Chapter 66

"I'm really embarrassed, if you endure it any longer, someone will come to work in a while, I will send someone to cut the pigweed, and you will have food at that time."

"Hmph......" is obviously not satisfied with Ye Lan's dialect piglets.

When there was a commotion, someone knocked on the door, and Jinhua's voice sounded outside the courtyard door, "Sister Qiao, Ye Lan, are you up?" ”

"Aunt Jinhua, wait a minute." Ye Lan hurriedly went over and opened the door.

"Ye Lan got up so early, I'm afraid you didn't get up." When Jin Hua saw Ye Lan, she had a big smile on her face, and pointed to the basket on her back as she entered the door.

"I got up before dawn, this is me mowing grass, Ye Lan, you see if this grass can feed pigs, I fed pigs at home when I was a child, I remember to eat these grasses, but too early before dawn, I relied on the moonlight, inquired about memory cutting, there may be some pigs do not eat, for a while I turned over the grass under the basket, to see if there is to eat it to pick out."

It turned out that Jinhua remembered that Gao Hong bought eleven piglets yesterday, thinking that Ye Lan definitely didn't have time to get pigweed, and she didn't feed the pigs when she went home last night, and the pigs would definitely be hungry early this morning, so she got up before dawn to mow the grass.

"Thank you, Aunt Jinhua, you see these piglets are making trouble, they are all hungry, you pigweed is too timely." Ye Lan looked at Jinhua gratefully, this pigweed came too timely.

The village has not raised pigs for several years, because pigs can not make money, and in recent years, everyone's harvest has become more and more bad, in previous years, even pigweed was cut by everyone to eat, this year because of the arrival of Ye Lan's mother and daughter, everyone's life has been improved, and the money is also a lot richer, although Ye Lan has expropriated everyone's land, but also asked everyone to work, and give wages, so no one will harvest the wild vegetables and weeds around the village, otherwise Jinhua will not cut a basket of grass back.

Seeing that she was just using the grass for mowing, Jinhua was very happy, and hurriedly poured out the grass in the back basket, "I have an old kitchen knife at home, and it's just right to use it to cut pigweed, Ye Lan, you wait and I'll go back and get it." ”

"I just asked Lan to come for breakfast, Aunt Jinhua, I cooked pig blood porridge."

"Okay." Last night, I heard Ye Lan say that pig blood can be cooked with porridge, it is said that drinking pig blood porridge has many benefits, Jinhua listened to Ye Lan invite her mother and son to drink porridge, and Shuang agreed.

The piglets are too tender, Ye Lan is worried that they can't get used to eating raw grass, so she originally wanted to cook it, but Jinhua said that she could cut the grass finer, and then she had water, and it didn't matter if she fed the piglets, she used to be fed like this at home, don't underestimate the piglets, they are not so fragile and squeamish. In these years, even people are often hungry, not to mention a pig, it's great to have something to eat, and I want to cook grass for you, so Ye Lan can think of it, so that others may laugh at her for having nothing to do.

In fact, in modern times, many people's pig food is cooked, and it is normal for Ye Lan to have such thoughts, she just ignores the current conditions.

However, Jinhua proposed that Ye Lan still agree, after all, it would be good to have a little less to do, sure enough, the piglets will not be picky eaters when they are very hungry, Jinhua cut the pigweed finely, and poured the water into the pig trough, and the piglets have already rushed up to grab food, and they don't know how fragrant it is.

"Aunt Jinhua, you've helped me a lot today." Seeing that the piglets were eating very well, Ye Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

Lan saw that he had never fed pigs when he was so old, but he remembered that he seemed to have chickens at home when he was very young, but then they were gone, and now he sees it again, and he is inevitably curious.

Now the piglets and chickens and ducks have just been put into the pigsty and chicken shed, there is not much garbage, and the smell is not heavy, otherwise Lan Jian would not like them so much.

"Wash your hands, eat breakfast first, the workers should be here in a moment." There was so much movement outside, and the rooster that was crowing every once in a while, Qiao Zi was woken up, so she got up, and after seeing her dressed and washed, Ye Lan beckoned Jinhua's mother and son to breakfast.

