Yang and Huo Erhuai were very happy to see her. They looked for Huo Nian behind her. Although they knew that Huo Nian was in the school, they still asked Huo Nian.
Huo Xi looked at Yang, whose belly was slightly bulging, and supported her: "Let him come back to see you in a few days."
Yang waved her hand: "Let him come back to do whatever you want. Don't call him back even after taking a rest. It's time to study with Mr. Qin. In a few days, mother and your father will go back to the city to see him."
Huo Xi agreed with a smile and asked her what was wrong with her body.
Yang shook his head: "I don't have morning sickness anymore. I eat well and sleep well. Before, I couldn't smell the fishy smell at all. Whenever your father came near, my mother's stomach would churn violently. But now it's better. I can't eat any fish or shrimp for a day."
, I’m still panicking about it.”
Huo Erhuai was behind him, shaking his head and laughing: "I think this time, it's definitely a girl, and she's very precious. Of all the babies I've had before, none of them can't smell the smell of fish."
Yang didn't care: "Girls are just girls. I'm happy to give Xi'er and Nian'er a younger sister."
Huo Xi smiled and said, "My younger brothers and sisters are all fine." She would love them all.
Entering the main courtyard of Zhuangzi, Huo Xi couldn't help but feel a sense of belonging to home when he saw that Huo Erhuai and Yang had taken care of the courtyard.
"Mom and Dad, you have taken good care of this yard."
Huo Erhuai scratched his head and smiled: "This farm is full of crop fields, and your mother insisted on opening a vegetable patch in the yard. I didn't agree. She took advantage of me to enter the city, carried a hoe, and found a few farm wives.
I opened a vegetable patch in the courtyard."
Yang glanced at Huo Xi and explained: "My mother just thought about that. She wanted to have a meal, so she took a ladle to the warehouse. There were so many grains in the warehouse that she didn't know which vat to scoop it from. She wanted to pick a vegetable to put in the pot.
, you can reach it by stretching out your hand in the courtyard..."
Afraid that Huo Xi would disagree, she asked cautiously: "Is it really inappropriate to grow vegetables in the main courtyard?"
After saying that, he looked towards the vegetable patch in the middle of the yard.
It seems a little inappropriate. There are crop fields everywhere outside the yard, and there are several acres of vegetable fields. There are endless vegetables. Why did I dig out a vegetable field?
Huo Xi looked at her and smiled: "It's appropriate, why isn't it? The kind of life my mother wants is exactly what I want. I like to see vegetables in the yard and grain in the warehouse as soon as I open my eyes.
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When Yang heard this, he looked at Huo Erhuai proudly.
Zuo also nodded in agreement.
Bao Xia and Huo Erhuai looked at each other and wondered what they could do. The vegetable fields were already open, so they had no choice but to let her go. They couldn't plow up the vegetable fields because of the smell of fertilizing in the yard.
"Your Aunt Zuo thought she could see Xiaokang, but he didn't come back with you?"
Huo Xi explained to Zuo: "Xiao Kang is now learning martial arts from his husband at a private school. He is very enthusiastic. He goes in and out with Nian'er every day. He is so happy that he refuses to go back."
Bao Xia glared at Zuo: "I told you that Xiaokang is learning martial arts, so why should you worry about him following the young master?"
"Don't worry, I'm very relieved. How can I be worried?" Zuo glared at him. Couldn't he ask his son?
"I am only happy if he learns more from this. He will also be able to protect himself in the future. Even if we go away in the future, nothing will happen to him. Why should I be worried?" I thought about it unhappily.
son?
Huo Xi then said a few words about Bao Kang's martial arts training. He was very strong. Although he learned it late, he had good talent and was already a senior among the school children. He was praised by his teacher every day, and when he got home, he would drag Huo Nian to practice boxing and kicking skills.
, Huo Nian hid when he saw him.
Bao Xia and Zuo Shi both had smiles on their faces after hearing this.
After taking a short rest, Huo Xi and Huo Erhuai went to the farm to inspect the crops.
Now that the autumn harvest has passed, all the rice in the fields has been returned to the warehouse. It has been transported to the shop one after another, and Shopkeeper Shen has arranged for it to be sent to the north.
