This year, because Ye has a body and a surprisingly large belly, the labor force is limited. Chen Qianshan came to help for two days, but then his family also started to farm, so he didn't come back.

Later, it was Chen Jida and the Zhu family who rushed over to help get the corn cob for two days after they took it home, and Chen Jixing's family moved all this year's corn home.

Ye couldn't stand the heat and fatigue in the field, but threshing at home was no problem. In addition, she rests for a while and takes care of all the housework at home.

Rao is like this, with the addition of the chicken bus, and the help of others to break the corn cob, it has been half a month since the family worked together to threshh all the corn that was taken back to the house.

In the past half a month, in order to take advantage of the good weather to quickly dry the corn and put it in the warehouse, Chen Jixing often worked alone until midnight.

Seeing this, Ye Feng regretted that he was not a science and engineering graduate, otherwise, it would be great if he could invent a thresher. Efficiency alone is not comparable to manual work. It is too time-consuming to take off one grain at a time by hand.

During this time, his and Qianyan's palms have always been red, and they have been ground by corn cobs.

However, the hard work of these days is also worth it, and in the following year, whether it is eating and drinking, selling grain for money, or even feeding chickens, we will rely on these corns. And no matter how hard it is, it's just sitting in the hall and not having to carry the sun over the mountain.

On this day, Chen Jixing and Ye Feng leveled the ground in the backyard again, and then began to lay out bamboo mats and prepare to dry corn. It's just that this year's corn harvest is not enough to dry in the backyard alone.

In addition to this, you also need to carry the bamboo mat to other places to dry.

After drying all the backyards, Ye Feng followed behind Chen Jixing, who was carrying corn, with a bamboo mat, and walked towards the courtyard dam not far from the ancestral hall. While walking, Ye Feng moved his waist and cervical spine.

These days of threshing, the basic posture is to hang his head and bend over, Ye Feng only feels that his waist is about to break.

Fortunately, the sky is beautiful, and the sun is shining again, which is suitable for drying corn. When he arrived at the courtyard dam, Ye Feng hurriedly put down the bamboo mat and began to lay it.

Wealthy families in the village generally set out a piece of land in their backyard or front yard to dry grain, which is very convenient and does not need to be moved in and out.

However, most of the families are the same as Chen Jixing's family, and there is no special place to dry grain.

For this reason, the village has laid a public place, which can be used by anyone, that is, the place in front of the villagers called "courtyard dam". It is paved with bluestone slabs, about several acres of land wide, and polished to a very smooth surface, which is most suitable for drying grain.

When Ye Feng laid the bamboo mat, he found that several other families had come early and had already occupied a good position. Although it is all paved with stone slabs, some places are next to the woods, so the light and heat are naturally not as good as in other places.

However, it is also much better than drying at home or on the grass nearby. The grass is generally uneven, and there is dew in the morning, so it is necessary to spend a little less sun. The dew is also fast at night, and it must be harvested early.

And in the end, it is not as good as the courtyard here, the bamboo mat is close to the ground that is hot by the sun, and the corn dries faster. So, a little bit of location is a little bit worse, it's better than no place at all.

Seeing that Ye Feng had laid out the bamboo mat, Chen Jixing poured the corn on it and made it thin with a tool. In this way, Chen Jixing picked the corn, Ye Feng took the bamboo mat, and then dried it, and repeated it several times, and then all the corn at home was picked out and dried.

In the evening, the two of them came here again, first put the corn into the bamboo basket, wrapped the bamboo mat, Chen Jixing picked the corn, and Ye Feng took the bamboo mat. It took several days and so on until the corn was dried.

Such an experience made Ye Feng have to sigh that it was too inconvenient to have no place to dry grain at home. So, Ye Feng thought that when he built a new house, he must set aside a piece of land at home, pave the slate, and polish it well, so that it can be used for drying grain.

It's convenient, Ye Feng's most annoying thing is that when harvesting corn, those tiny bamboo sticks on the bamboo mat will be pierced into the meat at every turn, which is very prickly, and Ye Shi needs to take an embroidery needle to pick it out.

