Chapter 226 Private work under the well
Grandpa Qin looked grateful and said with a smile: "Please tell the village chief, thank you for his reminder. I will sound the gong today to notify the villagers and let them prepare for the autumn harvest."
Thank you, Wu Sixheng's face hurt a little and he couldn't hold it any longer. Seeing that Grandpa Qin had no intention of inviting him into the village, he made a few false promises and said, "I have to inform other villages, so I'll leave first."
After saying that, he cupped his hands and turned around to leave.
Qin Xiaomi didn't like the Wu family, so she was a little worried when she heard that the Wu family came to see her grandfather again. After seeing Grandpa Qin return to the workshop, he hurried out of the room where the secret recipe was prepared and asked: "Grandpa, who is coming from the Wu family? What did they tell you? Did you mention what Master Huang said?"
There are many people in the workshop, so the question is cryptic.
Grandpa Qin shook his head: "I didn't mention that. It's Wu Sixheng who came to remind our village of the autumn harvest."
Qin Xiaomi frowned slightly: "That's it?"
She thought Wu Lizhang sent someone to apologize, but she didn't mention it... Could it be that she wanted to pretend not to know that Wu Xingnan had gone to see Huang Yanglong?
Qin Xiaomi really guessed it right... Because of what happened to Uncle Wu, Chief Wu had already pretended to be a good person to Wu Xingnan. It would be too fake to do it again.
Therefore, Wu Lizhang simply pretended that he did not know that Wu Xingnan had gone to Huang Yanglong and said that he would help keep an eye on the Qin family.
If the Qin family went to the Wu family to question him, he would say that he didn't know, then punish Wu Xingnan, and attribute the matter to the child's ignorance, and the matter would be over.
“That’s it, nothing else was mentioned.” Grandpa Qin said.
Qin Xiaomi was relieved and reminded again: "Grandpa, next time you are in a hurry, you have to bring two people with you... You are old. Even if you don't leave the village, you have to have someone to follow you. , Otherwise, what will our family do if something happens?"
Grandpa Qin smiled, you have the final say in our family, so just be good.
However, Grandpa Qin was still very happy to be cared about by his granddaughter, and said with a smile: "Okay, Grandpa will remember it."
In order to reassure Qin Xiaomi, Grandpa Qin could only call Xiao Qinmao and Xiao Qin win.
Both of them are about ten years old. Because they are young and have little ability, and unlike Qin Xiaogu, who is a blood relative of Qin Xiaomi, they can make secret recipe packets, so they usually take care of the children. Or do chores.
I was very happy and happy to be able to help Grandpa Qin at this moment. I quickly pretended to be serious and steady, which made everyone laugh.
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Because they were willing to spend money and hired many people, after six days, all the soybeans of Qin Jiang, Xu Qiao and others were collected.
"Village Chief Qin, take a look at your house, are the soybeans harvested okay?" Sun Daliang stood aside with his family and asked Grandpa Qin to check their dried soybeans.
Grandpa Qin grabbed a handful of soybeans and weighed them. They were very light, proving that they were very dry. He took a few more soybeans and put them in his mouth to bite. They were crunchy and crispy. He smiled and said, "Not bad." , dried well in the sun, and cleaned up very cleanly, with no mud or pods mixed in.”
The bean straws were also dried and bundled.
As for the crop fields, Grandpa Qin had visited them two days ago. They were all uprooted and the soil had been ridged so that the Qin family could directly sow seeds and grow vegetables.
Grandpa Qin saw that the Sun family did a good job, so he simply gave the Sun family the work of growing vegetables: "If your family is not in a hurry to harvest soybeans, you will help my family sow the vegetable seeds tomorrow, and I will give you thirty cents per acre of land." "Money."
"No money, no money, just let it go..." Sun Daliang was very grateful to the Qin family, and said with shame: "When I first settled in, Son, because of the instigation of the Huang family, our Sun family came to the west of the village to rob a dilapidated house, but the village chief didn't care about us and hired our women named Hu Qian and Sun to work. This has already given us a big way of life... ..."
If the Qin family hadn't recruited his wife to work, the Sun family would have had so many people, most of whom were children. Even if they hadn't died of starvation, two or three of them would have died of illness.
Old man Hu got annoyed and jumped out: "Just remember the kindness of the village chief and don't talk nonsense... Also, the village chief's family is not short of these dozens of pennies. After you accept it, Go work hard and refuse to get paid. Do you want the village chief’s family to owe you?”
