The fertile water of farming does not flow to outsiders' fields

Fixing the chicken coop was a laborious task, Xue Yinsong was in charge of moving the wood, his father was in charge of fixing it, and Changhui was the most obedient, passing the wooden wedges aside.

The chicken coop had already been framed and the floor was laid. It only needed to fix the four walls to complete the work. However, because there was only one hammer in the house, Xue Yinsong rested beside him after moving the wood.

A few days ago, he took time out to dig some earthworms in the ground. There were two kinds of earthworms, red and blue, and they were raised together in a rotten earthworm pot in the corner of the courtyard.He walked over and lifted the rotten straw hat, and saw that the earthworms immediately shrank into the soil, and the vegetable peels thrown on it had been eaten up, and they seemed to have a good appetite.

The earthworms had grown to almost the same size. Xue Yinsong turned a pot upside down on the ground and poked out one by one from the inside, and then cut the earthworms in half with a hatchet.Changhui looked at it from afar, and screamed for Father Xue, saying that Aba was killing insects.

Father Xue almost smashed his hand, and said calmly: "You, Aba, are helping the worms. If the worms want to multiply, you can cut them into two." Chang Hui didn't believe it. Rolling all over the ground in pain, but crawling around as if nothing happened after a while: "Aba, can they really become two?"

"Well, you see, if I bury them in the soil, the number of earthworms in our family will double in a month."

The kid couldn't tell the difference, so he corrected Aba: "It's half more, half more." Xue Yinsong smiled and said, "It's half more, and it's twice as much."

"It's not double, it's half."

"Yes, half and half."

He didn't learn mathematics in primary school, can you explain it to him?

Lizheng saw the door was open, and called Xue boy twice when he entered the door.

Xue Yinsong greeted him and went out smiling: "What kind of wind brought Mr. Lizheng here." Lizheng coughed dryly: "I also go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and I just want to discuss something with you."

Seeing Aunt Huan offering hot tea, Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Lord Lizheng just give orders, and if there is anything I can do, I will try my best."

Li Zheng said: "It's not difficult. It's spring and there is a shortage of vegetables. There are so many people in our Chenjia Village that we have almost dug up all the wild vegetables nearby. A few days ago, some people fought for the wild vegetables. Fortunately, it was all the brats." Not too bad, those who went up the mountain today said they heard wolves howling, and they were not far away, scaring everyone who entered the mountain back."

Xue Yinsong wondered: "Could it be that they want to organize people to go into the mountains to fight wolves? Do you want me to participate? That's not a problem. When will I go into the mountains?"

Lizheng coughed dryly, and his voice softened: "Don't you have cabbage at home, anyway, you can't finish it, how about..."

Aunt Huan sneered: "Don't mention it, I sit in the wine shop every day, and I hear a lot of gossips from this family. When I gossip, I don't want to say a few words, but now I want to eat vegetables and think of my house?"

Li Zheng was a little embarrassed. He knew that the little widow had a pungent personality, so he hurriedly echoed, "I'll tell them later that they are not allowed to talk about your parents behind their backs."

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "This kind of gossip can't be tolerated. The ancients said that it is better to defend the people than to defend the river. They control the sky and the earth. They still have to talk and fart. They can talk as they like."

Aunt Huan said: "That's why you didn't listen to me. It's pockmarked Liu in the village. People say that ugly people do weird things, and it's true. The day before yesterday, she dragged a person who wanted to come to my house to buy sauce. She didn't know it quietly. After saying something, they left. Later, Mrs. Zhang told me that Liu Ermazi said that everything in my house was adulterated, and told them not to buy it. She said that the price was the same as that in the county, so it must be adulterated.”

Father Xue patted his thigh and complained: "Just blame the tiger. I told him that the price should be higher by a few cents, but he refused. Do you think this is a disaster?"

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Even if you are rich, people won't say good things. Jealousy is just jealousy, and it has nothing to do with the price."

Aunt Huan said again: "Liu Ermazi also said that there is no food in the spring, and that my cabbage is sold at a high price to make a bad fortune, and that my family is the only one in the village with good conditions. When you come to my house to buy things, you will send money to my house. What is it called... ...to rob the poor, to rob...the poor to the rich."

Hearing the gossip, Xue Yinsong sneered and said, "One didn't steal and the other didn't rob. What do you mean? If you want to talk about that dish, it's really true. I'll sell it in the store tomorrow, no more, no less. , only sell two Wen."

Li Zheng also came here for this purpose, and he smiled and said: "Exactly, the price of this main dish is two renminbi, if you can understand the righteousness and put the cabbage on the shelf, it will be a great achievement. "

Little Xiucai wanted to say that my family has a lot of cabbages, and it is necessary to support and support the village, but thinking that it was because of his wrong words that delayed things a few times before, he kept staring at Xue Yinsong and kept silent.

Li Zheng saw him looking at Xue Yinsong, and Father Xue also looked at Xue Yinsong, and immediately understood who the master of this family was, he hurriedly smiled and said to Xue Yinsong: "I said Xue boy, so it's settled, I'll go from house to house Say hello to the people in the village, starting tomorrow, every family will come to your house to buy cabbage, how about it?"

