Chapter 223 Wen Family Entrustment
Chen Changsheng's eyes widened: "You can pay taxes as soon as you plant them? What I say is here, you can do whatever you want, whether you plant it or not, it doesn't matter. I'll stop here. Don't argue with me when the seedlings are gone. However, Chen Mao Son, can your little family withstand the risk of losing seedlings and seeds?"
Chen Maoer, who was named, had a grimace and said nothing.
Now his family is the poorest in the whole village. In the past, Chen Ergou's family was at the bottom, and he could still be proud of it. However, Chen Ergou was tricked into death by himself, and his family's situation has not changed.
Alas, from being the second poorest in the village to being the poorest in the village, he felt like he couldn't hold his head high in front of the villagers.
"I, I believe what you say." Chen Mao'er said: "My family has ten acres of paddy fields near the Chuan River. This year, I won't plant them this year. However, brother Changsheng, can you give some cotton seeds to me? I want to grow some cotton on the south slope.”
Don't even think about growing pepper. Not to mention that pepper seedlings are expensive, but the pepper vines will take several years to bear fruit. His family really can't afford to wait.
Chen Changsheng snorted, "I don't grow much cotton 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 to cut some bamboo and build a bamboo A shed or something like that, just move all the big stuff in your house there, so that if there’s a flood, it won’t be ruined.”
Most of the forty or so household heads nodded in agreement, while only a few people disagreed.
Among them, Chen Laoshuan was the most disdainful.
My house is made of bricks and tiles, and no amount of water can destroy it, so why bother fooling around with these poor people.
He stood up, patted the folds of his buttocks and said, "I'll go back if nothing happens. You guys can chat slowly."
My second son has already gone to the county town to take the exam, and my eldest son and grandson are also accompanying him to take care of him. Only my wife, daughter-in-law, and grandson are left at home. He has to go to Luochunzhong and is very busy. How can he have free time to idle here? .
People who had the same idea as him also asked to go home. After all, the paddy fields need to be plowed and watered, and then rice seeds and seedlings need to be planted.
Chen Changsheng sighed, waved his hand to let them go, and then said to the remaining villagers: "You also go home and prepare, and follow me to Nanpo tomorrow."
Their West Village also has many fields on the south slope, next to the East Village, but one is in the east and the other is in the west.
"Okay, let's go to Nanpo tomorrow." The rest of the people were very happy, because many people also wanted to build houses on Nanpo, but the village leader did not agree. Of course, some people also had no money left at home. Can't afford it.
But it's different now. Muramasa led them to build shacks on the south slope, and he didn't want to go because his brain was broken.
So one day, the villagers of Dongchen Village suddenly discovered that straw houses and bamboo sheds had sprung up on the land belonging to the West Village on the south slope.
When the villagers from the West Village saw the people from the East Village watching from a distance, they waved and greeted them enthusiastically.
Yingbao would go over to take a look when walking her pony, and then go back to her own land to continue planting chestnut trees, apple trees, and honey locust trees.
In addition, Yingbao planted 1,000 golden fungus and 1,000 snow fungus plants in his bacteria shed. The nutrient base for cultivating the strains did not add Wudingzhi, but was soaked and steamed in Pupil Spring before use. It can not only kill insect eggs and pathogens in the nutrient base, but also increase production.
Of course, she also planted a batch of plants in the cave, each with a thousand plants.
Seeing that she was growing mushrooms so early, her parents also tried to grow them and expanded their mushroom shed by two more, increasing the number of plants to a thousand of each type.
When Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang saw this, they planted the same amount as their third brother.
Anyway, when mixing the nutrient base, everyone mixes it together and cooks and sterilizes it together, which saves trouble.
In such a busy time, March has quickly arrived.
On this day, a carriage suddenly came to the village, followed by two attendants. One of the teenage attendants, Ying Bao, recognized him as Aqiu, the servant of the Lin family, Mrs. Wen's third wife.
The carriage went straight to the door of Jiang's house, and a short-bearded middle-aged man in his thirties got out of the carriage.
Aqiu also quickly jumped off his horse and shouted into the yard: "Is anyone home?"
Ying Bao rushed over and asked, "Who are you looking for? My parents are not at home."
Dad has been very busy recently and often doesn't see him all day long, while grandma is also tidying up the fields in the vegetable garden and planting cantaloupes and courgettes.
Seeing that it was Yingbao, Aqiu smiled and said, "It's Yingbao. This is Mr. Lin Dalang, who was entrusted by the Wen family to come to your house to collect mushrooms today."
Ying Bao looked at Lin Dalangjun with a haughty expression and frowned: "Entrusted by the Wen family?"
"Yes." Seeing that Ying Bao didn't believe it, Ah Qiu explained, "Our Mr. Lin Dalang is the biological brother of Mrs. Wen San."
Ying Bao said truthfully: "I'm so sorry, all my mushrooms have been sold."
Mrs. Wen did say before that someone from the Wen family would come to buy it, but she didn't let her keep it waiting.
Moreover, Sister Wen didn't mention this in her last letter. She just said that their family had moved to Luzhou and asked her to send the letter to Kang'an Pharmacy in Luzhou.
At the beginning of March, I just wrote a letter to Sister Wen and sent it to Luzhou, and attached two jins of gold fungus and two jins of snow fungus to them. Unexpectedly, in the middle of March, the Wen family actually sent a Lin family member here to ask for the bacteria. Ear.
Lin Lu frowned when he heard this and yelled angrily: "What? Are you so brave that you even dare to sell the things that the Wen family wants?"
Ying Bao was unhappy when she heard this: "Who are you? Why can't I just sell my things?"
She didn't sign a contract with the Wen family, and the Wen family didn't put down a deposit, so why did she have to wait for them to buy it? Wouldn't it be better to sell it in your own shop? The price would be three or four times higher than selling it to the Wen family.
Lin Lu became even more angry when he saw that a girl from the Jiang family dared to talk back to him: "How dare you! Where are your adults? Let them talk to me!"
"My family is very busy and we don't have time to receive guests. If this gentleman has nothing else to do, I won't keep you here." Ying Bao didn't want to be verbose with such an inexplicable person.
Seeing that her husband was about to become violent, Aqiu quickly advised her: "Lang Jun, this kid doesn't know the rules, so you don't have to get angry with her. I'll go find her elders to talk to you."
Lin Lu snorted, turned around and walked away from the Jiang family gate.
Another attendant quickly brought out a stool from the carriage and asked the master to sit down and rest.
Ah Qiu ran all the way to the farmland to look for the Jiang family, and actually found Old Man Jiang and Dalang Jiang.
Old man Jiang and his eldest son didn't know why, so they followed Aqiu 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 fine cloth robe. At first glance, he didn't belong to a farmer.
"What does this young master have to do with us?" Jiang Dalang asked.
Lin Lu glanced at him sideways, without getting up, and 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 gold ears are you getting?" Jiang Dalang didn't know much about the transaction between Mrs. Wen and Ying Bao. He only knew that when Mrs. Wen was around, she often bought gold ears from Ying Bao, but never from anyone else.
Aqiu was afraid that his master would conflict with the Jiang family again, so he quickly explained: "My husband was entrusted by the Wen family to collect the agreed mushrooms."
Jiang Dalang was surprised: "It's not the right time to harvest golden fungi. Our fungi haven't grown well yet after they were planted."