Chapter 481 Leak

Huaizi turned his head and looked up, it turned out to be Wang Zhong, carrying a hoe, and was coming up the mountain. He looked at the sun, it had already set, so he got up and said to Chrysanthemum, "Let's go." The sun had set. ”

On the road, Wang Zhong swept a circle of several people, large and small, the clothes were very strange, and the gown on the young master's body didn't even have a door, but it was very energetic and neat when he wore it. He greeted Chrysanthemum with a smile, and asked Huaizi if he had anything to explain, he thought that the young master was coming to him.

Huaizi looked at him, wearing a half-worn gray shirt and pants, with a smile on her chestnut reddish square face, and Yoko, who was very happy and energetic, came over to see the newly planted oak trees, and took the babies to visit by the way.

After a few pleasantries, Wang Zhong asked, "Young Master, is this oak tree too densely planted?" When the tree grows up, I'm afraid it's a little crowded! ”

Huaizi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, I have my own ideas." ”

Seeing him smiling brightly, Chrysanthemum praised him as a sunny boy in her heart, looking uneasy, and asked strangely: "It's over, why don't you go home, what are you doing here?" ”

Before Wang Zhong could speak, Huaizi lowered his head and said to her: "There is also a yard in this oak garden, I will let him and Liu Xiaosi watch here, and serve those potted plants by the way." He looked up and asked Wang Zhong, "Didn't you come to bed after dinner?" ”

After Wang Zhong finished speaking, he immediately unfolded a big smile and said, "Xiao Si caught a rabbit today, boiled a big pot, and waited for me to go home for dinner in the evening." Now that Xiao Si can cook, I will bother to go home to eat, and the two of us are here to work alone, and we are still comfortable. ”

Huaizi smiled: "Look at your happy appearance, I'm afraid I can't wait to be alone, right?" Under the noses of your father, it's better to be at ease with Xiaosi. ”

Wang Zhong touched the back of his head embarrassedly when he heard this, and laughed.

He is only fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same age as Liu Xiaosi, and he has a cheerful and playful temperament, of course he doesn't like to be detained by his father, and his father is old. I like to talk and nag. He instigated Liu Xiaosi, and the two were not afraid of the cumbersome, learned to cook, and simply started another gang.

Huaizi said: "It doesn't matter if you like to play. You should take care of this forest carefully, and if you see a tree that is dead, you must quickly make up for it. When this forest grows, I will come here and build a yard, and then the whole family will move in. When you marry a daughter-in-law, you will also live with us, and follow me to take care of some things nearby. ”

Wang Zhong was overjoyed, and even said that he would take care of this forest. also urged Huaizi to move over earlier. He likes the young master very much.

Chrysanthemum searched for a long time before she found a corner of the eaves behind the slope of the oak forest, which she hadn't paid attention to before.

Hearing Wang Zhong urging them to move over, thinking that he and Liu Xiaosi lived here, and there was no elder to take care of them, and there was no daughter-in-law to take care of, so he kindly said: "I should ask your mother to help you say a family." After a year or two, you will get married, and you will have multiple people to take care of you. ”

Wang Zhong hurriedly shook his hand and said, "Don't worry. Young grandma. I also want to save more money, learn more skills from the young master, and then find a good daughter-in-law. ”

Chrysanthemum couldn't help but burst out laughing. I wanted to ask him what a good daughter-in-law was like, but she asked if it was inappropriate, so she didn't continue.

Huaizi also had a smile in his eyes.

Wang Zhong saw that they were all smiling, and even the corners of the little girl with bright black eyes next to him were slightly upturned. He was very cheerful and not embarrassed, and took the initiative to explain: "Usually our family is poor, and people look down on us. It was very difficult for my brothers to marry their daughters-in-law, and they were still angry. I thought, don't marry a daughter-in-law first, and wait a few years. At that time, I had saved enough money, and I was also earning, so wasn't it easy to marry a daughter-in-law again? I'm also good at picking a girl who is pleasing to the eye. ”

Huaizi and Chrysanthemum couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, but they didn't laugh at him, but felt very kind: Didn't he say this to Aoki a few years ago?

Wang Zhong thought that what he said was too wishful thinking, and the young master and young grandmother laughed at him. He smirked and blushed.

Seeing that his expression was not as unrestrained as just now, Huaizi hurriedly explained him with words: "It's good that you think so, Aoki and I thought the same way back then." You work hard for a few years first, and when the time comes, you will see which girl, and I will ask my mother to help you come to the door to propose. ”

This Wang Zhong and Wu Cheng, the boss of the Wu family, are both people he likes and uses.

Although the Wang family and the Wu family have many sons, and they are also honest and honest, they are either honest and can't get on the stage, or they are diligent but have no opinions, or they are easy to be impulsive, so Wu Cheng and Wang Zhong make him satisfied, so they naturally have to look at each other differently.

Wang Zhong immediately smiled happily, and said something about planting grass in the field, saying that his father, the old man Wang, had led people to plant beans in the new land in the past two days, and his mother and a group of daughters-in-law were planting grass in the old land under the mountain, so he went to help nearby.

After chestnut and a few other little babies ran impatiently down the mountain, Huaizi finished the interrogation with him and went home.

On the way back, Huaizi talked to Chrysanthemum about the people of the Wang family and the Wu family, and Wang Zhong and Wu Cheng deserved to be used, and said that Wang Zhong wanted to find a pleasing girl to marry just now, and couldn't help but laugh again.

