Chapter 38: Birthday Ceremony
After planting the red seedlings, Jiang Yuqing told her father that she wanted to plant watermelons.
Father Jiang, who was a slave of his daughter, agreed without saying a word, and asked her how much she planted. Jiang Yuqing thought about it, stretched out his fat finger and compared "two".
Jiang Wenyuan was stunned for a moment: "Twenty acres? It's not impossible! Thinking about the big and sweet watermelon, Jiang Wenyuan subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
With the ability of a baby daughter, it should be able to grow it, right? Deal...... Not really...... That's it, raise the land!
Jiang Yuqing opened his mouth and swallowed the exclamation that came to his lips.
In fact, she just wanted to plant two acres first, but his father seemed to have more confidence than her.
So Jiang Yuqing decided that he must not live up to his father's trust in him. This wonderful misunderstanding arose.
Under the instruction of Wen Yuan, the Jiang family put a total of 23 acres of sand fields close to the Qingjiang River, and after putting enough base fertilizer, they were put in order. ordered the watermelon seeds that Jiang Yuqing had soaked in spiritual spring water.
In order to keep the watermelon water and warm, the watermelon is also covered with a layer of translucent oilcloth, and after the watermelon emerges, it is manually opened. Although the cost is higher, there is no way to do it.
As for the thousand-acre Zhuangzi rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor, it is five miles north of the county seat, next to the official road, and the geographical location is very superior.
It was originally the private property of an official, and after the official committed a crime and was confiscated, it was nationalized, and now it belongs to the Jiang family.
Zhuangzi has a total of 1,076 acres, all of which are fertile land. There is a small courtyard with a well in the yard, which can be used to guard the Zhuangzi by the head of the village.
Farmers always have a different kind of affection for the land. Therefore, as early as before the Lantern Festival, Old Man Jiang brought several sons to visit.
Old man Jiang said happily, this good field must be planted with rice. The Lord of the Realm said at the time that she had produced seeds.
The rice in the spiritual realm is all high-quality conventional rice seeds, with stable genes, not only high yield, but also self-retaining seeds. The yield of this rice in the spiritual realm is about 1,000 kilograms per mu, which is a little higher than the hybrid rice planted in a large area in the previous life.
Planted outside the Linghai area, affected by the planting environment, Jiang Yuqing did not dare to pack the yield per mu, which is only five or six hundred catties per mu, which is much stronger than the rice varieties of this era.
The elders of the Jiang family have long known her miracle and do not think it is strange, even the sweet potatoes were taken out by her from the "fairy world".
Therefore, seeing the plump and fat grains that suddenly appeared in the palm of his baby daughter's (granddaughter's) small hand, Old Man Jiang immediately made a decision and used the rice seeds provided by his granddaughter.
This Zhuangzi originally had tenants. They were all refugees who fled from other places in the early years, and after the original owner's house was raided, Zhuangzi was nationalized. Qin Jue, the previous county commander, was not very good at taking care of these mundane matters, so he collected land rent according to the original amount and charged it into the treasury.
Jiang Wenyuan has the seeds provided by his daughter, and he wants to build this place into another base for improved seeds, so he naturally will not give up the fields again. But in this way, the tenant farmers who depend on the tenant land for their livelihood are bound to lose their livelihood.
This kind of lack of morality that cuts off people's lives, Jiang Wenyuan naturally won't do it.
Therefore, after consulting with the original tenants, he changed the tenant land into an employment relationship. Each person was given five taels of silver a year, and one day off a month, and they were hired to help take care of the fields.
In fact, it is also a long-term worker.
But this salary is already at the top in Qingzhou County, and the highest one of the yamen officials is only 7 taels of silver.
Considering their family background, the family was waiting for food, Jiang Wenyuan promised them that after the start of work, they would advance half of the silver first, and distribute the rest after the autumn harvest.
The tenant farmers counted five taels of silver for one person, and if a family used two, it would be ten taels of silver. This price is the best in Qingzhou. The strong man on the dock outside the city, tired to death for a day, is only thirty big money.
Moreover, there is no need to pay taxes and grain, as long as you go to work every day, it can be called drought and flood to ensure harvest. As long as there were no accidents along the way, they could save at least five taels of silver, except for the money for buying grain.
And this is the Zhuangzi that His Majesty the Emperor rewarded to the county magistrate and the county magistrate of Qingzhou, and the credibility is guaranteed. It's a fool not to do such a good thing.
After finalizing this matter, Jiang Wenyuan transferred Yang Tiesuo's family to be the manager. This Yang Tiesuo is not only a good farmer, but both husband and wife are literate, no matter what is really wasted.
There are still a few days left to Jiang Yuqing's second birthday. Because he couldn't catch up with his baby daughter's first birthday because of the exam, Jiang Wenyuan was very regretful. This year he didn't want to miss out on anyway.
He had wanted to find a beautiful pony to give to his daughter for her birthday.
This kind of horse is small in stature, docile in character, and has good stamina, which is perfect for a baby girl to ride. However, I haven't found a suitable one for a long time, so I'm really scratching my head.
Just when he was racking his brains to choose a birthday gift for his daughter, Jiang Yuqing received a package from the capital. The messenger said that he would stay in Qingzhou for two days, and if she needed a reply, he would have someone go to the Yongfu Inn to find him.
There are two wooden boxes in the package, one of which contains a complete set of pink pearl heads, including beaded flowers, forehead ornaments, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and more than a dozen pieces. The same is for little girls. The other has a small gold seal with her zodiac sign on it.
