Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Fruit Grower

In the morning, the sun shines in through the window on Kapok's face, Kapok stretches his waist and gets up from the bed, yawning, the weather is getting warmer and warmer in this spring, and life is vigorous all around, the villagers of Lijia Village are busy planting crops at this time, Zhang Yan's family and Li Qingming's family are busy with the work in the field, only the Kapok family has planted fruit trees, there is no movement, Li Xiuniang originally wanted to plant some vegetables, Kapok is not allowed to forget it, the people take food as the sky, and the villagers uphold their consistent old profession and plant crops!

The Zhang family father and son have been doing their old business since they built a house for Kapok, and the business is getting better and better, and the work in the field naturally falls on Zhang Yan and Li Xiuniang, but their family only planted some vegetables and the like, as well as rice, the rice is the Zhang family father and son are busy, and they will help clean up the crops when they are free, and the Li family is busy with Li Qingming and Tian Yulan, and Li Zhenglong is going to autumn in the second half of the year, so Li Qingming ordered him to review and study at home.

An Sheng's family is okay, there are no such things to do, An Sheng has to be busy with the affairs of the yamen every day, and it is even more impossible for the women and children left in the An family to be busy with the affairs in the field, so it is more idle like the Kapok family, and it seems much more boring when they are idle, so Fang Yuting and An Xin decided to come to the Kapok family in a few days, mainly because Fang Yuting wants to know more about the situation of Kapok!

Mu Qing's family was busy with the work in the field alone, and later in Xiaohong's ears under the wind for the first time called Wang Cuihua to work in the field together, the angry Wang Cuihua made a fuss at home again, but unfortunately it was useless, Mu Qing is iron heart no longer will be Wang Cuihua, Mu Lang will not care so much when he is idle outside for a day, at this time Wang Cuihua felt isolated and helpless, remembered Mu Xin, now Wang Cuihua is alive and not as good as the two maids at home, and he gets up earlier than the chicken and sleeps later than the dog every day, which may be retribution, as the saying goes: It's not that the time has not come!

Mu Xin is also miserable now, since his wife became a concubine, Wang Youmin has long forgotten that he has such a concubine who married into the door, Wang deliberately made it difficult and scolded every day because Wang Cuihua is Mu Xin's mother, and Mu Xin was too majestic to offend many people when he first married in, and now everyone is shouting and beating, Mu Xin regrets not being able to get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, but unfortunately it is too late......

Today, Kapok is going to the town to buy two fruit farmers who can take care of fruit trees, or the shop that originally invited people, Yapo recognized this repeat customer as soon as she saw Kapok.

"Is the girl here to buy someone? I guess you've finished planting this fruit tree, so you're here today to buy someone to go back and take care of the fruit tree! I've got a few growers here, girl, let's sit and watch slowly. "Ya Po is a shrewd person at first glance, and she is very good at dealing with people, and she can still remember Kapok who hasn't been here for a long time.

"Okay, then I'm sorry for you!" Kapok sat down and responded with a smile.

"No trouble, no trouble!" Ya Po replied with a smile, and then said, "Go quickly, and bring over the few fruit farmers who can tend to the fruit trees," Ya Po instructed the people under him.

A cup of tea, just now the man brought the fruit farmer over, and then introduced to Kapok, some are the servants who sold after the fall of the big family, some have done it in the orchard, and some are the poor family who sold themselves, before working in the orchard under the big family, there are a total of four people, two old people and two middle-aged men, Kapok directly selected two middle-aged men, so that it is more cost-effective to buy, and you can also show Kapok the door, the two people who bought Kapok are both middle-aged people in their thirties, The eldest man is tall and big, and the two are called Niu Dazhuang and Huang Hai respectively, and Kapok asked about the family background of the two and why they came to sell themselves.

Niu Dazhuang is an orphan who has been following the master's family, and as a result, the family sold their property and servants because they lost money in business, so Niu Dazhuang was sold here, because he has been living like this since he was a child, Niu Dazhuang is used to it, and he doesn't want to change anything.

Huang Hai is because there are many poor brothers in the family, so he came out to beg for a living, entered a large family to be a subordinate, and was later assigned to work in the orchard, after a long time, he followed the master in the orchard to learn to serve the fruit trees, and he did it for more than ten years, and then encountered a change, the family wanted to move away and decided to sell the less important servants, Huang Hai signed a living deed and simply gave him money to go home, and when Huang Hai returned to the home that had not returned for more than ten years, the siblings did not accept him, and there was no way to sell himself and go back to his old jobOriginally, he should have had a small amount of money on him after working for so many years, but he had to hand it over to his parents every year, so he didn't have a penny, and it was a lot of breaks!

Kapok paid the money and went back with the two of them. Both of them are honest people, and they can't help but feel a little uncomfortable along the way, especially when they are in a carriage with their master, they are even more uncomfortable, Kapok looked at it and smiled, it seems that they have to talk to the two of them about the situation when they go back, so as not to make the two of them look confused.

