"What? Do you want to develop our village as an experimental field? Make a base for sweet potatoes? Really, that'...... Then our potato seeds will be handed over for nothing? Brother Li emphasized again.

"Of course not? Lord Gao allocated money to the imperial court and bought our potato seeds, so I sold all the potato seeds? ”

When Sister-in-law Li heard this, she said with a sad face: "Cai Qing! To tell you the truth, I am still discussing with your brother Li that we want to rent the land of Liu Yuanwai's family to plant sweet potatoes, and now we can only plant wheat. ”

Lu Caiqing smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Li! The imperial court has a preferential policy, if the villagers voluntarily plant sweet potatoes this year, and the potato seeds are distributed for free, why do you want to plant wheat instead? ”

"Really? That is to say, the potato seeds were distributed by the imperial court, and we got income in the autumn. Sister-in-law Li couldn't close her mouth happily.

But he said embarrassedly: "That's not right! Pick green! You sold all the potato seeds, so what did you plant? "Don't you have five acres of land?"

Song Ziyu heard this, and said first: "Don't worry!" My little daughter-in-law said that she will switch to paddy fields this year? Isn't there a natural river next to us? This year, the drought has not dried up, so if there is enough rain in the summer, watering is not a problem. ”

When Brother Li heard this, he shook his head and said, "Cai Qing!" You think about it, the sweet potatoes are sold, and you can get them again when the time comes, and you can plant paddy fields instead, what to plant? Not to mention the risk, there is no guarantee, the sweet potato base of Master Ma, first of all, can be guaranteed to be harvested at that time, you should think about it! ”

When Aunt Xia heard this, she was also worried, but in the end, she came from a big family, and she was knowledgeable, so she asked, "Cai Qing!" I know you're talking about paddy fields, aren't you growing rice? ”

"It's still a well-informed mother, that's right, it's rice, if my five acres of wasteland is converted to paddy fields, if the experiment is successful, we not only have white flour to eat, but also eat rice every day, how good it would be!" Lu Caiqing smiled knowingly.

"Look at you so confident, my mother supports you!" Aunt Xia expressed her attitude first.

Aunt Liu saw it, although she didn't know how to grow it, but the expensive rice sold in the city was fragrant and delicious when cooked: "Aunt Liu doesn't know anything!" It doesn't help, but we've got your back! ”

"You two are really! I know, I Li Qingyuan doesn't understand anything, I'm just an authentic old farmer, I haven't seen that paddy field of yours, don't blame me for being selfish, my sister-in-law Li and I want to have no home now, we don't need a house to grow sweet potatoes, we will plant for a year, and when we get back some capital, we will work with you next year! Li Qingyuan said with a flushed face.

Lu Caiqing knows that he is a man who wants to save face, although he lives here, he still feels that they are people with foreign surnames, and their names are not right, no matter how good the relationship is, they can't live in other people's homes for a long time.

He wanted to rent two acres of fertile land, plus buy a cheap house and move out at the end of the year, after all, he lived in the Song family now.

Lu Caiqing said with a smile: "Brother Li! You said this, I don't hide it from you, I really don't plan to let you join me, first, your field is not your own, just rent, second, I am just planting an experimental field, success or not is still unknown, I want to be the first person to cultivate rice, success can be shared with the villagers, failure is regarded as my experience, so even if you want to participate, you don't have your share. ”

No matter how stupid Sister-in-law Li and Li Qingyuan are, they know that Lu Caiqing is giving them a step, and since everyone knows it, they will no longer bother with this matter.

After the discussion, everyone acted together and went to the lotus pond to fish out the remaining fish.

The cold lotus pond is frozen, and a hole is dug when feeding, and now the fish in the lotus pond are removed from the sale, and there are only 100 fish left, and they pick up the big ones.

Song Ziyu looked at the little daughter-in-law standing on the edge of the lotus pond with a red face, hesitated for a while and walked to her side and said, "Little daughter-in-law!" I'll talk to you about something! ”

Lu Caiqing saw that they were in full swing, but he took the initiative to come over, and looking at his unspeakable expression, he guessed that it must have something to do with him.

"What do you say?"

"Then I'll just say it, you see that the Lu family came to make trouble early in the morning, and our family hasn't had a good year this year, so in order to block her mouth, you said that our family doesn't care about this fish, right?" Song Ziyu looked at the little daughter-in-law's face as he spoke, and saw that she didn't have much ups and downs, so he put his mind at ease.

"So what?"

"I think! We live in a village now, and every household sends one to each family, do you want to send one to them too? ”

After Song Ziyu finished speaking, he didn't hear the answer of the little daughter-in-law, and said: "This is a reason that everyone knows, the birth mother is not as big as the adoptive mother, she is unkind, we can't be unjust, and besides, they are elders, right?" ”

Lu Caiqing raised her eyes and looked into the distance, without words, Song Ziyu didn't know what she thought, thinking that she was angry, and said: "You see that when our mother was about to go out, she also asked me to persuade you, we don't have the same knowledge as her, our thoughts are exhausted, it doesn't matter how she is with us, you can't let the whole village look down on you because of this little thing!" ”

Lu Caiqing finally moved his gaze to Song Ziyu and asked, "Brother Song!" Let's talk about it! Who does this mean? ”

"Damn! It's mine too. ”

"What will you do if I don't agree?" Lu Caiqing suddenly raised his eyes with interest and asked with a smile.