On that day, all the corn in the house was dried and piled up neatly in the hall. Looking at these sun-dried corns, Chen Jixing smiled.

If you want to say that you have land, it is good, except for the part that pays taxes, the rest is your own.

In the next few days, Chen Jixing asked Chen Jixing to drive the little corn left in the warehouse last year to the city to sell, and took the initiative to pay taxes, so the remaining corn was put into the warehouse.

When he had done this, he went to the field and cut down all the corn stalks, and picked them up one by one. With the addition of corn cobs, the backyard is stuffed to the brim.

As the days go by, Liu's stomach is just fine, decent, after all, there is only one in the stomach, no matter how much Chen makes up for her, that's it.

But Ye's belly was different, it was like a balloon that had been blown up, and it quickly grew up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The fact that Ye is pregnant with twin sons is currently limited to his own family, and after learning the exact news from Dr. Zhang, Ye did not tell the people in the old house. However, there is no need to say such a big belly, and the little daughter-in-law who has given birth to it can know it at a glance.

Therefore, now almost the whole village is saying that the Ye family is a blessed person, maybe God took pity on her before she suffered, and sent her two children when she was old.

Ye Feng, who overheard these rumors, was a little speechless. If Ye's age can be regarded as an old man, then what is Lin's?

A few days later, when the sorghum harvest was finished, and while the potatoes and sweet potatoes could still wait for a while, the family organized a family meeting. The theme of the meeting was that Ye Feng and Ye had been thinking about building a new house for a long time.

Regarding Ye Feng's suggestion to buy a piece of land next to the house where he currently lives to build a house, Chen Jixing and Ye agreed very much. Although there was a little hesitation at the beginning, after listening to Ye Feng's reasoning, the two of them immediately agreed.

Ye Feng's reasons are threefold.

First, if you buy a new piece of land, then when you build a house, the family will still live in the current house, and you don't have to build a shed. This is the case with many of the people who renovated the old houses in the village, and before the new houses were repaired, they just built a shed near the old house to make do with it.

However, Yip's current situation does not allow it. Now that the weather is good, it's good to say, wait for a kind of winter wheat, if the new house has not been repaired, Ye Shi can't produce it in the shed.

The second is that this land is indeed too small now, and it is okay to live in a family of three, but the family is about to usher in two new lives, and there will be a total of six people, including Ye Feng. If it is considered a thousand words, it is a family of seven, and the original land is definitely not enough.

really impressed the two of them, or the third reason.

I only heard Ye Feng say: "Buy the land next to our house, and when the time comes, we can leave the patio wider, polish it, and use it for drying grain." Or, build it directly in the backyard. If it is built, there will be no need to carry food around to find a place to dry in the future. ”

"As for the current yard, it can be rebuilt. If you don't want to, you just need to spend some bricks, build more pigsties, and then build a fence, and still feed the chickens and pigs here. Then, just open a small door between the two courtyards to make it easy to get in and out. ”

Ye Feng's description made Chen Jixing and his family very happy, and through Ye Feng's words, they seemed to have seen what the house would look like after it was built.

Ye Shi said: "I think this is very good, but I didn't think it before, but now I feel uncomfortable when I see those chickens and ducks running all over the yard." To say that this place of residence is separated from the place where chickens and pigs are raised, it is really a lot cleaner. When the new house is built, I should have given birth by then. When I'm done, I'll have to raise one or two hundred chickens. ”

Chen Jixing said: "When the time comes, the ground in our yard will be smoothed, and it will be convenient to dry grain when the farm is busy." Even in normal times, it is easy to walk, and it is good for children to play at that time. ”

Seeing that the two of them were happy, Ye Feng proposed to buy the sloping land above the backyard again: "I made some money by selling flowers last time, and it is more than enough to build a house, so I thought about buying the sloping land behind our house, and it will be convenient for me to plant flowers at that time." ”

Hearing this, Chen Jixing frowned and said, "Buy sloping land? You mean this piece in our backyard? In my opinion, that's a bit of a no-deal. Nothing can grow on it except trees. ”

Although Ye Shi did not make a sound, he was also a little surprised. She knew in her heart that Ye Feng naturally had her own ideas, so she just looked at him and waited for his explanation.

