It was so hot that my skin was burning all over my body, my throat was so dry that it was difficult to swallow saliva, and there seemed to be only the humming of cicadas in my ears.

Zhang He stiffened, and couldn't help but think indiscriminately: "Why did she hug me? Didn't she want to criticize me? Should I hug her back? She hugged me, why did she hug me? Didn't she want to... "

Her thoughts fell into an endless loop, and she even forgot to move.

"Just to prevent me from marrying a prodigal, and almost ruining my family, is it worth it?" Xia Jiniang let go of her, with a gentle and painful expression.

Now that she thought about it, she was really selfish. In order not to marry Huang Yu, and to get rid of the situation where her parents were worried about her marriage, she easily agreed to Zhang He's proposal.

Although she likes to get along with Zhang He, she always feels extremely relaxed; she also has unspeakable feelings for Zhang He, and she always smiles when she thinks of her dumbfounded appearance; she is also greedy for the peace she got here.

It's just that my own greed at this moment has brought trouble to Zhang He?Even without her marrying, Zhang He can live a good life.

"Why isn't it worth it?" Zhang He didn't know what happened to her all of a sudden, and then thought that Xia Jiniang's marriage to her was just for show, and she was worried that she would hurt herself, so she lied, "Actually, I was poor in the first place, and this was all arranged by my mother." Yes, I didn't spend any money."

Although the two had carefully listed their respective family backgrounds in the dating post when they got married, but Zhang He's dating post was written by Liu, and it is not ruled out that there are elements of fraud.After all, such things have always been based on the words of matchmakers, and many people have been deceived.

Even her fixed post was paid more than 30 pennies by Xia Da, so she didn't know how much money Zhang He actually had.But she still believed that according to Zhang He's temperament, she would not really let Liu Shi handle it alone, so she spent at least a hundred or so coins.

"Auntie is so kind to you, don't make her angry again next time." Xia Jiniang didn't intend to question her clearly, but just responded according to her words.

Zhang He nodded in response, and asked again: "Why do you call her 'Auntie'?"

Xia Ji Niang was at a loss for words, thought for a while and asked, "Then I'll call her 'Big Lady' like everyone else?"

"Why don't you call me 'mother' like me?"

Xia Jiniang found that Zhang He's lack of knowledge in some common sense was subtle, so she reached out and led Zhang He into the house: "If you want to open another piece of land to repair the cowshed and chicken coop, then I will settle the score for you."

Zhang He's question was successfully replaced by her words, and she followed Xia Jiniang back to the house, while Xia Jiniang stood in front of the desk, poured some water into the inkstone, picked up the ink stick and began to grind ink.

Zhang He said: "I'll study ink, you can write."

Xia Jiniang handed her the ink stick, sat down on the chair and took out another piece of paper.This kind of paper is the most commonly used bamboo paper at present, but you can only buy [-] sheets for [-] Wen, while better paper costs [-] Wen each.She was a little reluctant to use it.

Zhang He said: "Okay."

Xia Jiniang came back to her senses and thought, just write this one!

"Erlang, is the bamboo forest next to you yours?" Xia Jiniang asked.

Zhang He thought for a while, then shook his head.Xia Jiniang wrote down on the paper: The bamboo forest is three feet long and two feet wide, totaling [-] yuan.

"Then what do you want to use to build the wall?" Xia Jiniang asked again.

"……brick."

"A brick costs two coins, and you need more than [-] yuan, which is seven pennies; it takes at least one or two pennies to build a cowshed, a chicken coop, and thatch; if you want to open up the original wall and the house, you will have to buy it again." After some repairs, there must be fifteen strings..."

Xia Jiniang wrote it down while talking, and finally calculated that it would cost about 25 pennies.Once Zhang He really planned to repair the cowshed, he would have to empty out his family fortune.

Zhang He was dumbfounded, and thought that he would have to accompany Xia Jiniang back to Xia's house in two days, and then he must prepare green satin, shoes, and pillows.She completely gave up her plan to build another cowshed, she said: "Then, forget it."

