Forget it, the more tired you are, the more tired you are, but she knows that sweet potatoes planted by the river will not taste good. Besides, there are people grazing and cutting grass there for a long time, so she would feel bad if the animals ate them.
"Third Aunt, my Third Master said that there is a lot of wasteland in the west, and he asked me to go there to open up wasteland. I'm afraid the sweet potatoes won't taste good if they are planted by the water."
"That's right. But it's quite far away from your home. People there tend to herd sheep in the summer, and they're afraid they'll be ruined."
Chen Miao thought for a while, "Third Aunt, do you think it would be okay if I went to the foot of the mountain to plant sweet potatoes?"
"It's all the same. Go back and tell the children that those are the sweet potatoes you planted, so don't worry."
It was almost dark when I got home. After feeding the animals, I thought about buying two lambs if I had money, but I didn't have any money.
Chen Jiang secretly gave himself five copper coins. This guy was really good. It was enough to buy a chick.
It's better to calm down and sell some food after autumn. In fact, I can exchange money now, but the main reason is that I don't have the guts to go out.
The next day, I carried a hoe and a big pickaxe up the mountain. I found two fairly flat areas where I planted sweet potatoes. In the future, Japanese melons will also be planted here.
There are a lot of rocks on the mountain, and they are all thrown aside. The sweet potato ridges can be beaten, and the high backs of the ridges must be drawn out.
One piece of land was cultivated in a whole day, and the other piece of land was simply planted with sorghum.
Chen Jiang came over in the evening. "Has all the land at home been planted?"
"Well, third sister, my mother is not happy. The three sisters-in-law are competing for the work. They all say that they do more and others do less. I heard that my mother and father said that they want the three of them to move out.
The land at home is divided among the people and they are allowed to go out and build houses."
"Can you agree?"
"Why don't you want to? My sister-in-law has long wanted to separate the family. She just dislikes the lack of money given by my mother."
Chen Miao didn't say anything, but she knew that in such a family with many children, the elderly were generally unwilling to separate the family. The main reason was that there were still younger children below who had not yet married, and they had to work together to earn money for the younger ones to get married.
I guess talking about separation now is just a moment of anger.
Chen Jiang was given a bowl of sweet porridge. What she ate was ordinary porridge mixed with wild vegetables.
The next day I didn’t go up the mountain, but planted cotton seedlings at home. There was a well in the yard, so I didn’t bother much. I just planted all the cotton seeds I bought on the half-acre of land.
After squatting for a day, Chen Miao was so tired that she almost fell asleep while taking a bath at night.
She knew that she was too tired this time and had not rested at all.
Without packing anything, I lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
I woke up hungry the next day. After brushing my teeth, I ate first. When I was full, I started to feed the donkey.
I originally wanted to go to the mountains to clean up the land today, but I was just too lazy to move. Forget it, I’ll just stay at home today.
I rested for a day and got up early the next day to water the cotton. I dug more than 20 Japanese melon seedlings and went up the mountain. I didn't plant them in one place. Anyway, I just planted them in the right place.
When we got to the second piece of land, I really didn't want to work, so I sat on the edge of the field, ate a chicken leg, drank a bottle of juice, and then got up to work.
I didn't get home until dark. Tomorrow I'm going to Mr. Shen's house to change some sorghum seeds. I'm also going to the village chief's house to ask when the sweet potatoes can be planted.
I had a nightmare all night, either being chased by a dog or carrying a mountain. Anyway, when I opened my eyes the next morning, I didn't get up as usual.
Hearing the knock on the door, he had to answer and get up.
"Third sister, our family is really divided."
Chen Miao was stunned for a moment, "Are they really divided?"
"Yes, we broke it up last night, and we made a fuss all night long." Chen Jiang followed Chen Miao into the house, and saw that the third sister was about to light the fire, "I'll do it."
"I just got up and started cooking for the donkey."
She went to the back of the house to brush her teeth and wash her face, and she cooked while Chen Jiang went to feed the donkey.
"Third sister, last night my sister-in-law and my mother almost had a fight, but in the end my father beat my eldest brother and the others."
"why."
"My mother asked them to give them one yuan a year for retirement, but my sister-in-law and others are not willing."
One dollar is indeed a lot of money. "How much land will be given to them?"
"One family has three acres of land."
Chen Miao thought that if she didn't want to, she would have to build a house. The family had three children to raise, and building a house would cost a lot of money.
"What did you say at the end?"
"It's definitely not possible if I don't give it. Finally, I said I would give two hundred copper coins a year."
One piece of ocean is equivalent to three hundred copper coins, which is actually not much.
"Eldest brother, second brother, third brother, they went to the village chief and told them that they wanted to build a house?"
"Yeah, but I also think that the eldest brother and the others are not together, and the eldest sister-in-law and the others are always fighting."
"It doesn't matter what they do, they will live their own lives after we separate."
"Well. Now the house is clean."
Asking Chen Jiang to eat another bowl of porridge, the two siblings watered the cotton.
"I'm going to the village chief's house to ask about the sweet potato seedlings."
"Third sister, eldest brother and the others must still be at the village chief's house."
Chen Miao didn't care, "Then I'll go to Mr. Shen's house first and borrow some sorghum seeds."
"Third sister, has the land on your mountain been opened?"
"Yes. The sweet potato ridges have also been dug out."
Chen Jiang followed, and with him leading the way, he saved himself the trouble of asking around. Grandma Shen was at home, "Mistress, can you lend me some sorghum seeds?"
"Chen Miao, your third master told me, what can I borrow? Is it enough to give you two ears?"
"That's enough, that's enough. Mistress, I will pay you back when I harvest the sorghum in autumn."
The old lady did not refuse, "Chen Miao, I have white sorghum and sticky sorghum at home, what kind do you want?"
"Third wife, can the two kinds of sorghum be planted together?"
"It's best not to plant them together, otherwise the flowers will bloom. When the time comes, the sticky sorghum will no longer be sticky sorghum, and the white sorghum will not be white sorghum."
"Mistress, I only have a piece of land, and you can stick sorghum to it for me."
"Yes. You can eat any sticky sorghum."
I took two sorghum ears and went to the village chief's house. I really didn't let Chen Jiang say it was right. Their brothers were not there yet.
"Fifth Aunt, when can the sweet potato seedlings be planted?"
"Chen Miao is here, the day after tomorrow. The three families I asked about are all the day after tomorrow. One family has white-flesh sweet potatoes, and the remaining four of us all have red-flesh potatoes."
"Thank you, fifth aunt, I will come over the day after tomorrow."
"Come here after breakfast, and I will take you to the other three houses to get them. Each family will give you at most fifty trees, and I will give you a hundred."
"I know fifth aunt."
The two siblings walked back and said, "Third sister, I'll go home and have a look."
Chen Miao returned home, packed up her farm tools and went up the mountain, doing her own work morning and night.
The sorghum can be planted more densely. The two ears of sorghum are piled up and soaked in a wooden barrel. She uses a big pick to dig out the ridges. This is tiring work. It can't be too shallow, so she can only use the big pick to work.
.
Let it dry for a while and rest for a while. After drawing ten ridges, start watering, and then draw the ridges again. When the water seeps out, plant some seeds and cover them with soil.
After lunch, I rested for half an hour and continued again.
In the end, there is still some land left. If you have soybeans, you can plant some. That is, there are three rows of soybeans, as much as you can.
