[Red House + Space] Falling Spring

Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian came out of Huangye Village. They were walking back to the city. Feng Ziying complained: "I said, Brother Liu, your attitude is very problematic. That is your future father-in-law, mother-in-law, what are you doing?" You should also perform well, usually you are quite eloquent, but why do you show your timidity when it comes to the real thing?"

Liu Xianglian refused to admit that she was timid, and retorted lightly: "It is precisely because I want to behave well, so I am not like you, talking nonsense. It's not that I don't talk, but I just refrain from talking. Calm, making people feel reliable and trustworthy.”

"You—" Hearing Liu Xianglian's evaluation of herself, Feng Ziying was so angry that she almost fell off the horse.He hurriedly tightened the reins, stabilized his figure, glared at Liu Xianglian, and said, "Good old Liu, you want to throw me over the wall before this man is married, right? Do the math, I am big and small I have helped you so much, but now you want to turn your face and deny anyone, I have recognized you. Come on, come on, come on, if this is the case, if you have anything to do in the future, don't drag me, just look for me, I think I still ignore you? You wait..."

Liu Xianglian ignored him at all, looked at the surroundings, and asked: "Brother Feng, there is a red sandalwood castle twenty miles away from the city in the eastern suburbs of Qiguan. Is it here? "

Feng Ziying looked at the words, shook her head and said, "You can ask me, I don't know. Why don't you go back and ask Qiguan face to face? But why are you asking about this?"

"I'm thinking about whether to set up a few mu of land here." Liu Xianglian replied.Jia Amnesty's family separated from Jia's mother and moved out of the city. If it is convenient, at least they come to the door again, so they don't have to worry about being dragged away by Jia's mother. girl.But the inconvenience is that if you are in the city, you can still have a friend who visits Baoyu as an excuse, but Jia She is not familiar with it at all, and it is outside the city, so there is no suitable reason to visit for no reason. Always bad.If there is also a field here, then you can go out of the city for the reason of taking care of the field, and then get close to Jia She and Jia Lian, so as to achieve the purpose of entering the house.

Feng Ziying also thought of this, and patted her thigh and said, "That's right, that's a good idea. Old Liu, I thought your head was made of elm. You're not enlightened. It turns out that you are the one who keeps your mouth shut and knows your heart." , this kind of listless listlessness."

Liu Xianglian gave him a blank look, ignored him, and rode away quickly.Seeing this, Feng Ziying quickly clamped her horse's belly, shouting "wait for me", and chased after him.

When Liu Xianglian was looking for fields around Red Sandalwood Castle, Jia She's family lived a very leisurely life in Huangye Village.Because Mrs. Xing and Luochun once complained to Xing Dequan about coming out of the mansion, what they are most unaccustomed to is the food cooked by the cook, which is really unpalatable.So in the Zheng family that Xing Dequan bought for them this time, Mrs. Zheng is a full cook. Although her skills are not as good as the top cooks in the house, she is still considered average.So at the first meal here, when Mrs. Zheng brought out the cooked meals, from Jia She down, everyone ate sweetly and smacked their tongues, very satisfied, and felt that she was the cook Craftsmanship, moving out is not a loss.

Because she no longer regards herself as a lady of the family, Luochun did not abide by the principle of staying out of the door and not going out of the second door. On the second day, she dressed in homely clothes, walked around the village, and then went to recognize her again. own field.

Seeing the surroundings of his own field, Luochun asked the villagers in detail, then returned home, found Mrs. Xing, and said, "Mother, I have something to discuss with you."

Facing Mrs. Shang Xing's questioning gaze, she took out the Four Treasures of the Study and put them on the table.Luochun drew his own field and the surrounding environment, pointed to the river about a mile and a half away from the field and said, "Mother, look, the land beside the river here is full of reeds. The land, I asked, is all unowned wasteland. I calculated it, and it looks like more than two dumps. We bought them, and then dug ditches to draw the water from the river. In this way, even if I am not afraid of drought."

Mrs. Xing hesitated for a moment and said: "But I heard that this reed field is not easy to clean up. Even if the reeds above are burned, the roots underneath will still sprout next spring. There is nothing to grow at all. If we buy it, it means It’s a waste of money. This is two acres of land, not two acres, so why do we need so much barren land?”

Luochun did not give up, and further persuaded: "Actually, it's not impossible to eradicate the reed roots, but it's just more troublesome. Not only do you have to dig deep, but you have to dig for three years in a row. It's not a big problem to dig the soil again. Because once At the beginning, we invested a lot, and there will be no big gains for more than three years, so those rich people feel that it is not worth it. But this is just cheaper for us, otherwise, there will be a stretch of land in the suburbs of Beijing, and even if there is, it will not be our turn. Us!"

