Chapter 214: The Governing Family

Qiu Chen sent Lin Xianniang out of the gate, and saw Liu Manyin and Lin Zi's father walking all the way in a hurry.

Because the Lin family is responsible for frying and packaging, the purchases of Lin Zi and Brother Quan in the surrounding villages must also wait for the Lin family to open the scales. Seeing that March was about to pass, and the Luo Buma in the field had grown a little taller, the two families were anxious, and finally heard that Qiu Chen was back, so Lin Zi's father hurriedly met Liu Manyin and rushed to Lin's house together.

As soon as he saw the two of them coming together, Qiu Chen understood what was going on, and couldn't help but stand at the door with a smile and wait.

Liu Manyin and Lin Zi's father came closer, and when they saw Qiu Chen standing in the gate hole waiting, they were a little surprised and a little ashamed.

Liu Manyin squeezed out a smile, stretched the corners of his clothes, nodded and smiled: "Rise...... Well, Mrs. Lin, when did you get home? This trip out, it's another ten days......"

Qiu Chen watched Liu Manyin stumbling to find a topic, and was really uncomfortable for him, so he simply interrupted: "The two of you came here to ask about receiving medicine, right?" Let's send a message tomorrow, and we can open the scale the day after tomorrow. ”

After speaking, let Liu Manyin and Lin Zidad go to the door. The two of them couldn't wait to go to the surrounding villages to inform them, run a few more villages, notify a few more people, and the more medicine they received, which means that their income is higher, where can they still care about entering the door to chat, and hurriedly leave with a happy face.

Seeing them like this, Qiu Chen did not delay, and turned back and went directly into the East Cross Courtyard.

I walked around the sheds, looked at the work conditions everywhere, and also notified the upcoming opening of the scale to purchase medicinal materials. This news made the helpers also happy, although they worked in the Lin family, they could get a lot of monthly money every month, but picking Luo Bu hemp, double flowers, forsythia and other medicinal materials, do not need strong labor, the old and weak women and children can do it, at the end of the day, how can a person earn dozens of big money, one more income, the life of the family will naturally be more prosperous. No one thinks that there is a lot of money in the family, and no one thinks that life is too good!

After turning around, Qiu Chen arrived at the kitchen. The weather is getting warmer, the working hours are longer, and the kitchen needs to cook an extra dinner. Compared with the steamed bread stir-fry at noon, in addition to the steamed bread stir-fry at dinner, there is also a salty soup, with meat oil in the pot to add oil to make the soup base, put the green vegetables to adjust the batter, the helpers each drink two bowls hot, delicious and comfortable.

At this time, dinner was approaching, and the work in the kitchen was basically over, and He Lanying of the Qingjiang family was bringing four or five women and daughters to the big pot to serve food.

Qiu Chen walked to the kitchen door, took two deep breaths, and asked with a smile, "What kind of food did you cook tonight, it's so fragrant!" ”

Lan Ying walked out of the house with a large soup spoon in her hand, lifted her apron and wiped the sweat on her cheeks and smiled: "It's not for your blessing, I fried a salted fish tonight, and made a spinach soup, with shrimp skin, it's fresh!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled and looked at the salted fish in the basin one by one, and his heart moved slightly. It seems that the sales of salted fish from Tujia Village and Nanmar Lake are not as difficult as she thought. Not to mention elsewhere, in the two workshops of Anyang and Liujiaao, there are hundreds of people eating every day, if you eat salted fish, how can you get two or three hundred catties for a meal, if you eat four times a month or five times, but it will cost thousands of catties!

When this year's chili peppers are harvested, you can also make steamed salted fish directly, which is more convenient and simple, and it is delicious......

From this, she also remembered this year's autumn grain, when she made an agreement with the tenants to let them grow peanuts and soybeans, and then the oil can also be self-sufficient, which can not only reduce costs, but also give the tenant farmers more security.

With a quick calculation in his heart, Qiu Chen beckoned Lan Ying and Qingshan's family out of the kitchen, told them about the purchase of Luo Buma by opening the scale, and asked the opinions of the two.

“…… Sister-in-law Qingshan, you have an idea for yourself, do you want to stay in the kitchen or still go to the side of the fried medicine? ”

Qingshan's family looked at Lan Ying and said with a smile: "I'd better go and fry the medicine." It also saves you from looking for another person to fry the medicine! ”

Qiu Chen nodded with a smile, and discussed with the two of them again: "Then you two are pondering, who is better to take care of the kitchen here?" Yuxiang's family is waiting for childbirth, and after giving birth, I am afraid that I will not be able to come out for a year and a half. Xiu'er, the girl is good, and she is also smart, but she is a little younger, and she can't hold down the stubble......"

