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

Chapter 51

The egret valued this aspect, which is why Bai Chen kept it!
As for how the tree ended up in her hands—after all, the tree already had an owner and was alive, so she couldn't very well sneakily dig it up and take it home, could she?

The egret looked in the direction of Chen Dajiao's house.

Don't worry, the opportunity will come soon.

"What are you looking at?"

Qin Xiu followed Bai Lu, chattering on and on, and finally asked, "Did you hear me clearly when I spoke to you?"

The egret nodded: "I heard you clearly!"

fake.

She didn't hear a word she said, or even what she said clearly.

"Hey? Do you think these two trees are going to die?"

At this moment, Qin Xiu noticed that the two trees blocking her front door looked like they were about to die, and she was immediately overjoyed: "Good riddance! These two damned trees have been blocking all our good feng shui for years! They're finally going to die! But no, these trees are tough, what if they don't die! I'll put some pesticide on them!"

As he spoke, he went back to the storeroom at home, took out two bottles of bright red pesticide, and poured them onto the tree roots as if they were free.

Egret: "..."

Although it was very immoral, she ultimately did not stop her mother. Strictly speaking, she and her mother were no different; they were just ordinary people with some selfish motives.

Medicine it is, anyway, these two trees won't survive.

Qin Xiu even shoveled two shovelfuls of soil to cover up the traces of pesticide, as if she were burying her head in the sand.

Not long after, Uncle Bai and his wife arrived, followed closely by Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai. They were there to help with the work and also to have breakfast.

Ever since I had two meals at Bailu's house, I've been craving their food, so I came over early today.

After applying the pesticide, Qin Xiu washed her hands and started steaming shepherd's purse and pork buns. Bai Lu, fearing that she would poison the whole family, steamed them herself.

There were so many people today, so if each person had two steamed buns, that would be eighteen buns in total. Each bun was as big as two of Bai Lu's fists. As soon as we took them out, the freezer compartment of the refrigerator was empty.

Qin Xiu said, "They really don't last long! I haven't picked wild vegetables for several days. Today, after I finish tending the melon seedlings, I need to go check if any new ones have sprouted. I'll pick some to sell and keep some for my own family!"

After these days of "brainwashing" Qin Xiu, and because the wild vegetables tasted absolutely amazing, she finally stopped being obsessed with money, and wild vegetables were finally on the table every day.

Otherwise, it's no fun picking so many wild vegetables.
—Buy all the good stuff, then eat coarse food yourself!

“There are many of us, so we can start growing the melon vines in one morning. We’ll ask my uncle and aunt to help us pick them this afternoon, and then we’ll take them to sell tomorrow morning.”

"They're going too?"

Qin Xiu's eyes darted around. If she followed her heart, she certainly wouldn't want this treasure trove of wild vegetables to be discovered by others. After all, there were only so many wild vegetables, and if more people shared them, her family would have one less source of income.

But this is a lazy, poor, and pitiful younger brother-in-law...

Qin Xiu finally said, "Alright, let them bring their own baskets, and pay them whatever they pick. We'll give them thirty yuan per jin, and we'll just consider it helping them sell some of the produce."

After all, he is Bai Jiang's younger brother. Even if we don't consider his feelings, we should at least consider the feelings of the old man, the old woman, and Bai Qing. These are things that are naturally grown. If he picks them, his family will sell them to him. If he is too lazy to pick them, then there is nothing more to say.

Bailu laughed at her: "You're really willing to spend so much this time? Even if the two of you go slowly, it's still dozens of kilograms, worth a thousand or two thousand yuan!"

Qin Xiu rolled her eyes at her: "Then what are we going to do? Just watch your aunt not have money for medicine? Just watch your little sister not have money for school?"

In her opinion, Baihe is a menace who gets married and has children. What's most infuriating is that he's lazy, but he's not malicious, he doesn't cheat or shirk his duties, and he works hard. But after he's done working, he's like he has no energy left and it takes him several months to recharge.

It takes three months to charge and two hours to work.

So the family has always been in a state of barely surviving. In the last two or three years, he has gotten older, and Aunt Bai's epilepsy has shown a worsening trend. That's why he has been reducing his working hours from a few months to more than half a year.

Even if you have a job every day, you can't save much money.

If his character were any worse, or even worse, Qin Xiu would never have bothered with his family. Even though the old man and woman were still alive, they weren't completely rotten to the core yet!

孽 孽!
Qin Xiu gets angry just thinking about him. Her own family is a mess, and she still has to find a way to help her brother-in-law!
"Lulu, what happened last night? Why did you leave in such a hurry without even coming home for dinner?"

Uncle Bai sat on the well cover, crossed his legs, and asked, "Those plastic shoes are white and hard, they look quite old."

