Chapter 245: Farming
After a walk around the mountains, it may be that the season is good, or it may be that Jiangxi's cousin's skills are very good, and they really let them fight two hares and come back.
These two hares are not big, and it is obviously not good to eat meat, Jiang Xi thought about it, and simply said that he wanted to raise them. Li Xuemei also thought so, and the two little girls hit it off.
As for Jiangxi's eldest cousin, he thinks that it doesn't matter what happens, he is more concerned about how Jiangxi wants to get this mulberry fruit.
He is not a little girl like Li Xuemei, and many times he is thinking about his family. With so many mulberry fruits at home, if you really want to sell them for money, your life will be much better.
Seeing that the eldest cousin cared so much, Jiang Xi had no choice but to say what he thought.
"Part of it can be used to make wine, mulberry fruit wine, which is good for the body and tastes good. The other part can be used to dry and make tea, this kind of fruit tea is good to drink, and the female relatives should like it. ”
"Wine, tea?" Jiangxi's eldest cousin pondered for a moment, "Can this thing really be used to make wine?" ”
"Absolutely! Well, anyway, our family is making wine now, so we just want all these mulberry fruits, and as for the price, you planned to sell it at the market for as much as you planned to sell at the market, and you will calculate it for us. ”
"Jiangxi, won't your family lose money?" Li Xuemei looked at her and said in a low voice, "If your family wants to lose money, then we won't sell it." My mother said that we can't do that kind of thing that hurts others. ”
Jiang Xi patted Li Xuemei on the shoulder.
"Ah, when did you see me lose money in business, and I was worried that you would not be willing to sell. And I believe that as soon as our mulberry wine comes out, the price of this mulberry will definitely be raised next year. ”
"Mulberry ...... Mulberry what? ”
"Mulberry, that is, mulberry fruit."
"Okay, if that's the case, then I'll go back and ask my mother and grandmother, if it's really good, we'll sell them all."
Jiangxi's cousin also nodded on the side, there are many mulberry fruits in the mountains, if they can be sold, it will be a great thing.
Jiangxi, who was expected to play at Li's house for a few more days, also went back early because of the mulberry. took all the mulberries from Li Chuncheng and Li Chunqiang's family, and Jiangxi collected a little from their neighbors alone, and then returned home with their things.
The Li family didn't know what Jiang Xi was doing with this, but he just felt that the family was so rich now anyway, and it was a good thing to help his mother's family.
After coming back, Jiangxi directly asked people to wash the fresh mulberries and soak them in the freshly brewed wine. It is then encapsulated in a jar and waited for it to slowly absorb the flavor.
When the day of rest in the college arrived, every household entered the busy season of farming, and the whole town fell into a busy situation, and few people went to the market.
Qin Hao came back directly by carriage after the holiday that day, and the Jiang family also had a lot of land, although there were many long-term workers and small servants in the family, but whenever it came to this time, the Li family and Qin Hao would personally go to the ground and work hard.
In Lee's words, this is called not forgetting the roots. After all, the Jiang family started from farming before.
Jiang Xi didn't go to the ground, but she was much busier than the Li family.
There are so many people coming in and out of the family every day, and she has to see the harvest food one by one, as well as the daily household expenses, the account books of the shops in the town, the various workshops at home, everything depends on her to keep an eye on it alone.
There are many people, and she is the most prone to accidents, and she is now twelve times more energetic than before.
"Lotus seed, there isn't much in the field, right?"
"Back to the girl, I went to see it just now, and I should be able to finish it this morning."
Jiang Xi nodded, and now the grain is dried on bamboo mats in the courtyard and in the open space in front of the yard, and a long part of it is spread. She estimated that most of the grain was sold, and the rest would be enough for their family to eat for a year.
Looking up at the sky, the weather was good for the past two days, and there was no sign of rain. However, she still did not dare to take it lightly.
In the summer, the weather becomes unstable. Sometimes one second it looks like the sky is clear, and the next second it is cloudy.
"Let people keep watch, don't let those sparrows take the grain, and tell them to take turns to stare at the back mountain, if they see dark clouds, don't wait, put away the grain immediately."
"Yes, I'll do it right away."
For her own girl's orders, Lianzi almost always did it directly, without the slightest refutation.
Before it was time to eat at noon, the Li family and the others came back with people, and all the grain in the field was harvested. Jiang Xi hurriedly poured two cups of hot tea and served them to Li and Qin Hao.
"Mother, brother, you are all tired, drink some tea, this water is warm, not hot."
Li didn't speak, but reached out and took it and drank it. Qin Hao's movements were more elegant, he took a few sips slowly, and then didn't drink any more.
"Xi'er, you also ask someone to bring them some drinks, they are much more tired than us."
