Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

On the basis of the original foundation area, the width of one room was expanded towards the hillside, and a courtyard was also expanded towards the back, so the area of ​​the entire house became much larger.

After all, her house is the only one on this side of the hill. If she wants to expand it, she just needs to tell Muramasa and he will agree.

It is a two-story house made of blue bricks and black tiles with a high courtyard wall.

This time, she watched how the wolfhounds jumped over the wall and entered the courtyard.

I was daydreaming in the swaying carriage and suddenly thought that I hadn't seen my wolfhound brothers for a long time.

Along the way, there were many more pedestrians on the road to the county, and they all passed by the carriage.

There was a woman who was walking with a basket of eggs. Li Changle saw her when he lifted the curtain and looked out. He stopped the woman and bought the eggs.

"Ding! The host is kind to others and is grateful! The system rewards +1 contribution point..."

There were three or two lonely old men who looked like disaster victims, walking with wooden crutches and holding broken bowls in their hands.

Are you going to the county town to beg for food?

I don’t know which village they came from, but they should all be resettled refugees, right?

She called Leng Yi to stop again and acted as a money-giving boy.

A cake and a bun were placed in each of their bowls, and ten copper coins were stuffed into their hands.

"Ding! The host is kind to others and is grateful! The system rewards +1 contribution point..."

"Ding! The host is kind to others and is grateful! The system rewards +1 contribution point..."

"Ding! The host is kind to others and is grateful! The system rewards +1 contribution point..."

The system's wooden voice broadcast sounded ding-ding-ding, and Li Changle could even feel that it was different from usual, as if it was in a state of calmness.

Well, has the Saintly System, which has become rich overnight, also developed an enlarged appetite and now looks down on contribution points one by one?

"Something is better than nothing. Even a mosquito leg is still meat. Xiaotong, why do you lower your awareness? Don't let a small kindness go unnoticed. You are such a saintly person."

System: "...System's fault. Congratulations to the host for successfully entering the Saint Mary state. Please keep up the good work!"

Li Changle: "..." I don't know whether this state is good or bad.

You have successfully entered the Madonna state...

It always feels weird.

Seeing a child about the same age as Li Shixi carrying a small load of firewood towards the city, she bought the firewood for twenty copper coins.

The child said no, no, he didn’t need that much, ten coppers would be enough.

Then he whispered guiltily: "Five copper coins are enough."

What an honest child.

Li Changle knew that the price of firewood was very low, but she did not take the copper coins back. She just asked him to help carry the firewood to Leshan Manor not far ahead, and just said that it was bought by their wife.

There is plenty of firewood on the mountains of Leshan, so there is no need to buy firewood.

But when I saw it, I couldn't help but feel pity. During those days of hunger, cold and helplessness, Li Shixi must have been in the same predicament.

Anyway, we have already entered the state of sainthood, so it’s not wrong to help others from time to time.

"Ding! The host is kind to others and is grateful! The system rewards +1 contribution point..."

When she finally arrived at Xiaozhouzhuang, there were already more than two hundred copper coins left in her purse.

Half of the buns and pancakes in the food box were gone.

But it also exchanged for more than ten contribution points.

Li Changle was delighted. He shared a sesame and sugar cake with Yu'er, and gave two buns to the coachman Leng Er.

We can’t let Aunt Jiang’s kindness go to waste.

After entering Xiaozhouzhuang, Xiaoyuer in the carriage followed her example and distributed buns and pancakes to several children playing at the village entrance.

The food box was empty, and Li Changle looked at the little girl with amusement.

Is this what she means by example?

Muramasa Zhou Wanli stood at the door of his house and bowed to her.

Many villagers in Xiaozhou Village have gone to the village to work as temporary workers.

He was also grateful to Li Changle for allowing everyone to have a good income.

Zhuangzi lived close to home, and it was agreed that meals would not be provided, but there would be an additional lunch allowance of 30 wen per person per month.

The villagers were very happy about this good news. Originally, everyone only had two meals a day, morning and evening, so these thirty cents were considered free.

This small village shrouded in dense forests has only thirty or forty households, but more than twenty villagers have entered the village to work.

Li Changle nodded and greeted the village chief in the carriage and went straight to the farm.

Guihua took Xiao Shitou to the gate several times. Early in the morning, Liu Dajiang and his brother came to pick up the goods and told them that Li Changle would be coming today.

Yu'er had already lifted the curtain and was waving excitedly towards Osmanthus and her son.

"Aunt Guihua, Xiao Shitou, mom and I are here!"

