Fertile land

Luo Zhi'er was making tofu, and Miao Miao helped. First, he filtered the residue, then ordered the tofu, and compacted the tofu at two or three in the afternoon.

I took Miao Miao and picked up the sickle to climb up from the back mountain, and came back after looking at some pine branches.

When I come back, I turn up the fire in the bread kiln, put in pine branches, cut the pressed tofu into pieces, and bake them in the bread kiln.

While baking, control the heat and flip over to avoid baking too hard...

By the time Li Sanmao gets home, it's dinner time.

Seeing Li Sanmao sweating profusely from exhaustion, Luo Zhi'er said, "Husband, why don't you ask a few people in the village to pull out all the summer beans in the fields and plow the fields again?"

"Invite someone? Pull out all the summer beans?"

Li Sanmao had a meal...

"Yeah, those summer beans are ruined anyway, why don't we plant other crops again!"

Yes, speaking of it, he has two acres of fertile land and one acre of paddy field. What his parents gave them was the most barren slope land in the family that had never yielded a good harvest in the past.

Just waiting for the summer beans that have been ruined by forks to mature, there will not be much harvest from that acre...

Since my wife said to plant other crops again, just plant them again.

"Okay, but asking someone to pay back the money... it's up to the husband to get it himself..."

"Hey, if you have some silver, just listen to me! After we finish working in the fields, we have other things to do."

"Well, after dinner, I'll go find someone!"

"it is good!"

The two reached an agreement and discussed what to plant in the field while eating.

In this season, it is usually corn, soybeans, sorghum...

"Why don't we just plant summer beans?"

Li Sanmao thought for a moment and said.

"Husband, just plant some vegetables in the fields and sweet potatoes on the slopes of the mountains."

She originally wanted to grow rice, but now it's not suitable. This is in the northwest, and rice needs to be planted in April or May. Now it's too late.

"Vegetables, sweet potatoes? Wife, you can grow vegetables, but there is no need to grow so many. We can't eat them all. Besides, if you want to eat them, we can go to the town to buy them at any time. Is it possible that you will sell vegetables to make a living in the future? "

"As for the sweet potatoes, no one will buy them if they are sold, right?"

Except for the fact that rural people like to eat sweet potatoes as porridge and feed them to pigs... he feels that the value of sweet potatoes is not high.

Luo Zhi'er found it funny when she saw the serious look on the man in front of her and his eyes widened, "You're right about selling vegetables to make a living. As for the sweet potatoes that no one buys, that's because they haven't made them into food that is needed by the market! "

"Oh?"

Li Sanmao frowned.

"To tell you the truth, I plan to smoke the vegetables in a bread kiln and turn them into dried vegetables for sale. As for the sweet potatoes, I can make them into dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato flour, sweet potato vermicelli... Are you worried that you won't be able to sell them?"

"Dried vegetables?"

"Yes, vegetables cannot be stored for too long, but dried vegetables can be used. They are very suitable for people traveling long distances as dry food. They are also suitable for students to eat in school on weekdays. They are even more suitable for children to eat as snacks."

Li Sanmao's eyes lit up, "Haha! Then just listen to your wife."

My wife is still smart.

He has actually never seen the dried vegetables and sweet potatoes she mentioned, and he doesn't know if they can be eaten.

Early the next morning, Luo Zhi'er went to see the smoked dried tofu first, and when he thought it was almost ready, he took it to the house.

Seven or eight men came to Li Sanmao's house early in the morning. Luo Zhi'er got up and worked hard before dawn, making sweet rice porridge, frying some vegetarian vegetables, and baking pancakes...

Zhao Maogen's cow was also invited. The cow is not cheap to use for a day. It costs at least forty cash to run to the town and back. How can it be used for one day and the labor cost for farming land is not sixty cash? When Lao Li saw so many people coming to the door for the first time, he saw Li Sanmao and Luo Zhi'er's warm greetings, and he didn't know why.

When I ran over and asked, I found out that they had hired someone to dig up the ground.

He quickly pulled Li Sanmao aside and said disapprovingly: "Sanmao, you didn't do this well. Didn't you destroy the crops by pulling out the summer beans in the field?"

"Can't you just do the work in the fields yourself? Why spend money to hire someone else?"

Mrs. Zhou also ran out, and was extremely anxious when she heard about the money, "Humph! I see you lazy guys, you just have so much money that you have no place to burn it, you keep saying that you don't have money to honor us two elders, but you have your thoughts." Do these tricks!”

"One or two of them are just lazy sneaks!"

I scanned around and scolded everyone who was watching the fun, including Mrs. Chen and Mr. Zhou.

The scolding was unpleasant, but it actually touched Lao Litou's heart.

"Mom, if you want to scold, just scold those who have money to hire people. Why are you scolding us?"

Little Zhou's eyes turned red when she looked at Zhao Maogen, the old scalper, hum! This third-bedroom house doesn't even mention the boss when it comes to hiring people, and the money is given to outsiders in vain.

Mrs. Chen said: "I want to be diligent, but which one of you is willing to give us a share of the land for the second room? By the way, third brother, why don't you include the second sister-in-law? How much do you give them for a day? Also give it to the second sister-in-law." How many days?”

"By the way, I'll also take care of the food of the two children."

"Second sister, I said you can't carry it on your shoulders and can't lift it with your hands. Are you going to help, or are you just eating and drinking and making money? You'd better stand aside!"

"you……"

Little Zhou quickly interrupted, her nostrils turned upward. She was not afraid of Chen. What else could she do without a man to support her?

He rolled his eyes and said,

"Third brother, tell me, who else are you inviting? Your eldest brother is at home. You can give your eldest brother two hundred coins to do it all!"

Luo Zhi'er looked at them with an expression of knowing that this was the reason why she insisted on building separate houses.

The interference started before anything was done.

"Yes, you all go back, haha, go back."

As soon as Xiao Zhou said something, he began to chase people away with all his teeth and claws.

These people who came here looked at me and I looked at you, especially Zhao Maogen who was so angry that he was fuming.

"Sanmao, you said you're quitting. Tell me in advance. Isn't it a waste of money for me to go to town to make money?"

Li Sanmao was a little embarrassed, "No, uncle..."

"Uncle, don't be angry. Since it's my third room that hired you, we have the final say!"

Luo Zhi'er said loudly, looking coldly at the people making trouble in front of him,
"Father, mother, eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, since we have separated our families, please don't interfere in our third wife's own affairs. If you want to talk, you will have to pay for it."

"Now that we've made a decision, we won't change it. Mom and dad agreed that I'll pay you a monthly fee at the end of the month, and it won't be less than a cent."

Old Li's head and face were turning blue and white. In front of these people, this third daughter-in-law humiliated him again.

"Hmph! I see you are stubborn, just don't regret it when the time comes. Ask someone to pull out the good summer beans. It's obviously a waste of money, but you have to do it. A cow costs sixty cents, and it's not worthwhile to leave it with anyone!"

Zhao Mao was so angry that he died. Luo Zhi'er said, "I think it's worth it. It costs sixty coins to invite Uncle Zhao to cultivate the land. But if you need manpower, Dad, how long did it take you, your eldest brother, Sanmao and the others to farm the land?" Turn it out?"

All the fields in the family, and all the labor force in the family, would take at least a month to finish, and people would fall down from exhaustion.

"Isn't this time and labor money money?"

Lao Li's head suffocated.
"I'm old, what do you care about?"

"Old woman, let's go!"

Old Li's face was ashen, he flicked his sleeves and left.