Accompany by A Fool to do Farming

Chapter 85:买地 ( Buy Land)

Summer came closer and the hills behind Zhao Jia's village were heavily laden with fruit again. Some were green and not yet ripe, while others were already bright red and completely ripe.

Because last year they sold a few small jars of fruit wine and earned a few dozen taels of silver, so this year Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zheng'an decided to continue making the wine. Although they didn't lack any money anymore, more money also didn't burden the body right?

Besides that, this year by brewing more, they could keep some for their family to drink ; their grandparents could drink it too. Soon, their little uncle and his future wife would come. By having a lot of people, drinking was inevitable, when the time comes, if they like it, they might also have to bring some back.

The attentive Zhong Ziqi had thought of everything. By making more, he wasn't afraid at all if they couldn't finish drinking it since the longer he kept the wine, the better it would taste.

This year, the wine brewing needed plenty of fruits that Zhao Zheng'an hired a few people from the village to go up to the mountains and pick a dozen or more baskets of it. It looked like a lot, but after the wine was made, there wasn't much left.

Zhong Ziqi's stomach was now bulging like a balloon. He often suffered from backache and leg pain. Zhao Zheng'an gave him massages every day to relieve the aches and pains but he also tried to avoid making him work. He just needed to walk back and forth every day to get some exercise.

Now, the brewing process couldn't even be done by him, Zhong Ziqi moved a small stool to his side and sat there to direct him.

The brewing process was not complicated. Although Zhao Zheng'an was still a fool the last time he made the wine, he still had some impressions of it. On top of that, with Zhong Ziqi's direction, no technical mistakes were made.

After the brewing process was finished, the jars were sealed and placed in a shaded room. The other two jars of wine were buried under the trees in the garden by Zhao Zheng'an. In Zhao Zheng'an's words, wait until their child could run and jump and understand things then they would dig it up again.

Zhong Ziqi was amused and thought it was funny but still went along with him.

In the eighth month, the two children of the Zhong family, Zhong Zijun and Zhong Ziheng got married one following after another, one married a wife and the other married off into the family from outside their village. The Zhong family didn't give Zhong Ziqi any news, so Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zheng'an didn't make a fool of themselves and were happy to stay at home.

Zhong Ziqi heard from the well-informed Zhao Ning that Zhong Zijun married into a mean family. That family had offered a generous betrothal gift. It indeed made people become speechless, the Zhong family married off their own family's ger to that family only after a short period of contact and they didn't even bother to find out specifically about that family's situation. People from the same village as that family said that the family was very mean. The two elders were very picky and liked to pick faults with anyone. The family usually lived a very frugal life. They had money, but could not bear to spend it. It was obvious that if Zhong Zijun married over what kind of treatment he would encounter? All of this, however, had nothing to do with Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zheng'an anymore. They could sympathize with him a little for a moment but they would not be meddlesome and interfere with other people's business.

Zhong Ziqi was a little sad these days. Both of his legs were swollen. Nowadays, he needs someone to hold his back when he walks outside. Zhong Ziqi deeply appreciated how difficult it was for women. Zhong Ziqi thought it would be even more painful when he gave birth.