Early spring in the world [farming]

Chapter 34 Gifts

Tan Ruyi and Su Nancheng will stay at the Su family until the time is right before returning to the Tan family. Both Lu Xuehuan and the Tan family agree. Think of Tan Ruyi as a foster daughter.

Although neither of them advertised it widely, according to the custom, there was a reason for inviting neighbors to eat at home, which was Tan Ruyi's birthday.

Everyone noticed that Lu Xuehuan called Tan Ruyi from "Bride" to "Ruyi" and occasionally said that she loves Tan Ruyi like a daughter, so that Tan Ruyi should stop calling her "Auntie" and call her "Mother" instead!Just because many mothers-in-law said so, everyone didn't think much about it, and envied their good relationship with their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Lu Xuehuan smiled but felt pain in her heart. Without all the previous things, she could have a considerate and virtuous adopted daughter, which is naturally what she wished for.

But after so many things happened, Tan Ruyi's insistence on reconciling with Li also created a gap in her heart, and she didn't know how to treat her as that well-behaved and virtuous daughter-in-law again.

After the banquet was over, Lu Xuehuan went back to her room to rest on the grounds that she was tired. Tan Ruyi looked at her back with a lonely expression, as if thinking about whether she was wrong in doing so.

Su Beigu noticed her depression, and said, "Sister Ah Qin, I have a gift for you."

At this moment, Tan Ruyi's eyes lit up again: "What gift?"

Su Beigu handed her a small wooden box.

From the outside of the small wooden box, there was nothing valuable inside, but Tan Ruyi was looking forward to holding it in her hand, and glanced at Su Beigu quietly, before she couldn't wait to open it.

I saw a string of twelve longan-sized wooden beads lying inside. The hand-stringed wooden beads are very simple and have no patterns, but the "head beads" are engraved with patterns that seem to be formations, and there is a three-dimensional pattern on it. Step gourds, and six tassel-like beads, look small and delicate.

"This is... Liuzhu?" Tan Ruyi recognized it immediately.

Su Beigu raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "When many people see this bracelet, they will think it is a Buddhist prayer bead. I didn't expect that Sister Ah Qin would recognize it as a Liuzhu."

"I did my homework for..." Tan Ruyi muttered, and she explained to Su Bei Gu's puzzled eyes, "The Buddhist beads are at least fourteen, and at most one hundred and eight. There are 81 beads worn by eminent monks. Taoists have at least [-] beads and a maximum of [-], which are taken from the number ninety-nine. The most important thing is the third-order gourd on this bead, which is a unique symbol of Taoism .” ①

After finishing speaking, she smelled the bracelet and said, "This is made of peach wood."

Su Bei Gu said yes with a smile, and said: "Peach wood wards off evil spirits."

Tan Ruyi didn't ask what kind of formation was engraved on it, but said enthusiastically, "Help me put it on."

She insisted on asking Su Beigu to help her with things she could do, and another person would think she was hypocritical, but Su Beigu had no objection, and helped her put on the bead bracelet graciously.

The twelve beads just fit her wrist, neither loose nor tight, as if they were tailor-made for her.

"Can it get wet?" Tan Ruyi asked as she stroked it.

"can."

"Then I won't take it down anymore."

Tan Ruyi has expressed her love for this gift with words and actions. She took Su Beigu's hand, thanked her, and muttered regretfully: "It's a pity that I wasn't here on Beigu's birthday, otherwise I have a gift for you too."

Su Beigu smiled and didn't take it seriously.Her birthday was in late spring and early summer, even if she was at home at that time, Tan Ruyi didn't know her well, so how could she give her a birthday gift?

She said casually: "I haven't had time to deliver this year, so let's talk about it next year!"

Tan Ruyi seized the opportunity and said, "Then it's settled, I have to give you a gift for your birthday next year, so you have to be here."

Su Beigu didn't expect that she would limit the area of ​​activities for her next birthday to this place after she said it casually. She couldn't laugh or cry, but she couldn't play tricks, so she nodded: "Well, I will be there."

After receiving the gift, Tan Ruyi was really much happier, but she was still worried about Lu Xuehuan: "Godmother..."

"Let her be quiet, there is no knot that cannot be untied."

Su Beigu felt that Lu Xuehuan had too little experience, and it would be easy for her to lose her mind when something like this happened, so she still had to find something to do for her. After she had experienced big winds and waves, she would no longer be troubled by a trivial matter.

Tan Ruyi said again: "Since I have reconciled with Sunan City, I can no longer live in the original room..."

Tan Ruyi and Tan Guan's plan is that she will continue to live in Su's house, but she has to go back to Tan's house often, and slowly move back her own things, so as not to attract the attention of others. After leaving the news, everyone's reaction will not be great.

Su Bei Gu said: "There is an empty room next to me, why don't you move there?"

This hit Tan Ruyi's heart, she said reservedly: "Then I'll ask my godmother for her opinion first."

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The next day, Lu Xuehuan probably accepted the reality, and took the initiative to say to Tan Ruyi: "Ruyi, I thought about it, since you and Nancheng have reconciled, it is not appropriate to live in his room anymore. You are my adopted daughter, Why don't you live in the same yard as Bei Gu, and the sisters will take care of each other."

The Double Happiness stickers on the doors and windows of Su Nancheng and Tan Ruyi's new house, and the red and green silk ribbons hanging on the beams have not been removed yet, and Lu Xuehuan felt a little worried about letting Tan Ruyi live there, so she simply let her live with Su Bei .

Tan Ruyi said obediently, "I'll listen to my godmother."

Lu Xuehuan hesitated to speak.Tan Ruyi also looked cute, but in fact, she had a big idea in the matter of reconciliation!

