After lunch, a group of people walked back to the main courtyard along the shade of the tree. The cicadas kept making noises all the way, and they were not sleepy at first.

  Xu Yinwai took a nap on the freshly tidied bed, and when she got up, she heard Hongqian say that the housekeeper had come.

   "Could it be that the butler thinks that the girl is going to live in Wanhuazhuang until the autumn harvest and return home." Hongqian pursed her lips and laughed, "I'm thinking about the girl, so I came to the village to see the girl."

   "The housekeeper came alone? But what's the matter?"

   "Back to the girl, I came with the accountant. They said they came to show the girl the account of the first half of the year."

  Xu Yin held his forehead: "He really loves to worry."

   What was more worrying was yet to come... After she invited the butler into the room, made a pot of tea, and heard his intentions, her whole body cracked.

   "You mean, after the filial piety, there are many people in the house who come to propose marriage? So you come to me to discuss, which one to choose?"

"It's not that I have to choose my son-in-law from among these people. But the girl has to think about this matter, and she has been procrastinating. A matchmaker comes to the door every three days, and the old slave can't make up her mind. She always prevaricates with words. It's been a long time , I am worried that there will be gossip, it is not good for the girl..."

  The old butler was worried.

  He was really worried that those who couldn't get what they asked for, in order not to be laughed at, would drag the girl into the water if they didn't keep it clean, saying that the girl's eyes were higher than the top or something, which would be bad for the girl's reputation in the future.

  Xu Yin twitched the corner of her mouth: "I'm only sixteen, why are you in such a hurry?"

   "It's really not young. When the old man was looking for a son-in-law for his wife, the wife had just reached the age of Ji."

  Xu Yin: "..."

  This is not good in ancient times. A girl who was fifteen or sixteen years old did not go to middle school or high school until modern times. She wants to go back to modern times!

   "Then spread the word, I want to hire a wife!"

  Xu Yin made a bold decision.

   This trick would scare away many people in the 1970s, let alone in ancient times when the concept of family inheritance was very important, she didn't believe that people would rush to the door after saying this.

  The old housekeeper heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this. Compared with the girl getting married, he of course hopes that the girl will find a son-in-law. If the master and wife are still alive, they will definitely find a suitable son-in-law for the girl.

   "The old slave just said what the girl wanted?"

   "Well, let's go!"

   It is best to scare off all the people who want to come to propose marriage.

  The housekeeper rarely came to Zhuangzi, so Xu Yin asked him to stay for a few more days.

   When it comes to team building, of course, the more colleagues from the unit arrive, the better.

"Xu Kui will come over in two days. Let's hold a lotus picking competition. At that time, two people will row a boat to pick the lotus pods. Girls, I will win the lottery. Which group picks the lotus pods, and the number of lotus seeds peeled out is large and full. This lottery belongs to which group."

  She asked Ziyuan to take out two twenty taels of silver ingots, plus a pair of gold-coated silver hairpins.

  Zi Yuan and several servant girls clapped their hands and called this fun.

  The old butler was so talked about that he was ready to move.

  Although it sounds like a game played by young people, who said he can't play it when he is old? He was on his feet.

   "Sikong, can you row a boat?"

  The old butler began to draw allies.

   "Bowing?"

   "That's right! The girl said that in the lotus picking competition, you have to row a boat into the lotus pond to pick them. Those who can't row and those who can row are in a group. If you can't row, I'll find someone who can row. Can you know it?"

"Well."

   "What do you mean?"

   "I haven't crossed it, but is that difficult?"

   "..."

  The old butler waved his hand, left the accounting room without hesitation, and went to chat in the nursing home.

  Sikong: "..."

   Realistic old guy!

   Zhuangtou heard that the girl was going to take the servants in the mansion to go into the water to pick lotus pods, so he came here specially to ask for instructions:

   "How many boats does the girl need? There are two fishing boats in Zhuangzi, but there is only one boatman. If both boats are launched, then I will find another boatman."