Grape whispered to Chrysanthemum: "Young grandma, he said that he was looking for a girl who was pleasing to the eye, and he must be looking for a good-looking girl." Even if you can't look as good as a young grandmother, you can't be too bad. ”

Chrysanthemum asked amusedly, "Why do you say that?" What if he wanted to find a virtuous man? "Farmers still pay more attention to virtuous and capable wives when they marry their wives.

Grape pouted and said, "It's not a mile." I heard Sister Cherry say that when two cousins marry daughters-in-law, when they look at each other, they both pick good-looking ones. My uncle took a fancy to the honest one, and they didn't like it. The same is true for people in our village to choose daughters-in-law, those who are fathers and mothers are honest and capable, but those who are sons only want to choose those who are good-looking. ”

The cherry is Liu Xiaosi's sister Liu Xiaowu.

Chrysanthemum saw that she gave birth to a small mouth, her lips pursed slightly, although the color was not very good, but it was caused by malnutrition, if she raised it for a few days, this ruddy little mouth was not a "cherry mouth", so she changed her name to Cherry.

Huaizi listened to Grape's words, held Chrysanthemum's hand tightly, and then chuckled: "Grape, that's because they don't know anything yet, and when they learn more about human affairs and world affairs, they won't pick people based on their looks alone." However, the character is good, everything is good, and if the appearance is better, of course, it is more liked. It would be better if both parties were like-minded. Wang Zhong said to find a pleasing one, I'm afraid he said that he wanted to find a temperament he liked. ”

Chrysanthemum knew that he was talking to himself, so she smiled at him and asked, "You have added 400 acres of land, is there enough manpower?" Now it's time to plant seedlings again, and I'm getting busier. ”

Huaizi squeezed her hand and comforted, "Naturally, I also spent money to hire some people. It's all arranged, you don't have to worry. ”

Today, there are more than 50 tenant farmers under the name of the Zhang family, and more than 300 acres of land are rented. This is still the result of Zhang Huai's careful selection, if it is really gathered, not to mention, thousands of acres of land is a light and clever thing.

However, he had his own plans, and he didn't want to rely on this method to accumulate land and money. Therefore, Chrysanthemum added so much land, and the farmers were not busy enough, so they had to hire another person.

Chrysanthemum smiled, Xindao has you busy arranging it, what do I have to worry about?

Cultivating wasteland, planting trees, digging ponds and raising fish, planting seedlings and cutting rice, raising pigs and chickens, the Zhang family was extraordinarily busy this year, and they can't be described one by one.

Chrysanthemum planted 30 acres of peppers this year, from July onwards have been picking red peppers to the underground storage room collection, after the beginning of autumn, and put enough soil manure, peppers are stubble after stubble to pick home, at this time, even green peppers are picked back.

When they started to buy chili peppers, the Fang family also took action, and they collected them in Xiatangji. The Zhang family didn't care, this was agreed by both parties in advance, they still collected it at the door of their homes, and only the villagers from some nearby villages sold the chili peppers.

After the Zhang family and the Zheng family collected more than 10,000 catties of chili peppers, plus the part they planted, they added up to 80,000 catties, and at this time, someone finally discovered the method of storing chili peppers. Chrysanthemum didn't care, let people pass around.

Originally, she was going to announce the preservation technology of chili peppers at this time, but she stopped thinking about it and decided to wait for a while.

"Who is this eating inside and out?" Souko asked Chrysanthemum in confusion.

On a cloudy day, he took chrysanthemums and a few children, as well as grapes and black skins to watch Mrs. Wang and her daughter-in-law pick lotus pods and water chestnuts by the fish pond under the bamboo garden.

Chrysanthemum sat on the grass by the pond ridge, looking at a few babies running crazy on the pond ridge, some holding a green umbrella-like lotus leaf in their hands, and some holding a small lotus canopy like a green bowl, ran to the side of the black skin and stopped, watching him fish.

She looked back and smiled: "It definitely won't be these people in the family, otherwise, it wouldn't have been a fork, and it was actually said that it was wrapped in straw with chili peppers." Thinking about this makes me feel a lot better. I thought that someone must have entered the courtyard to peek, but I didn't see it clearly, and I saw the straw exposed in the gap of the bamboo basket and the lid, but we were wrapped in straw with chili peppers. I don't know if those tenants did it, or if the people outside climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard to peek. Whoever it is, this time it's going to teach them a lesson. ”

It turned out that because there were more chili peppers hidden this year, Huaizi suggested putting a little straw at the bottom and around the bamboo basket, and then burying the chili peppers with grass ash. First, it is to cover people's eyes and ears, and secondly, to prevent ash leakage: this year, it is necessary to transport chili peppers out of the basket, not compared to last year, all of which are taken out of the chili peppers and then taken out, if the ash leaks, it will be delayed.

Liu Heizi's family and Uncle Ma and Aunt Ma all know the inside story, if they leak the secret, they will not say that they are stored with straw, so they can only be other people, which makes Chrysanthemum very pleased.

Even the Wu family and the Wang family can't escape their involvement, because their two families often go to the Zhang family to find Huaizi and Chrysanthemum to talk about things, but it is not excluded that outsiders peep.

The leaker was also afraid that the Zhang family and the Fang family would find trouble, so everyone outside knew that now every family was hiding chili peppers, so there was no way to find out.

Huaizi nodded with a heavy gaze and said: "The peekers must have collected the most chili peppers, and ordinary people, all the ones that should be sold have been sold, but they can only hide a few dozen catties." Naturally, we will find out. ”

This year, people know that autumn peppers are easy to sell, and those farmers who originally grow peppers as vegetables have used the open space in front of the house, behind the house, and under the wall, and the number of peppers is much higher than last year.