farming in ancient times

When Xiaoer's family arrived on the ground, his house was already full of people, and someone with sharp eyes saw Xiaoer's brothers and shouted, "Da Lang, are you fishing now?"

Da Lang put down the stack of bamboo baskets he had woven a few days ago and said, "Let the water go!" As soon as his voice fell, the people who had been waiting for a long time started to let the water go.

It didn't take long for the field to dry up. When the young and old saw the white carp and grass carp in the gully, even if they were prepared in their hearts, they gasped at this time, "Wow! There are so many fish!" unbelievable.

Someone yelled, hurry up and pick up the fish!Everyone hurriedly threw the fish into the basket.

When the adults and children picked up all the fish and carried them into Xiao Er's house, one basket after another, neatly filling the yard, everyone gasped again, even Fang Zheng, who was used to seeing big scenes, couldn't bear to see so many fish. He couldn't help muttering, "It would be great if the general was here."

These words happened to be heard by Xiao Er, and the joy of harvest disappeared from Xiao Er's lips in an instant.Da Lang didn't understand, so seeing Xiao Er's face change, he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Hey, what are you doing with so many fish?" The wine shops in the town and surrounding towns can only ask for a hundred catties of fish together, but today they harvested nearly two thousand catties, Xiao Er scratched his head worryingly.

"Didn't you say to dry all these fish?" Fang Zheng asked.

Xiao Er said, "More than 1000 fish, when will we be able to deal with them?"

"Hey, isn't there us?" Aunt Zheng patted her thigh, "Xiaoer, we'll come and clean up the fish for you later this afternoon."

"Yes, and us." Xiao Er's uncles and brothers said unwillingly, "Let's go home and have dinner!"

The villagers had offered to catch fish for their family before, but Xiaoer was too embarrassed to ask others to help him kill the fish. When he heard this, he said, "Wait a minute!" Then he bent down to catch a few fish, and came to help his family with everything. , Xiao Er gave them a grass carp and a carp.

Although the fish is cheap, two fish weigh more than two catties, and they cannot be bought together without more than a dozen copper coins.Seeing this, the villagers hurriedly shied away, and Xiao Er feigned anger and said, "If you don't want it, then don't come to my house that afternoon."

That's how it works.They also want to learn from Xiaoer, and when they plant the next crop of rice, they will also raise fish.Seeing that Xiao Er didn't look like a joke, everyone took the fish and said as they walked out, "Xiao Er, you are too polite."

A few juniors who were about the same age as Xiao Er even joked, "Xiao Er, you might as well be as stingy as before."

"Bah!" Xiaoer spit at them and cursed with a smile, "Hurry up and get out!"

Seeing that everyone had left, Xiao Er took out two more fish and handed them to Xiao Shan, "Go and send them to Xitou."

"No!" Xiao Shan twisted his body, and Da Lang continued, "Xiaoer, don't you bother our grandparents the most?"

Xiaoer said, "I have worked so hard to raise this fish, of course I am not willing to part with it." After a pause, "But, look at how many fish we have, if we don't give fish to Erbo's, people in the village won't say anything. No matter how grandparents are, they are also our father's mothers.

People in the village are now stunned by these fishes in our family. Looking back, those old women don’t know what to say when they are free after the busy farming season. "

"Whatever they say, I won't go anyway." Xiao Shan ran out with Niuniu in his arms, without changing his dirty clothes, "Sister-in-law, don't forget to call me when you are eating."

Xiao Er saw that he was running faster than a rabbit, and said angrily, "I won't give you food!"

Xiao Shan gave him a white look, turned his head and closed the door.

Wang Hanshi said, "I'll go." Looking for a rope to string the fish, as soon as he left the house, he ran into Aunt Zheng next door who was getting firewood.

When Zheng Feng saw her, he asked casually, "Xiao Er's sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"

"Xiao Er said to give grandma two fish." Wang Hanshi did not deliberately show off after finishing speaking, "Auntie, I won't tell you, it's late and my auntie has to cook, and the weather is so hot that I can't help but release this fish. "

Seeing her leaving after finishing speaking, Zheng Feng couldn't help sighing, "Xiao Er is really a good young man."

Zheng Daniu said, "Of course Xiao Er is a good young man, not to mention our Wangjia Village, even in the whole Guanjiang Town, there are not many who can compare to Xiao Er."

"I'm not talking about that!" Zheng Feng shook his head, "Earlier, Wang and Zhao treated the three younger brothers like that. The younger's family lives just a little bit and was busy delivering fish to his grandma. It's too benevolent."

"Who says it's not." Zheng Daniu nodded in agreement, "You used to say that the little girl is stingy, and no one should be greedy for his family's stitches, and don't think about the life of the little girl's family in the past."