Ye Feng saw that Chen Jixing and Ye were a little hesitant, so he continued: "I don't look at this sloping land, I also asked Qianshan that day, and he said that there are only ten acres of land left and right. Moreover, this land belongs to our village, so it is very convenient to buy and sell. Qianshan said that if you really want to buy it, you will spend at most forty or fifty taels of silver. ”

"Forty or fifty taels of silver can buy a few acres of land." Chen Jixing said.

In this regard, Ye Feng was not annoyed, and continued to explain: "The reason why I want to buy this land is because I want to plant dendrobium in the woods. Sister, brother-in-law, as you know, this dendrobium originally grew in the mountains and forests, and if it is dug up and planted like this, the medicinal effect will be reduced. If Dr. Zhang knew about it, maybe he wouldn't buy it. In addition, I am going to plant something other besides dendrobium, which is covered by trees and is not so dazzling. ”

As soon as Ye Feng said this, Chen Jixing and Ye Shi understood a little.

Now there are only dozens of potted flowers planted at home, and people come to the door from time to time to snoop. At that time, if it is really as Ye Feng said, expand the scale of planting, and then try to plant some rare plants, then the family will not let people step through the threshold.

And as Ye Feng said, the dendrobium originally grew between the mountains and the wilderness. If it is really as Ye Feng said, it can grow better in the woods, maybe it can be sold for a higher price.

But they remembered clearly that the last time the pot was sold for thirty taels of silver. If you plant a large plot in the forest and sell two or three pots at will, the money to buy the sloping land will not come out immediately.

And this silver was originally earned back by Ren Ye Feng. Although they also helped to find flowers and trees and dig them back, Ye Feng was taking care of more of them.

The family deliberated for a while, and then decided on three major events.

First, Chen Jixing came forward to buy the land of about five acres next to the house as a homestead to build a new house, the second was to find Chen Jifa to buy the sloping land, and the third was to find someone to build a new house immediately after completing the title deed.

The family is looking forward to being able to move in before the Chinese New Year, and it will be more convenient for Ye's production at that time. Now this home is too crowded, and sometimes I can't put it in if I want to add some new furniture.

For example, Ye thought that after the birth of his two children, he would have a lot of clothes to store, and when he passed by a carpentry shop on the street that day, he happened to take a fancy to a large wardrobe and had the heart to buy it home.

It's a pity that now the house is not only leaking rain, but also can't let go of it at all, so I have to give up.

Nothing to say for a night.

Early the next morning, Chen Jixing came to the house of the village chief Chen Jifa with the silver to discuss the purchase of land and slopes.

Last night, after Chen Jixing and Ye's popular science, Ye Feng realized that the village chief and clan elders were qualified to buy and sell the land in the village.

As for the money obtained from the sale of land, first, it can be divided equally by the village head, and second, it can be left untouched, and all of it can be handed over to the village chief for safekeeping and used for repairing the ancestral hall.

As long as it is to sell the land in the village, the villagers are naturally willing, because they are happy no matter what kind of use it is. The first one is just a direct benefit, and no one will refuse. The second method is to gain benefits indirectly, because if you don't have this money, you need to collect money from each household when you repair the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall represents the image and face of the entire Chenjia Village, and it is not allowed to be sloppy. If even the ancestral hall is in disrepair and tattered, in the hearts of the villagers, the ancestors will blame it.

Chen Jifa's work in the field has already been done, not because there are many people in his family, or because the two of them are capable, but because his family's land is basically rented out. Since Chen Qianshan was lifted, now the two of them are completely living in the city, with newly bought maids to serve them in their lives, carriages when they go out, and clothes to reach out for food to open their mouths, which is simply the envy of everyone.

The Ye family has always been the leader of the women in the village, whether it is hair accessories, clothing or status. Now, even Chen Jifa has more things at hand, basically he doesn't have to go out, and someone comes to him every day to help him with things.

Seeing Chen Jixing coming, although Chen Jifa did not stand up to greet him, he was polite. To tell the truth, if it weren't for his son's promotion, this Chen Jixing would not be underestimated, and he changed from the poorest household in the village to the current rich family in one fell swoop.

