Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 245

Xiuyao said: "Father, it's better not to eat it. The Umi of this wheat is not the same as sorrel. It's not as good as sorghum. Just break it and throw it away, and don't feed it to the animals, lest you feel uncomfortable after eating it."

Xiuyao had to tell Qin Dafu every time, and the last time she told him not to beat back the vines and leaves of sweet potatoes and feed them directly to the donkey, but Qin Dafu thought he didn't eat it, and the donkey had diarrhea after eating it.

Now he can listen to Xiuyao, seeing her saying that she can't eat it, he smiled and said: "Then I'll go get some fertilizer."

This season happened to be the time when black rice was harvested. Qin Dafu's family did not grow sorghum and cotton this year, so the work was much less.Of course, there was no Umi he wanted to eat, and when he went to the corn field to hunt Umi, he helped Old Qintou clean up.

Xiuyao is making her own plan, there are too many things, too broken, she has to list them one by one, so as not to miss anything.Especially the weaving workshops. It is said that the imperial court still does not allow the people to open large-scale textile workshops by themselves, saying that they must concentrate on farming to avoid barren fields.So Xiuyao must be careful, she has the number of looms in her hands, and she has already asked the shopkeeper Feng to help her make connections in the county.They are weaving in partnership, not running a factory, and because the looms are still owned by the weavers, they are considered to be in compliance with the law and have not violated any laws. It's difficult for people.

Xiuyao was busy with work, so Mrs. Zhang came over and called them, "Go and have a meal."

Xiuyao was very surprised. Is this the sun coming out from the west?Mammy still entertains guests?This has never happened.

Qin Dafu smiled and said: "Mommy told you to go, so hurry up."

Xiurong smiled and said: "My second sister, elder brother and sister-in-law are not at home, I should have known that they would come back too, my grandma doesn't often treat guests." Everyone talked and laughed, and went to grandma's house with Mrs. Liu.

When she arrived at Nanny's house, Xiuyao lost her appetite. She looked at a big pot of dark things on the table, a pot of sauce, and a table of scallions.She turned around and was about to leave, but Liu Shi said softly: "Yaoyao, sit down for a while before leaving."

Wanting to save face for the nanny, Xiuyao had no choice but to endure the past. Xiumei and Xiuting were happily talking about something. After listening to Xiuyao, they talked about beating Umi. This one said how many beatings she had, that one Played a few.

It turned out that Mrs. Zhang threw the Umi back from the fight, cut it into pieces, added a little sesame oil, and ate it with miso.In order to show his generosity, Mrs. Zhang personally asked Mrs. Liu and others to have dinner.

Xiuyao didn't want to eat this kind of food, although some people said it was delicious, after all, no matter how delicious food is, not everyone likes to eat it, she smelled a strange smell.

Xiumei took the credit and said, "I also scooped up some horse-grown vegetables, mixed them with soy sauce, and let everyone eat together."

Xiuyao wondered why she was so generous all of a sudden, but there was no shortage of vegetables in her family, except for mild-tasting wild vegetables like shepherd's purse, which Xiuyao didn't like to eat very much.

Especially the purslane, the so-called horse vegetable.

Mrs. Zhang cheerfully greeted everyone to sit down and eat. Xiuyao couldn't help being a little bit hesitant when she saw that there was no serious food on the table.

Xiumei took the lead in getting a bowl of Umi, dipped it in miso, and ate it. Xiuting went to pick up the horse vegetable, but after two bites, the two of them stopped eating.The umami can still make a living with two pieces, but if there are too many, it doesn't seem to be so delicious.

In addition, they didn't take special care of the horse vegetables when they came back. There was no Xiurong in charge of the kitchen at home.

taste very bad!
Mrs. Zhang saw that Xiuyao and Xiurong didn't want to eat it, so she greeted them. Qin Dafu and the others all ate it. Although it was unpalatable, they didn't look like they couldn't swallow it. After all, they had eaten even the most unpalatable food before.

When Mrs. Zhang saw that Xiuyao and Xiurong didn't like to eat, she immediately became unhappy. She said: "Why, is the food at the mother's house unpalatable?" I bought sesame oil, where I used to eat it, eat it all, don’t be blind.”

Xiuyao said: "Nurse, you should feed them." She was talking about Xiumei and Xiuting, they managed to get it back and buy it.

Xiurong also said yes, Xiumei and Xiuting immediately said: "We have already eaten, don't want it."

Mrs. Zhang also said: "They ate it. It's yours. They got it back with great difficulty and made it into a dish. They dripped sesame oil. It's not for nothing."

It doesn't matter if you eat two pieces of Umi, but the horse vegetable, which has not been properly processed, tastes astringent and sour, and you can't tell what it tastes like.Xiurong immediately said: "Oh, my stomach hurts, I'm going to the bathroom."

Talking about pulling Xiuyao, Xiuyao also said that she was not feeling well, and the two ran away in a hurry.

Exiting the gate, Xiu Rong said angrily: "What kind of junk, it's telling us to eat it, I think it's to punish us on purpose."

Xiuyao said: "Let's go home and make something for ourselves, we won't be full with that, mother and father will have to eat when they come back."