Seeing Song Ziyu straight-haired, he dodged her gaze and said: "My mother and I both think this is a trivial matter, if you don't agree, I ...... I'll send it secretly. ”

"Then you're not afraid that I'll be angry?"

"Anyway, I'm for your reputation, and the fish is also in the stomach, or if you don't come back, if the little daughter-in-law is angry, punish me!" Song Ziyu said with a generous and righteous look.

"Good! You still want to cut first! You want me to punish you, don't you? Lu Caiqing looked at him and said angrily.

"I didn't! Little daughter-in-law! Didn't I consult with you? Don't be angry, let's just treat this fish as if it was lost, can't it swim away? Song Ziyu persuaded hard.

"Are you discussing this with me? You and your mother are in charge, you're just informing me! ”

"No, no! I'll discuss it with you now, and if you're not happy, we won't give it away. ”

"If you don't send it back, how will you explain it to your mother?"

"Oops! It's really hard for me to die, so what do you say? Song Ziyu looked up at Lu Caiqing in embarrassment and asked.

"That's it! What is the New Year's Eve that doesn't die, I heard it when I went out at home, what my mother said, I just want to see if you discuss it with me, or send it secretly yourself, even if you are still sincere! Lu Caiqing said proudly.

"Ah~ little daughter-in-law! You're testing me again! It's hard enough for me! Actually, my mother is really thinking about you, I thought she would take Lu's words to heart, but I didn't expect her to be thinking about us all the time. Song Ziyu said with emotion.

"I know you're all doing it for my good, and I'm afraid I'll regret it to them in the future, I know! Let's go catch fish! Lu Caiqing said to him easily.

Song Ziyu listened to it, and saw that the little daughter-in-law did not have a trace of displeasure, so she went to catch fish with confidence.

Delivering fish door-to-door, and also informed Ma Feiyi's policy and the village prophet, after all, in such a big matter in the village, the village chief is also an official, and he should have the right to know.

As for who plants and how much they plant in the future, it is not up to them, and they are only responsible for teaching them planting techniques.

The days of the twenty-third sacrifice to the prince of the stove passed in such a lively way, twenty-four sweeping the house, twenty-five fried tofu, Lu Caiqing also knew about the grinding tofu in the village once.

Twenty-six stewed meat, twenty-seven killed roosters, twenty-eight pasted window flowers, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns.

This day was even more lively, and Brother Bai Xiaoran in the city came back with Yunge to prepare a large cart of New Year's goods.

On the same day, the third son of the Song family also came back, and Yang Yibao also deliberately gave Zifei a half-month vacation, so that he could go home for a good reunion, and then go back to study after fifteen.

On the thirtieth day, Lu Caiqing wrote a couplet in his own handwriting, Aunt Xia made a paste with white flour and pasted it outside the gate, and Aunt Liu was also invited to come here to celebrate the New Year together, and she also said that she would beat the white flour into a paste, which was unimaginable before.

The women cut the window flowers and blessing characters, and the men posted New Year's pictures and door gods outside!

The most important thing in the Chinese New Year's Eve is the reunion dinner, and the four women in the family gather around the stove room to prepare a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Lunch was about to be served, and she first took Lu Caiqing's fried meatballs to satisfy her hunger, and she made carotene vegetarian meatballs, fish balls, pork meatballs and beef meatballs.

The most important thing is the recipe at night, there are many people in the family, not only to ensure that there is enough food, but also to have all the color, flavor and flavor, which is difficult for her Lu Caiqing.

She first made chicken stewed mushrooms, crispy sauce duck, sweet and sour carp, and braised pork, which is indispensable.

Then I made a sauce roasted pork ribs, cabbage meatballs, pot wrapped meat, sauce bones, sauerkraut stewed white meat and Sixi meatballs.

I made four more cold dishes, a gluten cold skin, cold cucumber shreds, pork head meat and a cold potato shreds!

In the evening, everyone gathered, the men made an exception to drink some wine, and the women drank the soda prepared by Lu Caiqing.

Everyone watched the New Year while eating, and Lu Caiqing also gave Duo'er a big red envelope during the meal.

In the thunderclap, the old years are removed, and the green bamboo is burned for the plague. Since the invention of *, it is difficult to stop the New Year's whipping custom.

After eating, Zifei took Duo'er and Yunge out to set off firecrackers.

Lu Caiqing and the others were busy with the dumplings on the first day of junior high school, and every house was brightly lit, so it was not lively.

Lu Caiqing, who was finally busy all day, returned to the room to celebrate the New Year with Song Ziyu, everyone was busy for a day, and Lu Caiqing, who had a sore back and legs, saw Song Ziyu sitting in front of the window and looking out of the window, and felt distressed.

She knew that he missed his younger brother, and his prophecy was really accurate, remembering that during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, she once said that she should cherish the time together, otherwise she didn't know when, she would go her separate ways, and sure enough, when the Chinese New Year was this year, there was one less Ziwu.

She stepped forward and put her arms around his waist, leaned her head on his back and said softly, "Don't worry! Ziwu will definitely be safe, don't think about it. ”

Song Ziyu stretched out his hand and clasped Lu Caiqing's hand and said, "I don't know what he's doing now?" ”