Chapter 4 Zhou Yingjie
Gu Xin opened the bag and there were several small cloth bags in the bag. However, you could see the corn seeds under the bag at a glance. When you opened the bag, there were watermelon seeds, peanuts, and a few seeds in the bag. Gu Xin didn't recognize them, but these were enough.
"I'll want all these seeds from Brother Zhou." Gu Xin said
"Just Sister Xin'er, you'll love it." Zhou Xiujie said
At this time, a few more customers came to the store. Zhou Xiujie immediately greeted her, showing her true nature as a businessman, and she was completely different from her attitude towards Gu Xin. Gu Xin felt that Zhou Xiujie was more like a relative to her.
Zhou Xiujie sent the guests away, and Gu Xin's mother bought some rice. Zhou Xiujie refused to collect the seeds and said that he had not spent much money. If his sister liked it, she would give it to her. Gu Xin looked at the two of them and said, "Since that's the case, please don't give it to me. Brother Zhou waited for these seeds to be harvested. I'll give you 20% of the harvest, but you have to sell the things for your sister!"
"Okay, I understand. Brother will definitely sell the things for you," said Zhou Xiujie.
After leaving the store, Gu Xin and her mother went home by cart. When she returned home, Gu Xin asked her mother, "Why is the village chief treating us differently?"
"Oh! It's been more than ten years since I said this. When I was pregnant with you, the second son of your Uncle Zhou family went to play in the mountains and met a tiger. Your father almost lost his life in order to save Yingjie. When he came back, he was so scared that I had a difficult child that day. When he gave birth to you, you were as thin as a kitten. It's hard to say whether you can live. Since then, I have been unable to have children. Your Uncle Zhou family has been feeling guilty and said that they were the ones who killed the tiger. He sold some money to treat your father and some of your Uncle Li. The rest have been built for the village and the tigers were beaten back then.
There is also your Uncle Li, who is the one who drove the ox cart today. When your uncle fled, he had no children. Now he is the only one who is left with your uncle and your aunt, and it is not easy to live. You don’t know what’s happening in the village often. In fact, everyone is pretty good. The family was not well in the first few years, and your father was also sick. It was all your Uncle Zhou and the villagers who helped you. My mother said that this did not make you think that your Uncle Zhou owed us. Even someone else’s children would save you. You must be grateful for your kindness, but you cannot repay your kindness. Do you know what Xin'er?"
"Don't worry, mom, I won't do anything to repay kindness." Gu Xin said
"There is also the child Yingjie! Oh, I won't talk anymore, let's talk about it in the future. You are tired, so mom will cook for you." Gu Xinniang said.
Gu Xin originally wanted to develop that wasteland himself. In this simple village, it was not suitable to do too selfish things. So let the village become rich together and turn this abandoned place into a paradise.
Gu Xin soaked the watermelon seeds he bought in warm water, and he could plant this at this time. Although there were not many seeds, it was enough for ten acres of land.
After dinner, Gu Xin came directly to the village chief's house. The village chief's house was not very far from Gu Xin's house. In the center of the village, there was a gate made of elm wood and several tiled houses looked very new. It should have been built for a few years. There was a garden on the left and a livestock shed on the right. There was no cow or horse. After dinner, Zhou Jianbo was walking in the yard. It was so good to see Gu Xin coming in.
"The girl in my heart is here, have you eaten?" said the village chief.
"I've eaten my uncle, I'll come to you for something." Gu Xin said
"What's the matter with my uncle?" asked the village chief?
"Uncle, I want to develop that hundred acres of wasteland!" Gu Xin said
"What did you say about opening up the land? I'm telling you that you can't grow anything in that land. Go home and help your mother do some work. Don't just think about something useless. If you can grow something, can you wait until you go to open up the land?" said the village chief.
Zhou Bojian was very tough and didn't believe that the wasteland could grow things. After all, everyone had planted things on that land, and there was no harvest at all. These days, half of the people in the village could eat a lot. If only they could grow things, they wouldn't have to go hungry. Thinking about it, the village chief was really moved. The new emperor ascended the throne and was in trouble and he couldn't worry about coming here.
"Uncle, I can keep the villagers from hunger this year and have enough food for winter." Gu Xin said
"What did you say, girl? Village chief said"
"Uncle, what I said is true. I have villagers who spend the winter food." Gu Xin said
"No, I don't know your family's situation yet, so there is no food." The village chief said
"As a child, I met an old man with white beard. I brought food to the old man every day. The old man taught me to know a lot of food that I could eat, and took me to play in the mountains. The old man could fly. But the old man didn't let me tell others that I had seen him." Gu Xin thought you should believe it now, but Gu Xin didn't expect that one day in the future, there would be such an old man who would follow her and call her a disciple, so she would not be able to say some words randomly.
"You girl, you have met a master. Why didn't you expect to open up the land before?" said the village chief.
"Uncle knows what I was like before. I want to understand this time. My parents' kindness is greater than that. I was too selfish before. I will definitely take good care of my parents in the future." Gu Xin said.
"It's good that you can figure it out, but that one hundred acres of land cannot be opened just by just wanting to develop. The men in the village went out to work, and the rest were women, how much work can they do," said the village chief.
