At noon, the first group of villagers came to deliver food.

The reason why they were in such a hurry to deliver the dug vegetables was actually because they didn't have a bottom in their hearts. I was always worried that Meng Hui would suddenly stop talking and not accept these wild vegetables.

So one by one, they nervously roared and brought the dishes over.

It wasn't until Meng weighed them one by one and handed them the tinkling copper plates that they were completely convinced, this was not a dream!

Everyone gained a lot in one morning. Digging small roots of garlic is generally dug one or two catties, and even a few ordinary people who work quickly have dug three catties, envy the people next to them, everyone is secretly competing, and they must dig more in the afternoon.

And those who choose to pick celery, most of them have picked two or three catties, and the most is five catties. It's about the same as digging up small garlic roots.

Therefore, the villagers no longer hesitate whether to dig small garlic or pick celery, anyway, as long as they are willing to put in all their efforts, the copper plate they will earn in the end is about the same.

When the scales were collected that night, Meng and Xuehua calculated and collected a total of 500 catties of small garlic and 1,100 catties of water celery.

This number was far below Snowflake's expectations, and her little face was full of question marks.

In fact, it's not that the villagers don't work hard, or that there aren't enough villagers who go out to dig vegetables, but that there are not as many wild vegetables as everyone thinks!

This situation did not surprise Meng, she had already expected it at noon. After all, the mountains around the village are so big, and the range of the river is only that, and the whole village will go out together, and these places will soon be turned upside down.

It is estimated that everyone will have to develop to the periphery from tomorrow and go to the territory of other villages to rummage.

Sure enough, early the next morning, the villagers began to look farther away, and on the third day, they went even further.

The villagers also came to hand in less and less food, and after seven days, almost no one came to hand in the food.

And at this time, there are still four empty vats of the Meng family!

Xuehua flattened her mouth, very unhappy, "Woo, I've been blind to these vats, and I've lost two taels of silver!

Meng, who was busy pickling vegetables, couldn't help but smile, "You little money fan! Even if these tanks don't pickle vegetables, they can't be wasted, so don't worry!"

Xuehua's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Really, can't you be idle and useless?"

Meng filled the jar with salted water, then covered the lid, pasted it with mud and carefully wrapped it in several layers of oiled paper to make sure that no air would enter, and then clapped his hands and looked at the snowflakes.

"This big vat is more useful, what are you anxious about! Let's not talk about whether there will be people to hand over the vegetables in a few days, even if there are no vegetables, we can pickle other mountain vegetables in the future, and we can also use these vats to make sauce!"

"Miso?" Snowflake chewed on the word, "It's made from that hairy sauce primer?"

As soon as Xuehua heard the sauce Meng said, she couldn't help but think of the sauce primer made before the Chinese New Year.

At that time, after Meng fried cornmeal and soybean flour, he added boiling water and stirred it well, made several large balls, put them in a box, covered them and placed them in the corner of the kitchen.

A few days ago, Xuehua Haoxin went to open it to take a look, and she screamed at that time. Because all those things are hairy, red and green, and they look like they are broken.

But Meng even laughed, saying that the more hair she grows, the better, and the sauce she will make in the future will be delicious.

Xuehua had never doubted any of Meng's words, but this time she really didn't believe it, how could she still eat something with hair, let alone delicious!

Now when she heard Meng mention the use of those large vasks to fill the sauce, Xuehua naturally looked suspicious and disgusted.

Meng looked at her little appearance, but she just smiled and didn't say anything, she knew that this thing was fragrant after it was made, and now everything she said was in vain.

Meng moved a large pot of blanched and cooled celery, and a layer of vegetables and salt were neatly stacked in the vat, and finally filled with salt water and sealed.

All the dishes are pickled today, and I guess there will probably be no one to hand them over tomorrow. If you want to collect the vegetables again, you will have to wait a few days, and then the bracken monkey legs and the like from the mountains will come out, and you can be busy for a while.

The villagers have obtained a lot of copper plates here in Meng in the past few days, and one person has received one or twenty wen money, but the most is as much as fifty or sixty wen, which is worth going to the town to work for many days of short-term work. There is a large number of people, and in the past few days, there has been nearly one or two pieces of silver, which has completely alleviated the current embarrassment of life, and everyone is smiling.

