After school in the afternoon today, Mrs. Wen said that she didn't need to go to school in the afternoon, so Yingbao took her two younger brothers and A-Niang to pick cotton on the southern slope.

The cotton planted on the southern slope has bloomed and is ready to be harvested.

The Jiang family and some villagers have been helping to pick the cotton in the field, and they are almost picking it now.

When Sakura and A-Niang arrived, the snow-white cotton they picked up was piled on the bluestone slabs in the yard, three whole piles.

"Yo, this is cotton." Chen Cunzheng and the patriarch had nothing to do, and they also slipped to the new house of the Jiang family on the southern slope, and when they saw a yard of white cotton wool, they couldn't help but grab a handful and check it in their hands.

"It's so soft." Patriarch Chen couldn't put down this kind of fine and soft cotton wool, and asked Jiang Sanlang: "San Lang, do you sell this cotton wool?" ”

Jiang Saburo nodded: "We can sell the rest of our own retention, but we can't sell it all." ”

The girl said that the cotton could be spun and weaved, so he was going to let his family spin some threads first, and try to weave some cotton.

Spinning thread with cotton is much less troublesome than using ramie and kudzu vine silk.

As long as you harvest carefully, do not stain the grass clippings with broken leaves, and then remove the cottonseeds, you can directly spin the wheel, unlike ramie and kudzu vines, but also soak and peel the skin, and then beat the hemp and silk, tired and tired to death.

This year, Jiang Sanlang's family didn't plant much ramie, and they didn't even harvest the kudzu vines in Beishan.

Chen Sanyou asked, "San Lang, where did you find all these seeds?" ”

"My Bao'er bought it from the merchant, and said it was the seed of Fanbang." Jiang Saburo did not hide it.

The girl did buy a lot of seeds from the merchant, but he didn't know which one bought them later.

The patriarch looked at Sakura Bao and said with a smile: "Your Sakura Bao is indeed very lucky, the old man has lived to be sixty years old, and he has never seen a more delicate child than her." "No one else has this luck.

People can easily buy cotton seeds from the merchant that he has never seen in his life, Hey, all those bad things in their own house, really should be thrown into the manure pit for manure.

Jiang Saburo smiled and didn't answer.

This time, four acres of cotton are estimated to be able to harvest more than 2,000 catties of seed cotton, and if the cotton seeds are peeled off, there are about 1,000 catties of lint.

After 1,000 catties of lint are dried and soft, it is more than enough to make two soft new cotton clothes for everyone in the family, and more than a dozen bedding.

The objects needed for cotton beating were also told to him by the girl, and the girl also drew a longbow to play cotton, saying that it could be used to bounce the lint into a soft cotton tire.

It is said that this was all told to his daughter by the merchant.

"San Lang, do you sell this cotton seed?" Chen Sanyou asked: "Can you sell some to my family?" ”

Jiang Saburo scratched his head, a little hesitant.

He is not ready to sell all the cotton seeds yet.

Because my eldest brother and second brother, including my father's mother, have to plant the dry land on the southern slope, and I will definitely plant more than ten acres next year, this seed is not estimated to be enough.

Seeing that Jiang Sanlang was embarrassed, Chen Sanyou said: "Sanlang, I don't want more, just enough to plant two acres of land." ”

When Patriarch Chen heard this, he immediately stretched out his neck and came over, "San Lang, my family also needs two acres of land, alas, my old cold legs, I can't stand the cold." ”

A villager next to him smiled and said, "I said Uncle Chen, how many years have you been cold legs, and I haven't seen your legs cold when you don't have cotton." ”

Patriarch Chen glared at the man, and his beard was cocked angrily: "Little rabbit, you talk a lot." ”

A few people laughed and said, "We also told Third Brother Jiang that we want to buy cotton seeds, if you want it, you have to line up according to the rules." ”

Jiang Saburo smiled helplessly.

These five people came to his house to help, and he had promised to sell each of them twenty catties of cottonseed, that is, one hundred catties.

Now the patriarch and the village chief also want to buy it, and he can't sell it, so he will lose forty catties.

I plan to plant another ten acres of cotton next year, which is one hundred pounds according to one mu and ten catties of seeds.

The eldest brother, the second brother and his father and mother also want all kinds of ten acres, which is three hundred catties of seeds.

It is estimated that he still has four or five hundred catties of cotton seeds left.

These seeds are all rare, and if they are sold to people from other villages, he doesn't want to sell them without a pound of silver or two.

Of course, it's hard to tell the patriarch about this.

After picking cotton, the most tiring thing is pulling the cotton stalks.

Those cotton stalks are like small trees, which must be uprooted before they can be ploughed for the next step.

Fortunately, Jiang Saburo is now popular, and there are many people who come to help.

casually shouted in the village, twenty or thirty young men came at once, and it only took one day to pull out the cotton stalks in the four acres of cotton fields.

Sakura and her two younger brothers stayed with their parents on the southern slope for one night, and were sent back to the village the next day.

As soon as she got home, Erni ran over and told Ying Bao a shocking news that it was Chen Zhao's family.

"You don't know, Chen Zhao's eldest sister jumped into the river yesterday." Erni said with an interesting face.

Sakura was stunned.

Chen Wan jumped into the river?

"What happened?" She asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

What do she say about Chen Wan's feelings, she is a familiar stranger.

In fact, Han's children have no family affection for each other, nor do they have the sisterhood of ordinary people, and their mode of getting along is indifference.

will not sympathize with each other, and will not help each other.

This includes yourself.

Of course, I only have no family affection and sisterhood for them, but I feel sorry for my twin brother to the core.

Thinking that they had suffered so much in the Chen family in their previous lives, and sometimes they were about to die, they wouldn't even look at it.

At that time, Chen Wan was already in her teens, and Chen Zhao was only two years younger than her eldest sister.

However, since the Han family gave birth to that son Chen Xu, her two sisters like him very much, especially in front of the Han family, the two sisters almost flattered the younger brother.

In his previous life, when he first arrived at the Chen family, he also tried to treat them as sisters, and when the eldest sister was beaten and scolded by the Han family, he would pity her and feel sorry for her, and block her in front of her and push her to run.

As a result, he was beaten by the Han family, and he was put in a chicken coop at night without food.

Sakura thought that the eldest sister would also take pity on herself, at least bring her some food.

Because the Chen family is not poor, there are hundreds of acres of land alone, most of which are leased to other people's families, so there is no shortage of food at home, and sometimes the food is better than the current Jiang family.

Even if Chen Wan is often beaten, she will not deduct her from dressing and eating.

turned out no, Chen Wan didn't even ask her the next day, and it was even more impossible to let her out secretly.

"I heard that I was rescued." Erni blinked and said, "It was saved by a passing fisherman." ”

"Fisherman?" Could it be the fisherman that Chen Wan married at the end?

Chen Wan later married a fisherman who was six or seven years older than her, and it was said that she was doing well.

"When the person was rescued, her clothes were gone, and she was lying on the ground naked, and the fisherman gave her a slap on the stomach."

Erni said, her eyebrows fluttered, "Now that Sister Chen Zhao has been looked down upon by the whole village, how can I say about my mother-in-law in the future." ”

Sakurabo: "...... Sister Erni, you're not even nine years old, how do you know so much? ”

Erni snorted, "Who doesn't understand this?" ”

The children in the township are precocious, and some of them are eight or nine years old and have set up their in-laws' homes to start the ceremony.

During the Chinese New Year, when the in-laws come to give gifts, they will give the girl a red cloth to make clothes.

So all the girls in the village would run to see the girl's little son-in-law, and see that the boy's head was hanging down to his chest.

(End of chapter)