In the field, we also reted farmyard manure according to various methods taught by Huo Xi. Since there was not enough farmyard manure, we went to Zhuangzi and nearby places to dig river mud, pond mud and mulch soil from the mountains. We also built a retting pond and retting a lot of manure. Autumn harvest After that, the ground was plowed deeply, a thick layer of fertilizer was applied to the ground, and now winter wheat has been planted.
There was a bare layer of ground, and the sprouts had not yet grown.
Huo Xi walked over, opened it and looked at it. He was relieved to see that the wheat seeds that had been sown had sprouted.
Seeing Huo Xi checking, Huo Erhuai and Bao Kang introduced: "As you told me, winter wheat has been planted in all the fields. When the winter wheat is harvested in the middle fields next year, glutinous rice will be planted. The slopes will also be planted in the past few days. During the autumn rain, most of the mulberry seedlings were planted, and the bamboo forest was also densely replanted."
"The tenants have no objections?"
"No, we put down the wheat seeds first. We agreed to plant them, and without deducting the wheat seed money, the three farmers followed suit. The new tenancy deeds were also signed."
The tenants were afraid of affecting the harvest in the fields, so they generally followed the trend and did not dare to make any new changes.
But my family taught me how to fertilize the fields, and I also paid money to grow wheat first. It was just a little harder work than before, and I didn't ask for any money from them.
If it is really grown, there will be one more crop of food, the whole family can be fed, and there will be some money left after selling the food. What's wrong with that?
They all followed suit. Of course, they were also afraid that their master would no longer share the land for them to plant.
"What about the three hectares of land we bought before? Are we going to plant winter wheat?"
"When dad collected the rent, he told them all about it and taught them how to fertilize the fields. Most of them followed suit, but a few didn't want to. Dad listened to you and didn't force it."
Huo Xi nodded: "Next spring, if you are still unmoved when you see other people getting the second crop of grain, we will not give them any more land. It will be a waste of land."
"Okay, Dad has written it all down."
Now that Zhuangzi's autumn grain has been harvested and winter wheat has been planted, the servants of the village should have been free, but Huo Xi transported several more boats of bamboo to Zhuangzi.
Nowadays, everyone follows the requirements of the bamboo fan master to saw bamboo, split bamboo, break edges, plane skin, scrape green, punch holes, steam... to make bamboo materials for making fans.
There is plenty of work to do, and there is no shortage of work to do.
In another shed where conch shells are ground, there are mostly women, old people and children.
The shells are blanched, peeled, sliced, grilled to separate the shells into layers, separated with a razor blade, and then sent to Lou Qingyao to select materials, draw pictures, slice them, and then inlay them.
Afterwards, there were people in the workshop who helped her with polishing and polishing.
With help in the front-end process and back-end polishing, Lou Qingyao can now make mother-of-pearl much faster.
According to Huo Xi, not only make storage boxes, but also choose some handicrafts, such as musical instruments, tables, Kang screens, sandalwood fans, etc., and inlay them with mother-of-pearl to add a layer of brilliance to the original objects, making them more precious and selling at a higher price. Naturally, I went up.
Huo Xi looked around in the two semi-finished product workshops for a while and found that all the idle people in Zhuangzi came to get work.
There are many jobs that even children and adults can do, and the two workshops and greenhouses are crowded with people.
Depending on the work done, the income can range from a few cents to more than ten cents a day. If a family has several people doing the work, they can earn a lot in a day.
Huo Xi walked over and took a look, and saw children of five or six years old running around, helping to pass this to that. Everyone looked attentive. She was very happy. There was work to do, money to receive, and there was no need to idle around to make trouble.
Good things to you and good things to me.
As the owner of the village, Qi Dadao came to check on it from time to time. When he saw Huo Xi arriving, he came over to introduce a few words.
Huo Xi nodded to him with satisfaction and asked him to worry more. If he did a good job, he would give everyone more food during the New Year, and he would be rewarded with silver and New Year pigs.
Qi Da happily nodded in agreement, patting his chest and saying that he would lead everyone to get the job done well.