"Hehe....Isn't it just that we are idle and have nothing to do?" Zheng Feng simply closed his mouth after finishing speaking.

Xiaoer is afraid that they will be fine if they are idle again, you must know that people's words are scary.Although Xiaoer said that he doesn't need to be tested for fame and won't be a sage, but his family has a good reputation, and Xiaoshan is easy to choose when he turns around.

At this time, Wang Hanshi also came to Wang Facai's house, and when she got there, she said, "I'm fishing at home today, Xiao Er asked me to give you some to try." Before anyone else could speak, she turned and left.

When I went out, I ran into a villager, and they asked her if she was in Xitou, and Wang Han said generously that Xiaoer asked him to deliver the fish.

Before Wang Hanshi came home, the news that Mr. Xiaoer had a large number of them, regardless of the past, sent fish to his grandma spread in Wangjia Village.Some idlers in Wangjia Village said that Xiao Er was too stupid, too stupid, and deserved to be bullied by Wang and Zhao's family.But after talking about it, everyone feels that Xiaoer is a kind person.

The incidents that happened when Xiaoer talked about getting married in the past were also brought out at this time. This time, the villagers no longer said that Xiaoer was stingy, but all said that Xiaoer was a good young man who really knew how to live.

In the afternoon, when everyone was killing fish in Xiao Er's yard, someone couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Er, can you sell these fish for a lot of money by drying them into dried fish?"

Xiao Er laughed, "If you remove everything, you should be able to sell it for three or four taels of silver."

"My God, that's more than our annual harvest!"

"Hey, sister-in-law, when you turn back, all the ten acres of paddy fields in your house are filled with fish, and you will have to sell them for ten taels of silver." Xiaoer reminded with a smile.

"Hehe, haven't you raised fish yet?" Some women and men who were envious of the many fish in Xiaoer's family suddenly lost their envy, and all lowered their heads and wondered where to get fish fry.

Xiao Er's family used to raise fish, and it was spring, so they could just net the fry directly into the river.Now...there are many big fish in the river, but there are really no small fish.

When everyone was killing fish and thinking about it, someone said, "Da Lang, your family has a good harvest this year, when will you say hello to Xiao Er?"

Fangzheng and Ren Yuan went to deliver fish to the wine shop in the town, and when they entered the door, they heard this sentence, and the two looked at Xiaoer at the same time, the general's worry was really justified.

Xiaoer was as thin and tall as a bamboo pole, except for that white and clean face, he had no human form, but he was so popular, the two couldn't help worrying when they saw how many old ladies were in the yard.

Seeing the two of them staring at him nervously, Xiao Er was annoyed and funny. Could it be that the words "seeing differences and thinking about changing" were written on his face.He said, "It's not urgent to say goodbye, it won't be too late when my family builds a house."

"Then what do you like, Xiaoer?" Someone asked.

Xiao Er pretended to be surprised and looked at the person who asked him, "Don't you all know?"

"Ah?" The crowd knew what Xiao Er said about the conditions of the kiss, and they thought Xiao Er said that because the family was poor. how?"

"That's right." Xiaoer answered quickly, and Fangzheng and Ren Yuan let out a long sigh of relief.Xiaoer said again, "If you can bring your own dowry, don't worry about my dowry."

Seeing that Xiao Er was chatting enthusiastically with everyone, Da Lang didn't have a bitter face like he did in the morning, so he finally felt relieved.

And a boy and a half sat down in front of Xiaoer, "Little brother, I just found out today that you love to dream so much." He tilted his head and asked him, "Why do you have the nerve to say it? With so many conditions, you are not afraid that my third uncle and third aunt will beat you in the middle of the night when they are angry!"

"Who told me?"

"Who?" The boy who was talking turned his body in fright, and saw a person coming from the door, and the village chief, who was watching the crowd killing fish, stood up hastily, "Master, why are you here?"

Isn't it the county magistrate?

County magistrate Bai dared not not come, this morning the general rode to his house and left after saying take care of Wang Xiaoer's family.County magistrate Bai was so frightened that he went to the pork shop to find someone. At that time, the prince had not left yet, and two guards with knives were standing at the door of the pork shop. The magistrate Bai almost cried when he saw the prince from Kyoto.

In a small town of Guanjiang, it would be a big deal to have a powerful general here, and even recruited the palace guards. How could County Magistrate Bai dare to delay at home, and hurried to Wangjia Village after finishing his official duties.

Seeing everyone standing up in panic, County Magistrate Bai hurriedly said, "Don't worry about me, I heard that Xiaoer's house is fishing today, so I came here to see." The bamboo mat on the floor was clean and wiped clean. Serving the fish with fine salt, County Magistrate Bai was taken aback, "Why are there so many fish?"

