Liu Ye and Shen Tianli asked Wang Da to take people to rent all the cattle around and plow an acre of land for fifty cents. When Wang Da heard that it was so high, everyone who had cattle must come over. Not to mention that the cattle were idle now.
You can earn more than 100 yuan a day, which is infinitely attractive to everyone.
The two asked Wang Er to take them to find a nearby place where chicks, ducks and goslings could be hatched, and ordered more than 5,000 seedlings. When they returned to the village, everyone had already discussed it.
Everyone agreed with Liuye's proposal. Two thousand acres of land would be returned to the villagers, and the remaining three thousand acres would be replanted.
Liu Ye nodded and asked Wang Lizheng to allocate the two thousand hectares of land and find more oxcarts to come over.
What should be done was handed over to Wang Lizheng, and then the couple left.
Back in the city, the two of them were not idle. First they went to the Feng family's grain store. One acre of land requires twenty kilograms of wheat seeds, and three thousand acres requires sixty thousand kilograms, plus the five thousand kilograms given to them by Queen Feng.
Mu, I booked a lot of wheat seeds, and the shopkeeper sent all the current wheat seeds to the rented yard, and then mixed half of the wheat seeds with space wheat and half with ordinary wheat. The next day, he sent the convoy to Zhuangwang Village.
Yesterday, Zhe'er stayed in the space for a whole day. The little guy was not happy about it. Today, when he saw Willow Ye coming out of the space, he started to cry. He had no choice but to take this brat out.
The child was not afraid of crowds of people and was very happy to see the children. Liu Ye held her son around and watched the little husband methodically direct the plowing cattle to plow the fields.
The tenants all came out to watch the fun, but they all looked distressed and sad. Some old people even cried.
Liuye knew that for them, this wheat seedling was their ration for next year and their life.
It must be heartbreaking to see the wheat seedlings being ruined like this.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Li Zheng, find someone to pick up all the wheat seedlings in the farmland, plant them in your field, and then water them. Maybe these wheat seedlings can survive."
When Wang Lizheng heard this, his eyes lit up.
The villagers were immediately summoned, and children from each household were asked to pick up wheat seedlings. The adults planted wheat seedlings, while Willow Leaf quietly poured some of the spiritual spring in the space into the well.
She believed that with the nourishment of the spiritual spring, the survival rate of these wheat seedlings would be very high.
Liu Ye and Shen Tianli stayed in Zhuang Wang Village for a day. Seeing that Wang Lizheng was quite responsible, they handed over all the rest to him. Liu Ye and Shen Tianli went to the fields given to them by Queen Feng the next day.
Unlike the emperor's private land, Queen Feng's land is managed by a dedicated person, and the person responsible for the management is Guanshi Li. It is said that she has some relatives with Queen Feng's Aunt Gui.
Today, Shen Tianli is still driving the rented carriage, and Liu Ye is holding the child and sitting on the carriage with him. The weather today is good, there is no wind, and the hot sun is very warm and comfortable.
They asked around as they walked, and slowly arrived at Guatian Village, where they heard the sound of the suona in the distance.
"It seems that there is a happy event in the village today, and we are lucky enough to see how the customs in the capital are different from ours." Liu Ye said with a smile.
Shen Tianli could remember the scene when Feng Lin got married. It was very grand, with red makeup all over the place, and all the streets in Feng Mansion were paved with red silk.
As for other weddings, he has not attended them.
"It should be around the time when I get married to Yu'er!" Shen Tianli said with a smile.
The carriage quickly arrived at the entrance of the village. While watching the excitement, Liu Ye did not forget to look at the surrounding land and frowned. Compared with Zhuangwang Village, the land in Guatian Village was even sparser with wheat seedlings, and there were scattered things.
There are clusters here and there. If it weren't for the willow leaves' good eyesight, they would have thought they were weeds. In some places, there is nothing at all.
Liu Ye couldn't help but frown, and her joy at hearing the suona faded by three points.
After walking for a while, we saw rows of thatched houses, the most conspicuous being the brick houses at the end of the village about 200 meters down the hillside.
As soon as the carriage entered the village, Liu Ye and Shen Tianli heard discussions not far away.
"This kid, Qingdou, has a hard life. Seeing that her brother is going to have a big future, she marries you, a fool."
"What's wrong, you idiot? That's also Mr. Li's son. When you get to the Li family, you'll be married into a wealthy family, where you'll have good food, drink hot food, and live in a big tile-roofed house. It's much better than us. From now on, we have to address her with respect.
Where is the young lady!" One of the women said with a smile while eating pumpkin seeds, but the malice in her eyes could not be concealed.
"Tch, then marry your daughter to a fool." The other woman couldn't see her making sarcastic remarks and said displeasedly.
The woman's smile froze on her face, she spat out the melon seed skin and continued to smile and said: "My daughter Li is not as good-looking as Qing Dou. Without her good fortune, the master would not like her."
Who doesn't know that the fool is very strong and can beat people at every turn, and has already killed several wives, and some women have not survived more than three months in the Li family.
When Liu Ye and Shen Tianli heard about it, they knew there was something in it. Liu Ye gave Zhe'er to Shen Tianli and asked the father and son to wait here. She went to the crowd to inquire, and upon inquiry she found out that this marriage was forced out of necessity.
Lift.
In the past, the Xu family was also a large family in Guatian Village. The Xu family had a labor force of more than a dozen, and they were all good at labor. Mrs. Xu also knew how to run a business. When the farming was busy, the whole family worked, and when the farming was slack, they could also divide the labor between the two.
I go to the capital to work to earn money, and sometimes I grow some vegetables for home shopping, and my life is pretty good.
In addition, the Xu family was tall and powerful, and Manager Li did not dare to bully their family too much, so Mrs. Xu asked Xu Qingdou's eldest brother, Xu Qingqi, to become a soldier. As a result, Mrs. Xu died last year, and the Xu family was divided.
Xu Qingdou and his family are all young and do not have much labor force. In addition, Xu Qingqi has not been at home all year round, and there is little rain today. If 60% of the rent is paid, Xu Qingdou and his family can only survive the northwest wind.
Manager Li felt that Xu Qingqi would be promising. In addition, the Xu family had many children and grandchildren, and Xu Qingdou was good-looking. He originally wanted to use it for himself, but there was a dominatrix at home, so he could only give it to his son.
And this fool Li goes crazy every day, so marrying Xu Qingdou will be a dead end.
In addition to often forcibly marrying, the Li family also took advantage of their position. In addition to paying rent, they also asked tenants to build roads in the village, take care of their chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, take care of their fruit trees, etc.
Not only that, Manager Li also made a special funnel. Every time the rent was paid, as long as the funnel was full of wheat, if there was not enough wheat in the funnel to pay the rent, an extra 10% of the remaining wheat would be given.
In this way, when they plant in the fall, they don't have good seeds, so they have to buy them from Manager Li. However, only three thirds of Manager Li's seeds are full and good seeds, and the rest are blind wheat or even old wheat.
The germination rate is not high.
But if you don't buy it from Manager Li, he will remember it, and when the rent is collected next year, he will look for trouble even harder.
In short, it makes people miserable.
Especially this year, because of the drought, the harvest was not good. After paying the rent, we really didn’t have much left.
Even if they are friends with the Xu family, they can't help much. It can only be said that the Xu family is unlucky this year, and they are favored by Manager Li!