Chapter 1040 The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-Law of the Blessed Nongmen (35)

   "I met Lizheng on the road, and I gave him a basket of horseshoes. We can't finish this basket by ourselves. Ji Kang will pass by later, let him take some."

  Cui Jikang cuts firewood on the mountain at this time of day every day. Sometimes when he picks wild fruits, he will leave a handful of them when passing by her house.

   There are comings and goings, and Xu Yin often asks him to take something back.

  Comrade Xiaojin's brothers and sisters in this life, after a year of friendship, only my brother-in-law Cui Jikang can often walk around.

  The sister-in-law is the heroine, and Xu Yin worried that she, the cannon fodder, would be pulled back into the plot if she got close to the heroine. It is better to have less contact with the heroine.

  Cui Er is clever, but he is also really clever. In order to marry the daughter of the shopkeeper of the paper shop, he heard from his brother-in-law that he had to count the wages he had saved every time he went home, for fear that their mother would use it.

  This is the case with his own mother, let alone his brothers and sisters. In his heart, he is no match for the little girl from the paper shop he wants to marry.

  However, when Comrade Xiaojin's leg was hurt, he did visit with his things. Even though it was only half a catty of mung bean cake, Xu Yin accepted this favor and gave him two catties of duck eggs when he gave him a regular gift to her in-law's family years ago.

   "Has your second brother's marriage been settled yet? How much will our family pay?"

  Xu Yin washed the horseshoes and sat under the eaves to peel them.

  The first stubble of horseshoes is tender and sweet, and I plan to have a horseshoe feast at noon today: stir-fried horseshoes with black fungus, steamed meat patties with horseshoe mushrooms, radish horseshoe keel soup.

   The meat and bones were bought by the man from the town early in the morning.

  In the past six months, seeing her getting thinner every day, I thought she had some disease, so I took her to see a doctor in the hospital. The doctor said that she was in good health, so he was relieved, but he still tried every means to nourish her.

   There are meat, vegetarian and soup, perfect!

  The staple food is horseshoe cake, and after the meal, a bowl of white fungus, red dates and horseshoe sweet soup, which is greasy and nourishing.

   After sawing the last bamboo, Cui Mengjin tidied up the bamboo strips and bundled them together. In the afternoon, he could go to tie the fence.

   After cleaning up the yard, he washed his hands and came over to help peel the horseshoe.

   "It's up to you to make up your own mind about this matter. I heard from the third child that the shopkeeper of the Zhizha shop wanted to find a wife for his daughter, but the mother didn't agree with the second brother's marriage. I'm afraid there will be trouble."

   "Mother agrees!"

   It was Cui Jikang who answered the call.

  He came back from the mountain with a bundle on his shoulder and a bamboo basket in his hand. When he saw Xu Yin, he raised the bamboo basket excitedly, and his tone was full of excitement:

   "Sister-in-law, I found the little thorn ball you want! Is it this?"

   He heard from Goudan that the sister-in-law had been looking for a small thorn ball that was covered with thorns and easily stuck to clothes and hair.

  Little spike ball?

  Xu Yin didn't remember it all at once.

   Until you see the things in the bamboo basket, ah! castor bean!

  Her eyes lit up instantly: "Where did you find it?"

"Beside the mountain stream ditch, there's a big clump, but there are thorns growing outside, so you can't see it at first glance. I found it after chasing a hare." Speaking of this, Cui Jikang lowered his face, "It's a pity that the hare slipped too far." Quick, no catch."

   "Hahaha! It's okay, I'll make it up to you next time sister-in-law catches a hare!"

  Xu Yin praised him and wanted to keep him for dinner, but he insisted on going back and didn't force him to stay.

  Poured out the castor beans in the bamboo basket, filled him with three or four catties of horseshoes, put six salted duck eggs on the horseshoes, and chopped pork ribs in a paper bag.

   "Sister-in-law, are these small thorn **** enough? Not enough, I will go up the mountain tomorrow to pick them."

  Seeing that there are eggs and meat, the boy is a little embarrassed.

  After the spring plowing, there is relatively little work in the field. He has time to go up the mountain every day, and the big deal is to help his sister-in-law pick more thorn balls.

   "No, I'll transplant the castor-bean tree later, so as to save running back and forth."

   "Then I'll take you there, that place is a bit out of the way."

"good."

  Cui Jikang greeted his elder brother and went home excitedly.

  Cui Mengjin saw that she was so happy surrounded by a bunch of small thorn balls, and asked curiously: "What's the use of this thing?"

   "Very useful!"

  Castor bean itself is a traditional Chinese medicinal material for reducing swelling and detoxification. Secondly, because of its high oil content, it is a good material for base fertilizer.

  However, before fertilization, the castor seeds without thorns need to be fried like melon seeds, let cool, grind into powder, and evenly spread in the soil like plant ash. Castor beans are used as base fertilizer, and the fertilizer effect is no worse than that of rapeseed cake residue.

  After lunch, Cui Mengjin went to several dangerous embankments of the lotus pond to build fences. Xu Yin spread the castor beans in the yard to dry, the skin was dry and cracked, and the seeds inside could be removed without peeling.

   was busy, Rizheng came over again.

  He discussed with the clan elders and decided to build a collective lotus pond.

   "Meng Jin's daughter-in-law, I think what you said at noon is very reasonable, we decided to follow what you said. Regarding work points, and what kind of dividends, can you talk about it in detail?"

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Is she the collective economic advisor of Chengdawa Village?

"Sit down and chat." Xu Yin brought Comrade Xiaojin's reclining chair out, sat in it, went to the kitchen to make a pot of dandelion tea, grabbed two handfuls of melon seeds and peanuts fried during the Chinese New Year, and After washing a plate of horseshoes and peeling them for fruit, they sat down and chatted with Li Zheng over tea.

Li Zheng couldn't help but sigh: There is probably no other person in the whole village who is as particular as Meng Jin's wife. She just said a few words, served tea and snacks, and let him lean on the recliner to loosen his muscles and bones and feel comfortable. !

  Since Dawa Village really decided to build a collective lotus pond, Xu Yin listed all the items related to lotus root and ducks.

   "But at the beginning, let's not spread everything out at once, first pick two safe ones, such as lotus root flour processing workshop and salted duck egg pickling workshop, and the rest can be added later."

  Li was listening and nodded: "Yes, yes, it's more important to be safe."

"It's just that it's late spring, so it's probably too late to plant lotus roots this year." Xu Yin mused, "But you can raise ducks first, and the ducklings will grow bigger just in time for weeding and weeding the rice fields. Let's look at the harvest of my lotus pond this year. If it’s good, I’ll save some for the village to plant. Next spring, I’ll pick a lake for trial planting, and I’ll go through how to sell and make lotus root flour. When it’s ready, I’ll be able to do it in earnest the next year!”

   "It makes sense, it makes sense!"

"This is how I think about work points. Roughly divide the positions according to the type of work required. For example, raising ducks, there are jobs such as driving ducks, cleaning duck houses, feeding ducks, and picking eggs in the later stage. These jobs can be divided among different people. , everyone has a little bit, and full work points will be given if the work is done well. If it is completed but the effect will be discounted, then the work points will be determined according to the situation. Unified settlement."

   "Dividends are the money earned after selling ducks or duck eggs at the end of the year, and will be settled to the big guy according to the number of work points."

"besides…"

  Li was remembering what Xu Yin said one by one in his mind, but worried that he would remember it today and forget it tomorrow, so when he got home, he took out the treasured Four Treasures of the Study, and copied a copy while recalling it.

  (end of this chapter)