Married a scholar

▍Now I want to help the other party.

An acre of high-quality field is carefully tended and God's face is favored, and about [-] catties of rice can be obtained.But not everyone has high-grade fields, and most families still have middle-grade and low-grade fields.The annual output of such paddy fields is even less.

It is not that there are no old farmers who want to increase production, but no matter how careful they are, there is no one who has passed [-] catties.

In the past two years, there has been even less rain, and the output of the top-grade fields has only been around [-] to [-] jin, and the yield of the middle-grade and low-grade fields has dropped to about [-] jin per mu.

After paying the taxes, every household lived a tight life.

"Boy Ze, is it true?" Uncle Wei was the first to react.

Xia Wenze didn't speak too much, "Uncle Wei, a few uncles, I just read that they have a production capacity of [-] to [-] catties per mu, but I don't know the truth. Do you want to try the paddy field?"

People in the surrounding fields would look up at them from time to time, and those who were close could hear a word or two.

"Is it something about the paddy field at Kid Ze's house?"

"It seems to be." Zhang Zhuzi got up and looked over there, "When I came over at noon, I saw Uncle Wei wandering around the field in Wenze."

Father Zhang next to him said: "If you want me to say that they are just worrying about nothing, Kid Ze has never been in the field and knows nothing, so Ning Geer still doesn't understand? In the past, Ning Geer used to work on the fields of the Meng family. Live."

"Can you not worry about it?" Xia Wencheng threw a handful of rice roots onto the ridge of the field, "The harvest has not been good in the past two years, and the harvest has been getting smaller every year. Now Brother Ning and the others are farming by themselves, my father and the others I'm afraid they will ruin the good first-class fields."

Father Zhang covered the pit where the seeds were sprinkled with soil with a hoe, and sighed when he heard the words, "Hey, the harvest in the past two years is really good." Father Zhang looked at his paddy field, "It's a good thing that your paddy field is on the farm. Waiting for the paddy field, no matter how bad it is, you can’t go anywhere, not to mention that your paddy field is still attached to the name of the scholar in the clan, so the tax and food can be saved a lot.” It’s not like they have few surnames and no scholar For my family, not to mention the lack of harvest in this field, they still have to pay taxes and grains. The past two years have been getting tighter and tighter.

Zhang's father's land is next to Xia Wencheng's paddy field, and the output of the two families in the past two years has been equal to each other.

Xia Wencheng couldn't say anything, the Zhang family's fields were all medium-sized fields, and the output was already less than theirs. This had to be in addition to paying taxes and food, and the past two years had been difficult.

Meng Yining and the others didn't know what happened here, Xia Wenze was surrounded by several clan uncles at the moment.

Meng Yining didn't bother, but went to the field with his trousers on his heels.

It is useless for them to ask whether the output will increase or not, and no one will try their own fields without seeing the results.

The water in the paddy fields had already been released during the autumn harvest last year, so now the water in the fields is only above the ankles.

Meng Yining is not very good at catching loaches. Before the end of the world, he only went to the farmhouse with his brothers to experience it a few times. After so many years, he only has a few memories.

However, the original owner was very good at catching loach and eel. When the Meng family was not full enough to eat meat, he would secretly catch some loach and eel in the field to make tooth sacrifices.

This is better than going hunting in the mountains, and it is not dangerous.

Following the original owner's memory, Meng Yining searched for loach and eel holes in the fields, and when he saw one that looked like it, he went to dig it out.He dug a few holes like this, and finally let him dig a real one. Meng Yining's eyes lit up, and he quickly dug in along the dug-out hole, and then pulled out an eel.

"This eel is quite big." Meng Yining threw the eel into the bucket and glanced over there. The other uncles had already gone back to work in their fields, and only Uncle Wei was still pulling the eel. Xia Wenze didn't know what he was talking about.

After Meng Yining had caught several loaches, Xia Wenze came over.

"Have you caught so much?" Xia Wenze glanced into the bucket, quickly rolled up his trousers and got out of the field.

"There are a lot of loaches, so it's hard to catch eels." Meng Yining asked him, "What did Uncle Wei say when he pulled you?"

"It's about increasing food production, and I still want to be with me." Xia Wenze shook his head helplessly, "I didn't agree." He believed in Brother Ning, but others wouldn't.

If Uncle Wei really did what they did, the family would probably be in trouble.

"I can't agree." Meng Yining pulled the bucket over and threw an eel into it, "Aunt Wei is not a fuel-efficient." If there is a quarrel at home because of this, I'm afraid it will involve the two of them .

"That's why I didn't agree." Xia Wenze naturally knew about the temperament of the members of the Xia clan, and because he knew, Uncle Wei wanted to do like them, so he didn't agree.

"It's right not to agree." Meng Yining picked up a snail and threw it into the bucket. The snails here are quite big. No one in the village picks up these things to eat. They just pick them up and break them up to give the meat to the chickens. duck to eat.Meng Yining really likes to eat this stuff, especially when cooked with hot pot ingredients.Thinking of the smell, Meng Yining said to Xia Wenze who was behind him: "If you see a big snail, pick it up."

