Reclaiming wasteland is a big deal for the Sang family, and it is also a big deal for the villagers in Lijia Village who are idle at home and urgently need to do something to earn some money for oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar.

After setting the day of land reclamation, the Sang family basically set the people they were looking for. The set standards were not based on the closeness and distantness of their relationship, but on the group of people who can endure hardships. In this way, even if someone has any objections and thinks that the Sang family is not interesting enough, they can't say anything.

This time, the Sang family found thirty people. Among these thirty people, some were brothers, and some were father and son. When Sang Laoshi and Sang Shu and his son came to him, they were also very happy, and they said good things to the father and son.

It’s no wonder that these villagers are like this. In addition to farming and raising pigs, the way for farmers to make money is to go fishing in the river or go to the mountains to collect mushrooms after the rain, and then sell them at the market. If you are lucky, you can get a hundred or ten yuan at a time. If you are not lucky, you won’t be enough to improve your own food.

It is already cold winter, there is no production in the fields, no bacteria on the mountains, and it is impossible to go fishing anymore. The small amount of scattered work that can be found in the town was taken away early. Didn’t these one by one look at the large wasteland bought by the Sang family?

Moreover, the wages offered by the Sang family are not low, and the average price is 20 cents a day when working in the town. You should know that if you work in the village, the wages are usually two cents lower than those in the town. Don’t look at these two cents, you can only buy more than two kilograms of good pork in a month.

Of course, unlike building workshops before, this time the Sang family doesn’t have to cook for these 30 people. They will solve the problem of three meals a day at home. They will leave half an hour to eat and rest at noon, which saves a lot of trouble.

The next day, the villagers who had breakfast came to the Sang family with the tools for clearing the land early, and were taken to the wasteland by the Sang family's father and son. The first thing they did was to clean up the flammable materials such as dead grass and branches around the wasteland, so as not to set fire to the village, the flames followed the wind and ignited other people's houses or firewood piles.

Several women from the Sang family were not idle either. They took machetes and sickles and went into battle. They cut the dried thatch and tied it up with a straw rope to carry it home to use it as a match.

Several children couldn't stay at home, so they ran to the wasteland one by one. Even Huan'er became interested in the destruction. She followed her brothers and sisters to run in the wasteland and had fun, and didn't care whether the new cotton coats and new cotton shoes that had just been on their body would get dirt.

"Wow, Brother Huan, come, come here, there is a nest of pheasant eggs!" Suddenly, Xiaoshan pointed to a dense grass and shouted excitedly.

The cry of Xiaoshan instantly attracted a few mulberry fruits. They immediately spread their feet and ran towards the hill quickly. Xiaojiang couldn't wait to ask: "Xiaoshan, are there many pheasant eggs? Is it enough for us to cook?"

Huan'er was competing with a weed that he could not pull out even if he was using his breasts. When he heard the little brother's words, he thought the pheasant eggs were the same as the eggs he ate on weekdays. However, it was an interesting thing to show eggs in the wild, so he temporarily let go of the weeds and walked towards the little brother.

"Enough, there is a nest, there are many, I can't count it anyway." Hearing my brother's words, Xiaoshan squatted down and touched the pheasant eggs one by one, but when counting "nine", it got stuck, and I don't know how to continue counting.

Xiao Jiang knew his younger brother's ability to count, and when he saw his younger brother say this, he burst into laughter: "It's more than nine, that's enough, maybe you can eat two more at one." Thinking of the deliciousness of roasted eggs, Xiao Jiang, who had just eaten breakfast, suddenly felt hungry again.

The two little girls, Mangguo and Mangzao, were not much better. When they heard Xiao Jiang say this, they swallowed the same saliva, and their bloated short legs wrapped in cotton coats were moving faster.

Compared with his elder brothers and sisters, Huan'er was much more leisurely. He walked over step by step with his shorter legs. He would not lose his portion of delicious food, and the roasted eggs did not tempt him that much.

Such a contrasting scene fell into the eyes of adults and had another meaning.

"Look at how calm Huan'er is, she is like his uncle's character, and she may be the same person in the future." A villager looked at Huaner and praised, sighing that the people born in his family were all little devils, and they did not make people feel at ease for a moment.

Sang is honest and proud,

But the upper part said, "The child can't see anything for the time being, but my grandson is indeed well-behaved and obedient, which makes people worry-free."

