Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 140
It is impossible to send a daughter-in-law.

The villagers who were isolated outside the yard were not sure about this, but the girls who were learning the rules in the yard had already figured it out.

The girls walked through the complicated and tortuous mountain roads and came to the mountain village through hidden barriers. They knew that they would take root here for the rest of their lives. They were apprehensive at first, but the large green crops in the mountains gave them hope.

The overly enthusiastic villagers who came to greet them wrote their thoughts on their faces. Most of the girls could understand and persuaded themselves to accept this status quo.

After all, it doesn't look too bad, does it?
As for what their true thoughts are, perhaps they themselves don't even know.

Because how they want to live is not important, but how they can live is what needs to be considered. According to everything they have been exposed to since childhood, they have only one way to go.

But after Ji Xiucai's five-day edification and baptism, the road before them changed from one to two.

It is not so easy to shake the girls' cognition for many years, so Ji Xiucai found two living examples of Taohua and Aunt Zhang to help them understand all this.

Aunt Zhang is a widow. She is strong and strong, with a strong temper. She is no worse than a man in every aspect.

However, it is difficult to be like Aunt Zhang, and Taohua's experience is easier to learn and learn from.

Peach Blossoms are about the same age as them, and they planted the two acres of land under their name last year, and rented it out to others this spring, and the harvest would be reduced by half. The food she got was enough for a young girl like her.

What's more, she also leads the errand of cooking big pot meals for the village. Although she does it a few times a month, she gets a lot of food, enough to eat and a little leftover.

She is still learning how to cook from the cook, and learn medical skills from the doctor, and there are many ways to go in the future.

With her as an example, many girls are shaken.

Wang Daya secretly calculated the relationship between the food they can have every year and how much food they need to eat. The younger sister is young and eats less, so she can eat less.

If everything is true, then she can indeed support her and her sister by farming, and she doesn't need to marry anyone to survive.

She still couldn't believe it, it was impossible outside.

First of all, there are no fields and no grain seeds. These two alone can kill most people.

But these mountain villages gave.

Divide land and food for women?It's impossible to find a place like this even outside with the lanterns on.

Secondly, even if there are fields, the lucky few who have grain seeds will not be able to do it, and the grain production will not be enough.

It rained this spring, and many people planted the land with a gamble mentality. Now two or three months have passed, and only sparse crops have grown in the fields. It is estimated that the yield per mu is [-] to [-] catties. Thank God, even if all the wheat straw is beaten into chaff and counted, it is about a hundred catties.

This is still good, deducting the high grain money, at least it is still rewarding, but I am afraid that those who are worse than this are almost equivalent to a waste of effort.

It's not bad if you don't lose money. Want to rely on this to support yourself and your family?impossible.

But here, yes.

Don't even have to eat the chaff.

These days, her personal experience and knowledge have been telling her that all of this is true.

She looked at her younger sister who was obsessively listening to Taohua's story, and secretly made up her mind.

She has to raise her younger sister by herself!

Both Mu Yu and Ji Xiucai said before that they are not forced to marry, especially girls under the age of 13 have to wait a few years to get married.

So this group of [-] people who can get married, including the two widows, is only seven in total.

Wang Daya firmly refused to marry and supported herself and her younger sister by herself. Taoyuan Village gave them another possible life.

The other four girls all have the idea of ​​finding someone they like and marrying them. If they don't, they have the idea of ​​learning peach blossoms and living on their own. Taoyuan Village gave them the possibility to choose.

Both widows had the idea of ​​remarrying, and Taoyuan Village gave them better conditions and guarantees.

Their choices have been sent to Mu Yu and Ji Xiucai. After the two discussed, Ji Xiucai released relevant notices and tasks.

The first task is to reclaim sloping land, and there is a reward of ten catties of grain per mu.

The second task is to rent out the fields. The harvested grains are removed and handed over to the village.

These are basic tasks that the villagers have done many times before.At this moment, those who are astute can guess at a glance that it is a task issued for the new girls.

As long as it is not the busy farming season, the tasks issued by the village will always be completed quickly, and this time is no exception.

This period of time was relatively free, and the villagers wanted to help the newcomers, and even those who wanted to make a good impression in front of the girls naturally rushed to do the task.

The task revealed relatively little information, but the notification pointed out many things.

First of all, I said to be careful and not to harass the new couple, and second, I said that those who intend to marry a daughter-in-law should register.

As soon as the notice was released, Ji Xiucai had a dozen more men who wanted to register.

After Ji Xiucai registered them, he drove them to the side of the slope, and then said to Mu Yu beside him,
"Twice as many men than women are considering marriage, which is probably not easy."

Mu Yu's expression was indifferent, not worried about these things,
"What's wrong with that?
If it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time.

According to the signs of our trip, more people will join the mountain village in the future, and after a few more attempts, we will always find a wife. "

Ji Xiucai is not easy to fool,
"Does the mountain village only accept women? I don't think so.

At that time, it will be best to have a balance between men and women, but most of the time there will still be more men than women, at most it will not be as much as it is now.

There are always people who can't get a wife. "

"Those who can't ask for it several times, and are left behind every time, let it be left.

Someone has to be left behind. "

After a while, Ji Xiucai sighed, "That's right."

"Okay, it's already a moment late, hurry up and bring the girls out and divide the land on the spot."

When Mu Yu took the girls to the slope, the villagers who took over the task were already sweating and digging up the slope, and many of them were men who had just registered to ask for a wife.

Ji Xiucai said while remembering, whose land is this and whose land is that.

When the girls confirm their own land, they usually pay more attention to the people who plow the land on this land. It is best if they intend to, and it’s okay if they don’t.

Because there are so many girls here, many people put extra effort into expressing themselves when digging the ground. Some people who didn't get the task but wanted to ask for a wife were very frustrated when they saw this, and regretted that they didn't get the task here.

There are also Wang Mao and his like, who think that the daughter-in-law is already in their pocket, and follow the girl to comment and point at the girl.

But such ones are few in the end.

Grain is the foundation of a foothold, and the seeds treated by the "ancient method" have no strict requirements on the farming time. After the land is divided, the grain seeds are also divided within two days.

With the enthusiastic help of the villagers, the girls quickly finished sowing, and the next day is a long wait for the harvest.

At the end of May, Mu Yu gathered the girls who wanted to get married and the villagers who wanted to get married, and held a blind date meeting.

(End of this chapter)