It's not that they can't afford it, but the original owner thinks that as a farmer and a scholar, eating brown rice is normal.
Moreover, there are several people in the family who are studying, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstones consumed every year are a huge expense. Compared with white rice, brown rice can save a lot.
Because of this, brown rice has always been their family's staple food.
Anyway, now that her family's rice has been harvested, the days of brown rice can only be gone forever. Let's just think that it is easier for her to live in luxury than to live in simplicity. Anyway, it is the kind of food that makes her throat sore, and she doesn't want to eat it anymore.
In the following days, the paddy fields were fertilized, harrowed, and transplanted. The whole family worked together again. After two days, the late rice was already standing in the paddy fields, fluttering in the wind.
With the planting experience in the first season, there is no need for Baiyunxi to follow in the subsequent management.
Bai Anyan took Li Shi through the fields, tending the fields with ease, and was very busy.
And she was happy to have some free time. After the field planting was over, Baiyunxi asked her second brother to simply calculate the harvest while she was free.
Perhaps because they provided enough fertilizer, the harvest in the wasteland was even greater than in the former fertile land.
After Bai Anyan made a rough calculation, he ran to Baiyun Xi with a look of surprise on his face,
"Mom, I've done the math. The spring wheat harvest on the east hillside is four shi of grain per mu, which is five hundred kilograms. The yield of rice is relatively low, but it's still four hundred kilograms."
This is his biggest harvest since farming.
Listening to the report from the second child, Bai Yunxi silently calculated in her mind that based on the calculation of one hundred and twenty-five kilograms per stone, the output of four stones was five hundred kilograms, which was lower than the output of one or two thousand kilograms in her time.
But during this period, the yield of the best fertile land was only three to four hundred kilograms.
In comparison, their wasteland can weigh up to 500 kilograms, which is considered highly productive.
Calculated in this way, the harvest of wheat alone is nearly 10,000 jins. Adding in rice, their family also has 14,000 jins of grain.
This was thanks to the seeds and fertilizers she exchanged at the mall. Without these technological skills, it would probably be difficult to achieve.
Thinking of this, Bai Yunxi directly ordered the second child,
"Keep the two acres of winter wheat for your own consumption, and sell all the spring wheat. There is also enough rice for your own consumption, and the rest will be converted into money."
"Mom, I need to make some plans and see if we can build a house. It's not a problem to live in a shack all the time. We were lucky to survive this year. If there is another heavy snowstorm and the shack collapses, we will be the ones who suffer."
After listening to his mother's instructions, Bai Anyan nodded repeatedly,
"Don't worry, Mom, I will count the grain in the next few days and go to the town to explore the price. If it is suitable, I will convert the excess grain into money and build a house."
"Okay, go ahead and do your work. Leave it to mother to go to the town to explore the prices. I happen to be going to the town in the next two days, so I'll explore the prices by the way."
She heard that the price of new grain every year is very good. If she can sell it at a good price, she will start making preparations to build a house as soon as the weather turns autumn.
Baiyunxi sat under the eaves, looking at the yard in front of her and the vegetable patch in the backyard, thinking to herself, how much would it cost to build a square courtyard?
If there are many people in the family, each person needs a suite, which is quite a lot.
Since she wanted to build a house, she wanted to build it bigger at once to save the trouble of expanding it in the future.
Think about the old house in the past, as long as it is more beautiful than that one, with blue bricks and blue tiles, a high gate tower, and the momentum can be improved first.