Chapter 54
Although she thinks so, but the space has the ability now, Song Xiaoyue is already very satisfied, and besides, it is not for her to decide what the space is, so she simply faces the reality, there is no 100% perfect thing in the world.
instructed the people to carry the rice into the yard to dry, and Song Xiaoyue went into the back house to find the eldest sister!
"Sister, I bought it for you in Moxian yesterday, and I came back too late yesterday, so I didn't bring it to you!"
Song Xiaoyue took out the last jade bracelet from her arms and handed it to her eldest sister!
"Yue'er, you bought me enough jewelry! It's you, buy more for yourself, after all, you are the real head of our family, this is not sloppy!
The eldest sister took the bracelet handed over by her sister and looked at it, now she has a lot of similar things, so it is not so rare, but she noticed that there is nothing valuable on her sister, it is still refreshing and refreshing, and her sister works hard to earn money, and she should dress up the most. ”
"Sister, I'm still young, so I don't need to dress up. But you can try to talk about love, if it is suitable, get married, our family does not have such a thing as the words of the matchmaker of the parents, grandma said, as long as you like it, the other party is not bad, then agree to your marriage, so you have to dress up better, and don't let others look down on you. !”
Song Xiaoyue didn't feel that she needed any jewelry, she usually wore the silver collar and silver lock, not because she liked to wear it, but because her heart and appearance really didn't match, her heart was in her thirties, and she was still a little kid on the outside, in order to cover up and confuse the public, so she wore that thing to make people think that she was really still a child, so it was much safer!
"You kid, what are you talking nonsense?"
When the eldest sister heard Song Xiaoyue tell her that someone came to the door to propose marriage, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she also twisted.
"Okay, I won't talk about it, look at your blushing and almost boiled eggs! What about Tang Yan? This is for her, you can help me transfer it to her!"
Song Xiaoyue was left with Tang Yan who didn't send it, and it happened that the eldest sister was going to discuss things with the other party, so she simply asked the eldest sister to bring it over by the way, so she didn't have to make a special trip.
Seeing everyone's joyful and happy looks, Song Xiaoyue's heart was also full of satisfaction, she really regarded everyone as family.
After a few days, I finally pulled out all the rice in the space, and it was already the eighth day of the seventh month, and it was time to soak the grain and plant seedlings, and the two carts of rice that Song Xiaoyue pulled out earlier had been dried and could be used to raise seedlings!
The embroidery building was temporarily suspended, and Song Xiaoyue posted a notice that those who were willing to stay in the Song family to help when the farm was busy would be paid as usual, and they would eat three meals!
This notice worked so well that more than 30 villagers stayed!
The Song family's current field property occupies more than half of the whole village, plus the previous one, which has just been purchased, a total of nearly more than 300 square acres of land, because of the lack of tools, Song Xiaoyue pulled more than 30 cattle from the space, went to the craftsman to play tools, and arranged for a few men with greater strength to follow the villagers who stayed behind to go to the farm.
Without grass, it is impossible to let the horses graze, and she has prepared all the tools, and everyone has more confidence to work in the fields.
Song Xiaoyue and Song Ying and Song Bai soaked almost 4,000 catties of grain seeds and put them in the grocery room in the east courtyard to let the grain seeds sprout!
After soaking the grain seeds for two days, all the white grain buds will emerge, and the grain seeds can be sprinkled in the field to cultivate seedlings!
It took more than 30 acres of land to cultivate seedlings, and Liu Yongshi and those villagers took turns to plow the rest of the fields one by one, and it was already July 16!
July 17 embroidery building and re-start, to July 26, the roof of the embroidery building has been completed, the next is the house fill in the ramming to smash the ground, paved with floor stone, the wall is brushed with lime water, to the fifth day of August, the embroidery floor is all completed!