Lan Ying and the Qingshan family glanced at each other, and the Qingshan family hesitated slightly, and said: "Begonia, I think Chunhong is good." She was a well-known neat girl when she was in her mother's house, and she was a good hand at housework......"

Qiu Chen raised his eyebrows, looked at Qingjiang's family, then looked at Lan Ying, and said with a smile: "Chunhong herself is willing to come to the kitchen?" It's a lot more tiring than she's packing now...... Would you like to ask her first? ”

Lan Ying said: "Chunhong is willing!" ”

Without waiting for Qiu Chen to answer, the Qingshan family interjected: "Chunhong followed the harvest...... Look at the winter moon! ”

"Spring red and harvest?" Qiu Chen was quite surprised. It's not because of anything else, the harvest is more than ten years older than Chunhong!

The Qingshan family misunderstood the reason for Qiu Chen's surprise, and blushed slightly: "It's not Chunhong herself...... It was me and Lan Ying who saw that they were both lonely and pitiful, and made a match, and neither of them said anything, so it was decided. After all, Chunhong is considered to be in service, how can it be a full year...... This is just looking at this winter. What's that, Chunhong and the harvest have already come out of the five suits, I can't talk about it, no, Chunhong passed under her uncle's name, and then she will be surnamed Wang, called Wang Chunhong, and it won't be the same surname......"

The Qingshan family's explanation was very detailed, Qiu Chen smiled and shook his head: "I didn't mean anything else, I just felt a little surprised when I heard the news all of a sudden." Well, the harvest is a haode...... By the way, what about the injury of the harvest, this should not feel anything, delay or not delay the work? ”

As soon as she heard that Qiu Chen was not unhappy, Lan Ying immediately became happy, and said, "You gave him so much haode healing medicine, and asked Lang Zhong to give him a straight bone, and the harvest injury is good...... Alas, Chunhong's daughter, after this hard work, there is finally hope for this day. It's not that I said, Chunhong married into the harvest family, and the two babies in the harvest family can be regarded as having a mother, so they don't have to worry about Chunhong's harshness. The harvest also said, the little daughter of the Wang family, people will definitely treat it as their daughter, find a good family in the future, and prepare the dowry to send away! Tsk, the harvest family's, if you know that the harvest can now receive nearly two taels of silver a month, and marry Chunhong, I don't know why I regret it, but unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world! ”

For these words, Qiu Chen was not very enthusiastic. After Lan Ying finished speaking, she smiled and said, "Chunhong has never worked in the kitchen after all, transfer her over first, Sister Lan Ying, you will be more tired at this time, take care of the kitchen." The kitchen steward, let's talk about it in a few days! ”

Lan Ying and the Qingshan family glanced at each other, and agreed at the same time.

Qiu Chen told the Qingshan family about the manpower arrangement of the fried medicine workshop, the original Liu Zhanfeng and Brother Quan were all withdrawn, and there were not many people left in the fried medicine yuanset, so they had to redeploy the manpower...... Or, recruit a few new people.

It didn't take long for the discussion to be properly discussed, Qiu Chen took out two people from the sub-packaging group to the fried medicine workshop, and discussed the recruitment of four daughters-in-law from the village, all of whom were enriched into the fried medicine workshop, and handed them over to the Qingshan family together.

After discussing it here, it was time for dinner, Qiu Chen greeted the Qingshan family with a smile: "After cleaning up in a while, I'll go to my side, I'll go out and bring back some dry goods this time, you and Sister Lan Ying go over and get some, those things are good for the children to eat, grow up!" ”

The Qingshan family was not polite, and responded repeatedly.

After dinner, Lin Xianniang turned around again. excitedly told Qiu Chen about the results of the discussion with Mrs. Lin.

As Lin Xianniang said, Mrs. Lin was very supportive of Lin Xianniang's going to Fucheng to open a shop, and she also took one hundred taels of the only silver deposit to Lin Xianniang as capital.

Qiu Chen simply lent his white case master Jia to Lin Xianniang, and asked her to help Lin Xianniang figure out the dim sum recipe together. Among them is the cake that Qiu Chen pondered. Of course, there is no way to promote the decorated cake, and in this era, except for the northern nomads, the residents of the Central Plains are still very unaccustomed to the taste of milk. In addition, there are no cows that produce milk all year round, and there is no guarantee of the source of milk.

