Chapter 581: scold mother

Chapter 581: Swearing

However, the Chen family’s paddy fields were in Xianggui Town. Gu Dagui had gone to the paddy fields in Xianggui Town two days earlier and built a shed to live in. With the help of He Wanli, he found a I met some farmers and asked them to harvest rice.

Ms. Chen felt very distressed about this: "If the paddy fields were close to home, our family could harvest them by ourselves without having to hire anyone. Now it costs a lot of money just to hire someone to harvest. We are really losing money."

The third grandma looked at her picking and said, "Your family has thirty acres of paddy field. How can you, a family of four, harvest it all without asking anyone to cut it? You will be so exhausted that you will never be able to finish it."

Mrs. Chen was unhappy for a while after being scolded, but she didn't know what she thought of and became happy again. She puffed out her chest and said proudly: "What San Auntie said is that we are no longer farmers, but landlords. How can there be landlords to collect grain?" Not inviting anyone?"

 If you don’t ask people to work, can you still call yourself a landlord?

"No, Dagui is too honest to be bullied by the workers. I have to rush over tomorrow and keep an eye on the workers to prevent them from bullying Dagui and wasting my family's food."

The third grandma was convinced: "Are you worried that Dagui will be bullied, or do you want to set off the landlord's wife? You should calm down. If you run like this, Dagui will have to quarrel with you again."

Mr. Chen is not afraid at all: "Let's just quarrel. Which family's men don't quarrel with their wives? The more we quarrel, the better off we are."

 The noble man was very fond of her, and it was impossible not to want her. If she made a scene, he would remember her as his wife.

The third grandmother was too lazy to tell her: "Get out of here after sharpening the knife. I don't have time to listen to your nagging."

The hay knife is a sickle, specially used to harvest rice and wheat crops.

Mrs. Chen also said that enough was enough, and went home with the two sharpened knives. As she walked, she looked at the two knives and said, "It's quite cost-effective to hire someone. It also saves money on buying the knives."

 Farmers who come to harvest will bring their own knives and do not use their employer’s farm tools.

Xuanhufang knew that Gu Jinli and the others were busy harvesting rice. After learning that the pharmaceutical workshop had produced 20,000 bottles of tooth powder, he sent someone to inspect the goods in advance.

A new group of people came to Xuanhufang. Although they were not as capable as Mu Tong and others, they were also people who knew medical skills and knew how to handle things. They worked from morning to night for a whole day. They finally tested all the tooth powder and gave the remaining one thousand Seven hundred taels of payment.

After Gu Jinli got the banknote, he happily kept it.

Old Doctor Wu also said: "Shopkeeper Zhang wrote to Shopkeeper Cheng that the purchase of tooth powder is very good. Every household in the rich family buys it. Every master has a bottle. The quantity of your bottle is not much, only one or two. We need to use it quickly, so we have to make it quickly. Otherwise, these 20,000 bottles will be sold out in a short time."

 Earlier, Dr. Wu was still murmuring, saying that given this girl’s temperament that she doesn’t like trouble, how could she only hold one or two dentifrice in a bottle, which would increase the time for inspection? Now he understood that this was the idea of ​​dressing less, consuming more quickly, and selling more. It was really a clever idea, and he was convinced.

He added: "I'll ship another batch of bottles to you in a few days, so you won't be left without bottles to hold tooth powder."

Gu Jinli smiled: "Thank you, Grandpa Wu."

 What things in the world can make money in the long run? That is consumables, especially consumables liked by wealthy people.

Rich people have no shortage of money. Once they get used to using something, they will habitually buy it. Tooth powder and mosquito repellent incense are common and quickly consumed, so just make them and sell them.

 After delivering the tooth powder, Gu Jinli and his family started busy harvesting rice.

Gu Jinli's family previously bought twenty acres of paddy fields from Mr. Lu's family, plus the eighty acres in Songzi Village, which makes them a full one hundred acres of paddy fields. However, the yield of paddy fields in Dachu is not high, with an average of only three hundred kilograms of rice per mu. . Even so, her family harvested nearly 30,000 kilograms of rice, which made her grandparents and grandma cry with excitement.

