Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

The installation of the waterwheel was successfully completed, and Zhang Xixi was very happy. She kept her promise and rewarded Zhou Fu and Zhou the carpenter with ten taels of silver each.

At the same time, Zhou the carpenter was asked to make two more waterwheels. This time, the villagers did not follow suit because they had no land that needed watering.

In the afternoon, Zhou Fu brought the account book and the remaining silver to Zhang Xixi.

"Master, the research on the waterwheel cost a total of twenty-four taels and six mace. The two waterwheels behind it cost three taels of silver each, for a total of thirty taels and six mace. There are nineteen taels and four mace left. Here is the account book, please take a look."

Zhang Xixi took the ledger and flipped through it casually. She found that the ledger was very detailed, with everything used and how much it cost written down.

"Keep this money for household expenses. From now on, you will be the housekeeper of our family. You can buy whatever the fields and the family need, as long as you keep good accounts!"

Zhou Fu bowed gratefully and said, "Thank you for your trust, boss. I will definitely do my best."

These past few days, villagers have been frequently going to the low-lying area to check on the organic fertilizer, because the rice in the paddy fields has sprouted again and needs to be fertilized as soon as possible.

That day, Zhang Dacheng and Zhou Dashan also went to take a look; they were very anxious!

When they arrived, Zhang Wenhong was inspecting the compost.

"Second brother, how is it?"

"It can be used tomorrow!"

After Zhang Wenhong finished speaking, he spread out the fertilizer to let the heat dissipate.

Zhou Dashan quickly called out to the onlookers, "What are you all standing there for? Come and help!"

Zhou Yuping and the others chuckled, then immediately stepped forward, picked up hoes, and dug up the other piles of fertilizer as well.

After Zhou Dashan and Zhang Dacheng returned, they asked each of the families who had participated in collecting fertilizer raw materials to bring two hundred coins to their homes, as fertilization was to begin the next day and they needed to discuss it.

The money was handed over to Zhou Dashan, who then distributed it to the people who paid. He then said, "This fertilizer can be used tomorrow. My idea is that everyone should line up to get it, and we'll use sacks as measuring tools. Everyone can take the fertilizer in rounds, one person at a time, so that we don't argue about such a small thing later."

"Okay, I'll do whatever Uncle says."

After everyone agreed, Zhou Dashan also asked the village elders to go with him to supervise, so that some people would not break the rules and cause chaos.

Zhang Xixi's family had eight people in total because Niu counted three people. She asked Wang Daniu to arrange for four people to line up and get fertilizer, and then spread the fertilizer directly in the rice paddy.

In addition, someone was arranged to go to her house to fetch the pesticide, and after the organic fertilizer was spread, the soil conditioner was sprinkled in.

This time, she didn't use any growth nutrient solution. Since the county magistrate noticed the crops were growing fast last time, she managed to fool him. But she couldn't let this happen twice, or things would really get complicated.

Let it grow slowly. We can add some growth nutrient solution to the sweet potatoes in the ground to make them grow faster.

However, this time the 200 mu of rice yielded more than 100,000 jin of grain, and with the contributions from the villagers, the luck value of this harvest was also more than 100,000. But this still can't compare to the sweet potatoes!

But this also makes up for the luck points I used to buy things during this period. There are still 900,000 luck points left in the system. How should I use so many?

Zhang Xixi checked the system and found that the three children and her parents had all used the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and they were all in good health. It seemed that the others had no effect.

Let's buy some Marrow Cleansing Pills for my older brother and the others too. "System, I need seven Marrow Cleansing Pills!"

"Okay, host!"

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Xixi bought ten more buckets of spiritual spring water and poured them into the well, hoping that the food she cooked would taste better in the future.

They also bought some flour and millet, and while Sun Xiuxiu was not in the kitchen, they put them in the rice container.

After she came out, she took the Marrow Cleansing Pill to Madam Chen, explained its effects to her, and then returned.

How should I tell my older brother and the others? I trust that my mother will handle it, so they don't need to worry about it!

After returning home, Zhang Xixi went to the vegetable garden and watered the tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, and other plants with nutrient solution. Then she continued walking and came to the sweet potato field.

The soil in the field was still wet. Zhang Xixi bought a spray bottle from the system store and slowly sprayed the plant growth nutrient solution onto the soil under the sweet potato vines.

A few days later, two more waterwheels were installed on the river. Once the waterwheels were installed, Zhou Fu returned home to take care of household chores, such as looking after the cattle and horses and harvesting hay.

That day, Manager Qian arrived with a caravan of oxcarts. No one knew how he had found out, but the grain in the deserted village had just been dried.

Upon arriving at the deserted village, they went straight to Zhang Xixi and presented her with a generous gift.

Looking at the exquisitely crafted box, Zhang Xixi asked in confusion, "What is this?!"

Shopkeeper Qian smiled and said, "This is a gift from the noble person you saved last time."

"She has fully recovered!"

"Yes!" Manager Qian nodded.

"Zhang Niangzi, how much rice do you have in your village?"

"I haven't actually kept track of that, but my family can sell you 100,000 jin. I'll ask around for other families for you."

"Alright, thank you for your trouble, Madam Zhang!"

Zhang Xixi asked Zhou Fu to tell Zhou Dashan that the grain buyers had arrived and to ask him to help spread the word that anyone who needed to sell grain should register at his house so that they could tally up how much they needed and collect the grain from each household tomorrow.

"Boss, what a price!"

"It's the same as what was said before, that rice costs twenty coins per catty."

The price was agreed upon beforehand, and rice in town is now 30 wen per jin. After deducting processing fees, labor costs, and transportation fees, 20 wen is still a good deal.

"Hey, okay!"

After Zhou Fu left, Zhang Xixi asked Manager Qian to have his men carry the rice out of the granary to be weighed. In the end, 100,000 jin of rice filled the convoy.

Manager Qian calculated the amount and paid Zhang Xixi two thousand taels of silver. The two exchanged a few pleasantries.

Zhang Xixi even picked seven or eight watermelons from the field and gave them to him!

"Thank you so much, Madam Zhang!"

"No need to be polite. After you leave, Manager Qian, you can go to the village head's house to check the statistics so that we can arrange for a carriage to come over tomorrow."

"Okay, then we'll take our leave!"

After everyone had left, Zhang Xixi put the silver notes into her storage bag.

Sigh! I feel like I have so much money but nowhere to spend it!

She doesn't like jewelry, and the clothes she has at home are all new clothes that were made just a few days ago. Although they are all made of fine cotton, fine cotton is the best material that rural families can afford.

There aren't any investment opportunities here, so how should we use this money?

In the past, she would never have worried about having too much money to spend!

This rebirth wasn't a bad experience; it would be even better if I could send the money back to my parents from my previous life!

"Host, this system can activate the time-space teleportation service for you, but..."