After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 36 What to do if you get even angrier?
"Bai Chen!"

After Grandpa Bai left, Qin Xiu shouted loudly.

Generally speaking, Qin Xiu calls the children in her family Lulu, Weiwei, and Chenchen.

If someone calls out a person's full name and their tone is normal, that's fine. But if their voice carries even a hint of emotion, then things aren't looking good.

For example now——

"Eh!"

Bai Chen didn't dare to waste a second. He ran out of the room, still smiling, and said, "Mom, call me!"

Qin Xiu's face turned pale: "Go tell her that she can manage the people she hired herself. I'm not in good health and don't have the energy to deal with her affairs. Also, I'm not going to pay for hiring people to plow the fields! Doesn't she have 200,000 yuan? How rich is that? She can just spend it! I'll just sit here and watch what she can do!"

Bai Chen: "..."

If he wasn't mistaken, there could only be one "she"!

but--

"Why don't you tell her yourself?"

"Tell me if you want, or don't if you don't!"

Qin Xiu crossed her arms, turned her face away, and completely shattered the maternal love and filial piety of the past few days!
Bai Chen had no choice but to move a small stool to the other end of the sofa and look at Bai Lu, who had turned her head away just like Qin Xiu: "Sister, did you hear what Mom said?"

Bai Lu slightly raised her eyes: "What did you hear? Did someone speak?"

Bai Chen: "..."

Seriously... this is ridiculous!
He really wanted to roar!

But I don't have the guts!
He turned to look at his mother, who was two meters away, and sure enough, her face had turned from pale to black.

"Mom said, you should manage the people you hire yourself, and you should pay their salaries yourself."

Egret: "Tell her I never expected anything from her!"

"Why don't you tell her yourself?"

Egret: "Hmph!"

Bai Chen: "..."

孽 孽!
When my parents were arguing as a child, he acted as their mouthpiece, and now he still acts as their mouthpiece when my mom and sister are arguing!
This sofa is only three meters long. If you two spit out something, the other person can hear it clearly. Why would you ask someone to pass on a message?
But neither of them would speak properly, so Bai Chen had to relay their voices back and forth. It's unclear where things went wrong, but Bai Lu and Qin Xiu started arguing.

Qin Xiu shoved Bai Chen, who was delivering the message, aside and angrily said to Bai Lu, "If you're so capable, don't tell me I'm the one who wants to farm this field! Let's see who you can get in the village to help you!"

Qin Xiu's stubbornness and affectation are only evident at home, but she has a good personality outside. She is eloquent and will lend a hand whenever someone asks for her help.

As a result, she was quite popular in the village. Especially in recent years, due to poor health, she didn't have to work and had plenty of free time. She even joined the village's intelligence group, which was supposed to "ruin her reputation," and got along even better with the aunties and grandmas in the village.

Whenever they cooked something delicious, or when they had too many seedlings and vines in their garden, or when they harvested fruits and vegetables, they would always think of Qin Xiu and share some with her.

If Qin Xiu disagrees with farming, and makes a scene in the village, even if Bai Lu offers a higher price, it will be difficult to hire people.

In rural areas, money is important, but social relationships are even more important.

Bai Lu is a junior member of the family—a 26-year-old young woman. Although the village intelligence team urges her to get married every day, in their hearts, she is still a child!
Children cannot be in charge at home!

She also had her concerns—what if she hired someone, but Qin Xiu didn't pay her?

But Bailu wasn't about to admit defeat. She didn't argue with her, but just retorted, "If we can't invite them from our village, we'll invite them from other villages. I refuse to believe that anyone would turn down money! Besides, it was my grandfather who went to invite them, not me!"

"you!"

Qin Xiu choked, her heart pounding with anger.

But what she said makes sense! Who can really turn down money?

Thinking about it this way makes me even angrier!
It's true that when children grow up, they have wings and can fly, and they no longer listen to their parents!
Although Bai Lu was still arguing with her, she still wanted this mother. With a flick of her hand behind her back, she channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into Qin Xiu's body.

Qin Xiu's heart rate was normal, but the atmosphere in the hall was awkward; the whole family remained silent.

Bai Wei had been standing in the background when a WeChat notification broke the silence. It was her store manager approving her resignation and asking her to go back and complete the resignation procedures when she had some free time.

But how do I tell her mother?
The three children, looking so fresh and healthy, went home to farm!

In Qin Xiu's heart, she might never be able to hold her head up in the village for the rest of her life!
"As for management, I'll go talk to Grandpa right now and have him find my uncle to be my supervisor. I'll pay him six thousand yuan a month! He's my own uncle, surely he'll work hard for me!"

As she spoke, Bailu immediately got up to go downstairs.

"Wait!"

