Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 281

However, the Luo family and the Yao family were not very close to each other. Luo Tian had never met Peach Blossom even a few times. Hearing that she had passed away, he sighed with emotion and had no other thoughts. It was the Yao family. As for her daughter-in-law, she has always kept her distance from anyone or anything related to Yao shi.

When Jiang Xia came, Luo Tiandu had other arrangements.She spent money to buy two honest and reliable official slaves who had their tongues cut off because of crimes, so that they didn't have to do anything, and just followed Jiang Xia to learn how to keep bees.

Jiang Xia didn't hide her secrets, and happily led them around the mountains and fields all day long, looking for honey sources. There are many loquat trees growing here, and the branches are full of white flowers in this season.Jiang Xia led them to gather honey and taught them how to raise bees and how to cut honey. The two official slaves couldn't speak, and Jiang Xia couldn't speak fluently.

Jiang Xia's arrival, in addition to the joy of the Luo family, the group of children studying in the tax office are also very fond of it.When Jiang Xia came over, besides a dozen bee buckets, there were several large jars of honey. The Luo family had already finished eating all the honey stored by the Luo family. Every day, I will mix honey water for the whole family to drink, and occasionally I will mix a little bit for the children who help the family to try something new. Of course, for outsiders to drink, the honey is much less, and the taste is not so good. , but that kind of honey water with a very light taste is also a luxury that these children didn't even dare to think about before.

Those children got rewards, studied harder, helped with work, and worked harder.

Luo Tian was a little speechless, she really had no other intentions, just felt that she could not bear to eat something delicious and the children beside her looked at her eagerly.She is not a stingy person, she was so powerful in the past, she often quarreled with Yao Shi for some money, and even got into fights, but it was because her family was really poor at that time, and the few members of her family could not have enough to eat. Parents and eldest sister are about to go hungry, of course she doesn't have the kindness to help others, and now the family doesn't count on this little money to live, and it's just a matter of adding an extra spoonful of honey and two bowls of warm water, it really doesn't make sense to be so mean .

Not only that, Dr. You and others were also very interested in this sweet thing, Dr. You even asked Luo Tian to send him a jar to the medicine shop, and he wanted to use it as medicine.

Dr. You is now considered Luo Tiandu's master at any rate. He said he wanted it, but Luo Tiandu put it in a small jar without saying a word, and put Fang's steamed hair cake in a small basket, and carried them to him together. up.

"This honey is really good, but it's a pity that it's water honey, so it won't last long." Dr. You picked some with his fingers, tasted it, and immediately said tactfully.

"This is the last batch of honey harvested this summer. Brother Jiang Xia didn't even sell it, so he sent it all over. If you want the clumped and mature honey, you have to wait until next spring." Luo Tian said with a smile.

Doctor You was not polite, and said directly: "You will get that kind of honey next year, remember to save a jar for me, this one won't work, you can only eat it as soon as possible."

Luo Tiandu nodded: "Okay, someone at home is following Jiang Xia to learn how to keep bees. When the loquat flowers wither, I guess the bees should also rest. I will send you the honey when I harvest it next year."

She helped clean up the pharmacy, and put the brazier back together. When she was taking out the trash, she saw the door of the empty shop next door, and people came in and out from time to time, as if they were tidying up the house.

"Uncle You, is the shop next door open? I saw people coming in and out!" She asked curiously.

Dr. You snorted, and said: "It seems that someone moved in a few days ago, I don't know, why don't you go over and ask, what kind of shop do they open?"

Doctor You's new apprentice interjected: "Master, little master, there is a grocery store next door, and it is opened by Third Xu's family."

It was only then that Luo Tiandu suddenly realized, and remembered: "Oh, look at my memory, a few days ago Third Master Xu said that he wanted his son and wife to come back and open a small shop to live, I forgot about it. "

Dr. You glanced at her, and said mockingly: "When you are young, your memory is so bad. When you get old, you will not remember anything."

Luo Tiandu chuckled and said, "I'll go over and say hello, and I'll be back later."

"Go, go." Dr. You sent her away as if waving a mosquito.

Luo Tiandu picked up a few pieces of hair cakes on the table, put them in a basket, walked to the next door, and saw the Mrs. Qin whom he had met when he came to Ba Xun's Mansion back then, rolling up his sleeves and wiping the table. A half-grown child helped set up tables and chairs.

"Sister Qin, is it really you?" Luo Tiandu poked his head and called out crisply.

Mrs. Qin raised her head and saw her. She was stunned for a while and asked, "Who is the little lady? How do you know the little lady?"

Luo Tiandu smiled and said, "At about this time last year, brother Lin Zi asked me to bring a piece of cloth to Mr. Xu, and you reminded me that Yi County is not peaceful, don't you remember?"

It was only then that Mrs. Qin suddenly realized, and remembered: "It turned out to be the little lady. The little lady is not the same now, no wonder the little lady didn't recognize her for a while." When Luo Tian went to look for her, he rushed After walking for two months, she was thin and tired, and her complexion was very bad. Now that she has been raised well in Yi County, Mrs. Qin didn't recognize her all at once.

