Chapter 1041 The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-Law of the Blessed Nongmen (36)

   When County Magistrate Chen came, he had just finished writing.

   Seeing this unique plan for village collectives to grow lotus root and raise ducks, as well as concepts such as work points and dividends that have not appeared before, County Magistrate Chen's eyes suddenly brightened.

   "Wonderful! Wonderful!"

  Quickly asked who thought it up, he wanted to recruit this person under his banner.

   It turned out that it was thought up by an illiterate peasant woman again, County Magistrate Chen: "..."

  He doubted life: "Ms. Xu is really just an ordinary peasant woman?"

"Ah?" Li Zheng was suddenly asked such a question, stunned for a moment, and quickly replied, "Master Xu is the second daughter of Xu Mancang in Meihua Village. wild boar..."

   "Kong Wu is powerful? Hunting a litter of wild boars?"

  What the hell!

  Magistrate Chen twitched the corners of his mouth, but that wasn't what he asked.

  Forget it, the other party probably cast the wrong baby. He was supposed to be born in a scholarly family, a top scholar in scientific examinations, and used by the imperial court, but he was accidentally reborn in the countryside, and even became a woman.

  Unbeknownst to Xu Yin, County Magistrate Chen hurried back to the county seat with the plan she proposed to enrich the village collectively.

He passed by this place on business this time, and remembering the cartloads of lotus root seeds he had sent out years ago, and the order of the fourth prince, he asked the coachman to drive into the village, hoping that Lizheng would accompany him to the lotus pond of the Cui family, but he did not want to have such a harvest .

  He thought further than Lizheng. Dawa Village has many rivers and lakes, which is suitable for growing lotus roots and raising ducks. What about other villages?

   Some, like Dawa Village, have well-developed water systems, so they can learn from Dawa Village's plan to get rich;

  Some villages have few fertile fields and many mountainous areas. Can they grow fruit trees? Will the village collectively plant fruit trees and sell fruits?

   There are still villages close to Heishi Mountain. Can local villagers dig Heishi for the imperial court in the form of earning work points? Pay according to work points at the end of the year?

  In this way, the imperial court does not need to go to war to collect corvee, and men who need to serve corvee do not need to leave their hometowns to serve.

The advantage of this is that everyone has work to do, and if there is work to do, there will be food to eat, and no one will starve to death if there is food to eat. His Majesty cares about the country and the people. The reason why he puts farming at the top of all walks of life and attaches great importance to owning farming technology Isn't the talent here just to hope that the world will be in harmony and that the people will live and work in peace and contentment?

  As long as the fourth prince implements this idea, he will definitely win the Sacred Heart!

  Xu Yin didn't know at this time that an idea of ​​common prosperity that she had inadvertently thought of had been sent to the fourth prince's mansion by the magistrate Chen.

Under the leadership of Cui Jikang, she found the castor plant, cut down the surrounding thorn bushes, and then transplanted the castor plant to her temporarily vacant homestead. The base is planted on a circle.

  The plucked castor beans are peeled off their thorn shells, fried, dried and ground into powder, and Comrade Xiaojin picks them to the wetland to apply base fertilizer.

  On the other side of the wetland, except for a few acres of paddy fields that have just been transplanted after applying basal fertilizer, the rest of the land is still empty, which is just used as a test field.

   Two plots of the same size were designated, one was fertilized with castor beans, and the other was fertilized with rapeseed cake dregs. In the end, it was determined which plot was more fertile and had better harvests.

  As for what to plant... She rummaged through the seed bag, most of which were contributed by the run-and-go stall owner in Chunzhou Prefecture.

  She picked out the corn seeds, but if she secretly mixed in some system stock, it wasn't enough to plant.

  Let’s add a little more, and she was afraid that Comrade Xiaojin would be suspicious, so she simply put together a basket of taro seeds, and the two fields had two rows of corn and two rows of taro.

  Let's race! Mr. Wetland!

After the spring plowing, the work in the field is relatively leisurely. Xu Yin plans to hire a few helpers, otherwise, relying on the couple alone, if they want to use the wetland around the 20-acre lotus pond, they will have to work from opening their eyes until it is dark. Free time will do.

   She has already figured out who to ask for help—brothers and cousins ​​from her natal family.

  For this reason, she took the time to go back to her mother's house. By the way, she wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with Sanya, mainly asking her about her requirements for another partner.

  The last time I went back to my natal home was the second day of the first lunar month.

At that time, Xu Yin had already lost weight. Mrs. Xu probably saw that her body shape was no different from that of an ordinary daughter-in-law. In her memory, the sturdy image of her granddaughter with hob meat gradually blurred with the passage of time, so she wanted to treat her like other granddaughters. She asked her for twenty taels right away, saying that her grandson was about to get engaged, and the bride price hadn't been settled yet, and now that there is a new type of fertilization method, everyone wants to buy paddy fields to grow rice, of course the old Xu's family is also greedy, Erya Since he has this ability, how can he not help the family?

  Xu Yin was not used to her, so she performed a scene for the old lady on the spot by pinching the handle of the broom with one hand, which frightened the old lady to sit upright, so she dared to make half a request.

  Going back this time, when Xu Yin said that she wanted to find a helper, the old lady held back and didn't dare to ask "Is there any wages", and her face turned purple.

It wasn't until Xu Yin said that the wages were compared with those of the short-term workers in the town, that she breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, my family should help each other, not to mention wages. You sit down, Erya, and I'll call for you. Brothers and cousins ​​must be very happy."

   After finishing speaking, Mrs. Xu went out with her little feet.

  Xu Yin just wanted to talk to Sanya, so she went with the old lady's arrangement.

  Anyway, no matter who you hire, as long as you go to work at her house, you have to follow her rules.

   "Sanya, Dad said that he wants to find someone for you, and your marriage will be finalized in the first half of the year. What do you think?"

   "I, I don't want to marry so early." Sanya lowered her head, her voice was as soft as a mosquito.

   "Is it because you simply don't want to marry so early, or because you have someone you like and don't want to be arranged by the family to marry?"

   "Second Sister!"

   Sanya raised her head abruptly, her eyes filled with shock and astonishment.

   After reacting, he hurriedly lowered his head, twisting the corner of his clothes with his fingers: "No, no, I just want to spend a few more years with my parents..."

   "Sanya, I don't have much time. If you want to fight for your lifelong event, just explain it to the second sister. The second sister will hold your eyes for you to see if the other party is worth your wait."

"He is worth it..." Sanya choked up, "He is the only boy student in our village who has passed the exam in recent years, and he was expected to be a scholar. Unfortunately, something happened to his family three years ago, and his father fell into the trap of Orion. The lung was stabbed, his mother was pregnant with his third brother at the time, and couldn't bear the blow, so she activated it in advance. Because the third brother was born prematurely, his body is very weak. In the past three years, the soup and medicine have been incessant, and his mother did not sit well during confinement. He also often falls ill. His parents were rescued, but he would be out of breath after walking a few steps. My grandma will not agree to this marriage..."

  That's true, it's no wonder that Mrs. Xu would agree to such a condition. It's not that she cherishes her granddaughter and worries that she will suffer hardships when she gets married, but that such a poor and settled family can't afford the bride price she wants.

  (end of this chapter)