The happy little days of the Ye family

Including the 10 acres of paddy fields that Ye Qingqing received as a dowry, the Tang family planted a total of 60 acres of rice.

There was a heavy rain before the summer harvest. This year's harvest was reduced by about 250%. One acre of medium-sized paddy field only produces about kilograms of rice.

The Tang family has been busy with this summer harvest for nearly a month, harvesting a total of kilograms of rice.

With so much rice, the Tang family would definitely not be able to finish it all.

Tang Xiaojing plans to set aside about three years of food and sell the rest.

Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan go to the mountains and fields every day, doing physical work, eating a lot, and there are four very good eating dogs at home.

Black beans and Xiaohua have grown up now, and their appetite is only much more than that of Rhubarb and Xiaohuang.

Although there weren't many people there, they actually ate more food than the Ye family. Ye Qingqing had to cook a big pot every time he cooked.

Ye Qingqing calculated that their family would eat more than 500 kilograms of polished rice in half a year.

But before, black beans and florets were still small and they didn’t eat much.

In the second half of the year, I estimate that I will eat more than 600 kilograms of rice, which would be about 1000 kilograms of rice.

1000 kilograms of rice in half a year, and 6000 kilograms of rice in three years.

As for the grain tax after the autumn harvest, you can directly use the autumn grain to offset it.

Now the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the court is sympathetic to them and only collects 10% of the grain tax a year.

The 10% grain tax will basically not be unpayable as long as there is no total harvest.

If the harvest is really bad, you can also use the money to offset the grain tax.

Early in the morning, Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan went to the cellar where the grain was stored.

The first half of the cellar is filled with mountains of rice. These are the new grains just recovered from the summer harvest.

Walking inside, there are many huge water tanks filled with rice, which is the grain storage of the Tang family.

Tangshan also experienced famine when he was a child. Every time he harvested grain, he would leave three years' worth of grain behind.

Last year's grain storage was about 1000 kilograms eaten in the past six months, leaving 5000 kilograms of grain harvested in the autumn last year.

The father and son freed up last year's grain and replaced it with this year's newly recovered rice.

As for last year's old grain, it was naturally sold together with this year's rice.

Not counting the 6000 kilograms of stored grain, the family still has 9000 kilograms of new rice and 5000 kilograms of old grain.

In the past few years since returning to Taohua Village, the Tang family has frequently dealt with grain stores.

Tang Xiaojing had already made an agreement with the largest Liangpu shop in the county and asked them to come to harvest rice tomorrow.

The price of rice sold in grain stores is 7 cents per catty for unhusked rice, and 11 cents for polished rice per catty.

Of course, it is impossible for a food store not to make money.

When they come to collect grain, the price must be lower. Rice is 10 cents per catty and polished rice is cents per catty.

The Tang family has cattle, so they can actually shell the rice and make it into rice, which will make the price higher.

However, there was too much food at home, and the Tang family and his son were busy every day, so they simply sold the rice directly.

Last year's grain storage was well preserved and looked the same as new grain. The grain shop also charged six cents per catty for new grain.

A catty of rice cost 6 cents per catty, and sold for a total of 84 taels of silver.

These 84 taels of silver may seem like a lot, but evenly divided, one acre of land only earns more than one tael, and that's not counting grain taxes and wages of long-term workers.

The 10 acres of paddy fields were Ye Qingqing's dowry, and the grain harvested was naturally her private money.

As soon as he got the money, Tangshan readily gave 14 taels of silver to his daughter-in-law.

Ye Qingqing took the money with a smile and said, "Thank you, Dad."

She wouldn't stupidly say no, this was a dowry specially given to her by her mother's family, and the harvest would naturally belong to her.

When she got married, the village knew that the Ye family had given her 10 acres of paddy fields as a dowry, which made all the young ladies and young daughters-in-law envious.

This was the love that the elders in the family had for her. If she really wanted to say no, she would have let them down.

The remaining 70 taels of silver came from the Tang family's own 50 acres of paddy fields.

After selling the grain, Tangshan fiddled with his abacus in the house.

The Tang family now has 13 long-term workers, and their monthly salary is 550 cents, which is 7 taels and 150 cents a month.

The long-term workers not only take care of the family fields, but also take care of the rabbit sheds and pig pens at the foot of the mountain. During the slack time, they also go up the mountain to collect mushrooms and honeysuckle.

Tang Xiaojing paid for the two hills, and the profits from the mountains belong to him.

The fields were bought by Tangshan, and the grain harvest belonged to him.

About half of these long-term workers take care of the fields, so the father and son had already agreed that each would pay half of the wages.

The salary of a long-term worker is 3 taels, 575 cents a month, which is 21 taels, 450 cents for half a year.

The fertilizer in the fields is made from pig manure, which costs nothing.

However, tools such as sickles, hoes and plows, plus the grain eaten by the long-term workers during the summer harvest, added up to about two taels of silver.

I got 70 taels from selling grain, and the total expenditure was 23 taels and 450 wen.

That is to say, the 50 acres of paddy fields in Tangshan earned a total of 46 taels, 550 wen.

There are some dry lands at the foot of the mountain, and not much corn is grown. They are kept for their own consumption and for the long-term workers to eat during the summer and autumn harvests.

As for sweet potatoes, they are naturally used to feed pigs. There is no excess of these two that can be sold.

Xin Hao’s peanut harvest this year is pretty good. He can harvest more than 100 kilograms from one acre of land, and a total of 8 kilograms from 1200 acres of land.

The father and son left 200 kilograms as seeds, and Tangshan planned to transport the remaining 1000 kilograms to the Baijia Oil Factory in Xiaohe Town and sell them.

Peanuts cost 8 cents per catty, and 1000 catties equaled eight taels of silver.

The harvest of dry land is not as good as that of paddy fields, so Tangshan is quite satisfied with this income.

If the money from selling peanuts is included, Tangshan's income in the first half of the year was 54 taels and 550 yuan.

Tangshan looked at the abacus on the table and muttered with a smile:

"Not bad, not bad. Although rice production has decreased, it has been supplemented by money from peanuts. Overall, the harvest is about the same as last year."

The grain harvest looks good, but only after the fields have been cultivated in the past two years can there be so much.

The paddy fields created from wasteland are not fertile enough and there are many weeds. The grain harvested in the past two years is not enough to pay the long-term workers.

Later, the family raised pigs and fertilizers followed, and the fields were slowly cultivated. Now the harvest is getting more and more every year.

The father and son are very confident that with a few more years of careful management, they can turn their family's average paddy field into a high-quality fertile field.

When Tang Xiaojing was selling grain, he also asked the Ye family next door if he wanted to sell it together.

Although the Ye family's braised pork shop is closed, the grocery store can still sell a lot of food every day.

I reserved the food needed for the grocery store, but there wasn’t much left.

The remaining new grain and last year's old grain were transported by Ye's father to villages such as Dashan Village and Xiaoling Village that were short of food and exchanged for various mountain products.

The fields and hills of the Ye family belong to the public, and Ye Donglin takes goods from the family and sells them.

Father Ye and Ye Donglin get goods from the Ye family at the price charged by the grain shop.

However, after the grain was sold, half of the profit went back to the public, so the income was considerable.