Rise of Nongmen

Dayue Dynasty, Hongyuan 13th year, spring.

Northwest Prefecture, Jinmin County, Suifeng Village.

It has been several years since the war was pacified, and the people's lives are flourishing, but the Ye family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are all frowning.

"Mother, there is no more rice." Mrs. Song dug out the rice bag upside down, and only managed to make up a handful of rice.

"It's all cooked, I'll go to your uncle's house to have a look." Bai sighed, and walked out with heavy steps.

Song Shi hesitated to speak, but finally opened his mouth and said nothing.

Right now is the time of the year when harvesting is most scarce, and every household does not have much surplus food, let alone the rice that the villagers seldom eat.Fortunately, my uncle is the head of the village and his family is fairly solid, otherwise my mother wouldn't even have a place to borrow.

As the head of the village, my uncle has a lot of prestige in the village and takes good care of his relatives. The problem is that there is a limit to everything, and as time goes by, my uncle complains to some extent. Every time my mother went to borrow something, she would give it to her, but she would inevitably be ridiculed. Even the younger generation didn't think highly of their family, but this love had to be accepted.

Mrs. Song knew in her heart that without the help of her uncle, it would not be so easy for their family, orphans and widows, to gain a foothold in the village.

Village head home.

Seeing Mrs. Bai approaching from a distance, Ye Ming who was playing by the courtyard gate immediately shouted, "Grandma, the second grandma is coming to our house."

There was a flurry of activity in the yard, until Mrs. Bai entered the yard, Mrs. Qiu wiped her hands, got up and took out two eggs and a small bag of broken rice from the kitchen, and said with a smile: "Second younger brother and sister, girl Qing will be due in two months." When you leave the court, you need money everywhere in your family, as an uncle like me, I don’t have any good things, you can use these to replenish Xiao Chen’s health, and you really can’t afford any more.”

Before Bai could open his mouth to explain why he came, Qiu babbled a lot, which made Bai blushed, unable to say a word, and hurried away with his things full of shame. go home.It wasn't that she didn't want to return the rice and eggs, but that she couldn't. No matter how embarrassing she was when she thought of her sleeping son at home, she had to bear it.

Seeing Bai's forced smile, Song felt uncomfortable in every possible way.It was a good few years when she first got married. Her father-in-law, husband and second brother were all there. At that time, although the family didn't have much food left over, at least they were peaceful and beautiful, and there was hope for life. Unexpectedly, the war spread to the village, and many young adults were arrested. Few of them will come back alive.

Since then, the Ye family has plummeted. If it weren't for the village head to take care of them, life would have been even more difficult.

It's okay if it's just like this. During the war, there were not a few families like the Ye family who lost their pillars. They endured the most difficult years, and when the next generation grows up, life will always slowly improve.

To make matters worse, seeing Ye Chen was about to grow up, he suffered a sudden accident and fell down the hillside, hurting his head. Since then, he was in a daze and once held his breath, which really scared the Bai family and the Song family. It's broken, asking doctors and medicines has caused a lot of famines, just raising white rice porridge and eggs every day is enough to bring down the Ye family.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law prayed to gods and prayed to Buddha to bless Ye Chen to recover as soon as possible, but they didn't know that when he held his breath, he lost his vitality.

For this, Ye Chen paid a huge price. Not to mention the return of the lucky mall obtained in the last days to its original state, even the goods in the mall have undergone earth-shaking changes.

All the items related to abilities disappeared, replaced by the three most basic agricultural skills, and there was one and only pasture that was lit up, and it was the kind of ordinary pasture that did not improve the quality of feeding livestock. The only advantage was that it grew Hurry up, as long as you don't uproot it, you can reap a dozen stubbles a year without talking.

Ye Chen was speechless for a while, what can pasture grass do? Could it be that he was asked to raise cattle and sheep?

This is quite in line with his current status. Isn't he just a farm boy now, what else can he do if he doesn't farm and raise livestock?No matter how capable he is, he has to make his first pot of gold to start the situation.

Ye Chen looked at the empty room with many peeling walls, and then turned his eyes to himself who was obviously malnourished, and fell silent.

Complaining couldn't solve any problems, Ye Chen put on worn but clean clothes, moved his stiff body, and pushed the door out.

Hearing the movement, Mrs. Bai, who was sitting at the entrance of the main room picking beans, followed the prestige. When she saw Ye Chen, she immediately stood up. The beans were scattered all over the ground and she didn't have time to pay attention. She trotted forward and said tremblingly: " Chen'er, you, are you cured? Are you dizzy?"

"Ah."

"Okay, okay! God bless, my son is finally healed." As if she couldn't see enough, Mrs. Bai pulled her younger son and refused to let go.

Ye Chen frowned slightly, he was not used to walking so close to people, he escaped from Bai's "claw" without a trace, and always kept a distance of at least one foot from her.

Hearing that Ye Chen woke up, everyone from the Ye family, big and small, surrounded him.

"Uncle, how nice are you?" Ye Guang, the youngest, asked with his head tilted.

"Ah."

Ye Guang's eyes lit up: "Then when will you take me up the mountain to catch chickens?"

Mrs. Bai couldn't see it, so she slapped the little grandson on the back of the head: "Bah bah, kids are ignorant, Chen'er, don't take Xiao Guang's words to heart, let's not go into the mountains in the future."