"Lan Jian, after breakfast in a while, you will go to school, you know?" One person has a big bowl of pig's blood porridge, and all four of them drink fragrantly, and Jinhua reminds his son while drinking.

"Got it, mother."

"We can have a gentleman in this village, but if you Sister Ye Lan are touched, you have to study hard, strive to become a hard-working, smart and academic child in the village, and fight for Sister Ye Lan, do you know?"

"Yes."

After getting her son's assurance, Jin Hua nodded with satisfaction, and then looked sideways at Ye Lan, "Ye Lan, do I want to discuss something with you?" ”

"Aunt Jinhua, you say."

"I was so busy last night, I still think that letting me do things is happier than letting me go to school, after these days of hard work, I have learned a lot of words, I will recognize and write all the surnames of hundreds of families, Ye Lan, you don't say, I don't need to learn too much knowledge, as long as I can read and write, you see, I already know a lot of words, at least in our village, there are not two more than I can read, otherwise, I won't go to school."

"Aunt Jinhua doesn't want to go to the academy?" Ye Lan looked at Jin Hua with some surprise.

"Actually, I still like the school, Mr. teaches well, but after all, I'm an adult, this learns, I always feel difficult, when I understand, I often can't compare to the children, I think, you deliberately train me, I am very grateful, but, it's too embarrassing for me, or, Ye Lan, you still let me do some rough work, within my ability, I can help you, I will definitely help you, as for your family business in the future, what do you need to be a housekeeper, that is rich, what can you afford to be a housekeeper, even if you are willing to teach me at that time, I'm afraid and I don't dare to care. At the beginning, Jin Hua was really happy that Ye Lan arranged it, but then after thinking about it, she felt that although she was trusted by Ye Lan, after all, she was only a little clever and couldn't be a big family housekeeper.

Although Ye Lan is not mature yet, she feels that Ye Lan will definitely stand tall one day, rather than not being able to keep up with her pace and pull her back in the future, it is better to give up her position now and wait for the right person to appear, so as not to embarrass Ye Lan in the future.

Ye Lan saw that Jin Hua really felt that she couldn't learn well, and if she thought about it, it was indeed slow to learn knowledge at her age, and it was difficult for a gentleman not to be strong.

"Since Aunt Jinhua thinks that working is better than studying, then follow me to do things in the future, however, when there is nothing to do, I still hope that Aunt Jinhua will not forget to learn things by herself, you can not go to school, but you can read books at home when you have nothing to do, and enrich yourself."

"This is no problem, if I don't understand it, you can also ask my family Lan Jian, Lan Jian goes to study, as long as he reads well, it is better than anything." Seeing that Ye Lan agreed, Jin Hua immediately smiled.

"Well, does Lan Jian like to read?" Ye Lan asked Lan to see it.

"I like it."

"Then read carefully, as long as you are willing to read, my sister can always provide you with reading, you know?" Ye Lan looked at Lan Jian with a smile.

"Thank you, sister, sister, after I know a lot of words, I want to study medicine, is it okay?" Lan Jian looked at Ye Lan seriously, "I like those herbs." ”

"Yes, my sister doesn't know a doctor with good medical skills now, and when my sister knows a doctor, I will let you apprentice, and before you find it, you can obediently follow Zhang Xiucai to study."

"I will work hard, and Mr. praises me for being smart every day."

"Really? Awesome. In the middle of speaking, the porridge in Ye Lan's bowl was empty, and she put down the bowl, "I'm full, you eat slowly, Lan Jian, come to the room after you finish eating in a while, my sister has something for you to take to Mr." ”

"Did you buy the book yesterday?" Lan Jian asked.

Listening to Lan Jian mention the book, Ye Lan remembered that Zhang Xiucai had not taken the book yesterday, if there was no accident, he would come and get it in person, thinking that he was really dizzy with too many things, and he didn't want to explain to Lan Jian, so he casually responded yes, and returned to the room, Ye Lan took out paper and pen and ink, thought about it, and began to write.

Ye Lan cultivated her hobbies in modern times, and writing with a brush is also one of them, although she can't compare with a calligrapher, but she looks beautiful and atmospheric.

