Chapter 24 He has excellent endurance [VIP]
Watch the moon?
After eating, just look up at the sky. Who wants to stand in the yard in the cold wind and admire the moon?
She had to distribute the wages to everyone and rearrange the manpower in the family to prepare for planting winter wheat and reeling silk.
Two wooden tables were put together, and everyone sat around the table and listened carefully to Chen Yao's words.
"Cousin, here are your twelve cents each."
"Wenying, this is yours."
Yang Wenying was counting the pile of copper coins scattered on the table. Suddenly, three more coins appeared. So she pushed them back while pointing out the mistake Chen Yao had made.
You see, you still have to study hard from my perspective and not be lazy, otherwise you will be paid the wrong amount.
Chen Yao pushed it over again and said, No, I didn’t calculate it wrong.
"This is the money you paid for helping me with sprouting bean sprouts, making yuba, and taking care of all the chores at home. It's not much, but it's a token of my appreciation."
"I, it's not all my fault. My aunt helped me at home. I can't take this money." Yang Wenying blushed with embarrassment.
Washing clothes, cooking, sweeping and farming were all done by Chen Yao in the past. Now that she has done it herself, she realizes that these chores also require manpower. She used to eat for free at the Shen family.
Although the three cents given by Chen Yao was a recognition of her current situation, she would be ashamed to death if she really took it.
"Cousin, where is mine?" Huang Dongsheng looked down upon Yang Wenying's pushover the most. After all, he and his cousin-in-law were siblings, so he should just take what his cousin gave him.
This means that your cousin doesn't treat you as an outsider. But you brothers and sisters are so good, each of you is causing trouble!
If Chen Yao knew what was in Huang Dongsheng's mind, she would definitely punch him and shout, "They are outsiders. I can tell the inside from the outside."
Don’t owe favors to others if you can give money, because favors are the hardest to repay.
"You don't have a penny left, and you still owe me two cents. I'll deduct it from your commission in the future!" Chen Yao tied up the money bag, picked up the water on the table and took a sip, watching Huang Dongsheng counting the money with his fingers with difficulty.
After he finished calculating, he slapped his forehead and cursed himself: "Look at my stupid brain. I bought an extra meat bun for my cousin, but now I owe her two cents."
Chen Yao put down the bowl in her hand and pulled his ear: "Who was it at the dinner table just now who said that without my cousin, I couldn't have any meat buns today, and insisted that I eat two?"
"It hurts - hiss - cousin, be gentle. It will be ugly if my ear falls off, and I won't be able to sell tofu in the future!" Huang Dongsheng chatted with her.
"Why, do you still want to be a tofu beauty?"
Everyone in the room laughed.
"What's with the diarrhea? Who has a stomachache?" Miao heard her son howling at the door. He was the noisiest one this Mid-Autumn Festival, but it was also the one that made her most proud.
Huang Dongsheng ran to his mother's side and said, "No one has a stomachache. You heard it wrong. My cousin said I was a tofu beauty and praised my good looks."
Miao looked at me and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
The three sisters-in-law cleaned up the dishes in the kitchen and carried the pastries that Chen Yao had bought into the main house.
"Try them all. We are in for a real treat this Mid-Autumn Festival."
There were many people in the family and two packs of pastries were not enough to share, so the adults cut a piece of pastry into two halves and put it on a plate so that everyone could eat half.
Not only have the children never tasted it, even the adults have never tasted it.
Chen Yao bought the cheapest sugar pie, which was half cake and half sweet sugar. It was so crispy that it crumbled when you took a bite.
Everyone ate the pastries while listening to Chen Yao's next arrangements.
"Dad, Mom, I plan to plant wheat in a few days!"
When Chen Yao said this, everyone was scared. It was unprecedented to plant wheat seeds at this time. Could this child be joking with them again?
Without waiting for Shen Qingshan's response, Tian Zhongzheng stepped forward to persuade him: "Ayao, the weather is getting colder. How can your wheat seeds survive the winter? Instead, they will benefit the pests hiding underground for the winter."
"Ayao, your uncle is right. He is a good farmer and will never fool you. You'd better be obedient and don't waste the wheat seeds at home." Miao also persuaded.
If all the wheat seeds were wasted by my niece, another person from the Shen family would have to go to the eastern suburbs next year, and then the Shen family would be really finished.
