Chapter 1041: The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-law of a Blessed Farm Girl (36)
He had just finished writing when County Magistrate Chen came.
Magistrate Chen’s eyes suddenly brightened when he saw this unique village collective plan for growing lotus roots and raising ducks, as well as concepts such as work points and dividends that had not appeared before.
“Wonderful! Wonderful!”
Hurryly asked who came up with it. He wanted to recruit this person to his banner.
Turns out it was an illiterate peasant woman who came up with it again. County Magistrate Chen said: “…”
He even doubted whether she was alive: "Is Xu really just an ordinary peasant woman?"
"Ah?" Li Zheng was suddenly asked this question. He was stunned for a moment and quickly replied, "Sir, Xu is the second daughter of Xu Mancang in Meihua Village. She has been strong since she was a child. Last spring, she hunted a brood alone. Wild boar…”
“Are you strong enough? Hunting a litter of wild boars?”
What the hell!
Magistrate Chen twitched his lips. This was not what he was asking.
Forget it, the other party was probably born in the wrong child. He was supposed to be born into a scholarly family, and the number one scholar in the scientific examination was used by the court, but he was accidentally reborn in the countryside, and became a womanly family.
Unknown to Xu Yin, County Magistrate Chen hurried back to the county town with her proposed village collective wealth plan.
He was passing by here on an errand this time. Remembering the carts of lotus seeds he sent out years ago and the fourth prince's instructions, he asked the cart driver to drive into the village. He wanted Li Zheng to accompany him to the Cui Family Lotus Pond to have a look. He didn't want to have such a harvest. .
He thought further than Li Zheng. There are many rivers and lakes in Dawa Village, which is suitable for growing lotus roots and raising ducks. What about other villages?
Some, like Dawa Village, have developed water systems, so you can learn from Dawa Village’s plan to get rich;
Some villages have little fertile farmland and a lot of mountainous land. Can they grow more fruit trees? Will the village collective unify the species of fruit trees and sell the fruits?
There are also villages close to Black Rock Mountain. Can local villagers be allowed to dig black rocks for the court in the form of earning work points? Will you be paid by work points at the end of the year?
In this way, the imperial court did not need to go to war to collect corvee labor, and men who needed to serve in corvee labor did not need to leave their hometowns to serve. They only had to work in their own villages, and the remuneration based on work points could be used to cover silk cloth and miscellaneous taxes.
The advantage of this is that everyone has work to do, and if there is work to do, there will be food to eat, and if there is food to eat, no one will starve to death. Your Majesty is concerned about the country and the people, so he puts farming at the top of all walks of life and attaches great importance to the possession of farming technology. Don't you just hope that the world will be harmonious and the people will live and work in peace and contentment?
As long as the fourth prince implements this idea, he will definitely win the Sacred Heart!
Xu Yin did not know at this time that an idea of mutual prosperity that she had inadvertently thought of had been rushed to the Fourth Prince's Mansion by County Magistrate Chen.
Under the leadership of Cui Jikang, she found castor trees, cut down the surrounding thorn bushes, and then transplanted the castor trees to her temporarily vacant homestead. She then thought about how to cultivate castor saplings and planted them along the property. Plant a circle around the base.
The picked castor beans are peeled off their thorn shells, fried, dried and ground into powder. Comrade Xiao Jin picks them up and applies base fertilizer to the wetland.
Two pieces of land of equal size were plotted, one was applied with castor seeds as base fertilizer, and the other was applied with rapeseed cake residue as base fertilizer. In the end, which piece of land was more fertile and yielded a better harvest.
As for what to plant...she looked through the seed bag, and most of it was contributed by the stall owner in Chunzhou Prefecture who ran away after selling.
She picked out the corn seeds, but even if she secretly mixed a little system stock in, it wasn't enough. Let's mix in a little more. She was afraid that Comrade Xiao Jin would be suspicious, so she simply put together a basket of taro seeds. There were two ridges of corn and two ridges of taro on both plots of land.
Let the game begin! Mr. Wetland!
After spring plowing, the work in the fields is relatively leisurely. Xu Yin plans to hire a few helpers. Otherwise, if they want to use the 20 acres of wetland around the lotus pond by themselves, they may have to work from the time they open their eyes until dark, every day. Only when you are free.
She has already thought about who to ask for help—her natal brothers and cousins.
For this reason, she took the time to go back to her parents' home, and wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with Sanya. She mainly wanted to ask her about her requirements for another partner.
The last time I went back to my parents’ home was on the second day of the first lunar month.
Xu Yin had already lost weight by that time. Mrs. Xu saw that her body shape was no different from that of an ordinary young daughter-in-law. The image of her tough granddaughter in her memory gradually became blurred as time went by, so she wanted to treat her like other granddaughters. She asked her for 20 taels as soon as she opened her mouth. She said that her grandson was getting engaged soon and the bride price had not yet arrived. Moreover, with the new fertilization method, everyone wanted to buy paddy fields to grow rice. Of course, the old Xu family was also greedy. Erya Since you have this ability, how can you not help the family?
Xu Yin didn't like her, so she performed a scene on the spot for the old lady to crush the handle of a broom with one hand. The old lady was so frightened that she sat upright and didn't even dare to ask for anything.
This time when Xu Yin said she wanted to find a helper when she went back, the old lady was so embarrassed that she didn't dare to ask "Is there any wages?" and her face turned purple.
It wasn't until Xu Yin said that the wages were compared to those of day laborers in the town that she breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, my family is supposed to help each other, not to mention the wages. Erya, you sit down and I'll call for you. My brothers and cousins must be very happy."
After saying that, Mrs. Xu walked out with her little feet.
Xu Yin happened to want to talk to Sanya, so she went along with the old lady's arrangement.
Anyway, no matter who you hire, as long as you go to her house to work, you have to follow her rules.
“Sanya, daddy said he wants to find a date for you, and your marriage will be finalized in the first half of the year. What do you think?”
"I, I don't want to get married so early." Sanya lowered her head and her voice was as light as a mosquito.
“Are you simply not wanting to get married so early, or are you saying this because you have someone you like and don’t want to be married by your family?”
“Second sister!”
Sanya raised her head suddenly, her eyes filled with shock and astonishment as her thoughts were revealed.
After reacting, he hurriedly lowered his head and twisted his clothes with his fingers: "No, no, I just want to spend a few more years with my parents..."
"Sanya, I don't have much time. If you want to fight for your lifelong event, just tell the second sister clearly. The second sister will hold your eye for you to see if the other party is worth your wait."
"He is worthy..." Sanya choked, "He is the only boy student in our village who has passed the exam in recent years. He was expected to take the exam as a scholar. Unfortunately, something happened to his family three years ago and his father fell into the trap of Orion. The lungs were punctured. His mother was pregnant with his third brother at the time. She couldn't bear the blow and took action in advance. Because his third brother was born prematurely, his body and bones were very weak. In the past three years, his mother had not been able to sit well during the confinement period due to the constant supply of decoction and medicine. He is also often sick. His father was rescued, but he is out of breath after walking even a few steps and cannot do heavy work at all. His second brother is young and it is all up to him to support the family... Even if I persuade my parents, My grandma will not agree to this marriage..."
This is true, it is strange that Mrs. Xu would agree to such conditions. It's not that he loves his granddaughter or worries that she will suffer hardship after marrying, but that such a poor family cannot afford the bride price she wants.
(End of this chapter)