Chapter Ninety-Nine: Remuneration and Gifts

Wen Han was leaving, the whole family didn't go out that day, Wen Jin cooked, Wei and Qian Xiancheng cleaned up their son's things.

The leather jacket and cotton clothes were all taken out to dry, and Qian Xiancheng took two pairs of leather boots from the Wang family. Tieshan's daughter-in-law was really clever and designed this kind of leather shoes with felt waist boots, which are lighter and warmer than the original full leather. The surface of the waist of the shoes, with good cyan satin, embroidered with applique moire, water waves or wishful lotus patterns, etc., simple and generous, but also show the grade, the most important thing is to save leather, can make more shoes, the price is also reduced a little, the market is improved, the business is very hot. Coming to the family and the Wang family, one makes women's boots and the other makes men's boots, they do not affect each other, they can learn and support each other, and the relationship between the two families has not turned into an enemy because of competition.

"Come on, Shen Jun, is it appropriate to try these boots?"

"For me?" Shen Jun was surprised.

"That's, for you." Qian Xiancheng said with a smile.

Shen Jun took it and tried it, he was as big as Wen Han's feet, he was dressed very well, he took it off and put it away, and thanked him very generously: "Thank you, uncle!" ”

"No thanks, Shen Gongzi is too polite."

Wen Han was a little reluctant, turned around the house a few times, and found Wen Jin's snake skin hidden among the branches of the peach tree, which startled him, and took a whistle stick, ready to jump out and throw the snake, and waited carefully to come to him, only to find that there was no head. Without thinking about it, he knew that it was Wen Jin who did it, Wen Han called Wen Jin to the backyard: "What are you doing with a snakeskin?" I have only heard that snake molt is medicine, but I have not heard that snake skin is also. ”

"Brother, how beautiful this snakeskin is, you can set one on both sides of your boots, or make a belt, pen cover or something, don't you like it?"

"I like it, don't say it's beautiful." Wen Han said sincerely.

"Don't tell the second uncle and the second aunt." People in the mountains are superstitious, believing that snakes and foxes are destined to practice.

"Okay, I won't say it." Wen Han nodded understandingly, "Just make a belt, you don't have to do it all, just trim." ”

"My brother has a good proposal, so I will use green satin and snake skin to match, and then set a hook in the silver building, which is accurate and atmospheric and beautiful.

Shen Jun flashed out from behind the peach tree: "Is there still mine?" ”

"Of course." Wen Han's answer was particularly refreshing.

Wen Jin was speechless, after all, her identity was wrong, and she couldn't give a gift to a young man, but looking at Shen Jun's eyes, she couldn't bear it, so she nodded and said, "Brother Shen Jun is here to help, I don't have anything to thank." In other words, she gave Shen Jun a belt, which was a labor reward.

Wen Han didn't know why Wen Jin said this, but still said generously: "Then it's hard for you." ”

Shen Jun glanced at Wen Jin with some dissatisfaction, and soon smiled again: "Then I will thank Jin'er for the gift first." ”

Wen Jin lowered her head and didn't see Shen Jun's glance, but when she heard the word "gift" emphasized in Shen Jun's words, she looked up and saw Shen Jun looking at it expectantly, she couldn't bear to say anything, and turned around and walked back.

Ever since she heard Wen Han say that Shen Jun was abused by her stepmother, she was obviously noble, but it was difficult to return home, and she couldn't help but go against Shen Jun's mind.

Early the next morning, Wen Jin sent Wen Han and Shen Jun to Fucheng, where they changed boats and left, she sold the lotus seeds and medicinal herbs she had brought, returned to the mountain nest, helped threshing and drying the rice, put it into the warehouse, and then went to pick the lotus pods, checked that everything was in good condition in her nursery, and then went to Shiwei Village.

Wen Jin's soybeans are also in storage, and the crumpled ones are all skins, whether they are squeezing oil or making tofu, they can only be used as feed. She finally understood how bad the land of the Jinhe beach was, she was pressing the green, fertilizing, and the crops were still growing like this, no wonder thirty acres of land per capita were not enough to eat.

Wen Jin's bean seedlings are piled up like a mountain, the bean particles are less than 40,000 catties, this deflated beans, 300 catties only have one tael of silver, 40,000 catties is only more than 100 taels, the wages she hires are thirty or forty taels a year, counting the bean seed money, cattle feed, etc., it is equivalent to a tie in a year, almost no income.

Someone behind the scenes, also calculated an account for Wen Jin, it was not worth it for her, Shi Zhenzong knew about it, he was even more guilty, he found Wen Jin: "Why don't you raise ducks and fish?" "Hou's ducks, when the weather is cool, have already opened the nest, now, every day there is a basket of duck eggs, here is close to the county seat, all sent there to sell, the shot is very smooth, Shi Zhenzong has seen hope, the entire Shiwei Village, also full of confidence.

"Am I not the same as raising pigs?"

"But, but ......" Shi Zhenzong couldn't say why.

"Shi Shaoxia, don't worry, I raise pigs, you raise ducks, you will have an income, don't worry about me.

The thieves in Dongshe Village didn't dare to steal her bean seedlings anymore, no one had anything to eat, and the pigs had no feed, so they had to sell the piglets, Wen Jin unceremoniously took them all for herself, and now there are more than 50 pigs in her pigsty, and this one, at the end of the year, there will be a gross income of hundreds of taels of silver, which is no worse than Shi Zhenzong's efficiency in raising ducks.

Wen Jin's top priority now is how to fertilize the fields. The bean seedlings were dried, crushed, mixed with pig dung, and lowered into a tree pit in the ground, and then buried in the soil, and she did not believe that the land could not be raised.

Shi Zhenzong is also a clever person, and when he saw Wen Jin doing this, he did the same, mixing broken bean seedlings and pig manure together, piling them up, and covering them with soil on the outside, ready to fertilize next spring. There is more land and less fertilizer, otherwise there will be no chemical fertilizer, Wen Jin let out the words, and purchased the buckwheat straw in the hands of the people of Dongshe Village, also for the purpose of accumulating manure.

There are more and more animals in the feedlot, Wei Thirteen is getting busier and busier, he still has to cook his own food, Wen Jin thought about it, and discussed with him: "Uncle Thirteen, you ask your aunt, if you want to move here, you cook and eat by yourself, I will provide food, and give my aunt two hundred wen a month." ”

"How's that going to work? I won't give the monthly money, and the food is already good. ”

"No, no, Uncle Thirteen, I have more and more work here, and my aunt will definitely not be idle when she comes, how can I work in vain?"

Wei Shisan was very happy, he originally planned to transition here, seeing that Wen Jin gave him a good treatment, he planned to do a long job, it was not easy to meet a good owner, his eldest son had already started a family, farming at home, and he could have an extra income, of course his life was better.

Wei 13 went home the next day, picked up his wife, his second son followed Wei Chenglan to the Xinjin River to repair the embankment, there is also a child at home, the youngest daughter Wei Xiaoyan, thirteen years old this year, is still a little young and slender girl, thin eyebrows and fine eyes, very delicate.

Wei 13 took his family to meet Wen Jin. "Thirteenth uncle, if you need anything, just tell me, don't be embarrassed, I rely on you a lot, and when I can help, I naturally won't stand idly by."