farmhouse ditty

Chapter 158

Listening to what Xiuniang said, the Erbao vine needs to be pruned, Master Wang laughed out loud at that time, and the shopkeeper also said that the woman knows how to hold the Erbao vine upside down, but she is actually a half-bad.

He smiled and patted the guy next to him, "Hey, this Erbao vine is not a garden in someone else's mansion. Is there anyone who can trim it? Besides, this seedling is very expensive, why? Can hold scissors..."

"Crack!"

Before Master Wang finished speaking, he watched Xiu Niang go down with the scissors and cut off the Erbao vine in front of him.

He stared blankly, and only realized when Xiu Niang made the third cut, "Ah! Mother, I said big sister, what are you doing!"

Xiu Niang threw the newly twisted branch aside, looked at it and grabbed another one, "Master Wang, I am helping you prune the branches. How about it, how many times do you cut this and that? Does it look good?"

Master Wang was stunned, and looked at the branches that Xiuniang had cut with his eyes wide open. He pointed at Xiuniang with trembling fingers, "This, this, this, how should I explain this to the shopkeeper?"

"Crack!"

"Ah, what are you doing, why are you still cutting it!"

"Crack!"

"Ah, mother, you woman!"

"Crack!"

"Ah, it's not enough for you to harm one plant, do you want to harm others!"

"Crack clap clap..."

Xiu Niang cut several times in a row, but suddenly she heard no sound, she turned her head and looked, "Hey, is Master Wang a man?"

A few guys stood behind in a daze. They looked at Xiu Niang and pointed to the side.

Xiu Niang threw the branches in her hand to one place, and followed the directions of the fellows to look over, only to see that Master Wang softened his body and lay on the ground.

She grabbed the scissors and pointed at Master Wang, "Hey, what's wrong with Master Wang?"

One of the leading fellows swallowed his breath, "Sister-in-law, this Master Wang is so distressed that he has passed away."

Xiuniang said "Oh", looked around, and called to the two guys standing beside Master Wang, "Hey, you two... yes, yes, it's you, both of you helped Master Wang to rest under that tree. Come on, don't let the sun burn him."

After she finished talking, she took the basket outside and said to the rest of the guys, "Okay, you guys take the scissors, and join me to grind this piece of land."

As soon as Xiu Niang said this, the brothers were frightened, and they shouted at the top of their voices, "Ah?!"

She turned around and said to the guys, "Oh, what, can I handle this large area of ​​land by myself? Come here soon, I have a dozen pairs of scissors in this basket for you."

A guy said to Xiu Niang with a mournful face, "Oh, little sister-in-law, you can just spare our brothers. The shopkeeper said that we would help you, but he didn't let us follow you around."

One of the clerks in front of him kept talking, "It's sister-in-law, if we follow you to cut the scissors, the shopkeeper will know about it later, and we must pay for it. This seedling is very expensive." When the two talked, the others nodded in agreement.

Xiu Niang disturbed their nagging, she yelled, and stuck the scissors into the soil in front of her, "It's all right, don't make any noise, your shopkeeper is coming later, I will tell him myself, you just take the scissors Just follow me to work.”

The guys heard this, and thought that what Xiu Niang said was enough, they both glanced at each other, they both agreed, stepped forward, took the scissors, and squatted next to Xiu Niang.

Xiuniang looked at the acre of land, where a dozen or so Erbao vines were planted in a row, and she asked those guys to squat side by side on her left and right sides, facing a Erbao vine in front of her, and then they all looked at each other. .

Wherever she cuts, the two guys next to her will cut where they see it, and then the ones around them will cut it according to their method, just like a cat and a tiger.

The guy on the far side, he watched the person beside him cut off the longest branch, and he also searched for the place to grab one, but when he was about to cut the scissors, he looked up at the king in front of him. The master glanced at it, thinking, if this master Wang wakes up soon and sees the Erbao vine with branches on the top and the bare Erbao vine below, he wonders if he will faint again...

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"Treasurer, look, what a strong branch, it will be twisted if it is said to be twisted, it is so distressing!"

Master Wang was covered with soil, holding a branch in his hands excitedly, and crying to the shopkeeper Tian, ​​"If I didn't stop me just now, the good seedlings on the ten acres of land would have been ruined. "

Shopkeeper Tian looked at the dozen or so long branches on his desk, picked up one to have a look, and then looked at Xiu Niang who was sitting opposite. shook his head.

Master Wang tilted his head as he spoke, "Shopkeeper, there are still a lot of these branches in the yard, and the roots are as strong as the ones above. You say this woman..."

Shopkeeper Tian got up and interrupted Master Wang's words, and led him to the door with a smile, "Okay, Master Wang, calm down, go to the yard to smoke a bag of cigarettes, rest your feet, and let's talk about it later."

