Rebirth: Don't Be the Best

Winter goes to spring, and it's a new year.

This year's spring potatoes were as usual, and the enthusiasm was so high that they planted them early.Like the front and back of the house, the corners and corners are not spared, and they are planted everywhere.

Zhang Shu didn’t grow so many spring potatoes in Shuitou Village this year. Except for the [-] mu of land in Luotian Village, where he planted spring potatoes, all he wanted to grow in Shuitou Village were sweet potatoes, white-hearted sweet potatoes brought from the north. .

The land in Luotian Village is all hired by local people, and the price is the same as others, and they don't care about a meal at noon. The villagers of Luotian Village naturally accepted them.

Zhang Shu was also worried, the crops of the [-] mu of land, if someone made a mistake, he would have nothing to do, and he would not be able to keep up with it all at once.

So he bought a few packs of pastries and candies and went to the home of Lao Liu, the head of Luotian Village, and made friends with him by saying New Year's greetings.

Village head Liu is also a sensible person, so he naturally knows what he is worried about, so why would he not agree?

Zhang Shu got the answer he wanted, so he went home naturally.

It is now the beginning of February, the earth is rejuvenating, and everything is recovering.Zhang’s sweet potatoes have been growing seedlings since January, and they are slowly growing in the greenhouse next to the kitchen.

It takes about two months for sweet potato seedlings to grow. Zhangshu aims to plant them in March. In fact, the red sweet potatoes here are only planted in April and May, because sweet potatoes like heat and are not cold-resistant.

But Zhang Shu thought, the weather in the north is much colder than here, and April and May over there are actually equivalent to March here, so the sweet potatoes in the north should be more cold-resistant than those in the south, so he wholeheartedly Decided to plant in early March.

In addition to sweet potatoes, he also grows a lot of radishes in his field. The radishes planted in February are estimated to be ready for harvest in mid-March.

The villagers in Shuitou Village all like to follow Zhangshu. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any white-hearted sweet potatoes, you can also grow some radishes at home, so in addition to growing spring potatoes, they also planted a lot of radishes.

The imperial court supports everyone to open up wasteland, but you have to pay taxes to open up wasteland, but the wasteland is barren and they lack fertilizer. Basically, it takes more than two years to turn the wasteland into inferior land, but the annual output of the wasteland is still They can't pay the taxes they need, so everyone has little enthusiasm for land reclamation, and those with little land would rather go to the tenants' fields to plant.

But in the past year, everyone's enthusiasm for land reclamation has increased. Spring potatoes and autumn potatoes don't choose the land.

The stalks and leaves on the top can be used as fertilizer if they rot naturally in the ground, and the fertilizer from the good land can be used sparingly on the spring and autumn potatoes that are not picky.

Zhang Shu felt that the big fellows in the village were also very shrewd. The wasteland was opened up to grow spring potatoes, and the good land was used to grow radishes. In the end, he sold them for a lot of money. The family will mention it when they are chatting outside.

Everyone is looking forward to it. It seems that this year is busy again, and they can start making money from March.

In January of this year, there were two or three families in the village who got married. Everyone hoped that there would be one or two more people in the family to work. In Zhangshu's place, both men and women were needed, and more people would work harder.

Of course, this also requires them to be able to pay the dowry money. Last year, two or three brothers worked here at Zhang Shu, and it was very easy to pay one person's dowry money.

If you marry one first, there will be four people working. I am afraid that in a year and a half, you will be able to save the money for two people to get married. At that time, it will be the same as that of the Sun family. Five or six people will work together, let alone a year. Can you save a few taels of silver?

Compared with other villages, Shuitou Village is already richer, and it is even more so now. Many girls and boys want to marry here, and it is so comfortable to live a life of prosperity.

The matchmaker and the matchmaker also came to Zhang Shu's house a few times. Of course, no one was not serious about taking concubines. They came because of the three young men of Zhang's family, Yu Xiaoliu and Wu Jiang Wu Hai.

Among them, they are most optimistic about the two brothers Wu Jiang and Wu Hai, who are Li Muzhen's brother-in-law brothers. If they can become this kind of relative, wouldn't they even have a kiss with Zhang Shu's family.

But how could Zhang Shu and the others be their masters in Wujiang and Wuhai?What's more, these two young men are now doing vermicelli business with their parents on the other side of the river.

After Zhang Shu bought the shop, the owner emptied out the things, so he started to ask people to repair it.The alley outside the house looks like a new shop.He also set up a canopy on the open space in front to prevent the stall from getting wet when it rains.

Wu Jiang and the others are working in the shop now. Since they have this shop, many things don’t need to be transported back. There are two houses in the backyard, and beds are made in them, and things are put in. If they sell them late one day , you can rest here.

People don't have much opinion on the move of this stall, anyway, you can see it when you look up, and there are tiles on your head to protect you from the wind and rain, so it's more comfortable to eat.

When the matchmakers heard what they said, they turned their attention to Yu Xiaoliu. Yu Xiaoliu was very single, so he said to the matchmaker, "I am a long-term worker of Zhang's family. If they marry, they will also be long-term workers. No house and no cows, the earning is only so much, enough to eat enough, you ask them if they can make it, we will choose a date to get married."

Those who can invite a matchmaker to come to their door are all rich families. They naturally hope that they will have no jobs in the future. Now that there is an extra family on their heads, who would be willing?So it was over.

