The Wild Princess: The Space Farmer's Strong Counterattack

Chapter 7 Summer Harvest Preparations
In the early morning of the next day, Xue's small courtyard slowly became lively.

The days of summer are long, and the sky at Yinshi Zhongtian has gradually become brighter and brighter.The small insects and big animals that were active during the day also gradually woke up, making a lot of noise and waking up the earth during the day.

The industrious farmers also started their daily lives in a rustling manner.

Grandpa and grandma usually get up at five o'clock at the end of Yinshi, and they don't want to waste any time. They are burdened with the heavy responsibility of raising seven children.

The first thing Grandfather does after washing his clothes is to go to the fields to inspect the fields. The crops in the fields are as important as the eyes of the farmers, and they cannot be separated from him for a moment.

In ancient times when there were no substantial pesticides, it was very common for a group of locusts to suddenly spoil crops.

And there are still a few days before the crops can be harvested. This critical moment cannot be ignored, otherwise if something happens, the family will be hungry.

Xiao Xue's family has been out of food since April, and they have borrowed food from the clan, and they have to return it after harvesting it in summer.

Xue's family from other branches who have a surplus will also donate food to the clan, supporting the Xue clan to continue.

Grandma will cook the corn porridge early in the morning, and the corn porridge will take a long time to soften.Grandma also sweeps the yard, or pulls weeds in the vegetable field in the backyard. In the morning, the ground is wet with dew, so it is easier to weed.

Older children like Qianfengqianyunqianyu and Qianbing will get up at the end of Maoshi, that is, after six o'clock.In fact, Qian Bing was only seven years old, and his family didn't agree with him joining the ranks of young adults who got up early to work so early.

But Qian Bing was restless and insisted on following, and it was also because he was impatient to take care of his younger siblings. Fortunately, the little Qianwu Zaohui was able to take on this small task and helped the family a lot.

The four members of Xiaoxue's small adult class usually go to the shallow mountains to collect firewood for their morning work, and by the way, they also need to find wild vegetables for chickens. The task is not light.

In the morning they would come back for breakfast, and then the three boys would go to private school.Qian Yu started her day of sewing and mending, or assisting Grandpa and Grandma with other farm work.

This is the unchanging daily life of Xiaoxue's family. They work hard and seem to be full of vitality, but they have little harvest, especially the lack of money!Qianwu sighed.

"Qianfengqianyun and Qianbing have passed the five county examinations and the three government examinations in February this year, so they naturally became children.

Qianxuan and Qianrizao of Uncle Feng's family are already scholars, and the remaining three cousins ​​are also Tongsheng.

As for the four cousins' families, there are more scholars, six scholars and fifteen children.

Adding up the existing fame and fame of the Xue family, there are only eight scholars in the thousand-character generation, and 21 children!
There are also five scholars from the father's generation with the honor character, and many others from the younger generation who have not yet taken the entrance examination for the child..." Qian Wu calculated, muttering.

Speaking of how difficult it is to test for fame, their Xue family seems to be on the hook, and their fame will not shake the entire Xincheng County three times, but it also scares many people.

Of course, the money spent to support this group of scholars is even more frightening, not to mention that the Xue family has no good income at all.There are more than 100 people in the whole family, and nearly 50 people study for the exam.In the future, people of the thousand-character generation will also become scholars
The entire Xue family has been saving money for many years, but they still can't make ends meet, and the follow-up expenses will be even greater. I don't know what the patriarch Taigong plans to do.

In short, I haven't received any news so far. Seeing that the college test is approaching, wouldn't it be because her three brothers are still young, so she left their family?
Not impossible!There are more than 12 children in the family who are going to take the college exam, it is impossible to send them all at once, they are short of money!And brother Qianwu is only [-] years old, and her cousins ​​are in their twenties, so it's hard to be her brother's turn, right? !

Besides, the college entrance examination is relatively simple. After the child is born, he should work hard to win the scholar, otherwise it will inevitably cause problems after a long time. Qian Wu was anxious and thought of countermeasures.

