Chapter 21 New Wheat Seeds
The Jiang family has not split up, and all the members live together.
In this family life, how can the tongue not touch the teeth, how can the spoon not touch the edge of the pot?
If there hadn't been a sister-in-law who was good at mediating, the relationship might have become like many large families with large populations. Although they still lived together, their relationships had already become distant.
Shen and her elder sister-in-law Qiao not only prepared new cotton-padded clothes for Jiang's children, but also prepared another gift for Jiang, which made Jiang and Xia Youtian overjoyed.
My eldest sister-in-law, Ms. Qiao’s maiden home is called Bangchuidao, near the Bohai Bay.
Because it is close to the sea, has minerals, and is rich in ginseng and sika deer, it is relatively rich.
If there are good things outside, they can easily spread there.
In recent days, a new kind of wheat and two new kinds of rapeseed have arrived from Qiao’s hometown.
Qiao's mother was worried about her daughter, so she sent a letter to Qiao.
Qiao made a prompt decision, took all her private money and went back to her parents' home. After seeing the benefits of the new wheat seeds, she bought 30 kilograms of them at once, and also bought 2 kilograms of the new rapeseed.
After returning, Qiao simply said that her parents helped to pay for it.
My mother-in-law, Mrs. Shen, was a generous and magnanimous person. She gave the money directly.
Qiao handed over the wheat and rapeseed seeds to the public treasury, and also proposed to give a share to the married Jiang family girls like Jiang. The old couple and the brothers of the Jiang family were naturally delighted to hear this.
Now that Jiang had returned, the Jiang family not only sincerely treated their son-in-law to two meals of delicious food and wine, but also bought new clothes for the children, and fried small yellow croaker and meatballs in oil, allowing the children to eat them right away.
Worried that the mountain road would be difficult to travel after dark, he arranged for Jiang and Xia Youtian to stay at Jiang's house for the night.
On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, when Jiang and his wife were about to go back, Qiao arranged to bring them five catties of new wheat seeds and two taels of new rapeseed. The so-called new rapeseed was actually rapeseed and red amaranth.
It seems strange that these two side dishes were not available in Beiguan Town in the past.
As for the new wheat seeds, this is worth discussing in detail.
It is said that this new wheat variety was slowly cultivated by high-ranking officials in the imperial court using wheat from the capital and foreign varieties brought in from overseas. It took several years in total!
Later, when they saw that the new seeds grew very well in the capital, they began to promote them to the south of the Yangtze River.
It’s just that the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River were reluctant to transport the new wheat seeds to the north. Some well-informed people in the north, although they heard the news, had never even seen what the new wheat seeds looked like.
The reason why this batch of new wheat seeds spread to the Bohai Bay was completely an accident.
According to information obtained from Qiao's parents' family, the ship carrying new wheat seeds and new rapeseed was blown to the Bohai Bay by a strong wind.
The storm caused the shipowner to lose several ships and he became ill. In order to collect some silver to buy water and hire sailors, he had to reluctantly sell some new wheat seeds in exchange for silver.
The land of Qiao's mother's family is not as fertile as the land in Liushutuozi and Beiguan Village because it is close to the sea.
But the new wheat seeds grew well.
The best fields planted with the new wheat seeds yielded about 100 kilograms more per acre than the previous fields planted with the old wheat seeds.
Qiao's parents' family planted the new wheat variety for two consecutive years. The yield in the second year was slightly lower than that in the first year, but they could still yield 80 to 90 kilograms more per acre than the old wheat variety.
When Jiang and Xia Youtian heard the news, they were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.
If the new wheat seeds are planted in your own fields, even if you can't harvest an extra 100 kilograms, at least you can harvest 50 or 60 kilograms more, which is a great thing that you can't ask for!
What's more, the land in Beiguan Village is so fertile that it produces oil, which is much better than the saline-alkali land of Qiao's mother's hometown!
The number of new wheat seeds is limited, so Qiao asked Jiang and Xia Youtian not to make it public. After returning, they should especially keep it secret and not spread this good news to others.
Although they could ask the Xia family whether they wanted to plant the seeds - the key point was that both Qiao and Shen felt that Jiang and her son-in-law were a pair of honest people. They would not learn to lie even if they were taught, and they could not hide anything even if they were asked to - but even if they wanted to plant the seeds, they could only take them from the seeds that Jiang and her family already had.
Even if I want to look for it again, I don’t know when I’ll find it!
After all, the ship that sold wheat seeds last time was blown here by a typhoon. This kind of thing doesn't happen every day!
This is what Qiao said, and Jiang and Xia Youtian believed it.
On the way home, they were excitedly discussing what to do with the new wheat seeds.
The children also joined the discussion.
Lihua was the first to speak up and was very considerate:
"Anyway, there aren't many wheat seeds, why don't we plant some first and give it a try!
If the harvest is good, we will share the remaining wheat seeds with our grandparents. If the harvest is bad, then forget it.
It would save my grandparents from having to plant new wheat seeds. If the harvest is bad, wouldn’t that make them anxious and angry?”
"Yes, sister is right. We can't let grandpa and grandma get anxious and angry."
"Yes, yes!"
"I also think what my sister said is right."
Xia Youtian and Jiang looked at each other, feeling helpless about what to do with their own selfish children.
Neither of them were selfish, but they never expected that their children would be so cunning, stingy, and good at finding excuses...
However, the couple did have some concerns.
After all, the land of Qiao's mother's family is different from the land of Beiguan Village. What if the wheat produced is not as good as the original wheat? Wouldn't it be a good intention but a bad one, and it would harm my parents instead?
Jiang thought of several difficult sisters-in-law, and Xia Youtian thought of his smiling eldest brother, his gloomy second brother, and his third brother who liked to say the opposite with a smile. The two looked at each other and shuddered at the same time.
At the same time, they made up their minds that there was no need to make any more trouble with the new wheat seeds and just give them a try first!
After reaching a consensus, the family felt more closely connected to each other, as if there was a secret pleasure of "doing bad things together", which deepened their joy of sharing the same secret.
Along the way, Xia Daohua carefully memorized the roads and terrain, but she could only remember three or four points.
After all, it is winter now, and there were several heavy snowfalls before the New Year.
No matter which side you look from, you will see winding mountains, a vast sky and earth, and everywhere you look, it is all white and difficult to distinguish.
Many flowers, plants and trees have withered, leaving almost only pines and cypresses, which are all covered with rime, creating a sense of beauty that resembles a silver-clad, chilling cold.
When the fourth family arrived home, the house was quiet and no one was there.
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