The notice posted by the county magistrate is only in the villages and towns under his jurisdiction. The notice only says that everyone can divide the field and plant some, or just plant one or two in the yard, and wait for the fruit to mature. After that, no matter how much you charge.

In a few days, it also spread to other villages and towns, and Shunxi Village heard about it.

The Wanjia brothers from Shunxi Village sell milk to Xu Qinyu. Originally, Wanjia made a living by farming cattle, and they lived a prosperous life. Since Xu Qinyu buys milk from their house every month, the two brothers can share more. For two or three taels of silver, there are thirty taels in a year.

Not every household can afford to buy cattle. Few people buy cattle for farming. Sometimes they may only sell one or two cattle a month. After deducting the cost of feeding cattle, they can’t make much money. Instead, the milk has become their stability. source of income.

Knowing that grapes are being planted near Yuanbao Town, the eldest brother Wanjia also wanted to divide a small half-mu field for planting.

Wan's parents disagreed, saying that even if the family could earn an extra 60 taels of silver a year, they would not be able to cultivate the land, which must be used to grow food.

The boss of the Wan family took the second place, and asked his younger brother to buy some grape seedlings with him to plant in the corner of the courtyard. The second son of the Wan family said, "You have to serve so many cows all day, who has the strength to serve this precious thing, big brother. I also heard that wind is rain, and I heard that these grape seedlings are not cheap, only a hundred penny a piece, if they don’t live, it’s a loss of a few hundred penny, you have to get it yourself.”

The Wan family has not separated, and the two brothers have to hand over the money they earn every month. However, since the milk was sold, the parents of the Wan family will give each of the two brothers 500 pennies each month. The eldest of the Wan family has some money in his hand. .

Seeing that his parents and brothers were unwilling, the eldest brother of Wanjia honestly paid, and without saying much, he went to buy three seedlings and planted them in the backyard.

Xu Qinyu also wanted to buy some fields. With the money, he could stock up some fields first, half of which could be used to grow grapes, and half of which could be used to grow grain. Even if he didn't want to grow grain, he could also plant it for the tenants.

She discussed with her family that she wanted to buy the land.

Wen's and Ning Jie'er naturally agreed. Even the nobles in the capital like to hoard fields. Almost everyone has a field of dozens or hundreds of acres, and there are more than a thousand acres. The daughter can be used as a dowry, as a family property, and can also be planted for the tenants.

Now that Yu Niang has made some money, it's better to buy some land next to her, and she won't starve herself when she collects rent in the future.

The family agreed, and Xu Qinyu asked people to find out where there were farms for sale, preferably the kind that were connected together, not too spread out.

This kind of land is not easy to buy, and Xu Qinyu just asked Brother Feng to inquire about it first.

Now that Brother Cheng has started to cook fish, most of the errands for Xu Qinyu are done by Xu Feng.

After running for two days, Xu Feng really found a large field for Xu Qinyu.

It is a family of Yuanwai. The new emperor had just ascended the throne at the end of the year before last, and he opened the Enke. The son of Yuanwai’s family passed the imperial examination last year. The family moved to the capital, leaving more than 100 mu of farmland.

Although these fields are not connected together, they are scattered in two villages, with more than ten acres connected together. Originally, the staff did not plan to sell the fields, and they thought it would be good if they could come back in the future, but the southwest is far from the capital. It is too far away, and a lot of fields have been purchased near the capital. The fields on the southwest side are going to be sold, and they will only be sold after the year.

There are more fields in family, hundreds of acres, and don’t want to sell them separately. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome. have to buy at least one piece of land in one breath. One mu of silver is a little short, with five or six taels, and some with seven or eight taels. Ten acres of farmland are almost a hundred taels of silver, so no one has bought them for the time being.

Xu Qinyu asked Xu Feng to help her negotiate with family members outside the member, and she wanted to buy the nearly 100 acres of land in one breath.

Xu Feng went to ask, all these fields are worth about 800 taels of silver.

Xu Qinyu naturally agreed, took some time to go to the yamen to transfer the property, wrote the documents, and the family members gave Xu Qinyu the title deed of the 100-acre field.

Holding a thick stack of land deeds, Xu Qinyu was very satisfied, this was probably the landowner's wife.

Most of the people here have fields and lands, so they don't panic. Xu Qinyu found that he was similar. With fields, he would not be short of food or drink. As long as it was not a disaster year, fields would be a guarantee.

