"Let's put on the river lanterns!" Accompanied by the cheers of the children, everyone came to the river.
The children took the lanterns prepared in advance and lit them one by one. The lanterns were made of dyed paper into the shape of lotus, with a candle in the middle and a bamboo board underneath.
The moon is basically invisible in the night sky on the fifth day of the lunar month, so the stars become brighter and brighter, and the lanterns float in the river, seeming to reflect each other.
Five hundred and forty-six lotus lanterns entered the water, scattered and drifted away with the water.
A lamp represents one person, and there are still 522 people in the village today, including the 24 in the Prince's Mansion.
The number of lanterns will be adjusted tomorrow. Nine of the villagers are pregnant.
Ordinary people will use certain contraceptive methods when they see that they have many children. They are afraid that they will not be able to feed them, so they usually use external methods. Sometimes it doesn't work, and they still get pregnant.
Or you can make sachets of cold things to wear. Since you don’t have money, you can’t get musk, borneol, etc. that are effective, so you might as well make them outside.
The 522nd person in the village left the village because of contraceptive failure. Fortunately, the village was already rich when they left.
Now the villagers no longer use contraception, they give birth to children whenever they can, and let Hanhan prescribe medicine for older people.
Everyone is ready to work hard to double the population of the village and raise a large group of children in five years.
It's a pity that Hanhan doesn't allow sixteen-year-olds to get married and have children now, but the village girl who had previously agreed to get married regretted the marriage and paid compensation to the groom's family.
If you are not married, even if you are nineteen years old, you still have to find a son-in-law. However, unmarried young people over the age of eighteen who are engaged ask the bride's family to hurry up.
If the daughter of the woman's family is only fifteen or sixteen years old, she is married first and has no children. If she can make tools for making intestines, Hanhan will take care of it.
But don't use the medicine, it's too harmful to the body, and if you use it too much, you won't be able to get pregnant in the end.
The man's family whose engagement was annulled didn't say anything. They already knew how wealthy Xiaqiu Village was and that the people in Xiaqiu Village were involved in making rock candy and soap.
When you marry, do you want to live a hard life together, or do you bring a lot of dowry to support your husband's family? Or teach your in-laws to make things?
Once you get a lot of money, it will be easy to find another one, which is good.
There is no relationship between the man and the woman, and they have never met.
"It's better to take the unmarried girls from the village who are over eighteen years old to go to the county school, not only to the official school in Xuancheng County, but also to the other five counties.
I will call out the students who have many sons at home and whose life is not easy, see which one works best, and then ask them what they mean.
I think any student who thinks he can pass the exam will be willing to marry after knowing the conditions. How are you doing? "
After Li Zhixian watched the lantern display, he talked about the job of picking up the man and taking care of it.
Magistrate Song stood by and agreed: "Exactly, just look at the official schools in the six counties of Ningguo Prefecture. This year, we want to increase money to recruit more students."
"My village, Xiaqiu, donated 1,000 guan for the students to study." The village chief agreed. Yes, if you do more tricks, the village will pay for it.
Nowadays, except for the children, everyone in the village is literate and can do arithmetic. It’s just a distinction between more and less, but they are still learning.
If you find an illiterate man to be your son-in-law, he will be under great pressure. Do you have to learn from him?
It would be embarrassing to have a son-in-law who comes to visit you, and if you are under all kinds of pressure, don't think about it and commit suicide.
There is no problem with a married woman. Women have a low status. They know that they have to listen to their husband's family when they get married, so just follow their example!
"It is indeed a village of loyalty, benevolence and kindness. I would like to express my gratitude to the scholars in the mansion."
Magistrate Song clasped his fists, "One thousand taels of silver is enough. Anyway, money can be found in Xiaqiu Village at any time. The last time he went to the nursing home, he gave out one thousand taels of silver."
The matter was discussed, and the officials drank happily, looking up at the glazed lamps of various colors.
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There is no such thing as a banquet in the world. On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, people in the yamen finished their breakfast, mounted their reluctant horses, and drove their carriages to say goodbye to the village.
