"This menu is very good, didn't Uncle Zhong send a basket of mushrooms, as well as the game sent by Fang Datong, all of which are kept for you to cook. Then let the cook pick flowers and make some pastries for you," Lin Qingwan returned the list to Lin Yubin, looked at her with satisfaction and said: "Tomorrow you take them to the garden to play, if you go out, you can do it, but you are not allowed to go far, just walk around the Zhuangzi, take someone with you, and ask Mama Lin and Mama Wang to help you if you have something." ”

Lin Yubin rubbed the list with his fingers and asked, "Sister-in-law, are you really not at home tomorrow?" ”

"I'm not going far, I'm going to look at the water in Juetian," Lin Qingwan encouraged her: "Yubin is already a little adult, and he can even manage the account books at home, are you still afraid of entertaining friends?" Danlan and the others don't say, aren't you having a lot of fun with Cui Rong and them today? ”

But in the end, it was the first time to greet friends at home, and Lin Yubin was still very nervous.

Seeing that she lowered her head and didn't speak, Lin Qingwan pulled her and said, "Okay, let's go to sleep, you stay with my sister-in-law today, and we'll go through the matter again." ”

The things in the field are not urgent, but the opportunity is rare, Lin Qingwan just wants to exercise her ability to deal with affairs alone.

In order not to soften her heart, Lin Qingwan got up early in the morning, washed up and went out when Lin Yubin was still in bed.

Steward Zhong and Lin Quan accompanied her.

Recently, there has been a lot of rain, and it has rained every once in a while, and some low-lying areas have been flooded, not to mention the fields near the river, which are almost submerged.

A lot of rice in the fields was washed away, and the farmers were distressed to death.

The situation of the tenants is okay, the land they chose to rent before is some distance from the river, and they also live here to know the situation, so they choose a good choice, even so, the rice in their fields has been washed away a lot, but at this time, it is too late to replant, and they can only watch and feel distressed.

The fields on both sides of the river bank were all hired by the Lin family for short-term jobs, and Fang Datong took care of their daily life, so as soon as the rice fields were washed, Fang Datong's eyes were red, and he couldn't wait to use his body to block the water.

Because there was a lot of water, the road they drove out was also muddy, Lin Qingwan sat in the carriage and jolted, lifted the curtain and said to the chief steward Zhong who was sitting on the wheel: "This road has to be repaired, this Juetian is thirty hectares, we can't just rely on the official road, we have to open a way out here." ”

"The carriage will be on the road a few more times."

"I'm not talking about this kind of road," Lin Qingwan bumped again, almost hitting the wall of the car, she said speechlessly: "The road I'm talking about is not better than the official road, at least it can't be worse." ”

Otherwise, would she have to come down to inspect the Grange in such road conditions in the future?

She's going to fall apart, she will.

When they arrived at the river, the chief steward Zhong hurriedly jumped out of the carriage and put down the stool, Bai Mei and Bai Feng got out of the car in a daze, and they wanted to help Lin Qingwan get off the car when they stepped on the mud and turned dizzy.

Lin Qingwan saw that they couldn't stand steadily, so she pulled away their hands and said, "I can do it myself." ”

Lin Qingwan still had clogs under her shoes, and she was a little unsteady when she walked for the first time, but she quickly got used to it.

The river has overflowed to the river bank for at least three meters, and the rice tips can only be faintly seen at the edge, and in the place where Lin Qingwan is standing, the rice fields on both sides have been washed away, and the rice seedlings that are not short are still floating in the fields.

Chief Steward Zhong wiped his sweat and said: "Yesterday, Fang Datong took someone to insert the washed rice seedlings back again, but this rain has to be returned, and it is estimated that it will have to be rushed later, so the small ones told them to stop, lest the rice seedlings were not planted well in the end, and people would give something wrong." ”

Lin Qingwan bowed, "You did the right thing, this water potential, even if you plug it in, it's useless." ”

She frowned slightly and said, "Didn't you ask the old farmers nearby before farming, why did such a question still occur?" ”

"The little one did ask them, and they all said that the river would rise during the summer flood, but when it spread two meters, the small one also specially told them to set aside enough river channels to avoid flooding in the summer. At that time, the hired short-term workers were four meters away from the riverbank, who knew that there would be so much rain this year......"

It rained one after another after Qingming, and it didn't rain much every time, the size of a millineedle, just fine and linen, and it was a small half a day.

At that time, everyone was still happy, thinking that the spring rain was as expensive as oil, and this year would definitely be a bumper harvest.

Who knew that the rain was endless, the next three or five days, a day or two of sunny, then intermittently three or five days, another two or three days of fine, and when they reacted, the water in the fields was overflowing.

Lin Qingwan walked along the river for a while, listening to the sound of the rushing water and sighed: "That is to say, the rain is abnormal this year?" ”

"Yes." Chief Steward Zhong bowed his head and blamed himself: "This is a small dereliction of duty, not fully prepared. ”

"This is a natural disaster, what does it have to do with you?" Lin Qingwan sighed and said: "Making a living from agriculture is like this, it always depends on the right time and place. If God is willing to eat, life will be better, and we will be fine......"

At least Juetian doesn't have to pay taxes, and ordinary people are miserable.

Looking at the sparkling water, a grass carp emerged from under the rice, and saw Lin Qingwan dodge back with a "sigh", jumping left and right, and disappeared in Lin Qingwan's gaze after a while.

She said thoughtfully: "Although people cannot change the time of the day, they can always adapt to the time of day and do something for their own benefit. ”

"Huh?" Chief Steward Zhong and Lin Quan were confused.

