Grandpa is not vegetarian

Hearing Ma Tiezhu's words, Mu Yunyi was not angry, but recognized the truth of the other party: "I don't blame you, I don't blame you, as long as you plant according to the method I gave you, it's okay, I don't want you, and If we want to sign a contract, write this into the contract.”

The most important part of the watermelon was settled, so Gao Yichun went to find two other families, one was Xiaodaolang's family, and the head of the household was Qiu.

In this village of Shangqinghe, there are three families sitting in the land, namely the Qiu family, the Xia family and the Niu family. They all have their own patriarchs. Most of the other surnames are from outside. Some have patriarchs and some have no patriarchs, like the Gao family. , there are only three or five households, and they are not close to each other.

For example, Xia Qi's father was originally the patriarch of the Xia family, and Qiu Xiaobao's father is the current patriarch of the Qiu family. If there is something wrong with the Xia family or the Qiu family, basically there is no need to go through Lizheng, and the patriarch himself will escort them to the ancestral hall. It was dealt with, and the county magistrate seldom intervened.

The father of Little Knife Mantis is Qiu Dazhuang, also from the Qiu family. He is Qiu Xiaobao's unborn cousin. He is in his 50s this year, and has three sons and a daughter. His family only owns the [-]-odd acres of land that they got when they were separated. There are five people in their family. It wasn't enough money at all, but fortunately he was a carpenter, and he was an apprentice with Gao Yichun's father, Gao Xuexing. Over the years, he helped the village make furniture and windows to earn some pocket money.

Their family is poor enough, and their two sons have reached the age of marriage, but they can't get married. This time, the daughter is going to get married, and they are going to take out the dowry, plus their savings over the past few years to find out for the eldest son. A marriage.

Gao Yichun came to the door and said that he would hire him to grow rice and raise fish, and he would give him half a tael per mu of land, ten renminbi for a bucket of rice harvested in autumn, and a penny for harvesting three catties of fish and shrimp. I agreed, their family didn’t have much land, and although they knew how to work carpentry, there were not many families in the ten miles and eight villages that made furniture in a year. Without money, he and his two adult sons have been idle at home for more than half a year. Now that a profitable business has fallen from the sky, they have no reason to push it out.

The second family that Gao Yichun found was Niu Lao Er's family, the younger brother of Niu Boss. Their family also had little land, and their strong labor force was unemployed, so Gao Yichun told him that he would hire them to plant the remaining [-] acres of land. Seven mu of land is planted with wheat, and the remaining seven mu of land is planted with peanuts. The price is still half taels of silver per mu.

Gao Yichun and Mu Yunyi have already calculated, wheat and rice are about two shi per acre, and the interest is one or two taels of silver. Give them half a tael of silver, two shi is twenty Dou, plus two hundred Wen, it happens to be seven floors But in doing so, linking their money to food production will allow them to handle it more carefully.

After all the details were finalized, Mu Yunyi signed a one-year contract with the three families. He paid for a banquet at the Ma family, and invited Li Zheng, the chiefs of the Qiu family and the Niu family to have a meal. A notary, and even told the Gao family that the [-] mu of land has been rented out, if you want to blackmail, you should first toss with these three families.

On the day the contract was signed, there was a banquet in the courtyard, and a matchmaker came to the door next door to propose marriage to Gao Yitian. That little Zhang Zhang was indeed the most famous matchmaker in ten miles and eight villages. With a clever mouth, she first said Gao Yitian It is a pity that Gao Xuexin and Gao Yizhi failed to pass the exam due to accidents. They have to prepare for a year, and when they take the county exam next year, they will definitely pass the high school exam. At that time, her father and her two elder brothers will all be scholars, three scholars in one school... She knew that the Gao family liked to hear this, so she repeatedly put the word scholar at the end, which made Gao Xuexin and his wife very happy.

Immediately after Xiaojiao Zhang praised Gao Yitian as rare in the sky, hard to find on the ground, the girl looks good, just like a beauty in a New Year painting, has a good temper, can do needlework, and has a good reputation, everything is perfect. Jia, a pair of small feet are also well-wrapped: "Why did I marry into someone like your second brother? The main reason is because of these small feet, the real three-inch golden lotus! Back then, Zhang Jinlian was famous in ten miles and eight villages. Your family is big. Girl, this foot was bound early, and it was well wrapped. I live at such an old age, and the girl who has been a matchmaker has eight hundred, not to mention one thousand. It belongs to your Tian girl, and this foot is the most beautiful. I remember 12 years ago, I introduced After a family, that girl is so small, she finally married the magistrate, she is now a serious official wife, she went home to visit her relatives the year before last, and even brought a gift to see me, the jewelry on her body collided with each other as she walked It must be tinkling, I have an old nose..."

She is old and sophisticated, and she specially grabs people's itching places: "There is a master Zhang in our neighboring village. There is a son in their family. Like you, because of being envied by all villains, especially a younger brother from their family, who lost his conscience and blackened his heart, he actually put crotons in his brother's meal, but failed to pass the exam... "

Gao Xuexin and his wife were deeply touched when they heard this, and they scolded at the same time, first scolding the concubine of Mr. Zhang's family, and then scolding Gao Yichun.The little foot Zhang showed up early, saying that Master Zhang's family asked him to help find him and talk about marriage, and then he shut up.Gao Xuexin and his wife were very itchy. Seeing that it was time for dinner, they fixed up a banquet table, invited Xiaozu Zhang to eat, and proposed at the dinner table that they wanted to marry Zhang's family.

