The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

Xu Yin didn't know that she had fallen off her horse.

After she made her mother-in-law smile happily, she went to draw pie cakes for her servants:

"It's true that after the beginning of spring, the mountains and plains are full of thorns, but if you can eat a sweet and refreshing thorn while warming yourself on a snowy winter day, wouldn't it feel completely different? The same goes for water melons. It's not uncommon to eat water melons in summer. , eating around the fire in the cold winter is another feeling of enjoyment. But like everyone else, this is my first time to try it. If it succeeds, everyone will be happy. If it doesn’t, it’s okay. Just treat it as an experience. At least let me die. Heart, you no longer need to daydream about eating melons by the fire in winter... But don’t think that your hard work is in vain. Anyone who participates in this work, whether successful or not, will be rewarded when he comes back!"

When they heard that they were rewarded, the servants' interest became high.

In the past few days, I have often heard the maids and young men from the east courtyard bragging, saying that when they were in the house, as long as they followed the instructions of the eldest mistress, they could draw a prize every month, and even the worst luck could win a few prizes. A copper plate, if you are lucky, you can get gold and silver fruits. If you perform well and are awarded the Model Worker Award, you will receive more rewards than monthly silver!

The servants at the hot spring village didn't understand and asked: "What is the model worker award?"

The servants in the East Campus were asked: What is the Model Worker Award?

This...as the name suggests...

Well, to be honest, they have participated in the selection and lottery for several months, and they still don’t know why the eldest mistress calls the person who works the hardest as a model worker. It must be a title. It does not matter! The important thing is that the rewards are indeed real money!

With the motivation of money, the servants can obviously work much more easily.

Moreover, they also wanted to see whether the method the eldest mistress thought of could produce thorns and water melons that could only be eaten in spring and summer.

The more the merrier.

Within a few days, the ground was cleared, the straw curtain greenhouse was erected, and the seeds were sown. After that, it was daily watering, fertilizing, and careful maintenance.

On the other side, the second lady was also very busy, but thinking that the East Courtyard family had gone to Zhuangzi, and all the big and small matters in the house were in her hands, she felt a little happy again.

When the first snow fell outside the city, the Hot Spring Village sent a message saying that the eldest son was not feeling well and might not be able to return home for the New Year. He also hoped that the old lady would take care of herself.

The old lady felt quite regretful. She had thought that the whole family would be reunited during the Chinese New Year this year. In the past few years, because her eldest grandson was in a coma, the New Year had been bland and boring.

did not expect……

"Sigh." The old lady sighed, "Zhaoer's body and bones are still affected after all."

Regarding Chengjue, it seems that we really need to consider replacing him.

The second lady said a few words of comfort, feeling very happy in her heart.

It’s a good thing that the family of three in the east courtyard won’t come back!

The glazed greenhouse that Mrs. Xu worked so hard to create gave her an advantage!

I am worried that giving away gifts during the New Year is the same as before and lacks new ideas. Now, fresh vegetables grown in glazed greenhouses can be added to the gift list.

This year I am going to give gifts to the future in-laws of two more sons. This gift requires some thought and cannot be neglected.

The second lady took a fine pen and solemnly added seasonal fresh vegetables that are particularly popular in winter to the gift list.

Considering that fresh vegetables are best picked and delivered immediately, the second lady did not prepare them in advance.

But on the auspicious day of the New Year's Day, people were sent to the glazed greenhouse in the Bagua field in the east courtyard to pick vegetables.

After planning to pick it up, remove the dirty roots, clean it and place it in a basket with a red seal, and then load it on a carriage with other gift baskets for gift giving.

The people she sent had not left the west courtyard when they heard that the fourth prince had arrived and brought generous rewards from various palaces to Xue Zhaojin and his wife. They said they were vegetables he had brought to the palace a while ago, which made his father, Emperor Longyan, very happy. No, I came to pull the second cart with the rewards given by my father, my mother, and the ladies of the palace.

"Before Ajin set out for the hot spring village, she told me that the vegetables in the glass greenhouse will be sufficient for the New Year's Eve, and the rest will be left to me. Since my father and mother are so fond of the fresh vegetables grown in the glass greenhouse, Then all the rest of me will be taken away."