"There is some truth in what you said." Mrs. Xing was a little moved, but still hesitated: "It's just that you also said that the initial investment is large, and there will be no harvest for three or four years. All the output is to be sent to the old lady. The income in your hand is the rent of the small house you entered in the city. You can barely make ends meet. How can you use this spare money to buy land? Not to mention the upfront investment?"

Luochun took a fancy to that piece of wasteland, and the reason why he wanted to bring in the river water was to make good use of the water in the space to cheat in farming. Otherwise, even in later generations, unless it was a large-scale mechanized farm, otherwise, it would never I have never heard of people making a fortune by farming, let alone this feudal society with backward technology and a society dominated by small farmers.But what Mrs. Xing said is also a big problem. No money, no matter how good the idea is, it's useless!

Luochun thought for a long time, although there were still things in her space, but because she had told Mrs. Xing earlier that all the things brought out from the mansion were shown to her, and all of them were given to her, so the things in the space Can no longer be taken out.But Luochun calculated the cost, at least 500 taels, and the four gold bracelets were not enough. The rent of the small house in the capital was the source of life for the family and could not be sold. Only the embroidery is left.So he said: "How about, mother, sell the embroidered picture of "Red Cliff"?"

"No!" Mrs. Xing refused without hesitation: "I'll keep it for a long time, so you don't have to think about it. You don't have to worry about it. If we can raise money, we will do it. If we don't Put it in your hand and put it there first. Anyway, it has been there for so many years, and no one will snatch it from us, so don’t worry.”

Luochun opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Mrs. Xing blocked her back: "Okay, these things are not for you to worry about. There are your father, me, your brother and sister-in-law at home, so many people , you can’t eat for nothing. You learn from your second girl and fourth girl, and do what girls of your age should do, and don’t get confused here. You worry so much at a young age, be careful The old man is white first, and becomes a little old woman."

Faced with Mrs. Xing's "threat", Luochun puffed up and walked out reluctantly.Sister Feng, who was walking towards her, saw her, stepped forward and took her hand affectionately, and said with a smile: "Sixth sister, what's the matter, her mouth is so pouted that you can hang an oil bottle, what's the matter, tell me, I'll help you." Let you sort it out."

Luo Chun withdrew his hand, shook his head, and said: "It's okay. You are here to find your mother, right now, your mother is in the room and she is free, so go in quickly."

Sister Feng stared at Luochun's leaving back for a long while, until she passed through the hall and could no longer see Luochun's figure, then Sister Feng turned and walked to Mrs. Xing's room.Lifting the curtain and entering the room, Sister Feng said: "Just now I saw the sixth younger sister not far from my wife's house, and seeing the expression on her face was very ugly, so I asked her a few questions, but Liu But my younger sister refused to say anything. I don't know why the sixth younger sister is so unhappy, if Madam is fine, go and see the sixth younger sister and forgive her."

Mrs. Xing sighed, and said: "It's hard for you as a sister-in-law to be so careful and caring about her. In fact, it's nothing serious." Pointing to the picture drawn by Luochun just now, she told Sister Feng about Luochun's plan, and then said: " I don't know that Liu Yatou's idea is good, but our family... I won't hide from you how much money we have in the family. Apart from this house, we also have a hundred acres of land, and there is also a rented house in the city. Small house. The silver grain we hand over to the old lady is about 150 taels a year, so it is good enough to give the output of the family’s field to the old lady, so there is no need to count on it. Therefore, the family The livelihood of the big and small depends on the monthly rent of more than six taels to less than seven taels. The family's food, drink, clothing, food, shelter, transportation, medical consultation for sickness, head tax, ... all come from here, you do the math. , How much money can I have left? If the old lady pays some extra money, I don’t know where to find it. Why don’t I want to add some property to the family, not to mention anything else, at least when Liu Yatou gets married, I can also buy a neat dowry for her. But where does the money come from? There is no pie in the sky, so I rejected Liu Yatou's suggestion and said a few words to her, and she was not happy."

After hearing Mrs. Xing's words, Sister Feng's eyes lit up.She is the one who is most moved by Luochun's idea.Before Mrs. Xing explained her family background to Sister Feng, she asked Jia Lian to find out from Jia Amnesty the house and fields sent by Xing Dequan.Sister Feng is also a housekeeper, so she has a rough idea of ​​how much the field will produce, so she also knows that all the output of this field supports Jiamu and the others, so Mrs. Xing must have another source of income in her hands. Knowing now that it was just a small house with such a low rent, I couldn't help feeling disappointed.

