After returning home, talking about the experience in the Fu family, everyone sighed at the kindness of the Fu family's grandchildren.

There were ten taels of silver in that package of silver taels, which was ten times the price of that basket of vegetables. Xie Qingshan collected all the silver, originally there were more than forty taels left in the house, and today he got thirteen taels of silver a day, ready to be used as the capital for digging the ground and hiring short-term workers.

Although Xie Xuan smiled on his face, he knew that the Fu family was in great power, even if he admired his family's high righteousness, he still did not treat his family as an equal. Xie Qingshan went to deliver food this time, it was originally an appointment with Fu Laodao the day before yesterday, but he was regarded as a relationship with the autumn wind, otherwise where would he send ten taels of silver?

Xie Qingshan and the others didn't think that it was because they were already living in this hierarchical society, and they knew that their own family was from a poor family, and they were not the same as the Fu family's high-ranking families, so they naturally took the Fu family's actions for granted and took it for granted.

Xie Xuan has always been a high-minded and arrogant person in her heart, if she is just buying and selling, she is low-voiced and twisty, which are all trading methods, but she is not suitable for the plain snort.

So he said to Xie Qingshan: "Grandpa, our basket of vegetables is only worth more than one tael, and they have ten taels of silver in reward." Next time, don't send food to his house, save his family and give money, there are more times, and we should go to fight the autumn breeze! Don't annoy anyone! ”

"It's also good! His house is good, but I feel uncomfortable when I go to his house, so I don't want to go! Xie Qingshan also said.

Because he got more than 13 taels of silver and had a lot more money, Xie Qingshan hurriedly went to the village and invited ten honest young men to dig a house in Zhuangzi together.

More than 30 part-time workers are laying on the floor of the Zhuangzi, because it is a blue brick house, the sealing is much better than that of a thatched house. I bought window paper and pasted the windows, the thatch and straw mats on the ground were thick, the diet was never harsh, and all of them were young men with full firepower, so that they did not feel very cold in this winter season.

After ten days, half of the hill was dug up. In order to prevent collapse, the inside is dug into a curved roof, and then the earth wall is connected by a small door for only one person to pass through. In addition to the openings, several ventilation windows are set up on the side of the hill to ensure air circulation inside.

In the past ten days, first Xie Qingshan went to the county seat with Ping An to deliver goods every day, and then after the road was familiar, he let Ping An deliver every day, and Xie Qingshan rushed to Zhuangzi to supervise and lead the workers to work.

After three or four days, there are three Taihe Building, Xinghua Village, and Yuxing Restaurant in Linzhang County, and there are fresh vegetables and vegetables for guests every day in Zuixiao Building, Chunfeng Building, and Yunlai Restaurant, and the guests also like to go to those three. Although there are not many dishes, they are fresh.

Those restaurants couldn't help but regret that they had refused early, and they all found Han Zhengye to place orders. So the Xie family also has two or three hundred catties of vegetables to send every day, and there are also six or seven taels of silver in the account every day.

Seeing that in seven or eight days, the vegetables in the vegetable shed were about to be picked out, Xie Qingshan became more and more anxious, and invited the young man with a good reputation and willing to work hard in the nearby village. Those who live near go home to sleep every day, and those who live far away are crowded into the courtyard of the blue brick house on the Zhuangzi.

Xie Xuan followed Xie Qingshan to the vegetable market in the county town and bought a large number of garlic, shallots, spinach, and coriander seeds. I went to the grain store and bought soybeans, mung beans, and black beans, and prepared to sprout bean sprouts in the basement house and add some new vegetables.

Xie Qingshan went to Yanghan Zhengye to contact the dung men in several county towns, urban dung diggers, bought more than ten truckloads of dung, and collected some pig manure, horse manure, and chicken manure in nearby villages, and transported them to a pond ditch in Xie's Zhuangzi. Taking advantage of the fact that no one saw it, he added other river silt and crop straw according to the ratio Xie Xuan said, and carried out rotting treatment, and then used as fertilizer.

Although dung is not expensive, it also costs money. In ancient China, manure has always been the main source of fertilizer for crops, and it is not something that can be easily wasted.

On this day, Xie Xuan followed Xie Qingshan to Zhuangzi, the first was to see how well the basement was dug, and the second was to know that Xie Qingshan and Xie Pingtian were rotting fertilizer in proportion.

