Chapter 42 Sun Xinmingzhi on an ice and snow night

In the twelfth lunar month, Dengzhou finally showed the power of snow nests. On the first day of the lunar month, a heavy snowfall covered the entire Shilipai area under thick snow.

Sun Xin nervously went to the land to see the growth of wheat several times and found that the 30 acres of high-quality winter wheat he had brought had all tillered before winter, while the more than 400 acres of winter wheat that had been replanted had some growth.

Most of them have no tillers, and it seems that the peak of tillers will only come before jointing in spring.

Tillering is when the wheat seedlings grow forks, and each fork will grow an ear of wheat next year. The sooner the stems are tillered, the more nutrients they can accumulate in the next few months.

The ears of wheat that grow in the future will naturally be fuller and heavier.

Just by looking at the proportion of tillers, Sun Xin can guess the difference in next year's harvest between the winter wheat from this time and space and the improved winter wheat he brought.

He mentally decided to use all the high-quality winter wheat to save seeds this year. Even if the yield of future generations is reduced by half, it is estimated that the yield per mu of winter wheat in this time and space will be higher.

As the temperature drops, winter wheat has completely entered the dormant period, and will not turn green until the next spring and continue to grow. There is very little that can be done on the fields, so the entire Sunjiazhuang has also entered the slack season.

He came back from the wheat field and looked at the ginseng again. The heavy snow had almost completely covered the land, but the ginseng under the small shed still did not sprout. Sun Xin dug up the land and took a look. Fortunately, there was no ginseng there.

It's dead, but it seems that if you want to bud, you have to wait until next spring.

It was snowing heavily outside the house. Sun Xin walked back to his farmyard on broken jade. He took off his fur and gave it to Ya'er. When he walked into the back room, he opened the door curtain and saw a hot air. Hu Sanniang sat on the kang table.

Bian had been waiting for a long time, and when she saw Sun Xin coming back, she quickly poured the warm rice wine in the jug for him.

"The other bankers have all taken a break. Why do you go out early and come back late every day? I don't know why you have so many worries because you are just farming."

Hu Sanniang glanced at the back room with her heart in her hands, blushed and whispered, "Hang it up, I'll make a wish."

The officials of the Song Dynasty often recruited a large number of local soldiers in winter and dragged them to do labor or to serve as cannon fodder on the border fortress. Although the treatment was not very good, it was a good way out for the refugees who were about to die of cold and starvation.

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When they got up early the next day, Sun Xin and Hu Sanniang packed up the gifts and left for Dengzhou with Xie Zhen and Jie Bao.

"Brother, wait a minute, this man looks strong and healthy, how could he die in the wilderness?"

What's more, Sun Xin still owns more than 500 acres of land. Based on Hu Sanniang's imagination, the wheat on the land will definitely be worth 500 shi of grain next year.

When Hu Sanniang came out of the house, she saw Ya'er who had just put away her clothes, and hurriedly called her over and said, "Where can you put the picture of Avalokitesvara that I brought from home?"

Shaking his head, he sat down and started sucking the stick noodle porridge.

Sun Xin smiled and went up to pinch Hu Sanniang's tender face.

“Isn’t it better to go farming every day to earn money?”

"I'm just afraid you'll be tired."

Sun Xin smiled: "It depends on people."

This year Sun Xin earned more than 300 taels from selling peanut oil, and more than 200 shi from corn. Although the corn was not widely accepted by everyone, so he only sold a little, but it can be used to pay wages to the bankers.

It can probably be used as 200 shi of grain. After deducting the cost of building the village and getting married, Sun Xinxin will still have 180 shi of grain left by the end of the year. Although it is not comparable to the amount of grain in Hujiazhuang, it is still enough.

More than a hundred people have been sitting here eating for a year.

There were indeed many refugees in the Song Dynasty, but in this winter these refugees rarely ran around in the wilderness.

"It's in the box. What do you want to do, Miss?"

Hu Sanniang was shocked: "The land in Hujiazhuang is more than ten times that of Sunjiazhuang. How can it be built in such a short time?"

Halfway through the words, his face turned red.

Hu Sanniang suddenly stopped talking and said, "Go and eat quickly. It's so late and everyone else has already eaten."

Hu Sanniang was suddenly asked this question out of shock, and she opened her mouth and said:

"I just see that you are worried every day. I'm afraid that you will be too busy and tire yourself out. Now that we have a house and a house at home, you are still so busy. What do you want to do?"

"The building is bigger than Hujiazhuang and bigger than Dulonggang."

Sun Xin looked back and saw that Ya'er had not come in, so he smiled slyly and said to Hu Sanniang: "It's not like you didn't see me last night. Don't you know that I'm not energetic enough?"

Sun Xin looked at Hu Sanniang's blushing face and wondered why. "This girl said she was fine, but why did she run away without starting or ending?"

Less than half a month after marrying Shilipai, Hu Sanniang was forced to get used to Sun Xin's way of getting along with her by holding her in his arms from time to time.

Moreover, this is not a war-torn land. Even refugees will travel together. If their companions die, they will be left on the roadside without even collecting the bodies. This is obviously very strange.

Sun Xin stopped dismounting after hearing Xie Zhen's reminder. He had just been in this time and space for less than a year, and sometimes he did forget some things that he should have remembered.

Sun Xin listened to the sound of snow hitting the window lattice and said, "I want to build Zhuangzi quickly."

Jie Bao went to the roadside and picked up a piece of dead wood. Then he and Xie Zhen stepped forward together, and together they lifted the body to a face-up position.

"I think……"

The corpse in front of me looks to be no more than thirty years old, and is quite strong. A person like this should be an excellent candidate for recruitment. If he were a refugee, he should have entered Dengzhou City long ago. How come he hasn't entered Dengzhou yet?

Zhoucheng was left on the roadside?

Hu Sanniang was shocked when she saw that Sun Xin had saved so much food this year.

He changed the subject and asked: "Where's my wife, what do you want to do next year?"

"Don't... Ya'er is outside!" Hu Sanniang blushed and slapped Sun Xin's hand, and finally Sun Xin and his wife fell into Sun Xin's arms.

Four Pegasus galloped in the snow. Sun Xin suddenly reined in his horse and stopped, looking at a corpse on the side of the road and about to dismount.

After that, if the land is leased out, even if the field tax can only receive two bushels per mu, that is still a stable income of one hundred shi of grain per year. As long as you slowly save money and buy land slowly, the days will only get better and better.

There is no need to be so tired at all.

The corpse had been frozen in the wind and snow for a long time. After picking it up, it was still lying down, but its face could be seen clearly. The two of them took a look at it and then backed away in fear.

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"What's wrong?" Sun Xin asked.

Xie Zhen glanced at him and whispered: "I'm confused."

On the way to Dengzhou City, Sun Xin's brows furrowed more and more tightly. He saw that the closer to Dengzhou City, the more roads there were.
Chapter completed!