If his new crops are as miraculous as he said, not only him, the village chief, but also his son Chen Qianfan will have the opportunity to get closer.

The maid served tea, but Chen Jixing was not polite, and took a sip when he picked it up. It was so hot that he was tired from walking.

Seeing that Chen Jixing just took a sip, Chen Jifa became more and more confused, you must know that no matter how rich the people in the village came over and drank such a good tea, which one is not the bottom of the drink.

In Chen Qianfan's words, it is not drinking tea, it is drinking cow.

Chen Jixing is somewhat knowledgeable.

What he didn't know was that Chen Jixing's family had already drunk tea, although it was the cheapest kind, and many times it was still mint tea, but drinking tea had become a part of Chen Jixing's family's life.

After drinking tea, Chen Jixing simply explained that he wanted to buy the land next to the house and the sloping land behind the house: "Village chief, you also know that my mother-in-law will give birth in a few months, and it seems that there must be two." If you don't build a house, the family won't be able to live at all. Taking advantage of the good weather now and the time when farming is not busy, I want to build a house as soon as possible, and maybe I can move in before the Chinese New Year. ”

Chen Jixing was not surprised at all that Chen Jixing wanted to buy the land next to his house as a homestead. As the village head, Chen Jixing's family now has money, and this matter cannot be hidden from him.

And as he himself said, he is about to welcome two children in his family, whether it is a son or a daughter, he always needs to build a house.

However, Chen Jifa was a little surprised that Chen Jixing still wanted to buy the sloping land, because he said: "Brother, as the eldest brother, I have to remind you, even if you have silver, it is not spent like this, what is the use of using that sloping land." If there is a shortage of firewood, you can go up the mountain and cut it, but there is no need to buy it. ”

After another sip of tea, he said, "According to me, I really have money to spare, so I might as well buy a few more acres of land." Your family only has ten acres of land now, which is really not much. ”

To be honest, Chen Jifa was able to do this, and he had indeed done his duty. If he changes to someone else, he loves to buy it or not, and he has no obligation to remind him.

Chen Jixing had no choice but to bite the bullet according to the pretext taught by Ye Feng before: "Brother reminded me that this is treating me as his own, and I thank my brother." When the house is built, I must invite the elder brother and the clan elders to have a few drinks. However, we bought this sloping land for other purposes, not for firewood and for farming. Didn't we plant a new crop this year, and if God had mercy on us and could succeed, then next year we would bring the whole village to plant together. ”

Listening to Chen Jixing talk for a long time but before he got to the point, Chen Jifa glanced at him.

Seeing this, Chen Jixing hurriedly went straight to the point: "We bought this sloping land to try to grow new crops. As you know, there are some new crops that we haven't planted before, and we're not sure, but it's just right to plant them on the slopes. If it fails, there is nothing to lose. But if it is planted in the ground, it will be wasted. It's just that this slope is not my family's now, and if I plant something on it, I can't guarantee that no one will make trouble. If I had bought it, it would have been out of the way. ”

When Chen Jifa heard it, this was not the case.

Take Chen Jixing's new crops on eight points of land as an example, if there is no harvest for a day, he will not dare to plant it for a day. Chen Jixing's spirit of self-sacrifice made him unable to say no.

After thinking about it, Chen Jifa said: "That's it, since you want to buy that piece of sloping land, I will make a decision here, and I don't have to go through the clan elders." I know that piece of land, it is exactly ten acres and seven cents, and now I will calculate ten acres for you, and you can give forty taels of silver. As for the homestead you want, it will be counted as thirty taels of silver. Do you think this works? ”

Originally, no one wanted the slope, but Chen Jifa estimated the value and gave a price of forty taels of silver, and no one would object.

Chen Jixing and Ye Feng originally estimated that they would need fifty taels of silver, but when they heard Chen Jifa directly quote the price of forty taels of silver, where is there any reason not to allow it, so they nodded vigorously.