The gift to the eldest sister took nearly two months, that is, to pay everyone for two months, each person is about three yuan a day, in this era when the average monthly salary is only a few dozen yuan, three yuan a day is equivalent to one or two hundred yuan in later generations, so Song Xiaoyue does not feel that she has treated everyone badly.
And for those who stayed to plough the fields, Song Xiaoyue calculated the wages again, and each person could get nearly ten yuan more in the end.
When the building is built, it is time to plant seedlings, there are not many people in the Song family, and it is definitely impossible to plough the land in a short time, so you still have to invite everyone to plough the land, the villagers have responded after seeing the notice, the Song family has never been in arrears of wages, so there is nothing to take care of, anyway, there is a salary to take, there is a package of rice to eat every day, and there must be meat for no meal, and it is very good, where is this kind of treatment in your own home.
As long as you help the Song family plant seedlings, there must be a lot of income in the family, and the strength that the countryside has is nothing.
Almost all of the dozens of villagers who often help the Song family work have signed up, willing to come back to work, and this time there are a few more people from other villages, all of whom are very energetic young men and prime of life.
At this time, it is already August 11, and the time is just right for the Song family, because it is about to be the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is time for the Song family to meet everyone again!
On the afternoon of the 11th, Song Xiaoyue, Song Ying, Song Bai and Han Shui, four people and four carriage soldiers went to buy materials in two ways! Song Xiaoyue and Song Ying went to Moxian, and Song Bai and Han Shui went to Ping'an Town.
On 12 August, the Song family was busy again, and one of them in the house was counted as one, and they all took part in it! In order to improve work efficiency, Song Xiaoyue specially formulated an assembly line for making moon cakes! Han Shui and her cousin Yang Cong first prepared the various fillings of the moon cakes and then reconciled the moon cake crusts. Grandma, Grandma Wen, Grandpa, Housekeeper and Wu Dong were responsible for kneading the mooncake crust one by one. Yin Yiyi, Tang Yan, Wang Fang, Wende and Xiao Feng were in charge of making moon cakes. Liu Yong, Shi Daniu, Huang San, Luo Zhong and Seinfeld were responsible for printing the mooncakes with models. Han Shui, cousin Yang An and eldest sister are responsible for drying and baking the moon cakes! Hua Rong and Hua Yan, the two little girls, are mainly responsible for adding fire and watching the fire. Ye Yang, Zhu Ping and Pan Jiang were responsible for packaging the moon cakes. Li Danian and his cousin Yang An were responsible for giving the packaged mooncakes to Song Xiaoyue and writing the varieties of mooncakes!
On the evening of the 14th, 100 boxes of bean paste mooncakes were made, priced at 100 Wen, 200 boxes of white lotus paste and red lotus paste moon cakes were priced at 200 Wen, 200 boxes of Wuren Mooncakes were priced at 250 Wen, 200 boxes of Wuren barbecued pork and Wuren ham mooncakes were priced at 400 Wen, 300 boxes of white lotus paste egg yolk and red lotus paste egg yolk were priced at 500 Wen, Wuren barbecued pork egg yolk, There are 300 boxes of Wuren ham and egg yolk mooncakes each, priced at 600 Wen, and 300 boxes of various fruit-filled mooncakes with snow skin, but the price is not high.
The reason why the price is not high is not because the materials cut corners, nor is it not delicious, but Long Ying has found out that many people are going to launch moon cakes this year, and those people have obviously eaten Song Xiaoyue's moon cakes, and they know exactly what to do, it may be the difference in taste, this is definitely a competition.
However, Song Xiaoyue is not nervous, even if it is exactly the same, the imitation will definitely not be more professional than hers, but the price is still a little lower, I want everyone to eat it, and it is good to know that the authentic one is good.
On August 15, as soon as the sky was bright, Song Xiaoyue, Song Ying, Song Bai, Wende, and Xiao Feng took three cartloads of mooncakes to Ping'an Town to sell! Before leaving, he instructed Han Shui to use the remaining materials to make some more mooncakes and keep them for his family to eat or give away.