"Tsk tsk, I think I'm older at the age of three and I think I'm older at the age of seven. This child is not bad." The villagers squinted their eyes, praised him sincerely, and then said casually: "This child looks different from your daughter, so he should be his father."

When Sang Hushi heard this, he felt a little sad, not for his son-in-law he had never met, but for his daughter who had lost her husband and his grandson who had no father: "It's up to his father, it's up to his boys to follow his father."

I heard that Sang Hushi's voice was not right. After hearing that the villagers who spoke, they realized that they had said something they shouldn't have said. They were embarrassed for a moment and did not speak anymore.

However, the conversation between the two attracted the attention of another person. The man asked curiously: "This child looks like a material. Your family is getting better and better. Do you think about sending this child to school as well?"

Sang Hushi was stunned. He had never thought about this before, so he said, "See what my daughter is planning. If she wants to send her child to study, then read it!"

The villagers who asked the question did not expect Sang to say this. After all, the grandson belongs to someone else's family, so it would be nice to be able to feed a bite. If it weren't very rich, few people would send their grandson to school, right?

The other villagers were also surprised, but when they thought of Sang’s honest behavior, the surprise gradually faded, and they just muttered a few words of "fool" in their hearts.

Sang was too lazy to pay attention to what others thought, and said with a smile: "My grandson is also a grandson, and he also shed half of my Sang family's blood. It's nothing worse than his grandson. If Xiaojiang Xiaoshan misses school one day, I will send them there."

After hearing this, someone secretly looked at the faces of the Sangshu and Sanglin brothers. Seeing that the two brothers not only did not change their faces, they also smiled and nodded, and suddenly felt that it was not unreasonable that the Sang family was becoming more and more prosperous.

The family gathers together and is energetic to go out for a while without calculating those small gains and losses. There is no bad reason for this life.

The center of the conversation among the crowd was squatting in the grass, curiously touching the pheasant egg that was one size smaller than the egg. Suddenly, I wondered if the taste was exactly the same as the egg after roasting.

"Brother Huan'er, can you count how many pheasant eggs there are?" Xiaoshan, who was ridiculed by his brother again, squatted beside Huan'er, and asked dissatisfiedly, snatching the grass on his toes.

Huan'er had already figured it out, but he was a kind child and couldn't bear to hurt the young brother's heart, so he said against his will: "There are ten, and the five of us just happened to eat two of them one by one."

In fact, there are a total of sixteen pheasant eggs, which fill the entire pheasant nest. This shows that pheasants who lay eggs often come here. If they set traps here quietly, they might be able to catch the pheasant.

After hearing this, Xiaoshan immediately became happy and shouted to his brother Xiaojiang: "Huan'er doesn't count it either. There must be no number of children as old as ours in the village. Why do you say I'm stupid?"

"Haha, I'm not wrong to say you're stupid. Huan'er takes care of your face and deliberately lie to you!" Xiao Jiang "exposed" Huan'er's lies without hesitation and continued to mock his younger brother: "Besides, even if Huan'er counts wrongly, he knows that we can eat two of ten pheasant eggs. If it were you, you wouldn't know. Why are you stupid?"

Xiaoshan was so angry that he was so angry that he shouted loudly: "You are, your whole family is stupid!"

"Puff hahahaha!"

Xiaoshan's voice not only made Xiaoshan laugh, but even Sang Yemu and others who were not far away laughed.

"This brat, even scolded himself. Is this stupid mind really stupid!" Yu was so stupid that his stupid son cried stupidly, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and was speechless.

"No, no, this kid is not stupid, he is natural stupid." Sang Ye was shocked by the funny talent that his nephew often showed, and thought of the "natural stupid" he often heard in his previous life.

If I could abduct my nephew to the modern world, this temperament would probably fascinate many people!

Yu had never heard of "natural stupidity", but with the word "dai" in her opinion, it meant "silly", and the sorrow on her face became deeper: "I still think about the days at home.

It's better, this brat is at the age of enrollment. He wants to send him to school next year to see if it's the material. Now it's better to forget it. He doesn't have to be embarrassed at home, and he even goes to school to make jokes."

After saying this, Yu had some tricks. She had never told anyone about sending Xiaoshan to school before. If it were before, she wouldn't dare to mention it. After all, it was already hard enough to provide for her brother-in-law at home and she didn't have the ability to provide for another one.