There was a happy scene in the village, and everyone was grateful for Meng's kindness. And they are all looking forward to it, hoping that Meng can still have this good thing to bring to everyone in the future.

At this time, Meng couldn't take care of continuing to collect vegetables for the time being, because she had to start working on her own paddy fields. The solar term has arrived, and the temperature is enough, so you can plant rice.

Inspected the rice seedlings in the greenhouse, the growth is gratifying, it is already more than a foot high, it can be transplanted, Meng immediately took everyone to clean up the paddy field, ready to plant seedlings.

The paddy fields have long been turned over and soaked in water. Today, Meng took the ten people allocated to her by Li Junyu plus a big strong iron pillar to go down to the field and rake the ground together.

Since no one had ever grown rice here, there were no tools for raking the ground, so Meng drew a sketch according to the memories of his previous life and handed it to Blacksmith Xie to do.

Not to mention, this blacksmith Xie is really a talent, and after asking a few key points, he really made it.

After trying it today, these rakes are very useful, and they are not inferior to the kind of rakes used in previous lives.

Meng excitedly demonstrated the use of the rake, and everyone was deeply amazed.

It's unheard of or unheard of that this thing can smooth out a soaked field.

Although Li Junyu had been to Lingchuan Country and had seen their farmers growing rice, he was sure that there was absolutely no such tool there.

He was even more curious about Meng's whimsy, where did he learn it?

However, many of his doubts were all left behind after seeing Meng still fluttering barefoot in the water, his eyes flashed slightly, and he hooked his hand at her.

"Come up, be careful of catching a cold!" And those white calves and bare feet are beautiful that belong to one person, and should not be seen by other stinky men!

Li Junyu was distressed and jealous, and he didn't know what it was like in his heart for a while, so he urged Meng to go ashore quickly.

Meng Zheng excitedly followed along to rake the ground, and when he heard Li Junyu's call, he didn't want to pay attention to him, but when he saw his hesitant look, he was entangled for a while, and finally decided to listen to him, after all, people are also thinking about their own health.

She also knows that it is very bad for a girl to have a cold, so she is still very touched by Li Junyu's care and thoughtfulness.

Seeing Meng obediently ashore, Li Junyu stopped her and hugged her without saying a word.

"Ahh

How can you hug without saying a word?

In public, isn't that right?

Although Meng is not a conservative local, she is still a little embarrassed to be hugged by the princess in public.

Li Junyu didn't say a word, directly hugged her and carried the light work, and went straight to the hot spring river.

When she came to the river and found a flat place, Li Junyu squatted down, let Meng sit on her lap, and then put her feet in the river.

"The water here is warm, so soak your feet. ”

"Oh, you want me to wash my feet. You said it earlier, it scared people like something!" Meng Jiao sneered, but she didn't refuse his kindness.

I got a foot of mud in the field, and I really should wash it well, otherwise how to wear shoes and socks.

Meng sat comfortably on the humanoid chair, soaking his feet comfortably. After the hot spring water flowed here from the top of the mountain, the water temperature was neither cold nor hot, and the whole person's bones were loosened when she soaked it, and her feet fluttered happily, splashing with gusts of water.

Li Junyu looked at her naughty childlike appearance, with a little smile in his eyes, and the arm around her tightened unconsciously.

Meng had enough to bend down to scrub her feet, but a pair of big hands moved faster than hers, lifted her little feet, and rubbed them seriously.

"Boom" Meng's face seemed to be on fire, spicy.

Looking around weakly, she saw that everyone didn't seem to be paying attention to this side, so she patted her chest and took two deep breaths to make her heart beat less violently.

"Hey, Li Junyu, you let go, I'll wash it myself!"

This posture is really great!

Li Junyu was tall, and Meng's body was a little petite, he sat on one of his legs, the other leg bent to the ground, and then gently scrubbed the tender white jade feet with those slender hands......

The picture is so beautiful, Meng can't imagine it!

"You wash yourself and plant it in the water, I'll help you!"

Li Junyu's tone is domineering that cannot be refused, but in Meng's ears, it is as charming, seductive, and moving as the sound of heaven!

Meng's heart was like spring water wrinkled by the breeze, rippling layer by layer, rippling in a circle, and she was fascinated.

Such a domineering but gentle man really fascinated her!

