After a few days, Ye and Chen Jixing were not obvious, they were used to doing it after all, but Ye Feng was not only thin, but also darkened.

After harvesting the corn cob, Ye took his two children to work at home, and Chen Jixing was not idle, and went to the field with a knife.

He had to cut down the corn stalks in time, take them out and bundle them, pick them up and put them under the eaves in the backyard to dry.

On the one hand, the corn stalks can be cut to bring out the sweet potatoes and potatoes, and while the weather is good during this time, it may be possible to increase the yield a little if it grows for a while.

On the other hand, these corn stalks make excellent matches, and when they are dry, they are also good to use as firewood.

While working, Ye said to Ye Feng: "This year, it's really hard for you." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the piles of corn cobs in the hall, "If it were changed to previous years, it would not be harvested in more than ten days, but this year it will be harvested in only six days, and it is all your credit." When I'm done with this, my sister will make you dumplings to eat. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng smiled, but pouted in a thousand words: "Mother, there is still me, and there is me." ”

"Okay, good, and you, you're the most capable."

Although Chen Jixing is not here, if he is, he will agree with Ye's words.

In the past, I was just envious of other people's families for collecting them in a timely manner, but this year, my own family is just as fast. At the current rate, in a few days, this year's corn will be fully threshed.

When everything is dried and the rent is paid, you can enter the warehouse.

I have to say that Ye Feng's kid is really good, a half-grown kid like him in the village will only go to the field when he is half-coaxed and half-frightened.

But Ye Feng has always been diligent and hardworking. He has an indescribable affection for such a child.

Now many people in the village also give a thumbs up when they talk about Ye Feng, compared with Ye Feng, children of the same age are too playful.

When the corn of each household was almost dried, the rich man Zhao took the account books and went door to door to calculate the rent.

It's not that he can't wait, and the corn comes to settle accounts before it is dried, but this has always been the norm. What's more, he is kind-hearted and calculates the rent according to the output, so he has to calculate the rent before the grain is put into the warehouse.

Now that the accounts are settled, the villagers will have a spectrum in their hearts, and they can set aside the rent to be paid in advance. As for the rest, whether it is sold for silver or stored in the warehouse, you can plan in advance.

It is estimated that a generous landlord like Zhao Dacai is difficult to find in the whole country. Why do you say this, because he calculates the rent according to the actual harvest, and is not like some black-hearted landlords, regardless of whether the harvest is good or not, they all say in advance that they will be collected in proportion.

The benefits of this will naturally not be reflected in the smooth years. And in the event of a natural disaster, the crop yield is reduced, and the benefits of this are manifested.

Counting one by one, when it was Chen Jixing's turn, there were only a few beds of corn left in the mat that had not been dried.

The rest were packed in bamboo baskets by Chen Jixing and Ye and placed in the hall.

I have to say that Chen Jixing's harvest this year is very good, Zhao Dacai and Chen Jixing spent a long time together to estimate the possible output this year, and calculated the rent that should be paid, as soon as the results came out, Zhao Dacai found that the rent he should collect in Chen Jixing's house was one and a half times more than he went.

This made the rich man Zhao very surprised.

You know, that's a lot of corn in half of that. If it is ground into powder, it can be eaten by a family of three like Chen Jixing for several months.

At the beginning, Chen Jixing only didn't believe it, afraid that Zhao Dacai would miscalculate.

As a result, the rich man Zhao picked up a few corn cobs that Chen Jixing's family had not had time to thresh and was about to take to feed the chickens, and then said, "It's not wrong." You see, your corn cob is at least two inches longer than other people's corn cobs. Moreover, it is fuller. By the way, I also heard that your corn still bears three? ”

Hearing this, Chen Jixing had the bottom in his heart. Anyway, it's just an estimate now, and in the end, the rent will have to be determined according to the actual harvest.

"Yes, some corn stalks do have three cobs on them. However, that's not much, maybe one out of ten. ”

"Where did you buy your corn seeds?"

The rich man Zhao was surprised, and felt that Chen Jixing's corn seeds might be different from everyone's. He had heard the saying that different seeds had different yields.

Maybe Chen Jixing's family bought that excellent variety.

"That's not true, the seeds were bought by everyone in the county office. Our family is just fertilizing diligently, and interplanting again, I think that's the reason. ”

"Anyway, your family's harvest this year is really the best in the village. Aside from this corn, I think the sweet potatoes and potatoes are not growing badly. ”

On the way to the scene, he went to see it on the spot, and then he believed what the villagers said. You know, it's a harvest that you picked up for nothing.

