Chapter 936: A Dream (17) (64th update)
"Master, how many acres of land do we have?"
Su Dahe was rubbing his pipe back and forth when he suddenly heard Su Ruanruan's question. He felt a little strange, "Why is Ruanbao asking this?"
"I'm just curious! Why can't we eat white flour every day? Is it because we don't have enough land?"
Su Ruanruan's words were full of childish innocence, so Su Yahe didn't find it strange and started telling Su Ruanruan with a smile.
The Su family has lived here for generations. Counting back, they have all been passed down from generation to generation. Two generations ago, Su Yahao’s grandfather was particularly smart.
At that time, there was an old scholar in their village. Su Dahao's grandfather not only learned to read and write from the old scholar, but also learned to count with sticks. Later, he went to the county town to work as an accountant for someone.
Su Dahao's grandfather had been an accountant for more than 20 years. He thought that he was too old and could not do the accounts clearly, and his son was not smart enough to take over his job, so he took his children back to Yangcheng Village to live.
After more than 20 years of working as an accountant, Su Dahao's grandfather saved up some money, rebuilt the Su family's house, and bought a few more acres of land based on the ancestral property.
At this point, Su Dahe looked disappointed. "In my family, only my grandfather's grandfather was capable. He went to live in the county town and built a new house and bought land for our family. Your great-grandfather and your grandfather were both incompetent. They couldn't even read a few words, let alone work as accountants. After the old scholar left, there were no more educated people in our village. Even the village chief went to the private school in the county town for a few days when he was young."
Seeing that Su Dahe was lost in thought, Su Ruanruan could only call him softly, "Grandpa, you haven't told me how many acres of land our family has!"
Su Dahe came back to his senses and said with a smile, "Our family has a total of twelve acres of land."
“So many!”
Su Ruanruan's face was full of amazement.
Where she and Xiao Chengjin lived, the fields were not owned by individuals, and each household could only grow a small vegetable plot in the corners.
Now that she knew the Su family actually had twelve acres of land, how could Su Ruanruan not be surprised.
"We have a lot of land, but we used up all our savings to renovate our house in the past two years. As luck would have it, there were natural disasters in the past two days, and the harvest from the land is not even as good as in previous years, but the tax has not decreased at all. Otherwise, how could our family live such a hard life!"
The population of the Su family is considered simple in the entire Yangcheng Village.
There are few people and a lot of land, so as long as the family works hard, they can live a pretty good life.
Unfortunately, natural disasters do not always go as planned.
Su Ruanruan, who has experienced many natural disasters, also knows that in the face of natural disasters, people cannot change anything.
After thinking for a while, Su Ruanruan asked again, "What's the weather like this year? Will there be a good harvest?"
Su Dahe found it funny that Su Ruanruan was worrying so much, but he still answered her question, "This year looks pretty good. As long as the weather is good in the future, even if we can't have a big harvest, it will at least be better than the previous two years."
What Su Dahao didn't say was that their family had a small number of people but a lot of land, which had both advantages and disadvantages.
If you want crops to grow well, you must apply enough fertilizer.
But since there are fewer people in the family, there is naturally less manure.
Especially since their family has a lot of fields, they can only apply fertilizer to a part of them.
If the fertilizer is spread evenly on the twelve acres of land, the harvest will probably be even less.
(End of this chapter)
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