Chapter 223 224 Mrs. Qin’s Counterattack, Busy Farming
The mother-in-law looked at her with contempt and said: "We are the dowry of the madam, and the body and the deed are in the hands of the madam. Besides, you are just a cheap concubine. Who is the master? The madam has given orders; except for her and the two young ladies, If other people want to eat, use money to buy them! And you can wash the clothes in your house yourself, we won’t wash them for you anymore.”
Aunt Yang shouted angrily: "If you rebel, if you rebel, I will go find the master." Aunt Yang angrily walked out of the door and walked towards the Yamen.
Mrs. Qin dropped everything, took her two daughters and mother-in-law, and drove to a hillside outside Beicheng. Aunt Qin sat on the grass and looked at the two young ladies flying kites happily, and Mrs. Qin who no longer frowned. She said happily: "Madam, we should have gone out for a walk long ago. Look how happy the two young ladies are. ah!"
Mrs. Qin looked at her two daughters running happily chasing the kite, and sighed: "Yes! I restrained them too tightly before and gave them too much restraint. Now think about it, the girl's family can only After a few years of relaxed and happy life, there will be some worries after getting married."
Aunt Qin thought of what Yu Xianwei said last night: "That's not necessarily the case! Last night when the master came back, he said that Mr. Zhou next door didn't even want the beautiful girl given by the Liu family, and he kept saying that he also relied on his wife to support him. , I can’t afford to support Mei Ji! Even my concubine is supported by your dowry. Why have I never heard him mention it in front of outsiders? This shows that he still knows how to be a good and evil man. In my opinion, those wealthy businessmen are the most useless, I just like them. Aunt Yang was given as a gift to someone else, and she was brought back by the master when she and those wealthy businessmen visited private shacks in Qingzhou!"
"Alas!" Mrs. Qin sighed, "Looking at the Great Yong, how many men are there like Mr. Zhou? Even those farmers who have made a little money still want to have good wives and beautiful concubines to enjoy the wealth of the people. What a blessing!"
Aunt Qin thought about it and said, "That's true."
When Aunt Yang arrived at the county government office, the government officials told her that Yu County Lieutenant had led people to patrol the streets. She went home with a sullen face and paid her mother-in-law to cook a meal for her, mother and son, and washed her clothes. The servants were all flattering her. Seeing that Aunt Yang failed to find the master, she looked sarcastic and sarcastic. Yu Yan went back to the house and cried to Aunt Yang: "Auntie, you are the master of this family, why do you treat us like this?"
"If Yan'er doesn't cry, her eyes will become swollen and she won't be beautiful!" Aunt Yang coaxed her daughter softly, with a sinister look on her face: Mrs. Qin, how dare you do this to me, don't blame me for being cruel!
Zhou Jia asked Mr. Wen and after hearing a satisfactory answer, he happily went to the Yamen to run errands. Li Yu took the drawings and went to the blacksmith's shop to order several threshing machines, and then went to the carpenter's shop to order several wind mills. After half a month, he went to Zhuangzi again and saw that the seedlings had grown two leaves. , the corn has grown a lot taller, and the fields have turned into a patch of tender green.
May is a less leisurely month for the Tian family, and people are twice as busy in May. In early May, the fields are already golden, and the yellow wheat ears are swaying in the wind. It is already the harvest time of winter wheat. The blacksmith shop and the carpenter shop sent the threshing machine and the wind mill to Zhuangzi respectively. Ruyi taught the long-term workers how to use the threshing machine at Zhuangzi.
Before dawn, everyone went down to the wheat field, wielding sickles, and quickly cut the wheat. The women behind them stacked the wheat straws row by row, tied them with straw ropes, and carried them to the carriage. Yang Wei He and Ruyi drove the carriage back and forth, pulling the wheat back to the drying area in the village.
The long-term worker who stayed in the village stepped on the threshing machine, holding the wheat bundle in both hands, and put it on the rotating saw gear to rotate at a constant speed. At first, he was a little busy, but after a while, he became more comfortable, and the wheat grains followed the saw teeth. One by one, they fell off and hit the fence like raindrops, making a sound...
After the grain bucket was filled, Li and Mrs. Zhang planed the wheat grains into the threshing machine from behind the fence and poured them into the windmill to blow them clean. Li Xia and Yuniang spread the wheat grains to dry in the sun.
Li Xia looked at the wheat in the drying yard and said to Yu Niang: "Aunt Yu, Madam brought back so much wheat that we can't finish it in our lifetime."
Yu Niang pushed the wooden rake to push away the golden wheat grains, with a look of joy on the harvest: "Silly girl! If you eat it for so long, you will get worms!"
Li Xia pursed her lips and smiled: "It makes me happy even just looking at it."
Ms. Lin from Houshan Village and a dozen other families who grew winter wheat looked at the golden ears of wheat in the wheat field and were busy harvesting the wheat with smiles from ear to ear.
The folks in the village stood on the field ridges and watched them busy in the wheat fields with smiles on their faces. They all secretly made up their minds to learn to grow winter wheat after autumn. The same fields can harvest one more season of food. The elderly at home and The children can also eat enough.
The weather was good, and it was sunny for half a month. Everyone was busy and finally took the wheat home. The women were busy air-cleaning the dried wheat grains again, and the men were busy plowing the fields, leveling the rice fields and getting ready for transplanting.
The rice seedlings in the Li Yu family's rice field are thick, with many white roots and green leaves. The nearby villagers gathered around the rice field and praised the rice seedlings of the Li Yu family. They all asked where they bought the rice seeds. When Ruyi said it was When they brought it over from Tongzhou, they all sighed in disappointment. Li Yu smiled and said to them: "Don't sigh, everyone. When the rice is harvested this season, you can come to my farm to buy rice seeds."
The villagers heard that Li Yu said that he would sell rice seeds to them, but they were worried that the rice seeds were too expensive and they could not afford to buy them. One villager tentatively asked, "Madam, the county magistrate, how much does your rice seed cost per kilogram?"
Li Yu smiled gently and said: "Don't worry, everyone, it's only a few cents more expensive than ordinary rice seeds. You can also use ordinary rice to come to my house to exchange for rice seeds. You just have to do the statistics first. After all, there is only so much rice, so everyone has to I can buy a few kilograms and try it home.”
"Thank you, madam." The villagers thanked them and left with peace of mind. Li Yu taught Yang Wei to direct the long-term workers to plant wild rice and domestic rice at intervals. After Deng Yang Wei learned how to do it, he handed over the remaining rice fields to him to manage.
After half a month, all the wheat was dried and the seedlings were planted. From more than one hundred acres of wheat, three to four hundred stones of wheat were harvested. Li Yu finally felt at ease.
After the money was received, the county school built by the county government was built at a faster pace. Li Yu set aside part of the wasteland near the official road and began to build inns and shops. Ruyi set off to Qingzhou to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and returned to put in the shop. Sales here.
At the end of May, before the completion of the county school, Xu Chun, with the help of shopkeeper Chujiang, found two down-and-out talents in Qingzhou, one named Shao Qingyuan, one named Song Mingbo, and two Xiuting scholars. Shopkeeper Chu said that he was going to Qingchuan County to study teaching, and the yamen also repaired the house, so he happily agreed to drag his family and follow Xu Chun to Qingchuan.