Chapter Forty-Eight: Farming
Chen Ergou said conclusively: "It's not that I borrowed money and didn't pay it back." San Lang, saving people's lives is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, you can do it, it's a big deal to wait for my donkey to come back, recognize you as a godfather, and help your family work for the rest of your life..."
Jiang Saburo and Chunniang's angry faces turned green, and they shouted angrily: "Get out!" ”
Pick up a wooden shovel and shoot him.
Chen Ergou and his family were so frightened that they got up and ran away, and they couldn't stop shouting, "That... Can you lend me your deer, wait for my donkey to come back, and then go to the mountains to hunt a head and pay you back, no... Hunt three heads and return you..."
Jiang Saburo was so angry that he chased after him with a wooden shovel.
was so frightened that Chen Ergou and his wife ran away, and ran away without a trace.
The villagers on the threshing floor heard this, and couldn't help but scold: "It's really shameless, no wonder Chen Donkey dares to block the road and rob, he has such a father and mother, it's strange that he can learn well." ”
The more Jiang Saburo thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he always felt that Chen Ergou was strange.
"No, I have to go to Patriarch Chen and ask him to come forward to solve this matter."
After all, Chen Ergou is a member of the Chen clan, and only the patriarch of the Chen clan can control him.
Chunniang nodded: "You go, I'll see what kind of moth Chen Ergou is going to make trouble again." ”
"Hmm." Jiang Sanlang threw away the wooden shovel in his hand and walked towards Patriarch Chen's house.
The midsummer sun is already like a small stove.
Ying Bao took Yo You for a walk outside, and when she saw Xiao Wu Xiaojie's head sweating in the sun, she hurried home.
took the two younger brothers out of the back basket, and asked Yuan Bao to take the tiger out.
There were two mats on the floor of the hall, and four boys sat on the mats to play with Kongming locks and tangrams.
The little Sakura went to the stove to cook.
She can't stir-fry vegetables, but she can wash rice and cook rice, and cook a pot of water chestnuts by the way.
Anyway, no one saw it at this time, so Sakura simply took out a basket of water chestnuts, washed them and put them in the pot and began to cook.
Her stove is two pots, one for rice and one for water chestnuts.
It didn't take long for the rice to cook and the water chestnuts to cook.
Take out the water chestnuts, put the water chestnuts into the crockpot separately, put some brown sugar in it and stir it, and when it is cold, give it to the ingots and tigers to drink.
Take out some more greens, pick and wash them and put them aside, and let A-Niang come back to make them.
One of the hens hatched a flock of chicks in early spring, and there were 20 of them, and they were ready to feed, so Sakura Po threw the leaves of the vegetables they had picked up for them to peck.
The chick was fluffy, and its wings had grown a few hard feathers, and it was chirping around Sakura's feet.
Until the evening, Jiang Saburo and Chun Niangfang went home.
Chun Niang saw that the little girl had cooked all the rice and picked and washed the dishes, so she couldn't help touching her little head and said with pity: "Bao'er is really capable." ”
Ying Bao pursed her lips and smiled: "I also boiled water chestnuts, let Yuan Bao and Huzi bring some back, and a small pot, mother, you can taste it." ”
Chunniang was surprised: "Are you looking for water chestnuts again?" ”
Sakura nodded.
"Bringing your brother with you?" Chunniang asked.
She seemed to see the little girl leading the deer around.
"No, I found it myself." Sakura said without blushing.
Chunniang did not doubt him, and said: "Bao'er, when you go out to play in the future, it's best to be with your brothers and sisters." ”
The previous incident had not subsided, and she did not dare to let her daughter walk out of their sight alone.
"Well, mother, don't worry, I will be with Sister Dani and them in the future." Sakura nodded obediently.
Chunniang cooks the dishes, and the family sits down to eat.
Xiaojie Xiaowu smelled the aroma of food and quickly crawled over, holding his father and sister and screaming.