After a few more days, when the corn kernels were completely dried, Chen Jixing notified the rich man Zhao in advance to come to collect the rent.

Although this rich man Zhao is kind-hearted, he is definitely not a master who is easy to fool.

He pioneered this method of collecting rent according to the actual harvest, which was entirely for the sake of everyone being acquaintances, but unexpectedly some people were unkind and hid part of the harvest in advance, hoping to reduce the amount of rent paid.

As a result, I don't know how he found out, anyway, he directly waived the lease with that family, and the family who regretted it regretted it. After all, a good landlord like Zhao Dacai is really hard to find with a lantern.

After all, the rich man Zhao has experienced a lot, and he is not polite to Chen Jixing, first he took all the corn in the house into bamboo baskets, and then only weighed the weight of one bamboo basket, and then weighed the rest, plus the number of bamboo baskets, and roughly came up with a number.

Then, according to the rules of the past few years, 30% of the rent was collected.

In front of everyone, he weighed the corn that had been harvested, and sure enough, it was about one and a half times more than in previous years.

And the remaining corn of Chen Jixing's family is nearly 20% more than in previous years.

Looking at these sun-dried corns, Chen Jixing and Ye really rejoiced from the bottom of their hearts. If it was just an estimate before, then it is real now.

Thinking of this, Chen Jixing only felt that life was getting more and more hopeful, and he was full of inexhaustible energy. It seems that the pot of flowers really brought hope to this family.

After paying the rent, some people in the village began to carry this year's corn to the city to exchange for silver. Chen Jixing's family was not in a hurry to go to the city to sell corn, but they left a hundred catties to grind noodles, and the rest were collected in the warehouse.

Most of the people who sell corn now are really short of money at home. Otherwise, ordinary people would not choose to sell corn at this time.

Now is the time when a large amount of corn enters the market, and the price is naturally not high. If you can wait until next year's green and yellow crops to sell, a pound of corn can be sold for two more dollars.

However, if the family is waiting for the silver, there is no way to do it. Take Chen Jixing's family as an example, it was the same in the past, life was tight, and he could only wait for the corn to be harvested and sold in the city.

But this year is a little different, not to mention that there are more than ten taels of silver to sell flowers at home, just selling the oily pigs and dozens of chickens and ducks in the pigsty is enough for a family to live for a year.

Therefore, he will never sell corn so early this year, and besides, there is no need for this.

After doing this, Chen Jixing began to harvest sorghum again.

Chen Jixing's family does not grow much sorghum, and it is not as troublesome to harvest sorghum as corn, so he did not ask Ye Feng to participate. And they always vaguely felt that Ye Feng seemed to hate this sorghum, but they didn't know why.

Actually, they were not mistaken, Ye Feng really hated coarse grains like sorghum rice. At first, he didn't know it, so he ate it for a few days. As a result, he let out an earth-shattering scream while squatting in the pit, and from then on he would rather drink soup than eat this thing again.

It's a real feeling, it's hard to put into words.

Ye and Chen Jixing took a knife to cut the sorghum ears, picked them home and crushed them with a mill, dried them, paid rent, and put them into the warehouse, which was simply done in one go.

After doing this, all that is left in the field is potatoes and sweet potatoes. But in terms of growth, it is obvious that it will take some time to harvest.

As soon as the corn stalks were cut, the ground was lit up. However, everyone's land is bare, but Chen Jixing's field still has sweet potatoes and potatoes that are growing well, and it seems that they will be harvested in another ten days, and there is no delay in planting winter wheat.

Before, there was corn to cover it, although everyone knew about it, but it was not visible. Now that the corn stalks are gone, Chen Jixing's sweet potatoes and potatoes stand out in a large expanse of empty fields.

At this time, everyone began to regret that not only did they not follow the learning, but also laughed at others for being stupid. But the Zhao family, a widow, has this kind of courage and planted it together.

Now it seems that the real stupidity is yourself.

However, they didn't know that the really powerful crops of the Chen family were not these sweet potatoes, potatoes, or corn, but the peanuts in the four bamboo baskets in the backyard of the Chen family.

It was supposed to be a happy thing. However, in the past few days, the Huang family and the Zhu family have always come to the Ye family's house to hang out, which makes people very uncomfortable.

In the early years, with the money given by the Wu family, the Chen family bought a total of ten acres of land, which was obviously not enough for the whole family to eat, so they rented another ten acres of land to plant.

Because of the large number of people, it has already been harvested. And the reason why they came here to hang out was just because they felt that the Ye family would definitely buy some delicious food to make tooth sacrifices and improve their food.

It is best to have the white flour dumplings and braised pork from last time, which the whole family loves to eat.