Qin Xiu quickly grabbed her: "Are you stupid? You want your uncle to be the supervisor?! He's even lazier than you, always complaining about the sun and being tired. What kind of supervisor can he be! And you're offering him a salary of six thousand? Are you out of your mind? With you causing so much trouble, two hundred thousand? Ha, two million wouldn't even be enough!"

There were still two million egrets, but seeing that a fish had taken the bait, she started reeling in the line. She clicked her tongue impatiently, as if annoyed: "This won't work, that won't work! I can't go by myself! I can't, I'm afraid of the sun and I'm afraid of getting tired!"

Qin Xiu clicked her tongue and said irritably, "You good-for-nothing! You still want to farm? Tell me, how can I let you farm like this! You get upset when I tell you! You insist on farming, insist on farming! You only got 200,000 yuan in compensation after getting hit by a truckload of cabs. If you had any bad luck—ugh! Good luck!"

Qin Xiu was very averse to saying unlucky things, so she immediately stopped talking.

But she was still angry: "I'll do it! I'll be your supervisor, and you pay me a salary—you can pay your uncle six thousand, so asking for eight thousand isn't unreasonable!"

"Eight thousand?" Bai Lu feigned surprise: "What kind of mother gets paid for doing chores for her child?"

"Well, you've certainly seen something new today! I'm not feeling well and I still have to work so hard for you. Is it too much to ask for a salary? Besides, even your lazy uncle is worth six thousand. Am I some cheap piece of trash?"

"Alright then!" Egret agreed readily this time.

Bai Chen and Bai Wei exchanged a glance—

The eldest sister is truly the eldest sister; those extra two years of rice she ate were definitely worth it!
This solves the problem perfectly!
After all, what's the point of being a supervisor if there are no workers involved?

In fact, Qin Xiu's idea was very simple: to try her best to recover some of the 200,000 yuan that was going to be lost.

So she made an outrageous request: "No matter what, I'm still your mother. It's not unreasonable for you to pay me a year's salary first!"

Bai Chen: "..."

Don't you have any sense of whether this is excessive or not?
But what can this person with the strongest connections say?

His sister didn't have any objections!
Qin Xiu's scheme was really about to backfire on Bai Lu, but how could Bai Lu not know Qin Xiu's little tricks? Originally, she wanted to catch a mandarin duck, and now that she had caught one, Bai Lu would give her a mere 100,000 yuan.

Looking at the 96000 yuan that had arrived in her account, Qin Xiu still felt a little unreal—after arguing like this, how could she be so easy to talk to?

Regardless, Bai Lu's project of farming at home has made a good start. Qin Xiu was worried that the people Grandpa Bai found might be unreliable, so she also went along to check them out.

It's purely out of boredom. Grandpa Bai has been working his way up in the village his whole life; how could he not tell who has real skill and who's just pretending? The climate in Dongshi Village is suitable for growing two rice crops a year, so the busy farming season starts early. In the past few days, the farmers have been gradually filling the fields with water and starting to plow and prepare the seedbeds.

The seedbed is the rice seedling nursery. Rice seeds are first grown, and then transplanted into the paddy field when the seedlings grow to about ten centimeters tall. This method results in a high survival rate.

The rice paddies don't need a lot of space, so it's not necessary to hire people immediately. Qin Xiu and Grandpa Bai went to people's houses just to inquire and see if they were available, just in case they didn't have time and it delayed the planting season!

—As for why he didn't make a phone call, it's because Grandpa Bai wasn't used to this kind of technological communication. His generation was used to talking face-to-face.

As for the rice seedlings, Grandpa Bai and Uncle Bai were enough to handle it, and Bai Jiang would come to help after finishing his work.

Bai Jiang was the most innocent; he had no idea that his family was going to cultivate forty or fifty acres of land this season!

Yes, that's right, Grandpa Bai guessed correctly. Uncle, that lazybones, refused to farm no matter what, and gave all twenty acres of land to Bailu.

Qin Xiu didn't want it at all, but Bai Lu insisted on having it!
Bai Lu was overjoyed to have gained twenty acres of land for free, so when her uncle asked her to hire him to do the work, she agreed without hesitation.

However, it's impossible to use all forty-odd acres of land for rice cultivation; Bailu plans to plant about twenty acres.

"You clearly said you'd plant ten mu, but now you're planting twenty mu. You really don't know how much effort farming takes!"

Qin Xiu kept rambling on and on.

"Wow! Sister Qin is planting twenty acres of land this year? She's going to make a fortune!"

The owner of the agricultural supplies shop chuckled and said auspicious words.

Bai Lu and others came to town to buy rice seedling trays and rice seeds.

The seedling tray is a rectangular plastic tray with multiple grooves. It is specially used for rice seedling cultivation. Because of it, their rice transplanting method has evolved from bending over to transplanting rice seedlings to standing up to throw rice seedlings.

