After lunch, the group walked back to the main courtyard along the shade of the tree, the sound of cicadas continued all the way, and they were not sleepy.

Xu Yin took a nap on the newly cleaned bed, and got up to hear Hongqian say that the housekeeper was coming.

"Didn't the housekeeper think that the girl planned to stay in Wanhuazhuang until the autumn harvest and return home?" Hong Qian pursed her lips and laughed, "I was worried about the girl, so I came to Zhuangzi to see the girl." ”

"The housekeeper came alone? But what's the matter? ”

"Back to the girl, I came with the bookkeeper, saying that I came to show the girl the accounts for the first half of the year."

Xu Yin held his forehead: "He really likes to worry." ”

More worries are yet to come...... When she invited the housekeeper into the house and made a pot of tea, after hearing his intentions, the whole person was cracked.

"Are you saying that after filial piety, there are a lot of people in the house who come to propose marriage? So you came to me to discuss, which one to decide? ”

"I don't have to judge my uncle from these people. But the girl always has to think about it, it has been dragging on, three days and two matchmakers come to the door, and the old slave can't get an idea, always prevaricate with words, for a long time, I am worried that there will be rumors, that is not good for the girl......"

The old butler was worried.

He was really worried that those who couldn't ask for it, in order not to be laughed at, would pull the girl into the water, saying that the girl's eyes were above the top or something, which would not be good for the girl's reputation in the future.

Xu Yin twitched the corners of her mouth: "I'm only sixteen years old, as for being in such a hurry?" ”

"The age is indeed not young, when the old lady gave her husband a character and an aunt, the lady just reached the end of the year."

Xu Yin: "......"

In ancient times, this was not good, a little girl of fifteen or sixteen, who only went to junior high and high school in modern times, and did not decide on someone, so she was as if it was difficult for the boss, and said goodbye! She wants to go back to modern times!

"Then let out the wind, I'm going to recruit you!"

Xu Yin clapped the board boldly.

This trick can scare off many people in the seventies, not to mention that in ancient times when the concept of inheritance was very important, she didn't believe that there were still people rushing to the door when she said this.

When the old butler heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the girl's marriage, of course, he hopes that the girl will be recruited, and if the lord and wife are still alive, they will definitely find a suitable son-in-law for the girl.

"Then the old slave let out the words according to the girl's wishes?"

"Well, go ahead!"

It is best to scare off all the people who want to come to the door to propose.

It was rare for the housekeeper to come to Zhuangzi, so Xu Yin kept him for a few more days.

To engage in team building, of course, the more colleagues in the unit arrive, the better.

"Xu Kui is also coming over in two days, let's have a lotus picking competition. When the time comes, work in pairs and row a boat to pick lotus flowers. Girl, I have a colorful head, which group picks the lotus pod, and the number of lotus seeds peeled out is many and full, then this colorful head belongs to which group. ”

She asked Purple Kite to take out two silver ingots of twenty taels and a pair of hairpins covered with gold and silver.

A few maids of the purple kite clapped their hands and called it fun.

The old butler was all about to move.

Although it sounds like a game played by a young child, who says he can't play anymore when he's older? He's got his legs and feet.

"Sikong, do you know how to row?"

The old butler began to draw allies.

"Boating?"

"That's right! The girl said that in the lotus picking competition, you have to row into the lotus pond to pick it, and those who can't row and those who can row are in a group, if you can't row, I'll find someone who can row. Will you be at all? ”

"Hmm."

"What do you mean?"

"I haven't scratched it, but is that difficult?"

“……”

The old butler waved his hand, and without hesitation, he left the account room and went to the house of the nursing home to chat.

Sikong: "......"

Realistic old guys!

Zhuang Tou heard that the girl was going to take the people in the house to go into the water to pick lotus pods, so he came over to ask for instructions:

"How many boats does the girl need? There are two fishing boats in Zhuangzi, but there is only one boatman. If both boats are launched, then I'll find another boatman. ”

"No, you don't." Xu Yin said, "They row by themselves." ”

Since it's a team building activity, it's fun to row by yourself! Otherwise, just sit on the boat and come back with no difficulty, so what's the point?

Zhuangtou: "......"

Self, self-rowing?

I didn't expect the people in the house to be so capable, and everyone could even row a boat.

I think he has worked in Zhuangzi for so many years, and he is good at everything else, except for rowing, he can't row hard, and the boat just doesn't move forward, and it spins in place......

Xu Yin didn't know his brain supplement, and laughed out loud when he knew it: What a misunderstanding!

In the past few days, she has gone out every morning and evening to turn around Wanhuazhuang.

In addition to five acres of lotus ponds, the rest of Wanhuazhuang is all high-grade fertile land, of which 80 acres are paddy fields.

Nowadays, the ten acres of paddy fields close to Zhuangtou's house raise rice and fish, which is convenient for him to check from time to time; The rest of the paddy fields are still cultivated as usual.

The background of this world is an overhead dynasty, there is no double cropping rice, rice is planted in the spring, harvested in July and August, then overwintered wheat is planted, and the following spring is harvested. The land does not stop all year round, but the yield is still very low.

While Xu Yin was strolling around, she was thinking, how can I increase production?

This is not like the Nanban during the Yan Dynasty, because Nanban is closed to information, she can take out high-yield seeds and say that she is exchanging it with Hu Shang. But here, you can see traveling merchants everywhere on Los Angeles Street, perhaps because many spices come from foreign countries, and Los Angeles people are well accepting of foreign goods.

Seeing that the traveling merchant sells foreign seeds, as long as the price is not very expensive, the head of the village will also buy some back to see what can be planted.

Therefore, this trick is not easy to use here.

Seeds cannot be optimized, and for the time being, the yield per mu can only be increased from the perspective of fertility.

Xu Yin asked the head of the village, how is the fertilizer applied on the village piled up? Then she talked about how she planted the fertilizer for spices and flowers.

Zhuang Tou didn't expect the girl to even understand this, and suddenly realized that she had met a bosom friend. Make a pot of tea, have a plate of fried soybeans, and you can talk from the afternoon to the evening.

Xu Yin persuaded him to try the new manure method, if he was not at ease, he would use a small number of acres as a test field, try not to suffer, try not to be fooled, right?

Zhuang Tou listened to the reason, and went to try it the next day.

It just so happens that at the end of the month, the rice field is drained, and then you have to chase fertilizer again, calculate the number of days of manure, and it is just about the same, just take the fat field that the girl said.

Zhuang Tou was busy with the fat field cake that Xu Yin painted for him - the new type of fat, Xu Yin's side, and when Xu Kui took Xu Cai and other small guys to arrive, he officially started team building.

Everyone gathered in the shade of the lotus pond, listened carefully to the purple kite's lecture on the content of the lotus pod picking competition, and began to talk about it:

"Still rowing? I won't! ”

"I will! A group of two? ”

"Oops! Xu Dong, you said you were in a group with me yesterday, why did you find someone else today? ”

"You're too big, I'm afraid I won't be able to row."

"Hey! You guy! ”

"Hahahaha......"

There was a lot of laughter on the side of the nursing home.

There are also people on the side of the maid and the little maid who are happy and worried:

"Sitting on a boat picking lotus flowers? Will it fall into the water? I can't swim! ”

"Don't worry! The water in the lotus pond is very shallow, and Zhuang Tou said that the deepest place is only up to our necks, and we should not drown. ”

“……”

At that time, Xu Kui looked at his father in shock: "Dad, you also want to participate?" Isn't that right? ”

"What's wrong? The girl didn't say anything, do you have to speak? ”

“……”

What a whisper!