Master Wang stared at him blankly. Could it be that the shopkeeper is like this? Didn't he scold the woman, "Yes, yes, the shopkeeper?"

Shopkeeper Tian patted Master Wang on the back, "Master Wang, let's talk when we're done."

Master Wang looked at shopkeeper Tian in confusion, and had no choice but to say yes and go out.

Shopkeeper Tian watched him go downstairs before turning around. He walked to Xiuniang's side and put the branch in front of her, "Little sister-in-law, can you explain to Tian."

Xiu Niang looked down for a moment, looked at him and asked, "Does Shopkeeper Tian want me to explain something?"

Shopkeeper Tian said, "Sister-in-law, I thought we had already settled the deal yesterday. I invite you here today to help Tian find the reason why the Erbao vine doesn't grow flowers, but sister-in-law, you They ran to my field to cut branches."

Xiu Niang smiled, "Hey, I said shopkeeper Tian, ​​didn't I just cut the branches to help you find the reason, maybe you also thought the same as Master Wang, this thing with (zhang) flowers, the branch The longer the better, the more the better, right?"

Shopkeeper Tian heard this, and he really thought so in his heart. He pursed his lips and asked Xiu Niang, "Isn't it?"

Xiu Niang shook her head, "If it's anything else, I really can't say, but this Erbao Vine came in the opposite direction."

Shopkeeper Tian asked, "Why?"

Xiu Niang didn't say anything, she just pointed to the stool opposite, "Shopkeeper Tian, ​​please sit down first, since you've been standing all this time, it's hard for me to talk, right?"

Shopkeeper Tian looked at her and frowned, instead of sitting opposite her, he sat back at the desk.

Xiu Niang smiled, picked up the branch in front of her, and said, "Master Tian, ​​let me first tell you how you feed the Erbao vines. Master Wang planted the seedlings, fertilized and watered them every day." Staring, I hope that the Erbao vine will grow tall and strong. He has raised it for a month or two, watching the Erbao vine grow (zhang) open, there are more branches, and the joy in his heart is very precious , so he didn’t even bother to cut it, he just thought that if there are flowers, there will be more branches, and if there are flowers, the branches will grow (chang).”

Then Xiu Niang thought about saying something that the manager of the field could understand, and told him that if the branches were not cut now, it would affect the yield of the whole Erbao vine. When the soil comes into contact with it, new roots will germinate, and all the nutrients of the whole plant will be consumed on this piece, so of course no flowers will grow.

She had pruned the six plants that Xiu Niang left to Shopkeeper Tian earlier, so only those few plants in more than ten acres of land would grow well.

Shopkeeper Tian was stunned when he heard this, "Sister-in-law, is what you said true?"

Xiu Niang smiled, "I'm talking about shopkeeper Tian, ​​this matter has come to this point, I can still fool you, and let's say, I have a part of the ten acres of land."

Shopkeeper Tian looked at Xiu Niang with some doubts, and still had lingering fears about her. After all, he had already been fooled once, so he had to be more careful after that.

Similarly, Xiuniang also understands this, so when the two families were talking yesterday, Xiuniang said that if she wants to help, she must ask for 100% of the share. For the silver earned, I gave her ten taels out of [-] taels.Of course, shopkeeper Tian couldn't agree to this matter at the beginning. The few of them chatted in the yard for a long time before shopkeeper Tian agreed. Anyway, the flowering period of the Erbao vine is only about five months throughout the year. Even if Xiu Niang wanted to take it, she could only get four months' share, and the rest would belong to Shopkeeper Tian himself.

At that time, as soon as they talked about it, Xiu Niang took out the pen, ink and paper at home, and made a note for the two families. Chu Ge and Tian's shopkeeper also signed and stamped their fingerprints. This is a certainty. It's over, no one can make trouble.

Shopkeeper Tian thought the same thing, and now that the little woman can't figure out anything tricky, he thought about it and asked again.

"Sister-in-law, do we just need to trim it at this time, and then we don't need it in the next few crops?"

Xiu Niang glanced at him, and said, "That's not true. Let's just let it go for now when the first flower is blooming. Let's wait until later."

This little woman is really tight-lipped, shopkeeper Tian chuckled, and turned the conversation elsewhere, "Hey, by the way, little sister-in-law, if that's the case, just now you and Master Wang just talked about it in the field. Angry like this?"

Xiu Niang smiled, "Master Tian, ​​the large field at the entrance of your town does not belong to your family, and there are four or five drugstores around your ten-acre area. Having said that, do you think that after half a month, those four or five families will follow your example and pull out the original medicinal materials in the field and plant them into Erbao vines?"

Shopkeeper Tian was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head with a smile. What Old Wu said was right, if this little woman came to the shop, she might really be able to help him.

(End of this chapter)