Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 151 It stinks. No, it smells really good.

"Also, look at our chicken and duck coops. How often should they be cleaned? You can set a fixed day and have them come to change them. Don't come every day, and don't come anytime and anywhere.

Also, when cleaning the feces from the poultry pens, drive the poultry outside and have someone watch over them. This way dishonest villagers won’t have the chance to steal.”

"Ah, miss, you are so smart. This way all problems can be solved. I will do it now." Uncle Fu went out excitedly.

Hualei's words helped Uncle Fu, who was already knowledgeable about farming, to open up his Ren and Du meridians. After communicating with the people on the farm, the replacement standards were set and the problem was solved.

Hence, every ten days, a long line of villagers would form in front of Yuanying Village. Some were carrying rice straw and wheat stalks, some were carrying firewood and fodder, some were carrying rice bran and soybeans, and some were dragging their own straw fans, to exchange them for manure and fertilizer.

Uncle Fu drove out all the chickens and ducks in the chicken coop and duck house that were to be cleaned that day and assigned someone to watch them. This way, the villagers who came to collect manure and fertilizer had no chance to catch chickens or ducks and take them home.

As a result, there was no need to purchase firewood for Qingyun Lane separately, and the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs in Yuanying Village were fed with fine bran. Even the mules and cows in the village were fed better.

The weather was not yet cold, so the floors of the pig sty and duck house were covered with wheat straw. There was no frost yet, so the vegetable seedlings in the vegetable field were covered with straw fans.

Because there were too many straw fans, Uncle Fu led his men to build a few straw houses to improve the per capita housing conditions for the chickens, ducks and geese.

As a result, the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, who ate well and slept well, were in a better mood and became more arrogant. After all, they felt that they not only relied on their own feces to be self-reliant and self-sufficient, but also fed the crops and vegetables in the fields of Baihua Manor and Yuanying Manor, which made them arrogant. The manor was running better.

Although the villagers who had received a lot of manure fertilizer for free at the beginning were very angry when they heard that they had to exchange other things for manure, they said they didn't want it anymore. There were even a few people who secretly cursed Hua Lei, saying that he was even more cunning than Zhou Baopi, who even used the manure of chickens, ducks, geese and pigs to benefit himself.

But there is no way. If you don't want it, there are too many people who want it. If you don't change it, the firewood and fodder on the edge of the mountain will be taken away by others. When someone else's field grows 280 kilograms of golden rice, your family can only get 220 kilograms. If someone else's field produces 280 kilograms of wheat, you may not be able to get 220 kilograms. After all, the fertility of the land also decreases season by season.

Isn't the rice fragrant? Isn't the big white steamed bun fragrant? Yes! Then shut up and save some energy to go to the mountain to collect firewood and cut pig grass. If you really get manure fertilizer, you have to say it's really smelly. No, it's really fragrant.

Hualei doesn't care what others think or say. She is still very happy now. Even the shit of chickens, ducks, geese and pigs can make money for her in disguise. How can she not be happy? This result is indeed beyond Hualei's expectation.

Moreover, Hualei asked the tofu shop in the village to start a barter business. One pound of soybeans can be exchanged for three pounds of tofu, or one and a half pounds of dried tofu. The only requirement is that the soybeans must be clean and not worm-eaten. Now soybeans are sold for about 14 or 15 cents per pound, tofu is sold for about 6 cents per pound, and dried tofu is sold for 9 cents per pound. If one pound of soybeans is exchanged for three pounds of tofu or one and a half pounds of dried tofu, the villagers can save three cents. Don't underestimate these three cents. There is a saying that goes, "A penny can make a hero fall." The villagers are still very happy to save these three cents. Hualei seems to have earned three cents less, but it can save a lot of labor costs. After all, it takes time to go out to buy soybeans.

On the first day of September, Hua Lei sent Xiao Yuan to the boarding school, Imperial College. Although he was a little uncomfortable in the first few days, after ten days, Hua Lei felt relieved when she saw Xiao Yuan still plump and happy when he returned from the Imperial College.

On the evening of September 5th, Hua Lei returned to Qingyun Lane, because on September 6th, the Marquis of Pingyang would come to formally sign the engagement, and the marriage between Zhenzhu and Jiang Yunqi would be settled.

On the morning of September 7, Hualei returned to the Marquis' Mansion. Because she got up late in the morning, she didn't have time to go to Songhe Hall after arriving at the Marquis' Mansion, so she went directly to the Girls' School. After school was over at noon, she went to Grandmother Pei's Songhe Hall and had lunch with Old Lady Pei. After Old Lady Pei took her to rest on the small couch for a while, she talked about Zhenzhu's marriage.

A few days ago, after hearing Hua Lei's speculation about Zhenzhu's marriage, Mrs. Pei sent Nanny Chen to investigate.

It turned out that Mrs. Qian, who was always talkative in front of Nanny Chen, and Mrs. Yu, a laundry maid in Madam Han's courtyard, were cousins. And Mrs. Yu had some relationship with Mrs. Fang, a maid who worked in the second house of the Han family and was close to Rong Jin's aunt-in-law.

Because Wang, the aunt of Rong Jin, the second wife of the Han family, had always wanted Zhenzhu to marry her son Han Wenbing, when she heard that Zhenzhu and Jiang Yunqi from the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion were looking for a match, she wanted to sabotage it.

She asked Mrs. Fang beside her to give three taels of silver each to Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Qian, and asked them to find an opportunity to flatter Jiang Yunqi in front of Madam Han and Madam Pei.

Mrs. Yu failed, but Mrs. Qian did. She started a conversation with Nanny Chen who was beside Old Madam Pei, so Old Madam Pei heard that Jiang Yunqi's mother was not an easy person to get along with.

When Mrs. Pei heard this, she was furious. Wang, the second branch of the Han family, was so mean. Her two sons and two daughters were all staying in the marquis's mansion, attending the family school, eating the marquis's food, and receiving the marquis's monthly salary. Now, she was deliberately sabotaging Zhenzhu's marriage in order to make her marry her good-for-nothing son Han Wenbing.

How could Mrs. Pei tolerate her? However, Mrs. Pei was also a calculating person, so she did not lose her temper at first. She put herself in her shoes and went to the Marquis of Pingyang's mansion to ask her acquaintances. The news she got was even more infuriating.

On the third day after Zhenzhu met him, Wang actually arranged a maid for him in the Marquis of Pingyang's mansion. She also spoke ill of Zhenzhu in front of Old Madam Jiang and Madam Jiang, and her words were extremely harsh. She said that Zhenzhu was not good at needlework, had no talents, and often sneaked out to play.

So after hearing this, Old Madam Jiang and her daughter-in-law Madam Jiang wanted to cancel the marriage immediately. However, Jiang Yunqi insisted, so they had to wait nearly two months before asking for marriage proposal.

After getting the confirmed news and confirming the facts with Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Yu in person, Mrs. Pei wanted to kill Mrs. Qian, but she thought that this was Zhenzhu's marriage after all, and it would not be good to get human blood on her.