Sun! Daliang was anxious: "We don't mean this, old man Hu, don't talk nonsense!" After saying that, fearing that the Qin family would misunderstand, Sun Daliang hurriedly collected the wages and reminded Grandpa Qin: "Village Chief, it's getting colder and colder today. I’m afraid it will snow in another half month, so if you sow vegetable seeds at this time, you may not be able to plant them.”
Grandpa Qin said with a smile: "It's okay, we can eat vegetable seedlings by then."
The workshop is too busy, and the family has to make secret recipe bags at night. Qin Xiaomi doesn't want the big guys to be too busy. I was tired, so I stopped the women from several houses and didn't let them raise vegetable seedlings, saying that they wouldn't plant any more in the worst case.
But several families came here to escape famine, and they continued to pay people to sow seeds and vegetables wherever they were willing to leave the land empty.
"Sure. We listen to the village chief." The Sun family agreed.
Old Man Hu said again: "Brother Qin, quickly weigh and see how much soybeans your family produces per acre?!"
Old Man Chai, Zhang Niuwang, and Huang Laoer also came and wanted to see it too. How many kilograms of soybeans are produced by Qin Jiang and Xu Qiao's family?
"It's done." Grandpa Qin asked Qin Ying, Qin Jie, Qin Dashi, Qin Dayan, Erjun and Sanjun to weigh the soybeans.
After hearing the report, Grandpa Qin was very satisfied: "After drying, the lowest yield per mu is just over two hundred kilograms, which is not bad."
The highest yield is millet. The yield per mu of the black land reached 500 kilograms, which was a rare high yield in the Wei Dynasty!
Huang Laoer was overjoyed when he heard this: "The land in this ghost village is quite good. If the yield in our land can be as high as this, then the Huang family can survive this long winter."
Now the most popular village in the village The Huang family is the poorest, most lacking in food, and most likely to die in the winter.
But they deserved it. They were instigated by Huang Wu and his wife, and because they were greedy for wild boars, they went to the mountains to hunt wild boars. As a result, they missed the opportunity to grab land, and in the end they only grabbed some barren land to open up wasteland. .
Huang Laoer and his wife are pretty good people, and they have been helping the Qin family keep an eye on the Huang Wu family, so Grandpa Qin said: "You Huang family, don't worry too much. Now that I have become the village chief, I will Try to prevent the villagers from starving to death and freezing to death.”
If there are too many villagers who starve to death and freeze to death, the yamen will be dissatisfied and will issue a notice to scold the village chief.
"Thank you, village chief. Thanks to your words, I can finally have a peaceful sleep." Huang Laoer was overjoyed and very grateful. He added, "Thanks to your family's new dye business, otherwise we, the victims who fled the famine, would not be able to make a living." , I will definitely not survive this winter."
Others nodded after hearing this.
With the workshop, the women in the family have a job and earn money for the family, so that they can buy warm clothes for the winter. Otherwise, even if they settle down, they will end up dying of cold and hunger.
As long as these people remember the kindness of the Qin family.
"Come to me and get your wages." Grandpa Qin gave the wages from the autumn harvest to Sun Daliang and other people with several surnames.
After the villagers got the money, they did not dare to disturb Grandpa Qin and left happily.
Grandpa Qin followed Zhang Niuwang and the others again to see how the new well was being dug.
Cao Siwen and the others hung on ropes and worked underground while soaking wet. They worked for two-quarters of an hour at most before hanging up to rest. Another group of people took over from them and continued working down the mine.
The people who came up were very tired, pale, and shivering from the cold because they were soaked.
When Grandpa Qin saw it, he couldn't help but said: "Thank you for your hard work."
Seeing as they were almost half alive, it was no wonder that drilling a well was so expensive.
Cao Siwen smiled and said: "You who got money, why do you have to work so hard? After finishing this task, we can survive the winter and no longer have to work for a living."
I also thought that as more than half a month had passed, the Qin family had become more trusting of them, and they took the opportunity to talk about their elders. About the well: "Village Chief Qin, I've wanted to tell you for a long time that your old well needs to be repaired. Bricks and soil are falling off the wall of the well all the time. If you don't repair it, you'll have to live a long life. In a few years, there may be a risk of collapse.”