Guihua picked up the fish from the car with great interest, "Little Fish has grown taller, and his voice is now very clear."

As expected of Osmanthus, the angle from which she praises others is so... different.

Even Yu'er could hear it, "Why doesn't Aunt Guihua praise Yu'er for being pretty?"

Guihua hurriedly praised him a few more times and said, "...Mrs. Li, Yu'er is now very eloquent."

Li Changle brought two pieces of cotton cloth to the Wang family, asking them to make a few sets of spring clothes for the children.

"She is very vain now. Aunt Jiang told me that she picked out the dress she wore today herself."

"What's the big deal? Our Yu'er has a good family background." The Wang family is one of the few people who know Gu Jingyan's identity.

Many fields in the farm have been turned over and dried. Guihua said that they can be planted in the next two days, except that the seedlings have not yet been planted.

Li Changle also got off the carriage at the gate of the farm, took Xiao Shitou's hand, and slowly walked to the row of houses where they lived.

Some villagers from Xiaozhou Village who were nearby also saw her and looked over curiously.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of Leshan Zhuangzi, the working atmosphere in Xiaozhouzhuang is relatively peaceful.

The Wang brothers were all busy in the fields. Even Wang Dahu's two sons were nowhere to be seen. Only Haopo, two daughters-in-law and Xiao Shitou were left at home.

Xiaoyuer was very playful. As soon as he got home, he squatted in the yard with Xiaoshitou to play with the little yellow chickens they had just raised.

Li Changle could still hear the little girl sighing and complaining to Xiao Shitou.

"Hey, the rabbit my dad gave me was taken away by a weasel~"

Li Changle was ashamed. The last time she set out for the farm, she forgot about the rabbit under the straw shed. She didn't know if it was because she didn't close the cage properly before. When she came back, the cage was empty, and the little girl's eyes were red for two days.

I don’t see her being so precious to me usually. She keeps me for a while and then forgets about me…

Xiao Shitou is the same age as Yu'er, but he is introverted and doesn't talk much. He is not like his mother Guihua who is outgoing and carefree. Instead, he is very much like his father Wang Erniu who is honest and simple.

At this moment, he could only sigh and say, "What a pity..."

This little resonance was enough, and the fish began to chatter with the little stone about this topic.

The good mother-in-law looked at the two little kids and patted the back of Li Changle's hand on her knee with satisfaction. "I never thought that I would be able to live like this. This is all because of the good things that Madam Li has done for my Wang family. I don't know how to thank you."

"Why are you thanking me, ma'am? This is also the fate of our two families. I am in need of someone now, and the Wang family also needs a job like this. Work for a few years, and then if you want to find a job to make a living, I will support you."

After all, it is an employment relationship, and the other party still has a certain degree of personal freedom.

"Okay, okay, I will remember how well Madam Li treated our Wang family. It's not easy to find work outside nowadays. Even if it's easy to find, it may not be our turn. If it's our turn, it's already a job that no one else can do, and we have to work hard every day from dawn to dusk."

"Now on this farm, we do the work we are familiar with. The men can take care of their wives and children. I have nothing else to ask for."

The family had an income of 4 taels of silver a month, which provided food and accommodation.

If the family is safe and sound, after deducting miscellaneous expenses, they will be able to save about 40 taels of silver at the end of the year.

That's a lot of money.

Haopo still has two sons who are not married yet, and there will be more than three grandchildren in the future.

Haopo thought that if there were forty taels of silver left over every year, these would not be big problems.

Li Changle comforted her, "Your two eldest grandsons are not bad either. Why don't I give them some wages as well?"

The good mother-in-law stopped him in time, "This is unacceptable, those two guys just hang around everywhere every day, helping out here and there.

Da Hu said, "Just don't be idle. It's easy to become lazy if you're idle. When they grow up a little bit and can do important work, then ask them if they want to work in the farm."

On the way here just now, she met children around eight or nine years old who were carrying loads on their shoulders and walking for an hour or two to sell firewood in the county.

Wang Dahu's two sons are both over this age, and the adults in the family have not made any special arrangements for the children on how much work they should do every day.

The two brothers would do the light chores at home themselves.

Even a loudmouthed and straightforward person like Guihua couldn't help but praise her two older nephews for being sensible.

Li Changle didn't say anything else, just mentioned to her, "A teacher has recently come to the farm over there, and I asked all the children in the farm to go to the literacy class to learn how to read... If you are willing, you can send Zhuzi and Guzi over to learn a little bit."