However, the pure cake is ready, and it is enough to become a supporting product for Lin Xianniang's dim sum shop.

Although Aunt Huang said that she learned some skills in making dim sum back then, but those dim sum were too exquisite, and it was okay to eat them in the mansion, but it was not suitable to really use them for business, just like the plum blossom cake and red bean cake made by Lin Xianniang, but they were elegant and light, and the taste was good, but it was not suitable to sell them.

Qiu Chen once had a detailed understanding of the housing prices and shop prices in Anyang Mansion, and one hundred taels of silver was almost enough to rent a small shop with an average location on Fuqian Street. However, if Lin Xianniang wants to do the business of a high-ranking family, she might as well go to Nancheng or Fuhou Street. The former is the concentration of wealthy businessmen, and the latter is the concentration of official residences in Anyang Prefecture.

With the consent of Mrs. Lin, the next day, Qiu Chen sent someone to send some dry goods to the shopkeeper Chen and Mr. Zhao of the Huichun Hall in the town, and asked the shopkeeper Chen to send a message to Daxing, so that Daxing could immediately start looking for a suitable shop in Fucheng. Lin Xianniang wants to open a dim sum shop, and the requirements for the shop are not too much, and the surrounding area is best where restaurants and teahouses are more concentrated. In addition, it is better to have a spacious backyard and a separate well. After all, it is a food shop, and a lot of water will be used for production, cleaning and hygiene, and it is much more convenient to have a well.

Here, Lin Xianniang's matter came to an end temporarily, and Qiu Chen began to sort out the Sanjin Hospital.

When she went to Anyang, Yang Junmeng and Man Ho father and son helped level the newly bought land in the backyard, circled it into the yard, and built a set of courtyard houses behind the second entrance, and built two rows of independent small courtyards with two rooms and one household behind the school. Because I was not too anxious to live in, this time the house was dried for more than half a month before the walls were painted, the ceiling was installed, and the basic facilities were all done, the curtains and bed tents, and the Qingjiang family also took people to do it.

In Qiu Chen's room, the set of Huanghuali furniture sent by Liao Wenqing was installed after moving in, large items, such as beds and Luohan couches, Qiu Chen thought that he couldn't move them out, but he didn't expect that as soon as he said to buy new furniture, Yang Shumeng said that the set in her room was dismantled and moved over to reinstall it. It's not easy to buy such a set of furniture at once.

Only then did she know that the original mortise and tenon furniture is not immutable, it is equally convenient to disassemble, and the process haode mortise and tenon furniture, dismantling several times and then reloading will not appear shaking and distortion. Particularly durable, especially skillful.

When I think of modern furniture that is combined with nails, let alone dismantling, it will be deformed when you move it...... Some old antiques are still worth passing on.

The layout of the house in the Sanjin Courtyard is exactly the same as that in the Second Courtyard, Qiu Chen's move this time is also simple, he moved the whole set of furniture into the Sanjin Courtyard, placed it in place, hung the newly made curtain bed tent, invited two old carpenters to complete it in less than a morning.

Next, it's time for the servants to move.

Daxing, Qingjiang, Shunzi, and Zhao Jiu's families each got a small courtyard, the girls in Qiu Chen's house, and Aman's two little girls, still live in the back seat of the Sanjin Courtyard, one for Yuhe, Yuegui and Chunxiang, one for Yuxiang and Qingxing, and one for Ling'er and Meizi. I also arranged for Chunxiang to tidy up the study. The boys each lived with their own masters, and Ah Fu's little servant temporarily lived in the west wing of the second courtyard, and when Ah Fu was older and moved into the second courtyard, they didn't have to move anymore.

After this move, the furniture custom-made from the county was also transported, and it was placed in the main room of the second courtyard and the wing room of the third courtyard one by one, and it took three days to arrange all the places.

Qiu Chen moved into Sanjin, and the girls all stayed in Sanjin to serve, which was completely isolated from Junwen Junshu and others outside, and Wang's position was also moved from the second entrance door to the third entrance door, there was no work, and the girls in the third entrance were not allowed to enter and exit. Junwen Junshu and the others no longer entered Sanjin to eat, Qiu Chen moved the place of eating to the main house restaurant in the courtyard, which was considered to be distinct from the inner and outer courtyards, and the rules were slowly erected.

