Wear to the Ming Dynasty to farm

The high temperature lasted for a while, and then there were several days of cool showers, which actually lowered the temperature. The high temperature has gradually declined, and it is the end of the battle. There is no chance to return to the intense high temperature during the dog days.

It is already the middle of July in the old calendar. Although people can feel some refreshment in the morning, the sun is still warm at noon. After a while, the temperature will gradually drop, and the autumn will be clear, and the sun will become like the warm sun in spring So soft.

The weavers in the village saw that the solar terms were gradually changing, and discussed adding some cotton or wool to some of the linen clothes they wove to keep warm.

And Qian Dayong had to adjust the type and concentration of dyes accordingly, so as to be able to dye the cotton-added linen clothes well.But it was not easy to adjust the dosage of so many dyes, and it took several days.

There are so many dyes that cannot be memorized one by one. Qian Dayong himself is illiterate, so Qiao Jiwei used a brush to write down all the precautions and dosage of each dye, so that he can refer to it later when he forgets.

Qiao Jiwei was not smooth when using the brush. When writing, he accidentally stained a lot of ink on his clothes and a little black ink on his nose. He looked like a clown performing on the street. Laugh out loud.

Qiao Jiwei puffed his mouth out of anger, and subconsciously wanted to punch Qian Dayong in order to teach him a lesson.

Taking advantage of the cool weather early this morning, Qiao Jiwei drove an ox cart to the storekeeper Guo's clothing store to deliver linen cloth mixed with cotton. In ten days or so, it will be the harvest day, and Qian Dayong will go to the field to look after the peanuts and soybeans. Waiting for the crops, they didn't go together.

The fog was heavy along the way, and the scenery in front was hazy. Qiao Jiwei could only see the nearby scenery clearly.

When he arrived at the clothing store, Qiao Jiwei showed the linen clothes mixed with cotton to shopkeeper Guo, but shopkeeper Guo just took a look and shook his head with a smile.

"We are also prepared for this kind of clothes."

After speaking, he took out a sackcloth from a room and presented it to Qiao Jiwei.It actually uses more cotton silk than Qian Dayong's own linen clothes.This is apparently to make the clothes last longer.

Qiao Jiwei touched the texture of the sackcloth with his hands, "Oh, shopkeeper Guo has sold clothes for so many years, how can he not know the seasons, it seems that I am worrying too much."

Shopkeeper Guo waved his fan with a smile, and stroked his beard, "If you don't have long-term considerations, you must have near-term worries. Xiao Qiao, you are a smart person. If you worry too much, you will benefit. How can you say that you worry too much?"

In addition to sending sackcloth to shopkeeper Guo, Qiao Jiwei also met Cuihua. Taking advantage of the absence of outsiders, Qiao Jiwei put his mouth close to Cuihua's ear and whispered to Cuihua: "Shopkeeper Guo didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

Cuihua smiled and waved her hands, "No, no, if he dares to bully my sisters, I won't agree, I will smash his shop."

Qiao Jiwei's eyes widened in shock, and his mouth opened slightly. He really didn't expect to meet such a fierce woman in this era, and she even became a neighbor.Then his face suddenly calmed down, and he smiled, "With you here, I don't think they dare to make trouble."

Although Qiao Jiwei and shopkeeper Guo are in a business partnership, he can't trust him too much, after all, there have been quarrels before.Qiao Jiwei is still clear about the relationship between closeness and closeness.

In addition to going to the clothing store, Qiao Jiwei also bought some aqua regia from the craftsman, and filled the alkaline soil into the pre-prepared pots in the saline-alkali land.After doing these things, the sun has turned from yellow to red on the western mountain, and it is crumbling.Qiao Jiwei hurried back with the ox cart.

Qiao Jiwei didn't return home for a long time, and Qian Dayong felt uneasy at home.I couldn't help but beat my heart: Qiao Jiwei hasn't come back for so long?Are you going to take the opportunity to escape?Afterwards, he thought that Qiao Jiwei met some beautiful girl or handsome young man on the street of the county town, so he missed his return trip.Girls and Xiaosheng are both scourges in his eyes, but he has an intuition that Xiaosheng is more terrifying than girls, and he doesn't know where this intuition comes from.