Zhang Shu and the others talked about Yu Xiaoliu when they were eating. Could it be possible that he could not get married for the rest of his life?Why bother to make yourself so miserable?

Yu Xiaoliu didn't care at all, "It's a disaster to marry someone who can't work, and it will make me ashamed to live here."

They all regarded Yu Xiaoliu as some kind of extraordinary person, and kept saying that the dowry cost at least five taels of silver, not including silverware and belongings. You know, his boss, Zhang Shu married his wife. Lang also only paid five taels of silver as a betrothal gift.

What kind of family is Zhang Shu, and what kind of family is he?Could it be that he is stealing money, and there is so much money for no reason.

It's not that Yu Xiaoliu doesn't have so much money. In addition to his wages last year, Zhang Shu gave him a silver coin of five taels, saying that he worked hard without complaint, did all kinds of work, and worked hard.

He wanted to push, but Zhang Shu refused, saying that he also gave the two brothers Wujiang and Wuhai.But people are in-laws, what about him?

Yu Xiaoliu has self-knowledge. The only thing he can do is to work hard to repay Zhang Shu. He knows that these people are not fuel-efficient lamps. If he lives here and bullies the owner, he will be ashamed to death up.

Moreover, like Zhang Shu, Lai Wang, and Li Yan, he also wanted to find someone who would be a match for his eyes, and then come to ask for a marriage.

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In March, everyone changed into thin spring clothes, and even Zhang Qianjin changed from a big swaddle to two.

He is more than five months old now, he is much more active than before, and he can recognize people. At night, he only needs Grandma Zhang and Li Mujin, and the others cry when they hug him, making them proud.

Fortunately, he is still a good baby during the day, and he can stay in anyone's hands. People in the village can hold him for a long time when they visit their house. Everyone says he has a good temper.

This morning, Zhang Shu went to the field for a walk, and then came home with two big white radishes. It seemed that the crispy radish business could start.

After a year, there were only two pigs left in Zhang's family. Two pigs were killed before as a treat, and then two pigs were killed for welfare. Three pigs were killed and sold at the entrance of the village, which was cheaper than the county town. They all entrust their relatives to buy them at home.At the end of the calculation, anyway, this year's food, labor and the money for buying piglets have all been earned from them.

Of course, the most important thing is that these pigs ate a lot of autumn potato dregs and spring potato dregs, otherwise it would cost a lot of money to eat.

There were no more pigs to raise, so Aunt Ma and the others went home naturally, so now there are only five members of Zhang's family, Yu Xiaoliu and a whole yard of animals left in the yard.

Pulling the radish this afternoon, everyone in the Zhang family was mobilized, and Zhang Qianjin was sent to his uncle's house to be with his grandma and uncle Mo.

Wang Changfa and the others were waiting at the gate of the courtyard, each with a basket on his back, ready to follow Zhang Shu and the others to pull carrots.I don't know if I have realized the benefits of making money, and these few no longer wander around the village. When Zhang's family is free, they will do some work in their own home.These rumors have spread, and it has become a role model for families in several nearby villages to teach second-raters. They all say that if they continue to do nothing all day long and harm others and themselves, they will be sent to Zhang's family to study for two years.

In the vegetable field, a row of emerald green radish leaves faced the wind, standing upright on the ground vigorously. Li Mujin licked her lips, remembering the tender radishes that she ate when the seedlings were thinning. There were no vegetables at that time, and the plate was so green. Fresh radish stalks and radish heads are full of praise from the whole family.

Pulling out radishes is easy to say, and it takes skill to ensure that the radishes are kept inside. Everyone pulls out quickly one by one.

The radish is big, and there is a lot of pig manure piled up on Zhang Shu’s land, so the radish coming out of the dark soil is even better, juicy and juicy.

The two cows stood obediently on the ground, eating only the vegetable stalks they threw out, not touching any radishes.They picked up the radishes in the field and put them on the carts to pull them back. There were two full carts.

Everyone said that the manure piled in their fields was good, so everyone also had the idea of ​​raising pigs. There were two pigs at home, and the pig grass was asked to be cut by children aged seven or eight. It was so big that it was time to do some work.

As a result, there were a lot of people catching piglets this year, and the children in the village all put on their backs and appeared by the riverside and on the hillside with small scythes.

The newly plucked radishes are washed to remove the soil, and then put on the chopping board, cut into thick slices and then cut into strips, and then placed on a large straw mat to dry.

The puppies at home are all spiritual. After Li Mujin said it once, not only did she not touch it, but she also drove the chickens to the front yard of the house they bought later, and they were not allowed to come out to harm things.

When Li Mujin went to pick up Zhang Qianjin, he brought back his father and Zhou Nan. Zhou Nan's belly was already pregnant, and everyone said that his belly was probably a strong boy like Li Yan, because he didn't I don't like any of them, I only like meat.

Zhou Nan's father didn't like going down the mountain very much, and Li Yan and the others persuaded him many times, but he refused to move down, so he could only give him a basket occasionally when he went hunting on the mountain.Li Yan thought, when the children of the family come out, they should be more face-saving than them. It's up to him whether he can coax grandpa down.

A group of people put things in the shade of the backyard, each with a kitchen knife and a chopping board, chopping vigorously.Especially Grandma Zhang, because Zhang Shu said that she has to be fully responsible for this business.