Ye Chen knew that Mrs. Bai was worried. Her previous life was to hold a tooth sacrifice for her family. When she entered the mountain to try her luck, she accidentally fell down the mountain and injured her head. She lay down for more than half a month. Mrs. Bai was so nervous that she was bitten by a snake for ten years. Afraid of well ropes.

Ye Chen didn't shy away from these things, but he didn't want to refute them on the spot. Just as he was about to go out and have a look, his stomach started to growl.

"Boss, serve the porridge quickly." Bai's reaction was quick, and the embarrassing atmosphere was lifted in an instant.

Song quickly complied.

With Ye Chen waking up, the haze hanging over Ye's family disappeared in an instant.

There is no pillar in the family, and they are short of breath. After having a backbone, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are energetic in everything. Even Ye Chen didn't strongly object to opening a piece of wasteland behind the house to plant grass. Before the end of spring plowing, an acre of land should be leveled.

Suifeng village is sparsely populated, and the new dynasty has just established, so there is a lot of wasteland. The villagers can open up wasteland, just tell the village chief, register and pay the corresponding fee.

However, few people choose to reclaim wasteland near the Luoyan Mountain behind the village. It is not easy to irrigate here, but no one points out this. Whoever let Ye Chen's house is on the side, such a short distance, even carrying water can be used for irrigation. Take care.

But this is only before the grass sprouts. After the villagers found out that Ye Chen was planting grass, the whole village was in an uproar. They thought that Ye Chen had broken his head, so he made such absurd decision. Hide in the house and don't go out easily if there is nothing to do.

The village chief was very busy, and it was a few days before the gossip reached his ears.

"Xiaochen, what do you think about this?" Ye Ningren frowned, looking directly at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen didn't hide anything, and said directly: "Raise sheep."

"What are you going to do with the lamb?" No one knows the Ye family's wealth better than the village chief.

"purchase."

"On credit? Who gave you credit?"

Ye Chen didn't answer directly, but got up and went back to the room. When he came out again, he had an extra seal on his hand: "Pawn this, it should be enough to buy a hundred lambs."

"Chen'er, you are..." Pain flashed in the eyes of Bai Shi, who had everything to do and didn't care about anything. Could it be that he couldn't keep the last ancestral item?

Ye Chen is very sensitive to emotions, and added: "It's a job, and you can redeem it in one year."

Bai Shi felt better now, but she was still worrying about gain and loss.If the things are in the pawn shop, they can't help them. If there is no money to redeem the seal when it expires, the seal will not belong to them.Letting Marven Ye do whatever he wanted before didn't cause any direct loss, it just took some effort and effort, but now the nature of the matter has changed, Bai's heart is in a state of turmoil, and he wants to persuade his youngest son to give up, but he is afraid of hurting his self-esteem , not knowing what to do, Ye Ningren thought for a while before speaking again.

"Xiaochen, just think that this seal can really make so much money, where do you get lambs? There are not so many lambs waiting for you to buy in the town, what do you do when you are sick?"

"I'm not in a hurry, I can buy as much as I can, and I can always make up the number." Ye Chen is not worried about this. There are quite a few sheep in the Northwest State, but there are not many who raise hundreds of sheep at a time.

Now that the pasture has not yet matured, he has plenty of time to find out. As for the sickness of the sheep, this will be discussed at a later time, and he can't give up eating because of choking.Although it is ordinary pasture, it comes from Lucky Mall, and it has its own extraordinary features. Even if it cannot prevent all diseases, no matter how bad it is, it can reduce the chance of getting sick.

A herdsman can raise a large herd, so is he still afraid?

"Chen'er, do you want to raise more money? Mommy, if you go to raise money, we won't be the seal?" Bai Shi didn't give up, and tried to make suggestions.

Ye Ningren and Song Shi also turned their gazes to Ye Chen.

"Who do you want to borrow?" Ye Chen didn't care about owing money, but when he had a choice, he would rather take risks than ask for a loan.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Bai family and the Song family looked embarrassed. It was easy to say but difficult to do. Before that, they had borrowed almost everything they could, including their natal family. They really didn't dare to guarantee that they would be able to borrow arrive.

"Okay, I still have a tael of silver here, enough to buy twenty or thirty, and then I can talk to someone about it, and get some on credit, and I should be able to make up fifty." Ye Ningren gritted his teeth and took out a tael of silver from his pocket. "Xiao Chen, don't be too far away. Try to raise fifty first. If you want to raise them well, you will expand next year. The seal is passed down from your ancestors. This is the only one left in your family. Don't use it if you can."

"Brother, I can't take this money. Girl Qing is waiting for the money to be used, so I can't give it less, so that my in-law's family can look down on our family." Bai's eyes were red, and she didn't agree.

"It's okay, the family has enough money." After finishing speaking, Ye Ningren looked straight at Ye Chen, "Xiao Chen, your house depends on you to stand up, I don't think you are confused at all, but you are too brave, but you want to jump out from here If you are not bold, I will lend you this money as if I were an uncle at a high interest rate, and you will give me half a sheep to try something new."

"It's a word."

"It's a word."

The matter is settled.

Ye Ningren didn't stay any longer, he got up and left, leaving only Bai and Song's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looking at each other.