Lin Qingwan couldn't help but snap her fingers, "Juetian is so big, isn't there a lack of water in it, let's dig the river and bring in the water, and next year there will be more fertile land to grow rice, and fish and ducks can be raised in the pond." ”

Lin Quan opened his mouth wide, "This, how much does this cost." ”

Steward Zhong was also shocked, "Grandma, we have no money, and this Juetian, this Juetian will be returned to the imperial court in the future......"

This water conservancy project has benefited for a hundred years, and now it costs a lot of money to get these, and my aunt and grandmother live a long life, and they can still make some, if ......

That's a waste of money, and the most important thing is that they still have money?

Chief Steward Zhong avoided others and whispered to Lin Qingwan to settle accounts, "Auntie, now there are only 12,600 taels of silver in the house, not counting the expenditure on the public account, but even counting the dozens of taels of silver, it is not much, and you still have a large number of people under your hands." ”

Lin Qingwan coughed lightly and said, "Then dig a ditch, dig a few more ponds, and the river will not be considered for the time being." ”

Steward Zhong's eyes were full of tears, "Auntie, the cost of digging the pond is also a lot. ”

"It will make money," Lin Qingwan comforted him: "There is a reward for paying, at least if it rains again, our fields will not be washed away again, and if there is a drought, the water in the pond can still be watered." ”

Chief Steward Zhong was expressionless, "Grandma, this is Jiangnan, how can there be a drought?" ”

"At least it can prevent flooding."

Chief Steward Zhong looked at her silently, are you serious?

Just a few ponds can prevent flooding, so how can those dikes be embarrassed?

Lin Qingwan turned her eyes away with a weak heart, pointed to Juetian on the opposite side, who had not yet had time to be cultivated, and said: "Just dig four ponds over there, dig four ditches to pass through, and try not to destroy the rice fields." ”

Lin Qingwan saw that Chief Steward Zhong frowned, so she sighed: "Uncle Zhong, the fields on the other side of the two rivers are the easiest to cultivate into fertile fields, if we don't prevent it, the floods are like this every year, how much we have lost, just dig a few ponds, if the waterlogging is not serious, we can solve it ourselves." ”

"What if it's serious?" There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and if there is strong wind and rain, the flood is even more serious.

Lin Qingwan sighed, "That's a natural disaster, and it can't be reversed by manpower now." But now that the flood is not serious, and manpower can do it, then we can't let it go. ”

Chief Steward Zhong was silent for a moment, moved but hesitated, "But the money ......"

"How much does it cost to dig a few ponds and ditches?" Lin Qingwan waved her hand and said, "Go find the workers, now that the farming is just over, there are not too many idle laborers." ”

The wage is cheap, at this time, looking for a worker, 20 wen a day, and a hundred people are only 2,000 wen a day, which is converted into less silver.

Digging a pond is considered hard labor, the Lin family can pack two meals, the vegetables are grown in their own village, and the Lin family also has a stock of grain, and the daily expenses are oil, salt and meat, and there is not much money in a day.

Four ponds, the foundation of the pond is built, and then the ditch leading to it is dug in about a month, if there are many people, it may not take a month to get it.

The money spent in this way is not much, in fact, most of the expenses are still tools, and fish fry to be bought after digging the pond.

In fact, the Lin family now spends the most money on seeds, rice seeds, wheat seeds, bean seeds, etc., as well as fruit tree seedlings and flower seedlings, and planting needs to be invested one after another, and then there is a lot of money to be spent.

In fact, in the eyes of Steward Lin and Steward Zhong, the Lin family's money is really not enough, and the aunt and grandmother only counted the expenses of Zhuangzi, but forgot that in addition to Zhuangzi, the cost of human relations will only be greater.

Don't say anything else, can you wronged your aunt and grandmother and eldest lady, eat and drink finely, you have to go out to buy what you don't have in the Zhuangzi, the eldest lady now has to drink a small bowl of bird's nest every day, and now the Lin family's warehouse still has stock, but it will be eaten in three or four months, do you want to enter the new one when the time comes?

A box of bird's nest costs fifty taels, and the eldest lady used to eat the best, so she can't suddenly change to the kind of inferior bird's nest with ten taels and one box, right?

Besides, when the season changes, you have to change clothes and jewelry, they have a lot of fabrics, and the embroidery is also ready-made, so you don't have to worry, but what about jewelry?

You have to play one or two pairs a season, although the aunt and the eldest lady are keeping filial piety, many things are not easy to wear, but the plain jewelry is okay.

It is pure and noble, and it is noble and elegant, and the money spent is only more than that which is inlaid with gold and silver. Every year, a few new sets of jewelry will be released, and other ladies and ladies have changed, but their aunts and grandmothers have not changed, and they have gone out to meet people, but I am afraid that I really think that the Lin family has declined.

Steward Lin and Steward Zhong will never allow anyone to despise their aunt and grandmother and eldest lady.

In addition to the most important thing, there is also the problem of etiquette, followed by the Dragon Boat Festival, followed by the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival, and then the New Year, these major festivals are all to be ritualized.

In addition to the Lin clan, there are also in-laws such as the Shang family, as well as people who are closer to the Lin family, Liu Pei and Sun Huai in Yangzhou, Lingyun Wang Jin, the master's good friend, and even the emperor and the old man in the capital have to get a share, do you want to spend money?

Steward Zhong just made a rough calculation and felt that it was dark in front of him, and he had no money, auntie, we had to save some flowers.