Chapter 463: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 463: Crisis at Hand (3)
Wu shi smiled and said, "How could that be? Everyone in the village knows our family's situation. It's inevitable to build a separate house for him when he gets married. We can't have him marrying and then squeezing into our room!"
Upon hearing this, Mo Yan's eyes lit up, unable to hold back her excitement. She said, "Since that's the case, you could easily build a spacious house elsewhere and have the whole family move out. You could even give them a bit more monthly for their retirement, ensuring peace and quiet."
Wu shi was momentarily stunned, smiling bitterly as she shook her head. "Tie Tou is different from us. He's from the younger generation. As long as we, as parents, don't blame him, no one will say anything if he moves out. But if our whole family moves out, it will definitely be criticized as unfilial. Unless we expand the house to accommodate both elderly couples and us."
Mo Yan furrowed her brows. It seemed her idea was too naive after all! This path wouldn't work. Did Aunt Tang have to continue quietly earning money, even feeling too insecure to keep it herself, only trusting it with her?
Seeing her struggle with family matters, Wu shi was deeply moved and comforted her, "Yan, it's not a big deal. We've gotten through these many years, and things will get better in the future."
Mo Yan looked at her optimistic smile and sighed inwardly, realizing that for now, this was the best they could do...
Perhaps embarrassed by being publicly rebuked and aware that Mo Yan wasn't easy to provoke, Hong shi and Niu shi, this pair of despicable mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, didn't dare to cause trouble at the small stall again. After observing them for a few days and seeing that they seemed to have genuinely quieted down, Mo Yan relaxed her guard and began to arrange for the construction of the house and mill.
There were many vacant houses in the Mo family. Simply tidying up a few could serve as a mill, but because she had to hire help, Mo Yan didn't like outsiders coming and going in her home. Therefore, she decided to build another house on the unused ten-acre plot.
The millhouse needed to be sturdy and durable, without unnecessary extravagance. Mo Yan had a heap of green bricks brought back from the brick kiln and found twenty skilled bricklayers. It took them a month to build the millhouse, and gradually, tools such as millstones and rice pounders were purchased and added to it.
The mill wouldn't be operational for now, so Mo Yan didn't rush to find employees and instead focused on preparing for the construction of the winery.
Time flew by, and before they knew it, mid-March arrived. There were sporadic rain and snow showers during this period, but after the weather cleared, it gradually warmed up day by day. The grass, having endured the harsh winter, began to sprout green shoots, and the trees in the mountains started to regain their greenery. In the Mo family orchard, peach, pear, and plum trees had bloomed with pink or white flowers, quietly awaiting their flowering season.
The plot in the mountain hollow had also been completely cleared. The three sturdy and healthy Mo family oxen were put to work, taking nearly half a month to complete the first deep plowing of 120 mu of land.
After the deep plowing was done and with the ground still moist from recent rains, the villagers carrying iron shovels smoothed out the ridges of the fields. They also planted grass roots brought from elsewhere or transplanted wild tree seedlings from the mountains with good soil conservation properties. This way, even if there were heavy rains in the summer, they wouldn't have to worry about the field ridges being washed away.
Building the mill, selecting the site for the winery, planning, designing drawings, and nurturing seedlings... Mo Yan was as busy as a mule, but once the recently sprouted grain seeds were sown in the seedling field with the help of others, she finally caught her breath.
As the saying goes, good seedlings mean half the yield. With the grains from the spatial production and the diluted spirit spring water soaking, Mo Yan wasn't worried about the quality of the seedlings. Even if the newly opened paddy fields had unfamiliar soil and were not fertile enough, achieving a yield of 1500 jin per mu from the previous life was unrealistic, but 1000 jin was possible, with Yan Junyu as her backer, she was not afraid of causing some bad reactions.
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