【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

When I arrived at the place, I found out that Mr. Chen was a young scholar of only 30 years old. He mainly taught enlightenment and the basics of the Four Books and Five Classics. For a deeper level, I needed to go to the provincial school where there were Juren and Jinshi teachers. Fortunately, this school was next to the street where my house was, which was very convenient.

"Mr. Chen, my eldest son has no interest in studying. I want him to learn to read and do accounting. Is that okay?" Yun Xi had asked Chunsheng before. The child only wanted to farm and hunt and didn't like to study, but even if he didn't like to learn, he had to learn to read anyway.

Chen Xiucai looked at Li Chunsheng, who was half a head taller than him, and felt a little hesitant. He wanted to continue to study for the imperial examination while teaching.

"It goes without saying that my youngest son would be best served by taking the imperial examination. And can my daughter also study together? We don't ask for in-depth knowledge, but at least she has to learn literacy, accounting, and the basics of the Four Books and Five Classics." Yun Xi posed another difficult question.

Chen Xiucai looked at the quirky Yanran and felt fond of her. "How old is this child?"

Yun Xi was afraid that the other party would be embarrassed, so she hurriedly said, "She's just five years old. Five-year-olds shouldn't care about the difference between boys and girls, right?"

"Indeed, there is no need. Let's put it this way. You can study until you are seven years old. If you still want to study after seven, I'm sorry that I can't help you." Chen Xiucai agreed reluctantly.

"Okay, thank you, scholar." Yun Xi didn't ask for too much. At worst, she could just find a girls' school.

Mr. Chen's annual tuition here is five taels of silver, and the food expenses are paid monthly, two hundred coins a month. Every meal has some meat, and Yun Xi is barely satisfied. Students have to bring their own pens, ink, paper, and books.

After registering, Yun Xi took the children out to buy two sets of clothes and three sets of brushes, inkstones, and paper. One set for each of the three hundred thousand, and one set for the Four Books and Five Classics first. That’s how she spent twenty taels of silver!!!

Twenty taels! Li Chunsheng's heart was bleeding. "Mom, I don't have to learn."

Yun Xi said firmly, "You must learn. You have so many houses and shops at home. How can you manage them if you can't read or do arithmetic? Study hard and get back the money you paid."

Then he went to the market and bought two boxes of snacks and a five-pound piece of meat for the teacher.

"I'll buy each of you a cool mat for bedding. Cover yourself with clothes first. I'll bring you blankets next time." Yun Xi looked at the price of cotton. Four hundred coins per pound—too expensive! Why not just go grab some?

System: It will smell really good when you come to sell cotton.

"Okay, okay, it's okay. It's so hot, no need to rush." ​​Li Chunsheng agreed immediately.

She sent the children to school, paid for three months' food, and gave each of them 500 coins in pocket money. Could anyone help her calculate how much she had spent?

"Mei Zi, let's go home." Yun Xi held Da Hei and Huang Huang's hands, and asked Mei Zi to hold Xiao Hei.

After traveling for a few days, they returned home. The house was covered with a layer of dust. Yun Xi and Mei Zi cleaned the house. Seeing Mei Zi went out to fetch water, Yun Xi moved the things in the house out of the space disk.

After cleaning the house, the two of them took a day off and began to prepare to pick cotton. "Meizi, pick the cotton and dry it in the yard. Use a sheet to pad it."

"Mom, I remember it."

The weather was good this year. The cotton bolls were picked once in the cotton field. Except for two times, the grass grew very well, densely packed with white. The two people walking through it felt like they were floating on the clouds.

In the golden autumn, the fields are fertile and the trees are warm and cozy.

Don’t say that flowers are blooming like a sea of ​​snow, as long as I am here in this world, we can avoid cold and poverty.

At this time, the tribesmen were also harvesting cotton. This was the real reason why they were unwilling to buy cotton. Why buy it when they could grow it themselves? If they didn’t buy it, it would be a waste of money!

