Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 36

Knowing this, Zhang Xiaocao was very excited. If a few acres of land could be used to grow cotton next spring, how much money would it earn? One must know that one mu of land in the previous life could reach 700 catties. If you are careful, it can reach [-] catties. How many catties.

Assuming that after removing the seeds, the yield of 40 catties of medium-grade cotton per mu is calculated, the cotton can be sold for 400 taels of silver per mu of land. , Cotton is suitable for growing in sandy loam. Zhangjia Village is close to the Ning River, and the land is mostly sandy loam, which is just right!
After thinking about this, Zhang Xiaocao suppressed her excitement and said to her grandma, "Grandma, do you know how the dry land in the village is sold?"

Grandma Zhang glanced at her and asked with a smile, "What's the matter? Xiaocao wants to farm?"

Originally, it was just a casual question, but unexpectedly, my granddaughter nodded very seriously.

Seeing this, grandma Zhang sighed and said, "You and grandma are the only ones in our family. It takes a lot of effort to farm the land. Where did you grow it!"

If she was young, it would be okay, but now that she is old, the farm work is too heavy, and she can no longer do it.

"Grandma, I'm just asking. I know that dry land is cheaper than paddy fields, but I just don't know how much it costs per mu!"

Zhang Xiaocao didn't say what her plan was. She knew that her grandma would definitely not let her take such a big risk. After all, even those experienced farmers couldn't grow cotton well. Who would trust her as a ten-year-old girl? Can grow well!
Grandma Zhang didn't think too much, and said, "Paddy fields are expensive. They cost eight taels of silver per mu. Dry land is cheap and can be bought for four taels of silver. If you want to buy wasteland, you can buy it for two and a half taels of silver!"

When Zhang Xiaocao heard this, she quickly calculated in her heart, don't worry about the paddy field, it is easy to accumulate water, and cotton is the worst thing!Dry land and wasteland are okay, but dry land is better, it is considered cultivated land, and it is easy to take care of.

Well, it's winter now, and the dry land is empty. If you want to buy it, it will happen to be repaired in the spring of next year, but she doesn't have enough money!
Thinking of the money, Zhang Xiaocao suddenly became wilted. Now he only has 13 taels of silver on hand. Not only do he need to buy land, but he also needs to buy seeds and farm tools, as well as hire someone to plow the land. In this way, he can only buy two acres of land at most. It seems that the current priority The only thing is to earn money to buy land, otherwise, everything is useless!
Grandma Zhang looked at her wilting granddaughter, and remembered that she kept asking Mian Mian. She understood what she wanted to do, but she didn't agree with it from the bottom of her heart.

When the grandparents returned home, they found a middle-aged woman and a man in his twenties standing at the gate of the courtyard.

The woman poked her hand, her triangular eyes stared at the things in the hands of the grandparents and grandson, and she wanted to reach out to Grandma's back basket, but was let go.

"Yo, Sixth Aunt is really crazy. I just came back from the town and bought so many things!"

When Zhang Xiaocao saw her words and deeds, she felt extremely disgusted. This kind of person is the most greedy, always looking at other people's things, but he is not willing to pay a little bit!

Based on the name, this person should be a relative of grandma, but she has never heard of it from grandma, so the relationship should be bad.Today, when I came to the door, I heard that she just opened her mouth and said "sent", her eyes were restless, her intentions were clearly revealed, how could she really come to express love?
Grandma Zhang didn't even open the courtyard door, and didn't look at the two of them, she asked coldly, "What are you doing here?"

The woman didn't seem to hear the indifference in Grandma Zhang's words, but the man was a little embarrassed, stepped forward and called Sixth Auntie, and was about to drag his mother away.

"Where are you going? Your Sixth Aunt just made a fuss, and we are also relatives. Is it possible that you won't let us in? Sixth Aunt, what do you say?"

Grandma Zhang said indifferently: "What do you want me to say? My family doesn't have any good things for you to take home!"

The woman choked, and a gloomy look flashed in her eyes, this old bastard's speech is really ugly!
Grandma Zhang didn't care what she thought, seeing that she still refused to leave, and standing outside to blow the cold wind was not an option, so she opened the courtyard door and went in.

Zhang Xiaocao put the things she bought in the room and came out, and saw the woman sneaking around in the yard with mischievous eyebrows. When she saw the garlic in the yard, her eyes lit up immediately, and she ran over without saying a word. , while tsk-tsk, muttering something, while reaching out to pull it out.

Zhang Xiaocao was about to stop her, but she heard her grandma shout: "Mr. Zhu, what do you want to do? The old woman finally planted and ordered vegetables, so you can pick up the ready-made ones!"

Not only did Mrs. Zhu not feel embarrassed, but she said angrily: "Isn't it just pulling out a few garlic trees, what's the big deal, Liugu is so stingy!"

When Zhang Xiaocao heard this, she was so angry that she just wanted to throw this person out. If she hadn't been a junior and had a direct conflict with this Zhu family, it would be easy to lose the conversation, she wouldn't care who the other party was!
"The old woman is stingy? How do I remember that in Xia Shi, the ignorant kid in the village picked a small cucumber in your garden, and you slapped the cutting board with a kitchen knife, and sat on the threshold of someone's house to scold?"

When Zhang Xiaocao heard it, with a pop, she bent over with a very disfigured smile!
She has always thought that Grandma Zhang is very powerful, otherwise she would have been able to get back all her dowry when she was divorced without a son and had no help from her father, brother or relatives. With this alone, Grandma Zhang would not be comparable to ordinary peasant women!
Moreover, if she hadn't got Grandma Zhang's support this time, she really couldn't find a suitable person to stand up for her, so she wouldn't have left Zhang's family so easily.

Now, this short sentence made the thick-skinned Zhu Shi blush!

The Zhu family's son was also flushed, embarrassed, and stepped forward to apologize to Grandma Zhang. He wanted to take his mother away again, but was thrown away.

"Liu Gu, what's the difference? That bastard has no relationship or reason with us, but you are our cousin, and we are relatives!"

relative?

There was a faint, bitter smile on the corner of Grandma Zhang's mouth, her eyes full of vicissitudes, she just looked at Mrs. Zhu so lightly, and Mrs. Zhu looked hairy all over her body, her eyes flickered, and she turned her face away uncomfortably!

In the end, Mrs. Zhu lowered her head, dragged her son and ran away!
Looking at such a grandma, Zhang Xiaocao felt extremely uncomfortable, and stepped forward to hold her hand, hoping to soothe her sadness a little!
Grandma Zhang wiped away the old tears from the corners of her eyes, patted her hand, and smiled at her granddaughter, signaling that she was fine and told her not to worry.

Zhang Xiaocao didn't ask anything, she wondered if grandma, like her, had been hurt by the so-called relatives!

After being made such a fuss by Mrs. Zhu, he made a simple makeshift meal at noon, reheated the leftover rabbit meat from last night, and cooked a small pot of corn mush, which was warm even in the cold weather.

Nothing to do in the afternoon, one of them carried water, the other carried water with a small bucket, and watered the garlic in the yard. In winter, there is little rain, and when the cold wind blows, the ground will dry up. If you don’t water, you won’t freeze to death. Fucked to death!
(End of this chapter)