Who knows, Ye has no such plan, how to live his life, it is still sorghum flour cakes and pickles, and there is nothing special about it.

The Zhu family is okay, but the Huang family sees that the autumn wind can't be achieved, so they always want to go into the courtyard to have a look. The Ye family didn't know what's wrong, they always looked like they were rejecting people thousands of miles away, and they didn't plan to invite them into the courtyard to sit.

And the more this happened, the more suspicious she became.

After thinking about it, Huang deliberately said: "Brother and sister, speaking of which, we are the flesh and blood of our relatives, you say that you have such a good method and experience, and don't tell us, otherwise, we can also collect a little more food." ”

I have to say that this is a bit excessive.

Chen Jixing and Ye didn't want to hide it from everyone, no matter who asked, they said it directly. And Chen Jixing also went to the door to tell Chen Jiwang and Chen Jida about this method, but people just don't believe it, he can't force people to plant with him, right?

Huang's is typically looking for fault.

Seeing that the Ye family seemed a little unhappy, the Huang family immediately played a round for himself again, and in the end, it was easy to say that he had entered the courtyard in the end.

Look east, look west, and see if you smell meat.

It's just that when he saw the fat pigs in the circle, Huang's eyes were straight. Such a fat pig will definitely be able to sell for a good price.

The most important thing is that the Ye family is holding all this silver alone, unlike her, there is no freedom at all in this regard.

Then she went to the backyard where Ye didn't want her to go.

Huang first saw the red fruit tree, thought it was beautiful, and loved it so much that he wanted to go back, because he said: "Yo, what kind of flower is this, it's so beautiful, brother and sister, can you give this to me?" I took it home and planted it in the yard, and my mother must like it too. ”

She had only recently heard that before the autumn harvest, the family had carried a pot of beautiful flowers to the market, and had successfully sold them, and she didn't know how much money she had gotten. If Ye agreed, she would turn around and sell it.

"This can't be done, this is my younger brother Ye Feng's, you know, he likes to make these flowers and plants, I can't be the master, this kid has a weird temper."

Seeing that the Huang family actually hit the idea here, Ye Shi was a little angry for a while.

When Ye said this, Huang immediately remembered Ye Feng's previous tricks on himself, this kid, that is called a sharp-toothed and sharp-mouthed person, he can't afford to provoke him at all.

So I didn't mention it anymore.

Then, she saw peanuts again.

"Yo, brother and sister, what is planted in this bamboo basket, you see that the leaves are almost yellow, can you collect them?"

As he spoke, he wanted to go over and pull one up and take a look.

Ye Shi was very anxious in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, he just said lightly: "This, it's just the wild flowers that Qianyan and Ye Feng dug up on the mountain for fun." I don't know what it is, but it looks like I can feed chickens. ”

Huang was originally a little skeptical, but seeing that Ye didn't care, he didn't look at peanuts.

Seeing that she finally stopped paying attention to peanuts, Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and at the same time thought in his heart, fortunately, this immortal fruit grows in the mud, if it grows outside like an ordinary fruit, then today is really not a good end.

finally sent Huang away, Ye was already too tired to do anything, and he drank a bowl of water in one breath to calm down.

Rather than deal with the Huang family, she would rather choose to go to the field to do farm work.

At dinner in the evening, Ye told the family about the things during the day.

Hearing this, Ye Feng was a little surprised, because the Huang clan had always been reluctant to step here. Her house is a big brick house, and this yard is just a mud-walled thatched house, which she has always looked down on.

However, the peanut story must not be known to anyone. After all, this is just the beginning, and the year after next year will be the key.

Fortunately, in the past few days, the peanut seedlings have obviously begun to wither, and Ye Feng estimates that they are almost ready to be harvested. It is not good to harvest too early, because peanuts are not fully ripe, and it is okay to eat them, but they cannot be used as seeds.

Of course, it is not good to harvest too late, and if there are buds, even if you eat them, it will affect the taste.

A few more days passed, and it was a sunny day, and the weather was very good. After lunch, Ye Feng called the family to prepare to harvest the peanuts.

The reason why I chose it at noon is because the weather is too hot at this time, and the villagers are resting at home, not afraid of people coming to visit the house. Ye Feng also specially called Chen Jixing together, he is a farmer, and even if he wants to plant a large area in the future, Chen Jixing will have to learn it.

He hoped that Chen Jixing's family would be the first in the village to grow peanuts.

Even if he is willing to take out the seeds to popularize them later, then Chen Jixing's family has been planting for a year first, and some of them have experience, and the price they sell in the first year is naturally the highest.

