The Prestigious Family’s Young Lady and the Farmer - Chapter 70

In the early morning of the next morning, Yao and Yang Tiegen brought two Niuniu dressed in Xinxin over to visit Lin Qingwan and Yang Tiezhu.

Lin Qingwan went to bed early yesterday, and woke up early today. Early in the morning, she tossed about changing herself into new clothes, and she also gave Yang Tiezhu a change.

Lin Qingwan begged for these two new clothes for a long time before Yang Tiezhu asked her to do it. Yang Tiezhu kept saying that she was pregnant and should not be tired.

Lin Qingwan is a red cotton jersey with begonia, underneath is a purple horse skirt. Yang Tiezhu has a brown straight embellishment on the inside and a brown-black padded jacket on the outside.

In the past two months, Erfang and Sanfang have been cooking fresh lapis, and there is a lot of pork at home, so I have a good life. Not only a few adults ate a lot of roundness, but even the two chicks gained a lot.

The two girls tied two small yanks with red ropes on their heads, and the Yao’s clothes on their bodies gave them new small cotton jackets. The padded jacket is made of colorful cotton, which looks very conspicuous. With the white and tender faces of the two children, it is so cute. So when the two girls came in, Lin Qingwan narrowed her eyes with a smile, and when the two girls came in, they knelt on the ground and knocked their heads at both Lin Qingwan and Yang Tiezhu.

“Second aunt and second uncle, happy new year.”

Lin Qingwan took out two red seals and stuffed them into the hands of the two children with a smile.

“Okay, all good. The two Niuniu are wearing new clothes today, so cute.”

The two Niuniu looked shy and joyous, and they were so cute.

Yang Tiegen and Yao Shi also said, “Second brother and sister-in-law, happy new year.”

Yang Tiezhu and Lin Qingwan replied: “Three brothers and three younger siblings, new year is also good.”

After speaking, they all smiled at each other.

After the laugh, several people discussed where to go for New Year’s greetings. In the past, I would definitely pay my parents New Year’s greetings in my own home, and then go elsewhere, but Mr. Yang said that he didn’t need to come back to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner, so that several people gave up the idea of ​​going to the main house.

So several people decided to go to the Yang family.

When they arrived at the Yang family, the Yang family and the Zhou family were already waiting in the house. Adults and children were all dressed in brand-new clothes. Only Xia Dacheng still couldn’t get up and lay in the house, which was quite desolate.

But everyone laughed, and no one at the New Year’s Day didn’t know how to mention those bad things.

“Auntie, happy new year.” When several people entered the house, they knelt on the ground and knocked their heads.

“Good, good, good.” Yang hurriedly stood up and helped everyone up. “It’s inconvenient. Why should I kneel?” This was addressed to two people who are’inconvenient’, Yang Tiezhu and Lin Qingwan.

Yang Tiezhu smiled and said, “This is proper etiquette.”

According to the rules of Luoxia Village, the younger generation should kowtow to the elders regardless of their size.

“That’s it.” Lin Qingwan agreed with her. She didn’t want to kneel when she was replaced by someone else, because she kneeled down to the Yang family and she knelt sincerely. This old woman, they will remember all the time they helped Yang Tiezhu.

While smiling and groping, Yang took a few red seals and stuffed them into the hands of a few people.

“Don’t be too small, this is a little bit from my aunt.”

There are not only two Niuniu, but even a few adults.

Lin Qingwan was a bit at a loss when holding the red envelopes, so she still took the red envelopes?

Yang saw her embarrassment and laughed out loud, “To my aunt, you are just children.”

“That’s good, that’s good, I come to kowtow to my aunt every year, every time I have a red envelope, don’t I make a fortune?” Lin Qingwan put the small red seal into her arms, and patted it carefully after putting it away. .

Yang looked at her peculiar appearance and smiled and hugged her.

“You are such a villain!”

Several people laughed, and sat down on the kang one by one.

The two sons and daughters of the Zhou family also came over and knelt down to Lin Qingwan and several others. Lin Qingwan and Yao family took out the prepared red seals and stuffed them into the hands of the two children.

As soon as the two children were lifted up here, the voice of Old Man Yang Er sounded outside the door.

“Sister, our family has come to pay you a New Year greeting.”

Yang hurried to the door and raised the curtain, said with a smile on his face as he greeted people to come in. “Come in, come in, it’s cold outside.”

A group of people came in. Old man Yang Er brought in his daughter-in-law Li, two sons, daughter-in-law, and a few little babies.

As soon as they came in, they said happy new year to each other.

Old man Yang Er brought four little babies here, one son and one daughter of the eldest Yang Huai’s family, the boy is 12 years old, the girl is 10 years old, and the second child has two boys, one is 9 years old and the other is 7 years old. .

Lin Qingwan estimated that Elder Yang Er will be here today, so she prepared some small red envelopes with Yao in advance, otherwise the red envelopes were not enough.