Xiaojiao Zhang pretended not to agree: "Oh, what kind of family is that? I am an old-fashioned face, afraid to step on their yard, and besides, their son will definitely be able to go to high school next year..." Gao Xuexin The couple begged again and again, and Tong took out three strings of private money saved by the upper house from the cabinet and handed them to Xiao Jiao Zhang, who then let go, "I can't say that I'm showing such kindness to my elder brothers and younger siblings." I have to make a trip no matter what, but I will do my best, whether it will be successful or not, I dare not guarantee it."

Gao Xuexin saw that she took the initiative to come to the door today, and it was for this matter, and he gave the money. It is likely to be successful. As for Mr. Zhang, he has also heard of it. It is said that he came from the capital in the past two years. When he came back, he brought a large sum of money and bought a real estate business. He said he made his fortune in the capital and now has more than 100 mu of land. If they are able to marry, they will be able to be housekeepers right away, and in the future, a few copper coins from the cracks of their fingers will be enough for them to live for the rest of their lives: "Sister-in-law Zhang, no one in the ten villages and eight stores knows what you are capable of. As long as you are willing to work hard, nothing is impossible!"

Xiao Zhang Zhang felt comfortable eating and drinking here, then put away three strings of money, left Gao's house drunk, and walked back beautifully. Gao Yichun told her that she could get at least two strings of money this trip, but she did not expect to get it Three skewers is a surprise. She usually gives her a job as a matchmaker, and the average farmer only gives her a basket of eggs, and a piece of rough cloth for those who are particular about it. How can she be so straightforward and give money directly? , I got a total of [-] wen before and after, and almost half an acre of land was harvested!

As soon as she left here, Gao Xuexin and his wife thought about retiring from the Jiang family in the town. They were afraid that the Jiang family would be powerful, and the couple were both soft-headed and unable to resist, so they took out fifty Wen Give the fourth senior high school certificate, let him go to negotiate with the Jiang family, the fourth senior Gao is not stingy, since he has money to take, then he can talk about anything, but he refuses fifty yuan, so he has to ask for another fifty yuan before giving up. The next morning I got up and drank half a catty of soju, and went to Jiang's house with a flushed face.

They are messing around here, but Mu Yunyi's side has already finalized the contract and officially started work. Ma Tiezhu took his three sons, plus his wife and son-in-law. After all were planted, they came to cultivate the six acres of sandy land by the river.

Mu Yunyi is a liberal arts student. As for watermelon cultivation, he only knows that it is best to grow watermelons on sandy soil, and that he cultivated melon seedlings at home in advance, and then took them to the ground to plant them. It depends on the prescription given by Yuanwai Zhao.

A few days ago, Mu Yunyi took out one hundred Wen and collected several carts of farmyard manure in the three neighboring villages. They were retting by the villagers themselves with human and animal manure, plant ash, etc., and they were supposed to be used in their own fields. Mu Yunyi paid for it, and they all tried to get some out of it, and Mu Yunyi let people spread it thinly on the [-] acres of land.

Now that work is starting, Ma Tiezhu took his son and daughter-in-law to dig ditches and prepare ridges, carry water and plant seedlings according to the method stated in the prescription, and worked hard day and night.

At the same time, the other two fields were also busy. Niu Lao Er’s family had a lot of labor. The family went to the field in the early morning of the second day after signing the contract. Farmers have to work the hardest during the busy farming period. One is to get up early and be greedy for night, wear the stars and wear the moon. They don't have to look at the land like the Ma family and the Qiu family. They are similar to normal tenants, so they get their own seeds. I got wheat seeds and peanut seeds myself, and borrowed rhubarb from the cattle boss, and plowed the land.

In comparison, ten acres of saline-alkali land required a large amount of work. Gao Yichun hired [-] part-time workers. Because it was the busy farming season, each person had to pay [-] yuan a day. Take the spade and pick and come to dig the ground.

Similarly, for raising fish and crabs in the rice fields, Mu Yunyi has only heard such a name. How to do it is black-eyed, and he can only cross the river by feeling the stones. He and Gao Yichun have drawn several times in advance Zhang Zhang blueprint, repeated deliberation, fortunately, Gao Yichun is a good hand in doing crop work, compared to him, he can be called an expert, he will put forward some advanced experience heard by later generations, Gao Yichun is responsible for checking, then It is because the fish cannot be kept alive, and the rice must not be thrown away in vain.

When he got to the field, Mu Yunyi could only stand on the sidelines and watch, not to mention that he had injured an arm, so he could only be an incompetent supervisor, while Gao Yichun took off his shoes and socks, Take the lead in the work, where to plow, where to dig ditches, where to get water, where to get water, all done in an orderly manner.

The ten-acre land was first piled with broken stones and rotten tiles to form a circle of low walls, and then piled two more in the middle to divide it into three pieces. Each piece was dug down to a depth of more than half a meter. The rice fields are the same, except that fish and shrimp are put in them. Gao Yichun thinks that the water in the rice fields is shallow, and the fish that can be raised are at most three or two inches long, and it is not easy to survive. There is still room for drought and rain. It flowed out in advance, and if it didn’t rain twice, it would be rippling, and if it didn’t rain, it would dry up. So a square pond more than one meter deep was dug in the middle of each field, and the mud dug from the river was piled in it, and then water plants were placed. , tree branches and the like are used as fish nests, and part of the paddy field area is sacrificed to ensure the survival of fish.