When they arrived at Kapok's house, Li Xiufeng greeted Niu Dazhuang and Huang Hai very kindly, so that the two of them were in dire straits.

"You two come over for a while, I have something to say," Kapok thought about telling the two of them in detail about the situation at home, the distribution of duties, and the monthly silver every month.

"Our family is not a big family, we don't pay attention to the rules of a big family, but the most basic thing is to have, there are only me and my godmother in this family, but if you think it's women and children who are easy to bully, then try" Kapok said and hit a stone in the outer courtyard with a palm wind, and the stone fell apart with a bang, which is a warning, there is no way to do it at home for themselves and their godmothers in order not to have bad intentions.

Then "our family is a farmer's family, which is relatively free compared to the big family, your daily work is the fruit trees in the outer courtyard just now, and you are not allowed to let people in casually when you look at the door, who can come in, I will tell you slowly, every month two taels of silver, and a piece of clothing, food and the like will eat with us, you both have four days of your own free time every month, you can alternately rest, the most important thing is not to do things that sell friends for glory, and you are not allowed to bring people in without permission, unless I allow it, Got it? After Kapok finished speaking, he asked.

"Got it, Miss," the two said in unison, they were very satisfied with the treatment here.

Then Li Xiufeng took the two to the side house in the yard, and arranged the accommodation and things needed for daily life for the two, after arranging, the two began to work, one is to check the growth of the fruit trees, as well as to repel insects and pull weeds, and the other is to water, in fact, the duties of the orchard are not very busy, only the harvest time is very busy.

"Girl, we are all Zhuang families, there is no need to come to that set of young lady's name, it is awkward" Li Xiufeng was not very comfortable for a while.

"Godmother doesn't have to feel awkward, the law of everything in this world is like this, and it's not good for others to listen to it, we buy people to spend money to find someone to do things, and not buy people to let him come back to enjoy the blessings, I will naturally give benefits if I do well, it depends on personal ability, if you think like Godmother, one day people will bully the master, Godmother understands?" Kapok talked about the stakes involved, Li Xiufeng is an honest rural woman after all, and she is very kind-hearted and very tolerant of this aspect.

"Well, that's what you said, I understand" Li Xiufeng nodded.

After saying that, the two continued to busy their lunch.

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In the afternoon, Zhang Yan and Li Xiuniang came to the house as guests, they had already heard that Kapok was engaged in an orchard, and everyone in the village knew it, so they wanted to see how Kapok's orchard was, and the two rarely went out, Zhang Yan and Qu Xiangming couldn't go out casually if they were married, Li Xiuniang was fine.

"I said, there's a magpie in front of my door! It turns out that a noble person is coming! Do you two finally know to hang out? Kapok greeted with a smile, and Li Xiufeng also brought the bench to the yard.

"Hello auntie" The two greeted politely.

"Well, okay, okay, you guys chat, sister-in-law goes out for a walk" Li Xiufeng has always disliked talking with little girls, after all, the age difference is too big, many ideas are different, and the three of them haven't been together for a long time, so they don't want to bother.

As soon as Li Xiufeng left, the two of them were no longer restrained.

"Sister Kapok, take us to your orchard quickly, I just came in and took a look at it, it's really good-looking, your orchard is too big, no wonder I asked my father to buy such a large piece of wasteland before, it seems that Sister Kapok has the most ideas" Li Xiuniang couldn't wait to visit.

"Good! Let me show you my orchard, which I have paved with stone paths! Kapok said and pulled the two out of the small yard and into the orchard.

Some of the orchards have already bloomed, there is a different scene, the three little sisters are in the comfortable stroll, just happened to meet the Yellow Sea and Niu Dazhuang who are working, Kapok will be introduced.

"This is the fruit farmer I invited in the orchard, Uncle Huang Hai Huang and Uncle Niu Da Zhuang" Kapok did not say that he bought it himself, and it hurt his self-esteem to talk like this.

"Hello two young ladies" Huang Hai and Niu Dazhuang saluted respectfully, not forgetting their duty.

"Uncle Huang, Uncle Niu is good," Zhang Yan and Li Xiuniang also returned the salute.

Then Kapok dismissed the two and continued to shop.

"Kapok, if you plant so many fruit trees, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sell them and lose money during the harvest?" Zhang Yan asked with some concern.

"Don't worry! The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and if I can't sell it, I will distribute it to the people in the village, otherwise I will keep it for myself and eat it, and throw it away if I can't finish it, anyway, I planted such a big piece" Kapok said half-jokingly.

"Okay, then when your fruit tree bears fruit, I have to pick some back," Zhang Yan said.

"Yes! I eat a lot, come every day" Li Xiuniang also joked about Kapok.

"Come on, come, who's afraid of whom! Just be careful not to eat and vomit," Kapok laughed.

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