When Fang Datong came over, everyone couldn't help but surround him, "Brother Fang, what do you have to say when your aunt comes?" ”

"Didn't you come to persuade us to change our nationality?"

"I, I don't want to change my nationality......"

Everyone saw that Lin Qingwan was talking to Fang Datong for a long time, and their hearts kept on it, but it was not easy to come forward and disturb, so they could only secretly guess.

"Okay, okay, grandma does have something to order," Fang Datong raised his hand to suppress everyone's voices, and said, "Grandma said that if the people who left for fear of dragging down the Lin family when they were released before still want to come back, the Lin family will accept it." If there are any more people on the side of the Northwest Army who come to take refuge, the Lin family will not refuse as before, and my aunt and grandmother will build us a house, one house per household, and four households as a neighbor. ”

Everyone rejoiced, "Really? ”

"Of course it's true, but my aunt and grandmother said that spring plowing is coming, and the work in the field can't be left behind, cut down the trees that should cut the trees, and cut the grass when the grass should be cut." Fang Datong said: "The Lin family is righteous to us, we can't be lazy, we must do what we can to repay one or two." ”

Aunt Liu clenched her sickle and said loudly: "Don't worry, Datong, we all know that we can't do many things, but we can still do it by cutting grass and cutting trees." ”

"Yes, yes, we must speed up our actions, and we must not delay spring ploughing."

Everyone's enthusiasm for work soared, not only did they move twice as fast, but they also called the children around.

The world was full of laughter.

The short-term laborers hired by Lin Quan from the city also arrived, and Lin Qingwan divided them into ten groups, one group was led by a subordinate of the Lin family, and they went to work in the fields separately.

It's just that these people are from the east of the city, the south of the city and the north of the city, and some of them even come out of the village, and their homes are far away, so it is impossible to go back and forth.

Lin Qingwan saw that this was too chaotic and difficult to manage, so she said to Lin Quan: "Go to Changfu Village and Qingfeng Village to ask if there are any villagers who are willing to rent a house and rent a few rooms for them to live in, so it is convenient to work and easy to manage." It's just the same, the requirements must be strict, no stealing chickens and dogs, and you must have a good relationship with the local villagers."

Lin Quan patted his chest and said, "Auntie, don't worry, I will definitely restrain them." ”

So, the hired short-term workers quickly lived in Changfu Village and Qingfeng Village, and they went to work at dawn every day, and the sun went down before they finished work, and the Lin family ate and lived, and there was a salary of 20 wen a day.

Not to mention that it is not yet the time for spring ploughing, everyone is idle, and even when it comes, there will be many people who choose to stay.

Twenty yuan a day's salary is not easy to find, not to mention that some people have little land at home, and it doesn't matter if they have one less, and some simply don't have land at home, so they point to carrying bags and doing short-term jobs to earn money.

Looking at such a large piece of land, everyone was happy in their hearts, how long would it take to open such a large piece of land?

As long as they do a good job and don't worry about the Lin family leaving no one, won't the money come in a steady stream at that time?

Therefore, the short-term workers are very hard-working and obedient, and they go out early and return late to avoid too many meetings with the villagers of Changfu Village and Qingfeng Village, but there is no contradiction.

Moreover, the villagers of Changfu Village and Qingfeng Village also found Lin Quan one after another, saying that they also wanted to find a job to do.

As long as he can work and there are no major flaws in his character, Lin Quan said that he would accept them, and for a while, the Lin family's Jue Tian was in full swing.

The matter of building a house for Fang Datong and them fell on Steward Lin, in addition to finding workers and buying materials, he also had to go to Lizheng to buy land.

Some of the places they circled were the Lin family's land, and some were not, so they had to buy them.

Those lands are wasteland, not personal, but belong to the state, so Steward Lin has to go to Lizheng to buy those lands and then apply to build a house.

In addition to building houses on the original homesteads, all houses to be built elsewhere must be approved by Li Zheng and the Yamen, so as to prevent people from building houses on fertile land without permission and occupying cultivated land.

When the people are recruited, the materials are bought, and the formalities are completed, the rain has passed, and it looks like it is about to enter February.

Steward Lin didn't dare to delay, and asked Fang Datong and them to pick the location of the house and take people to dig the foundation.

Fang Datong and the others went to work in the fields during the day, and when they were resting, they went to their own houses to go around, helping the handles, and the speed of building the house was very fast.

They built mud houses, the foundations were made of stone, the walls were made of adobe bricks, and the grass cut in the ground instantly had a place to go, except for the transportation of the grass to chop up manure and burn it to make ashes, the good grass was added to the mud and broken into adobe.

Steward Lin invited all the good people with experience in building houses, and the speed was very fast, basically a group of five mud tile houses could be built in four days, and a total of five groups were built.

In less than a month, the houses of the farmers were built, and the people who received the houses moved into the new houses one after another, and the courtyards were empty.