At the stall where Song Xiaoyue sold moon cakes last year, a large number of people had already gathered, waiting eagerly for the arrival of Song Xiaoyue and others!
This time, there was no need for Song Xiaoyue to shout, just hang the four big words "Song family moon cakes", and the people who had been waiting for a long time rushed to buy them frantically, and the popularity was even more than last year.
There are also a few moon cakes sold next to Song Xiaoyue's stall, and they also wrote Li family moon cakes, Wang family moon cakes, Liu family moon cakes and other moon cakes, although the price is lower than Song family moon cakes, but not many people have patronized it, and the boss is anxious!
In less than an hour, all the mooncakes brought by Song Xiaoyue were sold out, and there were still people who couldn't buy them!
"Thank you folks, I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, this year's moon cakes have all been sold out, if you really want to eat, our family can also make a few boxes on the spot, you can go to our Song family to buy, everyone can only buy one back to taste, no more. ”
Song Xiaoyue saw that those who didn't buy it were disappointed, and she couldn't bear it, so she asked them to go back to Song's house with her to buy it!
After packing up her things, Song Xiaoyue and a few people drove the carriage and pulled four or five guests back to Song's house!
sold a few boxes to the guests who came over, Song Xiaoyue loaded the rest of the moon cakes into the carriage, and loaded three full cars, and Song Xiaoyue's master and servant five people pulled the moon cakes together and went to Mo County to sell them!
The five of them hurried up, and it was just the time when they arrived in Mo County!
Pull the mooncakes to your own store, the store has not been open for business for a long time, and as soon as I came to open the store today, some customers came to inquire curiously!
The Song family's rice and the Song family's moon cakes have signboards, and many people have long been famous, and everyone wants to buy a few more boxes, but because the boss Song Xiaoyue said, no one can only buy one box, so that everyone can eat it, so it is understandable, and many people who only buy one box will let the Song family make a little more next time, so that everyone can come and buy.
Dad and younger brother are also on holiday at today's academy, and they know that Song Xiaoyue came to Mo County to sell moon cakes, so they also came to join in the fun. Song Xiaoyue took a few boxes of moon cakes and asked them to send them to the master of the academy, and she also took a few boxes of the leaders she knew and sent them!
By noon, the three carts of mooncakes that were brought in were basically sold out! There were more than a dozen boxes of Song Xiaoyue left, so she didn't plan to sell them, so she took a few boxes back to her parents and gave them a taste, and the rest was taken back to Ping'an Town to give away!
Instructed Xiao Feng Wende and them to pack up their things, close the door of the store, and go back to Song's house in Mo County!
At noon, they had a Mid-Autumn Festival reunion dinner with their parents, mothers and brothers, and then went to buy some fine linen cloth and spent some money, which is nothing to Song Xiaoyue now, so she is not distressed.
Back to Taoyuan Village, I counted the silver I earned today, and this time I earned nearly a thousand yuan, although the price is not high, but the amount is more, and there is still something to earn!
Song Xiaoyue is in a good mood, and each employee at home has a box of moon cakes, and then there is a bonus, which is called having fun with the people. !
Han Shui and his eldest sister made fifty boxes of mooncakes at home today, and some of them were scattered without a box. In addition to leaving 10 boxes for the family, the remaining 40 boxes were given to Lizheng, the village elders, the uncle's family and the grandfather's family were divided, and the ones that were not wrapped in the box were sent to those villagers who came to the Song family to help 2 per household, although it was not much, but it was also a love!
For dinner, Han Shui cooked a very sumptuous meal, and set up three tables in the inner courtyard, and the master and servant sat around to eat a reunion dinner! After the meal, they gathered together to admire the moon and eat moon cakes and talk about their hearts!
The round and large moon climbed higher and higher, and gradually, climbed to the very top of the sky. At this time, I don't know who started it, anyway, the servants gathered in the inner courtyard of the Song family all made wishes for this full moon devoutly!
