Chapter 1754: First Recognition (January Monthly Ticket Plus 15)
Sure enough, there was less ice on the ground at the entrance of the village, and there were obvious signs of shoveling on the middle road, but it was not particularly clean.
But at least when you step on it, you won’t feel like you’re going to fall at any moment.
It was cold at the moment and not many people were outside the village, but they still knew that many carriages and horses had come to the Zhou family's farm outside the village.
When Manbao and his friends arrived at the village entrance, the village head happened to be going out to look for them.
There's nothing serious to do, just asking hello. After all, the villagers are all tenants of the Zhou family, right?
Upon seeing Manbao and his companions, the village head immediately stepped forward and saluted, "Greetings, Lord Zhou."
Manbao quickly returned the gift. The other person was very old, and she didn't dare to accept the gift for nothing.
The village head smiled and asked, "Master Zhou, are you and your family here to play at the village?"
Manbao smiled and nodded, "I heard that it snowed in Yongzhou a few days ago, so we came here to enjoy the snow."
The village head didn't know what was so great about the white snow. Didn't it snow every year? But he still smiled and welcomed them.
Since they had met, Manbao naturally wanted to ask about the situation in the village, "Have all the chickens hatched from the eggs I gave you?"
The village head smiled and replied "yes", saying: "Everyone is very caring. As long as the chicks are hatched, they are now kept in the house and fed and watered like humans."
This is of course impossible, as the food chickens eat is worse than that of humans.
Manbao was very satisfied with this and asked about next spring's planting. "It's time to prepare the seeds. Does the village plan to replace the seeds with new ones this year, or use the ones they have saved?"
The village head said, "We thought of picking out the best grains from our own farm and buying some new grains from the county town to replace them. We agreed before that this grain..."
"I'll pay half," Manbao said. "I know. I'll have someone go to the grain stores in the city and look carefully to see if there are any particularly good grain seeds."
The village head agreed with a smile, saying that it was less troublesome to talk to someone who knew how to farm.
Manbao finally asked about winter preparations, such as whether the villagers had enough firewood...
As soon as the village head said that everyone was prepared and the preparations were sufficient, Manbao immediately asked to buy some firewood from the villagers.
If she were to ask him, it was only worth a few dozen cents, so why bother borrowing it? He could just buy it directly.
Bai Shan also thinks so.
The head of the village now figured out what was going on and realized that they were coming to the village to buy firewood.
But the villagers were all Zhou Man's tenants. When she had requests, let alone buying or borrowing, she just asked directly and the tenants had no choice but to give them what they wanted.
The village head hesitated for a moment, then decided to make a good relationship. He smiled and said, "It's just firewood, it's not worth much, why bother buying it? So, bring a few bundles from my house, and I'll have people collect them from other houses."
Manbao declined, "This place is far from the forest. We have to walk a long way to get firewood. How can we just take everyone's things?"
Seeing her sincerity, the village head simply pointed out, "It's not a valuable thing. Besides, Master Zhou didn't ask for fodder this year, so we don't have to cut grass, so we have time to collect so much firewood. After all, the firewood in the farm should be provided by us."
Manbao then remembered the matter of fodder. In previous years, the tenants in the village had to provide fodder to the official in charge of the land.
However, they don't have many horses, but they do have quite a few mules. However, the former have always been raised by Bai Shan's family, and they use the best food and grass, and they don't even look down on the grass here;
Zhou Silang was in charge of the latter. No one knew where he got so much hay, but the mule didn't lose weight, and he could still earn a lot of money every day.
Finally, at the insistence of the village head, Manbao accepted the twenty bundles of firewood he had collected, and the villagers sent them to the village.
When Old Zhou heard it was a free gift, he was overjoyed. He accepted their kindness and said to Zhou Dalang and his wife, "Don't mention it. Although they are a bit lazy, they are good people. In the future, you should be more humane when taking care of them. Besides not letting them get too lazy, help them with other things as much as you can."
Zhou Dalang agreed and asked, "Dad, are we going back tomorrow afternoon too?"
"Why are you here if you don't want to go home?" Old Zhou said, "If Mr. Zhuang hadn't said that Manbao was in a bad mood and wanted to go out to see the snow and climb the mountain to relax, I wouldn't have gone out in this cold weather."
Zhou Dalang didn't really want to go back. "I've discussed it with the child's mother and we want to stay in the farm and raise some chickens and ducks."
He said, "While we have some free time now, let's buy some chicken and duck eggs to hatch, and then tidy up the rest of the farm that hasn't been tidied up yet."
The main reason is that the couple only helps out in the east and west of the capital, so they have very little time.
So what Xiao Qian meant was that it would be better to live in the farm and have something to do. When she missed her parents and children, she could go back to the capital, which was not far away anyway.
As Old Zhou was pondering, Zhou Dalang continued, "She also wants to pickle some dried vegetables, fish, meat, and the like. The house in the capital looks so nice, and we occasionally have distinguished guests. It would be bad to dry the meat under the eaves."
Old Zhou thought of the bacon, sausages, and various smoked and pickled meats made by his eldest daughter-in-law, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, then you can stay."
After thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's stay with you."
Anyway, he would go back to the capital to help out in the restaurant, so there wouldn't be much work. Manbao would have to go to the palace after he returned, so they wouldn't meet until the eighth day of next month. So after thinking about it, he said, "Erya and I will ask for some money later. We'll go buy some meat and vegetables and come back to sit down. We're celebrating the New Year in the capital this year, so there won't be many people eating there."
Thinking about having to buy vegetables, Old Zhou complained a little, "We came too late before and forgot to plant vegetables. From now on, we have to grow them ourselves. By the way, is there any land in the farm where we can grow vegetables?"
Manbao, who was sitting quietly waiting for his meal, immediately interrupted and said, "Dad, we need to leave more space in this farm for me to grow crops."
Old Zhou asked, "Growing the weeds you dug up from outside?"
"Why is it a weed? Maybe it's a medicine," Manbao said, "Everything in the world can be used as medicine. Li Ru just said that Manager Zheng has contacted me with a batch of medicinal seeds. I want to try to grow one in the farm when the time comes."
Some are also planted in the houses in the capital, and they are planted separately so that the survival rate is higher. These are collected by Manager Zheng from those herbal farmers with great effort.
Of course, in addition to the medicinal seeds given by Manager Zheng, there were also things she was interested in buying from the mall, as well as things she dug up from outside, hehehe...
There are so many people coming and going in the mansions in the capital that she doesn't dare to plant things from the mall, but the people here in the manor are basically all her family members, and they are taken care of by her eldest brother and sister-in-law personally, so she feels very relieved, so she plans to find some new and unusual things to plant.
For example, Koko said that grain varieties cannot inherit good genes to the second generation.
It's the end of the month, please give me a monthly ticket
(End of this chapter)
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