But Changfu Village is becoming more and more lively, because the sting has passed, the spring equinox is coming, and spring ploughing has begun.

Lin Qingwan has to go to the field every day to inspect the field, and plan the things in the field with the Zhong Da steward, and the main income of the Lin family in the future will depend on this land, whether it is a good life, or whether it is frugal depends on this year's spring plowing and autumn harvest.

The five hectares of land that came with the courtyard were all good land, and they had been cultivated by the tenants and long-term workers of the Lin family, so Lin Qingwan didn't have to worry about it, but Juetian needed to worry a lot about it.

Because most of the land was cleared out, except for the land leased to the villagers of Changfu Village, the rest of the land that could be cultivated was planted by the farmers and the short-term workers.

Last year, they came back late and the ground did not bloom, so they could not sow wheat in time, so this year they can only plant spring wheat.

In areas with more water, rice is sown, and in addition to these two staple foods, soybeans and peanuts are also sown.

Lin Qingwan ran to the field every day, and the person was directly darkened twice, but her spirit was very good, and when she took Lin Yubin back to Linjiazhuang to sweep the tomb during the Qingming Festival, the clansmen looked at her bright eyes and subconsciously lowered their heads and lowered their bodies.

In her, they felt the coercion of their concubines again, and even the patriarch Lin Run respected her more.

Lin Qingwan only stayed in Linjiazhuang for three days and then went back to the other courtyard directly, well, the rice is about to be planted.

When the sowing season passed, Lin Qingwan calculated, except for the five hectares of land that came with the other courtyard, only twelve hectares were planted on the Juetian side.

The rest is still in the wilderness.

However, Lin Qingwan was not in a hurry, thinking that everyone must have been tired of rushing to plant recently, so they let them take a three-day vacation and return to work after three days.

"Now that the spring ploughing has passed, then we will make room for planting fruit trees on the side of Qingfeng Mountain, and the rest of the wasteland will also slowly open up, and we will plant winter wheat in September."

"Auntie, you've been busy with spring plowing recently, I'm afraid you don't know that the second master of the Zhao family has been angry recently, right?" Steward Zhong said with a smile: "I heard that he sent a fire and has already returned to Jiangdu." ”

"Oh?" Lin Qingwan leaned comfortably on the back of the chair and asked with a smile, "Why is he angry?" ”

Steward Zhong couldn't help but laugh, "Didn't you go to Qingfeng Mountain to see it and let people find a fence to enclose the ground?" The slave didn't know why he got angry, and when he heard that the sting had just arrived, he said that he wanted to go home for Qingming, and he left early. Half of the land he had just bought in Qingfeng Mountain was barren, and he didn't have time to plant it. ”

"That's a pity, I still think that when I have time to visit the old lady at Shang's house, I can meet him, everyone can say hello, and we can take care of each other in the future." Lin Qingwan happily took a sip of tea, well, Zhao Sheng left, she felt a sense of relaxation from her body to her heart.

Bai Mei saw her happy appearance, and couldn't help asking, "Grandma, what do you think of this tea?" ”

Lin Qingwan tasted the product carefully, and said with a smile after half a sound: "It's more clear, well, is the water different?" ”

Bai Mei pouted: "You finally found out, this water is the cold spring water on the back mountain, the eldest lady took the geese up the mountain to the mountain, and after seeing it, she asked people to go up the mountain every day to fetch water, and now the tea, cooking, and cooking in our house are all used for the spring water above." ”

Lin Qingwan was dumbfounded, "So, so precious, that cold spring is not close." ”

"Not really, but the eldest lady likes it, and she has to get it no matter how far away."

Lin Qingwan smiled, "It's the same as her grandfather." ”

Didn't Lin Zhi come here to build Zhuangzi because there was that cold spring on the mountain?

Lin Qingwan thought for a while and said: "Since it's good, Ming'er, you pretend to be a Weng, we will take it to Shangfu to see Old Madam Shang, if you don't go, Old Madam Shang will be killed." ”

In the first month, Mrs. Shang sent someone to pick up Lin Yubin, but Yubin kept filial piety, and the Shang family wanted to invite someone to sing on stage, so it was inconvenient for her to go, and Lin Qingwan didn't want Lin Yubin to think too much, so she refused.

During this time, spring plowing was busy, but that was for farmers, the old lady and young lady of the Shang family were very leisurely, so the next post came to invite Lin Yubin to enjoy the flowers, but Lin Yubin saw that her sister-in-law couldn't even eat well when she went out early and returned late every day, and she felt that she had a great responsibility, so she didn't go.

Instead, he stayed in the house to help Lin Qingwan calculate the accounts and take care of the director.

Almost all the things purchased in the past three months have passed through Lin Yubin's hands, Lin Qingwan feels that she is suddenly dying, and Lin Yubin should be able to support the inner house.

Of course, she didn't dare to say such things, because she was afraid that if she said it, she would flood the courtyard.