Farming: I dressed up as a widow and beat my parents-in-law violently

I bought two more milk-producing cows and kept them in the backyard of the shop.

Yan Xia is about to start making new pastries using buffalo milk.

Instead of buying from cattle farmers every day, it would be better for her to produce and sell it herself.

Just by spending so much money, half of Yan Xia's savings were lost.

The carriage was big enough, and all the sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law of the family came to the shop to help, so Yan Xia had some free time. She estimated the time and simply went to Shoucheng Village in the morning. The grain there should have been harvested and dried. .

Because we were close, we didn't drive a carriage, so we just took a cow and pulled the ox cart with our young son.

After arriving at Shoucheng Village, Yan Xia went to his fields first.

The farmland of Shoucheng Village is also at the end of the village. Compared with the sparse houses, a large continuous field ridge comes into view, densely packed.

The ground she walks on belongs to her.

There are no crops left in the fields.

Only a few swaying tufts of windblown weeds took root in the vast field.

"Hey, isn't this Landlord Yan? Are you here to collect grain? I'll go home to get it. By the way, would you like to inform the other tenants for you?"

Suddenly, a familiar man came to Yan Xia.

It was Liu Ershuan who rented her 10 acres of land.

"Okay, I happen to be unfamiliar with it. If I'm sorry to bother you, just collect it here."

Yan Xia answered him with a smile, looking very kind.

"Okay, just rest, I'll do it right away."

Liu Ershuan was also impatient. After he finished speaking, he left in a hurry and disappeared after a while.

When harvesting grain for the first time, Yan Xia prepared a special grain scale in advance. It was a square wooden cylinder, slightly thicker at the bottom and narrower at the top.

A tenant who can carry a hundred catties will wait for the arrival of the tenant who delivers the grain.

Then let them pour the grain into the wooden jar one bag after another.

After a while, Liu Ershuan's family came towards Yan Xia with a cart, followed by a group of people.

They are all pushing carts or carrying sacks.

"Landlord Yan, we are here. This year is a good harvest year. Each acre of the land we rented has harvested 500 jins. Calculating it at 30%, I need to give you 1,500 jins of rice. Please weigh it."

There were six or seven men standing next to Liu Ershuan, who looked very similar to him. They should be brothers and sons.

No wonder he rented 10 acres of land at once and his family had too much labor.

"Okay, you all line up one by one. Don't rush. Just Liu Ershuan, you go first. Jin Lu, move the wooden vat down!"

Yan Xia ordered his youngest son to work.

Liu Ershuan and the others didn't just stand there stupidly. When the wooden vat was lifted down, they took their own sacks and put the rice in one bag at a time, and then poured it out.

The sacks here are about 100 kilograms, so weighing is very convenient. One bag is just enough to fill the wooden jar.

After fifteen bags were inspected, Liu Ershuan's family helped carry the bags to the bullock cart and put them away.

"Okay, your quantity is correct. Do you want to plant it next year? If so, I will record it."

"Grow it, plant it. My family has a large population. We have to eat every day with more than 10 mouths open. Next year we want to plant acres. My four boys are all old enough to get married. They will be tired next year, so we have to let them Marry the general’s wife.”

"Okay, then remember 10 acres. If you want to grow vegetables on this piece of land in winter, leave it to me and take care of it yourself. It would be a waste to leave fertile land unused. Take care of it more on weekdays and remove it. Weeds, you know?”

If good farmland is not well protected, it will also lose nutrients. It will take several years for a farmland overgrown with weeds to return to its original state.

"We should. Even if Landlord Yan doesn't say anything, we will take care of it."

Liu Ershuan nodded repeatedly and said in a flattering manner.

After the two of them pressed their fingerprints, he took his sons and brothers back.

"Jin Lu, please return the grain from the oxcart to the shop first, otherwise it won't be able to be loaded."

"it is good."

Jin Lu obeyed and drove away in the bullock cart.

Fortunately, the shop is not far from here, and it only takes about twenty minutes to go back and forth including carrying food.

Yan Xia then weighed himself.

Basically every household has renewed their lease. They have no land or very little land in Shoucheng Village. If they don’t rent it, the family will starve to death in the coming year. The yield of these 400 acres of land is very high, and the care is different, so the food paid by each household varies. Some yields are around 500 kilograms per mu, and some are over 80 kilograms, but they are all about the same and will not exceed the kilogram range.

She continued to work until noon. Many villagers had finished their meals and took a nap, but she was not finished yet.

The spectators also disappeared.

The last two are left.

"Landlord Yan, my family has rented five acres. This is the food that our family has paid. Please take a look."

"Well, put it in."

Yan Xia was a little tired. She nodded slightly and signaled the people in front of her to do it themselves.

"it is good!"

Li Changtao and his two nephews began to unpack and pack the sacks. They didn't stack the sacks until they were all weighed. They had to put them on the ground before the bullock cart came.

"There are still 10 acres of land left. Your family has rented five acres this year. Will you renew it tomorrow?"

"Continue, continue -"

As soon as Yan Xia finished speaking, Li Changtao couldn't wait to answer.

There are more than a dozen people in his family. Although he is an aboriginal of Shoucheng Village, his family is poor and his grandparents are still alive. His body is weak and he takes medicine all the year round. His parents are getting older and they cannot do too heavy work in the fields. , and he is the youngest son. His eldest brother died young, leaving behind his sister-in-law, three nephews and two nieces. In order to support the family, Li Changtao did not marry until he was 24. Naturally, his two sons were born too late. He is already in his thirties. , the two sons are not even 10 years old.

His nieces and nephews have grown up and can help with the work in the fields, but they need to get married. Therefore, Li Changtao, who was overwhelmed by the heavy tank, started renting land last year, and his family's life has become easier. They had enough to eat, but they couldn't raise enough money to find wives for their three nephews.

Because the daughters were too old to marry, but the boys didn't matter, so Li Changtao gave each of his nieces 2 taels of silver in dowry and married them all to good families nearby. The bride price was only 2 taels, which meant that he didn't earn a penny. It was considered worthy of his eldest brother. Before renting the land, their family had to pay for chewing food and grandma's medical expenses every year.

I couldn't save any money at all. After renting the land, I only had an extra twenty taels of silver a year.

I should be able to save 4 taels last year and this year, so I can first marry my eldest nephew and my second nephew, and then work harder next year to marry my third nephew.

Li Changtao thought that his eldest son would be 10 years old next year and would be able to do some work, so he planned to rent five more acres, but Landlord Yan said that there were only 10 acres left, and he was a little afraid to open his mouth.

Aunt Sun behind me will definitely have to renew her lease.

But Shoucheng Village has no land to rent. If you want to rent land, you can only go to Taohua Village ten miles away, and the landlord there will charge 50%!