In addition, his mother muttered next to him: "Look, this little monkey must have taken this opportunity to run away. You have to catch him before he escapes far away."

This made Qian Dayong's heart flustered even more. At this moment, he felt that he couldn't do without Qiao Jiwei.Qiao Jiwei's voice, Qiao Jiwei's smiling face, Qiao Jiwei's words, every feature of Qiao Jiwei was recalled in his mind for fear of losing it.

It wasn't until he saw Qiao Jiwei's figure in an ox cart heading for the entrance of the village far away that the stone in Qian Dayong's heart fell to the ground.

Recently, Qiao Jiwei's eldest brother, Qiao Jifa, just got married. In order to please the bride, Qiao Jifa specially bought a dyed linen dress for her to wear.The dyed sackcloth comes from the branch of shopkeeper Guo's clothing store in the neighboring state capital.Shopkeeper Guo's management capabilities are extraordinary, and he has expanded his sphere of influence so far.

This dyed sackcloth cost Qiao Jifa's family [-] Wen, and it was still a middle-of-the-road item.

Qiao Jifa's mother loves the five hundred coins for no reason. These days, because of the five hundred coins, she seems to have a thorn in her heart. She just sent Qiao Jiwei away for a few days to live a peaceful life. Recently, her son spent a lot of money on a woman, but she loves herself very much. My son, it is not good to teach him face to face.I had no choice but to vent my anger on my daughter-in-law and use the family law to regulate my daughter-in-law. If my daughter-in-law violated the family rules, there would naturally be countless whippings waiting for him.The beating is real, and the daughter-in-law robbed her son, and it would be hard for ordinary people to let go.

But her daughter-in-law is not a docile master. Every time Qiao Jifa's mother beat her, she would go to her husband's study and cry, which made Qiao Jifa not human at both ends. The relationship with my son is very tense.

More than ten days came quickly, and it was time to harvest the crops.

The corn planted in May actually grew up to Qian Dayong's chest. Qian Dayong saw a green bag hanging from the green stalk, which was obviously unripe corn.But I have never seen a plant that grows so fast. It was only planted a few months ago, and it is so tall now.

"It grows really fast!" Qian Dayong said.

But Qiao Jiwei saw the business opportunities in it. Compared with wheat, rice and sorghum, corn crops have a natural advantage. In the north, they can grow two crops a year.If it can be promoted, it will definitely fill more people's stomachs.The sudden surge in population at the end of the Ming Dynasty must have something to do with foreign foods such as corn and potatoes.

Because the corn husk is still green and half-cooked, the shavings should be raw first.After shaving the peanuts, harvest the corn.

This kind of working money mother will not do it this year. After all, there is a male in the family, and he has small feet. Qiao Jiwei was out of breath after working for a while. Qian Dayong couldn't bear to let Qiao Jiwei be tired, so he had to let him sit aside. rest.The two of them worked hard for more than ten days, and Qiao Jiwei rested half of the time.This is a pain for Qian Dayong.Obviously spent money to add a man this year, but compared to last year, he was much more tired.

This is not spending money to buy labor, it is simply buying a master.

These days, they are busy harvesting peanuts and corn, and things like dyeing linen have also been neglected.The Qian family chose to prepare the dye solution at night, but Qian Dayong, who was tired all day, could not be allowed to cook the dye again. Qiao Jiwei had to cook the dye mixing ratio by himself, and worked until late at night for several days.

Generally speaking, life in the countryside is relatively leisurely, not like the modern day from eight to nine.But these days are especially busy.And this kind of busyness is different from the modern busyness. It is a kind of non-stop activity of various organs of the body, but not a lot of activity of the brain. It depends on who is strong, hardworking and capable. Qiao Jiwei suddenly felt that he was very uncomfortable with this kind of Life.