happens that the two of them have a house for each person.

May passed, and June came.

In June, the rice planted in the paddy field has already been filled, and the rice stalks slowly hang down, bow their heads, flutter in the wind, and the rice gradually turns yellow.

By the end of June, the rice can be harvested.

The Huang family only planted one acre of rice this year, and when it was ready to be harvested, the Huang family had a lot of rice, and they harvested the rice in one effort.

After the rice is harvested, the Huang family first threshes the rice, and then dries it in the sun, and then selects the seeds for next year, and the others can be husked and used for their own consumption.

Threshing is one of the heaviest farm tasks of ancient families.

Because there was no machinery in ancient times, threshing was all done by hand-beating or kneading down the rice.

After beating or rubbing it off, it should be exposed to the sun to dry.

As for shelling, it is also more cumbersome.

A tool called a "hus" is used, which functions similarly to a stone mill, grinding rice grains back and forth to remove the husks.

After the rice is husked back and forth, it will be crushed to reveal the rice grains, which can be crushed or whole.

If the whole and broken rice grains are picked out and then sold to the grain store, the price difference between these two is quite large.

The Huang family finished cutting the rice as soon as they could, but it took a full five years to thresh.

This is still the Huang family, plus only one acre of rice is planted.

This year, the lord appreciates the face, the wind and rain are smooth, it is a bumper harvest, and the Huang family's one acre of paddy field has harvested nearly five stones of rice.

After the rice is threshed, the Huang family spreads the rice in their own yard, and after it is exposed to the sun, they pick out the seed kernels, of course, next year the Huang family plans to plant another two acres of land, and the selected seed kernels have picked out one stone, and there are four stones left.

When Huang Li saw this, he asked Huang Congjiang to take out a stone of rice, take it to the village to hull the rice, use it for his own food, and store the rest in the warehouse.

There is surplus food at home, there is no panic in the heart, and the Huang family still has a lot of money, for a while, the Huang family is full of morale and full of confidence and hope for the future life.

At this time, the time is also more than half of July.

Most of the paddy fields in the homes of the villagers in Qingshan Village have been harvested with rice, and all that remains is threshing and exposure to the sun, selecting the seed kernels, collecting them in the warehouse, and when the yamen pays the tax, they will be carried to the town and county government to pay the tax.

this day.

"Uncle, you're here, come in and sit. Uncle, you're done with the work in your field. After Huang Yiyun saw that Village Chief Zhang was from home, he hurriedly greeted him in and asked.

"Yesterday, all the grains have been shed, and after two days of exposure, your Uncle Daozi will send it to you, Brother Congjiang, didn't you want to build a house with your family a few days ago?

Now that the rice in the paddy fields in the village has been harvested, it is the time for idle farmers, we can also start to build a house for your family, let's gather people, buy good bricks and tiles, these two days, how about starting to break ground? ”

"Cheng, village chief, you can just look at it. It's just that where to buy these green bricks and tiles still needs the guidance of the village chief, and as for the manpower, the village chief has to be busy. Huang Congjiang said.

"Green bricks and tiles, your family can go directly to the Wu family in the town to buy, their burned green bricks and tiles are good and cheap, and the green bricks and tiles in our village are almost all bought by their family.

Moreover, buy their green bricks and tiles, you can also package home delivery, saving us a lot of effort, as for how many green bricks and tiles your family wants to buy, your family looks at it, but we can buy a small amount first, if it is not enough, we will buy it again.

As for manpower, the eldest of my family, the second child, and the third child can all come, the three fathers and sons of the Liu family can also come, the three brothers of the Xu family, and five more people have been found, plus the two of you brothers, seventeen people are busy, and the house can be built in about ten and a half months. Village Chief Zhang estimated and said.