The adults sat down after their courtesy, and the children went to play with their playmates. Several grandchildren from the old Yang Er’s house ran wildly outside the yard to play, and there was a little girl about the same age as Xia Lanju, and they played together.

After the Yang family killed the pig for the New Year this year and asked everyone to eat the pig-killing meal, the remaining pork was not sold. Yang is a diligent and agile person, and her daughter-in-law Zhou is also very profitable, so everything in the family is available, so we leave everyone to eat at home.

You cannot refuse to stay for dinner during New Year’s greetings. Of course, Yang is not an outsider. A group of people stayed for dinner.

At noon, a few men sit at one table for dinner and wine, while women and children sit at another table.

After eating and drinking, everyone broke up, but Lin Qingwan and the Yao family left them to help the Yang family.

When the few people got home in the afternoon, they all went back to the house and slept for a while. It would be tiring to just open their mouths and go to other people’s homes to eat. They could not finish talking in the past few days.

In the evening, Yao and Lin Qingwan got up and made a big table of delicious food, and the dishes that were not finished yesterday were also hot.

After eating, they went back to their rooms to rest.

The second day of the second day was the day when they went back to their daughter and son-in-law’s family. Yang Tiegen and Yao’s family returned to Yao’s family’s family with two chicks early in the morning, and did not return until the evening. Lin Qingwan and Yang Tiezhu had nowhere to go, so they stayed in the house for a day.

In the following days, Yang Tiezhu, Lin Qingwan and the three-bedroom family were raising pigs at home. They ate and slept and ate. The two little girls also knew that they ran out to find their friends for a while, while the four adults were all nesting on the kang. Only when they are bored, the Yao family will come to Lin Qingwan to chat in the second house.

On the night of the fourth day of the junior high school, brothers Yang Tiezhu and Yang Tiegen were busy welcoming the return of the Kitchen God, but Lin Qingwan and Yao did not get involved. After this day, for the rest of the day, Lin Qingwan and the others, except for occasionally going to Yang’s place twice, raising pigs at home.

The years passed in a blink of an eye. Several restaurants in the town opened only after fifteen. On the morning of sixteenth, Yang Tiegen came to the door to deliver goods eagerly.

The restaurant just opened its doors and the business was not good. Several restaurants had very little demand, and Yang Tiegen couldn’t help feeling a little anxious. Lin Qingwan persuaded him upon seeing this, saying that the market downturn just after the year was normal.

Although Yang Tiegen didn’t understand what a market downturn meant, he still understood what Lin Qingwan meant, so he suppressed his impetuous mood.

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As the days passed, the spring in Luoxia Village seemed to come very late. It was not until the beginning of February that villagers sparsely plowed the land to prepare for the next planting.

Lin Qingwan’s belly is now protruding, and her belly for nearly five months looks bloated because of the thick wear. She has not been sore and retching like other pregnant women, but she has been very lethargic recently.

Yang Tiezhu’s shoulders are almost better, but the time is not up, the doctor still prevents him from removing the bandage.

Old man Yang is diligent, and when there are villagers in the village to plow, he will press Yang Tieshuan to plow the field. Yang Tieshuan didn’t wear it for a few days, so he had to follow Mr. Yang to the ground.

Yang Xuezhang still didn’t go to the land. He made an excuse to say that he was going to marry the child soon, and he would start farming after he got married.

Lin Qingwan was in the house, listening to the quarrel in the main room. Wang clan was tossed by He clan for several months, and he gradually lost his patience. Now he quarreled with Ho clan every three to five, and he was not afraid of Ho clan in the past.

It is estimated that Wang felt that he was arguing with He every day, and He didn’t take her any way, and gradually became fatter.

When Yang Tiegen saw that Mr. Yang had started to plow the land, he couldn’t sit still. He came to Yang Tiezhu to discuss several times. He wanted to plow the two acres of land. By the way, he helped his second brother’s house plow as well, so that he could plant seeds. .

Yang Tiegen knew that the second brother’s arm was actually fine, and Lin Qingwan told Yao about the matter shortly after the separation. Sanfang treats them sincerely, and Lin Qingwan doesn’t want to keep the two of them. Of course, Lin Qingwan’s statement is that they said it might be possible, but Mr. Yang, He’s and the other Yang family didn’t seem to listen to it, so she said Yang Tiezhu was useless. It just happened that Lin Qingwan had the plan to separate the family, so she slapped the snake and climbed along the pole to make them “think” that Yang Tiezhu’s arm was useless.

Yang Tiegen came several times to discuss ploughing, but Lin Qingwan didn’t remove the bandage on Yang Tiezhu’s shoulder.

Of course, it is one thing to worry that the man’s arm has not recovered, and the other is that Lin Qingwan does not want Yang Tiezhu to go farming again.

It’s not that farming is not good, but the current conditions.