“I never dreamed that I could harvest so much grain, ten thousand kilograms of it, and it’s still rice. After the husks are removed, it becomes precious rice. I can’t finish it in ten years.” The third grandma said excitedly, wiping her tears.

The other families also harvested a lot of rice, each of them harvested several thousand kilograms, but everyone was very excited.

 Lao Yan had been poor all his life. When he learned that his family had collected so much grain, he couldn't resist it and fainted with excitement. Gu Qingxi and Gui Niu, the younger members of the old Yan family, were frightened and cried. Jin Niu came crying to Gu Jinli's house to look for someone. The third mistress was anxious after hearing this and hurried to the pharmaceutical workshop to ask Uncle Dai to take a look.

Uncle Dai quickly rushed to Lao Yan’s house and rescued Lao Yan.

Brother Gu Damu heard that his mother had fainted, so he hurried back and asked Uncle Dai: "Doctor Dai, is my mother okay?"

Uncle Dai said: "It's nothing serious. Just pay attention to it in the future. It's just that the old lady's body is severely deficient. It's best to take this opportunity to take the decoction for a year and a half to recuperate."

Gu Damu is a filial son and his family is not short of money. When he heard this, he hurriedly said: "Doctor Dai, just prescribe the medicine. Our family will definitely buy it for my mother to drink."

After hearing this, Doctor Dai gave Lao Yan a prescription: "Three times a day for the first month, and after one month, just drink it once a day."

Dr. Dai is a servant of Gu Jinli's family. He did not charge for the consultation and only asked Gu Damu to take the prescription to Xuanhufang in the town to get the medicine.

Mr. Yan fainted and sighed: "In the past, when I got sick, I could get over it with just one antibiotic. How can I see a doctor and take medicine at the same time? It's really expensive."

Third Grandma smiled and said: "Just say a few words less and enjoy yourself."

 After settling down the old Yan family, several families were busy taking the grain to the workshop and house for storage.

Because the shops were being built, their houses were still old mud houses and there was no extra space to store grain. After discussing with the Gu Dashan family, they brought the grain to the workshop and house. After entering the big house, it is easy to carve out a few rooms to store food.

Gu Jinli's family stores half of their food in Songzi Village and half in the workshop. Both places have granaries that can hold a lot of food.

 After harvesting the rice, several families started busy harvesting grain from the dry land.

These dry lands were also bought from Mr. Lu’s family and the Zou family. When they were purchased, they were planted with food, such as soybeans, sweet potatoes, and vegetables stored in winter.

Winter wheat is grown in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas. After the wheat is harvested, soybeans, sweet potatoes, etc. will be planted and harvested in late autumn before winter.

 After the harvest, they were busy planting winter wheat on the dry land.

Since the winter in Jiangnan, Huaihe and Jiangnan areas is not as cold as in the north, winter wheat can be grown on dry land. Sowing begins in mid-to-late October and will be mature and harvested in the coming summer.

 Several families were busy from early October to nearly November, and then they finished the farm work in the fields.

"We have to hire someone to do this. If we didn't hire someone, we would really be exhausted." Mrs. Chen said, squeezing her waist, "It's not easy to be a landowner. Too much land can make people exhausted."

But when she thought about the food in the warehouse, Mrs. Chen was so happy that it was worth it no matter how tired she was.

 But she was not happy for two days before the county government's official document to increase grain taxes came out.

 All grain taxes will be increased by 10%, from 2 out of 10 to 3 out of 10.

When Mrs. Chen heard the news, she scolded her on the spot: "How much does it cost to increase the grain tax by 10%? Our family is still drinking porridge. We just want to have a solid meal, and you are going to increase the grain tax. What do you think? Such bullying? Man, I’m not alive anymore!”

 (End of this chapter)