"it is good."

Everyone else was busy throwing seeds in the fields, while Meng Yining and the others were busy catching loaches, eels and snails in the nearby fields.

Some people saw them doing this, so they followed suit. After all, loach and eel are also meat, and if you catch some, you can add a meat dish to the family.

The two caught a lot of loaches and eels. There was little water in the fields, so eels and eels were easy to catch.

Of course, Xia Wenze was the one who caught the most. Meng Yining had the memory of the original owner, but his luck was another matter. Obviously, his luck was not as good as Xia Wenze's when it came to catching loaches and eels.

"Let's go home." Xia Wenze carried the bucket up to the ridge of the field. Now that the sun had set, his feet would be cold in the water.

"Ah."

The two simply washed their feet in the water and went home barefoot.

Although the original body is a brother, here we are a little more tolerant of brothers than sisters. No matter how poor the physique of the brother is, he is better than the sister. Not to mention the rich people, but the brother in the country is half of the family. labor force.

It is necessary to plant in the field, so no one talks about showing calves and arms.

When they got home, they washed their hands and feet briefly, and then separated the eel and loach from the snails.

"The snails have to be raised and let them spit out sand." Meng Yining washed the loach and eel, and prepared to kill them and braise them for dinner.

"Let me come." Xia Wenze didn't ask him how to eat snails, but reached out and took the kitchen knife in his hand, "You cook first, and I'll clean it up."

"Row."

The braised eel and dried loach cooked in the evening, the two of them ate to their satisfaction.

After eating, Meng Yining still had some aftertaste, "Before they sow rice seeds in their fields, let's go catch some tomorrow." If people sow rice seeds, it will be difficult to go to other people's fields to catch loaches and eels.

Xia Wenze naturally agreed, but he didn't expect eel and loach to be made so delicious by Brother Ning.

The next day, after breakfast, Xia Wenze went to the town to buy tarpaulins, while Meng Yining went to chop bamboo and weave drying mats.

As soon as he closed the back door with the machete, he heard someone calling him outside.

"Aunt Lanhua, I'm here." Turning around from the kitchen, he saw an aunt in the village calling him.

"Brother Ning, I just came to tell you that Zhao Zhenggang's family is having trouble with Dr. Zhou, so don't join in the fun." Aunt Lanhua stood by the fence and said to him, "I just came over there. Mrs. Zhao is yelling that whoever finds it will be responsible, and the village chief is there right now, so don't go."

"Is it wrong for me to help find him?" Meng Yining frowned, and opened the courtyard door for people to come in and sit.

"No, I think Mrs. Zhao is unwilling to pay for the treatment of the boy. I heard from Dr. Zhou that the boy has a fever, and this time he bleeds so much. It will take a while." Aunt Lanhua looked disdainful. , and spat, "You just stay at home. If there is trouble from the Zhao family, you can go to the village chief and the clan uncle. Our Xia family can't let their Zhao family bully us. That's fine, I won't Come in and sit down, I have to go to the town to buy some meat, and my natal brother is here to help with the work." After finishing speaking, he left in a hurry.

Meng Yining closed the courtyard door, a little speechless to the Zhao family, it was like touching porcelain.

However, he didn't take this matter to heart. If the village head passed by, he would definitely not let this matter come to them.However, his impression of Zhao's side was even worse.

Although not everyone in the Zhao family is like this, among the few surnames in Shangyao Village, the one with the most top quality is really the Zhao family.

After cutting the bamboo, Meng Yining went into the room to drink some water, and then heard the plane trader beeping, opened it, and saw the message Zhan Youxi left for him.

Meng Yining sent a video invitation to the other party after watching [I have some anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing medicines here, but not many. 】Meng Yining traded the medicine in the space to him.

Zhan Youxi looked tired at the moment, his eyes were bloodshot, and it looked like he hadn't had a good rest for several days. [Thank you, I have some crystal nuclei here. 】Zhan Youxi got the anti-inflammatory medicine and anti-fever medicine and gave them to Luo Chen.

Meng Yining said to him: [You can help me find some beautiful accessories, or some agricultural books and handmade books. ] There are also books in his space, but they are all novels. He exchanged useful books like textbooks to the base when he got them back.He can sell the accessories in the silver building here, and then buy other things to trade with the modern plane.

After holding the plane trader for so long, he has only traded with Zhan Youxi from the last world plane. Originally, he wanted to see if the other party was in the same time and space as his previous life.

Now he wants to help a group of others. It seems that Zhan Youxi is short of medicine, and Chinese medicine is too much trouble for them. He can trade some medicine with the modern plane.

There are not many medicines in his space, and all of them have been traded to Zhan Youxi at this moment.

[Okay, it just so happens that these things are not worth much on our side. 】 Zhan Youxi glanced to the right, and his expression visibly relaxed.

The author says:

When I was young, I often took my younger brother and my peers in the village to the fields to dig holes to catch loaches and eels. I miss it so much.