Old Man Zhang and Wang also rushed over from behind. When Wang saw Zhang Hulan, her eyes were red with tears. "Daniel, come and show me if you have lost weight. We haven't seen each other for such a long time. Your father and I worry about you every day."
Zhang Hulan hugged Wang and said, "Mom, don't worry about me. I'm fine."
Zhang Hulan hugged Li again. She noticed that Li smelled fishy, so she asked, "Sister-in-law, why do you smell so fishy?"
Lee said: "I was fishing these days and I was weighing them, so I definitely smelled fishy."
Zhang Hujun said, "We started selling the fish in the pond in the twelfth lunar month, and now they are almost all sold out. The big ones weigh nearly 10 kilograms, and the small ones weigh 3 or 4 kilograms. After we catch all the fish, we will stock them with fry again next year."
At this time, there were still villagers coming here. Zhang Hulan was worried that the villagers would offend Emperor Yongxing, so she said, "Dad, Mom, let's go home first."
Zhang Hulan said to Emperor Yongxing again: "Master Yin, you can rest at Uncle Wang's house first, I will come back later."
When Emperor Yongxing heard that Zhang Hulan's family was fishing, he said, "I'm not tired. Let the women rest. I'll go to your house and watch them fishing."
Duke Wei also said, "I'll go and take a look too."
Queen Ye said, "Then let's go too."
Originally, Queen Ye and the others wanted to rest, but now they all wanted to watch the fun.
As for fish, everyone likes it. Even if they don’t like eating fish, they basically all like catching fish.
The fish are jumping around in the water, which is a joy to watch.
He immediately saw Zhang Hulan talking to Emperor Yongxing and the others, so he asked, "Hulan, are they all your friends?"
Zhang Hulan nodded, "Yes, they are all Pengyu in Beijing."
So he immediately spoke loudly to Emperor Yongxing and the others, "Since you are Hu Lan's friends, you are our friends. Come visit us later."
Emperor Yongxing smiled and said, "We have quite a few people and we eat a lot. Sister-in-law, aren't you afraid that we will eat your family out of money?"
Ma said proudly, "Don't worry, my family raised two pigs this year, and we slaughtered them a few days ago. We didn't sell a pound of meat, but kept it all for ourselves.
When you go home, I won’t say anything else, but you will get plenty of meat.”
Emperor Yongxing laughed loudly, "It's settled then. We will go to visit my sister-in-law's house later."
"No problem, you're welcome anytime."
So everyone went to Zhang Hulan's house. Daohe and the others were by the fish pond, and they were all shouting about how many fish there were and how heavy the rain was...
As Emperor Yongxing and his companions approached, Daohe pulled Emperor Yongxing to a large wooden barrel to look at a large grass carp inside.
"Dad, look, this fish is so big."
The grass carp is indeed not small, it looks to be about ten pounds.
Princess Xuanning also took Queen Ye to look at a white carp in a wooden basin, "Look, mother, this fish is so beautiful. Daoning said he gave it to me."
At this moment, the fish pond next to us is pulling the net. The net is already halfway pulled. The silver carp in the pond jump out of the water from time to time. Both adults and children are very excited to watch.
Qin Bingrong was looking around. He saw several water wheels standing on the other side of the ditch and villagers working there, so he said to Emperor Yongxing, "Master Yin, I'll go over there and take a look."
Emperor Yongxing looked towards Dagou and nodded, "Let's go, I'll go too."
So Empress Ye and the others stayed by the fish pond to watch the fishing, while Emperor Yongxing and his companions went to the big ditch.
Some villagers were beating flour here. Emperor Yongxing and his men approached and asked, "Are you beating flour to make vermicelli?"
The villagers saw that they were coming from the fish pond and thought that Emperor Yongxing and his companions were the owners of restaurants in the city who came to buy fish. A woman said, "Yes, you run a restaurant, right? Do you want to buy some vermicelli?"
Emperor Yongxing said, "We are not here to buy fish, we are here to visit Zhang Hulan's home."
"It turns out to be a guest from Hu Lan's family! Hey, is Hu Lan back?" asked Zheng, who was also fanning here.
Yongxing said: "I'm back, just arrived."
Zheng immediately said, "Then I'll go see Hu Lan."
Liu Yongquan said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Hu Lan is back for the New Year and won't be leaving for a while. Finish the work first and then go. You are occupying the machine while others are still waiting."
Zheng glared at Liu Yongquan and said, "It's just a small amount of work. You can do it alone. Just finish the work here. I'll go find Hu Lan."
Zheng said this and left.
After Zheng walked away, Duke Wei asked Liu Yongquan, "Are you not angry?"
Liu Yongquan replied: "Why are you angry? If I have time to be angry, I might as well do more work."
Emperor Yongxing asked, "How many lotus roots did you grow?"
Liu Yongquan replied: "I planted a lot this year. I planted all the wasteland at home."
Emperor Yongxing asked again: "How is the harvest?"
Hearing this question, Liu Yongquan's face was full of smiles. "The yield of lotus root is really high. Last year, our family planted one mu and harvested 2,400 kilograms. This year, our family planted eight mu and has already dug three mu. Last year's lotus root made money. This year's lotus root is planted more carefully than last year. One mu will yield more than 2,800 kilograms."
Another villager was surprised and asked, "Yongquan, your family produced more than 2,800 kilograms of lotus roots per acre this year? My family only produced 2,500 kilograms."
Liu Yongquan said, "You two are so lazy. I have fertilized the lotus roots several times this year."
Emperor Yongxing asked again: "How much money can your family earn from growing lotus roots this year?"
Liu Yongquan replied: "If the lotus roots in the next few acres of land are all the same, I estimate that I can earn more than 40 taels of silver this year."
Duke Wei was surprised and asked, "How can you earn so much?"
"Of course, just selling vermicelli can make about 40 taels. The lotus stems can be used to feed pigs and can also be sold for money. My family raised two pigs this year and sold a lot of lotus stems to Hu Lan's family. If you count everything, my family should have an income of about 50 taels this year."
Emperor Yongxing was also quite surprised. For a farmer's family to have an income of fifty taels of silver a year was no ordinary living.
“Do other families in your village have as high an income as yours?”
Liu Yongquan said: "It's about the same as mine. Some people grow less and certainly don't earn as much as my family, but the lowest income for the whole village this year should be more than 20 taels."
Twenty or so taels is quite high, and this village can definitely be called a wealthy one.
Zhao Guoliang came over and urged, "Yongquan, stop talking and finish threshing your lotus roots. There are many people waiting behind. I guess you won't have a break during the New Year this year, otherwise the pulverizer won't be able to take over."
Liu Yongquan hurriedly said, "Uncle Lizheng, don't rush me. I'll be ready soon."
Liu Yongquan then introduced to Zhao Guoliang, "Uncle Lizheng, Hu Lanhui is here, and these are the guests of Hu Lan's family."
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