"It's in my rice field." Xiao Er said while crushing coarse salt.

"But I remember that your family only has six acres of paddy fields?" County Magistrate Bai was puzzled.

Xiaoer said, "This is the fish in the six-acre field."

"Six acres of land can get so many fish?" County magistrate Bai looked at everyone suspiciously.

Village head Wang said, "We were all there when we fished before, and these fish were indeed caught from the fields."

"Then take me to see the rice fields of Xiaoer's family." County magistrate Bai couldn't stand anymore.The main reason is that Xiao Er is afraid that Xiaoer will use rice to raise fish.

The village chief didn't know what he was thinking, so he said, "My lord, you don't know that the rice field of Xiaoer's family is the best field in our village this year. I think their family can harvest five stones of rice per mu this year."

"Five...five stones?" County magistrate Bai staggered and almost fell.

The village chief hurriedly supported him, "My lord, what's wrong with you, do you want to take a rest?"

"No need!" Magistrate Bai shook his head, "What did you just say?"

"Five stone rice!" The village chief was taken aback after speaking, "Master, you, you didn't think of it, did you?"

"It's more than I didn't think of it." For most of his life, he never dared to dream of an estate of [-] catties of rice per mu.

The village head pointed, "My lord, you can only look at a piece of land."

County magistrate Bai followed his fingers and saw that the rice stalks were almost bent, so he hurriedly asked, "Did Xiao Er's family see so much rice in one mu of land before?"

"It's impossible. Three stones per mu would be great."

The magistrate Bai asked, "Then why is his family's rice so good this year?"

"Xiaoer said that it is because the fertilizer from the fish is in the ground, and the rice will grow well as soon as there is fertilizer." The village head said, "Your Excellency also saw how many fish there are in Xiaoer's house before, I think we are in Guanjiang Township. They will be able to raise fish next year."

Magistrate Bai nodded, and the village head was happy.Immediately afterwards, County Magistrate Bai frowned, "By the way, have you thought about where to raise so many fish and sell them?"

The village head said, "Think it over. I heard that the weather in the north is dry and the winter is still early. We are going to make fish into dried fish and sell them to merchants going north."

County Magistrate Bai said, "When we go back to sell dried fish, the county will go with you."

"Well, that's too much trouble, my lord." The village head was excited, and the village head was happy. If it wasn't for the fact that the county magistrate was still in front of him, the village head would run around beating gongs and drums to tell everyone.

But with County Magistrate Bai personally "supervising", before the sun set, dozens of young experts in Xiao Er's family cleaned up his fish, and County Magistrate Bai was relieved to go back at this time.

As soon as the fish was ready, Xiaoer's family began to harvest rice, and when the rice came home, Xiaoer's family began to transplant rice seedlings.The villagers in Wangjia Village began to harvest rice after everything was done in his house.

Because there were too many people who helped Xiaoer's family kill fish before, Xiaoer and the others didn't go to help them, so I really didn't know which one to go to help.Xiaoer simply sent one of the leftover salted fish to the family.

It was only then that Xiao Er remembered, "Brother, is the fish at our grandpa's house ready?"

"Okay. Last time when my cousin came over and asked if our family needed help, you and Fangzheng went to sell fish." Da Lang heard a knock on the door as soon as he finished speaking.

Fangzheng went to open the door, and as soon as he saw an acquaintance, he rushed to welcome him in.

Da Lang asked suspiciously, "Your friend?"

Fangzheng said, "It's people from our land who came to give us rent."

Dalang was instantly excited. After living for more than 20 years, he had only seen others give rent to the landlord’s house. He never dreamed that someone would send rent to his home one day, and he didn’t know what to say for a while.

"Da Lang, this is my comrade-in-arms, I'll just say hello, don't worry about it." Fangzheng saw that he wanted to pour water and get straw mats for him to sit on, so he couldn't laugh or cry.

Dalang paused, "Ah...well, if you need to do something, you must call me."

"Okay!" Fangzheng nodded in response, pulled the two comrades who came to deliver the rent to the east wing room, and sent them away after a few words.

When Xiaoer came home, he saw a cart of grain, plus the rice and wheat that he had seen this year, Xiaoer smiled and squinted his eyes.

In the evening, Xiao Er personally went to the kitchen to prepare a table of dishes, but Xiao Er put down his chopsticks as soon as he took a bite, "Brother, I want to tell you something."

"What's the matter?" Da Lang bought a catty of sorghum wine and planned to have a drink with Fang Zheng and Ren Yuan after he had been busy for a few days.

"I want to go to the border!"

"What are you talking about!" With a "click", the chopsticks in Da Lang's hand fell to the ground.