Chapter 478: Doubt

The Fang family didn't know how to think about it, so they bought the chili storage method for only one year, and made an agreement with the Zhang family to cooperate in selling chili peppers next year.

Immediately afterwards, the Zhang family held a banquet to thank relatives and friends, busy with the New Year, all of them rotated like a spinning top, and Huaizi did not delay at all to buy the barren mountain, more than 4,900 acres, 400 wen per mu, and spent nearly 2,000 taels of silver. On the title deed, of course, is the name of the chrysanthemum.

With the help of Shi Bantou, the title deed was completed before the end of the year.

When Huaizi came back, it was already the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, the village was full of smoke, all kinds of fragrances wafted, and the crisp and joyful laughter of the little baby sounded in the courtyard from time to time, and there was a strong New Year's atmosphere everywhere.

Zhangjiatangwu, Aoki and the others looked at the old yellow deed and the bright red seal on it, and they all grinned to the root of their ears.

Huaizi leaned on the table of the Eight Immortals, reached out and picked up a small fish fried yellow and smoked from the plate on the table and threw it into his mouth, and sighed after eating: "It's still good at home, comfortable."

This small hemp fish was freshly fried by Aunt Liu and Chrysanthemum, and the noodles were wrapped in a layer of flour mixed with eggs, which was crispy and crispy, and the fish meat inside was delicate and tender, and there was only one backbone.

Aoki hugged the cucumber and said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's going to snow this day." Good thing you came back. Spend the New Year in peace, there will be no time to rest after the New Year, so many places, there are barren mountains, and some are busy. ”

Huaizi said: "It's nothing, we have to invite people both horizontally and vertically, is it still the same as usual, we can't open up the wasteland by ourselves." As she spoke, Shallot ran over and climbed up to his lap, and Huaizi sat her in her arms and discussed with Chrysanthemum Aoki about planting trees in the New Year.

Zheng Changhe was indescribably happy, what he wanted to say, but he didn't say it after all, he just looked at the chrysanthemum and smirked; Yang's eyes were also moist, and he secretly turned his head to wipe his tears, the ugly girl who once thought he couldn't get married has now become a big landlord!

Although the He family was also happy, his eyes were a little embarrassed when he looked at Zheng Changhe and the Yang family.

Why did someone raise a good girl to marry your son? The money earned also belongs to the Zhang family, if it is a son, not all the land bought by the Zheng family

Alas! The adoptive daughter suffered a loss.

With five or six babies in the New Year, the kind of lively and festive celebration is not comparable to previous years, and there is no need to count them one by one.

On the tenth day of the first month of the first month, Huaizi and Liu Heizi soaked the acorn seeds, planted them two days later, planted more than ten acres of land, and cultivated oak seedlings.

The thirteenth day of the first lunar month begins. All the tenants of the Zhang family were transferred to the newly purchased 400 acres of wasteland to open up wasteland. Seventy or eighty people were scattered on the wasteland, picking up gravel, cutting down trees and thorns, plowing the ground, and holding grass roots, and the three Wu Cheng brothers took care of them, and Aoki went to supervise the work from time to time.

After fifteen. Zhang Huai recruited a group of people from the surrounding villages to clean up the barren mountain.

This barren mountain stretches far into the small green hills, and there are several hills, which cannot be cleaned up for a while. So he divided the mountain into pieces according to the topography, about five hundred acres, and sent people to take care of them.

After the separation, he ordered that the miscellaneous trees and thorns in the mountains and forests be cut down and the stones gathered up. Pick it up at the boundary and pile it up, and it will be used to build a wall in the future, and you won't have to buy green bricks; When encountering a place where the soil on the hillside is particularly dry and thin, and there are many stones, it is necessary to loosen the soil by excavation, and after the stones are removed, burn some weeds to increase fertilizer.

Arrange it this way. But it's busy. In addition to the tenants, those who are not very wealthy in the village also took advantage of the fact that the spring ploughing had not yet begun, and came to work part-time to earn pocket money, and some people came to help, such as Zhao San, the Liu family, the Zhou family, Li Changming and others, and even the relatives of the Zhang and Zheng families, all came to help. Of course, the Zhang family will pay all the wages, even if they don't want to. A gift will also be given.

Zhang Dazhuan and Zheng Changhe went to the mountain every day to take care of it. If there are many people, it is easy to have accidents, and it is impossible not to look at them.

In addition to being busy, Huaizi is also highly concentrated, adjusting plans according to new situations from time to time, and often meeting with Chrysanthemum and Aoki to negotiate.

By early February, 400 acres of wasteland had been reclaimed. Then it's time to dig the fish pond. Fish ponds are not only dug for fish farming, but also for the purpose of collecting water. Even if it's dry land, where crops are grown, if there is no water, it will never work.

According to the topography, I chose a few slightly low-lying places, dug four ponds, there are big and small, depending on the surrounding plots, but no more than five acres at most, I am afraid that the fish pond is too big, at the end of the year when the fish are caught and dug the pond mud, the traffic water is too troublesome.

After the fish pond was dug up, it was already early February. Aoki asked Wu Cheng to transfer all the people to the mountain, leaving only a dozen or so people here, burning grass and accumulating fertilizer, and taking the opportunity to secretly get out the ashes of the grass and trees where the peppers were buried at home and sprinkle them into the ground. People didn't notice it, thinking that they were specially burning straw to fatten the land.

Old man Wang took his four sons and daughters-in-law to be busy in the bamboo garden, hurrying to replant bamboo, plus the pigs and chickens raised at home, they had no time to go to the wasteland to help, only the youngest son Wang Zhong followed behind Huaizi, and Heipi acted as an errand runner and learned to manage things.