These fields have always been replanted by nearby tenants. Only a few acres of fields are not well-located and the land is not fertile enough. There is no planting for the time being. Xu Qinyu intends to cut all the acres of fields with grape seedlings for use. Grapes are ready.

The land leased to the tenants is divided according to fifty-fifty. In fact, the fifty-fifty split is calculated. Some black-hearted people dare to divide the land into thirty-seven. The tenants are 30% and the owner 70%.

Even if it is divided into 50 to 50 percent, Xu Qinyu is embarrassed. She feels that she does not even need to produce seeds, and she does not produce anything. The seeds are produced by tenants, and they are also the tenants who serve the crops on weekdays. When the grain is mature and harvested, she will take half of it. What's the difference between this and Zhou Papi?

After she planned to find a steward, she told the tenants that in the future, the grain share would be divided according to 40 to 60 percent.

She was willing even if it was three-seven-two-eight, but when Mrs. Wen heard it, she told her, "Yu Niang, this is not a good idea. If it is three-seven or twenty-eight, these tenants will think you are too arrogant. Good, it’s easy to bully, cheating and cheating are all possible, you must know that it is not a disaster year, even if it is 60%, after deducting food and drink, they can still have some leftovers, so 46% is also just right, most people will only be in natural disasters. Four or six."

Only then did Xu Qinyu understand, and said with a smile, "Thank you mother for teaching me this."

Wen Shi looked at Yuniang with kindness on his face.

She really likes Yu Niang very much, and it would be great if Yu Niang really became her daughter-in-law.

But she could see that Yuniang and her son got along like brothers and sisters, and Yuniang called her son the fourth brother, so she really regarded him as an older brother.

As for her son's mind, she never figured it out.

Now that the fields are available, Xu Qinyu has to find a manager to manage the fields.

The steward in charge of the field is responsible for collecting rent, mobilizing the distribution of the land and renting, and keeping accounts. She is usually busy with restaurant affairs, so she definitely cannot take care of these things herself, so she can only find a steward. Just look at the books at the end of the year.

Xu Feng volunteered to take care of it, because he didn’t have to go out every day to manage the fields, he would take a look at it every month, and then go to see it when it was harvested. can do.

Xu Qinyu thought about it and agreed.

When Xu Feng went over to tell the tenants that it was the owner who bought these fields and gave them a reward, he only collected 40% of the rent, but it was only 40% in the first year. If the planting is good and the harvest is good in the future, It's okay to continue to press four or six points.

The tenants are usually those whose families are poor and cannot afford the fields. When they hear this, they will thank them without saying a word, and work harder to take care of these fields, hoping to have a better harvest and share them in four or six in the future.

There were still a few acres of land that were not planted by tenants. Xu Qinyu asked Xu Feng to help buy hundreds of grape seedlings, and asked someone to help plant them in these few acres of fields, which cost another dozens of taels of silver.

It has been several days to make these fields and grape seedlings.

Near Yuanbao Town, Xu Qinyu has the most species.

The field itself still needs to be cultivated land to grow food, and the county magistrate Yang's notice also said so. Everyone is indeed growing food, and they don't want to grow too many grapes. Some people who believe in Xu Qinyu also share a One or two cents of the field are planted, and most of them are bought one or two or two or three plants and planted in the yard.

Xu Qinyu also knew in her heart that if the grain output was high and everyone was not short of food, it would be fine to grow more grapes.

But in this era, the yield per mu of grain is too low, and it is true that few people grow fruits in large quantities. It is necessary to ensure the yield of grain first, otherwise the rations will not be enough.

Take your time, don't rush, it would be great if there are high-yield grains like potatoes and sweet potatoes.

...

Half a month later, with Zhen Wu watching over the winery, everything went smoothly.

Mrs. Lu doesn't have to worry about anything, she comes here every day and Xu Ji eats morning and evening meals.

Xu Qinyu continued to focus on restaurants.

After the beginning of spring, the weather is getting warmer. Everyone takes off their thick winter clothes and puts on lighter jackets.

There are also fewer people eating pots, and more diners eating fried dishes.

Xu Feng was busy buying grape seedlings for the past two days, and had to find someone to plant grape seedlings on a few acres of land. He was running outside, not at the restaurant.

