Chapter 1025: The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-law of a Blessed Farm Girl (20)

Fortunately, Cui Dazhuang just made a joke, and after being pinched by his wife, he forgot about it. What he was even more excited about at the moment was the rice yield per acre of Meng Jin's family.

“The rice produced by Meng Jin’s family from two acres of land is equivalent to the output from three acres of my family’s field. The yield from this field is probably worth four kilograms!”

This news, like a pair of wings, spread throughout Dawa Village in just one lunch.

　　When Mrs. Cui heard about it, she almost broke her job.

 “It’s actually true? How is this possible!”

 She muttered, her face full of disbelief.

Cui Qiaoqiao frowned. She couldn't believe it and always thought it was impossible.

 If you don’t work hard in farming, can you get a good harvest?

 So, that woman has really become diligent?

However, in her previous life, she was sold to the Wang family as a child bride by that woman, and she never had the chance to return to her natal family until she died.

I only vaguely heard that the eldest brother injured his leg in the service, and the woman thought he was a burden, so she took away the family's money and ran away; the second brother became the intrusive son-in-law of the shop owner of the papermaking shop in the town, and she never heard of the separation until she died. .

 Could it be that she insisted on dividing the family as soon as she was reborn and drove that woman out of Lao Cui's house, which actually forced her to become more diligent?

 No matter what the reason was, she would never trust that woman again.

“Mom, it’s only four stones, which is one stone more than in previous years. This year’s income is good, so there’s nothing to make a fuss about. Anyway, I won’t come to ask her for advice.”

She now has money in her hands to sell delicacies, game, and medicinal materials. She can afford a hundred and eighty shi, not to mention one shi of grain!

She will never forget the hatred of her previous life. That woman in this life should be lucky that she didn’t try to sell her out, otherwise she would definitely look good!

 …

 On the other hand, Xu Yin is in a very good mood recently.

Her Comrade Xiao Jin is so diligent, even using a cane to keep the house clean and tidy.

　　She had herbal tea to drink and ready-made meals to eat when she came back from the fields; she went to the dry land to harvest rapeseed, and he sat under the eaves and took a stone grinding stick to thresh the dried rice grains.

 By the time she got home, everything had been sorted.

As soon as she came back, the meal was served, and the wash basin and face towels were ready.

Xu Yin took the towel from the cool well water and wiped her face, feeling comfortable and sighing: Comrade Xiao Jin in this life is very much like Mr. Snail.

 The rapeseeds are beaten and dried, and they are waiting to line up to go to the oil mill to press oil.

However, Dawa Village does not have its own oil mill. The equipment seems simple and it costs a lot of money to buy it. Everyone carries rapeseed oil to the oil mill in the town and queues up to squeeze the oil.

Xu Yin wanted to go with the villagers, mainly because she wanted to recognize the door of the oil press.

"I'll go when my legs are healed. I still have enough oil at home." Cui Mengjin felt sorry for his wife and wouldn't let her push a wheelbarrow into town alone.

Xu Yin pointed to the main room: "There is almost no place to pile them up."

There is only one thatched hut in the house, and a bamboo curtain is hung to form one room and one living room. There is no warehouse. After the grain is collected, it can only be piled in the main room, and there is almost no floor space.

 Squeezing rapeseed into oil saves some space. But she plans to bring back the rapeseed cake residue after oil extraction, and even wants to ask a few familiar people to buy their rapeseed cake residue.

Those families have a lot of land, and they grow a lot of rapeseed. They all start from two acres. I'm afraid there are several sacks of cake residues squeezed out, and there is still no room to put them. Don't want it, and I feel sad about the rapeseed cake residues. What a great pig retting feed!

“Ajin, it seems we have to build a house. How about we start construction after your legs are healed?”

She did some calculations and found that it actually didn’t cost much to build three adobe houses.

It’s not that you don’t want to live in a brick house, you can just do as the Romans do. No one in Dawa Village currently lives in a brick house. The Li Zheng family has the best conditions and is also an adobe house. The houses of the elders seem to be made of stones and have two sides of yellow mud. Most of the roofs of mud and stone houses are made of tiles instead of thatch.

 She plans to build a house like the Li Zheng family.

 Dawa Village has many rivers and lakes, and the mud in some areas is reddish-brown, which is very suitable for making adobe bricks.

 Timber can be cut casually on the mountain, so the adobe and wood do not cost money, but the tiles need to be bought.

But if you build a house with bricks and tiles, not only the tiles will cost money, but the blue bricks for three rooms will probably cost dozens of taels. Her apparent silver now is less than a hundred taels, so she'd better not spend so much money yet. .

But she planned to find some time to find Li Zheng and approve the homestead in front of the yard.

 Homestead land is not expensive, much cheaper than fertile dry land. After all, it can only be used for building houses.

When Ming had a lot of money, he built a row of brand new brick houses directly in front, and the adobe house was reserved as a warehouse. If he surrounded it with a wall, wouldn't it become an independent compound?

If you are more affluent, you can buy the wild lake and pond in front of you. Whether it is raising fish, shrimps, or lotus roots, you can open the door and see your own lake. Thinking about it will make you feel refreshed.

However, it is still early to reach these goals. It is practical to first build adobe houses and improve the cramped living environment.

The lady insisted on pressing the oil, but she didn’t allow him to follow. Cui Mengjin had no choice but to obey, because she was a casualty!

 Injured patients are not eligible to negotiate terms.

But he is not idle either. Since he wants to build a house, he should start making the adobe as soon as possible.

So, when Xu Yin went out, he sat in the backyard, pounding the soil lumps and chopping straw. He pounded the soil lumps into powder, chopped the straw into small pieces, and then cleaned out the wild boar hairs swept out of the pig pen for easy mixing.

Xu Yin pushed the wheelbarrow to the entrance of the village to meet Goudanniang and her group.

Goudan Daddy was walking in front with two baskets of rapeseed and other men. Goudan Niang was walking next to Xu Yin, carrying eggs and embroidered handkerchiefs that she had brought to the town to change oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. When she encountered uneven roads, she helped Give it a push.

It takes more than half an hour to walk from the village to the town, so of course we chatted while walking.

Xu Yin learned from the conversations between the women that the oil yield rate of the town's oil press was very low. Especially for rapeseed, an oil crop. One acre of land can harvest almost two hundred kilograms of rapeseed. The final rapeseed oil can be Forty pounds is pretty good.

If you want to take back the remaining cake residue, the oil press will have to take away five kilograms of oil as processing fee. It would be good to have thirty-five kilograms in the end.

No one in Dawa Village raises pigs. Firstly, piglets are expensive, and secondly, someone has raised pigs before, but the pigs died of diarrhea before the New Year.

 The investment is high, the risk is high, and unlike chickens and ducks, which can still lay eggs at ordinary times, pigs are only willing to be raised if they are full, let alone if they are not full.

This year has been generally smooth so far. After the busy farming season, many families will have a few hearty meals to recuperate. If there is a calamity year, grass roots and tree barks will all be taken away. Raising pigs is equivalent to competing for food with people, so naturally they will not be willing to raise them.

However, even if some people raise pigs, they don’t know that rapeseed cake can be fed to pigs. They think it is useless to take it back. If you want to squeeze the oil again, you will need oil extraction equipment. It is better to leave it as processing fee to the oil pressing workshop, which can save a few kilograms of oil.

 (End of this chapter)