Seeing this, Chen Jifa remembered another matter, because he said: "By the way, your family lives in that house now, but you didn't give any money, and you and your younger siblings just separated, and everyone was not embarrassed to accept your money." So, if you build a new house, you don't want the land, just leave it like that. If they are to be built together, they must be given to the silver. You also know that these need to go to the county to pass the file, and people have to ask. ”

In the end, Chen Jifa will not suffer at all, and his words are beautiful, as if he has made a lot of profits, but he has not made concessions at all.

If you really want to make profits, the land where Chen Jixing's family lives now is just a remote place that no one wants. I think that back then, when Chen Jixing's family built a house, there was no one living in that place except for Chen Jiwanjia and Zhao's family.

Now that Chen Jixing has silver, he has to collect the money.

Chen Jixing didn't mind, he thought about it before he came. As Ye Feng said, if you buy early, you won't have any disputes and troubles. Although he didn't quite believe what Ye Feng said about the price of the land would rise, he spent money to buy the land and hold the land deed in his own hands to be stable.

Thinking of this, Chen Jixing said: "Everything is decided by the eldest brother of the village chief, and the younger brother knows that you will not treat me badly." ”

Chen Jifa said: "Okay, since you believe me, I'll say it directly." Your family's current land is about one acre, and according to the price of the homestead, five taels of silver per acre. Add the piece of land just now, and the sloping land, well, you can give me a total of seventy-five taels. By the way, this does not include the cost of going to the yamen to pass the file. You know, those guys are amazing. Without money to open the way, it is impossible to do anything. Even if it does, it will take you a few months. ”

Chen Jixing didn't understand anything, because he said: "So I have to trouble the village chief to run and help the younger brother." When I went to the Yamen, the younger brother was so frightened that he couldn't speak. In this way, here is eighty taels of silver, I won't go to the clan elder and the yamen, and there are still a lot of things at home. I solemnly entrusted this matter to my brother, and if you want to say that in this village, only you can do this. Again, when the house is built, I will definitely invite the village chief and the elders of the clan to drink wine and eat meat. ”

Chen Jifa was so happy that he was complimented, and he also had a smile on his face. This smile is not a polite laugh, but a real one. First, Chen Jixing's words were ironed to make him comfortable.

Second, today he has benefited.

No one would buy that piece of sloping land even if it was three taels of silver per acre, and it was also needed by people like Chen Jixing who needed to plant flowers, trees, and new crops.

As for going to the Yamen to pass the file, it's just a matter of one or two silver.

Before the change, it really needs to be dotted, and it also needs two or three taels of silver. However, now that his son is a lifter, he is also registered in the yamen, who doesn't give him some face.

Chen Qianfan's grades are high, and he continues to study in the academy, preparing to take the big exam in the future. If it is blessed by the ancestors, it can really go further, and what is the official who does things.

Chen Jifa was complimented by the benefits, and Chen Jixing's family also got things done. came and went, but everyone was happy.

As soon as Chen Jixing went home, he told him about today's events, and his embarrassed expression made Ye Feng and Ye laugh for a while.

Indeed, Chen Jixing can be regarded as a super-level performance today, although those words were taught to him by the Ye family in advance, but he must be able to say them in front of Chen Jifa. With Chen Jixing's wooden temperament, it is not easy to coax Chen Jifa well.

Ye Feng felt that Chen Jixing still had talent to dig into.

Perhaps in the future, if the family buys an ox cart or horse-drawn cart, Chen Jixing can drive back and forth between Chenjia Village and Taojia Village, selling some pottery that every household uses, or high-end porcelain, so as to earn the price difference.

I don't know if Chen Jixing gave enough silver, or if the official did give Chen Qianfan face, in short, Chen Jixing's family bought land surprisingly smoothly.

In just three days, Chen Jixing successfully got the title deed. The two of them are happy, and they feel like the landlords.

Although the family did not buy enough land, they could be regarded as small landlords in Chenjia Village. This made Ye Shi feel a little emotional, and felt that the two children in his belly were lucky stars, bringing so many blessings to the family.

At the same time, I feel that these two children are blessed, as long as they are born, not to mention what they eat, but there is no problem at all with warm clothing and food.