Xue Yinsong has never been a loser. Although he had to agree to the words, he still demanded a lot of money: "It is no problem to sell cabbage. It is also the responsibility of each of our villagers to help the poor. I am for the villagers, and the villagers are for me. , This is also what it should be. There is only one thing, if the cabbage is opened, it will definitely not be enough, otherwise, if the family has labor, it can only buy ten catties, and if the family does not have labor, it can buy twenty catties."

Li Zheng was confused when he heard this, and quickly asked, "Isn't this sold according to the size of the family? Why divide the labor?"

Xue Yinsong said: "If the family has a labor force, they can still dig some wild vegetables to subsidize, but it's just a little farther away. The family without labor will have to plow deep in the spring. I'm afraid they don't have time to dig wild vegetables, but the vegetables are unavoidable. to eat, so it takes twenty catties."

Lizheng nodded, feeling that he was going to the bottom, but he was a little embarrassed: "Some people have seven or eight mouths, and ten catties of cabbage may not be enough to eat."

Xue Yinsong asked: "How many families like this are there?"

"There are about six or seven families. Some have daughters who were born earlier, and some are nephews and nieces adopted by brothers and sisters after death." Li Zheng explained.

"It's easy to handle. You can tell them quietly. You still come to buy ten catties of cabbage during the day, but you just come to the shop quietly at night to buy another ten catties. I will wait for them in the shop at night. Just quietly, If people knew about it, I wouldn’t recognize it at all.”

Li Zheng nodded repeatedly, only to hear Xue Yinsong say again: "I am saving money to support the village, Li Zheng also understands, how about Master Li Zheng doing us a little favor?"

Li Zheng was taken aback, and quickly asked, "I don't know what's going on?"

Xue Yinsong said: "Isn't my 18 acres of land rented out to others? I signed an agreement last year, and it won't be taken back until next year. But I'm planning to plant something else in a hurry to use the land. Please tell those tenants Just say what to plant in that field, I have the final say, I will take 5% when harvesting, they will take [-]%, if you lose money, I will pay you [-]% per mu to guarantee the bottom line.”

5 It is considered a good harvest. In some years, if there is drought and flooding, the grains will not be harvested, let alone the seeds. After hearing this, they are busy saying: "Okay, this is no problem, they will definitely be willing."

This is equivalent to buying insurance for crops, who would not want it?Xue Yinsong thanked Li Zheng with a smile, and chatted about other things.

Li Zheng made up his mind to finish the important matter, and sat with him for a while before getting up to say goodbye, and hurriedly conveyed the good news.

As soon as Li was leaving, Father Xue hurriedly closed the door and turned around and asked, "Tiger, our cabbage is only collected for a whole house, and you sell it to the villagers. What do we eat?"

Xue Yinsong looked at the rich man and said with a smile: "The two acres of cabbage harvested about 4000 catties, and the whole village can buy up to 3000 catties. Doesn't my family have 1000 catties left? This can be eaten until the beginning of summer."

Father Xue smacked his mouth and asked tentatively, "Can't you sell it higher? The price of this vegetable is two cents in autumn. Can't it be sold higher in spring?"

Xue Yinsong shook his head with a smile: "Everyone hates wealth. If it is unwise to distribute some wealth in the country at this time, then sell it for two cents. In the future, everyone will get rich together. Now selling vegetables at a low price also wins people's hearts. "

The other three looked at each other, unable to understand what it means to get rich together. Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "I'm going to play a very big set of sevens. It's not convenient to disclose the details. You will understand later."

Seeing his unfathomable appearance, Xiao Xiucai was the first to pat his ass and leave. It's not that he didn't support it. Such things really have nothing to do with scholars.

Just as the few people stopped talking, there was a sudden commotion in the chicken coop over there, and Father Xue ran over cursing: "Tiger! Your fourth uncle has entered the chicken coop again! Come and get it away for me!" One came out and raised its head and neck in front of its son.

When Xue Yinsong saw it, he was really angry and funny. The fox cub was being carried away honestly, but his eyes were rolling around, and there was a chicken feather on his mouth, so he hurriedly took it and hugged it in his arms.

In fact, the fox is very human. When he saw that he was not beaten, he was busy and chattered, chirping.Xue Yinsong looked at the son of the fox and knew that they were hungry, so he sighed and went to the kitchen to have a look.

Father Xue hurriedly jumped into the kitchen and shouted: "There is no meat, there is no meat!"

Xue Yinsong wandered around, wanted to cut bacon but was afraid of being scolded by his father, so he fiddled with some big blue earthworms and threw them to the fox to eat.

In fact, foxes do not completely eat meat. They are omnivores, and many things such as earthworms, small insects, plant fruits, frogs and mice can become their food.

Father Xue saw that these four uncles were still rushing to eat earthworms, and his eyes were straightened: "Son, if I knew they would like to eat earthworms, I should have fed them. What are these earthworms?"

Xue Yinsong replied angrily: "My earthworms are very precious. It's hard to raise a pot for breeding. Now I feed them, and I have to wait for next month."

Father Xue immediately said: "This is easy, I will take Changhui to the ground tomorrow to dig it for you, at least two big pots for you."

Xue Yinsong hurriedly stopped him and said, "No, there will be no more earthworms in the ground after you dug it. Let's feed it bacon. The two big pieces of bacon on the beam are enough for them to eat for half a month." Father Xue wanted to disagree, but saw He insisted, so he could only reserve his opinions and go to his wife to talk bad things about his son.