When Shen saw Zifu asking, he told him about Tian's coming to ask for wheat in the morning, and told him not to make trouble in the past. In the end, Shen said: "It's true to live a good life by yourself, don't be useless and idle." If you have angry energy, it's better to think about how to live a good life, the requirements put forward by the elders, as long as they are not too unreasonable, they can be satisfied, you have read books, you should understand better than your mother, if a person's reputation is bad, not only can you not take the exam, you can't be an official, and you can't say that you can't be a good family. Zifu nodded respectfully when he heard this.

The next day, Zifu sent Shen and Zilu away, changed into a short shirt and went to the vegetable field to dig potatoes, Ziqing carried a basket to pick it up, and fell down by the well platform one by one, and when he saw earthworms and insects on the leaves, he took them to feed the chickens.

After a while, Zishou came over to call someone, it turned out that Zixi woke up, Ziqing went back to the house to pack up Zixi and came out, and saw Zifu was loading vegetables into the basket, Zishou was pestering Zifu to go out, Ziqing thought that he was still a three-year-old child, and he loved to play and make trouble, and it was really not easy to circle in the house all day and watch the little brother who was a few months old. opened his mouth and asked Zifu to take him away.

Suddenly, he thought that Zeng Ruixiang would go home tonight, so he asked Zifu to buy some bones and meat back. Zifu went to fetch more than a dozen copper plates and left with Zishou.

Since starting to sell vegetables, the conditions at home have improved, Ziqing often wants to buy some meat to satisfy everyone's cravings, first, everyone is really hard during this time, and second, when the children in the family are growing up, Shen does not want to lose a few children, there was no way before, he couldn't be the master.

Ziqing took her little brother and put it in the basket and brought it out, and went to clean up the yard and the chicken coop as usual, and suddenly saw four eggs in the chicken coop, small and a little bloodshot, Ziqing was very happy, it was really unexpected. The chickens that have been raised for more than six months have laid eggs, and those bugs, earthworms, and tadpoles and frogs have not been fed in vain.

Ziqing put away the eggs and went to clean the yard, swept the peach pit on the ground, and suddenly remembered what she forgot to do, planting fruit trees, how good it is to plant fruit trees in the wasteland of the back mountain, such a large piece, hundreds or even thousands of chickens can be fed under the fruit trees, eggs and live chickens every year are a lot of income, chicken manure can be used to fertilize fruit trees, and the fruits eaten by insects on fruit trees can be fed to chickens. That's a lot to count.

The more Ziqing thought about it, the more suitable it became, and planned to spend two years earning money and raising seedlings first, and she must buy Houshan. The investment in fruit trees is not large, and unlike planting, which needs to be taken care of all the time, pruning and pruning every winter, and there is no need to take care of it normally. With the goal set, Ziqing buried the peach pit in a corner against the wall, and then meditated against the wall.

Ziqing was dreaming of making a fortune, dreaming that a large number of fruit trees she had planted were full of fruits, and she had bought hundreds of hectares of fertile land, and counted the silver if she had nothing to do, and Ziqing, who was immersed in the dream of the landlord's wife, drooled out, and then someone called the door, and Shen and Zilu went home. Ziqing saw that the basket was empty, and there were only two pieces of cloth.

"Mother, are potatoes easy to sell? How much does it cost to sell for a pound? Why did you buy cloth again?"

"Sold for four cents and a catty, although it is not as easy to sell as cucumbers, it is okay, after all, we are not the first one, and some people know the goods. Mother is from the cloth shop passing by want to see, these few times used to it, I didn't expect to pick up a cheap, the boss to deal with this muslin, this cloth is soaked in rainwater in the library, usually about five or six hundred Wen a horse, the mother today spent two hundred Wen a horse, how suitable, a little dirty thing is afraid of something, wash it yourself. It doesn't matter if you can't wash it, the countryside people are exquisite. Tomorrow my mother still wants to buy two horses to save, this good thing is not often, we have many children, and when we grow up, one person will have half a piece of cloth, and my mother also wants to make one for your grandmother. ”

"Then mother, how many feet is a piece of cloth?" Ziqing asked.

"Look at what kind of cloth, cotton cloth is generally forty feet, silk and satin are twenty feet. You see, this cloth can't be broken, and it costs it, and you don't need to wear clothes. As he spoke, Zifu and they came back.

"Mother, are you making us new clothes? My clothes are still good to wear, and you recently spent a couple of silver on cloth. Zifu asked.

"It's okay, my mother said that what should be spent must be spent, the silver is earned by you, and if you don't spend it, who will spend it, my mother knows it. In the past, I didn't have any money in my hand, and I couldn't be the master, so I had no choice but to lose a few of you. ”

"By the way, mother, there is a happy event in our family today, guess what?" Ziqing asked.

"Happy event, your second aunt said she kissed?" Shen asked.

"No, we came from Grandma's, I didn't hear about it, it was the watermelon fruit?" Zifu asked.

"No, our hens have laid eggs. Didn't expect that, right? Happy, right? Ziqing said the answer.

"Really?" "Really?" The three of them all had expressions of disbelief, this was the chicken woman who laid eggs in the first batch of ten chickens that Ziqing bought.

"Ah, when it comes to eggs, my mother forgot one thing, Zifu, you take Zilu to the street to buy ten salted duck eggs, tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, you want to cook five sons, and then go to your grandmother to get some new garlic and green onions, and ask if there are buckwheat pulls?" Zifu took the money and went out with Zilu, and Zishou also followed.

After Zifu and they left, Shen Shi entered the house and quickly took out glutinous rice to soak it, saying that he wanted to wrap zongzi, Ziqing felt that this habit was no different from the previous life, it seems that the productivity level is not too bad, it will squeeze vegetable oil, there are calico, windmills, and simple waterwheels, and other Ziqing does not understand.

After Shen soaked the glutinous rice, she soaked the dumpling leaves, and then took out the colored thread she embroidered, and used five colors to weave something similar to a small net bag, and the net pocket also used two colorful threads to weave a rope that could be hung around the neck.

After lunch, Shen began to wrap zongzi, first wrapped the remaining half of the bacon last time into more than 20 bacon zongzi, and then wrapped dozens of ordinary ones, Zifu took Zilu and Ziqing to dig potatoes, Zifu was responsible for digging, Zilu was responsible for transporting, Ziqing was responsible for washing, and after washing, Ziqing was placed in a place with high temperature and humidity to let them sprout. Ziqing feels that potatoes seem to be able to be planted for two or three seasons, this yield is very high, and while there are not many people planting now, they can be sold for four cents a catty, and the income should be considerable. Ziqing not only had to prepare seeds for her family, but also for her two uncles.

After the fragrance of zongzi wafted out, Zeng Ruixiang entered the door, and the family was eating lively, talking, laughing, Shen first told her husband in detail what had happened in the past ten days, wheat harvest, selling vegetables, potatoes, eggs, etc., and finally said that he wanted a stone of wheat for the festival and asked him to send it over tomorrow.