Let Chen Jixing's family make a sum of money first, and then take care of others, which can be regarded as his selfishness and reward.

At this time, he screamed and did not tire of it. If it had been a normal day, Qianyan would have gone to bed a long time ago, but today, she is also trying not to rest.

Chen Jixing was very excited, he had tasted that taste before, and it was just a peanut.

According to Ye Feng, there are twenty or thirty immortal fruits under a seedling alone, and there are four seeds in one immortal fruit.

Everyone looked at the four big bamboo baskets, but they just watched, and they really didn't know how to start.

Originally, in the eyes of the family, this was a very sacred thing, they thought that Ye Feng should at least use a hoe or something, but unexpectedly, I saw him walk to the bamboo basket at will, grasp the root of a peanut seedling, and mention it vigorously, and the peanut was pulled out with the seedling and soil.

It was originally sandy soil, and it had not been watered for the past few days for today's harvest.

Qian Yan was the only one other than Ye Feng who had never seen peanuts that had not been peeled, so when he saw that the peanut seedlings were covered with peanuts, he couldn't help but cover his mouth. It's just that at that time, she saw only a few, and now what appeared in front of her eyes was a string of them.

However, Chen Jixing and Ye are a little flustered. It turns out that this immortal fruit looks like this.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Feng pulled out all the remaining plants in this bamboo basket in one breath and put them on the ground to dry. He personally demonstrated that the peanuts were pulled off from the roots of the peanut seedlings one by one, and the needles were cleaned.

The three of them volunteered to go to the other three bamboo baskets, and following Ye Feng's example, they pulled out the peanuts one by one with some excitement and apprehension.

He began to pick peanuts like Ye Feng.

Ye Feng saw that everyone was very interested, so he went to the stove room and brought a bamboo basket over, and everyone threw peanuts into the bamboo basket while picking them.

Chen Jixing is particularly funny, when he first started picking, he didn't dare to work too hard, for fear of crushing these immortal fruits. But later I found that the shell of this immortal fruit was not as fragile as I thought, so I was relieved.

When I picked the second plant, I was already handy.

After a while, the four of them worked together to pick all the dozens of peanuts.

Ye Feng looked at these bamboo baskets, thought for a while and said, "Brother-in-law, these longevity fruits seem to be ripe, and some of them must not have been pulled out when we pulled them out, and they are still in the mud." Let's dismantle these bamboo baskets and crush the soil, and we can find out the longevity fruit inside. ”

As soon as Chen Jixing heard that there was still something in the soil, he immediately cut the four bamboo baskets with a knife, revealing the pile of mud that was more than one meter high.

As soon as Ye Feng said it, he understood, this was a bit like picking up ears of wheat. It's just that this time the "ears of wheat" are in the mud, and you need to look carefully in the mud to get them.

He didn't use a hoe, nor did he use Ye Feng's demonstration, he just gently spread out the soil with his hands and groped carefully. Gradually, he found an immortal fruit.

When he finished kneading the soil, he actually picked up about ten.

Qianyan and Ye also joined the industry, and each picked up some. At last

In order to ensure that the soil had been selected and that there was not a single immortal fruit left, the three of them carefully sifted it again.

After making sure that there was nothing missing, Chen Jixing sprinkled the spread soil evenly under the trees in the yard, and at first glance, he thought that the whole yard had turned over the soil.

What to do next, everyone is a little curious.

Ye Feng said with a smile: "It's easier now, we just need to wash these longevity fruits with water, expose them to the sun like corn, and dry them to save them for seeds next year." ”

So, Chen Jixing picked up some more water, and the three of them poured all the peanuts into the wooden basin, and the water immediately became turbid.

By the time all the longevity fruits have been washed, a thick layer of soil has accumulated at the bottom of the pot. Replacing the well water from Chen Jixing, the three of them carefully cleaned it again.

After three times of washing, the peanuts are finally clean and clean instead of soil.

Before, no one knew if or how many peanuts could be harvested. Now, it seems that it is completely safe to assume that these peanuts are still growing well in this time and space, and the yield is not low.

There are about 10 plants in one basket of four bamboo baskets, making a total of 40 plants.

Ye Feng didn't count carefully, but except for those tender ones that couldn't be used as seeds, there were basically more than 20 mature peanuts in one plant.

In other words, more than 800 peanuts were harvested this year.

Ye Shi heard that he still needed to be exposed to the sun, so he used two other big dustpans and put them in the sun. Fortunately, Chen Jixing can weave bamboo utensils, and there is no shortage of these things at home.

Ye Feng took Ye Shi and Chen Jixing to pick out the tender and immature peanuts among them, and there was a big bowl.

