Chapter 325 Hello, I am good
Huo Xi went back to Zhuangzi in General Mountain.
Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai were very happy to see her. Look for Huo Nian behind her. Although he knew that Huo Nian was in the school, he still asked Huo Nian.
Huo Xi looked at Yang Shi, who had a slightly protruding stomach, and supported her: "Let him come back to see you in a few days."
Yang waved his hand: "What do you want him to do? Don't ask him to come back when he's rested. It's time to study with Mr. Qin. Mother and your father will go back to the city to see him in a few days."
Huo Xi responded with a smile, and asked her if she was feeling unwell.
Yang shook her head: "Now I don't have morning sickness anymore, I eat well and sleep well. Before, I couldn't smell the smell of fish, and when your father approached, my mother's stomach would churn badly. But now it's better, I don't eat fish and shrimp for a day. , still panicking."
Huo Erhuai was behind him, shaking his head and laughing: "I think this time, it must be a girl, and she is very precious. Of those who were pregnant before, none of them can't smell fishy."
Yang didn't care: "Nvwa is just Nvwa, I'm also happy to have a younger sister for Xi'er and Nian'er."
Huo Xi smiled and said, "Brothers and sisters are all well." She will love them all.
Entering the main courtyard of Zhuangzi, seeing that Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi have tidied up the courtyard very well, Huo Xi couldn't help but feel a sense of belonging at home.
"Father and mother, you have cleaned up this yard well."
Huo Erhuai scratched his head and smiled: "This village is full of crop fields, your mother insisted on opening a vegetable field in the yard. I didn't agree, she took advantage of me to enter the city, took a hoe, found a few farm wives, and Open the vegetable patch in the yard."
Mrs. Yang glanced at Huo Xi and explained: "Mother just thought about that kind of thing. She wanted to have a meal. She took a ladle to the warehouse. The warehouse was full of food. I didn't know which tank to scoop it from. I wanted to pick a vegetable and put it in the pot." , you can reach it in the courtyard..."
Fearing that Huo Xi would disagree, he asked cautiously: "Is it really inappropriate to grow vegetables in this main courtyard?"
After speaking, he looked at the vegetable field in the middle of the yard.
It seems a little inappropriate. There are crop fields everywhere outside the yard, and there are several acres of vegetable fields. There are endless vegetables. Why did they dig out a vegetable field?
Huo Xi looked at her and smiled: "It's suitable, why isn't it suitable, the kind of life my mother wants to live is exactly what I want to live. I just like to open my eyes and see that there are vegetables in the yard and food in the warehouse. "
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Yang glanced at Huo Erhuai proudly.
Zuo Shi also nodded in agreement.
Bao Xia and Huo Erhuai looked at each other, what can they do, the vegetable field is open, so they can only let her go. You can't think that fertilizing in the yard smells bad, and then dig the vegetable field.
"Your Aunt Zuo thought you could see Xiaokang, but he didn't come back?"
Huo Xi then explained to Zuo Shi: "Xiaokang is now learning martial arts from his master in the school. He is very excited. He goes in and out with Nian'er every day. He is very happy and refuses to go back."
Bao Xia glared at Zuo Shi: "I told you that Xiaokang is learning martial arts, and he is with the young master, so there is nothing to worry about."
"Don't worry, I'm very relieved, there's nothing to worry about." Zuo glared at him. Can't you ask your son?
"He learns a lot of things. I can only be happy. In the future, he will have the ability to protect himself. Even if we go in the future, nothing will happen to him. I have nothing to worry about." son?
Huo Xi said a few words about Bao Kang learning martial arts. He has great strength, although he learned late, but he has good talent, and he is already a senior among the schoolchildren. He was praised by his husband every day, and even when he got home, he would drag Huo Nian to practice boxing and kicking. Huo Nian would hide from him when he saw him.
Bao Xia and Zuo Shi both had smiles on their faces.
After a short rest, Huo Xi and Huo Erhuai went to the village to inspect the crops.
