The Reborn Wife is Farming

Mu Yangling felt sour in his heart, and his voice became softer, and he asked, "Who brought you here?"

"I came with my uncle and aunt. My uncle is a strong man in the military camp, and my aunt has gone to a workshop. I have a cousin, a cousin, and there is no food at home..."

Mu Yangling looked at the boy who was getting more and more embarrassed, and guessed roughly that it was considered good for his uncle and aunt to bring his cousin here.

Mu Yangling looked at the little radish heads on the grass. How many orphans are there like him? Qi Haoran actually put them all into military households, probably to use them to occupy the share of the field, but what about these children?

Without adults, they couldn't even support themselves, Mu Yangling frowned tightly.

Mu Yangling could foresee that the money in her purse was disappearing rapidly. She touched the child's head and said, "Okay, follow your brother closely, and don't run around."

The boy breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly pulled his younger brother to kowtow to Mu Yangling, turned around and ran away.

When the time came, everyone started to put away the bowls and chopsticks to pick up tools for work, because the bowls and chopsticks were all prepared by themselves, so the person in charge of the food didn't have to clean them up for them. Seeing Mu Yangling enter the kitchen, the people who were eating porridge stood up quickly. stand up.

But Mu Yangling brought two big sacks of flour and said, "This is white flour and black flour, mixed with steamed buns, and fifteen pots of porridge are cooked at noon. There is Chinese cabbage in the next room. Go and get it yourself, you all cook it." Veteran cooks, 3,000 people should know how much to eat, so weigh yourself."

After thinking about it for a few people, although there are 3,000 people, more than half of them are children under the age of eight. Children eat less, so they really don't need so many.

Several people didn't want to lose this job, so they were busy thinking about it.

Mu Yangling went out to work as a supervisor. He said that he was a supervisor, but he also helped with the work. He carried the pasture cut by the children to the cart, and then pulled it back.

These pastures did not grow naturally, but the seeds sowed by the barbarians before. After the barbarians retreated, no one took care of this place, but when winter went to spring, the seeds of this pasture fell to the ground and grew again. No one grazed here last year, so most of the pasture seeds fell to the ground, and because of the wind, the pasture in this area grew very luxuriantly.

The reason why Qi Haoran helped her choose this area as a cattle farm was not only because it was close to his horse farm, but also because the area spread out for twenty miles was no man's land, and it was all pasture, which was very convenient for them. grazing.

But no matter how much pasture there is, it will definitely not be enough with the efforts of so many cows and horses, so she will have to plant more pasture next year. I don't know if I can talk to the magistrate about renting the nearby land to her.

While Mu Yangling was thinking wildly, Qi Haoran had already galloped up to her, and raised his voice to ask, "What are you thinking? Why don't you answer?"

Mu Yangling straightened up, put the pasture on the cart, glanced at him, and asked indifferently, "Are you so idle?"

Qi Haoran jumped off the horse, and said proudly: "Now the deputy can supervise the training well. You don't need to follow me all the time. It's not like you and Zijin, who do everything by themselves. You can't be too busy."

Then Qi Haoran talked about the principle of knowing people and making good use of them.

Mu Yangling said in distress: "Of course I also know that I need to know people and make good use of them. It is impossible for me to do everything myself, but how can I have anyone under my command?"

"I told you to buy a few servants earlier, so that you don't have to worry about your family wherever you go."

Mu Yangling shook his head, "My family is not used to slaves, and I don't want my younger brothers and sisters to develop that bad habit. It's better to do things on your own."

Qi Haoran was not convinced: "Why is it a bad habit to use slaves? I have used them since I was a child, so I am not a good person anymore?"

Mu Yangling was stunned for a moment, and when he saw his angry look, he smiled and said, "That's not what it means, it's just that our family is a farmer's family. Whose children are not thrown into the field when they are four or five years old? I don't force it." It's good enough to let them go to the ground, but we can't let them develop the habit of opening their mouths for food and stretching out their hands for clothes."

Mu Yangling handed the scooter to a child, dragged Qi Haoran to a place where no one was around, and said, "I have something to discuss with you."

Qi Haoran pretended to be all ears.

"You got so many children back this time, what are you going to do?"

Qi Haoran said distressedly: "I don't know. At the beginning, when I said that I could pay them travel expenses, I hoped that all the people except those young and strong would better leave, but who knew that they were so smart and weak, and all of them stayed. There are more than 700 orphans alone... But it is also beneficial, I put them all on their own and listed them as military households, and got a lot of military land, and when the time comes to rent them out, the money should be able to support themselves."

Mu Yangling wanted to knock him on the head, "Do you think the people in Hanzhong Mansion are short of land to cultivate? Fang Zhifu allocated land to each household as soon as he came up, and military households, military households have only one piece of land in the army. A hundred acres, not to mention the allocated Yongye land, who do you think will rent those children's land?"

Qi Haoran opened his mouth wide, and stammered: "Then, what should we do then? You can't ask the master to keep them all the time, can you?"

Mu Yangling frowned and said, "Are their lands far apart?"

"It's not far away. For the convenience of renting it out and managing it, I've bought a piece of the orphan's land."

Mu Yangling gritted his teeth and said, "I rent it all."

"Are you crazy?" Qi Haoran couldn't help but jumped up and shouted.

Mu Yangling shook his head, "I originally planned to build a nursery for all the orphans to live in." Mu Yangling looked at Qi Haoran, "Don't tell me that when you asked your subordinates to build houses, put Their share is also built."

Qi Haoran touched his nose in embarrassment, and said: "Don't you want the people who rented their land to take the children back to raise them? Now time is tight, and the big guys can't build so many houses."

Mu Yangling looked at him disapprovingly, "Then you can't hand over the child to the tenants, who knows if they will treat the child well?"

"I planned to build a nursery, put all the children in it, manage it in a unified way, and then hire a few gentlemen for them, recognize a few words, learn some crafts, um, and teach them farming and weaving. Fourteen years old Come out later, then you will be responsible for their house, I will return the land, I thought it was a loss-making business, since you plan to rent out their land, then rent this land to me as a reward .”

Qi Haoran felt that Mu Yangling was here to take advantage of him, but right now even if he wanted to rent land, no one would rent it. As she said, Hanzhong Mansion has a vast land and few people, and no one is short of land.

So he complied.

Neither of them asked about those orphans. There was really no need to ask. The youngest was only over a year old, and the oldest was only in his early twelfth year.

"You have to build me the house in the nursery school. I'll ask someone to draw a good picture later, and you ask someone to build it according to the blueprint." Mu Yangling couldn't help but lament that it's good to have a big helper at this time. Whatever you want to do, big hands Just a wave.

"Do you know how much it costs to raise more than 700 children? Not to mention the annual food, it's just two seasons of clothes, the money for seeing a doctor and taking medicine, not to mention, you have to hire a husband for them..."

Mu Yangling looked at Qi Haoran seriously, and said: "Children are the future of a country. If we can't even protect our children, will our country have a future?" Mu Yangling sighed at this point, "I I really admire Yuan Hui, how did he bring these people together? Could it be that all the orphans, old and weak in Tongchuan Mansion are concentrated here? Otherwise, why are there so many orphans, old and weak?"

Qi Haoran didn't dare to answer "yes", because the truth is almost the same. Yuan Hui seems to be similar to everyone, but in fact he is more soft-hearted and tolerant towards the elderly and children, so he saw the old ones along the way, accepted them, and saw The young ones are accepted, and the old ones are taken with the young ones, but they are skipped when the young and strong are taken with the young ones or the old ones.