Chunniang fed them steamed eggs with a spoon and asked her husband, "San Lang, what did Patriarch Chen say when he went to Xicun?" ”
Jiang Saburo took a big bite of the rice and said, "Chen Ergou said that Chen Lao was picked, so Patriarch Chen went to his house to train him. This is probably over.
However, Patriarch Chen assured me that Chen Ergou would not come to harass us again in the future. ”
"That's good." Chun Niang was slightly relieved.
After eating, Jiang Saburo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks to wash, and Chunniang boiled water to bathe and change clothes for the children.
Ever since they could climb, the two little leather monkeys were scurrying all over the ground, and their bodies were dyed like mud monkeys, and the shorts and shorts were almost like they had been scooped through the mud.
After changing her clothes and pants, Chun Niang slapped her son's buttocks, "Crawl all over the ground again and beat you to death." ”
Xiao Jie grinned, Xiao Wu wrinkled his nose, turned around to look for his sister for comfort.
Sakura Bao was lying on the table in the West Inghouse at this time, first copying a copybook, and then copying two pages of 1,000-word text.
Now her handwriting is already presentable, although she has no style, but she is very graceful and upright.
The summer harvest is over.
Li Zheng brought the townsman over to urge the tax, Jiang Sanlang took the lead in paying the tax, and also paid it for the eldest brother and the second brother's family.
When their golden ears are sold, the eldest brother and the second brother will naturally return the money.
During this period, the Jiang family purchased several hundred catties of wheat from other villagers' families and kept them in the family for grain.
After the wheat harvest, it is time to plough the land, plant seedlings, and plant soybeans, and it takes a month to be busy.
At this time, the golden fungus is also ripe, and it is waiting for the harvest to dry.
Jiang Saburo scratched his head a little, not knowing what to do first.
"Dad, I'll harvest the golden fungus, leave these to me."
Ying Bao took the initiative to ask for help: "We only have 200 golden fungus, and I can pick them in two days." Now that the sun is enough, it is just the right time to save drying. ”
"Then I'll leave it to Bao'er." Jiang Saburo readily agreed.
So Sakura began to get busy, the two brothers were very well-behaved, and they did not make a fuss, as long as they could see the sister at a glance, they could sit quietly on the mat and play tangram for two hours.
The golden fungus was dried in the scorching sun for five days, and it was completely dry, and not a single flower was moldy and rotten.
It just so happened that Jiang Saburo and his wife had also finished plowing the dry land, and the seedlings had also been planted.
After a day of leisure, the three brothers of the Jiang family went to the county seat with the dried golden fungus and sold all the golden fungus.
This time, Jiang Saburo sold sixty-two catties of gold ears and got one hundred and eighty-six taels of silver.
Jiang Dalang's 100 golden ears also have 28 catties, and they sell for 84 taels of silver.
Jiang Erlang's twenty-six catties earned seventy-eight taels of silver.
Even Jiang Laohan earned fifteen taels.
The family returned from the county seat with joy and brought back a lot of cloth and daily necessities.
At this time, the whole village knew that the Jiang family had made a lot of money selling golden ears.
The first person to come to inquire was Aunt Wang.
Her house is not far from Jiang Sanlang's house, and in the past few days, she has seen Jiang Saburo's shop drying yellow mushrooms, although she is curious, she just glances at it.
Later, the three brothers of the Jiang family took a lot of baskets of yellow mushrooms to the county seat, and when they came back, they brought back a cart of cloth and goods, and the fool also knew that their family made a lot of money.
"Chun Niang, how do you grow those yellow mushrooms? Can you give us some seeds? ”
Second Aunt Wang smiled and pulled Chunniang to ask.
Chunniang smiled: "Yes, but our seeds are very expensive, and we need fifty yuan a plant." ”
"What? Want fifty wen a plant? Why don't you grab it! Aunt Wang darkened her face, turned around and left.
Chunniang didn't pay attention to it.
Give her fifty wen a loss, isn't it fragrant to grow it yourself?
Alas, if it weren't for the bamboo shed that couldn't fit it, San Lang would have wanted to plant four or five hundred plants at a time.