In the end, Zhang Guilan took care of Zhao Xiaohong's lunch, and then asked Hua Zhao to escort him to the bullock cart and go home.
Of course she didn't want to go back. She deliberately let her two children walk more today, thinking that Zhang Guilan would take pity on her and let her stay at her house for a few days, so that she could help with the work!
But she was thin-skinned and afraid of officials. Zhao Liangcai glanced at her and she slipped into the carriage. It was better to sit in a carriage than to walk back.
When they arrived at Zhangjiatun, Zhao Liangcai followed Hua Zhao's instructions and went to find the team leader of the Zhang family.
The team leader is like the head of a family. The members of the club are family members. If he cannot manage his own children well, he will be embarrassed when he goes out and other parents come to find him. The team leader will also feel embarrassed!
After Zhao Liangcai left, he immediately went to Zhang's house and gave Mrs. Zhang a lesson.
It doesn't matter to him, the old Zhang family, how much she likes to bully him. But it won't work if he is embarrassed and thrown outside and made others laugh at him.
Mrs. Zhang asked her granddaughter-in-law to take her children to a divorced girl's house to eat and drink in order to get the bride price taken away. When word spread about this, Zhangjiatun became famous. It seriously affected the reputation of their production team!
The squad leader's reprimand worked as expected. Old Mrs. Zhang only dared to glare at Zhao Xiaohong a few times, but she really did not dare to punish her that day.
Let’s talk in a few days!
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Seeing that everything was okay, Hua Zhao went home to clean up the garden.
It's September, and all the seasonal vegetables are out of the garden. This is a mountainous area in the Northeast. The current climate is such that it will snow in mid-September.
Otherwise, it would have snowed by early October or mid-October at the latest. Winter is coming so early now.
Normally nothing can be grown in the ground anymore.
But Hua Zhao remembered his plan and planned to struggle.
She organized the garden and planted sunflower seeds.
Zhang Guilan saw her busy from afar and came over to help. When he saw her sowing seeds, he quickly stopped her and said, "Why are you planting melon seeds at this time?"
Melon seeds are planted in April and usually harvested in July and August. Hua Zhaochun planted a circle of sunflowers in spring and harvested 2 sacks, which are kept in the warehouse.
"This is a new variety I bought in Beijing. I heard it matures quickly and can be matured in one and a half months. It is also cold-resistant, so I might be able to harvest another crop," Hua Zhao said.
Hearing what she said, Zhang Guilan stopped stopping and snatched the hoe from her hand: "I'll dig the holes and you sow the seeds." The land was barren anyway, so plant what you could.
After two people worked hard for a while, they planted a 2-acre garden.
Even in the backyard, flowers are planted.
Only then did Zhang Guilan realize: "If you plant these old melon seeds at once, how long will it take to eat them?"
Their black land has high yields without fertilizing. Although they have never planted melon seeds on an acre, Zhang Guilan estimated that one acre of land could produce 500 kilograms of melon seeds based on what Hua Zhao had planted before.
Now they are planted in both the front and back yards, which is more than 1,000 kilograms.
"I lost my teeth and can't eat anymore." Zhang Guilan said: "We can't just let four children take them to school. That would be a waste. During the Chinese New Year, melon seeds can also be sold for money." She said the last sentence.
You have to keep your voice down.
After saying that, she saw Hua Zhao looking at her and smiling.
Zhang Guilan was stunned for a moment before reacting: "Are you planning to sell it when the time comes?"
"Yes, yes." Hua Zhao nodded: "I have tasted this new variety of melon seeds. They are more delicious than what we have now, and the output is larger, more than 1,000 kilograms. How can I make hundreds of dollars by then?
Bar."
She doesn't value hundreds of dollars, but Zhang Guilan does.
She looked at the melon seeds left in the corner and breathed quickly: "Daughter, how much did you buy those seeds? Give them to me, too?"
Her own mother had given her a heavy blow, and Zhang Guilan always kept in mind that she could not exploit her own daughter, even though she was married, she had to give money to others if she wanted anything valuable.
People's money doesn't come from strong winds.
Hua Zhao thinks this is a good habit. Although she doesn't care about such a small amount of money, how bad would it be if she couldn't turn the good Zhang Guilan into Mrs. Zhang?
"I bought it for 5 cents a pound. I'll give you as much as you want." Hua Zhao said.
"Oh, you're paying too much for it." Zhang Guilan suddenly felt distressed: "Ordinary melon seeds only cost 2 cents a pound."
"You also know that those are ordinary melon seeds. Try these." Hua Zhao grabbed a handful of raw melon seeds and gave them to her.
Zhang Guilan tasted it and found that although the raw melon seeds did not have the aroma of ripeness, the melon seeds had a fragrance that had never been seen in other melon seeds, and they were also greasy.
It's delicious just eaten raw.
"Well, I don't have much land anyway, so I can't use a few kilograms of melon seeds." Zhang Guilan said.
The two of them planted the land of Zhang Guilan's house full of melon seeds.
When the sun was about to set, the flowers came back with their faces full of red light.
