farming in ancient times

Chapter 46 Improving the Neighborhood

When Wang Hanshi heard her father's words, her heart was suffocated, and her face changed slightly. Thinking that she was a girl who had gone out of the family, she simply changed the subject, "Father, mother, do you want to go to the ground to have a look?"

Uncle Han glanced at his daughter, thought for a while, "Okay!" Then he went out with his wife.

When the old couple walked to the paddy field of Wang's family, they saw people standing on the ridge of the field. They stopped a young man and asked, "What are you all doing?"

"The people from Xiao Er's family are crazy!" After finishing speaking, the young man turned his head, and when he saw Da Lang's father-in-law, he subconsciously covered his mouth, "I, that, I didn't say anything."

At this time, the village head who heard that Xiao Er was crazy also ran over.Xiaoer saw Village Chief Wang and told him about planting two crops of rice a year without waiting for him to ask.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone stared at him with wide eyes.Xiao Er's pores were erected by many people, afraid that the jealous neighbors would turn around and harm their rice seedlings, so Xiao Er said, "I'm just trying, if I can plant two crops of rice a year, then We can harvest one more crop next year. If you want to try it, there is barely enough time to grow seedlings now."

"Xiaoer, is what you said true?" the village head asked hurriedly.

"I'm not sure, I haven't done it before." Xiaoer didn't talk too much, "If the village head uncle is not afraid of wasting a crop of rice seeds, just try it."

The village chief looked at Xiao Er uncertainly, thinking about the plow in Xiao Er's house, and his relationship with the county magistrate. Let's try planting for the county magistrate again.

Just ask, "How sure are you?"

"Half and half." Seeing the enthusiastic eyes of the villagers, Xiaoer's pores stood up again, "You, if you follow me to grow, you can't blame me if you don't receive anything later."

Da Lang also hurriedly said, "It's better for you to wait until we plant it."

"I believe in Xiaoer!" The village head said loudly.

Xiao Er continued in a low voice, "I don't believe in myself."

As soon as the words came out, the villagers on the ridge of the field, including the old couple of the Han family, burst into laughter, and Zheng Daniu said, "Xiao Er, you are willing to tell us that you can grow two crops of rice a year. We don't know how to thank you. If someone turned around and came to trouble you, then what kind of people should we be?"

"Become someone like Mr. Wang and Zhao." Someone answered, and the second uncle and his second uncle, who got in among the crowd, took back a foot they had taken, turned around and left with a snort.

There are several families with many brothers, so they are not afraid of Wang Zhao's family and the others will "pooh" at Wang Fayuan.Seeing this, everyone laughed again, only Xiaoer and the others didn't laugh, but lowered their heads in embarrassment.

Someone persuaded, "Xiao Er, your grandma's innocence is their business and has nothing to do with you."

Da Lang wanted to speak, but Ren Yuan stepped on Da Lang's foot with his lame leg.Xiaoer said, "Then it's my grandma who gave birth to my father. If my father is still alive, he will be angry when he sees grandma being beaten by the county magistrate because of us."

The village head wanted to say, if your father was alive, your family would still be in trouble now, thinking that it would be pitiful for the three brothers of the second family to have no father or mother, the village head didn’t say anything, so he went home and thought about it Do you want to report it to the county magistrate?When everyone saw that the village head had left, they also dispersed.

Zheng Daniu, Carpenter Feng and the two men who helped Xiaoer's house build the stove earlier went to the field to help Xiaoer plant rice seedlings. Xiaoer was so flattered that Da Lang couldn't speak for a while.

"Uncle, you can see that my house is just a small paddy field, and the few of us will fix it in a while." The second boy reacted and said, "I really don't need to help."

"That's right, uncle, our family doesn't have much work." Da Lang saw his mother-in-law and old man also helping Xiaoshan move rice seedlings, "Father, mother, go to your house, we will be back in a while."

"What are you talking about, it's not like we can't work." Old Han glared at his son-in-law.Xiao Er said, "Ma'am, it will be noon in a while, why don't you go back and help my sister-in-law cook?"

Aunt Han wanted to say no, but when she thought that her daughter still had a child, she hurriedly said yes.

With the help of Zheng Daniu and others, the six-acre paddy field of Xiao Er's family was completed in the middle of the afternoon, and there were still some rice seedlings left. Xiao Er said, "Uncle Da Niu, I really don't know how to thank you. No, you take these rice seedlings back separately."

