The lady may not be human

Chapter 12 Big apricots are delicious

The Dong family has a total of more than [-] mu of land, including good fields and secondary fields, and most of them are ordinary fields.

The good land is no more than five acres, and the second field is nearly ten acres, and the rest are ordinary fields with average output.

The yield per mu of ordinary fields is about one and a half stones a year. This is the only yield per mu when the weather is good, there are no major natural disasters, and the court does not fight wars.

The yield per mu of fertile land will be higher, about two stones, and if the service is good, it may be two and a half stones.

However, the Dong family has never planted it.

In the case of Citian, the yield per mu is often very impressive. It is not bad to have one stone, but sometimes it is less than one stone.

Although it is said that when the Dayue Dynasty distributed the fields to the people, it was said that there were eight acres of cultivated land and two acres of vegetable land, but there were not so many that actually fell into their hands.

Because the place is so big, but the population is constantly growing, how can there be so much land to divide?

Moreover, most of the fields in a village are in the hands of Mr. Xiang Kun. The court can't force them to give up the fields that they have allocated through serious channels, can they?
But the court is not without a solution, that is to open up wasteland.

To open up wasteland, the tax is exempted for the first three years to show the imperial court's encouragement.

It's just that the common people don't know what to do, is it really possible to open up wasteland?
Although the terrain of Xiaowan Village is good, there is a not-so-high hill to the north, which is actually very suitable for opening up wasteland and farming.

However, there are not many families that really go to open up wasteland, and they are all having a hard time. They really have no fertile land at home, so they can only try to open up wasteland, and then go all-in.

Dong's family has not reached this point yet, and the family can still support two scholars. The whole family has not been delayed in chewing food all year round, and no child has ever starved to death.

So, land reclamation?
That's no good, as soon as this topic was mentioned, Old Man Dong waved his hand to disagree.

In summer, the work in the field is nothing more than watering, catching insects, and fertilizing.

There is very little fertilizer in the farmyard, it is the excrement of these people in the family, plus the excrement of a few chickens and ducks raised at home, retting, and then pouring it into the field, of course, pouring it into those fertile fields, the yield per mu can be increased by one bucket It's a bucket, and one more liter is also food!
Today, many people are retting manure, so that the smell of the fields is really not very friendly.

Dong Nuan directly activated the Turtle Breathing Technique, slowing down his breathing as much as possible, just not wanting to inhale these unfriendly smells.

"It stinks, it stinks, I don't want to do it, don't do it." As soon as Dong Yao came to the field, he stopped doing it after smelling the smell.

Although he didn't wink, he also knew that the crops should not be stepped on, because he had stepped on them before, and being carried over by old man Dong was just a blow.

I beat it twice and learned a lesson, but now I dare not.

Therefore, he only dared to stamp his feet on the edge of the ridge.

What else can Dong Wu do?

Naturally coaxing him: "Okay, okay, don't do it, don't do it, Yaobao go sit under the tree over there, your three older sisters are here, there's no need for you to go to the ground..."

After Dong Wu finished coaxing, she was ready to turn her head and ask Dong Nuan to do more.

Although old man Dong didn't assign tasks to each family, they were roughly divided into groups. They did less work in this group, and they would definitely be scolded by Mrs. Dong in the end.

It's just that after Dong Wu turned his head, he only saw Dongzao and Dongtao that had rolled up his trouser legs and put them into the ridge, and Dongnuan had disappeared.

Seeing this, Dong Wu's complexion suddenly sank, and he muttered in his heart: Where did the dead girl go?

Although Dong Wu felt that Dong Nuan was suddenly not easy to manage, but she thought that maybe she was wronged yesterday, so she dared to talk back, and she would just have to teach her a few more words.

After turning around twice, I finally saw someone in Uncle Dong's house.

Seeing that Dong Nuan was getting together with Dong Ya, seeming to be eating something, Dong Wu's complexion became even more ugly.

"Nuanya, you live so much in the field, and you run so far, is it because you want to be lazy?" Dong Wu thought, raising her voice so that the whole family could hear it.

She can't control it, there are elders on top, there will always be someone who can suppress Dong Nuan.

Dong Nuan passed by, and it really wasn't to help Uncle Dong's house with work, but to set fire to lure Dong Ya.

Dongnuan didn't feel guilty about cheating children at all, who is not a teenage baby?
And Dong Nuan coaxed the other party to go to the fire and let Dong Ya's third brother study, how could this be a lie?

Dong Ya's third elder brother really went to study and was admitted as a scholar in the future. It wasn't her Dong Nuan who was lucky to live a good life, but Dong Ya.

How can something that promises a future be called cheating?

Called by Dong Wu, Dong Nuan squinted at Dong Ya and smiled: "If there is any fruit, let's eat together."

Dong Ya happily gnawed on the rhubarb apricot, and after listening to Dong Nuan's words, she was so beautiful that she could see her teeth but couldn't see her eyes, she kept nodding her head: "Don't worry, Sister Nuan, I will definitely behave well!"

After Dong Nuan finished speaking, he gnawed on Xing'er while walking towards his home, passed by the old lady Dong, and handed her two pieces: "For those who are filial to Grandma and Grandpa, the apricots in the mountains are delicious. Now, the meat is tender and juicy, but sweet without any sour taste."

Dong Nuan left after finishing speaking, not allowing Mrs. Dong to say another word.

Moreover, the hands were short, holding two big golden apricots in his hands, and the old lady Dong couldn't say anything about those words of reprimand.

In the end, he could only purse his lips, and handed one of the apricots to Old Man Dong, and carefully put the other in his pocket.

Old Madam Dong preferred Uncle Dong, and naturally she also preferred the pair of twin sons born to him, so she was reluctant to eat this apricot herself, and saved it for the two children.

The two children are still young, and they are only three years old now. Fifth Aunt Dong usually puts the children in baskets and puts them under a tree not far away when she goes to the field. .

The old lady Dong thought, after finishing the ridge by herself, she would feed the two children an apricot, sweet mouth.

There are not many families with fruit trees in the village, at least Dong Nuan only saw two in total.

The two squires must have some at home, but they can't let the villagers eat it.

Other families, their own children are not enough, and it is even more impossible to divide them.

Children can also pick some wild fruits at the foot of the mountain, which would be nice if they are sweet.

The old lady Dong didn't even have time to ask, where did Dong Nuan pick this apricot, it's really big, and it looks so tender.

If there are a lot of them, they will all be picked back. Otherwise, what should I do if they stay there and are picked by others?
There were so many thoughts in her mind that when she was catching bugs, Mrs. Dong was absent-minded.

The members of the Dong Wu family watched Dong Nuan bite the golden apricot meat in his mouth, and gave two pieces to the old lady Dong.

After Dong Wu suffered from yesterday's loss, she didn't dare to yell loudly, but after Dong Nuan came back, she stretched her face and complained in a low voice: "I don't know how to keep one for Yaobao, but I know that I am so good. Eat, you little girl, what are you doing so deliciously?"

　Big babies, happy new year~

　　Ask for collection, ask for tickets~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)