Tian Gui and the others insisted on not staying at the inn. When they heard that Er Rui was going to deliver grain to the Huo family, they didn't even sit in the teahouse. Instead, they urged everyone to go together: "Er Rui is carrying silver on him. It's not safe for him to walk around the city like this. Let's all go together and rest together!"
At this moment, Errui's satchel was heavy with copper coins. He didn't have time to count them, but he estimated there were four or five thousand coins.
For ordinary farmers, four or five taels of silver is a year's income, a substantial sum of money.
Xu Genyou also thought so. Even though Xiaoman and Errui were together, it was still just the two of them. It was better to have more people.
Xu Errui couldn't refuse Tian Gui and the others' kindness, so he bought some white steamed buns for everyone to eat their fill. Then the group headed towards the street where Miss Huo lived.
This is the address that Miss Huo left for Jiang Zhi when she came to sign the contract last time.
When the servants of the Huo family saw a large basket of tender corn and heard that it had been delivered from dozens of miles away, they immediately told them to wait and not leave.
Miss Huo Er came out hurriedly. When she saw it was Xu Errui, she asked what had happened and said with a smile, "Madam Jiang knows about medicine, but she's not used to doing business. You're taking a risk by selling things like this."
We always ate green grains secretly, finding excuses to do so; we couldn't do it openly.
I'll accept these grains. The courtyard where you stayed before is still empty; go and rest there for a while. I'll find someone to help you buy more grain.
After finding out that Xu Errui and the others had other things to do, Miss Huo made the arrangements in a few words.
Back in the same courtyard house, Xu Errui and Xiaoman were a bit better off, familiar with the place and inviting everyone to rest.
Tian Gui and Xu Genyou were a little confused. How could someone just casually give them a house to live in?
The Huo family had already been very kind in lending us the house, so Errui didn't dare to touch anything on the bed.
Now that they were full and exhausted, the ten of them, without caring about the tables, chairs, blankets, or pillows, just lay down haphazardly and fell fast asleep.
When they woke up, the sun was already setting. Just then, the Huo family sent a shop assistant to knock on the door, saying that they had already set a price for them at the grain store and that they could pick up their grain at any time.
The shops in the city are all familiar with each other, so the prices are low, the goods are good, and you don't have to choose.
Xu Errui thanked them repeatedly, and the group went to the grain store.
With the money from selling tender corn, they bought grain and prepared dry rations and torches for their night journey, preparing to embark on their journey home before the city gates closed.
Just as they were leaving the city, they "accidentally" ran into Miss Huo again. Before Xu Errui could thank her, Miss Huo asked, "How much grain do you have left?"
Xu Errui said, "There are still more than ten acres left!"
Miss Huo thought for a moment and said, "I will send someone to take a look tomorrow."
She wanted to buy some as gifts; this kind of food, which wasn't expensive but was quite unique, was perfect for giving to close friends and family.
Xu Errui readily agreed, and Tian Gui and the other villagers were also delighted.
So, the group pushed the grain cart, full of hope, and without feeling tired, hurried back home.
That day and night, the grain sale was a nerve-wracking affair, and Jiang Zhi in the village was no less stressed.
After distributing the remaining corn, she carried several large baskets to Zhang Juntou and the others early in the morning before finally taking a break.
Liu and Xia's mother both brought her food and invited her to their home to sleep for a while.
Jiang Zhi had no mind to sleep; she needed to hurry up and arrange for people to cut down the corn stalks to make silage.
If they remain in the ground now, they will delay the transplanting of the second crop of corn.
It was verified last night that you get food as long as you work.
Now everyone who could move around came, and everyone could get some benefit.
Some were cut, some were moved, and most of the work involved cutting straw scraps.
Without a shredder, the corn stalks had to be chopped by hand with knives. Everyone gathered around, chopping away with a "ping-pong" sound, sending bits of corn flying everywhere.
In a low-lying area of a plot of land, Errui had a pond dug out when he was leveling the land and digging irrigation ditches. He covered it with straw mats to prevent rainwater from flowing in.
Tian Gui and his men initially thought it was for storing water, so they used hoes to pound the pool walls with wet yellow mud to make them solid, ensuring that not a single drop of water would leak out.
Packing silage is now much simpler.
The inside is spotless when you open it up. You don't even need to put any oilcloth on it. You can just pour the cornmeal inside and have someone tamp it down layer by layer.
The harvesting of silage was something that had never happened before in Xujia Village, which naturally sparked a lot of discussion.
Xu Genqing's mother, Qin, had just been beaten and was feeling pent-up with no way to vent her anger.
Seeing Granny Jiang wasting corn stalks like this, he was immediately delighted.
Ha, are they going to compost all that straw?
What a crazy woman!
Bavaria is evergreen year-round, but in winter, most of the grass suitable for livestock will wither and die.
Besides herding cattle outside every day, we also need to prepare some hay at home.
Although the village doesn't have any cattle yet, the government said they would provide each village with large livestock when seeds were distributed in the spring.
If they really do send it, there won't be any hay to feed them in the winter.
Here, the torn corn husks, tender sweet potato vines, and rice straw from the fields are all dried and kept as fodder to feed the cattle.
The only problem is storage; these things can rot if there's a lot of rain in winter.
So they would tie the hay to tree branches and hang it on the roof, afraid that if it wasn't hung high enough, no one would bury it in the ground.
Not only did the Qin family think this way, but everyone else did too.
Tian Gui and the others left, but Xu Genqing and a few others remained.
These people were dissatisfied with Jiang Zhi being the village chief, but they couldn't fight against the powerful, so they had to obey.
At this point, people are just watching the show and thinking: Women! They're so reckless and unreliable!
Xu Changming had an expression that said, "I knew it all along": I told you long ago that when a woman is in charge, the house will collapse!
These corn stalks could have been dried and used as firewood, but this is such a waste!
The question is whether Tian Gui, Xu Genyou, and those who fawn over Jiang Pozi will think they're being treated like fools when they come back and see this.
Several people waited to watch the excitement and even urged the villagers to work faster: "You all have to listen to Village Chief Jiang and work as hard as you can, the more you do, the better."
They were afraid that if the village was slow to act, Tian Gui and his group would stop them.
Corn grows small, and even the corn stalks are thin, which is incomparable to the modern corn stalks that are taller than a person's head and have thick stalks and strong seedlings.
In one day, five acres of land were harvested and cut down, and the silage pits were even set up.
Jiang Zhi had the pool covered with tarpaulin and then with straw mats to prevent water damage.
Jiang Zhi did not explain her actions to everyone.
To accept new things, you need not only time and intelligence, but more importantly, a reserve of knowledge.
I don't have the energy to explain everything clearly, and I don't expect everyone to understand it.
Now all we need to do is ensure that the people below follow orders and obey commands.
Fortunately, the argumentative Xu Genbao wasn't around at that moment. If he had seen the silage, he would definitely have asked what anaerobic fermentation was and why it needed to be sealed...
However, Jiang Zhi had already thought of a way to deal with it. If anyone asked, she would say that it was the same principle as making dried vegetables at home.
Anyway, if the silage is fermented well, the feed will have a wine-like aroma.
Now that Xu Genqing and Xu Changming, who are always the ones who disagree, have suddenly come to her aid, it suits her just the way she wants, and she doesn't even need to explain herself.
As the night wore on, the quiet village came alive again, and the people who had gone to the city finally returned.
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