But now it’s different. She could predict that the family would not be short of money for the child to study, so she dared to say it at this time, and she used this to find out her mother-in-law’s tone. If her mother-in-law could agree to this, she would be indifferent and she could also prepare early so as not to miss the beginning of the spring of the next year and the child would enter school.

"Oh, my sister-in-law doesn't mention this, I forgot that Xiaoshan is old enough to be able to enter school. Even Huan'er is eating six years old. If the school accepts children of his age, they can let the two brothers go to school together in the spring next year." Sang Ye slapped his head and thought of his son from his nephew.

Her thoughts are still influenced by compulsory education in her previous life, and she feels that every child has the right to study. After coming to this world, the children of aristocratic families or families with wealthy families also let their children study.

If you have the conditions, set up your own home school and ask the best teacher to teach your children. If you don’t have the conditions, you should go to a bigger school and send it to the best academy directly. If you don’t have the means, you can only settle for the second best and try to choose a better teacher.

"Everything is inferior, only high" is fully demonstrated here.

Liu has no son and doesn't know if he can do it in the future, so he didn't participate in this topic. So he watched his sister-in-law chat and her sister-in-law, and by the way, he saw her mother-in-law's reaction.

"Studying is not an easy task. Let's ask Xiaoshan and Huan'er if they can endure this hardship. If they can persevere, we will send them to our family. If they don't have the intention of this, don't waste money." Mu saw the eldest daughter-in-law's little plot, but she didn't take it seriously. However, she didn't say whether her grandson and grandson should study.

Mu is an ordinary woman, without a long-term vision, and she could not imagine changing her destiny. Her biggest advantage is her enlightenment and respecting the children's own ideas. Even when her youngest son was studying, she gritted her teeth and offered sacrifices.

After getting the words of his mother-in-law, Yu showed joy on his face, and then said distressedly: "Xiaoshan is a bit distracted and let him study in school honestly, it's difficult!"

What happened next moment, Yu's eyes lit up and said to Sang Ye: "Xiaoshan plays well with Huan'er. He listens to Huan'er more than me, a mother. If Huan'er goes to school, it will be boring to stay at home alone. He will definitely make trouble. It's better to send Huan'er first and then send him when he wants to go by himself."

After hearing this, Sang Ye felt that this idea was very operational. Huan'er had no friends here and usually played with Xiaoshan. If he went to study, he would definitely want Xiaoshan to be the same. Even if Xiaoshan didn't want it, Huan'er would definitely have a way to convince him.

"Well, then I'll find an opportunity to talk about this with my two children. It's fine if Xiaoshan is willing. If he doesn't want to, let Huan'er find a way to go."

Seeing that my sister-in-law was very confident and seemed to believe that her nephew was willing to study, Yu sighed and said, "Oh, look at you, look at me, I am all my mother, why are I so tired of being like this!"

Sang Ye shook his head with a smile, not thinking so in his heart. Although Huan'er looks well-behaved and sensible, it is taught bit by bit on weekdays, and it is not as worry-free as free-range.

There is a saying that parents are the mirrors of their children. What they will look like in the future depends on what their parents look like on weekdays. Of course, this statement does not fall 100% on every child’s head, and there are always some examples.

Seeing that the eldest daughter-in-law and daughter had made up their minds to send their grandsons and grandchildren to study, Mu didn't say anything, but just calculated the cost of the New Year in his mind, and he was afraid that there would suddenly be two more people at home and life would become tighter again.

However, Liu mentioned: "Xiao Jiang is not old. Please ask him when the time comes. No, my brothers will go and leave him alone."

After hearing this, Yu suddenly said, "Oh, look at my brain, I almost forgot the boss. Fortunately, my brother and sister mentioned it, otherwise this kid would have to make a fuss with me."

Got on it.”

Liu smiled and said nothing, but envied her sister-in-law for having two sons for her to work hard, unlike her who didn't even want to interrupt.

Sang Ye did not miss the loss that flashed on his second sister-in-law's face. He looked at his lower abdomen, thinking about finding time to take his sister-in-law to the Fucheng to find a doctor who is proficient in gynecology to take her to take her.

She had heard that her second sister-in-law had gone to the town to see the doctor before. The doctor just said that her second sister-in-law was fine and she had no problems with her body. But if there was no problem, it would be impossible for her to not have reborn for seven or eight years, and she would not even get pregnant.