Although when she was in the mansion, because of the financial problems in the mansion, Sister Feng made up a lot of compensation, but she was never short of money.But since leaving the mansion, Sister Feng has no money in her hands.Mrs. Xing manages the house in the city by herself, so it is impossible to give it to her, and it is even more impossible to get the rent out of it into her hands.But the field is different. Although Mrs. Xing said that the family is no longer the nobles of the Hou Men's Mansion, it is impossible for Mrs. Xing to take care of the field, and it must be handed over to the men in the family.Jia Amnesty is not the material, so it can only be handed over to Jia Lian.But at present, the family's land is produced, no matter how hard Jia Lian works hard to take care of it for a year, it is just to "make wedding dresses" for Jia Mu and the others.Sister Feng didn't even have a penny in her hand.

If you want to spend money, you can only ask Mrs. Xing for it.But if Sister Feng occasionally wants to buy something to eat, or wants to make an extra piece of clothing for herself, or buy a toy for the eldest sister... for these extra expenses, she would be embarrassed to ask Mrs. Xing for it, and can only spend own private money.But it is a pity that her and Jia Lian's private house money is currently zero, and if the family's wealth has always been like this, their private house money is estimated to break through zero, and it is unlikely to support their extra expenses.However, if according to Luochun's intention, the wasteland by the river is bought, although the initial investment is relatively large, after the rectification is completed, it will be a big income for the family. At that time, Jia Lian, who is in charge of the field, will be able to relax , their private money will have hope.

Thinking of this, Sister Feng thought for a while and said: "Actually, what Sixth Sister said is also reasonable. This matter is very well done. But my wife is also worried, but if this matter is dragged on like this, it will not be pleasant to say, I don't know what We can only raise enough money in our lifetime, so this matter is tantamount to nonsense. But if we think of a way to raise the money and buy this land, we will only work harder in the first few years, and then we will be much more prosperous later, and there will be some extra income Madam thinks it will not be difficult to buy a neat dowry when the sixth younger sister gets married."

Mrs. Xing sighed and said: "I don't know what you said, but it's just a word of 'money'. If you have money, you can talk about anything, but our family just can't afford the money. , so I can only watch helplessly."

Sister Feng rolled her eyes and said, "I have a way to raise money here, but it's just that the master and wife are reluctant to let go of this face."

Mrs. Xing glanced at Sister Feng, and said with a half-smile: "Don't count on my mother's family. As for your Wang family, you, a daughter of the Wang family, are useless when you go back, let alone me and the master, so even if we are willing to lose face Pi, don’t say you want it, just borrow it, and promise to repay it if you have the loan. Your royal family will not agree to the kind of IOU. As for the historian of the old lady’s natal family, don’t even think about it.”

When mentioning the Wang family, Sister Feng blushed, and argued, "I'm not talking about these families." Facing Mrs. Shang Xing's suspicious gaze, she said in a low voice, "Did Madam forget our aunt? The Lin family I'm not very clear about the family background, but I heard from the second wife that when the aunt got married, the old lady prepared ten miles of red dowry. The aunt has been an official for so many years, and before he died of illness, he was in the salt administration. I heard from Lian Er that he sent the aunt and the others back to Yangzhou, and helped deal with the funeral of the aunt, and helped the spirit back to the aunt with the aunt. Before Su, my aunt had handled a lot of the Lin family’s property in Yangzhou. It shouldn’t be a problem to come to my aunt’s side and take out 1 taels of silver.”

Mrs. Xing's eyes lit up when she heard Sister Feng mentioning Jia Min, and then dimmed again. She shook her head and said, "I'm afraid this will not happen. When we came out of the mansion, it was so difficult. Could it be that the old lady doesn't know that my aunt's family has money?" ? But she refuses to write to my aunt, asking her for help, our side..."

Seeing Mrs. Xing retreating, Sister Feng hurriedly said: "We don't want it, we borrow it. We borrow 1000 taels of silver from my aunt, and when we buy the land, tidy it up, and produce something, we will return it to my aunt." Ma'am, it's not about taking advantage of my aunt's house."

Mrs. Xing pondered for a while and said: "Let me think about this matter, and discuss it with the master later."

Seeing that Mrs. Xing didn't refuse, Sister Feng knew that she was moved and that there was no rush for this matter, so she didn't urge Mrs. Xing to make up her mind quickly, and said with a smile: "That's true, the daughter-in-law is just waiting for the news from Mrs. .”