Chapter Eighty-Eight: Why Are You Like My Mother?
Shen Jun tugged on Wen Han's head, and Wen Han flashed his head.
"Aha, that's really good!" Shen Jun's curiosity was aroused, he stepped forward with his right foot, stretched out his arm to press Wen Han's shoulder, Wen Han dodged and dodged, and at the same time held his hand.
The two sparred.
Wen Han's movements were stiff, and the carving marks were obvious, and he was soon no opponent, almost letting Shen Jun knock him down.
"Don't blow it, do you?" Shen Jun let go of Wen Han, who was panting heavily.
"You wait, I'll definitely overtake you." Wen Han raised his fist in demonstration.
"Okay, I'll wait."
From this day on, Shen Jun and Wen Han have been looking for a place to learn every day, although the two sometimes miss and will beat each other to the point that their bodies are bruised, but no one has ever been angry, unconsciously, their steps are light, and their bodies are strong.
Wen Han didn't remember when, Shen Ping had to leave him at least a foot away.
The stone beam has to be blown down a zhang deep, in order to let the water pass through, this project is not small, even if there is gunpowder to help, Shiwei Village roars constantly every day, the stone beam of more than a mile of road, a month or not repaired to the position, but the pond here, but dug deeper.
With more than 50 taels of silver in Wei's hand, plus a litter of eight piglets, two old sows with big bellies, ten sheep, and more than 1,000 catties of rice, Wen Jin left the leader and took out four hundred taels, all of which were handed over to Shi Zhenzong.
The people of Shiwei Village gave Wen Jin a receipt of five hundred and thirteen taels very seriously.
Wei Chenglan took the people of Weijiawan to help the people of Shiwei Village dig a pond, a young and strong young man, one person has 300 literary wages a month, and forty people, twelve taels of silver a month, all of whom pay off the debt for Wen Jin.
Wen Jin took it very seriously and gave an IOU to her aunt and Wei Chenglan, and the money was foreign, although Qian Xiancheng and Wei didn't take this seriously, but Wen Jin was never sloppy.
Then, Wen Jin stayed in the mountain nest, and she still had a lot of things to do: it was time to use lotus seeds to raise seedlings. Last year, the lotus roots in the small pond were transplanted to the big pond in the fall, and this year, she has to replant them here.
Qian Xiancheng saw that Wen Jin drained the water from the small pond again, and he didn't ask the reason, so he came over to help, Wen Jin simply gave him all the work, and when he waited for the three acres of land on the edge of the small pond to be half dry, he let people plow, fertilize, and then mixed the kiwi seeds that had been frozen last winter and those that were not frozen into the ground to raise seedlings.
Qian Xiancheng now, first, he is guilty that he signed a contract and cheated his nephew, and second, because of Wen Jin's seemingly nonsense behavior, and finally had a good ending, so he let her do things, no matter how she tossed, she didn't interfere.
Wei took over Wen Jin to take care of the old hen to hatch duck eggs, and now the Qian family will rent the old hen to hold the nest every spring, and the four towns and eight villages all know that in the feeding shed set up in the backyard of the Qian family, there are twelve chicken nests in a row, and there are two hundred and forty duck eggs to hatch at the same time, and this alone is enough for Wei to be busy all morning - cleaning up chicken manure, ventilating, feeding chickens, and it takes half an hour.
Qian Xiancheng not only did farm work, but also helped Wen Jin take care of the pharmacy and purchase medicinal materials. He also figured out his experience and informed the people nearby that he would buy medicinal herbs on the afternoon of the second, fifth, and eighth days of the market in Linjin Town, so that he didn't have to guard the shop every day.
Of course, there are exceptions to special circumstances, for example, the people of Shiwei Village stayed in the mountains for ten days, and only then did they come out, Qian Xiancheng naturally did not emphasize what date, and accepted them all.
The people of Shiwei Village have really practiced martial arts, their feet are fast, their eyesight is good, and their backs are heavy, Wen Jin hired Uncle Wang to dry these medicinal materials in the courtyard circled behind the pharmacy every day.
Sixty-one people in Shiwei Village entered the mountain, and in ten days they collected more than ten taels of silver, equivalent to nearly 3,000 catties of wheat, these people's confidence was greatly increased, they rested at home for one night, and the next day they entered the mountain again, and there were very few medicines that could be harvested in summer, so they had to hurry up.
Small buds sprouted from the lotus seeds, growing day by day, until two or three leaves appeared, and Wen Jin gave water to the small pond and planted the lotus buds.
The little seedlings of kiwi fruit also came out of the ground, line by line, but I didn't expect that it would not grow buds without freezing in the cold winter, Wen Jin asked Su Tongde to help cut some bamboo, and planted a fence around the nursery to prevent the scourge of chickens and ducks.
Wen Jin hurriedly went to Shiwei Village. The people over there agreed to Wen Jin's installment payment, so they had to demarcate the boundary for her, and in the end, they measured 2,000 acres of land in the easternmost part of the village, and Shi Zhenzong accompanied Wen Jin to transfer the account on the side of Master Sun.
Wen Jin finally has the land under her name, and she is excited, and she implements the transformation steps she has planned one by one.
First of all, two thousand acres of land were leveled and planted into soybeans, and soybean roots have a nitrogen-fixing effect, which is also a way to fertilize the field.