Rice seedlings are more expensive than rice seeds. Zheng Daniu heard from his mother-in-law that Xiaoer originally planned to sell these rice seedlings, and it was all money.

Before Zheng Daniu waved his hand, Carpenter Feng said, "Xiaoer, who are you to us, how can you want your rice seedlings?"

"That's right. Xiao Er, what do you think of us?"

"Xiao Er, we have rice seeds at home, just go back and get them by yourself."

"However, it's a waste of rice seedlings to stay here." Xiaoer looked at the lush and tender rice seedlings distressedly.

"You kid is so stupid to work." Zheng Daniu patted Xiaoer on the shoulder, "You still have a lot of land in the backyard of your house, which is enough for your family to grow vegetables. Just put these rice seedlings in a few months You can harvest a few catties of rice."

"Hey!" Xiao Er patted his head, "Look at my head, it's getting harder and harder to use."

If your brain doesn't work well, everyone in Wangjia Village will become fools.

Several people looked at Xiao Er amusedly, but no one said anything.Hearing Xiao Er left them for dinner, several people waved their hands repeatedly.They ate a pot of wild vegetable egg noodle soup and a basket of pancakes at noon. They were very embarrassed that they could eat so much, and they simply said that they had something to do at home and had to go back.

Xiao Er was also polite, and said to see them off when she heard this.

Everyone walked from the backyard to the front yard, and as soon as they reached the door, they saw two men coming here.

Zheng Daniu took a closer look, "Hey, Dalang, why do those two look like your first uncle and second uncle?"

"Where?" Uncle Han came out from behind the crowd when he heard this, and he saw that it was really his two sons, "Why are these two bastards here?"

As soon as the four men heard that Xiaoer's house had guests, they planned to leave quickly. When they heard the old man's words, they stopped in their tracks, waiting to see what the two of the Han family were doing.

The two of them didn't keep them waiting any longer, and they asked Da Lang before they could stand still, "Brother-in-law, I heard that your family has grown rice, and you still have two crops a year, how did you plant it?"

"Who did you listen to?" Uncle Han asked first.

"Father, don't care who we listen to." They won't be stupid and say that they pay special attention to the affairs of Xiao Er's family, and whenever they meet people in Wangjia Village, they will ask Xiao Er's whereabouts under the guise of his sister. What are you doing?

"Then don't ask me any more, Dalang told me how to get the rice." Uncle Han called his wife, "Damn it, we should go."

"Father, you have to let us see how Dalang raises seedlings?" As he said that, he was about to squeeze into the yard.

Wang Fayuan had been secretly watching Xiaoer's family since he was planting rice seedlings in the morning since he was a child. He felt itchy when he saw Xiaoer pulling back half a car of rice seedlings. Wang Fayuan, who saved people, felt that they came to Xiaoer's house to get rice seedlings.

Wang Fayuan didn't know where he came from, and grabbed the boss of the Han family, "What do you want to do?"

When the second son of the Han family saw someone he didn't know, he asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Xiaoer Er Er Bo, I'm telling you, if I'm with you, don't want to pull the rice seedlings of Xiao Er's family!" Wang Fayuan said the justice Lingran, and everyone was very confused when they heard it. .Not to mention the two brothers of the Han family, even the great general Gao Butcher didn't react.

An uncle from Xiaoer’s family looked at Wang Fayuan’s anxious look, and had a flash of inspiration, “Wang Fayuan, you are really not human! When there is something going on at Xiaoer’s house, you shrank like an old turtle. As soon as there is a little rice seedling left, you are thinking about it, why are you not afraid that the second father and mother will come to you at night!"

"You, what nonsense are you talking about? How did you see that I was thinking about Xiao Er's rice seedlings!" Wang Fayuan's little thought was punctured by his brothers, and his face flushed.

Seeing their parents looking at them, the two brothers of the Han family hurriedly said, "We really didn't think about the rice seedlings at my sister's house, we just wanted to ask Dalang how to raise seedlings."

"I know, let's go home." Zhizi Mo Ruofu, the two sons just don't think so now, and when they turned around and saw half an acre of rice seedlings left in the backyard, the two sons would definitely take care of Da Lang.

No matter how bastard the two Han brothers are, they would not dare to put themselves in front of Xiaoer, a celebrity in front of the county magistrate. They took a look at Carpenter Feng and the others. The mother's words are gone.