Yu Qian'er finally realized something was wrong. He had planted an acre of cotton and picked and packed up all the cotton in one afternoon and spread it out on the ground to dry. There should be more than 200 kilograms of cotton after drying. Why did it take his third brother's wife two days to harvest the two acres of cotton?

I strolled to my second brother's wife's house and took a look. "Mom, third brother's wife, how come your family has so much cotton? Can you harvest so much from just two acres of land?"

Yun Xi, who was picking out impurities from the cotton, looked up and said, "Sister-in-law, come in and sit down. It might be because of the different cottonseed varieties. I'm busy at home and haven't taken care of the cotton fields much."

Yu Qianer walked into the yard and took a closer look. "This cotton looks really good. Hey, sister-in-law, do you still have cotton seeds? Can you sell me some? I was thinking that my family would plant an acre of cotton to exchange for cotton clothes, quilts and mattresses at home. Seeing your yield, I think we can sell some for a lot of money next year."

"There are cotton seeds, but they are expensive. One pound costs fifty cents, and one acre of land requires about eight pounds." Yun Xi said this in advance.

Yu Qian'er slapped his thigh and said, "Third sister-in-law, wait for me to ask the family to weigh it. If the yield per mu exceeds 500 kilograms, you can plant it. It's profitable."

Soon, the uncle came with his nephews and a scale. The cotton had just been dried, so Yun Xi found a clean and dried sack and put the cotton in it to weigh. She weighed the cotton, bag after bag, for a total of thirty-eight bags. The total weight was four thousand one hundred kilograms.

"System, this is awesome." Yun Xi couldn't stop smiling.

System: "That is, I carefully selected it."

Yun Xi turned around and saw a complete silence, "Brother and sister-in-law?"

"Oh! Two acres of land worth more than four thousand kilograms! Sister-in-law, I want seeds, you must sell them to me. I want five acres of land! How much?" Yu Qian'er screamed after reacting.

Yun Xi smiled, "Two strings of cash."

In this way, the tribesmen came to buy cotton seeds again, and sold several hundred kilograms, making a net profit of twenty strings of cash.

"Tongzi, reselling is really profitable."

"If you want to make more money, make more."

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After the cotton is brought home and stored in the warehouse, there is one more crucial thing, which is to plant winter vegetables. It cannot be planted as late as last year. Now is September 14th, which is just the right time to plant vegetables.

"First, take the ripe vegetables in the yard home, pull out the vegetable seedlings and put them in the utility room to feed the livestock. Plant the cabbage, radish and spinach tomorrow." Yun Xi made the arrangements.

Yun Xi started to harvest the vegetables. The vegetables in the field were getting old, but they could not be eaten up, so they could be made into dried vegetables.

Cook and dry beans;

Cut eggplant into strips, steam and dry;

Dried chilies are eaten slowly;

If we can’t finish eating the winter melons, we keep two at home and sell the remaining five large winter melons.

The gourds are picked and made into gourd ladles, there are eight of them;

As long as the old loofah is dried, it can be used to wash dishes;

The melon seeds are dried and kept for oil extraction;

Slice the pumpkin, steam it, sprinkle it with salt and chili powder, and dry it;

Keep 100 kilograms of cotton at home and sell the rest;

Pull out the garlic and keep it for later consumption. Keep the ginger and onion in the soil and dig them out before winter.

"Mom, should we plant some vegetables in the two houses next door? I see other families do that." Li Meizi asked innocently.

Yun Xi:......

She just wanted to grow enough to eat during the winter.

"Aren't you tired?"

Li Meizi was puzzled. "It's not tiring. Growing vegetables is much easier than growing rice. The extra crops can be sold in Chengdu. Didn't you say that you should farm hard and make money?"

The boomerang pierced Yun Xi, who put on a mask of pain. "Alright, go and dig up the vegetable plots in those two courtyards, and I'll clean up here."