Chen Changsheng glared at him, "You can pay taxes just by planting? I'm putting my words here, you can do whatever you want, plant or not. I've said all, don't argue with me when the seedlings are gone. But, Chen Maoer, can your family's financial resources afford the risk of losing seedlings and seeds?"
Chen Maoer, who was named, had a bitter face and said nothing.
Now his family is the poorest in the whole village. In the past, Chen Ergou's family was at the bottom, so he could still be proud of himself. But Chen Ergou brought disaster upon himself, and his family's situation has not changed.
Alas, from being the second poorest person in the village to being the poorest, he felt ashamed in front of the villagers.
"I, I believe you." Chen Maoer said, "My family has ten acres of paddy fields near the river. This year, I won't plant any. But, Brother Changsheng, can you share some cotton seeds with me? I want to plant some cotton on the south slope."
Forget about growing pepper. Not to mention that pepper seedlings are expensive, it takes several years for the pepper vines to bloom and bear fruit. His family really can't afford to wait.
Chen Changsheng snorted, "I don't have much cotton to grow at home, so you should think of other ways. Oh, by the way, let me remind you again, while you are not too busy now, go to the south slope and cut some bamboo to build a bamboo shed or something, and move all the big things in your home there, so that if there is a flood, they won't be ruined."
More than half of the forty or so household heads nodded in agreement, with only a few disagreeing.
Among them, Chen Laoshuan was the most disdainful.
My house is made of bricks and tiles. No matter how strong the flood is, it won't be washed down. Why bother with these poor guys
He stood up, patted the folds of his clothes on his buttocks and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll go back. You guys can chat slowly."
His second son has gone to the county town to take the imperial examination, and his eldest son and grandson have also accompanied him to take care of him. Only his wife, daughter-in-law and grandson are left at home. He has to take care of the spring planting, and is very busy. He has no time to waste here.
Those who had the same idea as him also asked to go home. After all, the paddy fields needed to be plowed and irrigated, and then rice seeds needed to be planted and seedlings grown.
Chen Changsheng sighed, waved his hand to let them go, and then said to the remaining villagers: "You should go home and prepare, and follow me to Nanpo tomorrow."
Their West Village also has many fields on the south slope, right next to the East Village, but one is on the east and the other is on the west.
"Okay, let's go to Nanpo tomorrow." The rest of the people were very happy, because many families also wanted to build houses in Nanpo, but Muramasa did not agree. Of course, there were also some people who could not afford to build because they had no extra money at home.
But now it’s different. Muramasa is leading them to build huts on the south slope. If they are crazy, they won’t go.
So one day, the villagers of Dongchen Village suddenly discovered that in the land on the south slope belonging to Xicun, straw houses and bamboo sheds were springing up like mushrooms after a rain.
When the villagers of West Village saw the people from East Village watching from afar, they waved and greeted them enthusiastically.
When Yingbao was walking her pony, she would go over to take a look, then go back to her own field to continue planting chestnut trees, apple trees, and soapberry trees.
In addition, Yingbao planted one thousand golden ear mushrooms and one thousand snow ear mushrooms in his own mushroom shed. The nutrient medium for cultivating the strains did not contain Wudingzhi, but was soaked and steamed in Tongkongquan before use, which could kill the insect eggs and pathogens in the nutrient medium and increase the yield.
Of course, she also planted a batch in the cave, with about a thousand plants each.
Seeing that she had started growing mushrooms so early, her parents also tried to start growing them. They expanded their mushroom shed by two more rooms and increased the number of plants planted to one thousand of each.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang decided to follow their third brother and plant the same amount.
Anyway, everyone can mix the nutrient base together, and steam and sterilize it together, which saves trouble.
In the midst of all the busyness, March soon arrived.
On this day, a carriage suddenly came to the village, followed by two servants. One of the servants was a teenager, and Yingbao recognized him as Aqiu, the servant of Mrs. Wen San's wife, Lin.
The carriage drove straight to the gate of the Jiang family, and a middle-aged man in his thirties with a short beard got off the carriage.
Ah Qiu also jumped off his horse and shouted into the yard, "Is anyone home?"
Yingbao ran over and asked, "Who are you looking for? My parents are not at home."
Dad has been very busy lately and I often don't see him for a whole day. Mom is also tidying up the vegetable garden and planting melons and cucumbers.
Seeing that it was Yingbao, Qiu smiled and said, "It's Yingbao, this is our Lin Dalangjun, who was asked by the Wen family to come to your house today to collect fungus."
Ying Bao glanced at the arrogant Lin Dalangjun and frowned: "Entrusted by the Wen family?"
"Yes." Seeing Yingbao didn't seem to believe it, Qiu explained, "Our Mr. Lin is the brother of Mrs. Wen."
Yingbao said truthfully: "I'm so sorry, I've sold all my mushroom ears."
Mrs. Wen did say before that someone from the Wen family would come to buy it, but she didn't ask her to keep it and wait.
Moreover, Sister Wen did not mention this matter in her last letter. She just said that her family had moved to Luzhou and asked her to send the letter to Luzhou Kang'an Pharmacy.
At the beginning of March, I wrote a letter to Sister Wen and sent it to Luzhou, and attached two pounds of golden ear fungus and two pounds of snow ear fungus to them. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the month, the Wen family sent a member of the Lin family here to ask for mushroom ears.
Lin Lu frowned upon hearing this and shouted angrily, "What? You guys are so bold that you dare to sell even the things that the Wen family wants?"
Yingbao was unhappy when she heard this: "Who are you? Why can't I just sell my things?"
She hadn't signed a contract with the Wen family, and the Wen family hadn't paid a deposit, so why did she have to wait for them to buy it? Wouldn't it be better to sell it in her own shop? The price would be three or four times higher than selling it to the Wen family.
Seeing that a little girl from the Jiang family dared to talk back to him, Lin Lu became even angrier: "How dare you! Where are your parents? Let them come and talk to me!"
"My family is very busy and has no time to receive guests. If you have nothing else to do, I won't keep you here." Yingbao didn't want to talk to such a weird person.
Seeing that her husband was about to get angry, Ah Qiu quickly advised: "My husband, the child doesn't know the rules, you don't have to be angry with her, I will go find her elders to answer your questions."
Lin Lu snorted, turned around and walked away from the Jiang family’s gate.
Another servant quickly brought out a stool from the carriage and asked his master to sit down and rest.
A Qiu trotted all the way to the farmland to look for the Jiang family, and actually found Old Man Jiang and Jiang Dalang.
Old man Jiang and his eldest son were confused and followed A Qiu back home. They saw a man in his thirties sitting not far from the door. He had a white face and a short beard, and was wearing a long cotton robe. It was obvious that he was not a farmer's son.
"Sir, what do you want to talk to us about?" Jiang Dalang asked.
Lin Lu glanced at him sideways, but did not stand up. He said, "I was entrusted by the Wen family to come to your house to get the golden ears. I wonder how much you have prepared?"
"What golden ears do you want?" Jiang Dalang was not very clear about the transaction between Madam Wen and Yingbao. He only knew that when Madam Wen was around, she often bought golden ears from Yingbao, but never from others.
A Qiu was afraid that his master would clash with the Jiang family again, so he quickly explained: "My husband was asked by the Wen family to come and collect the agreed mushrooms."
Jiang Dalang was surprised: "It's not the right time to harvest golden ears now. Our mushroom ears have not been planted for a long time and have not grown well yet."