Chapter 88 Others are also preparing
Regarding the dream by the village chief Jiang Ying and Shen Qing that a heavy rain caused a complete failure in their corn harvest, except for a few families, most of the people in the village were worried that the dream would come true while they were farming and sowing with trepidation.
The three of them could understand it. After all, food is life and fields are roots. How could they abandon them just because of one or several dreams of others?
Of the few families that did not farm, the Jiang family took all of it, and the rest was the Feng family.
As outsiders who came to the village late, the land had already been reclaimed and allocated when they arrived, and they needed to spend money to buy it. They had practiced martial arts since childhood and were not good at farming. They could harvest less than five points after putting in ten points of effort, so they only bought three to five acres. Their daily living expenses were mainly paid by working in the city.
More than a month ago, Feng Xing and Feng Tao were chosen by Shen Qing to do the job of polishing pen holders, with a daily wage of fifty cents. After harvesting the wheat, they heard about the heavy rain. The Feng family calculated that it would be a barren season, and with their current harvest, the loss would not be much, so they might as well spend all their energy on polishing the pen holders.
It seems that earning money to buy food is easier than growing crops and harvesting food?
The reason why the Third and Fifth Master Jiang's families didn't farm was because of their trust in Shen Qing. Yes, it was not mainly because of their trust in their second brother and niece, but because of their trust in Shen Qing!
The reason was very simple. It was Shen Qing who taught them how to make tofu and malt sugar. The second brother did not allow them to ask about the specific matters and told them to just trust and do as he said. They did the same with the heavy rain. Whoever made their life good, they would follow him unswervingly.
Secondly, they did earn money. Although their lives today have not changed drastically compared to the past, they are definitely different and much better.
Money is my confidence. Even if I don't plant any crops this season, as long as I can earn money, I won't be panicked.
However, they were not idle at all. Shen Qing's family started to smoke meat, boil lard, and store lard residue in preparation for the coming heavy rain. They were reluctant to buy as much as Shen Qing did, so they only bought a small amount.
Fortunately, the fields were not cultivated, so the manpower was freed up to fish, shrimp, loaches, snails, etc. Unlike in the past when small fish and shrimp were crushed and fed to chickens and ducks, now all the fish and shrimp are dried and stored. Only the snails cannot be preserved and are crushed to feed the chickens and ducks.
The big fish are sold, and the unsold ones are pickled and dried into fish jerky. The same goes for loaches and eels.
Chicken eggs are exchanged for salt, and duck eggs are put into large jars to be pickled into salted duck eggs;
The leftover vegetables from the garden and the wild vegetables dug up are all picked up and made into dried vegetables;
Besides that, you need to weave as many straw sandals as possible! On weekdays, going barefoot is fine; your feet are thickly calloused, so you're not afraid of stones or branches. But after a rainstorm, you never know what the road might hold, so you need more straw sandals and weave them even finer and denser than usual!
The Shen Qing family made a lot of cloth shoes. They couldn't bear to part with the cloth, so straw shoes only required effort. They were just a little uncomfortable to wear, but there was nothing to be picky about when it came to free things. They were content with just having something to wear...
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The villagers were more or less affected. The most obvious thing was that when the old lady from the Sun family came to rent the land to the people of Qili Village for farming, no one responded for a while.
The old nanny was stunned. This was different from what the master and mistress had imagined.
The master and his wife told her that if the villagers looked excited and eager to try, she should report 46, and if they were really fighting over it, she should report 37!
But now that she has mentioned renting the land, why is it that no one in the entire village has said a word?
Forget about an excited expression, there's not even a happy smile!
She could only repeat it loudly: "Did you hear that? This is Captain Sun's farmland!
You guys can just rent the land and plant it, and just work hard to take care of it. You'll have a lot more food in the autumn harvest. If you don't say anything, you'll regret it later if someone else snatches it away."
The fields are located between Qili Village and Shili Village. Originally, no one responded in Qili Village, so I could go to Shili Village. However, there is the Liu family in Shili Village. They have come several times in the past few days. I heard that the girl the master is keeping outside is also making trouble. Ha, a prostitute really thinks she is a real wife!
Although he looked down on the Liu family, he really didn't want to go to Shili Village and bring bad luck upon them. This couldn't be done only in Qili Village.
Wang Fugui was a little tempted and shouted, "How about the profit sharing?"
Sun Xiaomai tugged at his sleeve and said, "Boss, what if it rains heavily? Wouldn't our efforts be wasted?"
Every acre of our own land is already planted. If we rent out land to plant crops, not only will it be laborious, but if there is a heavy rainstorm, won’t we suffer a huge loss?
Wang Fugui scolded in a low voice: "Look at your womanly views. You are really short-sighted! This is the land of Captain Sun. If we rent his land, does that mean we have a relationship with him? If we encounter any problems outside in the future, we can also mention his name!
What's the big rain or not? How can you believe in dreams? Just wait and see. By autumn, the Jiang family will all be crying, as will the Feng family! "
Sun Xiaomai was scolded and kept silent.
After thinking about it, she felt that what her husband said was right, and she agreed: "It's still the head of the family who looks at the long term."
Wang Fugui was praised and puffed out his chest: "After all, he is an official, maybe we can split it 50-50. If we are more generous, 40-60, 40-60 for them and 60-60 for us, then..."
"40% to 60% of the total, 4 for you and 6 for the Sun family!" The old lady's voice came loudly.
Wang Fugui curled his lips, his face full of disdain.
Zhou Chuncao in the crowd swallowed what he was about to say after hearing this, and the others were even less interested.
The village chief had called them over, thinking it was some good news, but this was all they got? Not even a 50-50 split. Whoever wants to rent the land can farm it, but they won't farm anyway.
Even if the yield is 50-50 this year, they won't plant. They really don't want to abandon their own fields, but if there is a heavy rain and the corn seedlings die, what's the point of working so hard? Are they just going to be laughed at?
When the crowd dispersed, the old nanny panicked and quickly turned back to the Sun family to report the matter.
When I came back the next day, it was changed to 50-50.
As soon as Wang Fugui raised his hand, Zhou Chuncao also raised his hand. After the two argued for a while, the old nanny decided that each family would plant half of the land, and when the autumn harvest came, they would see which family had the highest harvest, and the next year they would rent the land to the family with the highest harvest.
Every household in Qili Village is busy in May.
Some people are busy farming, some are busy storing food, everyone is busy in their own way.
In late May, Huo Bing stopped making soap. Shen Qing sorted out all the saponified soaps at home and began selling them in batches to the city.
The money they earned was made into long silver bars in the silver shop, and Huo Bing, Jiang Yu and Jiang Shui carefully sewed them into the hems of clothes.
Except for the two little kids, everyone in the family had every piece of clothing.
By the end of May, the boiled lard filled two large jars, the lard residue filled three large jars, the smoked pork filled a basket, the salted fish and dried fish filled a basket, the fried noodles filled two cloth bags, the salted duck eggs filled a jar, and the dried vegetables filled half a cart.
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