After getting off the mule cart, Xie Xuan jumped twice on the ground. The mule cart is in the open air, not like the car in the previous life, there is air conditioning in the summer and heating in the east, and her feet are numb after sitting all the way.

As soon as he followed Xie Qingshan into the courtyard, he saw the door open in the west wing, and there was a sound of chopping vegetables inside, Lin was going out with a basin of dirty water and splashing it out, and when he saw Xie Qingshan and Xie Xuan coming in, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Dad, it's coming!" Why is Xuanxuan here too? How good is it to bake a fire at home on a cold day? ”

"I just heard that our Zhuangzi invited a lot of people to work, but I haven't seen it yet! Come and have a look with grandpa! Xie Xuan smiled and said, "Concubine, are you cooking lunch with my aunt?" ”

"Yes, I just washed the pots and bowls in the morning, it's time to cook lunch again, and when I finish lunch, wash and scrub, it's time to cook dinner again, and I can't be idle all day!" Lin smiled and hurriedly greeted Xie Qingshan and Xie Xuan: "Dad, Xuanxuan, hurry up and come into the house to warm up, there is hot water boiling on the stove, drink some hot water, it's very cold outside!" ”

Xie Qingshan and Xie Xuan went into the house, and saw Qiu Niang sitting on a small bench, with a tabletop-sized cutting board in front of her full of cut radishes and cabbage, and a clay pot next to her was still holding half a pot of fat and thin pork.

"Xuanxuan, you're not at home to play with your sister Zhou Qin, what are you doing here on this cold day?" Qiu Niang asked with a smile while chopping vegetables, the knife in her hand was connected into a shadow.

"Look at you and I, come and see you both!" Xie Xuan said with a smile.

In the past half a month, the Xie family has been very busy, Lin and Qiu Niang went out with Pingtian early to cook for the workers in Zhuangzi before dawn, and it was not until it was dark that Xie Qingshan drove the mule cart back, which was really hard.

After watching the tour, she was small and weak, and she couldn't help anything, so she and Xie Qingshan came to the dug basement to take a look.

I saw that the basement house was not far from the courtyard, a small oblong hill, and at the foot of the hill there were five doors that allowed two people to enter and exit side by side, and there was a noisy sound of work and talking from inside.

Xie Qingshan took Xie Xuan in to take a look, the inside was much warmer and wetter than the outside, and the people who worked were only wearing jackets, and some even only wore a single coat. It's a little stuffy to stay inside, but you don't feel uncomfortable when you can get air in with the exit open. When it is time to dig through, ventilate the front and back, and do not have to worry about ventilation.

It is divided into five shifts, with six or seven people in one shift, and each shift is responsible for digging a passage.

There are also pine oil torches burning on the walls of each passage, illuminating the sight, and since digging the ground, the pine oil alone has burned almost two taels of silver.

Because these channels are parallel, you can see which class is progressing fast or slow, and everyone has a competitive mind, afraid that others will say that they are lazy and slippery, and they have all worked hard. So the progress is fast.

Xie Xuan took a look inside, and the area of the digging was about half an acre, and all the small hills were dug through, almost a little more than an acre.

"Grandpa, this hill is dug hard, it won't collapse, right?" Xie Xuan looked at the yellow-black soil on the top and asked with some concern.

"Don't worry, let's worry about it!" Xie Qingshan said with a smile: "You see that we are digging slender passages, and there are thick mud walls on both sides, just like ants making holes, no matter how much we make holes, the ground will not collapse!" ”

When Xie Xuan heard this, she was relieved. Because later generations are plastic greenhouses, they will be covered with straw curtains in winter to severe cold weather, and heaters will be added to the plastic sheds. When the weather is nice, the straw curtains are drawn. Although the basement house is completely sunless, although it is insulated and moisturized, it can only grow some vegetables that do not see the sun, which is still worse than the plastic greenhouses of later generations.

However, she wants to dig this ground house, one aspect is to adapt measures to local conditions, and the other aspect is that she wants to grow those vegetables that do not see the sun, in addition to leeks, garlic, yellow celery and other vegetables that can grow without sunlight, there are many mushrooms, which also do not like the sun.

However, this matter can only be plotted slowly, after all, the mushroom strain still has to be cultivated, and she does not have this condition yet.

