Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 275 Land Preparation

"Yes, so I am worried about her again now. I have been worried about my children all my life."

"Don't worry, Aunt Lan, you will meet someone. Look, An Guo has found a good girl. Fate will come."

"Don't be impatient." Lan Qiuhua turned around and asked her, "Shen Liuyun returned to the village. Did you see that he gave birth to a big fat boy?"

"No, I stayed at home the whole winter and didn't come down from the foot of the mountain. When did she come back?"

Ji Wenhe hadn't seen Shen Liuyun for a long time. It should be said that she had basically never seen him since she got married and moved to the town.

"I came back early last month. I heard that Shen Tianshi was looking for a girl in town. The matchmaker in town said that he must have a house in town."

"Your Aunt Tao and her family discussed and bought a house in town. They moved to town in the middle of last month."

"I don't know." As a result, there were a few fewer people in the village.

Lan Qiuhua leaned against the pillar behind her and said, "You stay at home, so how can you know what happened in the village? But I just found out about it, because I heard it from your Aunt Niu."

"What about Aunt Jiang? What are her family's plans?"

"What else can we plan? Of course we want to go to town. Shen Yu is almost fifteen years old. If she marries to a town woman, they will have face."

"I heard that we have to buy a house in town. Once we have a house in town, it will be easier for our children to find a husband."

Ji Wenhe asked, "Only the village head and Aunt Qin are at home. Where are the fields? Didn't their family get their own land? They are all in town and won't come back. How can the old couple come?"

"I came back to help with the rice planting and harvest. I live in the town on weekdays, so I can't just abandon the land. The village head and his men still need to plant."

She looked towards the east. Considering her children's future, it would be better to live in the town. After all, their family was not short of money and they had so much land. If they couldn't live in the town, they could come back.

After returning home and having dinner, Shen Rongshan turned the soil in the wasteland for a while before coming back.

"Brother Shen, the rice is left in the pot."

"You are tired and take a rest. I will go to tidy up the vegetable garden after dinner."

"Okay, go ahead."

Ji Wenhe put down the shovel, walked out of the wasteland, and chased back the chickens that were running up the mountain.

When I reached the edge of the wasteland, I caught a glimpse of a figure walking towards me from the right.

"Sister-in-law, plowing the soil."

She turned around and saw Shen Feiling's wife, Li Yujiao.

After arriving at Shenjia Village, I met her twice. Because of my first impression of her on the wedding day, I thought she was the same as Shen Zhiyan, timid and quiet.

On the contrary, she loves to laugh, is cheerful, has a good temper and is not afraid of people.

"Yeah, Fei Ling went to work in town?"

"I left a few days after the Chinese New Year and came back when the wheat was harvested."

Ji Wenhe lowered his eyes and glanced at her belly: "Don't go up the mountain. Be careful when you are pregnant."

She smiled widely and said, "I understand, sister-in-law. I'm bored at home, so I came out for a walk."

In fact, she was very annoyed at home. Her mother-in-law didn't let her do anything, saying that she couldn't hurt her grandson. She talked about her grandson all the time, which made her unhappy.

"Everyone in our village is easy to get along with. If you feel bored, you can visit anyone's house. But everyone is a bit busy these two days."

Li Yujiao turned her head and looked to the east: "My mother-in-law went to prepare the land, and will plant rice seeds tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Her mother-in-law is also very funny. She won't let me help when she bends down to pick up something or wash dishes, saying that she is afraid of hurting the baby in her belly.

Then he turned to her and told her that the land had been prepared and asked her to help grow rice seeds. At that time, he did not think about whether it would hurt the baby in her belly.

"It's been about the same for our family these past two days."

"Sister-in-law, your family has a lot of land, so you need to grow a lot of rice seeds this year."

"Yeah." Ji Wenhe stopped and panted, "We have a big family, but it's not that many when you count them all."

The family had two acres of land, and she and Shen Rongshan had seven more.

Li Yujiao walked to the fence and said, "Sister-in-law, you and Brother Rongshan are really amazing. I heard from my mother-in-law that your family bought land and homestead this year."

"But with more peddlers, your business may not be as good as before. Otherwise, if you make more money, you can build a brick house, which is so magnificent."

"Well, we are lucky. Not long after the war ended last year, Brother Shen went into the mountains to hunt, sold some of the goods, and started a peddler business."

"The reason I was able to afford the homestead this year was because Big Brother Shen went hunting in the mountains and borrowed money from others. Together with the little money I had saved before, I was able to buy the homestead and the fields."

"Business at home will not be easy in the future, so we are thinking of buying more chicks, raising them well so that they can lay eggs and sell them in town for money."

In fact, if you have money, are willing to spend it, and can find people, you can also do the peddler business.

It’s just that they have too many concerns and dare not invest all their money. Even if they know that this business will make money, they will still hesitate in their hearts and ultimately miss the opportunity to make money.

Li Yujiao sighed, "After hearing the villagers talk about your family's past, I think it's time for your family to make money. It's so dangerous in the mountains. If you run into a flower cricket or a blind bear, you can't run away."

"Only your eldest brother Rongshan is a good hunter. He just came back from the battlefield and is brave and fearless. If it were the villagers, no one would dare to go into the mountains to hunt. They would only dare to wander around halfway up the mountain."

Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "He is very brave. I don't want him to go into the mountains unless it is absolutely necessary. He can come back safely after going there once or twice, but it is impossible for him to come back safely every time he goes there."

"If my family wasn't in urgent need of money, I would never have agreed to let him go into the mountains. I couldn't sleep well during the days he was gone."

"My sister-in-law is right. If you can avoid going, then don't go."

Her husband is not very courageous, otherwise he could have gone to learn hunting from Shen Rongshan.

"Sister-in-law, I'm going back."

"Hey, slow down."

After turning the soil for a while, Shen Rongshan came down after finishing his meal, carrying a rake and a hoe.

"Wen He, go home now. I will turn the rice plants over."

"Go and do your own thing." Ji Wenhe broke up the overturned soil.

Two chickens came back and were looking for worms in the turned soil.

After a while, Shen Yuanshan came down.

“Yuanshan, go help your brother prepare the land. There’s no rush for wasteland.”

She doesn't know how to till the land, so she can't be of much help even if she goes.

"Okay." He leaned the shovel against the fence and turned to the vegetable garden in the east.

Ji Wenhe put down the shovel in his hand and walked over to learn how to prepare the land.

In the vegetable fields, every household is busy.

"Auntie Huang, Auntie Zheng, they are busy."

The vegetable plot on the west belongs to Zheng Liutao's family. Going east, their family has seven plots of vegetable plot, and in that order they own He Yuxiang, Wu Caifeng, Shen Zhong, Wang Erfeng, Zhou Xiaoyu, Shen Ping, and Shen Zhong.

The two men looked up.

Huang Guihua said with a smile: "With Rongshan and Yuanshan here, I am enjoying my leisure time, why did you come here?"

"I'll come and help. More people will help."

"It's better to have a man at home, he can help with the housework."

He Yuxiang, who was tilling the land, took over the conversation: "Aunt Huang, having more men in the family is not necessarily a good thing. It's only when they can help that it counts. Look at our family. My father-in-law can't leave, so it's me and my mother-in-law who till the land."