Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

Chapter 59 Autumn Harvest

There is a custom in Qiushe for married women to return to Ning. Originally, Xia Jiniang had no need to go back when she first married in Qinghe Village, but Zhang He also supported her going back, so she was not hypocritical.Besides, there was a sacrifice in the Autumn Society, and this year the family who held the sacrifice was Zhang Hun's family. Zhang He didn't want to join in the fun, so he just gave a little bacon as a sacrifice.

Zhang He was already familiar with Liujiaqiao Village, but Xia Da and Xia Cui were quite surprised by Xia Jiniang's return. After all, they thought Xia Jiniang would not come back so soon.

At this time, the Xia family had already planted dozens of acres of autumn soybeans, in addition to ten acres of radishes and some fresh fruits and vegetables.In addition to the labor required for daily care, female family members basically work as female celebrities at home. However, on the autumn day, Aunt Xia and Aunt Xia also returned to their natal homes, and Xia Er and Xia San went to participate in the festival. not at home.

Except for a few young people, only Old Man Xia, Xia Da and Xia Cuishi were at home.

Old man Xia was sleeping in the house, and Xia Cuishi took Xia Jiniang to the neighbor's house, and only Xia Da and Zhang He were chatting.

When mentioning the late rice, Xia Da was quite embarrassed, and explained to Zhang He: "When the east bed sent these grain seeds, the family had already decided to plant soybeans, and the seeds had already been selected, so only a few acres of late rice were planted. That's all. There are still a lot of grain seeds sent by the east bed, why don't you take them back, don't waste them."

Zhang He was a little surprised, but he also understood that the members of the Xia family didn't know that these grain seeds were different from the ones they planted, so they didn't trust her.She wouldn't blame them either, but said: "That's all right, my son-in-law has always forgotten to explain to his father-in-law that if my grain seeds grow out of rice, they must not be kept as grain seeds."

Xia Da asked in surprise: "Why?"

Zhang He didn't think that these rice seeds would be a complete mess after all, after all, the traditional rice seeds accounted for the majority, but in order to reduce the risk, she had to remind Xia Da.

"Because these grains are rare, the first time there may be a big harvest, but the second time it may be halved, and the third time there may be no harvest."

Xia Da frowned: "Then if this is the case, why did Dong Bed let me plant it? After planting, there will be no grain seeds to plant next time."

"It's my son-in-law who didn't think carefully before, so I came here to tell my father-in-law not to lend the grain seeds to others. But the father-in-law is safe to plant this time. There are new grain seeds in the son-in-law's house, and he can send them to his father-in-law next year." .”

Hearing what she said, Xia Da also knew that the rice produced must not be used as grain seeds and lent to others. If others have no harvest in the coming year, he would have committed a crime.However, if Zhang He was sure to have the grain seeds, he would not be unacceptable, but he was worried that even if he didn't lend the grain seeds to others, there would be no guarantee that someone in his family would borrow them and he would not know about them.

He sighed lightly: "I appreciate the kindness of Dong Zong. Although you are my son-in-law, I can't keep asking you for things. You can just live with Ji Niang and we will be satisfied."

Zhang He knew his concerns. After all, there were many people in the family, and it was not his turn to be the master of the house. He did this to reduce risks.She tore off a purse from her belt and handed it to Xia Da, saying: "This is a wish from my son-in-law, I hope my father-in-law will accept it."

Xia Da didn't need to open it to know what was inside, and immediately refused: "How does this make it, I said—"

Zhang He hurriedly said: "My father-in-law, don't rush to reject it, this is the food money my son-in-law gave Brother Liangxing, but I asked my father-in-law to give it to him on my behalf."

Mentioning Xia Luojin, Xia Da obviously hesitated for a moment, he shook his head and said: "There is still Xia's family in Luojin's place, please put the east bed away!"

"My son-in-law's family has younger brothers who are going to school, but the expenses required by the village school are already beyond the reach of ordinary people, not to mention the expenses required by Brother Liang Xing's state school. He will take the exam next year. Can't cut off his food money for this year?"