Horses must be ridden outside, not inside the archway.
As soon as the archway was erected, someone committed a crime in Xiaqiu Village, and the government wanted to arrest him. As soon as the people arrived at the archway, they dismounted from their horses, got off their horses, and got off their sedans. Their momentum disappeared instantly.
As soon as they left with a large number of gifts, Wang Laowen's two hundred craftsmen arrived to help build the greenhouse.
People from other villages came over to help plant ginger after finishing their own business.
It is too late to plant ginger at this time. Ginger should be planted at the beginning of summer, and then harvested at the summer solstice.
It's past the summer solstice now. It was too busy at that time, so now I can only seize the time to plant.
The team started when they returned to the village. They first promoted ginger seedlings, divided ginger, and soaked alkaline copper sulfate. They are now ready for planting.
As a result, it is impossible to recycle the planted ginger, which also requires a lot of manpower and has technical requirements for operation.
Xiaqiu Village needs to plant 50 acres of ginger. The villagers previously bought 25,000 kilograms of ginger, which was not old ginger that had been growing for more than two years.
It takes four hundred kilograms of ginger seeds to be thrown into one acre of land. Normally, four thousand kilograms can be harvested. If the harvest is good, six thousand kilograms will be no problem.
The remaining ginger was given as wages to the workers who came to work. After it had finished sprouting, they took it back and planted it themselves, so they could try it out.
The two hundred people who came were given twenty kilograms of ginger each, and four thousand kilograms were gone, leaving one thousand kilograms for the village to eat. Each person was given less than two kilograms, which could last for a long time.
"We have finished planting, and it is more than 40 days late. We do not recycle the planted ginger, but harvest the young ginger. The young ginger is used to make candied ginger slices, which are considered medicine and can also be eaten as snacks.
This year we have a greenhouse. After harvesting the young ginger, we can soak it in acetate and then plant it in the greenhouse to produce delicious ginger buds. This is called ginger bud softening cultivation. "
The head of the village explained to Zhu Taiyi and the four people. The four of them were busy taking notes. When Xiaqiu Village was less busy, they would immediately send someone back to report the records.
Yesterday, Zhu Lichang was still talking about lofty views, but today he turned around and talked about down-to-earth ginger cultivation.
Yesterday I pointed out Jiangshan, today I point out Jiangshan.
The people who came to work knew in advance that their wages would be paid in ginger, and they would be given half a piece of land at home, equal to thirty square meters.
Today, the villagers are teaching me. Together with the villagers, I can plant fifty acres of land in one day. I can plant it myself tomorrow when I go home.
He said he planted twenty kilograms of ginger and came here to learn how to take care of it. He harvested two hundred kilograms of ginger in two harvests. The young ginger was pickled and the old ginger was used for cooking or making ginger syrup.
It was given to me for free by Xiaqiu Village. How could it be worth twenty pounds of ginger for one day's work? A meal at noon is more than wages.
Zhu Wentian carried a pole with a basket on one end and loaded it with ginger for transportation.
The guards followed them to the fields. They didn't know how to grow ginger. They learned it and could use it when chatting with others in the future.
Other villagers have arranged waterwheel diversion canals. Ginger cultivation requires a lot of water. Places far away from the water are not suitable for cultivation and can tire people to death.
People from other villages had a meal at noon, rested for half an hour, and went to the fields under the sun. They were left to have another meal in the evening and were sent home in horse-drawn carriages and mule carts.
"After planting ginger, what should I plant next?" Li Chang was confused by the sun during the day. After dinner, he sat in the sacrificial hall and drank tea.
"Dictyophora, we will plant it on a large scale this year. As a result of last year's results, we will have a lot of bamboo fungus to eat next year."
Zhu Wentian reminded that this year we will also collect bamboo fungus from other villages. We will not consider selling it to vendors or anything else, we will eat it ourselves.
The bamboo fungus planted last year will be used as seeds this year to cultivate bacteria. Before the Dragon Boat Festival next year, there will be dozens of acres of bamboo fungus and part of it will be sent to the palace.