At this time, Su Bei came over and said to her: "Mother, Chen Ahu said that the two acres of cotton fields will be harvested soon. Depending on the situation, this year's cotton bolling is more than in previous years. Why don't you go and have a look?"

Autumn is coming soon, and Lu Xuehuan is going to use cotton wool to make some winter clothes. The cotton is growing just in time, so she naturally wants to see it.

At this time, she hadn't connected the increase in cotton production with Gu's fertilizer in Subei, so after walking around the cotton field, she discovered the difference in the cotton field: "Why does the cotton here grow faster than those in other places?" Okay, and why are there so few cotton bobbing?"

The ones that grow well are naturally the cotton fields that have been applied with the improved fertilizer of Subei Gu.

Chen Ahu said: "Those cottons have less boll-twisting because they have just entered the boll-twisting period. The cotton in this cotton field grows fast, has less pests, and has more bolls to spit because of the farmyard manure from Su Daochang."

"Bei Gudui's fat is ready?" Lu Xuehuan asked in surprise.

Su Bei Gu nodded: "Well, I have already stocked up a lot. Except for this cotton field, other fields will use this fertilizer as much as possible in the future."

Lu Xuehuan still remembered the reason why Subei Gu composted, and said, "So the improvement is considered successful?"

Su Bei Gu didn't talk too much: "You can still keep improving."

For the first time, Lu Xuehuan became interested in farming. She thought, this fertilizer is so good that it can increase crop production, so if it is used on rice and potatoes, can it also increase food production?The harvest is good, isn't the Su family's tax income also increased? !

For the first time, the Su family, which has been struggling to make ends meet, let Lu Xuehuan see the hope of reversing the profit and loss. She wanted to know more, but suffered from the fact that she had no experience in these matters, and was even confused about taxation, so she couldn't start.

Fortunately, Su Beigu provided her with an idea last time when she counted the property in her home. She asked Su Beigu: "Is the booklet of your property inventory still there?"

Su Beigu knew what she wanted to do, and even supported her to take care of her family's assets, so she showed her all the account books, tax books, and tax collection certificates issued by the government, and said: "These are the things I have sorted out. Yes, mother will watch first, if there is anything you don’t understand, you can ask me or Sister Aqin.”

"Ask her?" Lu Xuehuan was a little unresponsive. She was on guard against Tan Ruyi before, so she didn't let Tan Ruyi intervene in this matter at all. Would it be useful to ask her?

Su Bei Gudao: "Sister Aqin's dowry back then had [-] acres of land, and she took care of these fields by herself, she has experience."

Now that Tan Ruyi is no longer the daughter-in-law of the Su family, it is naturally impossible to keep an eye on the Su family's property.Lu Xuehuan touched her nose embarrassingly, knowing that she was treating a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart, and she was a little ashamed.

Su Bei went as far as he could, without embarrassing Lu Xuehuan.

Lu Xuehuan was immersed in learning how to take care of the family's assets. Seeing Su Bei Gu's summary of the Su family's expenses for a year, she realized why the Su family spent so much money in previous years despite the fact that there were very few people.

The biggest expense turned out to be Sunan City? !

The amount of money Su Nancheng took away from his family sporadically every month was as high as four or five guan - you must know that this was the money he took away when he had a salary. His salary composition is very complicated, but when calculated monthly salary There are twelve pens, plus the money he took away at home, his monthly expenses are seventeen pennies!

How could he spend so much money?

Lu Xuehuan vaguely remembered that she had asked him before, but every time he was talking about socializing, or spending money to establish relationships between superiors and superiors. After all, he did not rely on the imperial examination to become an official, and his prestige in the horse delivery shop was not enough, so he could only rely on profit to win and buy people's hearts.

Lu Xuehuan didn't have any intuitive feelings about this way of wooing, and only now did she settle the score to know how much money Sunan City had spent!

No wonder he was favored by his superiors, and he never forgot to take him with him even when he went to Fujian.

Lu Xuehuan was a little worried that Sunancheng was playing with fire, but after Sunancheng went to Jianzhou, he never asked his family for money, which showed that his promotion did bring him benefits——in the tea house, he was flattered by others that one.

After thinking about it, Lu Xuehuan finally decided to write a letter to Su Nancheng, telling him to keep the bottom line and not let himself fall into a situation of eternal doom.

After writing the letter, she continued to look at the account books, and found something was wrong.She rummaged through the account books, but couldn't find Su Beigu's expenditure records.

She didn't hide anything from her daughter, so she came to Su Beigu directly and asked, "Beigu, did you not take the manure and fodder you spent for composting to your business?"

Su Bei Gu nodded: "That was an experiment I did, and I used my own money. How could I go to the public office?"

Lu Xuehuan disapproved and said: "But those fertilizers are used for their own fields in the end, and it is the family that benefits. How can you use your money to subsidize it?"

Su Beigu didn't argue with her, and said: "Since mother is very satisfied with these fertilizers, then the money will be paid from the public in the future!"

"You should save your money yourself." Lu Xuehuan paused, thinking that Su Beigu's household registration is not in the Su family, and she will not have any part of the Su family's assets in the future, so she said, "Not only you have to save your money, but the family I have to give you some subsidies, otherwise, wouldn't you be working in vain?"

Su Beigu never paid much attention to these extraneous things, and said, "Mother, let's decide!"

Lu Xuehuan really had no choice but to deal with her temper, so she went back and continued to explore how to manage the family property. Unexpectedly, after fumbling and fumbling, she also found some ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

The author has something to say:

Daoist Su: Sentimental?idle.

Lu Xuehuan: ...

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Note: The relevant knowledge of Buddha beads and flow beads comes from the Internet.

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