In addition, there is a letter at the bottom of the box, although the handwriting is a little immature, it is already quite stylish. This was given to her by Xiao Zhengtai Jingyan.
The letter said that he was very good in the capital, missed the happy time in Qingzhou, and liked the gifts she gave him.
The other box was given to her by Li Deshun.
It contains a gold and jade jade-embellished pigeon's bloodstone, a hundred bats, and a ruyi cloud pattern. Her name is also engraved on the inside of the collar, and at first glance it is custom-made.
Not to mention the value, the old man's kindness to her is precious.
Thinking that the messenger was still waiting for her reply at the inn in the city, she quickly found a pencil from the hospital office and began to write a reply.
Her hands are small, it is not easy to hold a pen, and it is very difficult to write, and her speed is slow. It took more than an hour to finish the two letters, which were not very many words. After that, his father found her two boxes.
The box for Jing Yan still contained ten lollipops with the skin peeled off, and a box of bear biscuits with the outer packaging removed. After thinking about it, he put a wooden Rubik's Cube in him. Little boys like this, and he probably will, too.
As for what Li Deshun was given, she originally thought of giving him a plaster. Later, when he left after the year, she gave him as many as fifty stickers, and even if the joint fire recurred, it would not be used up so quickly.
And Li Deshun made good tea, so he simply changed to a pack of top-grade Tieguanyin and went in. The dean's wool is not white.
No, it's all hers now.
After packing the gifts and letters, and asking her father to bring them to the messenger, Xiao Tuanzi clapped his hands, turned around and ran to the vegetable field.
At this time, there are Chinese cabbage, baby cabbage, lettuce, garlic, celery, leeks, greens, radish, and even out-of-season beans, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, etc.
All of them were cultivated by Jiang Yuqing with his abilities and Lingquan Spring. Not only does it taste exceptionally good, but it also has the effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life after eating it for a long time.
Therefore, the Jiang family was raised. I'm used to eating home-grown vegetables, and when I eat outside, I don't feel like that.
The little group is also diligent and runs to the vegetable field every day. I can't finish eating a lot of vegetables, and I am really reluctant to sell them, so I will send the extra ones to the in-laws' houses.
For example, the maiden family of the Lin family and the Lu family, as for the maiden uncle of the Zhu family, he can't eat the vegetables he grows, so he doesn't need to be sent by others.
In addition to the vegetable field in the backyard, Jiang Yuqing now has more melon fields to go to.
The melon field is actually not far from home, but the little group is short and short-legged, and it is really difficult to walk over.
Every time I go, I have to be hugged by someone, which is really inconvenient. She wondered if she should ask her father to buy her a donkey to get around. However, she only mentioned it slightly, and her father immediately rejected it.
The reason is quite strange, saying that the donkey is too ugly and not worthy of her temperament.
Her father's brain circuit, Jiang Yuqing ...... Quite speechless.
Father Jiang is so opposed, it is really because he suffered the loss of a donkey when he was a child.
As soon as the thing came up stubbornly, he didn't leave, he went backwards, and maybe he would hurt his baby daughter. YES, THE DONKEY WAS PASSED BY DADDY JIANG AT THE FIRST TIME.
Finally, March 20th. Jiang Yuqing's second birthday. It's just a mid-year holiday.
Jiang. The lord of the big realm and the little birthday star. Yu Qing was dressed up as a blooming blue snowflake today, just like the bush by the wall of her house.
On the top of the head, a pair of pink orchid palace flowers are worn on the "small tentacles of the snail", and a blue-pink cardigan skirt is worn. The upper part is pink and blue, embroidered with a butterfly love flower pattern,
The lower skirt part is based on pink palace satin, covered with a layer of the same pink palace yarn, embroidered with pink and blue flowers, echoing the top, and on the feet is a pair of pink and blue satin embroidered shoes.
On his neck, he wore a gold-inlaid jade-embellished pigeon's bloodstone hundred bat cloud pattern collar given by Li Deshun, and Xiaopang was also put on a pair of gold bracelets cast with her zodiac animals on his mother's hands.
Jiang Yuqing looked in front of the mirror and felt that he was "rich and powerful". Fortunately, it's not ugly.
It's just that my family celebrates my birthday behind closed doors, and it's really unnecessary to dress up so grandly. But the elders don't think so.
They think that the little girl just wants to dress up beautifully. Besides, my own children are so good-looking, and if you don't dress up, it's a tyrannical thing.
In the end, Daddy Jiang couldn't find a good-looking pony, so he could only regretfully order a set of the smallest brush for his baby daughter as a birthday gift.
However, Jiang Yuqing's seven brothers mysteriously brought in a large cage covered with a piece of red flannel, saying that it was a gift for his sister. And let Jiang Yuqing personally unveil it.
Jiang Yuqing raised her eyebrows, no wonder the brothers have been mysterious these days, it turned out that they were preparing gifts for her. Packed in a cage, it must be some kind of cute little animal.
Even the elders are curious, what is under this flannel?
Jiang Yuqing didn't let everyone wait long, walked to the cage and lifted the cloth, revealing a big fluffy white cat with black horizontal stripes.
The cat was startled by the sudden light, and its head raised violently with a "whoop", and slapped a paw on the cage wall, and the cage snapped.
Jiang Wenyuan's face changed suddenly, and he shouted, "Tiger, danger!" He rushed out and scooped his daughter into his arms, his heart pounded, and he almost jumped out of his chest.
The others reacted and jumped up to take the children away.
It turned out that this was not a cat at all, but an albino tiger cub.