Therefore, seedling trays are essential for rice seedling cultivation. The seedling trays for Bailu's one or two acres of land were simply not enough, so they went to town to buy more. In addition to buying seedling trays, they also had to buy rice seeds, since they had only prepared enough for one acre of land.

Twenty mu of rice fields require 50 jin of rice seeds!

Qin Xiu had never bought rice seeds so extravagantly before.

She skillfully negotiated with the shop owner: "Make it cheaper!"

"Sister Qin, I'm not making any money off you anymore! Since you're a regular customer, I'll give you a two-yuan discount, making it 78 yuan, that's the lowest I can go!"

"Can you make it a little cheaper? I'm buying fifty pounds! I'll definitely buy from you again next time!"

"I really won't make money off you..."

The boss, who kept saying he wasn't making any money, finally got a deal at 72 yuan per jin after several rounds of back and forth.

"Sister Qin, you really are something... You absolutely have to come to me for rice seeds next season! I really won't make any money off you on this order!"

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely come back to buy from you next time!" Qin Xiu said with a smile, then looked at Bai Lu.

Bai Lu took out her phone and paid 3,600 yuan.

After carrying the seeds onto the car, Qin Xiu showed her QR code for receiving payments.

Egret: "???"

"The boss initially asked for eighty. If I hadn't come along to negotiate, he would have only offered you two yuan at most. So, the minimum price for this batch of rice seeds is three thousand nine hundred yuan. Transfer the extra three hundred yuan to me!"

Egret: "!!!"

She never expected such a money-making method!
Her mother really goes to any lengths to squeeze money out of her! She can even come up with such despicable tricks!
The thought of her mom relentlessly haggling over prices and then profiting from the difference...

Well, it's better for my mom to earn the money than for someone else to earn it.

In the following days, Bai Lu continued to encourage the wild vegetables to be sold. Nowadays, there is no shortage of wild vegetables to sell, but no better sales channels have been opened up. Anyway, there are only so many repeat customers, and the income is still relatively stable.

Bai Wei and Bai Chen pick and sell vegetables during the day and cultivate at Sanqing Mountain at night. They even have to squeeze in time to sleep. What's most frustrating is that they still can't sense any spiritual energy.

Bai Chen: To be honest, I've almost given up. This cultivation of immortality is driving me to depression.

But the person he least wanted to deal with was Qin Xiu, who looked at him and Bai Wei with strange eyes every day: "Why haven't you two gone to work yet?"

"I won't go to work until all the wild vegetables are picked!" Bai Chen argued logically. "We can earn several thousand yuan a day selling wild vegetables, which is much more profitable than working a regular job! I'll go to work once all the wild vegetables are sold!"

"The boss won't say anything to you?"

"Did not say."

"alright."

Qin Xiu is sometimes easily fooled. She doesn't even consider that which company would allow its employees to take such a long leave?

With the income from wild vegetables, Qin Xiu allowed Bai Wei and Bai Chen to neglect their duties.

After the rice seedlings were sown, Grandpa Bai and Qin Xiu started calling people to prepare the land, and all the people they hired brought their own farming machines.

Their household farming machines can plow up to five acres a day, but some of their fields that have been abandoned for a long time have a lot of weeds and stones, so they have to clear them first, otherwise the farming machine will easily get stuck, which is very time-consuming, so they can probably only plow about two acres a day.

They hired ten people, and according to the price given by Bailu, it would cost two thousand yuan a day. They would have to work for at least two days, which would amount to four thousand yuan.

If we take the price per mu (unit of land area) that Grandpa Bai previously proposed, after discussing it with Qin Xiu, we finally came up with a price that he thought was reasonable: 500 for five mu of land. This price includes plowing, watering and harrowing the field, as well as building the field embankment.

But if you calculate it based on 45 mu of land, it's 4,500 yuan. Although it seems like 500 yuan more, it saves a lot of odd jobs—

But Qin Xiu still felt heartbroken and her heart ached.

Labor costs are really high these days!

Before, people would fight tooth and nail for a hundred yuan a day, but now you can't get a single person to move unless you pay 150 yuan!

Bai Jiang wanted to smoke again.

He looked at the family but didn't say anything. He didn't know how many times he would have to indulge his wife and children.

When he bought the house, he never thought about borrowing money. What's wrong with buying a smaller house?

But Qin Xiu insisted on buying a four-room house, saying that all three of her children would have their own rooms.

This time, it's the same. He didn't agree to buy the car either, but Qin Xiu and Bai Chen insisted on borrowing money to buy it. Fine, buy it!
Now it's Bailu's turn. With the 200,000 yuan compensation, she insists on farming, and she's going to cultivate more than 40 mu (approximately 2.67 hectares) of land. Oh no, these 40 mu don't even include the three mountains.

This kid has spread out such a huge mess; I don't know where he got the guts.

Fortunately, the second daughter, Bai Wei, is a worry-free person.

Thank you to 顽皮ヤ爱芯 for the tip!
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