However, it is not ruled out that there is something wrong with the second brother's body, so he will take both of them to see them.

It’s not that she prefers boys over girls, she must let her second sister-in-law give birth to a nephew, but that there is no son to be with her, the negative impact on her second brother and second sister-in-law’s family is too great. If she can give birth, she will naturally be better.

After clearing the weeds and branches in the morning, a torch was set up in the afternoon and burned thirty acres of wasteland. Fortunately, there was no strong wind, and the flames as high as ten feet at the highest did not escape, spreading the fire.

However, Xiao Jiang and a few clever ghosts wrapped the pheasant eggs they picked up with yellow mud and placed them neatly in the dry grass pile. After the fire was burned and cooled slightly, they couldn't wait to take out the mud balls from the black ashes and gently smashed the dry mud outside with a small stick.

Pheasant eggs without salt have a fishy smell, but the roasted aroma is stronger. For children who rarely have snacks, roasted eggs are definitely a rare delicacy.

Several children were very filial and friendly. After the eggs were roasted, the two big ones from the mulberry fruit hill took one and tried it out, and distributed it to two younger brothers and sisters below. Then the remaining eight were sent to the grandmother Mu, so that the adults at home could also taste the delicious food they made themselves.

The children were very thoughtful. Even the uncle, who came back in the town, got one. It was winter now, and the roasted eggs would not break for a few days, but they were not delicious while it was hot.

The children have this filial piety, so the adults naturally couldn't bear to refuse. They just peeled the eggshells in front of the children and ate them happily. The fragrant roasted egg smell made them feel that it was more delicious than the eggs steamed in sesame oil at home, and they praised the children very much.

As the twelfth lunar month approaches, after two heavy snowfalls buried on the ankles, the 30 acres of wasteland of the Sang family finally came out, and there was no wild grass on the surface.

Of course, it is winter now, and the grass roots hidden in the soil do not sprout. When next spring, they will have to be deeply plowed again, otherwise the ground will be covered with weeds after a spring rain.

After completing the settlement of the money for the villagers, the mulberry leaves felt the wallet that was much weaker and lamented that the silver was too useless, so they built a workshop to turn the wasteland into land. The money they received from the Fang family before was reduced by one half.

Although there are still 150 taels, there will be more places to spend money after the spring next year. In addition to spending some money to buy flower seedlings, renting cattle, plowing land, raising seedlings, and laying seedlings, we also need to ask for help, which is another considerable expense.

In addition, it is necessary to ask people to go to the mountains to collect flowers. In just one season, the amount you need to use in a year will cost at least 20,000 kilograms of flowers. Even if a kilogram of flowers is only two cents, it will cost forty taels of silver. This is not a small amount.

Seeing Sangye writing and painting like a ghost talisman on the ground, Mu knew that she was settled the score and was no longer surprised: "Xiaoye, don't forget it. After all, the money will still be spent. It's better to think about how many days A Lin will come back. How do you ask him to separate his two brothers?"

The mulberry leaves threw away the branches, patted the soil covered with the hand and said, "Just open the door like that and just say it, there is nothing to think about."

It is better to be straightforward in this kind of thing. The man around is not stupid. Once she says the words to separate the family first and then propose marriage, he should understand why this is happening. The hiding of it will make people think too much, thinking that he doesn't believe he can handle housework well. But Mu didn't think so, and patiently advised: "It's better to say it slowly. Don't make him think you are a restless person who loves to cause trouble, otherwise he can tolerate you now, and if there are any small conflicts in the future, he may write it out."

Mulberry Ye doesn't think this is "can't"

It can be born to me, but she doesn't want to worry about her mother, so she said, "Okay, okay, I want to quit now and not let you worry about something."

When Mu heard this, he felt that he was making things difficult for his daughter. He thought for a while and said, "Why don't I do this? It's natural for the mother-in-law to make things difficult for his son-in-law to let A Lin know that someone is in love with you so that he won't bully you one day."

Sang Ye laughed "puke" and was about to say something, he accidentally caught a tall figure at the gate of the courtyard.

After she looked closely, she confirmed that she was not dazzled, she subconsciously ran towards the person who came, and her eyes suddenly burst out with her unawareness: "Why are you back so soon?"

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