After watching the tour in the cave, Xie Xuan felt a little bored, and whispered a few words to Xie Qingshan, Xie Qingshan called Xie Pingtian and went out together.

The father and son came to the ditch with Xie Xuan, and Xie Xuan covered his mouth and nose with a prepared sweat towel.

"The manure I just bought hasn't been piled up yet! I don't know if the compost is enough? Xie Pingtian said.

"What kind of manure is composted? How many catties? Xie Xuan covered her mouth and nose, and her voice was buzzing.

"There are pig manure, chicken manure, horse manure, and all kinds of mixed manure...... Xie Pingtian carefully calculated in his heart, and estimated the approximate weight of each type of manure.

Xie Xuan carefully calculated in his heart, and said: "If you want to grow vegetables and vegetables on an acre of land, you have to have at least five or six thousand catties, and it is best to apply 10,000 catties of rotting fertilizer to an acre of land, but these manures and some broken grass and wheat straw are almost enough!" After that, he talked about the fertilizer ratio, so that the two of them remembered it clearly, and they wanted to turn back in a panic.

The ponds and ditches are full of dung, human dung, pig dung, chicken dung, horse dung...... Raw dung, cooked dung, all kinds of dung, not only to the nose, but also spicy eyes!

As soon as he turned around and wanted to run, he saw a person dodging next to the bushes on the hill behind him, because the leaves of the shrubs had fallen in winter, and he couldn't hide his figure, and he was looked at by Xie Xuan at once.

"Who are you? What are you hiding there? Xie Xuan immediately shouted.

Xie Qingshan and Xie Pingtian, who were talking, hurriedly turned around and saw the person as well.

Seeing that the Xie family had discovered him, the man walked over with some hesitation. When I got closer, I found out that it was Lin's nephew, that is, the son of Lin's second brother, named Lin Chun, who was seventeen years old this year, and came to work with his father and uncle.

"Chun'er, why don't you follow your father and uncle, what are you hiding here?" Xie Pingtian asked him with a frown.

He doesn't like Lin Chun very much in his heart, he is young and strong, always lazy and slippery, not working steadily, but he is very active in eating. The two people who worked in the first class had opinions about him, and his father Lin Hai didn't work every time he quarreled, and there was no way, so his father and his big Bolin Mountain cousin Lin Zhu worked hard to make up for the laziness he stole from.

"Uncle, I'm out for a big deal! I originally wanted to solve it behind the bushes, but I just took off my pants, and I just looked at you guys over here, where are you embarrassed to do it again? With a bare ass, it's too late to hide! Lin Chun said with a hippie smile.

It turned out that there were many workers on the Zhuangzi, and they all came to the manure pit during the day.

"Then you go over there and! Your father and I are composting here! Xie Pingtian believed his words and pointed in a direction.

"Eh, then you're busy, I can't hold back!" With that, Lin Chun ran away in a hurry.

Xie Xuan looked at his back, thoughtful.

After having dinner with everyone in Zhuangzi and staying until the evening, Xie Xuan followed Lin's Qiu Niang and drove the mule cart home by Xie Qingshan.

For several days, the Xie family was so busy that they landed on the ground.

Even Xie Wang's family watched a few children at home, and often went to the vegetable shed to see the vegetables, but the province was frozen and stolen.

Ping An went to the county seat every day to deliver food to the restaurant, and when he came back, he went to the vegetable shed to guard.

Because of the recent frequent big moves of their family, which alarmed several nearby villages, some of them were jealous when they saw that his family sent a cart of vegetables to the county every day. A few scoundrels wandered around his vegetable shed all day long, and the small-minded ones wanted to steal vegetables while no one was around, but the ones with many eyes wanted to steal technology.

Xie Qingshan took care of a lot, while taking care of the Zhuangzi, he contacted everywhere to buy dung, and went to the county town to collect rapeseed and beans for a while, and the oil, salt and grain on the Zhuangzi were eaten, and the pine oil was burned, and he had to drive the mule to buy food and fuel, so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, and he wanted to break himself into eight petals.

The children are the most idle, Zhiyuan Zhicheng only goes to school every day, goes early, and comes back to eat and rest after dark. Xie Xuan, in addition to pointing out Xie Qingshan and Pingtian, is also idle most of the time, teaching Zhou Qin and Zhou Hong to write a few words, recite a poem, and embroider a few flowers with Zhou Qin.

Of course, there are times when you get bored.