Seeing that life was getting better and she could redeem the baby's father, Miao absolutely did not want Chen Yao to do such a foolish thing at this time.
The children have a good relationship with Shen Yao. Recently, they have learned that their cousin is smart and methodical in her work and will never act rashly.
"Dad, Mom, listen to what your cousin says first. She is not the kind of person who would do anything reckless." Tian Baozhu sat next to Chen Yao and put her arm around her shoulders to cheer her up.
Chen Yao stood up and took out the wheat seeds from her home, and explained them in detail to everyone under the oil lamp.
Good land can be used to rotate crops, and as long as the seeds are sown at the right season, the harvest will be good.
Isn’t my uncle worried that the wheat won’t survive the winter and will be attacked by insects?
Seventy days after the summer solstice, wheat can be planted for the winter.
Tanaka's face was full of doubts.
Chen Yao continued, "Soak silkworm feces in sour milk water, dilute it, and soak the wheat seeds in it. Get up in the middle of the night and plant the seeds in the ground. Let the seeds fall into the ground along with the dew, and the seeds will be able to withstand the cold and survive the winter."
, try hard to follow Chen Yao's ideas, listen to what the child says clearly, maybe it will work?
But Tanaka Masaru was able to ask the precise question: "How do you avoid insect pests?"
"Uncle, the reason we have to plant wheat after seventy days is to avoid pests. Planting now not only avoids pests, but also produces strong wheat straw. If we delay planting wheat any further, the wheat ears will be small and the grains will not be full."
What Chen Yao said actually means: "Everything has its time, and every place has its advantages. Only by not violating the farming season and choosing the right place for the crops can we achieve our goals."
She had asked in the bookstore in Qingfeng Town, and was told that there were no agricultural books in this dynasty. When the people in the bookstore heard that she was looking for a book about farming, their eyes were full of contempt.
Tanaka was standing up from the bench and asking something.
Chen Yao lied and said that she heard it from someone, but the old man didn't dare to try it.
Upon hearing this, Tanaka Masaru paced back and forth, thinking about whether what Chen Yao said was feasible.
Based on his past farming experience, he knew that one acre of good farmland would require five dou of wheat seeds, and with God's blessing, he could harvest two to three dan of grain in a good year.
But if it is a disaster year, the whole family will have to tighten their belts and people will starve to death.
Now the method A Yao mentioned is too risky, but if it really works, they can harvest twice a year and they won’t have to worry about not being able to pay taxes and rent in the future.
But what if it can't be grown?
Tanaka Masaichi was happy and sad at the same time, with two little people fighting in his mind.
"Brother, I think it's okay to let A Yao give it a try. If she can really grow it, then we won't have to worry about our rice jars at home being never full." Shen Qingshan leaned against the head of the bed and looked at his daughter.
Chen Yao was a little surprised. She thought she would have to explain everything to everyone, but she didn't expect her father to be the first one to support her.
"Dad, thank you."
Shen Qingshan had a smile on his long, thin face. "Why thank me? Daddy isn't afraid of you laughing at me. When I came down from the mountains to marry your mother, I didn't know how to farm. The wheat I planted that first year was very sparse. Do you remember, big sister?"
Huang Mei laughed as she thought of the past: "That's right. In the first year, you couldn't pay the taxes, so you went into the mountains a lot. You often exchanged meat for food with my family and my third brother's family. We ate a lot of meat in those two years, didn't we, third brother's wife?"
Miao was supported by her elder sister's arm and nodded quickly.
"But you see, I can take care of the fields now. Let A Yao do it. Maybe she can really grow some crops." Shen Qingshan gave his daughter a word to support her, and no one in the room dared to stop Shen Yao.
"Ayao, call your uncle on the day you plant the seeds." Tanaka was feeling itchy and wanted to plant with Chen Yao after hearing what his second brother-in-law said.
But he didn't dare to take the risk, mainly because he didn't have the hunting skills and temperament of his second brother-in-law.
"Okay, I'll discuss it with my uncle then." Chen Yao looked at everyone in the room and her eyes fell on Huang Xing, who had been silent.
After finishing the wheat planting, the next step is silk reeling and manpower arrangement.
She had to pretend that she didn't know how to reel silk and figure it out slowly at home. She had to fail a few times, otherwise everyone would find out.