Looking at this bowl of tender peanuts, Ye Feng announced that he would make something for everyone to eat immediately. Although he is not good at cooking, he can still cook peanuts and other simple things.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng went to bolt the door again.

Next, Ye Feng sent two of these tender peanuts one by one, and for the rest, he pulled out all the needles, added water and salt, thought about it, added some dried chili peppers and a few peppercorns, poured them into the pot and boiled them together.

Boiled tender peanuts with salt and pepper are really delicious.

Here, a few people peeled the peanuts and put them in their mouths, and they were excited again. Before, they tasted dried peanuts, fragrant and crunchy, but this was fresh, and in addition to the fragrance, there was also a fresh sweetness, which amazed their taste buds.

When the peanuts in the pot are cooked, everyone tastes them, and it becomes incredible again, because this is another flavor.

"This longevity fruit is really a good thing, you can eat it raw, you can eat it in the sun, and it tastes better when you cook it simply. It seems that as long as you can grow it, you can sell as much as you want. Chen Jixing sighed.

Ye Feng understood that Chen Jixing was actually right.

In addition to these basic ways to eat, peanuts can also be used to make many dishes. Not to mention anything else, just fried in oil, and the drunkards can't do without it.

The sun was scorching for the next few days.

Looking at these peanuts, no one offered to eat one, because everyone knew that these were seeds, seeds of hope for a good harvest in the coming year.

However, for the sake of safety, although the door was still locked, in the next few days, Ye took a bamboo ladder and put the peanuts on the roof to dry. In the end, I still didn't feel at ease, so in order to divert everyone's attention, I put a dustpan of vegetable cores to dry together.

Every household in the village has to dry some vegetables to prepare for the winter, so no one cares.

In this way, after several days, these catties of peanuts were finally dried, and Ye Shi took a clean cloth bag and packed it carefully, tied the bag tightly and put it in the cabinet for storage.

At this point, the peanuts that may have hidden the secret of Ye Feng's life have changed from ten to hundreds.

After another ten days, when the autumn wind gradually picked up and became colder, the villagers turned the ground deep and prepared to start planting winter wheat.

It was at this time that the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted by Chen Jixing's family in the cornfield also matured one after another.

Because of the previous top dressing, the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is the same as that of corn, and it is still strong. The sweet potatoes are big and smooth, plus they are sandy, and there is not much sticky mud, so Ye Feng and Qianyan wiped it lightly, and it was clean.

In the envious eyes of everyone, thousands of catties of sweet potatoes alone were dug up, and Chen Jixing and Ye were put into the cellar dug by the backyard.

The potatoes are also big and round, and they are very cute. Because there were not many of them, they were dug up in two days, and they were still stored in the cellar.

When the potatoes and sweet potatoes were harvested, the rich man Zhao also came. Although I was envious, I didn't mention the matter of collecting rent, after all, the previous contract was clearly written, and there was no such content.

However, Ye also knows how to do it, and on the night of the harvest, he and Chen Jixing took advantage of the night to send a basket of sweet potatoes and a dustpan of potatoes to Zhao's rich man's family, saying that they were new and let his family try them.

The rich man Zhao just excused himself slightly, and accepted it.

What Ye didn't know was that this simple gesture of favor made Zhao Dacai remember it in his heart. In the future disputes between her family and Aunt Cha's family, the rich man Zhao dealt with it impartially, and he was not afraid of Aunt Cha's sprinkling, so that her family recovered its losses.

After harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes, the time is a beat slower than that of the rest of the people's homes. However, Chen Jixing did not panic, but discussed with Ye Shiyi and took out some silver to rent cattle from other villages to turn the land deep.

With the addition of Niu and the help of Qianyan and Ye Feng, the Ye family's land was planted with wheat earlier than many people's families.

This time, Chen Jixing once again followed Ye Feng's suggestion, and chopped up part of the corn stalks, some grass and sweet potato vines and threw them into the dry toilet to ferment before the autumn harvest was over.

When the wheat grows to a certain height, he will carry a large amount of manure to top dress.

Chen Jixing naturally did not hide his secrets, and told his eldest brother and second brother about these according to the previous agreement. This time, everyone no longer doubted it, and it was not a difficult thing, so they all did as Chen Jixing said, just waiting for the wheat to grow.

Ye Feng felt that this would not work, and the other villagers were afraid that they would be jealous and jealous, and they didn't know what to do, so they asked Chen Jixing to go to the house of the village chief Chen Jifa and told them all about their experiences.

For a while, everyone in the village praised Chen Jixinglai, saying that he didn't hide his personal interests, and he shared good things with everyone.

Seeing this, Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief.