It wasn't until Father Xu came back from leading everyone to finish work that Mother Xu came back to her senses.

"Ouch, I've got to hide it."

She bent back to the house to hide the money.

Xu Yin couldn't help laughing, and turned around to greet everyone: "Dad, uncle, aunt, Songbo, Uncle Wen, don't stand, just sit down and eat after washing your hands." I also opened a bottle of wine and drank it in the evening. ”

Father Xu watched as his daughter opened a bottle of the good wine brought by Tongcheng: "......"

The heart and liver tremble and hurt a little.

Xu Yin whispered to her father: "Dad, I got the balance of our watermelon back today, and there are five hundred." ”

"Much, how much?" Father Xu almost fell off the teapot, and his hands trembled violently.

"Five hundred, plus the deposit in front, we sold two acres of watermelons for 1,000 yuan. The acre of late-ripening melons, they also said they wanted, and there will be 500 yuan in the account at that time. ”

"Ouch hey......"

He was happy, and a bottle of Lao Baigan suddenly stopped feeling distressed, and beckoned everyone to sit down and eat.

"Try my girl's craft."

"It's good to look at, Yin Yin is really capable."

Aunt Geng was very supportive, she really felt that her husband's niece was a capable person.

Not only is he a good reader, but he is also business-minded.

Uncle Geng smiled happily: "Yin Yin has become a chef, and she can make so many delicious dishes." ”

"Uncle, you haven't tasted it yet, why do you think that what I made must be delicious?"

Uncle Geng said in his heart: Can it be delicious, so much meat!

Uncle Song and Uncle Wen are well-known rice transplanters in the village, and there is a lot of labor at home, and more than a dozen acres of paddy fields can be planted in less than a day, and then they will help the people in the village who lack labor to earn some hard money.

After the helper is over, he will have dinner at the owner's house, but it is the first time that he has eaten such a sumptuous dish as the Xu family.

When I went back that day, I told my mother-in-law:

"The Guoshun family is really different. Plant a rice and invite you to eat, the dishes are better than some people's tables, guess what we ate today? Mutton! You may not be able to eat it during the New Year, but Yin Yatou actually bought it, a whole pot, and the pieces of meat are more than potatoes. ”

Can the mother-in-law of the two families not be envious when they heard this, and couldn't help but encourage the man: "Or, next year, our family will also leave a few acres of mountain land to grow watermelons?" ”

They have already raised rice and fish, but according to their observations, the most profitable thing for the Xu family should be watermelons.

I didn't see anyone driving a big truck to pull it, and I paid a deposit of 500 for two acres of land, and maybe there was money to get in the future, which was more profitable than fish farming.

The two families secretly decided to follow Father Xu to grow watermelons in the coming year.

However, they also know that although every family in their village will grow watermelons, in terms of who grows the best, it is Daddy Xu.

I have eaten his family's melons, but I don't want to eat my own family's grows.

But these days, anyone who has a little craftsmanship is hidden and tucked, who is so stupid to teach others. Teach others to starve to death?

So, the two families thought of a place, chose an auspicious day suitable for apprenticeship, prepared a generous gift, and brought their youngest son to Lao Xu's house to apprentice.

When you are a master, you will never fail to teach your disciples, right?

The two families arrived at Xu Yin's house almost at the same time, and at the gate of the courtyard, you look at me, I look at you, and then look at each other and smile.

Like-minded people! Like-minded people!

I just don't know if Daddy Xu will agree to accept the children of their two families as apprentices.

Father Xu is counting money with his wife in the house at the moment.

Although it is not yet the end of the year, it can be called a bumper harvest from the current income.

Two acres of watermelons were sold for a thousand yuan, which is the big head.

The early rice of the four acres of paddy field, except for the millet of the acre of rice and fish symbiosis, because this acre of rice is large and full, and the taste is better than ordinary early rice.

So he didn't plan to sell a catty, kept it at home and ate it slowly, and consigned two hundred catties to Tongcheng's son by the way.

The output of the remaining three acres was sold to the grain station, earning 211.

In the end, there were more than 200 rice fish, which were sold for one hundred and fifty-seven, and the total income was one thousand three hundred and sixty-seven.

With a four-figure annual income, Mother Xu has never thought about it before, and she has never thought about it.

Besides, this is only the harvest of the first half of the year, and there are still late rice, late-maturing watermelons, and late-autumn vegetables waiting for them to harvest!

Mother Xu smiled from ear to ear: "Old man, it's right for me to listen to my daughter, otherwise people will be tired and won't be able to make so much money." ”

"Yes, yes, I will listen to my daughter in the future." Father Xu also grinned.

At this time, Xu Song and Xu Yaowen came to the door.

Mother Xu hurriedly put the money into the locked wooden box that her daughter customized for her, hid it in the hole in the wall, and went out after Father Xu.

"What? Learn to grow watermelons from me as a teacher? After listening to the intentions of the two families, Father Xu was a little confused, "What's so easy to learn about planting melons?" ”

Xu Yin guessed a little, eighty percent saw that she was planting watermelons to make money, and wanted to plant them with her father, but she was too embarrassed to come to the door to ask for seeds, so she simply sent her son to apprentice.

"Brother Guoshun, this kid in our family can't do anything else, it's good to do some work in the field, and if there is any heavy work in the future, he will be handed over to do it, and he doesn't need to be specially taught, let him stay by your side, just see how you serve, and it depends on his own talent if he can learn a few points."

"That's right, our family Tiejun is the same, I originally wanted him to follow Jianjun to a night school, but this kid has no scholarly taste, and he doesn't want to go outside to learn a craft, so he simply stays at home and farms. I understand now, this kind of land is not all the same, there is a lot difference between good and bad planting, let him follow you to fight, learn as much as he can, don't expect to get rich, just make a living, and find a partner in the future......"

Father Xu shook his head sincerely: "I don't have anything to teach, both of you have grown watermelons, and there is really no need to learn from the master for that little thing in the field." ”

"It's necessary, it's necessary." Xu Song and Xu Yaowen scrambled to express their position, "Brother Guoshun, you can accept these two boys." You see that your family has been in the army for a long time, and you haven't come back much, and Yin Yatou is about to go to the imperial capital to study at university, and in the future, you and your sister-in-law will be at home, and it's very tiring to be so busy, so let them follow you. ”

"Yes, yes, let them do any work, or multiple errands."

When Xu Yin heard this, her heart moved.

After she started school in September, there were two elders left in the family.

Four acres of paddy fields and three acres of dry land don't look like much, and there are more than ten or twenty acres of other people's homes, but there are only two people in the end.

After thinking about it, she pondered and spoke: "Dad, is there any dry land in our village that is idle and no one cultivates?" If there is, I'd like to contract it. Let's grow a few acres of watermelons, and then hire Brother Mancang and Brother Tie Jun to come over to help, wait for the melons to be sold, and settle the commission for the two brothers. What do you think? ”

Father Xu was slightly stunned, feeling that his daughter was a little floating, and the watermelons on three acres of land were sold at a good price, so he wanted to contract all the idle land in the village.