"I know, uncle, can you call everyone back to open the land?" Gu Xin said
"Girl, where are your winter foods? After all, there is no limit to empty words." The village chief said.
"I will take you there tomorrow. After seeing it, I will recruit everyone back. Some seeds will not be harvested if they are late." Gu Xin said.
"Get your uncle there tomorrow," the village chief said excitedly.
Just as I was about to leave, the village chief’s wife took the show and saw Gu Xin
"Xin'er is here, come here quickly, the aunt embroidered a veil for you!" After that, she went into the house and went there.
After a while, the village chief’s wife took a cotton veil and came out with a few flowers embroidered on it. Gu Xin didn’t know much.
Gu Xin took the handkerchief, thanked the village chief's wife, left the village chief's house, and went straight home.
"Xin'er, where are you?" Gu Xinniang asked when she saw Gu Xin coming back.
"Mom, I'm going to the village chief's uncle's house!" Gu Xin said.
"What are you doing at the village chief's house?" Gu Xinniang asked.
"Mom, I want to plant that hundred acres of wasteland, and I can't plant it alone. I want the whole village to plant it with me!" Gu Xin said.
"How is it possible to plant that wasteland with you? Everyone goes out to make money and buy food for winter. Who will plant the land that you don't want to grow with the grass?"
"Don't worry, I will let everyone grow it with me!" Gu Xin said.
After Gu Xin finished speaking, he went back to the house to sleep. Gu Xin's mother was not saying anything, thinking that this girl was just messing around with whom to farm with her.
Early the next morning, Gu Xin got out who was from the watermelon seeds, found a wet cloth to cover it, and went to feed the chickens and ducks. The village chief came. Gu Xin said hello to Gu Xinniang and left. Gu Xin led the village chief to the potatoes he saw when he picked mushrooms that day.
"Where are the food you are talking about?" the village chief asked looking at the green potato seedlings.
Gu Xin didn't say anything, so he found a yellow-leaved potato seedling and pulled it out, and brought a few potatoes out, which were not much like duck eggs. Gu Xin found five or six potatoes in the soil. One seedling had so many potatoes, which was considered high-yield.
The village chief did not expect something under the seedlings. Looking at the ball-like earthy egg, I wonder if it could be eaten. Gu Xin knew what the village chief thought, so he found some branches in the woods and buried the potatoes underground. The soil on it was two centimeters thick. He set fire on it until the fire was extinguished and the charcoal fire was not so red. He dug out the potatoes and roasted them in the fire. After a while, Gu Xin pulled out the potatoes and put them in front of the village chief and said, "Uncle can eat it,"
The village chief looked at the potatoes in front of him, and they were a little unbelievable. Gu Xin broke the chopped potatoes in half and gave them half to the village chief and half by himself. He ate them directly. When he said that, he really missed the smell of roasted potatoes.
The village chief couldn't help it, so he ate it directly, the noodles were fragrant. After eating, he ate another one, and he didn't stop until he ate four or five. Because he heard Gu Xin's words last night, he came without eating this morning. He looked up and looked at Gu Xin and said embarrassedly: "Xin girl is so good. This is not necessary to go hungry in the village this year."
Looking at the old man in front of me, there were wisps of silver threads on his head, but he did his best to survive for others.
"Uncle, I discovered these potatoes a few days ago when I picked mushrooms. It's not time to harvest them yet, so I have to wait a month before I can collect them." Gu Xin said
"Girl, you have done a good thing. You don't have to go hungry this winter. As soon as I go back, I will call you back to help you open up the land."
The village chief had a certain appeal in the village. Gu Xin knew that after the two of them had eaten potatoes, Gu Xin buried the potato skins and ash. Now is not the time to harvest, so Gu Xin refused to let the village chief tell everyone, so as not to dig them randomly.
When the two returned to the village, the village chief called the village chief's wife and informed everyone to come back. When they heard the news, everyone gathered at the village chief's house, and no one was willing to call their own men back. It was at this time that they could earn money. After a while, the autumn harvest was gone, and they had no time to go out to find a living, and they were even more unwilling to follow Gu Xin to open up the land. Gu Xin is a famous lazy person in the village. Naturally, the village chief is a literati and naturally would not be as knowledgeable as the village woman. He fell into a deadlock for a while.
"Look at someone carrying a tiger," I don't know who shouted
Gu Xin looked in the sound and someone came over to resist the tiger. When he got closer, he found that it was a dark spot that had disappeared for a few days.
Heizi threw the tiger to the ground, walked to the village chief and Gu Xin and said, "Everyone knows that tigers are valuable, so today I will sell the tiger. I will pay for everyone every day to open up the land and pay thirty cents every day."
After the conversation, people started to talk about it. They went out to work and only gave twenty pennies a day. Of course, they would come back, and they would go home to notify their men to come back.
Gu Xin first saw this man up close. Why did he have such a skill? He had to marry her and repay her kindness so that she would not believe it.
Uncle Li from the village came with a ox cart. Heizi threw the tiger into the cart. Because he wanted to go to the county to sell, Gu Xin also wanted to go, but Gu Xinniang refused. However, Heizi said that he would take good care of Gu Xin, so Gu Xinniang agreed, who made this son-in-law so capable?
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