"Where's Mr. Xu?" Luo Tiandu looked at the child next to her, and asked, "Is this your son?"

Qin said: "My father and the two heads of the family have gone to the stockade and will not be back until tomorrow." After that, he pulled the child beside him and said, "I haven't seen the little lady yet."

She had heard from her father-in-law that the little lady who came to look for him that day was not looking for relatives at all, but the new grandpa's daughter, and her attitude was a little panicked.

Luo Tian looked at the child, remembering that Mrs. Tan said that her son had long been sent to a carpentry shop as an apprentice, and upon closer inspection, he was only about ten years old, so he was sent to be an apprentice.She knows that being an apprentice these days is basically sent to the master's house to help with work for nothing. Some masters are kind and treat the apprentices as if they are long-term workers, and they can teach something more or less. Yes, they are servants during the day and night, and they are still unwilling to teach their skills. The apprentices have done free long-term jobs for several years.

Mrs. Qin wiped her hands and wanted to boil tea, but was stopped by Luo Tiandu.

"Didn't you live well in Ba Xun? Why did you suddenly move back?" Luo Tiandu asked curiously.

Mrs. Qin endured and endured, remembering that her father-in-law said from time to time at home that the new grandpa's family were all good people, but she couldn't hold back, and sighed: "We are not the head of the family, one time when we went back to unload the big family in the city , I accidentally offended the young boss’s family, and now I have nothing to do. My father-in-law saw that we had nothing to earn at home, so it’s shameful, so I pooled up the money, bought some groceries temporarily, and opened a small shop when I came back. That's all."

Luo Tian instinctively thought that she was hiding something, but she was not familiar with Mrs. Qin, so it was not easy to ask more questions, so after a few words of persuasion, she took out the cake in the basket and said, "Mr. Xu didn't say anything, I didn't know you were here, this is my mother's steamed cake, the taste is average, but it's better than fresh, you should try it too."

The hair cake is freshly steamed from glutinous rice. It is warm in the hand and exudes a fragrance. Mrs. Qin and the child both got up early in the morning to clean up, and only ate a piece of coarse cake in the morning. After a while smelling the fragrance, her stomach growled, and Mrs. Qin smiled awkwardly, and said: "I got up too early, I made the little lady laugh."

The child glanced at the cake, but didn't come over to eat it, and still helped wipe the table with a rag, obviously being taught by Mrs. Qin was excellent.

Luo Tian nodded secretly. When they met last time, she felt that although Qin's family was poor, they were well-groomed, which showed that Xu's family was well-educated.

"This hair cake is still warm, it won't taste good after a while when it cools down." Luo Tian laughed, especially now that the weather is cold, after freezing, even if it is steamed hot, the taste will be a bit worse.

Then Aunt Qin asked the child to clean his hands, and said: "This is steamed by the grandpa's wife, you eat a piece of it and weigh it down."

After hearing what Mrs. Qin said, the child picked up a piece and started to eat slowly.

Seeing Luo Tian smiling all over her face, Mrs. Qin felt that she was kind, thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Little lady, I want to inquire about something."

Luo Tiandu said: "What does Mrs. Qin want to inquire about?"

Mrs. Qin said: "I heard from my father-in-law that the county now encourages wasteland reclamation. If you open up three acres of land, you can share one acre of land for yourself. In the first five years, no tax is collected. The little woman wants to inquire about it. Now the county still has Is there any wasteland to open?"

Upon hearing this, Luo Tiandu took a look at Mrs. Qin and asked her, "Ms. Qin wants to come back to open up wasteland?"

Mrs. Qin nodded, seeing Luo Tiandu's expression wondering if there was any wasteland to open, and said: "This shop was bought by my father-in-law. There are four of us in our family. We can't do it just by relying on this shop. I just want to wait for the spring of the next year, let my father-in-law and children look at the shop, and the head of my family and I will open two wastelands and come out. After two years of hard work, it is fundamental to set up two acres of land. Little lady, I am not afraid To tell you the truth, the head of my family offended someone outside, and there was nothing we could do. My father-in-law persuaded us again, saying that the grandfather is kind-hearted, and the imperial court even sent officers and soldiers to guard against the barbarians, so we came back , when we moved to Ba Xun, we sold all our fields, but now we have nothing but this shop." After speaking, he looked at Luo Tiandu nervously.

Luo Tian thought to himself, he didn't know who the Xu family had offended so cruelly, that the whole family moved to the point where they even brought back their son who was an apprentice outside, but Yi County is currently short of manpower, so the Xu family moved back It's a good thing.

"Last year, the soldiers of the Military Defense Department helped to open up a lot of wasteland. The land around the county town has been opened up in sevens and eighty-eight, but there are still a lot of land in the villages below waiting to be reclaimed. If Sister-in-Law wants to Open land, you will follow me to the yamen later, after registration, you will be able to open up wasteland in the spring, but this year you have to plant your own land, so you have to prepare your own grain. Last year, even the grain was transported by the imperial court. of."

(End of this chapter)