Chapter 129 Farmwork Outsourcing

Shui Qing was heartbroken!

Her family is really short of people now.

An adult laborer can plant about one acre of potato land a day, and it is very good if a child can plant half an acre.

At home, Yan Qiuxing was responsible for making wine, Dahe Dahu was responsible for feeding the livestock, Fan Jin transported rice wine to Fucheng in the morning and plowed the fields in the afternoon, and Ling Ran plowed the fields all day.

The only ones who can grow potatoes are Ojiang and himself after cooking.

When Dajiang turns ten after the New Year, a ten-year-old child in the Ming Dynasty can work as half of the labor force. Dajiang has become a lot stronger in the past few months, so let's consider him planting half an acre a day.

But to be honest, I can’t plant an acre of land in a day!

Fan Jin did not agree to her planting potatoes for a person who was not diligent in her limbs and could not distinguish between grains and grains, especially because she had never been in the fields a few times. But even if Fan Jin agreed, she might not be able to plant as much as Dajiang in one day!

She looked at Aunt Zhang and saw that her chapped face had many wrinkles, which she could tell were caused by years of labor.

She had seen Zhang Xiaocao many times. The girl was very efficient at work.

Wooden Ox and Iron Ox are thirteen or fourteen years old, so growing potatoes should be no problem.

With these four people joining in, although the progress of plowing cannot be kept up, the difference is not big.

Just, "What should I do with your house? Is it too late?"

Houses are a top priority for people in the village. Several families in the village have moved into new houses before the Chinese New Year.

The remaining families were not idle during the first month of the year, and moved in to several houses one after another.

Aunt Zhang's family had a lot of delays due to charcoal burning last year. Now that she is helping to grow potatoes, it will take an unknown number of days to move into the new house.

Hearing that Shui Qing was concerned about the progress of her house, Aunt Zhang grinned and said, "Hey, it's okay!

Compared with earning money and farming, building a house is slower;

We have food, drink and money, and the house won’t run away if we put it there, so it doesn’t matter if we build it sooner or later. "

They want to live in a new house, but in front of food, clothing and money, the new house has to take a backseat.

She no longer wants to experience the days when there is no food and her children complain of hunger in their sleep at night. She also does not want to have to endure it for the rest of her life when her children are sick and have a fever and have no money to see the doctor for medicine.

She is incompetent and just wants to follow capable people and feed her children through her own hard work.

Shui Qing heard that it didn't matter, and knew Aunt Zhang's determination. What she identified was not potatoes, but her own home!

Instead of making a hasty promise, she first inquired about the situation: "How much land does your family have? How much is the harvest?"

Aunt Zhang answered truthfully: "Most of the twenty-seven acres of land are wasteland reclaimed from behind. The land is not fertile, so the harvest is never very good;

For most kinds of corn, when the weather is good and the weather is good, the harvest will be good. The maximum yield per mu can be more than 400 kilograms. When the weather is bad, the yield can be one or two hundred kilograms. "

Shui Qing was secretly frightened. The yield of corn per mu in China was at least a thousand kilograms. When the soil was fertile, the climate was good, and the varieties were of good quality, the yield per mu could reach a maximum of more than two thousand kilograms.

This gap is too big.

No wonder China has so many people and everyone has enough to eat.

"If the yield per mu is calculated as 300 catties, twenty-seven acres of land can yield 8,100 catties of corn. Is it enough for your family?"

The corn is different from rice, wheat and potatoes. There is a corn stalk in the middle!

This pole weighs much more than rice husk.

"Enough is enough. If you work harder to take care of the wasteland and save more food, there will be some leftover, but you can't just eat corn for three meals a day;

You don’t need money to buy firewood, you don’t have to eat sugar, you can eat less oil, but you must eat salt. If you don’t eat it, you will have no strength. Buying salt requires money;

If your clothes or farm tools are damaged, you have to replace them, which also requires money;

All this comes from the harvest of more than twenty acres of land, and the remaining bits are not enough;

Baogu can be sold for nine cents per catty, so he can only sell the corn and exchange it for four cents per catty to eat black noodles. Even so, he often doesn't have enough to eat.

This year is the best year for the children as they grow up, and it’s all thanks to you.”

Aunt Zhang couldn't help but stretch her sleeves to wipe away her tears as she spoke.

Shui Qing took a deep breath. She knew it was painful, but she didn't expect it to be so painful.

At the same time, I made a mental calculation: The yield of potatoes per acre is about two thousand catties. Since the wasteland is not fertile enough, one or two thousand catties should be enough.

Aunt Zhang's family only has seven acres of land, and the harvest is over eight thousand jins. If it's good, it can be more than 10,000 jins!

Yes, she had never thought that Aunt Zhang’s land was entirely planted with potatoes.

Aunt Zhang’s family is not very risk-resistant. In other words, if there is no potato harvest, her family will be fine. There is a shopping mall, a box full of gold leaves, and money earned from selling calligraphy brushes and rice wine. Her family will still be able to survive. You can have enough food and clothing.

But if Aunt Zhang’s family has no harvest, how will their family live?

Planting seven acres of land first, whether it is 8,000 jins or 10,000 jins, is enough to feed her family.

By September of the second half of the year, the floods had long subsided. By then, even if Aunt Zhang planted all the land with potatoes and had enough food, the seed blocks would still be enough.

Just as Shui Qing was about to speak, he heard a figure running in from outside.

"The water is clear, the water is clear! I just told my father-in-law what kind of things you planted. My father-in-law meant that we should also plant some. Let me ask you how to change it?" The yard door was not closed, and Wang Guifen came from a distance. he asked shouting.

I'm afraid that if I'm too late, I'll be gone.

Aunt Zhang quickly reminded: "It's a potato! Beans in the soil, but I heard a few children in Dajiang call it Didan, and the name Didan is more appropriate."

After all, beans are smaller and eggs are larger.

These potatoes are the size of a fist, not the same size as a goose egg.

Wang Guifen panted and laughed breathlessly: "Hey, don't say, ground eggs are indeed more appropriate! Let's call them ground eggs from now on."

Shuiqing was not too surprised to see that the old village chief's family also planned to grow potatoes.

Although the old village chief lived in the village, he was always wise, knew how to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and was willing to work hard to try new things.

She told Aunt Zhang about her proposal to exchange potatoes for work.

When Wang Guifen heard that she could still exchange for work, her face was immediately full of joy.

Aunt Zhang's family wanted to build a house, but her family didn't need it, and it was still the Spring Festival, so even if she went to the capital, she couldn't find any help.

Their family had a lot of fertile land and paddy fields, but rice was not planted until March or April, and now was the most leisurely time for the family!

She asked first: "How many more people do you need? Except for the old and the young, all the rest can be done in my family!"

Shuiqing looked around and found that the three sons and three daughters-in-law of the old village were in their prime and were all good at farming.

Six people joined at once, and the cows and donkeys were too busy to plow the fields.

However, the extra people could just open up more wasteland. Potatoes are cheap anyway, only a few yuan per pound, so buy them!

Also, Fan Jin could be replaced - with so many potatoes, there must be someone to dig them, right?

To the outside world, Fan Jin was the one who went to the wild woods to dig potatoes~