After all the oil lamps were lit, Tao Qiqi was called to kneel in front of all the ancestors.

At this time, Gu Bei opened a box placed in front of all the ancestors' spiritual positions, revealing the genealogy in the box.

Gu Bei took out the family tree, then opened it, and was about to write the name of Tao Qiqi, but Gu Bei stopped again, then looked at Qiqi and asked, "Qiqi, your surname is naturally the one that should be reviewed, but do you need to change your name?" ”

Tao Qiqi thought for a while and replied: "No, the name Qiqi is also very good, and seven, Qi, homonym, happens to be the surname of my father and mother, Gu Qiqi is also good." ”

"Okay." Gu Bei responded and added Gu Qiqi's name to the family tree.

From this moment on, her peach surname has become a thing of the past, and her surname is now Gu, and her name is Gu Qiqi.

She is now a member of the Gu family, and her father is still a general who used to be Dayong.

Although she is no longer a general, she Gu Qiqi is still very proud to have such a father.

That's nice.

In the end, Gu Qiqi gave incense to his deceased ancestors, so that the recognition of his ancestors and his return to his ancestors were officially over.

After opening the ancestral hall, going to the family tree, and recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestors, Gu Qiqi can finally have breakfast.

At the dinner table, Mrs. Qi looked at Gu Qiqi and asked, "Qiqi, in the past, at the end of each year, two pigs would be slaughtered in the Zhuangzi and distributed to the villagers for the New Year." Now that this Zhuangzi is yours, let's see if you want to make the same arrangement as in previous years. ”

When Gu Qiqi heard this, he thought about it and asked, "Is the land in this village leased to the farmers here?" ”

Old Madam Qi nodded: "Except for the artificial lake at the foot of the mountain and the fields by the lake, we arrange people to do it ourselves, and the rest are rented to farmers for planting." ”

Gu Qiqi: "How is the rent calculated?" ”

Mrs. Qi: "Thirty percent of the harvest belongs to us, and the rest belongs to the farmers." ”

"Excluding taxes, they still have forty percent." Gu Qiqi nodded, in fact, forty percent is really good.

You must know that some black-hearted landlords, the villagers are tired and tired in a year, and in the end they can only get two percent, and thirty percent is very good.

If a family has a large population, rent a dozen acres of land to plant.

The harvest of one acre of land is 500 to 600 catties of grain.

Occupy two into one acre of land can only be divided into 100 to 120 catties.

Ten acres of land is 1,000 to 1,200 catties.

Even if the farmer is frugal, he eats two meals when the farm is busy, and one meal when he is not busy with the farm, and two handfuls of rice can be boiled into a big pot of porridge for one meal.

If you add some wild vegetables, a handful of rice can manage a meal.

A pound of rice can last for three to five days.

Eat one or two hundred catties all year round, and use the savings to sell silver.

According to the price of gross grain, when the market is good, it is 2-3 wen a catty, so it can only be sold for two or three taels of silver.

If the market is not good, when the grain merchant lowers the price too hard, he will pay a pound of gross grain, and the whole family will earn a tael of silver for a few months.

This is still the whole family, and only those who rent ten acres of land can have these incomes.

Gu Qiqi's Zhuangzi Zhuangzi can account for forty percent, that is, it has doubled, then her maternal grandfather and grandmother are really super conscientious landlords.

However, there are pros and cons to renting land for planting.

Profit is based on the family's ability, you can plant as much as you want, you can rent as much as you want, and you don't need to spend a lot of money to buy land.

For some very poor people, this is the best choice, no capital, strength and energy will not starve to death.

The disadvantage is that you work in the fields all year round, and you can only survive for a year.

But in such an ancient period, there were too many, too many people who couldn't take out a tael of silver.

So they can only become the farmer in the estate.

At the very least, they can still have land to grow and food to eat, so that they will not become beggars.

Gu Qiqi thought for a while and said, "Since this has always been a benefit, it is naturally indispensable. ”

Mama Jane on the side said: "Actually, it's the past to say that we don't give it, and our rent collection is already very low." It is also our old lady who is kind-hearted and gives them a share of killing pigs every year. ”

Gu Qiqi smiled: "Kind-hearted people are blessed, so our family can meet and reunite again, but it's just two pigs, the farmer in the village has a good life, we will not suffer, everyone will plant food very carefully every year, and the two pigs can also earn back." ”

"Look, it's still our seven-seven who can talk." Old Madam Qi looked at Gu Qiqi with a look of relief and said.

Gu Qiqi: "In that case, I'll arrange it after breakfast." ”

"Oh, by the way, Mama Jane, you go and get some of those wild duck eggs, and let Qiqi take them down and give them to our families in a while." Old Madam Qi said suddenly.

When Gu Qiqi heard this, he was pleasantly surprised: "There are wild duck eggs?" ”

Mama Jane replied, "The man-made lake at the foot of our mountain was swollen a few years ago, and I don't know where a flock of wild ducks came from, and your grandmother even asked the people in the manor to build a nest for them under the tree.

As a result, I didn't think that these wild ducks could basically lay duck eggs in a day or two after they grew up, and during this time, the weather was cold, so they didn't lay so often, but that's it, and the family also saved a lot of wild duck eggs.

Your grandmother couldn't get used to eating the wild duck eggs, so every time she accumulated them, she gave us a share from time to time to her own households. Although this wild duck egg is not as good as an egg, the farmers are also very happy. ”

"How many?" Gu Qiqi asked.

"I guess there are about a hundred. The old lady thought that the New Year was approaching, so she had saved up the duck eggs in the past few months. Mama Jane replied.

When Gu Qiqi heard this, he hurriedly said: "Then don't send duck eggs, send eggs or pork instead." There are chickens in the manor, right? If there are eggs, then give them eggs instead, duck eggs I have other uses. ”

Mama Jane: "What kind of eggs do you send, if you don't send them, it won't get in the way." Our own households are not other households. Those were all bought by the old lady, and some came back from Yongdu. ”

Gu Qiqi: "The duck eggs will be kept for me in the future, and I will use them to process food." ”

Salted duck eggs, preserved eggs Gu Qiqi can finally start.

In order to eat preserved egg and lean porridge before, Gu Qiqi couldn't find duck eggs and used eggs instead, but no matter how they were handled, there was still a big difference between eggs and duck eggs.

As for salted duck eggs, they can only be made with duck eggs.

After breakfast, Gu Qiqi handed over the matter of killing the pig to Steward Jian to arrange, of course, the few good things that the pig went into the water, she naturally had to hand over to Steward Jian to bring it back.

And she herself began to concoct the secret recipe for making salted duck eggs and preserved eggs.

Fang Yu and Lixia helped to choose duck eggs, and duck eggs must not have broken shells or bad ones.

After selection, the stolen goods on the surface of the duck eggs should be cleaned, so that they can be made and processed.

Gu Qiqi divided the selected duck eggs into two halves, half to make salted duck eggs and half to make preserved eggs.

After the production is completed, the jar is sealed and the rest is waiting for time to verify.