Li Laogen has no opinion on this, if he dares to have an opinion, Jin Xiaoye will move the latch!

After eating, Jin Xiaoye took Li Laogen to the ground again.

On this day, they were busy until the evening, cutting all the rice on their two acres of land, and for a while, the house was full of rice.

In different dynasties and regions, the yield per mu of grain is different.

In recent years, the climate has been good, and Miaoqian Village is located in the land of fish and rice, and everyone is still serving the crops

Waited very dedicatedly......

If there is no natural disaster, according to the degree of care, one mu of land can harvest about 250 kilograms of rice, and more can harvest 300 kilograms of rice, planting twice a year, and the annual harvest of one acre of land is above 500 kilograms.

Their family's two acres of land can harvest 1,000 kilograms of rice a year.

However, there are taxes to be paid, and after the rice is dried and hulled, there are not so many expenses, and there are other expenses at home...... If their family only relied on these two acres of land, life would be very difficult.

On this day, Li Laogen and Jin Xiaoye went to bed early, and the next day, the two brought back a rice bucket from outside and began to threshk rice.

The homes of the villagers in Miaoqian Village basically have a rice bucket made of wood, which is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, about 1.5 meters long and wide.

Put a ladder-shaped rice bucket ladder made of bamboo in the rice bucket, and hit the rice ears the rice bucket ladder, and the rice on the rice ears will fall one after another and fall into the rice bucket.

This is what people have to do after harvesting rice, which is called "beating rice".

In fact, most people, when they cut the rice yesterday, they beat the rice directly in the field, and then they will dry the bundled straw in the field, and then go back after two days.

But they didn't have a rice bucket at home, so Jin Xiaoye was worried that the rice would be stolen or eaten by rats if he put it in the field, so he carried it back and only fought today.

This work was also very laborious, so that afternoon, she asked Li Qingzhi to buy two pieces of tofu and make a pot of egg and tofu soup.

I didn't buy meat this time, and their family is really poor now.

Wait for Jin Xiaoye to knock all the rice off the ears of rice, and the rest of the work is to dry!

Li Qingzhi thought that the harvest, which lasted for three or four days, had been completely completed, but Jin Xiaoye said to him: "Today we are going to pull back the roots of the rice in the field." ”

Li Qingzhi couldn't react a little: "What? ”

Jin Xiaoye explained: "Our family lacks firewood. ”

Those who planted mulberry trees can use the branches they cut every year as firewood, but they don't have mulberry trees.

There wasn't enough firewood to burn every year, and if it weren't for her brother sneaking some to her, she might have to spend money on firewood.

Of course, they are not the only ones who lack firewood in the village, and there are many families who pull the rice roots home after cutting the rice and use it as firewood after drying.

Chapter 13: Silver carp

Li Qingzhi's body can't do much work now, and digging rice roots is done by Jin Xiaoye with Li Laogen.

As for him, he helps cook and take care of the children at home, and from time to time he has to turn over the dried rice.

The people in Miaoqian Village don't do a lot of work on weekdays, but recently they have been busy with farming, and everyone has been so busy that their feet don't touch the ground.

After all, after the rice is harvested, the next round of rice sowing will begin!

The people of Miaoqian Village will first prepare a small plot of land to raise seedlings, wait for the rice to grow to a certain extent, and then pull it up, and replant it one by one, which is often called transplanting.

Before that, it is necessary to increase the fertility of the paddy field, if the fertility is not enough, the rice will not grow well, and the originally good land will become an inferior field.

In this era, there were no chemical fertilizers, and the fertilization of the fields mainly relied on human and animal manure, river and pond silt, and plant ash, so the work of fertilizing was dirty and tiring.

What shocked Li Qingzhi the most was that the feces had to be bought with money.

There is a merchant surnamed Zhang in Chongcheng County, who specializes in selling dung, and he sends people to collect the yellow in the entire Chongcheng County and then sell it to nearby farmers.

The so-called human yellow is an elegant name for feces in the local area.

It is said that in the early years, the people of the county would sell Renzhonghuang to different people, who would then sell it to farmers, but later this person surnamed Zhang monopolized the market.

After no one competed for the monopoly market, he sent people to collect the people of the county town Zhonghuang and did not give money, and the price of selling was a little more expensive, but fortunately, the peasants could still accept it.

And he also relied on this monopoly business to make an unknown amount of money.

Li Laogen squatted at the door, babbling about the deeds of the businessman surnamed Zhang, saying how hateful he was: "More than ten years ago, those who sold Renzhonghuang grabbed business with each other, and the price of Renzhonghuang was not as expensive as it is now!" ”

Li Qingzhi was shocked after hearing this, the monopoly business in these years turned out to be a monopoly of a city...... Ahem, feces.

Thinking like this, Li Qingzhi looked at Li Laogen with admiration: "Dad, you know so much!" ”

Li Laogen smiled and showed his few remaining yellowed teeth: "That's, I know a lot!" ”

Li Qingzhi asked about other things that he was interested in.

He didn't have anyone to talk to in the last days, he was so lonely that he went to talk to zombies, and now he was surrounded by living people...... When he had the strength to do so, he was especially happy to talk to them.

It also gives him an understanding of the times.

In fact, he likes to talk to Jin Xiaoye the most, but Jin Xiaoye is very busy, so he can only retreat to the next best thing and find Li Laogen.

Li Laogen also likes to talk to Li Qingzhi. In the past, Li Laogen couldn't stay at home when he was free, and always wanted to find someone to play, but now Li Qingzhi pulled him enthusiastically to talk, and praised him from time to time......