This day was the same as usual, at the end of the unitary hour, Xu Ji Restaurant would not continue to receive diners, and after finishing the last table, Xu Qinyu also returned to Osmanthus Alley first.

After washing up at night, settled the accounts and went to bed early.

But in the middle of the night, when yin and yang meet, Baiyu emerges from the bottom of Xu Qinyu's bed. The bottom of Xu Qinyu's bed is usually clean and covered with oilcloth. She only went to the bank to deposit money once in ten and a half months, so Baiyu spent most of her time by the cash box under the bed. She liked to sleep, and she slept everywhere, so Xu Qinyu let her do it.

Bai Yu sensed that it was time, so she came out and prepared to go to the small workshop to take over with Mo Yu to guard the ham.

When it came out, Xu Qinyu and Sister Ning were sound asleep.

Bai Yu is now more than two meters long. He stood up and rubbed Xu Qinyu with his head a few times. Seeing Ning Jie'er sleeping beside him, his red snake eyes glanced at Ning Jie'er, and slowly, lightly. Gently rubbed Ning Jie'er. In his eyes, Xu Qinyu, who fed him for three months when he was a child, is his mother, and the rest of the Pei family are probably brothers and sisters. They can be friendly, but the closest one is his mother, who wants to kiss her every day. Dear.

After rubbing Ning Jie'er for a while, Bai Yu rested on Xu Qinyu's body for a while. Seeing Xu Qinyu muttering something, its snake body froze. He probably knew that he was arguing with Xu Qinyu, so he didn't dare to mess up again. Moved and slipped out silently.

The doors and windows of the house are closed, but in order to facilitate it and Moyu to enter and exit, the wooden door of the main room is hidden, only the courtyard door is locked.

Although it is more than two meters in size, its calf is thick, and it can get out of the large gap under the courtyard gate. Moyu is even more powerful, and its jumping power is amazing. Jump out of the yard.

Zi Shi's Yuanbao Town was completely silent, and there was not a single person.

It is true that no one is still active at night at midnight, except for Xiao Xiao.

Bai Yu slipped out of the house and followed the road to the small workshop.

Under the moonlight, its scales are smooth and clean. The moonlight shines on the scales, and the waves are sparkling and beautiful.

Bai Yu soon came to the small workshop. It moved very little when it was swimming, but Mo Yu's black ears in the small workshop still moved and heard the sound of Bai Yu's swimming.

Mo Yu got up immediately and went to the door of the small workshop.

The small workshop is usually locked, and the leopard's jumping ability is extremely strong. Even if the courtyard wall of the small workshop is much higher than that of Pei's house, almost as high as two people, it can still easily jump over the wall, so entering and leaving the workshop on weekdays, Bai Yu was still drilling through the gap at the bottom of the door, and Mo Yu jumped off the wall.

Mo Yu knew that Bai Yu was coming, but it wouldn't leave for a while. Waiting for Bai Yu to come in from the bottom of the door, it immediately raised its front legs and jumped down like a dog, jumping in front of Bai Yu, wanting to play with Bai Yu.

But Bai Yu only glanced at it, and continued to swim with a beautiful snake tail, heading towards the door of the rooms where the ham was hanging.

Mo Yupi followed up, jumping and jumping.

When he jumped to Bai Yu's side, it was just like when he was a child, his forelimbs jumped on Bai Yu's body, wanting to hold Bai Yu and play with it.

Bai Yu was a little angry, he rolled up and wrapped his body around Mo Yu, it was a little tight, Mo Yu groaned pitifully, and Bai Yu let go of it.

When Bai Yu grew up, his temperament was more calm than when he was a child. When he was a child, he was not willing to play with Mo Yu, and now he is even more unhappy.

But Mo Yu didn't have a long memory like when he was a child. When Bai Yu let go of it, it fluttered up again.

Bai Yu was annoyed, and was about to entangle Mo Yu, when suddenly he stood still, erected his snake body, and looked towards the courtyard gate of the workshop.

The same is true for Mo Yu, her ears pricked up, and a pair of deep beast pupils stared at the gate of the courtyard without blinking.

There was indeed someone picking the lock at the entrance of the courtyard, and it was the three little pranksters who bumped into Xu Qinyu and Mrs. Lu and left the workshop more than half a month ago.

The three are from the North Street side of Yuanbao Town. They are poor and idle all day. Two of them are seventeen or eighteen years old, and the other is in his early twenties, but his family is poor and his reputation is not good. , In his twenties, he has not married yet.

