After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

The snow has completely melted, the weather is getting warmer day by day, and the water level of the river has risen. Qin Yao does not allow the children at home to play by the river.

The daily morning jogging of Dalang and Erlang resumed again due to the snow melting.

The first thing before spring plowing is to take back the wheat planted in late autumn last year to make room for rice.

Regarding this matter, Qin Yao and Liu Ji strangely reached a tacit understanding of If you don't mention it, I won't tell it either.

It's already halfway through February, and farmers are busy in the fields. These days at the Liu family's old house, the whole family, men, women, and children are out in force.

Even Jinhua, who was just six years old, had to go out together with a small basket on her back. When the adults were busy in the fields, she and her cousin Jinbao would cut wild vegetables on the field ridge and take them home to feed the chickens.

Under the busy theme of Liujia Village, Qin Yao's family, who lives alone under the northern slope, seems out of place.

When they get up early in the morning, others pick up hoes and poles and go to the fields to harvest wheat. In their family, it is the stepmother and her four stepsons who run around the village.

After running, Qin Yao could occasionally be seen carrying the two oversized buckets she ordered at Carpenter Liu's to fetch water from the village well.

It took two trips to other people's houses to fill a tank of water, but she filled two tanks at home in one trip.

Then, as the smoke rises, a strong aroma of food will drift from the hillside full of wild flowers.

When the villagers go home to have breakfast, the sound of children reading can be heard from her house.

At noon, the farmers continued to work in the fields, and her house was extremely quiet. Occasionally, someone passed by the river and came up to eavesdrop, and could hear slight snoring.

In the afternoon, there was another hehehehaha movement in the courtyard.

The smoke from the kitchen rises earliest on the hillside. The sun has not set yet, and the smoke has already floated to the roof.

When the farmers carried their farm tools and returned home under the moonlight, there was no movement in the small courtyard on the hillside, and the whole family fell asleep.

What kind of life was this?

Just eat and drink, sit and watch the clouds roll and relax in the sky, this is a life that even gods would not dare to imagine!

Finally, Old Man Liu couldn't sit still anymore. All the wheat at home was harvested, and he immediately sent his second daughter-in-law, who was just pregnant and was sitting idle without working, to ask about the situation.

Just ask the third child, can't we survive this day? If the wheat is not harvested and the land is not planted, do we have to wait for the northwest wind?

Liu Zhong watched his wife take his daughter out, looked at the anxious old man Liu, and added to his anger.

Dad, don't you even look at whether those two acres of land have more grass or wheat. The third family hasn't taken care of it all winter, and I can't even harvest a few kilograms of grain.

The fields created from the wasteland were originally low-grade and barren land. They were not carefully managed, let alone expected to be productive.

When Old Man Liu heard this, he stood up and said, I'm going out.

He didn't say where he was going, but everyone knew he was looking for the third child.

Land and food are the basis for farmers' survival. They can survive without food. Without land, they have no hope of survival.

Mrs. Qiu led Jinhua and walked slowly. As soon as they reached the river, they were caught up by Old Man Liu and told them to go home. He would do it himself.

Mrs. Qiu looked at the small courtyard on the other side of the river, smiled helplessly, and led her daughter back.

Qin Yao guessed that Old Man Liu would come sooner or later.

No, as soon as the old man arrived at the gate, Qin Yao, who was sunbathing on a bamboo chair in the courtyard, immediately kicked up Liu Ji, who was dozing off on the sink.

Your father is here.

What? Liu Ji wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and looked up in confusion. He still looked charming and suave, Who are you, dad? What are you, dad?

As soon as Old Man Liu stepped into the door, he heard these words. Looking at Liu Ji's look of a sleepy lazy man who hadn't yet woken up, he shouted angrily: Your father, I'm here!

At this moment, Liu Ji completely woke up from his nap. He looked at Old Man Liu in surprise as he walked in aggressively. He backed away and asked cautiously:

Dad, what are you doing? Have you eaten? Can you rest in the house for a while?

Have a rest? Old Man Liu raised his hand and slapped Liu Ji on the back of the head, I've finished harvesting the wheat at home, and you're still dozing here? The wheat in the field won't be harvested? What's the plan for this year's spring plowing? Do you have any ideas?

Liu Ji held his head and rushed to Qin Yao's side. He said with a cowardly look: Dad, my wife is the master of our house and I am the master of the house. I don't understand these things. Why are you beating me? Ask her!

Qin Yao stood up uncomfortably and coughed twice. Knowing that she couldn't avoid what was coming, she pulled a smile from the corner of her mouth and said, Dad.

Don't hit the smiling person with your hand, let alone the other person's daughter-in-law.

Old Man Liu took a deep breath and managed to put on a kind look, but his twitching brows made him look irritable.

Sit in your room. Qin Yao raised her finger and pointed to the main room.

When Old Man Liu entered the room with his back turned and out of sight, he kicked Liu Ji next to him with his backhand, Go, bring dad a bowl of hot water, there's nothing you can see!

Liu Ji rolled his eyes to the sky and waved his fist at Qin Yao's back in dissatisfaction. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw four little heads stacked on the windowsill, smiling so hard that his teeth were exposed.

What are you looking at! Have you finished practicing calligraphy? Liu Ji shouted sharply.

The four little heads immediately retracted and continued to sit at the big desk, using branches as pens to write on the wooden plate filled with fine sand.

Old man Liu glanced at the children's room curiously, Are you still practicing calligraphy?

Qin Yao sat down on the stool opposite him, nodded and said, Didn't Liu Ji go to the county town to study for a year and a half? You can't learn it in vain. He just happened to teach Braille to the four children in the family. Now that the children are young, They have good memories, let them learn more.

Old man Liu felt even more curious, Can he still be a gentleman?

Liu Ji came in with hot water, put it in Old Man Liu's hand, and showed a proud smile: This is not simple, just teach them to read and write, and they will be able to do it with practice.

To put it lightly, only Qin Yao knew that he was so angry with the four children that he almost committed suicide by hanging from the beam.

But after all, we are a family, so there is no need to tell these details.

Hearing that Liu Ji was still of some use, Old Liu's anger subsided a lot, but he did not forget the purpose of coming and asked Qin Yao if she had any ideas about spring plowing.

Qin Yao knew at a glance that the old man had something to say, so he followed him and asked him for advice.

Old man Liu drank half a bowl of hot water, looked up at the stretches of farmland to the east of the village, and said shrewdly:

Let me tell you, don't even think about buying land. Why don't you take advantage of your kindness to Liu Dafu and ask him to rent you twenty acres of fertile land.

He calculated that the output of twenty acres of fertile land, minus the rent and one-fifteenth of the grain tax, could be grown two seasons a year, leaving more than four thousand kilograms of grain in his hands.

All calculated as money, there is an income of twenty-five taels, and after subtracting some expenses on farm tools, twenty-five taels can be saved no matter what.

There are two adults and four children in a family. Although they cannot have enough food and clothing, they can still get by.

Moreover, it is not too tiring for two people to farm twenty acres of land, and Qin Yao is so strong, I am afraid it will be easy.

After hearing Old Man Liu's plan, Qin Yao thought to herself, Dad, farming and killing people are completely different things. You really think highly of me.

She couldn't grow two acres of wheat last year, let alone twenty acres?