Qian Wu sat on a small bamboo stool, muttering to herself with her chin in her hands.I saw my grandpa and grandma next to me carrying out the summer harvest tools, washing them, sweeping them, and repairing them. They were really busy.

Sister Qianyu was also helping, and little Qianshuang and Qianxue assisted Qianyu obediently.In fact, it was more of a hindrance, and no one discouraged their enthusiasm.

"What is Xiaowu muttering about?" Grandma saw her sighing like a little adult, and found it funny, wondering what strange things this child was thinking about again.

"I'm thinking about the big brother and the others going to the state capital to take the exam in July. It's easy for scholars to take the exam, but it takes a lot of money on the way." There are often people who go bankrupt and collect money to catch the exam, but their little Xue's family has already lost everything. Where is there still money to lose?

Although Zhengrong Village is a little bit hilly, it's not too remote.It is ten miles to the town, more than 40 miles to the county seat, and four to five hundred miles to Cangwu Mansion.

It takes four days to walk, and two days in a bullock cart, and you have to eat and live on the road, which is time-consuming and unsafe, so you can only take a horse-drawn carriage.

You can go to Fucheng in one day by hiring a horse-drawn carriage, but it’s super expensive, at least four or five hundred yuan each, and two people cost one tael of silver, and you need to pay for food and lodging for the three-day exam, tsk tsk
"Haha, after the summer harvest, we will sell some grain. You don't have to worry. If it doesn't work, there will be a grandpa. There must be a constitution in the clan." Grandpa said cheerfully.

Well, the only one who still counts on her 80-year-old father as a backer is her grandfather, so lucky for him!

But there are so many people in the clan who are going to take the college exam, the grandpa will definitely not be too biased.

This year is the year of the big competition every three years, and the August autumn will come immediately after the July courtyard exam.

After the college examination, the number of scholar places in the Xue family must have increased, which means that in the autumn of August, there must be more people in the Xue family to take the provincial examination.

So if you don't have 80 taels of silver, you won't be able to pass this year's college and township exams.In February of the following year, the Spring Festival was held in the capital. After a rough calculation, the Xue family did not have ten thousand taels, but must have several thousand taels of silver.Otherwise it won't work.Does grandpa know that his father is going to be heartbroken? !
"Every arrangement in the clan is inseparable from money. In the past two years, the grandpa has to spend tens of thousands of taels. We have to plan ahead and find a way by ourselves." If Qianwu didn't remind her grandpa, he might block others If you offend the public because of your own way, people must have foresight.

"Huh?!" Grandma and Qian Yu were startled, Qian Liang? !Their family didn't have a surplus of more than ten taels, so if the ancestor's family had a few hundred taels, would it be enough? !
"So I have to find a way to earn money, so that my brothers can take the exam for the number one prize." Qian Wu said with pride.

The Xue family has mortal enemies, otherwise they wouldn't be trapped in a mountain nest for a hundred years.If you want to be born, you have to work hard, and the number of people must be large enough, so as not to be easily defeated one by one by others.

In this way, no matter what, Qianwu cannot be left behind in the clan, and her brother will be wronged for this vulgar money, and his talent will be buried.

What's more, Qianwu's birthday is coming soon, and the space in the palm of her hand has also faintly changed, it's time to do something...

"Yes, it will cost a lot of money, but what should I do?" Grandpa was a little confused, he only realized now that the Xue family is really going to be born, and tens of thousands of silver will be spent, which is no longer the same as before. That is such an easy thing to be short of a few rations, it's so far away...

"But how can we make a lot of money?" Qian Yuchou frowned, just the old and the young in their family?She didn't dare to expect extravagance from her clan, she never trusted those people.

"Hmph! Don't worry, this is a person with both talent and appearance like me. I dare not talk about big things, but I can still make a little money. Let's go! Shuangxue Shuangbai, let's make a lot of money!" Qian Wubo With a gesture of wave, he led the two little children out the door.

"All bragging!" Qian Yu rolled her eyes and said in a bad mood.

"Hehe girl" Grandma was amused.

"Haha." Grandpa was also happy, since there is his father anyway.

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