"If we can really reel silk, my cousin, Wenying, and I will take over the job. My aunt, my uncle, and my mother will help make tofu and bean curd sheets. I will pay them for their work."
Everyone whose name was called in the room was smiling happily, as they could all do the job.
As for the men who were not chosen, they all looked at Chen Yao.
"Cousin, what about me selling tofu and bean sprouts by myself?" Huang Dongsheng asked tentatively.
"You're dreaming. I'll carry these goods into the city in the morning, sell them all by noon and go home, leaving you alone in the city. Are you afraid?" Chen Yao deliberately teased him. After all, Huang Dongsheng was only fifteen years old.
Huang Dongsheng couldn't stand his cousin's provocation. He stood up and said, "I'm a man, what am I afraid of? Besides, I know Constable Liu in the city. He's the most fair in his dealings."
Miao hurriedly pulled her son to sit down, pointed at his nose and scolded him, telling him not to cause trouble for the family when he was away.
Seeing that Tian Baolai had opened his mouth repeatedly but hadn't uttered a single word, Chen Yao spoke first: "Cousin, you should carry tofu to the villages to collect more soybeans. We have also signed a document with Manager Ren to ensure the supply."
Tian Baolai nodded.
Shen Qingshan, who was leaning on the bed, could no longer sit still. Seeing that his daughter had arranged everything for everyone except him, he anxiously shouted in his heart: "Ayao, where is Dad?"
Dad is the first one who supported you in growing winter wheat. You can't forget him.
"Dad, when your leg is healed, take me into the mountains."
"Go into the mountains, go into the mountains, but you also have to arrange other things at home for Dad?" If you don't participate, you will feel like you are not a part of the family.
"Wait until my uncle comes back. Dad and uncle will protect me, and we can go to other towns to sell silk. Qingfeng Town doesn't accept it, and Fang County is too far away. What do you think?"
As soon as Shen Yao finished speaking, Shen Qingshan slapped the bed and laughed: "Okay, I think it's okay. Ayao, your arrangement, Dad is very satisfied."
Huang Xing pulled her husband's sleeve to signal him to be more restrained, as there were so many young people watching in the room.
After everyone left, Chen Yao took advantage of her mother and Yang Wenying going to the kitchen to clean up the dishes, and hurriedly took out twenty copper coins from her purse and handed them to Shen Qingshan, said a few kind words, and left the house.
After a busy day, Chen Yao still needed to soak her feet to relieve fatigue so that she could sleep better, so she went into the kitchen.
"Ayao, what about my brother? What can he do when he comes back?" After listening all night, Yang Wenying moved a low stool and sat next to her, asking while soaking her feet in the light of the oil lamp.
Chen Yao pretended to be deep, frowning and thinking hard.
Yang Wenying immediately enumerated her brother's merits: tall and handsome, extremely talented, and full of knowledge.
"Then can your brother farm?"
Yang Wenying, who was recounting her brother's strengths, suddenly paused, and then her eyes lit up: "My brother can dig canals, and he has great endurance!"
Yang Jizong, who was far away in the quarry, suddenly sneezed.
Chen Yao laughed so hard that she nearly fell off the stool.
Yang Wenying was embarrassed by her smile and reached out to help her up in a hurry, but after seeing Chen Yao's expression, she stood up and said, "You did it on purpose. You had thought about it a long time ago, right?"
"Yeah, don't you often say there's no point in using a butcher knife to kill a chicken? When he comes back, he will naturally take over from you in teaching us how to read." Chen Yao was overjoyed.
Yang Wenying felt reassured and took another look at her feet which had just been washed clean. Now they were covered with dust. She angrily put on her straw sandals and poured the water outside the kitchen, then added hot water to soak her feet again.
In the main room, Huang Xing was holding the twenty copper coins, leaning in her husband's arms and wiping her tears.
"Don't worry, Ayao and I are both capable. When my leg is healed, I will take you to the city to see a doctor."
"No, I don't need to see a doctor. I'm cured." Huang Xing sat up, put the money into his pocket, locked it in a wooden box, and blew out the oil lamp on the table.
After lying down, Shen Qingshan and the others hugged each other and whispered, "It depends. Don't you still want to give A Yao a brother or sister?"
"Qingshan, your legs, uh..."
"Xing Niang, I'm actually very satisfied just having you and A-Yao!"
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