After moving, Qiu Chen didn't stop, and arranged for someone to start tidying up the backyard. After this expansion, the Lin family's house was built almost halfway up the mountain. The first two courtyards are flat, starting from the third courtyard, they go all the way up according to the mountain, and when they reach the back garden, they are a large hillside, but they are also spacious, with the size of more than ten acres.

Now that it is nearly the end of March, it is a little late to plant trees, and planting grass is not outdated, so Qiu Chen divided the part near the Sanjin courtyard into a relatively flat piece, organized it into a vegetable garden, and planted all kinds of seasonal vegetables, of course, her most precious pepper seedlings. Further up, the original weeds were cleared, planted with some climbing gourds, pumpkins, beans, lentils, and the top part maintained the original ecology of the mountains, separated by bamboo fences, and only built a few wooden huts in the corners, and then the Xiangxiang family and deer, chickens and ducks were all free-range to that area. This time, it was completely natural free-range.

After taking it, Yuan Bao also likes this piece of primitive woodland very much, and runs to Sahuan'er every day when he can't see it.

On this side, Qiu Chen also moved his mouth, and then handed it over to others to do. It didn't take much effort on her part.

After the backyard was arranged, Qiu Chen also began to lay out the more than three acres of land in his house to plant peppers.

Speaking of these more than three acres of land, Qiu Chen couldn't help but think of Liu Sanhe again. This person sold his body for a year last year and planted land for the Lin family for a year, and this year Qiu Chen did not renew the contract, Liu Sanhe actually spontaneously continued to come over every day, not only planting more than three acres of wheat fields, but also taking care of the pond in front of the door every day. Without waiting for Qiu Chen's instructions, he has transplanted the lotus root in the pond and expanded it to a small half of the pond, and also planted the water chestnut and chicken head rice that Qiu Chen brought back from Nanmar Lake. Because of the early start, the lotus root here has already germinated, and the sharp new lotus is curling and sticking out of the water. However, the water chestnut and chicken head rice were planted later than Nannuma Lake, and they have not shown up so far.

He did it very carefully, Qiu Chen simply handed over this piece to him to manage, and told him that he would give him a tael of silver every month, and there was no need for Qiu Chen to say that Liu Sanhe went to Dongcrossan Courtyard to eat every day, and he couldn't move.

Qiu Chen brought Liu Sanhe to him and told him the methods and precautions for planting pepper seedlings. Listening to Qiu Chen tell him about planting pepper seedlings, he agreed again and again, and said with a shy face: "The lady of the owner, please okay, I promise to plant it properly for you." ”

Qiu Chen ignored his hippie smile and continued to instruct: "These seedlings should be transplanted in the evening or on a cloudy day, and they should be watered immediately after planting. ”

Liu Sanhe agreed again and again, and repeated it word for word, and Qiu Chen was relieved.

Whether the pepper planting can be successfully expanded and the varieties are continuously optimized, Qiu Chenke pointed to these pepper seedlings, no wonder she was so cautious.

When the pepper seedlings were planted in the ground, I watched the seedlings return, and the long and prosperous appearance rose, and another four or five days passed. Time flickered into April, and in more than a month, Lin Xu was about to enter the provincial capital to take the exam. Qiu Chen also packed his things and left Liu Jiaao again and entered Anyang Mansion. This time, Qiu Chen entered Anyang Mansion and brought Lin Xianniang and Jia Shi, the white case cook.

When he arrived at Anyang Mansion, Qiu Chen ignored anything else, and immediately sent Daxing to the provincial capital to find a suitable inn to charter a small courtyard, or directly rent a small courtyard...... If you can't rent a suitable one, you can simply buy a small courtyard in the provincial capital.

Daxing has bought a small shop on Fuqian Street, the shop is not big, but the location is excellent, just opposite Yunzhongxian, there is a restaurant and two teahouses next to it. Qiu Chen didn't care about this, so he sent Shunzi to take Lin Xianniang and Jia Shi to see the shop.

Then, Qiu Chen arranged for Yufeng and Shunzi's family to make summer clothes for Lin Xu, and prepared test supplies according to the various experiences of the government test. At the same time, he personally went to the market to buy fresh ingredients, stared at the kitchen, and even made various nutritious meals for Lin Xu by himself to increase nutrition.

During this period, Qiu Chen brought a few boxes of newly produced plum soap, and went to Guo's mansion with the one he had just gotten, and this time, he finally met Master Guo......