GBP Chapter 148 Qin Hehua's Thoughts
Chapter 148 Qin Hehua's Thoughts
Ji Wenhe sighed: "It's cheap, but there are too many dry lands. I still want to buy only paddy fields."
In the future, I will buy all the wasteland and I will never worry about having no dry land.
Compared with dry land and paddy land, paddy land is more valuable.
Qian Hongjuan nodded in agreement: "Talk to the head of the village and ask him to give you a lower price. We are all from the same village, he won't make things difficult for you."
"Well, let's wait until we have enough money to buy it."
Ji Wenhe looked at the dry land: "Hey, that's Aunt Qin, right? Is her family planning to plant rice today?"
The whole family, except Shen Zhong, his two sons, and Jiang Hongxi's youngest son, were pulling rice seedlings in the fields.
"Shen Cong and Shen Lin are in the restaurant in town and can't come back. This year, there are two less people at home. We have a lot of land, and if we don't plant rice early, we're afraid it will rain heavily in a few days."
It’s raining heavily, so we can’t go out to plant rice, so we have to postpone it.
Moreover, the newly planted seedlings have not yet taken root in the soil. Heavy rain will blow the seedlings out, and they will have to be replanted.
Ji Wenhe looked around but didn't see Shen Zhong: "Aunt Qian, won't the head of the village help?"
Qian Hongjuan sneered: "He is the head of the village, an official of some kind, and he has never helped with household chores."
"I haven't seen anyone at the moment. They are either staying at home smoking a pipe or wandering around other villages."
If you ask him to work, the sun has to rise in the west.
"...They have so much land, and they will be exhausted if they rely on the few people in the family to take care of it."
Looking at their large fields, my eyes went dark.
Ji Wenhe's family had little land, so he didn't feel anything.
But as soon as I saw their land, I suddenly felt tired and bored.
Qian Hongjuan approached her and lowered her voice: "When someone sees us finish planting rice, they come to ask us for help."
"It's not impossible to help, but he has a lot of land, and I have to go to help every year. Not only will I be exhausted, but if I don't plant the seedlings well, he will nag me."
"Why don't you hire people there? If you pay them, they will come."
"How could he be willing to spend money? If he was willing, why would he ask us for help every year?"
Ji Wenhe looked at his seven mu of land and said, "Aunt Qian, he won't come looking for us after we've planted our rice seedlings, right?"
Qian Hongjuan nodded affirmatively: "I guess they have already made up their mind. They will come to find you after your rice seedlings are planted."
"I'm afraid that's not possible. Yuanshan and Wenshan are out selling goods, and my family has imported so much noodles that we haven't sold out yet. I can't give up my own business and help them plant rice."
Besides, she didn't want to go and help. She had already promised to help Aunt Lan and Aunt Wang's families, and didn't want to go to other families.
"Aunt Qian, when you finish planting the rice seedlings, his family will come back to look for you. Will you go?"
"Don't go."
"Don't go?"
Qian Hongjuan smiled and said, "I'm telling you, leave a small piece of land, and ask your man to go to town before dawn the next day, so they won't be able to call them to help."
"When you finish planting the remaining seedlings, you can say that you want to plant vegetables on the dry land at home. Go back and slowly water the land with manure and carry water to irrigate the land. It takes no time at all."
"Either you say you're going back to your mother's house to help plant rice, carry a basket on your back, and go out to look for wild vegetables for a day, and you won't go to help their family."
They all did so, but some people were afraid of being tripped up in secret, so even though they were reluctant, they still went anyway.
Ji Wenhe thought: It turns out they don’t want to help, so they came up with many solutions.
"After we have planted the rice seedlings, we will go to help Aunt Lan's family and Aunt Wang's family. We have already promised them that the head of the village cannot help."
When Qian Hongjuan saw her mother-in-law Xie Fenglian coming, she hurriedly said, "Auntie is gone, you are busy."
"Hey."
She is afraid of her mother-in-law.
After a while, Shen Rongshan came back and headed straight to the end of the field.
Seeing that she didn't listen to him again, he sighed helplessly.
After hearing this, Ji Wenhe laughed out loud: "Brother Shen, Aunt Qian came just now and told me about the rice planting at the headman's house."
"This year, their family is missing two important laborers, so they will definitely focus on the villagers. After Aunt Lan and Aunt Wang have finished planting the rice seedlings, I don't want you to go to their house to help."
"It's a thankless job. If I don't plant the seedlings properly, I'll be criticized. Why do it? It's just annoying."
Shen Rongshan took the shovel from her hand and said, "Auntie Qin sometimes speaks in a bad way."
"It's not that it's unpleasant, I just think you should help me, and I don't feel grateful at all."
"Then we won't go. We have family business to attend to."
Ji Wenhe nodded: "Yes, that's what I meant."
"Wen He, go home. The sun is too strong."
The water is half filled and we will be able to go home soon.
"Okay, I'll go back first."
She was walking on the path and passed by a vegetable field. Qin Hehua looked up and called her.
"Rongshan daughter-in-law, you..."
Ji Wenhe instantly understood what she was going to say, and changed the subject with a smile: "Auntie Qin, your family is planting rice so early."
"You have a lot of land, so you can sell the harvest for a good price. My family can't sell the harvest, so we can only sell it in the village."
She said, "Your family has little land, only seven tenths, so it will be quick to plant the rice."
"Yes, so we asked Yuanshan and Wenshan to go out and sell the goods. They don't have to work in the fields. We have a lot of goods coming back home, but many of them are not sold. Brother Shen and I are worried to death."
"We can only feel at ease when they go out to sell their goods. We have agreed with the people in the distant villages that we will go to the village once every two weeks. They are all waiting to buy noodles. We can't let them go hungry and plant rice."
Qin Hehua sat on a small stool and straightened her back: "You and Rongshan are planting rice at home. It will take less than an hour for the two of you. Rongshan is a good worker."
Ji Wenhe smiled and said, "Yes, but transplanting rice is tiring. After helping Aunt Lan, I went to help Aunt Wang. Working in the fields from morning till night, and it was a hot day, even an iron man would collapse from exhaustion."
"Besides, some villages are too far away. Wenshan and Yuanshan are not strong enough to carry hundreds of kilograms of goods and walk too far. Their bodies cannot handle it."
"In the end, it will be Brother Shen who goes. After all, we promised the villagers that we would go there once every two weeks."
"They only bought enough rice and flour for half a month. We can't break our promise, don't you think so, Aunt Qin?"
Qin Hehua's plan came to nothing.
Ji Wenhe stopped chatting with her and smiled: "Auntie Qin, you guys are busy. I still have a lot of work to do at home."
She frowned and nodded.
He glanced at Shen Rongshan who was standing at the edge of the field and sighed softly, "It's okay to sell the goods two days later."
Tao Xing'er raised her eyes and glanced at her: "Other people's business is important. You can't leave it alone to help us plant rice."
"I promised the people in the village. If I break my promise, I might not do business with them anymore."
One can tell at a glance what her mother-in-law is planning.
Ji Wenhe's meaning was very clear, he just didn't want to help them plant rice.