Just do it. You can't delay the matter of guarding the house door. Song Qiu is also afraid of turning around and one or two thieves will break in and steal in the middle of the night. It's really hard to guard against it.
This time she has a knife. What if she gets into her room next time?
Thinking about Song Qiu, he couldn't sit still.
So I prepared to go to the town to buy someone the next day.
Du Chuanfu was worried that she would go to town alone, and even if he was given leave, he would go with her as soon as the carriage was ready.
The couple couldn't rest. The day after they got married, Ms. Zou came to kowtow to her and thank her, but she also continued to organize the affairs of the inner court.
Song Qiu also sighed and thought about giving Zou a break once she got pregnant, and then giving the baby a big silver lock.
They wanted to buy people. Song Qiu guessed that there weren't many people at Zengjia Dental Store, so he decided to go directly to Dongling County first.
I happened to pass by Niujiabang to have a look.
She has twenty acres of paddy fields in Niujiabang, but she has never visited them once.
I bought it last year, and later I asked Du Chuanfu to go there with the land deed, and gave the paddy field to a family in Niujiabang Village.
It's almost time to thresh the millet at the end of the month. It would be a good idea to go take a look and make arrangements for paying the rent.
I got up early and walked early. After passing Panshi Town and walking another ten miles or so, I arrived at Niujiabang.
There is a fifty-mile road from Panshi Town to Dongling County, which only passes through Jinshui Town, and Niujiabang is the first village after leaving the town.
The village is quite large, with more than a hundred households said to have mixed surnames. Among them, most people have the surname Niu, so it is called Niujiabang Village.
Because it relies on the official road, it is easy to travel, and almost every household has fields, and there are quite a lot of them. For example, this family just sold their fields after losing a bet, and they have 20 acres of paddy fields, which is huge, so this
Niujiabang's life was quite prosperous.
On both sides of the path into the village are terraced fields, with half-yellow and half-green ears of rice bending over them, exuding the fragrance of rice.
Du Chuanfu pointed to the large area on the left and said to Song Qiu: "Girl, that area connected together is our family's paddy field."
Song Qiu followed his pointer and saw the endless patches of land, which made her heart happy.
Her family didn't have any land in the past, but now they have sixty acres of land, not to mention all the land they own. She plans to sell the rent and exchange it for rice.
But these 20 acres of paddy fields are actually a real crop of millet.
One acre yields five shi of grain, and 20 acres equals 100 shi of grain. We collect 70% of the rent, which is seventy shi, and then pay tax. One acre of eight dou tax, and 20 acres yields almost 16 shi of grain. The remaining
It's my own. It's less than five thousand kilograms of rice when ground into rice, which is enough to last for a long time.
And the family who shared the twenty acres of land worked hard for half a year and got 30%, which is thirty shi. When ground into rice, it can be worth about 2,700 kilograms, and when it is sold, it can be sold for about ten taels of silver.
It's hard work, and for ordinary people, this harvest is acceptable.
Of course, to be able to plant so many fields, strong labor is definitely indispensable.
I heard from Du Chuanfu that this family is very large. It has been four generations and has not been divided into families. The number of strong laborers alone is almost twenty.
There are more people, more work, but also more food.
On average, it is actually enough for food and clothing.
As soon as I entered the village, I saw several children playing and playing at the entrance of the village. They were dressed in cheesecloth, unpatched and clean.
Looking at this appearance, you can tell that this village is not a backward and poor village.
Seeing a carriage coming in, the dolls stared curiously, but it was not as if they had never seen it before and they moved up to chase it.
Entering the village, Du Chuanfu had been here last year and the paddy fields were leased by him. Naturally, he knew whose family it was, so he just went straight to that family.
This family's surname is He. They have a large courtyard surrounded by a low wall. There are three rooms in a row in the middle, and four rooms on each side. Looking at the courtyard at the back with a few more rooms, you can tell that this family has a large population.
But they are not blue brick houses, they are all yellow mud walls and thatched roofs.
The wall is short, only as high as an adult's chest. Standing outside, you can clearly see things in the courtyard.
The yard was neatly tidied, covered with straw mats, and corn was spread out to dry in the sun.
The hall was full of people, and they were rubbing and wrapping the grains in full enthusiasm. The sound of clattering was very exciting to hear.
Du Chuanfu raised his hand and knocked on the door. Hearing movement in the hall, a man rubbed his hands and trotted out to open the door, "Who is it? Here he comes!"
The yard was drying in the sun. The man came out around the eaves on the left and opened the door. He saw Du Chuanfu outside. He was stunned for a moment. He remembered who it was and quickly invited the person inside. "Is the boss here?"
Please come in quickly."
He quickly turned around and shouted into the room, "Dad! The boss is here!"
"Which owner? Is it the steward of Fang Yuan's wife's family? Oh my, this bag of grain has just been collected, and it has been dried in the sun before it's even finished. Now you're here to get rent?" the old man in the main room muttered.
He hurriedly went outside to welcome us, "Please ask the steward to come in and drink sugar water. You have to be accommodating for two days. Let's work hard. At night, while Xingzi is rubbing corn, we can finish cleaning it in two days, okay?"
The man smiled at Du Chuanfu, and while leading the people in, he shouted to the old man: "No, Dad! He bought the paddy field from Niu Xiucai's family, our new owner!"
After saying this, Old Man He also came closer. When he saw Du Chuanfu, he was stunned and remembered.
The main reason is that Du Chuanfu only came here once last year, and he hasn't been here since. He just met him once, but he can't remember his appearance until he thinks about it.
"Oh, boss, come on, come on, come in and sit down."
Du Chuanfu didn't introduce Song Qiu as his boss or anything, and Song Qiu didn't let him say more about it. He just treated Du Chuanfu as a junior and followed Du Chuanfu into the main room, just listening to what he said.
The He family just thought that the little girl was the boss's daughter or something, and didn't ask any more questions.
The main room is covered with straw mats to prevent the kneaded grains from scattering on the floor and making it difficult to sweep them out. You can rub them directly on the straw mats and take them out to dry in the sun.
But there was no place to put my feet, so I felt the gap and went to the far end, and then sat on a bench.
Soon, he had the honey water brought by the wife of the family in his hand. Song Qiu was holding the bowl with a bee leg floating in it.
Old man He said naively: "We don't have much tea at home, and we don't have anything to entertain you. My grandchildren worked so hard to get this, and their faces were swollen for several days." We ourselves were reluctant to drink it, so we only
It's reserved for guests.
Song Qiu listened, skipped the bee legs, opened his mouth and took a sip of water. It was very sweet, so he knew that a lot of honey had been put in it.
For someone like her who doesn't like to drink tea, this honey water is even rarer.
Old man He and Du Chuanfu were idle about the crops in the fields.
The weather is good this year, the crops are growing well, and the harvest is good. They have a larger family than last year, and they take good care of the fields. They will ensure that the fields will not be damaged, and they will pay the rent on time.
There are quite a few, which makes the owner feel at ease.
When it came to paying the rent, Du Chuanfu took the opportunity to mention that when the millet was exposed, they drove cars to pull it out one day at a time.