Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 144

The moon is bright, the wind is light, lying on the bedside, listening to the story of the past told by the old man...

Yang Ruoqing and Da'an siblings had their ears pricked up, listening with gusto.

It wasn't until Yang Huazhong finished speaking that the siblings came back to their senses.

Over there, Mrs. Sun and Old Suntou were also listening quietly, and everyone in the room was immersed in the entanglement between the ancestors of the old Yang family!

"Father, I still want to ask." Yang Ruoqing cleared her throat, and moved closer.

"My grandfather was born in the family of a small landlord, and he still has forty or fifty acres of land. There are long-term and part-time workers in the family. How did he become such a family?"

"Ah?" Yang Huazhong didn't expect Yang Ruoqing to ask this, and was taken aback for a moment.

"After your grandfather was born, there was a famine just in time, and there was no harvest in the fields for three consecutive years."

Yang Huazhong stuffed the last piece of egg pancake into his mouth, and continued: "At that time, many people died of starvation in ten miles and eight villages. Although our old Yang's family has some food in stock, we can't last that long!"

"All the long-term and short-term workers in the family were dismissed, and your great-grandfather began to sell the property in the family."

"This area has been plagued by years of famine, and the land is hard to sell. Your great-grandfather also starved to death."

"Afterwards, I finally got through the catastrophe after receiving the disaster relief food from the imperial court."

"Your great-grandmother is a widow's family. She dragged your grandfather to grow up. She couldn't do the work in the field, so she sold the field or rented it out to others. The family is getting worse day by day like this!"

That's what happened!

Yang Ruoqing nodded secretly.

As far as she knew, it was really not easy for a widow to hold a child in this day and age.

If such a good field is rented out to others, just charge some rent or something, life will definitely get worse and worse.

Especially without a man as the pillar of the family, he would have to be bullied by the villagers.

Those who rent the land have been around for a long time, and when you want to take it back and plant it yourself, maybe they will not return it!

Wrangling is indispensable!

"father!"

Yang Ruoqing interrupted Yang Huazhong, and then asked: "I think Cousin Lan'er looks really good-looking! Her facial features don't look like my second uncle or my second mother!"

"Not only is she not like my second uncle and my mother, she is not like our old Yang family!" Da'an took Yang Ruoqing's words and said.

"Yeah!" Yang Ruoqing nodded, and then asked: "Father, cousin Lan'er, is it really my second uncle and second mother's birth?"

Yang Huazhong couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said: "Silly girl, ask such silly words!"

"Father, don't care if I'm stupid or not, just say yes or no!"

"Yes, your cousin Lan'er is the authentic granddaughter of our old Yang family. But—"

"But what?"

"The elderly people in the village say that your cousin Lan'er looks like her great-grandmother Gagong!"

"what?"

Yang Ruoqing was startled, isn't that the cousin and daughter-in-law who hooked up with her great-grandfather back then?

"The one in the next village asked Mi Po to pinch Lan'er's birth time and told her that she was probably reincarnated by an ancestor from the ancestors of the old Yang family. This is cause and effect!" Yang Huazhong finally said.

"I see!"

Yang Ruoqing nodded suddenly.

She didn't dare to believe in such things as reincarnation.

However, it is an indisputable fact that Yang Ruolan inherited the beauty of that cousin-in-law back then.

Moreover, Yang Ruolan is also an inefficient lamp!

"Qing'er, eat what you should eat, ask what you should ask, it's getting late, shouldn't we wash up and go to bed to rest?"

Sun touched the heads of Yang Ruoqing and Da'an, and asked with a smile.

Yang Ruoqing stuck out her tongue: "Hey, I had a good time tonight, okay, then let's clean up the dishes and go to sleep!"

Tomorrow, Chang Geng and Uncle Daniel will come over to help their family grow rapeseed and wheat.

The seeds were all borrowed from the two of them.

Cold dew seeds, frost wheat.

Now it's the Winter Clothes Festival, and it will be the beginning of winter in a few days.

It can be said that this season, my family has missed the golden season of growing rapeseed and wheat, and it is coming to an end.

The rapeseed and wheat planted at this time will definitely have a greatly reduced harvest in the coming year, which is not as good as those planted according to the season.

However, if you can gain something, you can count on it, and you can't let the ground panic like this.

After dinner, Mrs. Sun went into the kitchen to clean up, while Yang Ruoqing called Old Sun over to help weigh the soybeans.

According to the sales contract with Juweixuan, they have to deliver tofu to the restaurant in the town every three days in winter.

Fifty catties of tofu will be sent every trip, half a catty per piece, which is 100 yuan of tofu.

Yang Ruoqing calculated based on her own experience in making tofu, two catties of soybeans made ten catties of tofu, and fifty catties of tofu had to be soaked in ten catties of soybeans!

So, she and the old grandson weighed ten catties of soybeans and soaked them in two large wooden barrels with clean water.

After soaking the soybeans, it takes six hours to grind the soybean milk.

It's been soaking for a while, and it's almost ready to be ground tomorrow morning.

After the family washed up, they went back to their houses to rest.

The next day, people from both Uncle Chang Geng and Uncle Daniu came over.

Yang Ruoqing's family was allocated two acres of paddy fields and two acres of dry land.

The two acres of paddy fields will not be moved, and we plan to save them for rice planting next year.

Half an acre of dry land is in the woods. It was the wasteland of Lao Yang's family in the past, and it is not suitable for growing rapeseed and wheat.

There is still one mu of dry land in the plain area available.

Of the five-tenths of an acre of dry land, Mrs. Sun plans to use three-tenths of the dry land to form a vegetable garden.

The remaining one mu is divided into two parts, half of which is used to grow wheat and the other half is used to grow rapeseed.

In the morning, Mrs. Sun and Chang Geng all went to the field to plant rapeseed and wheat.

Yang Ruoqing stayed at home with Daan.

The two siblings spent a whole day grinding ten catties of soybeans into soybean milk, filled a wooden bucket, and put it in the corner to dry, with a dustproof bamboo sieve covering it. .

Guessing that it was approaching noon, the siblings shook their sore arms again and began to prepare lunch.

What do you want for lunch?

This is a question Yang Ruoqing has to ponder over.

She found a wooden barrel in which some loach and small fish were kept in water.

She made this by hand when she caught the rice field eel a few days ago. It has been kept in a bucket for several days, and the water is changed every day.

Now that the loach has spit out the silt, it can be put directly into the pot without slaughter.

He scooped out the loach and small fish with long fingers in the bucket with a bamboo rake, weighed them, and nodded his head.

Yang Ruoqing decided to cook it later with red chili peppers. Even fish and soup can fill a large bowl, and it is a side dish.

Cornmeal, put some caramel on it, and stick a pot of fragrant and sweet cornmeal tortillas.

After the separation, the vegetables at home were all given by Aunt Osmanthus and Aunt Dayun.

The old grandson came over and brought some cabbage, lettuce and lentils.

After a few days, the vegetables were almost exhausted, and only the last few cabbages with yellowed leaves and two lettuces were left.

(End of this chapter)