"Something came up..."

Once the water boiled, Bailu placed the buns in the steamer, explained a few words to Uncle Bai, and then ended the topic, talking to them about planting and harvesting vegetables in the future.

"Yesterday we planted six acres of leafy greens, and today we started cultivating melon seedlings. My mom soaked seeds of pumpkin, cucumber, loofah, loofah, and mouse gourd. I'm thinking of planting one acre of each."

"hiss--"

Uncle Bai gasped, "These little creatures all need trellises to climb! Our few bamboo groves aren't enough to cut down, are they? Five acres of trellises, that'll be exhausting!"

"Lazybones!" Grandpa Bai scolded him, "There's gold in the ground and you're too lazy to even dig! Yesterday, Lulu said she wanted to hire you to work, and I agreed. From now on, you'll be reporting for duty at your older brother's house. I'm telling you, no slacking off, or I'll break your legs!"

Uncle Bai: "..."

Qin Xiu: "..."

These words were said to Uncle Bai, and also to Shuo for her.

He knows his own brother-in-law well; he's the kind of guy who's too lazy to even think about getting out of bed once or twice!
Even when we ask him for help, we complain that he's too slow!
Should we still pay him a salary?

Qin Xiu was extremely unwilling.

We can give him some wild vegetables that cost thirty yuan a pound, but what about his salary?

In the words of Da Xicheng: Absolutely not!
What landlord could afford to hire someone who just dawdles like that?
But since Grandpa Bai had already spoken, she couldn't very well refuse him, so she could only say, "The vegetables are all planted, and there's nothing else to do in the field for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai fell silent.

They understood what their eldest daughter-in-law meant and politely declined.

For a moment, they didn't know who to blame. Was it their eldest daughter-in-law who didn't help her brother, or was it Baihe, that good-for-nothing brat, who couldn't even find anyone to hire him to farm?
Every family has its own troubles, and the elderly couple was extremely worried.

Uncle Bai also fell silent, but he didn't blame his sister-in-law.

Bailu was well aware of the tense atmosphere among the elders, and she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Her mother has some kindness, but not much.

Her uncle is indeed lazy, and he also really wants to make money. Human laziness is fully reflected in him. His only advantage is probably that he doesn't have any bad intentions.

If you don't push this kind of person, they can stay lazy forever.

Thinking about it, Bailu said, "How come there's no work left?" She counted on her fingers to herself, "After planting vegetables, I still need to plant sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, and red beans! After that, I'll have to transplant the rice seedlings! I plan to plant some watermelons and some sugarcane, so how can there be no work left?"

There's no time when you can stop working in the fields if you want to!
Qin Xiu opened her mouth, then closed it again. The child had really grown up and could make decisions on her own. Let her be; it wasn't her money being spent anyway!
Uncle Bai's back became more and more hunched over as he listened; he was almost exhausted just from listening.

"Lulu, there's so much work, and your uncle is doing it all by himself?"

If you finish planting this batch of land, you might not have an uncle anymore!
"Of course not! You're my uncle, would I exploit you? With so much land, we'll definitely need to hire more people! You can just be the manager!"

"Alright! This uncle is capable."

Uncle Bai was immediately extremely satisfied with the job.

Actually, he's not as lazy as others say. He does work, right?
As for what his father said, that he should follow his eldest niece to farm, saying that grain prices are high, where would he get the capital now?

Moreover, given his family's situation, by the time they harvest and sell the grain, the whole family will have starved to death!

He truly regrets it now. He was ignorant when he was young and didn't save a single penny. Now, even without a salary for a month, he has to tighten his belt.

He would be happy to work for his niece if she needed him.

Working for someone else is better than farming!
The egret smiled.

Despite his advanced age, Uncle Bai is actually quite simple-minded. At this point, he doesn't realize that being a middle-ranking, unsophisticated leader is a difficult job.

They come to him with everything, big or small, trivial or insignificant. If he can't solve it, they have to report it to their superiors. He has a ton of odd jobs.

"So, you're starting work today? We're so familiar with each other, six thousand a month isn't too bad, is it?"

Qin Xiu simply couldn't bear to look.

He looks like a money-giving boy.

Grandpa Bai quickly waved his hand: "That's too much! Five thousand a month is already too much! You don't need to pay him such a high salary, he doesn't even make six thousand a month now!"

When Uncle Bai used to work on construction sites, he could earn around 280 or 300 yuan a day. However, he couldn't work on rainy days, and sometimes he had to take leave. But on average, he could earn 7,000 yuan a month.

But after returning to his hometown, he found that not many people were building houses there, so he went to work in a factory. He worked overtime until 8 p.m. every day, earning only about 4,000 yuan a month. The factory didn't provide social security, and it was far from home. After working there for more than half a year, he quit. He had only been back home for a short time.