The three people bumped into Xu Qinyu more than half a month ago, and when they smelled the smell of bacon, they didn't think much of it.

But in the past two weeks, several people have not found work, and their family members despised them. They quarreled with their family members. Passing by this workshop during the daytime two days ago, got some thoughts.

I passed by the workshop half a month ago and smelled a little bacon in it. knew that there might be bacon in the workshop, but this is a workshop and no one can live there. don't know why the bacon is put here.

Later found out that this workshop is owned by the small owner of Xu Ji Restaurant.

Xu Ji Restaurant is very famous in Yuanbao Town. Everyone knows it. Xiaodong's family is good, and the food tasted is also very delicious. Anyway, they have never eaten it.

Since it is the workshop of Xu Ji Restaurant, they understand that a restaurant must need a lot of bacon, so they store the bacon here.

They were hungry for a few more days, so they put their minds on the bacon in the workshop. They even stepped on it two days ago. They found that no one came in and out of the workshop during the day and no one was watching at night, so they discussed and came in to steal some bacon. , don't steal too much, steal a few pieces, and sell enough for them to eat for two days.

I deliberately touched it while was there today.

At this moment, outsiders can't even see a ghost, and they are not afraid, they are unscrupulously picking the door lock of the workshop.

After a long time of prying, it was finally pryed open.

The young man who picked the lock had a happy expression on his face and turned back and said, "Pry it open."

The voice was a bit loud, and the other two hurriedly whispered: "Stop shouting, be careful to let others hear it, and hurry in."

When the three entered the workshop, they did not forget to turn around and close the courtyard door.

There are about a dozen rooms in the workshop, and they don't know where the bacon is placed. From the first room, it looks empty and there is nothing.

In fact, when they entered the yard, they looked around and found nothing, only the brilliance of the moonlight.

A few people checked each room, and when they reached the seventh room, they saw that the door was open, and there were bacon legs hanging from the beams inside. Only then did they know that the room where the bacon was hung was not closed.

The room should be ventilated, and the door and the window are open.

In fact, before they walked in, they could smell the rich aroma of bacon, which was different from the aroma of ordinary bacon at all. It was even more fragrant. They couldn't help but swallow their saliva after being hungry for a few days.

The three of them looked at the pig legs hanging in the room, with a happy expression on their faces, "Go, hurry in and take a look, if this cured pork weighs 20 pounds, a leg can be sold for a few hundred pennies. Let's eat it for a few days and just take one."

The three walked into the door, but they didn't expect that the wooden door behind them was closed with a bang as soon as they entered the room.

The three of them were startled and turned around to look, and they saw a black leopard inside the door. It was half-bent and attacking. The wooden door behind the leopard was also closed by it.

When the three of them came in, there was only bacon in their eyes, and they didn't even see the black panther lying behind the door.

"Why, how can there be a leopard?"

The three panicked.

Another person stammered and said, "Okay, it seems to be raised by the owner of Xuji Restaurant. I, I heard that this owner has a leopard, and everyone on the South Street knows it. It's difficult, no wonder no one comes in and out on weekdays. Here, it turned out to be kept there."

"I just said, how can the bacon workshop be left unattended."

"Hurry up, this leopard is not easy to mess with, don't be slapped to death by it, let's walk from the window, the window is still open." Now a few people don't care about stealing things, they just want to run away road.

The three of them said, and immediately rushed towards the large open window, but only halfway through, the three of them stopped abruptly, because they saw a white giant python with a length of at least two meters and the thickness of a calf coming from the side. After a cylinder, he climbed out and stopped in front of the window.

The moonlight shone in from the window, the white snake spit out a snake letter, and a pair of red snake pupils stared at them coldly.

This thing is even more frightening than a leopard, trembling all over, and goosebumps arose.

"My God, why is there a snake here?" It was still this big. It was the largest and longest snake they had ever seen. Even in the wilderness, it was normal to meet one or two snakes, but the size was about the thickness of a finger. , the thickest is only two or three fingers. I have seen a snake as thick as a calf, and it is still white. Although this white snake looks better than other snakes, it is also a cold-blooded animal. It is a snake and can attack people. .

"Ah ah ah." Someone was relatively timid, and he was so scared that he wet his pants and collapsed to the ground.

The other two were also fighting against each other, standing in place and not daring to move.

