180 Recognize the ancestors and return to the clan
After all the oil lamps were lit, Tao Qiqi was asked to kneel in front of the memorial tablets of all the ancestors.
At this time, Gu Bei opened a box placed in front of the memorial tablets of all his ancestors, revealing the family tree in the box.
Gu Bei took out the family tree, opened it, and was about to write Tao Qiqi's name, but Gu Bei stopped again, then looked at Qiqi and asked: "Qiqi, your surname is naturally a retrospective surname.
But do you need to change the name?"
Tao Qiqi thought for a while and replied: "No, the name Qiqi is pretty good too, and Qi, Qi, is a homophone, which happens to be my father's and mother's surnames. Gu Qiqi is also pretty good."
"Okay." Gu Bei agreed and added Gu Qiqi's name to the family tree.
From this moment on, her surname Tao Qiqi has become a thing of the past. Her surname is now Gu, and her name is Gu Qiqi.
She is now a member of the Gu family, and her father was once the great general of Dayong.
Although she is no longer a general now, she, Gu Qiqi, is still very proud to have such a father.
very nice.
In the end, Gu Qiqi offered incense to all his deceased ancestors, and it was only then that he recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan.
After opening the ancestral hall, compiling the genealogy, and recognizing the ancestors, Gu Qiqi could finally have breakfast.
At the dinner table, Mrs. Qi looked at Gu Qiqi and asked: "Qiqi, at the end of every year, the village used to slaughter two pigs and distribute them to the villagers for the New Year. Now that the village belongs to you, do you want to see if you want to make the same arrangement as in previous years?
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Upon hearing this, Gu Qiqi thought for a while and asked: "Are the fields in this village rented to the farmers here?"
Mrs. Qi nodded: "Except for the artificial lake at the foot of the mountain and the fields beside the lake, which we arrange for people to farm ourselves, the rest are rented to farmers for planting."
Gu Qiqi: "Then how is the rent calculated?"
Mrs. Qi: "Thirty percent of the harvest belongs to us, and the rest goes to the farmers."
"Then excluding taxes, they still have 40%." Gu Qiqi nodded. In fact, 40% is really good.
You must know that there are some unscrupulous landowners who work very hard for a year to get the business in place, and in the end they can only get 20%. Even 30% is considered very good.
If a family has a large population, they can rent about ten acres of land for farming.
The harvest from one acre of land ranges from 500 to 600 kilograms of grain.
Taking up 20% of an acre of land can only give you 100 to 120 kilograms.
Ten acres of land is one thousand to one thousand two hundred pounds.
Even if farmers were frugal, eating two meals when farming was busy and one meal when farming was not busy, two handfuls of rice could make a large pot of porridge for one meal.
If you add some wild vegetables, a handful of rice can make a meal.
One pound of rice can last three to five days.
At the end of the year, I eat one or two hundred kilograms, and the money I save is used to sell money.
According to the price of raw grain, when the market is good, it costs 2-3 cents per pound, but at this time, it can only be sold for two or three taels of silver.
If the market is bad, and the grain dealers are too aggressive in lowering prices, they will only earn a penny or a pound of grain for the whole family after months of exhaustion.
This is still a family, and only those who rent ten acres of land can have this income.
If Gu Qiqi's Zhuangzi accounted for 40% of the total, that would be doubled, so her maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were really super conscientious landlords.
However, there are pros and cons to renting land for farming.
The benefit is that depending on the family's ability, you can rent as much land as you want, and you don't need to spend a lot of money to buy land.
For some very poor people, this is the best choice. It requires no capital and they will not starve to death if they have the energy to move.
The disadvantage is that you have to work in the fields all year round, and you can only survive after a year of exhaustion.
But even in this ancient time, there were too many people who couldn't even afford a tael of silver.
So they can only become farmers in the manor.
At least this way, we can still have land to grow and food to eat, so we won't become a beggar.
Gu Qiqi thought for a while and said: "Since this is a welfare all the time, it is naturally indispensable."
Aunt Jian on the side said: "Actually, it's okay not to pay. Our rent collection is already very low. It's because our old lady is kind-hearted that we give them pig-killing points every year."
Gu Qiqi smiled: "Those who are kind-hearted are blessed, so our family reunited again. We are just two pigs. The villagers in Zhuangzi are living a good life, and we will not suffer. Everyone will plant seeds carefully every year."
Even two pigs can make enough money from grain."
"Look, we Qiqi can still talk." Mrs. Qi looked at Gu Qiqi with a pleased expression and said.
Gu Qiqi: "In that case, I will make arrangements after breakfast."
"Oh, by the way, Nanny Jian, go and get some of those wild duck eggs, and ask Qiqi to take them down and give them to our families." Mrs. Qi said suddenly.
When Gu Qiqi heard this, he was surprised and said: "Are there wild duck eggs?"
Aunt Jian replied: "The artificial lake at the foot of our mountain swelled a few years ago, and a group of wild ducks came from nowhere. Your grandmother also asked someone from the manor to build a nest for them under the tree.
Unexpectedly, these wild ducks will be able to lay an egg in a day or two when they grow up. During this period, the weather is cold, so they don't lay so frequently, but even so, the family has accumulated a lot of wild duck eggs.
Your grandmother couldn't get used to those wild duck eggs, so every time she saved up, she would give a share to our own farmers from time to time. Although the wild duck eggs are not as good as chicken eggs, the farmers are also very happy."
"How many?" Gu Qiqi asked.
"I'm afraid there are probably a hundred or so. The old lady thought that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, so she saved up all the duck eggs in the past few months." Grandma Jian answered.
Upon hearing this, Gu Qiqi hurriedly said: "Instead of giving duck eggs, give eggs or pork instead. There are also chickens in the manor, right? If there are eggs, then give them eggs instead. I have other uses for duck eggs."
Aunt Jian: "Why don't you give me eggs? It doesn't matter if you don't. Our own farmers are not other farmers. Those are the people bought by the old lady, and some of them were brought back from Yongdu.
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Gu Qiqi: "Keep those duck eggs for me from now on, I will use them to process delicious food."
Salted duck eggs and preserved eggs, Gu Qiqi was finally ready to take action.
In order to eat preserved egg and lean meat porridge, Gu Qiqi couldn't find duck eggs and used eggs instead. However, no matter how she processed them, there was still a big difference between eggs and duck eggs.
As for salted duck eggs, they can only be made with duck eggs.
After breakfast, Gu Qiqi left the matter of killing the pig to Butler Jian to arrange. Of course, she had to ask Butler Jian to bring back the good things from the pig.
And she herself began to concoct the secret recipe for making salted duck eggs and preserved eggs.
Fang Yu and Li Xia helped select duck eggs. The duck eggs must not have broken shells or bad ones.
After selection, the surface of the duck eggs must be cleaned clean before production and processing.
Gu Qiqi divided the selected duck eggs into two halves, making half into salted duck eggs and half into preserved eggs.
After the production is completed, install the jar and seal it, and the rest will be verified by time.