"Erlang's idea is also very good, but we have to figure it out slowly." Xia Jiniang said again, agreeing with her idea, but the premise is that they have a solid family background.

"Then wait for the silver eggplants to mature and sell them for money before building them!" Zhang He had a glimmer of hope again. She has no money now, but as long as she sells the white eggplants for a good price, the 25 pennies are nothing up.

Xia Jiniang put down the brush, put her head on her hands, and smiled: "Then we have to take care of it carefully. But before that, do you mind if I get acquainted with Erlang's house?"

Zhang He blinked: "Ji Niang always said that I am estranged from you, so why don't you have a relationship with me? This will be your home in the future, so you can visit it as you like."

"Home." Xia Jiniang sighed in her heart. Before getting married, even though she was ready, she didn't have much emotion; after she really lived here for a day, she was gradually surrounded by a strange emotion. There was a little panic, but also a little expectation, more because she had to adapt as soon as possible.

Now that Zhang He has spoken, Xia Jiniang no longer regards herself as an outsider.Even if she didn't know what kind of mood Zhang He had in treating her, in order to repay Zhang He for helping her solve life-long problems without hesitation, she had to do her best to lighten Zhang He's burden.

Xia Jiniang already knew the basic layout of the house, but one of the two rooms on the southeast side was used as a kitchen, and the other was used for storing sundries, which undoubtedly wasted one of the rooms.As far as the room used as the kitchen is concerned, it can be divided into the kitchen, stacking firewood, sundries and setting the dining table, and the other room can be vacant for other purposes.

As for the side rooms on both sides of the front hall, one of them is also piled with a lot of messy sundries, including unused dilapidated tables and chairs, hundreds of candles, and earthen pots piled on the ground, as well as bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, and food. bucket of things, etc.

As for the other room, it is only used to store grain, but there is not much grain in the big tank.These grains are still the traditional rice purchased by Zhang He, and they cannot be stored because they are not in the system warehouse.

Xia Jiniang already knew the number of acres Zhang He planted. For example, if the rice field is 55 mu, if the weather is good, the upper field can produce three shi of rice, while the middle and lower fields can only produce about two shi. .There is so much stone food, the current utensils alone cannot hold it, let alone eggplant, summer soybeans and radishes.

"In a few days, we will be able to harvest silver eggplants. Has Erlang thought about how to store them?" Xia Jiniang asked.

Zhang He didn't expect that Xia Jiniang would immediately think of this question. If she couldn't convince Xia Jiniang, then the fact that he had stored eggplants earlier was a fake would be exposed.After thinking about it, I can barely think of a lame reason: "I want to find merchants who are willing to buy silver eggplants when the silver eggplants are almost ready to be harvested, so that I don't need to work hard to store them. "

Xia Jiniang quite agreed: "It's not bad, it saves you from having to travel for a few days. It's just that it's too far away from the county town. Even if someone is willing to come to pick it, it's hard to guarantee that they won't lower the price of silver eggplants."

"How about the same price as purple melon?"

"It's not so low. Silver eggplant tastes sweet, much better than purple melon. Rich people also eat more silver eggplant, but even if silver eggplant turns out to be more than purple melon, it's still hard to find." Xia Jiniang said, implying He took a deep look at Zhang He, "Besides, Erlang's silver eggplants are not only less infested by insects, but also have fewer spoiled young fruits. If there is no accident, its taste is even better than the purple melons grown by Erlang. The price of a basket is not too high."

The way Zhang He looks at Xia Jiniang is not just looking at his sweetheart. With Xia Jiniang, she feels that she no longer needs to suffer from "not understanding the market"!

Suddenly being stared at by Zhang He with strange eyes, Xia Jiniang's heart thumped slightly, and she asked calmly, "But you think what I said is wrong?"

"No problem, Ji Niang is really good, she understands everything!"

Zhang He's unique way of compliment made Xia Jiniang a little ashamed. Since she was a child, the words she heard most praised from others were "diligent hands and feet", "understanding of affairs", and "well-proportioned body".But in the eyes of the world, these are all women should have, so no one will think that she is very powerful.