"Don't worry, brother, I have already ordered it to go down. They were given warm water with salt, and sour plum soup to be delivered later. ”
Qin Hao nodded: "That's fine." ”
As he was talking, a girl ran over outside.
"Madam, someone from the village has come and asked if it is okay to go into the field to gleaning ears?"
Gleaning is generally a matter only done by poor people, and when the Jiang family was in the mountains in the past, the Li family also did it.
All these gleaning are to find the grain that has been left behind in the field where others have finished harvesting.
Ordinary people will go and pick up the food that falls by themselves. And the rich and kind-hearted people will deliberately leave some food behind for those who are poor to pick up.
Jiangxi's family, now every year, will also leave some in the ground, leaving it for those poor people who are gleaning.
So, this year, as soon as they finished harvesting the grain, those people came to inquire.
Jiang Xi smiled: "They came really early this year, okay, you can arrange it, say it's okay." But the rules are still the same as in previous years, first the landless people go in. ”
"Yes, girl."
After Li finished drinking the tea, he looked at the back of the little girl leaving and sighed: "Every time at this time, I think of the past, when I went to Zhou's house to pick up ears, there were too many rules, and I asked to hand over more than half of the pickup."
Everyone knows that their family is hiring cheap workers, but for the sake of food, they have no choice but to do it. Now that I think about it, I don't know how I got through it in the first place. ”
"Mother, don't think about that anymore, at least life is better now, and our family doesn't have to suffer anymore." Qin Hao opened his mouth to persuade, he had heard of some, for example, two or three years ago, Jiangxi was almost starved to death.
Although he was a slave in the Shen family at that time, at least not to that extent. As soon as Li mentioned that time, he felt uncomfortable, more for his little sister.
How helpless it was for a nine-year-old or ten-year-old child to almost starve to death. and Jiang Xi said that he ate wild grapes to fill his stomach, but he almost collapsed and died, and he always sounded extremely uncomfortable.
"Okay, let's not talk about it. Anyway, now that our family has our own ability, we can help others more. ”
Jiang Xi and Qin Hao both nodded, if they are poor, they will be good to themselves, and if they are good, they will help the world. Although their family can't help the whole world, it is still possible for some poor people in the village to survive.
Just sent away those who came to ask for gleaning, and then another little girl came to report that there were two people at the door, and they had to say that they were relatives of their family, and now they were clamoring to come in.
Relatives? Li and Qin Hao were both confused, Jiang Xi frowned slightly, and suddenly remembered what happened at his grandmother's house a few days ago.
"That relative, doesn't he claim to be my mother's sister and brother-in-law?"
The little girl suddenly said, "Girl, how do you know!" ”
"Go tell them in, and get some more lunch in the kitchen."
Qin Hao didn't know much about Li Chunlan, and the last time Li Chunlan made trouble, it was limited to the female dependents, and Qin Hao was not there. He originally planned to get up to greet him, but when he saw that Jiang Xi and Li Shi had not moved, he sat back again.
I gradually understood in my heart that this aunt and my sister-in-law don't seem to have a good relationship with their mother and sister, and they don't know what they are doing when they come over this time.
The three of them all sat firmly in their seats, and not long after, under the leadership of the little girl, Zhang Yongcai and Li Chunlan came in.
Li Chunlan's face is not very good-looking, this Jiang family, as long as she comes once, her heart will be sour, and she can't wait not to see it. But in my heart, I always remembered what Grandma Jiangxi said.
Now, her sister's family is having a better life, and Zhang Yongcai is not good to her, and she has no other way except to rely on this sister's Jiang family.
"I don't even know how to pick us up." Li Chunlan complained, Zhang Yongcai glanced at her, frowned and said, "Aunt is so busy, why do you always think about people coming to pick you up." ”
"You!" Li Chunlan stomped her foot hatefully, and after finding that Zhang Yongcai had already walked into the main hall, she could only follow.
"Auntie, niece of the Jiang family, and this one is Qin Xiaoxiu, just look at it." As soon as Zhang Yongcai came in, he had a flattering face. His appearance directly aroused Qin Hao's disgust, and he finally understood the reason why Jiangxi and the Li family didn't like this family.
As soon as Li Chunlan walked in, she heard this, and she was dissatisfied again. In particular, when he saw Li Shigao sitting in the first place, the sourness in his heart bubbled out one by one.
Originally, these should have been hers.
"Sister, we're here." Saying this coldly, Li Chunlan picked a place to sit down, she didn't want to stand in front of the Li family, as if she was inferior to the Li family.
Li glanced at Li Chunlan, and said to Zhang Yongcai: "You can sit down too, what is the matter with your coming this time." ”
Straight to the point, Li only hopes that the demands of these two people will not be too excessive.
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