I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 262 Another Year of Spring Ploughing

Uncle Bai and his son knew very well that all the families in the village who built new houses had received favors from Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou. Because they were relatives and had a good relationship with Bai Jingzhou's family, they would rather get their new furniture later and take care of their business.

In addition, Bai Chong also deliberately brought Bai Jingming with him and carefully taught Bai Jingming how to treat poultry and livestock, so that he could learn more skills and earn more money without suffering much hardship.

Seeing such good intentions, Uncle Bai and his son could only feel grateful to Bai Jingzhou's family. Naturally, they couldn't stand Wang's nonsense.

Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou didn't care about these little things. Before the spring plowing began, they dispersed all the orphans they had adopted to Baijia Village and their farm.

There were eight girls, aged between six and ten, and five boys, aged between three and ten, who were settled in Baijia Village. The remaining boys over ten years old were all arranged by Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou to live in the three farms closest to Baijia Village, which were still managed by them personally.

For boys over ten years old, they would arrange staff to continue teaching them literacy, arithmetic, and martial arts. They would also let them learn skills such as farming, breeding, willow weaving, and carpentry from farmers.

For the girls who were settled in Baijia Village, Gu Wenxuan allocated a small courtyard for them next to the Gu family's house near the workshop, and then placed two dogs she raised to help them guard the courtyard.

In this way, if anything happens over there, as long as they shout or the dog barks a few times, the Gu family next door will be able to hear it and rush over first.

As for their education, they would practice martial arts under the guidance of Gu Wenxuan or Jia Guizhi in the morning, and Lin Shuzhen would give them literacy, arithmetic and life skills classes in the morning.

The so-called life skills classes are classes that teach them spinning, weaving, cutting, sewing, embroidery, and cooking. Lin Shuzhen herself decides what to teach on which day.

They are free in the afternoon and evening, but they will rush to help work in the Gu family workshop.

It can be seen that they are all very sensible and cherish their present life after experiencing hardships in life.

The boys who were settled in Baijia Village lived in two empty houses that Gu Wenxuan had bought before. The houses of these two houses could last for a few more years and did not need to be renovated for the time being.

They were young, and unlike the orphans sent to the farm by Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, they could not do any work worth mentioning for the time being, so naturally they had no way to earn enough money to support themselves through labor.

But Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou did not let them sit idle. In addition to practicing martial arts, reading, and learning a skill, they also took on some simple jobs from Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, such as collecting firewood, digging wild vegetables, and digging herbs.

Of course, all these jobs are paid.

Although Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou covered all their expenses for food, clothing and housing, they were independent individuals and there were always some things that required spending money but they were not easy to explain to Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou. At such times, their private money had great significance.

In order to allow them to have their own private money legitimately, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou not only assigned them work regularly, but also set up awards to encourage them to perform actively when reading, practicing martial arts, and learning various skills.

The same is true for other orphans living on the farm and the girls living in the workshop. If they do things and perform well, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou will give them some rewards and compensation.

By the way, they will also teach these children the correct financial management concepts, such as not spending money indiscriminately, but not being too stingy either, and saving and making money in a planned way to plan for their future life.

After settling these orphans, the busy farming season was approaching unknowingly, and Gu Wenxuan and her colleagues began to prepare for the spring ploughing.

Both the Gu family and the Bai family have fields in the village. The Bai family farms the land together with several brothers, while Gu Yongming hired people who have a good relationship with his family but have average family conditions to help farm the Gu family's fields.

Of course, he, Grandpa Gu, Gu Yongqing, and Gu Wenxuan's second and third brothers also participated in the whole process.

The farms of the Gu and Bai families were followed up and supervised by Bai Jingzhou, Gu Wenxuan and Fang Youfu and their brothers.

Fatigue and hard work are inevitable, after all, there are too many things to worry about.

Which farm should plant what and when, when should fish and shrimp fry and lotus seeds be planted in the pond, who should plant the yam transplanted from the mountain, whether to reserve land for rare seeds such as watermelon, sweet potato, potato, etc. that have not been found, and what to plant next if the seeds are not obtained before the end of spring plowing...

Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou were so busy with so many things that they became thinner and darker, but the results were quite gratifying. All the farms of their two families were planted with various crops in time according to the farming season.

Being so busy yet still being full of energy makes Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but sigh, "It's great to be young."

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that they never treat themselves badly. No matter how busy or tired they are, they always eat and sleep well.

If not for this, given how hard they work, they would never lose only three to five kilograms after a busy farming season.

The two men, feeling full of a sense of accomplishment, returned to the village with Fang Youfu and others, with dark and thin faces, and began to prepare for the upcoming long journey.

In this trip, in addition to Fang Youfu and his brothers, they will also bring Ning Qirui, Bai Jingshan, Yang Wandong, Gu Wenxuan's second and third brothers, and cousin.

If Bai Jingxin wasn't a bit of a homebody and didn't want to travel far, and Bai Jingheng was only nine years old, their parents would really be worried about letting the two of them go with them, and Bai Jingzhou actually wanted to bring his own younger siblings along.

By traveling together, on the one hand, the children can extend the time they spend studying with the Lin father and son as much as possible, and on the other hand, the children can also broaden their horizons and gain more knowledge.

By the way, they can also learn how to handle trivial matters and how to deal with strangers from all walks of life while on the road, allowing them to observe the entire process.

It’s a pity that the three benefits Bai Jingzhou mentioned were not enough to impress his parents and sister.

In the words of his parents, the other people on their travel list, including Gu Wenxuan's second and third brothers who did not like martial arts but were forced to practice hard for a long time, and Yang Wandong, who was mainly doing odd jobs but actually had good skills, all of them could deal with at least two or three young and middle-aged men on their own. Unlike his younger brothers and sisters, one of them was just a show-off and the other was not even ten years old, and had no ability to protect themselves.

As parents, they are afraid that if other people fail to take care of their children, their children will suffer irreparable harm.