Li Laogen suddenly felt a little bit like a father, and felt that the cheap son in front of him who was not a little thin was very likable.

Li Damao also likes to listen to Li Laogen, but Li Ermao is different, he hopes that adults can take him out to play...... Seeing that Li Qingzhi and Li Laogen kept talking, he reached out to cover Li Qingzhi's mouth.

Li Qing grabbed that hand and kissed it several times: "My Ermao's hand is soft, it's so good, my father really likes Ermao." ”

Li Ermao looked at his hands stupidly.

Feeling that he couldn't favor one over the other, Li Qingzhi grabbed Li Damao's hand and kissed it a few times: "Da Mao's hand is also so close!" Daddy loves big hair, too! ”

Li Damao is also stupid.

Seeing this, Li Qingzhi picked up the other party's little face and kissed it again.

Li Damao: "!! ”

As for Li Ermao...... He couldn't wait to come over: "Dad, I want it too!" ”

Li Qingzhi happily kissed Li Ermao's little face again.

With two children to kiss, he is really happy!

Before, Li Qing was afraid that the two children would not be adaptable, and at most they hugged each other, but now that they kissed...... You can continue to kiss in the future!

While his son is still young, he must kiss their little faces and hands more!

Jin Xiaoye undoubtedly loves children, but she is usually too busy, and she rarely has warmth for her two children.

This may not have anything to do with busyness, it's simply due to the atmosphere.

Parents in this era are often authoritative in front of their children, they control their children, but rarely express their affection for their children, and even if they do, it is material rather than verbal and actional.

The low-level farmers have to be busy making a living, and the children are completely free-range.

was kissed and said "liked" again, Li Damao and Li Ermao were happy in their hearts, Li Ermao even pouted and kissed Li Qingzhi's face sitting on the threshold.

The child's mouth was soft, Li Qingzhi was kissed, and he only felt that his heart was about to melt!

How can there be such a cute child in this world!

Thinking that he couldn't favor one over the other, Li Qingzhi put his other half of his face in front of Li Damao and asked Li Damao to kiss him: "Da Mao, you can also kiss your father!" ”

Li Damao was a little shy, but he still kissed Li Qing heavily.

Li Qing was satisfied.

And at this time, Jin Xiaoye came back.

Jin Xiaoye came back from work halfway through, and his body was a little dirty, so he didn't get close to them, and only greeted Li Laogen: "Dad, you go down to the ground with me." ”

Li Laogen glanced enviously at Li Qingzhi, who didn't have to work, and reluctantly followed Jin Xiaoye away, muttering in his mouth: "You don't have to spend so much work in the field, no one is like ......this."

"There are many people!" Jin Xiaoye Road.

Li Laogen sighed and stopped talking.

Jin Xiaoye left with Li Laogen, to pick up fertilizer, and Yao's father next door brought buckets of fertilizer by boat, and the people in the village were busy adding fertilizer to the fields.

Li Qingzhi was fine for the time being, so he said to the two children: "Let's go, Dad will take you to go shopping." ”

Li Damao and Li Ermao nodded happily, and Li Damao also brought a bamboo basket intimately.

As long as their father goes out, he will definitely go to pick weeds.

The people in the village said that their father was hungry and stupid, and his brain was not clear, so he had to eat some pig brains to make up for it, but they still liked this father.

Li Qingzhi took the two children on the road, and from time to time asked the two children to pick some grass.

They are not the only children in the village who carry baskets to mow the grass, but others cut the grass to feed the sheep, and they cut the grass to feed their fathers.

was picking grass, Li Qingzhi was far away, and he saw his brother-in-law Jin Xiaoshu.

Jin Xiaoshu came over with a silver carp, and his expression was a little tangled when he saw Li Qingzhi: "Brother-in-law, I heard that you eat grass all day long?" ”

Li Qingzhi: "I didn't eat all day ......"

"I bought a fish from the people on the boat, you take it home and steam it and eat it, don't eat grass." Jin Xiaoshu handed the fish in his hand to Li Qingzhi.

The fish was dead, and a few straws were stuffed through the gills and out of the mouth of the fish and tied together so that people could carry it.

There are many rivers here, and you can catch fish to eat, but ordinary people mainly farm for a living, and catch fish too

In the ditch for irrigation, you can basically only catch small fish and shrimp, and it is difficult to catch big fish.

If you want to eat big fish, you have to buy it from people who make a living from fishing.

Jin Xiaoshu's "boat people" refers to people who do not have their own land and live on boats all year round, and many of these people make a living by fishing.

The price of fish is much cheaper than meat, but such a fish that can weigh about three catties will cost ten cents to buy.

Jin Xiaoshu can catch fish, he originally wanted to wait a few days to be free and catch some fish for Li Qingzhi to eat, but he heard that Li Qingzhi has eaten grass...... He specially used the money he secretly saved to buy a fish and sent it to Li Qingzhi.

"I still have work at home, so let's go first." After Jin Xiaoshu finished speaking, he hurriedly left.

The Jin family is also considered a wealthy family in the village, and they have a total of 12 acres of land.

Jin Xiaoye's uncle didn't come back as a gangster on the side of the Xiang Army, but he had three sons, plus Jin Xiaoshu's father and son, five big men worked together, and it stands to reason that they will do it quickly.

But Jin Xiaoye's cousins like to push the dirty work to Jin Xiaoshu's father and son, and Jin Xiaoshu's father and son are very busy and tired.