The leopard behind him also let out a deafening roar.

Bai Yu glanced at Mo Yu, probably thinking that this stupid leopard could still make such a sound, and she and her mother would be meowing on weekdays.

The three of them were even more frightened, because there were wolves in front of them and tigers in the back.

Isn't the owner of Xu Kee Restaurant just raising a leopard? Why is there another white snake?

Was this white snake raised by that little chef Xu Ji? How could a snake and a leopard be raised together and not attack each other?

If it wasn't raised together, the white snake was wild, why didn't the black panther attack it and stare at them?

The three even looked forward to it, maybe the two would attack each other, but unfortunately neither the white snake nor the black panther moved, just staring at the three of them coldly.

The last three couldn't hold back, looked at each other, and rushed towards the window.

Bai Yu and Mo Yu also moved, Mo Yu rushed over almost instantly. At the same time as he flew over, he opened his forelimbs, and instantly knocked the two to the ground. The two let out a shrill scream. With a light back, he thought that the leopard had let them go, and hurriedly turned around. The leopard pressed his forelegs on their chests again, and his sharp claws were exposed, making them not dare to move at all.

When one of them rushed over, Bai Yu slid over and wrapped around the man's legs. The man fell to the ground with a thud, his nose was bruised and blood was bleeding from his nose.

Mo Yu pressed the two of them and yelled at Bai Yu.

Bai Yu glanced at it.

In the end, Mo Yu let go of the two of them, bit their clothes and pulled them to Bai Yu's side, dropping the three of them together. As long as the three of them dared to move, it roared and slapped it with one paw. When he moved, Bai Yu passed through the waists of the three like a rope, directly entangling the three.

The faces of the three were pale, and they were entangled by a white snake and dared not move at all.

Mo Yu saw that Bai Yu was entangling people, so he rushed out of the workshop and went back to Osmanthus Lane.

Back at the home in Guihua Lane, Moyu saw that Xu Qinyu was still sleeping, and after hesitating, he squatted by the bed and watched Xu Qinyu sleep.

Xu Qinyu slept until Yin Shi, and woke up to see Mo Yu squatting beside her bed.

On weekdays, when Mo Yu and Bai Yu came back from shifts, they both lay on the ground and slept. It was the first time she saw it squatting beside it staring at the beast pupil. She couldn't help laughing and said, "Why doesn't Mo Yu go to sleep? What are you doing here?"

Mo Yu screamed at her, waiting for Xu Qinyu to put on her clothes and cloth shoes before it went over to bite Xu Qinyu's clothes and dragged her out.

She dragged to the door and continued to walk towards the courtyard door. Xu Qinyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry at first, thinking that Mo Yu was going to play with her. Seeing that Mo Yu continued to bite the corner of her clothes and walked towards the courtyard door, she finally reacted and asked intently, "Mo Yu, but something happened in the workshop?"

Mo Yusong opened the corner of his clothes and called at her.

Xu Qinyu understood, something really happened in the workshop. Could it be that some thieves used to steal the ham?

Xu Qinyu didn't care about anything else, and drove the donkey cart to the workshop, and Mo Yu ran behind the donkey cart.

When he arrived at the workshop, Xu Qinyu got off the donkey cart and saw that the gate of the workshop was open.

After entering, Mo Yu led her directly to the room with the thief.

As soon as he entered and saw the scene in front of him, Xu Qinyu couldn't help laughing and crying.

The three fell to the ground side by side, next to each other, almost overlapping each other.

And Bai Yu was tightly wrapped around the waists of the three of them.

Bai Yu looked a little aggrieved at Xu Qinyu, she had been entangled here for two hours.

The three of them were very scared at first. At first, after the black panther left, they wanted to struggle. They found that the more they struggled, the more the white snake entangled them. how about them.

But being entangled by a stout white snake for two hours in this way was not a good feeling, and both the body and the heart were bearing a great sense of fear.

Seeing people coming, the three also recognized that it was the owner of Xu Ji Restaurant, and immediately begged for mercy: "Xu Dongjia, we are wrong, we dare not come to steal your bacon anymore, in fact, we didn't want to steal too much, just a few I haven't eaten well in the sky, and I bumped into you from the workshop more than half a month ago and smelled the smell of bacon inside, so I started thinking, we don't dare anymore, I beg Xu Dongjia to spare us."