   "No need." Xu Yin said, "They row by themselves."

  Since it is a team building activity, it is fun to plan by yourself! Otherwise, what's the point of just sitting on the boat and picking a lotus pod back without any difficulty?

   Zhuangtou: "..."

   Self, draw by yourself?

   Didn't expect the servants in the mansion to be so capable, everyone can even row a boat.

  I think he has been working in Zhuangzi for so many years, and he is good at everything else, but he is not good at rowing. If he rowed hard, the boat would not move forward, and it would stay in place and spin...

  Xu Yin didn't know what he was thinking, so she knew it and laughed: What a misunderstanding!

  In the past few days, she would go out for a walk every morning and evening, and went around Wanhuazhuang.

  In addition to the five-acre lotus pond, Wanhua Village is all high-quality fertile land, of which 80 mu is paddy field.

  Nowadays, rice flower fish are raised in the ten-acre paddy field near Zhuangtou's house, which is convenient for him to check from time to time; the rest of the paddy fields are still cultivated as in previous years.

  The background of this novel world is an overhead dynasty. There is no double-cropping rice. Rice is planted in spring and harvested in July and August. After that, winter wheat is planted and harvested in the next spring. The land does not stop throughout the year, but the yield is still very low.

  While strolling, Xu Yin was thinking, how can we increase the output?

  This is not like the Nanman in the Yan Dynasty. Because of the lack of information in the Nanman, she can take out high-yield seeds and say that she exchanged them with Hu merchants. But here, you can see traveling merchants everywhere on the streets of Los Angeles. Perhaps it is because a lot of spices come from foreign lands, and the people of Los Angeles have a good acceptance of goods from foreign lands.

  Seeing traveling merchants selling outland seeds, as long as the price is not too expensive, Zhuangtou will buy some back to see what can be planted.

   Therefore, this trick is not easy to use here.

  Seeds cannot be optimized, and the yield per mu can only be increased from the perspective of fertility for the time being.

  Xu Yin asked Zhuangtou, how did Zhuangzi pile up the fertilizer? Then she talked about how she fertilized the spice flowers and how she fertilized them.

  Zhuangtou didn't expect that the girl could understand this, and suddenly felt like meeting a bosom friend. Make a pot of tea and a plate of fried soybeans, and you can chat from afternoon to evening.

  Xu Yin persuaded him to try the new fertilization method. If he is not at ease, he can use a small amount of a few acres as a test field. He will not lose money if he tries it, and he will not be fooled if he tries it, right?

   Zhuangtou sounded reasonable, so he tried it the next day.

  It’s just right, the paddy field is drained at the end of the month, and after that, it needs to be fertilized again. Calculate the number of days for fertilization, and it happens to be almost usable. Let’s take the fat dew field that the girl said.

   Zhuangtou was busy with Xu Yin’s drawing of the fat field pancake—the new style of fat. On Xu Yin’s side, after Xu Kui arrived with Xu Cai and other servants, the team building officially started.

  Everyone gathered under the shade of the trees by the lotus pond, listened carefully to Zi Yuan’s talk about the content of the lotus-picking competition, and chattered:

   "Do you still want to row a boat? I can't!"

   "I will! The two of us?"

   "Hey! Xu Dong, you said you were with me yesterday, why did you find someone else today?"

   "You are too big, I'm afraid I can't row."

   "Hey! You bastard!"

"Ha ha ha ha…"

   There was a lot of laughter at the nursing home.

   There are also some people who are happy and some who are worried about the servant girls and servants:

   "Sitting on a boat to pick lotus pods? Will it fall into the water? I can't swim!"

   "Don't worry! The lotus pond is very shallow. Zhuangtou said that the deepest part is only up to our necks, so we shouldn't be drowned."

   "..."

  On the other side, Xu Kui looked at his father in astonishment: "Father, you want to participate too? Isn't that inappropriate?"

   "What's wrong? The girl didn't say anything, so you have to speak?"

   "..."

   What a soft-spoken person!