Lin Qingwan is a person who knows that bones have problems in general. After removing the bandages, they have to recover for a period of time. Although she had never suffered such a crime in her previous life, someone she knew had a broken arm. After the plaster was removed, I couldn’t move at all. Because of the long-term rigidity, my muscles atrophied a lot, and my arms kept keeping the same movements, and the bones inside were hardened, and I still needed constant exercise to recover.

Yang Tiezhu is so strong, it is estimated that as soon as the bandage is removed in front, he will go to the ground later. Even if it hurts, he probably wouldn’t say anything. The ancient medical technology was not good, and Lin Qingwan didn’t want Yang Tiezhu to suffer a hidden injury in the future.

The other is because Lin Qingwan feels that farming is really not profitable. Two acres of land are exhausted all year round. After paying taxes, they will receive a ration, and the rest of the grain will not be sold for a few dollars. Moreover, they have to support Old Man Yang every year, and the whole family will starve to death by relying on the little fruit in the ground.

She and Yang Tiezhu still have some silver in their hands, and it’s hard work for a couple. Rather than being exhausted enough for these expenditures, it is better to rent the land to others, and collect the 6-story rent each year to use the rest of the tax to eat, and the others find some ways to make money to supplement.

Lin Qingwan said her thoughts to the Sanfang couple. Yang Tiezhu, who was listening next to him, understood it, but the Sanfang couple didn’t seem to understand.

“But Ersao, then we have to have food rations every year, and we also need to give Dad a stone of grain and a tael of silver each year. If we don’t plant the land, where do we come from?” Yao said worriedly.

Lin Qingwan sighed and said, “I’ll do it for you. Two acres of land means all wheat is grown. One acre of wheat yields a little more than two stones of wheat…”

Yes, after Lin Qingwan learned about it, she knew how bad the farming was. The several thousand catties per mu in her previous life was simply a fantasy here.

The soil and water in Luoxia Village are pretty good, but the climate is colder than the two crops a year like in the south, and only one crop per year can be planted. If you grow wheat on one mu of land, it will yield more than two hundred catties per mu, or about two stones per mu. This is still the season of good weather. With careful manipulation of two mu of land, you can harvest about 4 shi of grain. One stone is 120 jin, 4 shi is more than 400 jin. The unshelled wheat sells for 6 or 7 yuan per catty, and more than 400 catties is about three taels of silver.

Of course, many villagers in Luoxia Village eat fine grains in exchange for coarse grains, and then once they pay taxes and leave their annual rations, there is not much left.

For a second thought, let the land rent out and collect 6 floors of rent every year, which is more than 200 kilograms. Once the tax is paid, there will still be a hundred kilograms left. Then he spared the time to do other things. In one year, Lin Qingwan didn’t believe that he couldn’t get that little bit of silver.

Of course, this kind of thinking is very difficult to understand for farmers who have been relying on farming for their livelihoods, because they have never had that consciousness. Including Yang Tiegen and Yao who helped Lin Qingwan make some cured meats to get some dividends, they only thought that it was during the slack period that they would supplement the family income. They simply did not have the idea of ​​relying on small businesses to support their families.

Lin Qingwan explained it to them in a very popular way, and both of them couldn’t help thinking. Yang Tiezhu also pondered on the sidelines, but every time he helped his family grow the land, he became a habit with Mr. Yang. When he wanted to come, he could support it even if he didn’t plant the land. The difference was that he was more diligent and worked in the mountains. Something back.

Since Wanwan doesn’t want to plant land now, let’s not plant it. Twenty-four filial piety, Yang Tiezhu, never said anything to his wife.

After thinking for a while, Yao first spoke, “Msang-gong, I think the second sister-in-law’s point is very reasonable, even if you don’t plant the land during those hours, you can work in town for more than a few ounces of silver.”

Yang Tiegen went to the town to work as a coolie, and he could make about a couple of dollars in a month. Of course, people would get tired.

Of course Yang Tiegen would also calculate this account, but the second wife’s statement overturned all his previous thoughts and theories, leaving him at a loss as to what to do.

If the peasants don’t plant the land, are they still peasants?

Lin Qingwan didn’t plan to reverse the thoughts of the Sanfang couple at once. After all, everyone’s thoughts are different, and she can’t make decisions for Sanfang.

However, she said again about her plan and concerns about Yang Tiezhu’s injury, and some considerations about the Lami Xian business, and told the Sanfang couple that as long as they can follow her in the Lami Xian business, the dividends will remain the same. There will be no less.

The three-bedroom couple went back to the house to consider, Lin Qingwan went back to the kang again.

“Daughter-in-law, I found that you are so smart, why didn’t I think of here before?” Yang Tiezhu looked at his pretty daughter-in-law with shining eyes.

Lin Qingwan smiled triumphantly, “You haven’t found much!”

This kind of conversion thinking is a must for every modern person. It can only be said that the people’s thinking here is still too rigid. Working day after day and year after year can only be exchanged for a very meager survival requirement.

In fact, sometimes if you change your mind or philosophy, maybe life will bring you another surprise.