After repeated persuasion, Xia Dacai accepted the purse, and when Zhang He left, he and Xia Cuishi opened it and saw that there were ten bills of the same denomination inside, which made them terrified for several days.They decided not to tell anyone about it, lest they bring their ideas here.

On the way back, Xia Jiniang was a little unhappy, Zhang He thought she couldn't bear to part with her parents, so he comforted her: "If you want to come back, you can come back anytime."

"Erlang is talking nonsense again." Xia Jiniang said, "Look at our return today, my parents are so surprised, and my mother asked me, do you blame me for always running to my mother's house?"

Zhang He was even more saddened by this than Xia Jiniang. Even in future generations, if a married woman returns to her natal family often, she will suffer a lot of blank stares. This habit of thinking is deeply ingrained and difficult to change.And she was not married, but it was difficult for her to go home, and she couldn't help feeling sad.

"Erlang, do you love to cry so much?" Xia Jiniang said softly.

Zhang He's eyes were just wet, when he heard Xia Jiniang say that, Dang even held back his tears.Sucking his nose, he said, "I didn't cry!"

"But why is Erlang crying?" Xia Jiniang asked again.

Zhang He held the rein with one hand and Xia Jiniang's hand with the other, and muttered, "I didn't cry, I just... only you are left."

These words were a bit out of date, but Xia Jiniang vaguely understood, she covered Zhang He's hand and said: "I will always be by your side, unless..."

"Unless what?" Zhang He suddenly became nervous.

"Unless Erlang gives up at the beginning!"

"How could I just give up in chaos! But Ji Niang, you are not allowed to leave me."

"You are so stupid, how can I be willing to leave?" Xia Jiniang leaned on her shoulder.

Zhang He smiled happily for a while, then asked, "Then why is Ji Niang so unhappy?"

"Isn't it your fault?" Xia Jiniang raised her head and glared at Zhang He, who was terrified by her stare, not knowing why.

Xia Ji Niang said: "If it wasn't for my mother's slip of the tongue today, I wouldn't have known it. It turns out that you secretly gave my parents the money for my thirty pennies for clothing, making me think that I have already saved so much dowry." Woolen cloth!"

Zhang He blinked, with a sincere expression on his face: "I don't want anyone to laugh at you. I thought to myself, even if it's fake, I still hope you can get married in a good way."

"So you're stupid." Xia Jiniang muttered.

Zhang He hooked the corner of his mouth, and kissed her again when he was not prepared.Xia Jiniang was startled, and looked around, but no one was watching, so she glared at Zhang He in embarrassment: "Concentrate on driving, so as not to walk into a ditch!"

"Oh!"

Back in Qinghe Village, what awaits them is the busy autumn harvest season.

Although many families are also busy growing seasonal vegetables and radishes, because radishes have a high yield, can be pickled or dried, and are easy to store, there are also many people who grow radishes during this season.But compared to the previous bumper harvest, it was much easier. Zhang He casually recruited a few villagers who were willing to work as part-time workers.

Zhang He not only had to harvest, but also threshed, sun-dried and pounded rice. After this process, tens of acres of rice would not work if he didn't hurry up. So Zhang He hired eleven people, including the three laborers of the kidnapper Li's family.Among them, five people harvest and five people thresh. Harvesting is calculated by mu, and threshing is calculated by goblet.

The reason for the distinction is that when threshing with this traditional threshing method, the grains are easy to splash around and cause losses.But if it is calculated by gu, the threshing person will be careful not to let the grains splash, so as to minimize the loss.

Even so, when Zhang He saw these people threshing shirtless and still sweating, he felt that the backwardness of production tools was still a big problem.She suddenly thought of a pedal thresher - a more convenient tool that can be operated with a transmission mechanism even if there is no electricity!