Following Huo Xijiao's various methods, the farm manure was retting in the field, but there was not enough manure, and we went to Zhuangzi and nearby places to dig mud from river mud ponds and humus from the mountains, and built compost ponds to retting a lot of fertilizer. After the autumn harvest, after the field was plowed deeply, a thick layer of fertilizer was applied to the field, and now winter wheat has also been planted.
There is a bare layer in the ground, and the sprouts have not yet grown.
Huo Xi walked over, opened it to look, and saw that the sown wheat seeds had sprouted, so he was relieved.
Seeing Huo Xi checking, Huo Erhuai and Bao Kang introduced from the side: "Father, according to your instructions, all the fields are planted with winter wheat, and when the winter wheat is harvested in Zhongtian next year, glutinous rice will be planted. The slopes also took advantage of the past few days Most of the autumn rains have planted mulberry seedlings, and bamboo forests have been replanted densely."
"The tenants have no objections?"
"No, we planted the wheat seeds first. We agreed that the planting would not work, and the money for the wheat seeds would not be deducted, so the three Zhuangzi followed suit. The new leases were also signed."
The tenants are afraid of affecting the harvest in the field, so they generally follow the trend and dare not make any new changes.
But I taught the method of fertilizing the field, and paid for the wheat planting money first, but it was a little harder than before, and I didn't want them to pay for it.
If it is really planted, there will be one more season of grain, and the family will be able to eat enough, and there will be some money left after selling the grain. What's wrong?
They all followed suit. Of course, I was also afraid that the host family would no longer farm for them.
"Then what about the three hectares of land we bought before, will we grow winter wheat?"
"When Dad collected the rent, he told them all about it, and taught them how to fertilize the fields. Most of them followed suit, but a few were unwilling. Dad listened to you and didn't force it."
Huo Xi nodded: "Next spring, if you don't feel moved by watching other people get the second season of grain, you won't be able to rent land to them. It's a waste of land."
"Okay, Dad has written it down."
Now that Zhuangzi's autumn grain has been harvested and winter wheat has been planted, the servants should have been idle, but Huo Xi transported several boats of bamboo to Zhuangzi.
Now everyone saw bamboo according to the requirements of bamboo fan masters, split bamboo, broken edges, peeled, scraped green, drilled holes, steamed... the bamboo materials used to make fans.
There is a lot of work, and there is no shortage of work to do.
In another shed for grinding snail shells, there are mostly women, old people and children.
Blanch the shells, peel them, slice them, roast them over fire to make the shells layered, remove them with a blade, and then send them to Lou Qingyao to select materials, draw pictures, slice them, and then inlay them.
Afterwards, she was polished and polished, and someone from the workshop helped her.
With helpers in the front-end process and back-end polishing, Lou Qingyao can now make mother-of-pearl much faster.
According to what Huo Xi said, not only make saving boxes, but also choose some crafts, such as musical instruments, tables, kang screens, sandalwood fans, etc., and inlay some mother-of-pearl to add a layer of brilliance to the original objects and make them more precious. Naturally also went up.
Huo Xi looked at the two semi-finished workshops for a while, and found that all the idle people in the village came to take over the work.
Many jobs can be done by the elderly and children. There are crowds of people in the two workshop sheds.
Depending on the work they do, they can earn from a few to a dozen cash a day. If a few members of the family come to work, they can earn a lot in a day.
Huo Xi walked over to have a look, and saw five or six-year-old children running around, helping to pass this and that, everyone looked focused. Very pleased. If you have work to do and money to receive, you don't have to be idle to make troubles. Hello, my good business.
As the owner of the villa, Qi Dazuo came to check on it from time to time, and when he saw Huo Xi arrived, he came over to introduce a few words.
Huo Xi nodded at him with satisfaction, telling him to take more care, if the work is done well, he will give everyone more food for the New Year, and there will be silver rewards and New Year pigs.
Qi nodded happily, patted his chest and said that he would lead everyone to finish the job well.
(end of this chapter)