As for Yuan Yelan, since she was a child, she was born in a wealthy family, and she invited her husband to teach, although she didn't work too hard, but because of her talent and intelligence, she knew a lot of words, and she wrote well, Ye Lan came here, inherited the memory of Yuan Yelan, and tried to make her handwriting close to Yuan Yelan, and then slowly improved, but Qiao Zi didn't let Qiao Zi see the slightest.

Ye Lan wrote, is a contract, in a modern way, described in the vernacular, simple and direct, called the contract book, Party A Qiao Yelan, Party B: , now Party A hires Party B as a long-term worker, the period is three years, the daily working hours are four hours, two days off per month, the monthly salary is 500 Wen, the settlement at the end of the month, during the contract period, Party A has the right to reward or punish Party B according to Party B's work performance, if Party B's work attitude is too poor, Party A can unconditionally terminate the contract with Party B in advance, if Party A has no legitimate reason to terminate the contract with Party B, If Party B takes the initiative to apply for terminating the contract, it shall explain to Party A one month in advance and obtain the consent of Party A, and Party A shall pay Party B's actual salary and will not give other compensation. Sign:

After writing and checking it, I felt that there was no problem, Ye Lan blew lightly, dried the ink, and it happened that Lan Jian entered the room after eating porridge,

"Sister, what are you doing?"

Before Ye Lan could speak, Zhang Xiucai's voice sounded at the door, "Little boss, is it convenient for Xiaosheng to buy books yesterday?" ”

"It's convenient, sir come in." Jinhua raised her voice, and I am afraid that half of the village heard it.

Zhang Xiucai stood outside the courtyard of Qiao's house, listened to Jinhua's voice, said that he was disturbed, and then walked into the courtyard.

"Did you have breakfast, sir? If you haven't eaten it, let's eat it together. Qiao Zi sent an invitation to Zhang Xiucai.

"Thank you, Mrs. Qiao, Xiaosheng has already eaten." Zhang Xiucai is not disdainful, although this scholar is a little pedantic, it is undeniable that sometimes he is very upright.

Ye Lan walked out of the room with Zhang Xiucai to buy more than a dozen books and put them in his hands, "All the books are here, Xiucai, I'm going to trouble you." ”

"The little boss said." When Zhang Xiucai heard this, he immediately replied politely.

"This is a contract I wrote, can you help me copy dozens of copies?" Ye Lan took out the contract she had written, and there was rice paper of the same size.

"That's no problem, how many copies does the little boss want, and when do you want it?" Zhang Xiucai heard that Ye Lan was going to recruit a chief fortification, and when he saw this contract, he immediately understood.

"Copy it for me before lunch, is it okay to have fifty copies?" Ye Lan counted the number of people and felt that this number should be about the same as the number of people who are willing to do their own long-term work.

"No problem." Zhang Xiucai agreed.

"Do you still have to have class today? Do you want to give the kids a holiday? Ye Lan proposed.

"No, you can let them memorize the texts on their own." Zhang Xiucai shook his head, single-minded, trivial, "After Xiaosheng copied it, he sent it to the little boss." ”

"Then thank you, if there are children who can write well, you can also let them write, as long as they are not too ugly, they can use it, and it should be practiced."

"Lan Jianzi is good, you can ask him to help." Zhang Xiucai looked at Lan Jian with a smile.

"Thank you, sir." was praised by Mr. in front of his mother and sister, Lan Jian hurriedly looked at Ye Lan, with the word begging for praise flashing in her eyes, which was extremely cute.

"Yes, Mr. said that Lan Jian is good, Lan Jian must be very good, Xiucai, then please."

"That little boy went back first."

"Okay."

"Mother, Aunt Qiao, sister, I'm going to go to the school too." Mr. said that he could help with copying if he wrote well, and Lan saw that he was very excited, and he couldn't wait to go to the school immediately.

"Okay." Ye Lan smiled and nodded.

Waiting for Zhang Xiucai and Lan Jian to leave, Ye Lan wrote another contract book, and then asked Qiao Zi to help copy it, "I don't know how many copies will be needed, but it's always right to prepare some in advance, and I will make two other record books in a while, long-term and short-term, respectively." ”

"Okay." Qiao Zi nodded, she also wrote well.