If Baihe could earn money at home, Grandpa Bai would be happy from the bottom of his heart. However, since the employer was his own granddaughter, he felt that paying her such a high salary was a bit unfair to her. But his eldest granddaughter said that she really needed someone, so he shamelessly went to Qin Xiu's house to talk to her.

Thinking about it, Grandpa Bai couldn't help but ask Egret, "Our vegetable seeds are good seeds, right? Have you found a buyer yet? Don't lose money!"

If he were to lose money and still pay that bastard Baihe's salary, wouldn't he have no face left?
"Don't worry, Grandpa!"

Bai Lu patted her chest and assured me, "Since I dare to cultivate so many acres of land, of course I've found a good sales channel. Our family can make money from farming in the future. You and Grandma shouldn't be idle; come and help me. I'll pay you wages too."

"What salary do your grandfather and I get? We're just idling at home anyway."

Grandma Bai smiled and waved her hands repeatedly.

The reason Baihe was allowed to collect wages was because that brat was so useless that he was really going to be so poor that he couldn't even afford to eat. If she and the old man were to still receive wages, what kind of people would they be?
The old monster who clings to the eldest brother's family and sucks his blood!

Bai Lu didn't say anything more. She said that not taking a salary was the same as taking gifts during holidays.

We can't let the elderly work for nothing!

"Are the steamed buns ready? They smell so good!"

Bai Jiang and Bai Chen returned on their 125 motorcycle after feeding the pigs. As soon as they entered the kitchen, Bai Jiang said...

"It should be ready by now!"

The egret checked the time and lifted the lid of the steamer.

The aroma of shepherd's purse and pork buns wafted from the bamboo steamer, drawing a crowd around—it was the perfect time of day for this meal.

Qin Xiubao's large steamed buns have thin skins and generous fillings; the savory meat broth seeps into the bun's skin, and one bite—

"Well!"

This smells amazing!

Eighteen steamed buns are still not enough!
Everyone was still eager for more!

Uncle Bai also drank two bowls of plain porridge to fill the gaps.

Plain congee tastes so-so, but it's good at quenching thirst.

After having breakfast and resting for a while, everyone went to the field to cultivate melon seedlings, using the traditional seedling cultivation method that Grandpa Bai had used all his life.

Choose a site with loose soil, plow it deeply, level it first, then apply base fertilizer, and finally start raising seedlings in seedling trays. This will help maintain the spacing between seedlings. When the seedlings grow to about ten centimeters tall, they can be transplanted.

It was all done in less than a morning.

Although there wasn't as much work as yesterday, Uncle Bai was even more tired because his sister-in-law kept urging him to work, making even a second of rest feel like torture.

Qin Xiu thought it even more simply: since Bai He was paid a salary, he had to work. Working in a factory required two shifts, a full twelve hours a day. How could you work for one minute and then rest for three minutes?
What boss would want to hire a worker like that!
Uncle Bai knew this too, so he could only keep his head down and work hard!

Bai Lu nudged Qin Xiu several times with her elbow, signaling her to tone it down and not to exhaust herself, otherwise she would have to carry buckets, or rather, carry hoes and run away.
But Qin Xiu didn't give her a single response!
Qin Xiu stewed pork ribs for lunch. The pork rib soup with black bean sauce and rice is absolutely amazing. In the past, this would have been considered a main dish!

However, Uncle Bai actually thought the ribs weren't as fragrant as the steamed buns from this morning.

Bailu swallowed the last bite of her food and said to Baihe, "Uncle, shall we go pick wild vegetables this afternoon? You and Auntie can come along!"

Uncle Bai nodded: "There are indeed wild vegetables available at this time of year."

But he never expected the wild vegetables in those few patches of land to grow so well!

Thick and strong!
"Are wild vegetables growing this well now?"

Uncle Bai was stunned.

Grandpa Bai also found it strange: "It's native to the area and no one fertilizes it, so how can it grow so well!"

This goes against his years of common sense about farming!
He never expected that these wild vegetables would cost thirty yuan a bundle!
At such an outrageous price, wild vegetables are in short supply. In other words, how much money they can make today depends entirely on their own speed.

Grandpa Bai and Grandma Bai suddenly felt twenty years younger!
That hand speed was almost on par with Bai Chen and Bai Wei.

There were many people today, and it only took two hours to pick 300 catties of wild vegetables. Seeing that it was still early, the egrets strolled into the bamboo forest.

The bamboo here grows in clumps, but the bamboo shoots are individual stalks.

I'm too sleepy, I'll catch bugs tomorrow.
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(End of this chapter)