The foot-operated rice thresher is basically a steel-wood structure, generally composed of a drum, a transmission mechanism, a barrel, and a fence; the drum is equipped with nail teeth, which can knock down the grains when the drum rotates rapidly, saving Human power for threshing grains by threshing.

But the problem is that Zhang He doesn't know the specific composition of the thresher's transmission mechanism!And even if she figured it out, all this would be in vain if there was no corresponding blacksmith who could make delicate parts.

The wooden barrels that can be used for threshing can hold two to three goblets of grain, which is two to three stones.But Zhang He does not have so many wooden barrels, so the work of threshing and drying the grain must be carried out at the same time.

The remaining one of the eleven people and Aunt Li and Li Qingshi who occasionally came to help were in charge of drying the grain, and Xia Jiniang was in charge of preparing lunch for these people.

Zhang He secretly transferred some of the grains to the system warehouse when they finished taking off a bunch of rice ears to grab another handful of rice ears.

This is not because she wants to deduct the wages of these people, but because she cannot transfer the grains to the system warehouse during the harvesting process.If after the threshing is over, everyone finds that her output is abnormally high, it will not be good, so she can only gradually transfer in an unobtrusive way.

She paid more wages to the threshing people from the beginning, which was also to make up for this.But Xia Jiniang didn't know her plan, and was surprised that she raised the price by [-]%, which made several people compete for the threshing job.

She walked around the threshing site all day, and the people who worked for her didn't notice anything unusual. After all, they thought that Zhang He was worried about them stealing grain, so they personally watched them.For wages, they worked even harder, and for a while, grains and crumbs flew all over the sky.

After three days, Zhang He let them rest for one day.Everyone thought that Zhang He was sympathetic to them, but in fact, Zhang He found out that it would rain tomorrow in the system weather conditions, so he asked them to stop working, and transported the sun-dried grain back to the warehouse by the way.

The rice harvested in the past three days alone has already reached forty stones. Not only the workers were surprised, but even Zhang He was also very surprised.

The rice harvested in these three days is only twelve acres of Zhongtian, and not counting the part she secretly transferred into the system warehouse, there are about three stones and five buckets per mu!This was already somewhat beyond her expectations.

However, when receiving the [-] mu of traditional rice, Zhongtian averaged only two shi per mu, and Shimoda was even worse, only about one shi and five buckets.This dispelled the doubts of those who were still surprised before.

Zhang He, the traditional rice, cannot be stored in the system warehouse, and in order to observe whether there is any difference in quality between it and the hybrid rice, she specially asked people to pack them separately, and there are about 28 stones in total.

As for the last harvested 28 mu of rice, it was the threshing people who felt the most tiring, because there were too many grains in the rice, and it took more than ten times to thresh the rice.Even though Zhang He stole some grains into the system warehouse, the yield of these rice fields still reached four stones per mu, which surprised everyone.

Looking at the extra grains in the system warehouse, Zhang He calculated that the hybrid rice yield of Shangtian should have reached six shi per mu, and Zhongtian also had four or five shi.And this is already close to the modern yield per mu, which made her think deeply—in the case of good weather, perhaps the effect of system crops is greater than that of chemical fertilizers.

When the sun-dried rice was filled with eight sets of rice boxes customized by Zhang He, but there were still more than [-] stones that could not fit in it and needed to be stockpiled, Xia Jiniang realized that she still underestimated Zhang He.

Although the grain yield of four shi per mu has already appeared in the affluent Suzhou and Huzhou, but that is just an example, and the yield per mu in too many places is still around two shi.Zhang He's one has four stones, so that the eight sets of grain boxes can't be filled, making people's eyes red with envy.

However, Zhang He's energy and painstaking efforts in fertilizer and pest control in the early stage are obvious to all. Only a "big family" like her has strong capital to buy so much fire dung, fishy water, etc. to fertilize, eliminate insects and weeds .

Many people think that the reason why she can have such a good harvest is that she has put a lot of fertilizer and pest control in addition to the good weather.They secretly thought: If I also have so much money to buy fire dung, how can I only have the amount of two stones?

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