As soon as they left, Xiao Er asked, "Second Uncle, what do you want to do?"

"What can he do!" The uncle of the second family gave Wang Fayuan a disdainful look, raised his fist, "Should you go away by yourself or wait for me to call the village chief?"

"Bah!" Wang Fayuan snorted unhappily, having nothing left.

"Xiaoer, be careful with your second uncle, he has a bad stomach, not like your uncle and Wang Laifu who have no brains." The uncle of my family didn't take it seriously when he saw Dalang, "Don't think that uncle's words are bad, he didn't plot against your family before. , that means you don’t have anything at home.”

"Thank you Uncle, we will pay attention." Xiao Er heard this for the first time, although it has something to do with his family's getting better and better, but Xiao Er is still sincerely grateful to him.

Originally, the rice seedlings had been planted, and the wheat in the field was about to come out. The family should be happy, but because of Wang Fayuan's disturbance, the family's hearts were a little delicate.

Xiaoer said, "Brother, we haven't been to grandpa's house since the Spring Festival. Let's go to Duan's village tomorrow. It's time for our uncle's house to plant rice."

"What about Brother Gao?" Da Lang asked.

"I'm going to town. Fangzheng and Ren Yuan just came back from a long trip, and the house needs to be tidied up." Butcher Gao said.

As soon as Da Lang thought that brother Gao's pork stall should start selling pork, he nodded, "Success!"

The next day, after Xiaoer had dinner, his elder brother and younger brother left. The three of Butcher Gao did not return home when they arrived in the town, so they split up into three groups to find comrades who lived closer to this place.

Just as the gate of Xiao Er's house was locked, Wang's Village became lively.

The fact that Xiaoer planted rice seedlings so early aroused discussion among the village elders. As the saying goes, an old man is like a treasure. These old men became serious when they saw the famous cheapskate in the village planting six acres of rice fields.

Although they are not as sure as the village head that Xiao Eryun planted the fields early because of the secret order of the county magistrate, but they have been rolling in the soil all their lives, and it is clear which solar terms should be planted.

Carefully counting the time for two crops of rice, the more I calculate, the more I feel that two crops a year are reliable, but the time in the middle is very fast.

It's okay to be tired in the middle. If we can really harvest two stubbles of rice this year, then... the old people in the village suddenly thought of the golden ground, and a few people have already secretly wondered how the Spring Festival should be passed.

As soon as the second and third brothers entered Wangjia Village, either the uncle grinned at them, or the grandpa waved to them. The second and third brothers returned home tremblingly holding their trembling little hearts, which were filled with smiles from all over the village, and hurriedly closed them. door.

Xiao Shan looked out through the crack of the door, and saw a grandmother who didn't usually interact with him coming to his house with a bowl of food. What's so weird about it?"

Xiaoer saw the eldest brother's face in a daze, "what's the matter, isn't it because of the two stubbles of rice." Hearing the knock on the door, Xiaoer pulled Xiaoshan to open the door, and saw that the other party was the mother of my uncle who spoke for her yesterday, " Grandma, what do you have here?"

"The little fish that a few dolls caught in the river told me to stew them into soup for Niu Niu to drink." The old woman looked at Niu Niu with a bowl in her hand, "Little Er, we should live our lives carefully, but you have to Make up for Niuniu."

"Yes. Tomorrow I will also go fishing." The first time I received something from my relatives after the father and mother died, Xiaoer hurriedly took it, carried it carefully to the kitchen, and said as he walked, " Xiao Shan, get a straw mat for our grandma."

"No, I'm going to my house." He took the bowl from Xiaoshouer, smiled at Wang Hanshi who left her to sit down, and then simply left.

Looking at his back going away, Da Lang was still a little unresponsive, "Xiaoer, what's going on?"

"First, our family used to be poor. Second, our grandparents used to come to our house every now and then to make trouble. Whoever dares to associate with our family is like that shrew Wang Zhao. They don't want to be scolded." The second said and shook his head, "In the future, other people will come to our house, sister-in-law, you must remember that you must not bring the gossip from the village to our house."

"Don't worry, I know." There are so many things in the house, not to mention food like ground fungus, but the big bed in the east wing is also eye-catching. Fortunately, the bed was assembled at home at that time, otherwise, this The days of peace and stability that came so hard are gone again.