After a while, everyone slowly put down the palms of the folded hands with some reluctance, their eyes were full of tears, and their eyes looked into the distance in a daze, as if they wanted to pass on the greetings in their hearts to the relatives in the distance!
When Song Xiaoyue saw this warm scene, she didn't know why her heart tingled, or because of people's misfortunes, or because of the unfortunate encounter of people, or although she could call the wind and rain in the shopping mall in her previous life, the family affection she always wanted to have in her heart was hypocritical from beginning to end, and it could even be said to be dirty!
She doesn't want to think about it anymore, the idle life is quite stable, everyone is like a force on the rope, work hard to be positive, and then love their families, what else does this ordinary life need to hope for, and she should really be satisfied.
Putting away some chaotic thoughts, Song Xiaoyue shook her head vigorously, leaving all her troubles behind.
Everyone has been coming to the Song family for a year, and I haven't had time to talk to you about my heart, this year the Song family has too many things, and I am busy with this and that, so I ignore you! Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I also take this opportunity to listen to you talk about your relatives. If you need me, as long as you say it, I can do everything I can to help you solve it!
Song Xiaoyue is also kind-hearted, now the Song family is almost stable, and it can be regarded as having its own strength, if the other party needs help, if she can do it, she will definitely not be stingy, everyone is a family.
"Little master, and everyone here, then I'm not afraid of your jokes, I'll tell you about my Wang Gui's experience!"
The housekeeper smiled at Song Xiaoyue, and gradually talked about his somewhat painful life experience!
"I lost my father when I was three years old and my mother when I was ten years old. When I was eighteen years old, I married a girl from the same village who was sick and sympathetic, and then gave birth to a pair of children one after another. However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and an unprecedented famine broke out in my hometown, and many people in the village starved to death before they could stand it
。 My family was poorer than the rest of the village, and we gnawed on tree bark, ate bugs, and ate everything we could eat. Later, the bark of the trees in the mountains was eaten up by the villagers, and there was not even a single living creature to be found in a large forest, and there was a dead life everywhere! I didn't want my wife and children to starve to death like this, so I gritted my teeth and walked to Nan'an City on foot to sell myself as slaves. I was only 25 years old when I sold myself, and at that time, my master's family was also a businessman, and I followed him to start from a small house, and with my temperament of not being afraid of hardship and not afraid of sin, I climbed to the position of housekeeper step by step!
At that time, the host also praised me as a talent, saying that he wanted to take me to do business, but later, the host divorced and married a new wife, and the second wife's own brother also lived at home, under the prodding of the two sisters and brothers, the master family let me take the second wife's younger brother, I just wanted to be loyal to the master's business, so I treated the other party as the master, and knew that the decision was not hidden, and all of it was taught to the other party, who knew that I was so heart-wrenching, and when the other party learned well, he did tricks on the bill, scoundrel me, saying that I stole the master's money,
Originally, the owner's family trusted me very much, but the second wife would be on the pillow every day, and finally even the boss didn't believe me and kicked me away.
At that time, I worked in that house for many years, I didn't know where I could go after leaving the master's house, and I couldn't be interested in what to do.
On the first day I came, the little host arranged for me to be a housekeeper. At that time, the Song family was not very wealthy, but what the little master's family ate, we subordinates could also eat, and the little master never forgot our share when he bought cloth for his family. Although the little master is young, he is more sophisticated than me, an old man who is over half a hundred years old! From the first day I stepped into the Song family, the little master respected me and believed in me! I was very moved, and my old king swore at that time that I would live for the little master for the rest of my life, and even if the little master asked me to go to the soup and fire, I would not give up!"
Everyone listened silently, the female dependents had secretly wiped away their tears, even Song Xiaoyue was full of choked up, and almost shed tears, I didn't expect the housekeeper to be so miserable in the first half of her life.