Two carriages full of rewards were brought into the east courtyard, and two carriages were replaced with vegetables that were usually extremely cheap. The second lady was jealous when she saw them.

If she had known, when there was a lot of construction work in the east courtyard to build a bagua field and a glazed greenhouse, she would have followed suit and built one in the west courtyard. Then wouldn’t it be her share of the reward from the palace for these two carriages today?

Big loss, big loss!

The second lady felt her heart hurt again. When she came to her senses, the vegetables in the glass greenhouse were almost empty by the people brought by the fourth prince. What was left was only enough for the family to eat in the winter, and sending two baskets to her parents' family was not necessarily enough.

I can put together a basket, but gifts are always given in pairs, so a lonely basket looks ugly!

In addition, she also wanted to give some to her two in-laws to try!

What to do now?

The gift list was all added, but the gift was missing...

The second lady felt bad at the thought of having to copy a new gift list when she went back.

The key point is that if the old lady didn't mention sending fresh vegetables to her family to try, she would be too embarrassed to take the initiative to do so.

In the end, I could only quietly deduct some of the money from the West Courtyard and send it to my parents' home.

This made her two biological sons have a problem with her: they didn't even have enough to eat, and they even gave it away.

Not to mention those two little beasts and bastards. If she hadn't sent someone to keep an eye on them, they might have gone to Ronganyuan to complain to the old lady.

Her family didn't want to see her, so when she returned to her parents' home on the second day of the new year, her parents were quite polite to her, which made her feel a lot better.

Thinking of the fact that Dafang and his family are celebrating the New Year in Zhuangzi outside the city this year, it snowed for three days, the carriages can no longer walk on the road, and no one is running errands for Zhong Minhua. The Zhong family may not even be able to get any green vegetable leaves, right?

Seeing that there were not many vegetables in the shed, the old lady really had no intention of sending them out. The gifts for her in-laws were all prepared as usual. They were pretty standard and could not go wrong, but as the second lady complained - there was nothing new.

But before the first snow accumulated, Zhong Minhua sent people from the village to transport a cart of fresh vegetables from Xu Yin to her parents' house. They grew better than those grown in the glazed greenhouses in the house.

There are also a few fresh fruits and vegetables that are not available in the house: a basket of large fruit thorns that are sweeter and brighter than wild thorns; two large watermelons with thin skin and fewer red seeds, and six purple cabbages.

Most of the watermelons are not ripe yet. Xu Yin secretly ripened these few with a ripening agent mixed with Lingquan water and Taoyuan Xingxi loam, so there are not many, so a family of two can taste them.

Xu Yin wrote down how to eat purple cabbage on a piece of paper so that it would not be eaten and wasted.

Not only the Zhong family, but also the Fourth Prince's Mansion also sent a copy.

The government only sent thorns, melons and purple cabbage, but not other vegetables.

And it was delivered last. When it was delivered, the snow outside the city was already very thick.

The young man in charge of delivering gifts was reporting to the old lady that the eldest son had asked him to finish the job and then stay at the mansion to celebrate the New Year, waiting for the ice and snow to melt in the spring before going to the hot spring village to serve him. In this way, he can be reunited with his family. Both his parents are working in the house.

The old lady nodded while listening, and finally asked about her eldest grandson's physical condition.

The boy said everything he could, but didn't mention anything he couldn't.

At this time, the second lady came back from her natal family. When she saw the out-of-season fruits in the basket, she learned that they were grown by Dafang in the hot spring village. She gave some to the mansion and her natal family to try, and she immediately felt her cheeks It was so hot that it hurt.

The front foot is still proud that Zhong Minhua cannot match her filial piety, but the back foot is being compared.

I couldn't help but said sourly in front of the old lady: "I didn't expect that my sister-in-law was quite thoughtful. She accompanied Zhao'er to the hot spring village to recuperate her health, and she also commanded her subordinates to grow fruits and vegetables. But why did you give so much? People in the mansion There are so many, how to divide them?"

The carriage driver lowered his eyebrows and replied: "Second Madam, the eldest son said that although the quantity is small, he and the eldest mistress personally cultivated and watered it, especially to show filial piety to the old lady."

The implication is that these are for Ronganyuan. If you don’t have anything to do with Westward, don’t even think about dividing them.

The old lady was very happy when she heard this.

The second lady was so angry that she almost suffered internal injuries.