The two sisters went home and made fried eggplant with sauce, fried eggs with leeks, and distilled lentils with mashed garlic. After eating, they put them in the pot and waited for their parents to come back.Not long after, Mrs. Liu came back, and she drank water as soon as she got home, and Xiurong and Xiuyao hurriedly served food.

Liu said: "I don't want to eat wild vegetables anymore in this life, I'm really being harmed."

Xiuyao smiled and said: "Mother, my mother didn't eat at all. I think she found it unpalatable and couldn't eat it, so she asked us to eat it."

Xiurong also said yes, "I don't know why, but I let Xiumei cook."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "I was going to have a family meal tonight, but your Er Dada and Er Niangniang didn't go, and your San Dada and the others wanted to move to the third grandpa's house where we used to live. Your grandpa said After a meal, your mother can't bear to do anything else, and it happens that they beat Umi, and they eat this when they get to work."

Xiurong sneered and said, "Can my grandfather eat it too?"

After a few days, although the corn is not yet ripe, it is full of grains, which can be broken off and cooked.Xiuyao asked her father and elder brother to break up a few baskets, and sent two baskets to the second grandma Feng in the county, and then sent two baskets to her grandfather's house.

Although this food is fresh, it can only be eaten for a few days, and it will be impossible to eat it when it gets old.And Xiuyao had to be busy setting up her own weaving workshop, so she didn't bother to sell corn.After all, it is a small business, with just a few acres of land, in this era, you can't make much money by selling corn.

The Feng family accepted the corn, and Second Grandma sent over a basket of grapes and a small basket of longan.

Longan is a good thing, Mrs. Liu kept it, and used it for festivals and gifts to relatives and friends.

In a blink of an eye, the weaving workshop has already started to work on the machine, and the female workers are all excited and full of anticipation. They are all good at weaving, and the sound of clicking and clicking can be heard endlessly in the three big houses.

The female workers they recruited are all skilled. If ordinary cloth can weave more than one foot a day, now that Xiuyao requires a slightly more complicated pattern, they can also weave more than half a foot a day.If a piece of cloth is two feet long, it takes about five days to weave two pieces, which is very fast.Especially now that there is no need to do housework, everyone is gearing up, and they don't want to rest until the third watch at night.

After a few days, Xiuyao felt that this was not good, so she discussed it with Zhang Guifang and asked them to stop.

Seeing that they had something to say, everyone stopped weaving, Xiuyao said: "My sisters-in-law and aunts, we are here to make money, but we can't exhaust our bodies just to make money for a few days."

Someone shouted: "We are not tired."

Xiuyao smiled and said: "You are not tired for one day or two days, but within a year, your health will collapse. You can't sit and weave non-stop like this every day. I suggest that we spend half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon every day. Go to the yard and enjoy the sun."

When they heard that it would take half an hour, some people hesitated.

Xiuyao said with a smile: "In this way, if we weave for an hour, we must stop and rest for about a quarter of an hour, move around outside, and talk. From now on, we will ring the bell to rest and go to work."

Now that there is no bell, she asks her sister-in-law to use a copper basin instead, and later buys a bigger clock to hang at the door. The bell is played at work, at rest, at meals, and at bedtime.

Zhang Guifang echoed Xiuyao: "I also want to make money, but we also need to have a good body to enjoy the money. Otherwise, we will be exhausted after making money. Who will suffer for us later?"

Everyone also began to say that it was so, so the rule was settled, and Xu Erni was in charge of the work of ringing the clock.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to harvest beans and millet. Xiuyao's family didn't grow cotton this year, so it saved a lot of work.After all, cotton is the most energy-intensive task, as we have to hoe the ground, get bugs, and pick up cotton.

Xiuyao still proposed to hire two people to help her father and elder brother harvest millet and beans.The family only planted five acres of millet, five acres of corn, and another fifteen acres of beans, which the four men could get back within six or seven days of hard work.

Xiuyao also didn't want her elder brother and father to be burdened, so she suggested hiring someone. Because it was heavy work, a job cost about thirty to forty cash a day.There is little land in the family, and people will take it with them, so they will not be lazy.

The crops here have not been confiscated yet, and everyone is busy. Old Qin came to Qin Dafu, "Boss, tell those two people not to leave, and help us collect them."

When we were together in the past, we harvested the crops very quickly. Now that we have separated, harvesting is limited.Four male laborers can work together to collect [-] acres, but it would be difficult for one laborer to collect [-] acres by himself.

Qin Sanshun's family moved to the small house of the third grandpa's house, and he no longer wanted to partner with old Qintou, but worked with Fu Biaozi's family.Both Qin Ergui and Second Aunt are capable, and with Qin Chan, Xiumei, and Xiuli, their family is busy enough.

It was Lao Qintou and Mrs. Zhang who got orders instead.

Qin Dafu said: "Father, those two people have to spend money, I will help you harvest the crops after I finish my work."

Everyone said that if old Qintou was asked to divide the land, he would stop doing it, but old Qintou was reluctant and always wanted to plant the land by himself, otherwise he would feel at ease.

(End of this chapter)