The movement of the Zhang family attracted people's sideways, no matter what people thought in their hearts, there was no gossip on the surface, after all, this time is different from usual, Zhang Yang was lifted, and the gap between the Zhang family and the farmers in the village is getting bigger and bigger.

It was so busy outside, and Chrysanthemum was not idle at home, she took Grape and her cousin to take care of the housework. Years later, Liu Xiaosi's sister, Liu Xiaowu, also came to the Zhang family and, together with her brother, officially became a slave of the Zhang family.

Because there are many relatives who come to Zhang Zheng's family to help, such as Chrysanthemum's eldest uncle and second uncle and cousin Laicai, Liu Yunlan's father, and several uncles of Huaizi have all come, these days, there are many people eating at home, and it is inevitable that they will be busy, and they can't be counted one by one.

They are all close relatives, and they don't have to help anyone to work, and there must be a question of who is in charge of the meal, usually at night, the Yang family will leave their mother's brother and nephew and Liu Yunlan's father at the Zheng family for dinner, and she is afraid that the chrysanthemum will not be able to greet her.

On this day, after lunch at noon, Liu Yunlan's wife Zhang also followed her when her daughter went back to the room to coax the cucumber to sleep, and sat at the table to help her grandson make a gown.

She saw that her little grandson had already squinted her eyes, so she looked at the girl who was humming lightly and gently patting the baby, and asked in a low voice: "Yunlan, the Zhang family bought so much land, why didn't you buy it, didn't the two of you do this chili pepper business together?"

Liu Yunlan shook her son and replied casually: "We don't have that much money, besides, there is a lot of land at home, Aoki said that he didn't want to buy it, and he had to pay taxes if he bought the land."

Zhang stopped what he was doing in surprise and asked strangely: "Why does the Zhang family have so much money, you should share the same amount, why don't you have any money?"

Liu Yunlan heard this, looked at her mother and frowned: "Why do you think of asking this Who said we should share the same amount" She thought to herself, this method was conceived by Chrysanthemum, and she sold it to the Fang family to get silver, of course it should belong to Chrysanthemum, even her mother-in-law didn't ask for this money, it was her own private property, not to mention her mother's family.

Zhang was stunned: she was talking about the money from selling chili peppers, she thought that the Zhang family bought so much land, most of it was earned by selling chili peppers, and she thought that her son-in-law's family should make the same amount of money.

Looking at the girl's face, she cautiously asked, "How much silver have you shared?"

Liu Yunlan felt uncomfortable, and didn't answer this, and asked her mother directly: "Which one said in front of her mother?" Looking at her sneering face, she guessed, "Is it aunt or sister-in-law"

Zhang Shi hurriedly lowered his head to sew clothes, and said in a disguised manner: "No one said anything-" I didn't hear the voice, and when I looked up and saw Liu Yunlan's disbelieving eyes, I had to whisper again-"It's your little sister-in-law who told me that day that the Zhang family had a lifter, and this benefit naturally made them fall, and the chrysanthemum was too disregarding her mother's ......."

Liu Yunlan said unhappily: "What do you want her to do with our family's affairs, and Chrysanthemum is not like that." Mother, don't you hear people talking nonsense, whether it's okay or not, those people are full of food and have nothing to do, and then get together to break the short words of the east and west families, and it's not accurate. Let's just say this, selling chili peppers made a total of a thousand taels of silver, and we also divided a few hundred taels, and Laixi also had to share some, where did the Zhang family get a lot of benefits?"

Zhang Shi listened suddenly, and asked strangely: "That Zhang family bought such a big piece of mountain ......?"

Liu Yunlan had a little headache, and said to her patiently: "Mother, this is someone else's business, you don't care what you do, why can't you make other people's money, I have to tell you clearly, if the little sister-in-law asks me how much money I earn, I don't want to tell her." It's not that you can't say it, it's that you don't want to say it. Everyone is in charge of their own family affairs, otherwise, it will be endless, and it is easy to get into trouble. ”

Seeing that his daughter was unhappy, Zhang hurriedly said, "Mother doesn't ask, don't ask."

I talked about some side gossip again, but I saw Aoki push the door in, and when I saw her, I called softly: "Mother!" He also said, "It's easy to get sleepy in spring, why don't you lie down for a while?"

Seeing him coming home at this time, Zhang thought that there was something, she had always been a little in awe of this son-in-law, so she hurriedly stood up and smiled: "My mother is old, so she doesn't sleep so much." I talked to Yun Lan and was about to see her grandmother's smile. He smiled and went out.

After Aoki waited for his mother-in-law to go out, he took off his coat, took out a book from the secret compartment at the bedside, sat down at the table and looked through it, and asked Liu Yunlan, "Hululi went to my aunt's house again."

Liu Yunlan whispered: "No, I can't wait for my eyes to pass as soon as I open my eyes." There are two babies in the family, and they can't speak, they are not as lively as there, and Chrysanthemum always makes some tricks for them to play, no, he refuses to go home. ”

Aoki checked the data, put the book back in its place, and went to the side of the small wooden bed to look at the sleeping cucumber for a while, and couldn't help but smile, feeling that the corners of his son's mouth were slightly upturned when he was asleep, and he sipped it twice from time to time, as if he was eating something, which was really gratifying!

He sat down at the table again, and saw that the needlework in his daughter-in-law's hands seemed to be a collarless blouse, and it should be his. This strange style was made out of chrysanthemums, and Liu Yunlan saw that it was convenient, so he followed suit. Now the clothes of the Zheng family and the Zhang family can be described as varied, strange, anyway, no one in the countryside cares about this, how is it convenient to do chrysanthemums.