"Then Ye Lan, what am I doing today?" Jinhua didn't have to go to school today, so she immediately asked Ye Lan what she could do.

"After everyone comes to work in a while, Aunt Jinhua, you take two aunts to help me cut some pigweed and come back, be a little tender, my eleven little piglets, and these chickens and ducks, I will hand them over to you to feed in the future, is it okay?" Jinhua was close to herself, so Ye Lan let this matter be handed over to her.

"No problem." Jinhua immediately patted her chest and promised, "I will definitely raise your pigs, chickens and ducklings for nothing." ”

"Well, let's clean up the kitchen first." Since Jinhua wanted to do it with herself, Ye Lan of course did not command politely.

Taking advantage of Jinhua to clean up the kitchen, Ye Lan took out the two baskets that filled the piglets yesterday, rinsed them with water, and then dried the two baskets with a cloth, and then put a thick layer of hay under the basket, and then took out the eggs that could be hatched in the pot last night, and carefully took them into the basket one by one, counted, the two baskets of eggs added up to sixty-five, one basket put thirty-two, one basket put thirty-three.

In fact, this number is not much, because more than half of the eggs cannot be hatched, those eggs can only be eaten, in this era, eggs are a good thing, Ye Lan thought about whether to keep it for herself and not give it to those workers, but it seems to be a little unwilling.

As soon as the eggs to hatch were ready, the No. 100 big men in Wangjia Village came, they all acted collectively, and they must have alarmed the villagers as soon as they came, so the villagers also came together, and everyone arrived at once.

"Aunt Jinhua, you help me take these two baskets to the grocery store, find me a dry place to put them, be careful not to break them, they are full of eggs." Ye Lan beckoned Jin Hua to come over and help her move things.

"Okay."

"Let's come out when it's ready, I'll go out first."

"Ugh."

"Little boss early."

As soon as Ye Lan walked out of the yard, more than 100 people greeted her at the same time, and every morning when she encountered such a scene, Ye Lan had a feeling of waving her hand and shouting that her comrades had worked hard, of course, she didn't do this, but smiled at everyone implicitly, "You guys are early." ”

After looking at everyone, Ye Lan spoke, "Regarding the day before yesterday, I told you about the long-term work, I don't know how everyone thought about it when they went home, so let's decide to do long-term work, please stand on my right, keep the status quo, please stand on my left." ”

The villagers of Jinxiu Village, without any hesitation, all stood on the right side of Ye Lan, the strong man of the hundred and strong men in Wangjia Village, twenty-five people stood on the right, and the rest stood on the left, so that they expressed their willingness to do their own long-term work, there will be forty-eight people, who are not willing to do long-term work and continue to do short-term work, and there are seventy-five people.

Ye Lan looked at it, among the twenty-five people in Wangjia Village, Wang Da stood in front, this person is very smart and has leadership skills, if he is willing to become her long-term worker, he can train it, forty-eight people, plus Jinhua is forty-nine, this number still makes Ye Lan quite satisfied.

"I'll arrange today's work for you first, Uncle Li, you are more familiar with the back mountain, you take twenty people up the mountain, cut two hundred bamboos for me, ten big trees come back, the bamboo is bigger, taller, big trees, not too thin, but not too thick, one person can just hold the look."

"Okay." Li Da nodded and stood to the side, "Come up the mountain with me and stand up." ”

The villagers in this village stood up except for the women, but with the addition of Li Dacai's fourteen people, Wang Da saw this, and picked seven people from behind him, seeing that Li Da's side was all together, Ye Lan nodded,

"You go first."

"Okay, everybody come with me over here." Li Da beckoned the people aside, took his tools, and headed back to the mountain.

"Uncle Wang, you take everyone to the field, and today you have to finish plowing the 100 acres of land for me, and you have to sprinkle all the land with seeds, is it okay?"

"Don't you have to dig a mountain today?" Wang Da thought about it, if you don't dig up the mountain, it's no problem.

"No, you don't."

"That's good, no problem." Wang Da nodded, "Leave it to me." ”

"Then let's go."

(End of chapter)