Chapter 167: Envy
An ox to plow the land is much faster than an adult man carrying a plow on his back, although Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan only rented this cow for half a day, they spent twenty-five yuan.
In other words, it takes 50 yuan a day to rent a cow.
Because the productivity here is backward, and cattle, as a particularly important production labor, have a very high status, and they are directly controlled by the government, and they are not allowed to be slaughtered at will.
Unless the cow is sick, old, and no longer able to do any work, the cow can only be slaughtered with the approval of the government.
There was only one cow in Liuye Village, and Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan didn't go elsewhere to rent a cow, so they rented it directly from Du Tiezhuo.
Everyone else in Liuye Village was reluctant to spend so much money to rent cattle, and everyone was also working on the seedling field, and they were very envious when they saw Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan renting cattle.
Gu Ruoniu and Gu Ruoshu were also reluctant to spend this money, they all carried the plow on their backs to plough the fields, and their respective daughters-in-law supported the plow behind.
As soon as Gu Ruohan and Li Zijing used a good cow here, they saw that it was not time to return the cow to Du Tiezhuan, so they gave the cow to Gu Ruoniu and Gu Ruoshu.
Gu Ruoniu and Gu Ruoshu were very grateful and happy.
Although the seedling field was small, Gu Ruohan and Li Zijing had to sow early rice seeds on the seedling field for a whole day.
It will take some time for the seeds to germinate and grow into seedlings for transplanting, and during this time, Gu Ruohan tidied up their newly built fence yard, got a vegetable garden and planted vegetables, and built a chicken shed that is not too big or small, and the chickens and ducks they got when they split up before were all casually locked in a cage.
Even, Gu Ruohan went to the town several times.
If nothing else, just buy delicious food and come back to replenish Li Bauhinia's body.
felt that the chickens and ducks at home were all big, so Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan bought some chickens and ducklings and raised them together in the chicken shed.
When the two and a half acres of paddy fields were all planted with early rice seedlings, Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan were busy planting one acre of peanuts, one peanut is good, and Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan were busy planting one acre of sweet potatoes, and other sweet potatoes are good, and it is already April 12.
Life is hectic, but it's fulfilling.
The fields were all planted, and Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan were finally not so busy.
And the sweet potato planted on the second day, the county's pottery shop sent someone to send them the 'tile slip', it took more than two months, the 'tile slip' was quite large, it was the size that Li Bauhinia wanted, Li Zijing carefully checked the 'tile slip', and saw that the firing was particularly good, so he asked the person in the shop to move the things to the utility room for her.
The utility room has been cleaned up by Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan, and there is only one shelf for placing the 'tile slip' inside, and as soon as those people carefully moved the 'tile slip' in, they put the 'tile slip' on the shelf according to Li Zijing's meaning.
The people in the county sent Li Bauhinia such a big object as 'tile slip', and naturally someone in the village saw it, and many people came to ask Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan curiously-
"What are you doing with such a big funnel?"
This 'tile slip' is actually a large pottery funnel, wide at the top and sharp at the bottom, with a small hole at the bottom, but Li Zijing just smiled politely, and didn't say what it was for at all.
If you don't say it, the topic ends like that; But if you say, people will ask more.
And she didn't want to tell these people how to make sugar.
If everyone knows how to make white sugar, then how can she make money from this?