Chapter 4 Maintenance
Yuan Ning frowned slightly: "You don't believe the promise I made?" ”
"......No," Bo Zhong said incoherently, shaking his head like a rattle, "I didn't mean that...... I am...... I'm ......"
Yuan Ning lowered his head and let out a sigh, in fact, she could figure out how fragile and sensitive this child's mind was.
Zhong Ling stopped crying, cleaned all the diapers, and dried them on tiptoe.
The original clothesline at home was a bit high, and Yuan Ning pulled up two low ones for convenience.
The high ones can be used to dry the bedding, and the low ones can be used to dry the clothes, so that the children can also get them.
Ji Xiu slowly fell asleep, she got up and put the child back, and when she came out again, she saw Bo Zhong and Zhong Ling discussing cooking, and Shu Yu pulling weeds in the vegetable patch under the wall.
The younger siblings are so sensible, Yuan Ning is still very pleased, since they can do these things, she will not take care of everything, as the eldest sister, she needs to think about the future of this family.
The fertile land to be replaced has been selected, but it will not be possible to change it until the wheat harvest is over, which means that there is still more than a month to go, and she must think about what to cultivate when the fertile land is in hand.
If you want to get as much produce as possible on a limited amount of land, you should choose high-yield crops, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes in years of food scarcity, and it is more suitable to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes than wheat and cereals.
But according to what we know these days, there are no sweet potatoes and potatoes locally, and there is no corn.
Their main daily food is sorghum rice, corn, and millet rice, mixed with bran. White flour and rice are not something that everyone can afford to eat, and their family only has half a catty of brown rice, which is still given by other people's families when their mothers were in confinement. The only bit of millet was given by the kind-hearted Master Feng.
As for the white noodles, there were no at all, but there were about two bowls of thick noodles, and there was less flour and more bran in them.
Most of the wheat grown at home is used to pay taxes after harvesting, and the rest is exchanged for coarse grains, so that they can eat for a longer period of time.
There is still a lot of sorghum at home, but it is all kept as seeds. When you harvest the wheat, you can sow the seeds.
Their area belongs to the temperate climate, the farming technology is basically mature, can achieve two years and three crops, planting winter wheat, after harvesting wheat in summer, sowing soybeans, sorghum and other crops, and sowing winter wheat after autumn harvest.
In this way, the land utilization rate is higher, and the taxation is not so heavy.
But on the whole, today's grain production is too low, so in fact, taxation is still a very heavy burden for a farmer.
However, one thing that Yuan Ning is more fortunate about is that their family is not a tenant farmer but a yeoman farmer, and they have the right to plan their own land.
Two acres of fertile land, one of which must be planted with sorghum, but now the yield of sorghum is not high, and it is not an optimized dwarf variety, and monoculture is definitely not possible, so she is also ready to plant some beans in the sorghum field like other families.
However, in order to ensure the yield, it is still necessary to continue to top dress.
Another acre she decided to plant ramie, no matter whether people are rich or poor in this life, they can't lack clothes and eat, even if the family only has one set of clothes left, then they have to take turns to wear clothes to go out to cover their shame?
Ramie is a perennial plant, so it takes a little effort to plant it at first, and then it can save a lot of trouble.
The key is that she had told Master Feng before that after her ramie was harvested in the future, she would not have to finish it, and she could sell it directly to him. Of course, she also has to ensure the basic quality, otherwise Master Feng can't buy it at the market price.
Master Feng is optimistic about her self-reliance and self-improvement, but she is not a kind-hearted person.
Yuan Ning naturally also understands that he can't overdraw the trust of others, so he pays special attention to the selection of seeds, and after the wheat harvest, he has to get up early and be greedy to cultivate his own acre of land.
Bo Zhong is a thoughtful child, he knows that the eldest sister needs to pay too much to stay, and if she wants to feel that this family is worth paying, a few of them must know how to help her share. This family is not the home of the eldest sister alone, and each of them has a responsibility to maintain its integrity.
So Bo Zhong told the second brother and sister to take care of the younger sister and the family, and he followed Yuan Ning to work in the field.
It stands to reason that five acres of land is not much, but it is also a big burden for two and a half children.
Yuan Ning had never done such a thing in the original world, so she was naturally born by hand, and although she had the memories left by the original owner in her head, it was actually more difficult for her to use her hands.
The wheat has already been filled, but it needs to be watered again. Yuan Ning didn't do this, she grinded several blisters on her hands, and after she went back, she gritted her teeth and picked it, squeezed out the water, and shed tears while squeezing, she felt wronged, but after crying, how to live her life or how to live.
The younger siblings are very sensible, and they know that she is very tired after a hard day, and she doesn't have to worry about anything at home, even the little one who can't speak doesn't add much to the burden.
Anyway, Yuan Ning felt quite heartwarming.
At first, seeing Yuan Ning busy with the four little radish heads, the clansmen all looked at it coldly, and the other villagers who got some talk naturally ignored it.
But as the days went by, they found that Yuan Ning and his four younger children had not only repaired the yard of the house, but also lived in an orderly manner, so they knew their determination, and they couldn't help but feel distressed.
The old patriarch took charge and sent someone to help clean up the fields.
A few adults got together, and soon all five acres of land were served.
Yuan Ning politely invited them to eat at home, these elders felt guilty in their hearts, no one was embarrassed to go, besides, it was not easy for five children, how could they have the face to go to their house to eat and drink? They all pushed.
Yuan Ning felt quite warm in her heart, but she was an experienced person, so she naturally knew that when there was no conflict of interest, interpersonal relationships were very easy to maintain, but once there was a conflict of interest...... No, as long as there is a gap between the rich and the poor, then interpersonal relationships become delicate.
She and a few small people have to live in this village for a short time, and it is still necessary to make good interpersonal relationships, so she should bring her people to get rich together, and it is their business whether they want to or not.
But before that, you still have to make a fortune first.
On this day, Yuan Ning was drying the herbs he picked in the yard, and Aunt Zhu accompanied Zhu Jiugu over.
As soon as Zhu Jiugu saw the children who were busy in the yard, her eyes turned red, and she took Yuan Ning into her arms and cried loudly.
This one can make Yuan Ning stunned, and Zhu Jiugu has a lot of strength, and she is tightly bound, which makes people breathless.
Bo Zhong saw that his sister's face was purple, and with a "whoosh" voice, he rushed over like a little tiger, so he went to break Zhu Jiugu's arm, and shouted: "You let go!" ”
Zhong Ling and Shu Yu followed closely and ran over, Zhong Ling helped to break Zhu Jiugu's arm, Shu Yu was small and short, hugged Zhu Jiugu's thigh, opened his mouth and bit down.