I don't know if it's Meng's illusion, but I always feel that when Li Junyu's hand brushes her feet, the speed is very slow, as if he is stroking a rare treasure.

It seemed that a century had passed before Li Junyu finally let go of her pair of jade feet, and then, as soon as he lifted the placket, he actually wiped it with his own clothes.

"Ahh

Evil, Li Junyu's clothes are all high-grade materials inlaid with gold and silver, and they have been reduced to their own foot cloths?

Meng is distressed and nervous, so he wanted to push Li Junyu away and prevent him from continuing to destroy the heavens.

"Don't move, be careful of falling!" Li Junyu stopped her movements in a soft voice, and then insisted on wiping her feet with the placket of her clothes, "Although the water is warm, it will catch a cold when the wind blows, I will help you dry and carry you back to wear shoes and socks." ”

"Huh" Meng wailed, she didn't dare to face those people in the field!

But Li Junyu didn't give her a chance to be shy at all, and directly hugged her back to the field, and then in the same posture just now, he put on socks and shoes with her, and didn't let Meng touch a little dirt during the whole process.

Meng didn't dare to look into the field at all, she was afraid, "Da Zhuang, what you said is true, what chance do the villagers have to make money?"

Zhao Guangming was so excited that he couldn't get angry. It was the slack season, and there was not much work to be done in the fields, so they had to wait until the corn seedlings grew taller before they needed to go to the field to sprout grass, and before that they had to stay at home.

Some of the young and strong men went to the town to find temporary jobs to earn a small amount of money to support their families, but most of the rest were left to work at home.

Now that he heard the good news brought by Da Zhuang, how could Zhao Guangming not be happy.

Da Zhuang didn't enter the house, so he stood at the gate of the courtyard and talked loudly to the village chief.

"Uncle Zhao, I want to buy wild vegetables, so that the big guy can go up the mountain to dig early tomorrow morning, and I will be responsible for teaching everyone!"

"Really?" Zhao Guangming couldn't believe his ears, there was such a good thing in the world?

The weeds that spread all over the mountains can also be exchanged for silver?

Although my family has been eating those wild vegetables a lot recently, I never dared to think that it could be exchanged for money.

"Of course it's true, it can still be fake!" Da Zhuang said this in a very loud voice, and he was very confident!

To be able to have such a capable girl, strong and honorable.

Zhao Guangming spoke excitedly with a trill, "That, didn't you say how to harvest this wild vegetables?"

Da Zhuang used his maximum volume and said, "Ah, as long as the wild vegetables dug up according to our requirements, we will be given a penny and a catty!"

"Huh?" Zhao Guangming suspected that he had heard something, so he dug out his ears vigorously, and then looked at Da Zhuang fixedly, "Da Zhuang, did you say it wrong, it's ten catties a penny, right?"

Da Qiang smiled and said: "Uncle Zhao, don't worry, I am not wrong, you are not wrong, it is a penny and a catty, a small given price! You hurry up and gather the villagers to announce the good news, tomorrow morning at the beginning of the morning, I will wait for you at the entrance of the village, and after teaching you the standards of wild vegetables and digging vegetables, I have to rush to the town to deliver the goods." ”

After finishing speaking, regardless of Village Chief Zhao's stunned expression, Da Zhuang and Tie Zhu went home again.

The people who had a good letter had been listening with their ears pulled, and as soon as Da Zhuang left, they all flocked to the old village chief.

"Village chief, we're going to get rich!" everyone shouted together, as if a gold ingot had fallen from the sky.

"Village chief, don't tell others, let's just dig a few vegetables secretly, otherwise there will be too much digging, and what should we do if people don't accept it." These are the words of a man who is accustomed to being opportunistic.

It was this sentence that suddenly summoned the old village chief back from his astonishment, picked up the cigarette pouch pole in his hand, and hit the speaker.

"You conscience thing, that's a way for our whole village to live, why are you embarrassed to swallow it yourself!"

Zhao Guangming scolded while beating, scaring the man into hugging his head, "Oh, don't beat the village chief, I know it's wrong!

He was also poor and afraid, and when he caught up with this green and yellow shortage, his family was about to be unable to open the pot, and suddenly heard that there was money to be made, and he was so excited that he didn't know how to do it. All I want is to take the opportunity to earn more, so that the children in the family can eat enough.