Then a pigsty was built on the ground, and a canal was built in the field, and trees were planted on the ditch, and the two thousand acres of land were divided into small pieces like a checkerboard. Kiwifruit, like grapes, is a vine-like plant, and the tree planted by Wen Jin will be the best shelf stake after two years.
Then, the people of Weijiawan who helped Shiwei Village all withdrew to help her repair the canal.
With the experience of the people of Shiwei Village in preparing gunpowder and blowing up stones to open water canals, the progress of the people of Weijiawan on Wenjin's side is much faster.
Her soybean seedlings have grown, thin and yellow and fine, and the rain has been abundant this spring, which has not changed the situation, Wen Jin sighed, or the soil is insufficient. She bought more than a dozen piglets in several nearby market towns in one go, and Wei Chenglan found a fifty-year-old uncle in the village to help Wen Jin feed her.
Wen Jin asked people to erect a temporary canal with wooden planks, and she only dug a big pit covering an area of three acres and a foot deep, and stored water urgently, first to solve the problem of cleaning and irrigation of the pigsty.
To really make a big pool for fish and duck farming, she planned it in another location.
Shi Zhenzong followed Wen Jin's suggestion and planted soybeans on most of the land, and at the same time, like Wen Jin, planted trees in all directions, near the river bank, where there was no way to grow grain, and planted reeds.
One spring rain after another, so that the yellow gray riverside has changed its appearance, the pace of summer is finally approaching, Shiwei Village head, is already endless green.
The water canal in Shiwei Village was finally repaired, the water stored in the pond, with pig manure, flowed into the field along the canal, and after a few days, the watered soybean seedlings were darker in color, Shi Zhenzong was ecstatic, and specially set up a table of banquets to thank Wen Jin.
"Don't waste it for me, Shi Shaoxia, you should invite Zhao Zhutou and Huang Xiangzhi to come."
Shi Zhenzong thought about it, if Zhao Li didn't find fault, it would be more convenient for the people in their village to go up the mountain in the future.
Huang Xiangguan accompanied Zhao Li over, it was a few days later, they looked outside the village, the riverside in previous years, the summer was also green, but this year's fields are obviously more vigorous than in previous years, the seedlings are vigorous, full of vitality, unlike in previous years, thin and thin, wilting and drooping, which makes people worry at a glance.
"I knew it would be so easy to change, and I also got hundreds of acres of land along the river." Zhao Li muttered.
Shiwei Village started to sell land, and there are also villages in the back, but there are very few sales, besides, other villages, and they don't want Shiwei Village to be so united, and now there is no village to build a canal.
At the wine table, Wen Jin was also invited, and after listening to the meaning of Huang Xiangguan and Zhao Li, she analyzed the situation for the two: "This matter can't be a small fuss, it must be carried out in a large area and on a large scale, otherwise it will take a lot of manpower to repair the canal, and the output in the field for several years after it is finished is not enough for investment, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”
"Well, people's hearts are moving together, but how many villages can be the same as Weijiawan and Shiwei Village?" Huang Xiangguan sighed with emotion, but in fact, he reminded Zhao Li.
Wen Jin continued: "Land transformation is not achieved overnight, although it is okay to look at the seedlings now, but it is only a small part, and there is no pig manure irrigation, and it is the same as in previous years. ”
Shi Zhenzong lowered his head: "There are only a dozen piglets, how much manure can there be, so I will free up my hands to buy piglets, accumulate more fertilizer, and strive to ease the land in a year." "In most areas of Shiwei Village, the seedlings are still thin and weak.
Zhao Li's heart was half cold.
Wen Jin said again: "If Lord Zhao wants to buy land, it's best to contact a few people and buy a large piece at once." ”
"Well, okay." Zhao Li was noncommittal, and didn't say whether to buy it or not.
Shi Zhenzong is anxious temper, just do what he says, soon more than a dozen pigsty will be full of piglets, Wen Jin gave the silver, has spent most of it, a village of people have to eat, there are a few old people who are sick, the cost of medicine will cost a lot of silver, and some children go to school, have to pay the bundle.
Last year, the children in the village were forced to suspend school, but this year when he had the money, the first thing he did was to ask for a gentleman, but in the end he did not get his wish, but he let several children go to school in the neighboring village.
To make ** saltpeter, as well as to buy sulfur, these are all money, and now, he is buying piglets again, and he feels that this money is simply the water of the Jin River, from the cracks of his fingers, it flows away with a bang, and it can't be stopped.
There are 600 people in the whole village, at least 600 catties of grain every day, and they get two and a half to three taels of silver, which is seventy or eighty taels of silver a month, and the five hundred taels given by Wen Jin can last long? Fortunately, there is a small amount of money on the side of collecting medicine, and some can be subsidized, but when summer comes, people who enter the mountains have to withdraw.
Shi Zhenzong began to consider Wen Jin's suggestion, and arranged for someone to cut the paint, the summer solstice was coming soon, and when the cold dew was closed, the time for cutting paint in a year was only so short, he didn't dare to delay.
Although she was busy every day, Wen Jin practiced martial arts, but she persevered, Shi Zhenzong did not teach her every day, after a few days, it is estimated that she was familiar with one movement, so she came over to check it and teach the next action.
This day's movements are a little difficult, and Wen Jin's waist and abdomen strength can't be reached. "Why are you always like this, like my mother, you can't straighten your waist."
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