After he and his mother-in-law separated, he built a house and stocked a warehouse full of grain and

Fortunately, there are still mushrooms, and they are replenished from time to time. The house is also built, and the supplies are sufficient, so that the whole family will have enough food and clothing.

Plus the balance of one million saved last year, the box of gold leaves given by Bai Manshan, and the money he earned, there is no need to worry.

Although the money-making projects of writing brushes and selling rice wine are gone, Polygonum multiflorum is in the 'harvest' season after August, so you can still make money.

And there are two more items: yams and selling rabbits.

This was followed by more development of the real economy—growing sugarcane for sugar production, growing medicinal materials, and expanding breeding.

Form an ecological breeding and planting model and form a virtuous cycle.

In this way, even if the mall leaves her one day, her life will not be affected.

Shui Qing is quite satisfied with the current situation.

She can't become a fat person in one bite. She has no power and no money. The world outside is unstable. The court is busy cutting down vassals and can't count on it. It's better to just keep growing.

After taking inventory of her belongings, she took out a few ingots of silver and put them into a cloth bag and handed them to Fan Jin.

An ox costs more than ten taels of silver per head. Donkeys are much cheaper than oxen, but they cost at least seven or eight taels of silver.

I don’t know if there has been a price increase.

We don’t have many strong labor force, and we have a lot of fields. In the past, potato planting was separated from the busy time of the villagers. We could pay the men in the village to work, but this time it didn’t work. Everyone was planting potatoes, so we couldn’t plow the land and sow the seeds. Focus on yourself first?

Fortunately, Bai Manshan sent a group of people, twenty-three in total, who were in their prime and all of them were good at farming.

However, people should not be misconstrued as human beings. People who use animals to plow the fields will not be too tired and are more efficient. The animals can still be put to great use when the harvest comes.

"Each person leads a plow, and eleven animals are enough. Our family already has a cow and a donkey, so buying nine more donkeys is about the same."

Fan Jin took it, looked at the heavy silver in his hand, and said softly: "When the nine donkeys come back, the whole village will be shocked."

The price of a person has always been lower than that of a cow. A donkey is not as valuable as a cow, but compared with children, especially girls, it is even a little higher.

If the eldest brother has the intention of selling out to recruit a younger brother, he will target him.

Shui Qing understood what Fan Jin had in mind.

They want to help recruit younger brothers, but they can't take the initiative, otherwise the eldest uncle's family will be a bottomless pit! Never enough!

They need Fan Qian to take the initiative to attack them, scheme against them, and think that he has taken advantage.

"Well, it's better to do things sooner rather than later." Delay brings changes, and changes bring worries.

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next day

Fan Jin took eighteen men and set out before dawn.

There was no cart, and the nineteen people were traveling very quickly, carrying only long knives.

The man who was responsible for keeping watch for the rest of the night yawned and opened and closed the door, watching people walk away and waiting for someone to take over.

After a while, the sky gradually turned white, and people in the village heard noises one after another.

White smoke also came out of the chimney.

On weekdays, breakfast is only eaten when the farmers are busy, but today they have to carry soil from distant barren hills to the fields, which is not as easy as the farm days, so every household has another breakfast, and there is still a rare dry breakfast.

Sun Jinhua also gritted her teeth and made breakfast.

But it's not rare, it's just pure dough. We don't grow potatoes, but we grow winter wheat - last time I stole the potatoes from my second brother's family's field and ate them, it left me with a psychological shadow.

Anyway, whoever likes to eat it will grow it. If they don’t eat it, they won’t grow it either!

Winter wheat has higher fertility requirements, so you have to pick the soil carefully. And although the harvest of winter wheat is not as good as potatoes, the price must be higher than potatoes.

No matter how hard you take care of your home, it won't necessarily be much worse.

Other families in the village also attach great importance to picking soil.

They also grow some winter wheat.

Potatoes are brought home to eat, and winter wheat is sold for money.

When Wang Guifen got up, she cooked a pot of millet porridge, put more than ten large potatoes on the steaming rack, fried two small pickles, and scooped out a bowl of pickled chili sauce.

The pickles paired with millet porridge warmed the stomach, and the big potatoes were evenly spread with spicy chili sauce. After one bite, it felt fresh and appetizing.

After a simple, delicious and filling breakfast, the whole family went out with tools for picking soil.

Many people have gathered on the road in the village, and everyone travels together.

The barren mountain is quite far away from Shanshui Village. There are few people here, and the trees on the nearby hills are enough for boiling water and cooking, and no one is cleaning up behind them, so they have no owner.

The further back we go, the more weeds grow, and the road becomes more difficult to walk.

Except for Fan Jin's family who owns two carts in the village, only the old village chief's family owns two carts.

The two brothers Li Wen and Li Wu pulled the cart until they stopped at a place where the cart could not enter. The three brothers took down the poles, bamboo baskets, backpacks, hoes, shovels, etc. from the cart before continuing to walk in. .

The same goes for other families.

Wang Guifen gave each person a piece of soft, thick cloth to put on their shoulders - it would reduce the pain of picking up soil later.

Otherwise, if the shoulder pole is swayed left and right and the weight is added, it will only take half a day to press the entire shoulder until it becomes red, swollen and broken!

"Sister-in-law, when did you make it? It's still soft fabric!" Zhao Lan held the piece of cloth two fingers wide and thick on the pole, and was pleasantly surprised.

Zhang Hui touched it again and again, and couldn't put it down and asked, "Where did such soft fabric come from?"

My sister-in-law was so willing to make it for each of them.

"Didn't Shui Qing ask me to make clothes for his family before? I gave her a lot of scraps of fabric, but she didn't want them, so I packed them up and originally wanted to make fabric coverings for shoes. It happened to be used here." Wang Guifen said cheerfully. Say it.

It's not the fabric she picked up, so there's nothing she can't say about it.

The other women following them cast envious glances.

Sun Jinhua felt sour.

Such good fabrics would be good to keep for shoe coverings. Hu Shuiqing was such a prodigal, and she gave it to Wang Guifen in vain.

Fan Erzhu and others followed with their heads lowered and holding poles.

They don't have a cart or a wheelbarrow at home, so they have to carry dirt on their shoulders for such a long journey. I'm afraid my shoulders won't be my own when I go back tonight.

Fan Erzhu remembered the fried noodles others ate when delivering potatoes, and the uncooked noodles they ate, and complained to Sun Jinhua: "Mom, everyone else knows how to make these, why don't you know?"

Sun Jinhua wanted to say that she didn't know how to do it? There is obviously no fabric!

Suddenly it occurred to me that Zhaodi had brought several sets of clothes when he came back from Hu Shuiqing's house this time, and they could be used just right.

She smiled shyly and said, "Okay, Mom will make it for you when she gets back! It just so happens that your sister has some clothes with good fabrics." The land is important, and the sons have worked hard, so it is only right to borrow some clothes from the younger brother.

Fan Erzhu and the others were satisfied upon hearing this.

They don't have good clothes to wear, so why can they recruit their younger brothers to wear them?

That's only fair.

Sun Jinhua looked at the leader, but he didn't stop her this time.