"...There is a carpenter who is said to be a master with excellent craftsmanship. I heard from Sister Guihua that Brother Yusheng followed the carpenter master, but it seems that he was not able to learn the latter part?"

“You can discuss this with Brother Yusheng. If he is interested in continuing this craft, he can go over there and help out. The rest depends on fate.

As for things here, apart from the few acres of greenhouses that I have to look after myself, I can pick a few reliable villagers from Xiaozhou Village to help look after the rest. They are all planting crops, and everyone is an expert."

As Li Changle was speaking, Guihua brought out two bowls of tofu pudding sprinkled with brown sugar.

"I ground some beans this morning, and my sister-in-law made tofu and tofu pudding. Madam Li, please come and have a bowl with the child."

Not long after eating tofu pudding, Wang Dahu and his friends rushed back from the greenhouse.

Li Changle went around the warehouse and inadvertently exchanged the materials that had just been collected and not dried for dried goods.

Wang Dahu should have noticed something when he helped Liu Dajiang and the others load the carriage, but he couldn't figure out why and naturally didn't say anything.

After all, every time she came, she never even touched the sacks containing the materials.

When she and Yu'er left Xiaozhouzhuang, she asked Wang Dahu to harvest the materials, turn them over in the threshing yard to dry them, or put them in sacks and pile them in the threshing yard to dry.

Anyway, it's just a formality under the sun.

Wang Dahu just agreed after hearing the order.

Maybe these things don't need to be exposed to the sun too much and can dry in the shade by themselves?

If you can’t figure it out, just stop thinking about it as usual.

His mother said that sometimes people have to be a little confused, and knowing too much may not be a good thing.

Although, he felt that he knew quite a lot, if he had changed his employer, he might have been wiped out.

Li Changle and Wang Dahu agreed that he would bring a few people from Xiaozhou Village to the Li family courtyard tomorrow to transport the seedlings for planting.

After Li Changle's carriage left Xiaozhou Village, it headed towards Lushui Village.

While his three younger brothers were not paying attention, Wang Dahu went to the warehouse again by himself, picked up the sacks one by one with both hands and weighed them...

When he returned to the house, he happened to meet his mother-in-law who was looking for him. She told him that Li Changle suggested that the child go to some literacy class...

"…This class should be a school, right? There is a teacher. I heard that the teacher is also a scholar."

Wang Dahu pondered for a moment and said, "Ask the two children. If they want to study seriously, we can go to the town and find a school for them to attend. If not, let the third brother take the two children to the class that Madam Li mentioned. It will be good for the children in the future to learn more characters."

However, he knew clearly what his two sons were thinking.

They don't have any ambition to study. One of them wants to be an accountant and the other wants to be a peddler.

When you go out, there is a difference between being able to recognize a few words and being blind.

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When Li Changle arrived at the Li family courtyard, Hu Chunshan, Hu Liangmu and others were cutting sweet potato seedlings in the greenhouse.

The seedlings tied with straw ropes are neatly arranged outside the greenhouse.

Hu Dexian was grinning, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were squeezed together.

In front of him, the line stretched from the entrance of the greenhouse to the small hillside. They were all villagers who came to get sweet potato seedlings.

Hu Dexian held two pieces of paper in his hand, on which were the names of the heads of every household in the village. He flicked the papers and said to the old patriarch Hu Wang beside him: "Once this crop of grain is planted, I will feel relieved."

"Once the sweet potatoes are harvested, we can plant wheat in the fields."

"I heard that the county also has these seedlings, and they cost copper coins to buy. This time, Dexian, you got it first, saving some money for the villagers. Lushui Village also planted these seedlings before others."

Hu Dexian listened and laughed out loud, "Fellow villagers, please line up and come one by one to receive the rice seedlings. You will receive as many rice seedlings as the sandy and gravel land you reported. We can't waste them."

After he finished shouting, he took the opportunity to say to Hu Wang: "Uncle Wang, even if we were to exchange a few copper coins for an acre of grain, it would still be a bargain."

He recalled that years ago, they helped dig out nearly 8000 kilograms of sweet potatoes in this greenhouse! !

8000 jins!!

From ancient times to the present, he has never heard of any crop with such a high yield per mu.

He returned home and couldn't sleep the whole night!

"Yes, I took advantage." After the Chinese New Year, Hu Wang looked visibly older.

His son's legs and feet were healed, but he was still lame and could not walk properly.

My daughter-in-law went back to her parents' home before the New Year and has never returned since. As soon as my son was able to walk, he rushed to his daughter-in-law's parents' home.

He is now in a "lie down" mentality.

Only his eldest grandson was with him.