"Erlang is also very good." Xia Jiniang smiled back.Zhang He, who seems to know nothing, was able to get rid of the downcast situation at the beginning and come back from a desperate situation. Who can say that she is not good?

Zhang He didn't even realize that the corners of his mouth had turned up very obviously. Xia Jiniang stopped looking at her stupidly and said, "The rice should be ripe in August. There are more than 130 stone grains. I'm afraid these containers are not enough to store them; In addition, soybeans have to be harvested in mid-August, and soybeans need to be stored separately from rice; in addition, radish must also be harvested in September..."

Xia Jiniang was very organized, and she had figured out when to harvest the crops when she planted them according to Zhang He's instructions.She also knows how the output will be.

"How about freeing up these two places as granaries for storing grain?" Xia Jiniang finally asked.

"Listen to Ji Niang." Zhang He said.

If she didn't want to make Xia Jiniang suspicious, she didn't need to think about how to store it at all.

Nowadays, the way most farmers use to store grain is to put it into a "hoard" made of bamboo, and put some wooden boards under the "hoard" to prevent moisture.But its moisture-proof effect is far less good than that of the granary, and rat ants can easily dig holes from the bottom of the "storage" to steal food.

But how can a granary be easily built by ordinary people?

But she also thought of the metal granary that stored grain she had seen in her grandfather's house when she was a child.The metal granary for home use is a granary stacked with sections of iron sheets, which can not only prevent rodents and ants but also prevent moisture, and it is very reasonable in terms of space utilization.

It's just that today's forging technology is difficult to forge, and she doesn't have time to spend time researching on forging technology.However, she can imitate a metal granary to build a similar granary, which must be easy to load and unload, strong and resistant to moisture, rats and ants.

The forging technology of copper and iron has ruled out the possibility. If the terracotta tiles are bulky and fragile, the bamboo ones are not strong, and they are easy to deform and collapse.After much deliberation, Zhang He finally decided that the safest thing to do would be to use wood to make utensils like wooden barrels!

"Ji Niang, you said that these earthen jars alone may not be enough to store hundreds of stones of grain. I want to ask a carpenter to help build some large boxes. The bottom of the box is three or four feet high, and it is made of four wooden boards. The squares are stacked on top of each other... In this way, a large box can hold dozens of stone grains."

Xia Jiniang was slightly surprised, and then smiled: "Erlang has a wonderful idea, it is really refreshing to be able to come up with such a wonderful method."

This is the wisdom of the vast number of working people, and she dare not be complacent about it.She said: "I didn't think of this, and I just heard it from other places. I have to prepare for the door visit in the past two days. After this busy period is over, I will ask the carpenter to help me make the box."

Zhang He's "worship" means returning to the door. After she said this, Xia Jiniang remembered that she would have to go back to Xia's house in two days.Baimen needs Zhang He to prepare green satin, finely crafted shoes and pillows, etc. She thought that green satin was included in the betrothal gift Zhang He gave at the beginning. Although some of the betrothal gifts went to the Xia family, some of them were still used as her dowry. I brought it here.

"At that time, just take a piece of green satin and shoelaces from my dowry." Xia Jiniang said.

"That's your dowry, I can't touch it." Zhang He said with a smile.

"But most of my dowry was obtained in exchange for your dowry, and it was originally yours." Xia Jiniang said.

"But how can there be any reason to send it back with your dowry? Just this time."

Zhang He thought to himself, at least one day when Xia Jiniang finds someone she really likes, she will at least have a generous dowry and will not be laughed at.

Even if she thought of this, she would be very unwilling, but she would not be stingy with Xia Ji Niang because she didn't want to make a wedding dress for others.

"Perhaps there is no one as stupid as you in this world." Xia Jiniang reached out and pinched her face.

Compared with the time yesterday when he was married to Zhang He, this time the strength was stronger, but the eyes were more gentle.

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