An autumn rain and a cold, at the end of October, the temperature dropped suddenly, and the autumn gloom was even more intense.

The farm work in the field is basically finished, and the idle farmers want to go out and find something to do, so that they can live a prosperous life. This is the best time to hire a part-time job.

The Qian family's three-room family and the Wanjia family have to find short-term workers to dig ponds. Because there are many people who need it, not only people from Huaxi Village, Darong Village, and Erliu Village, who are close to them, but also people from neighboring towns.

The third room recruited more than 60 people, and the three families recruited 15 people each. The four families recruited a few women such as the flower lady to cook for these people who dug the pond. Several families scraped together money and handed it over to the flower lady to let her be responsible for the purchase and cooking of vegetables. I did it at her house, and after it was done, I pushed it to the construction site with a car.

The pond is digging in full swing, and the lotus root in the Qian family's Sanfang Lake is also ripe. At this time, the lotus root is the most delicious, sweet and glutinous, and as soon as it is picked, it is pulled out and sold by the people of Jinxiuxing. In fact, in mid-August, the tender lotus root began to be picked one after another, but the amount of harvest was small.

Perhaps the water quality in her lake is better, and the lotus root is bigger and sweeter than other plants, and the harvest is more.

Her family's six-acre lake, one after another picked more than 16,000 catties of lotus roots, there are still in the lake, waiting for the Chinese New Year to pick, is expected to be able to pick a few thousand catties. In this way, the front and back add up, a total of more than 20,000 catties of lotus root can be picked.

Because the lotus root is good, it is sold more expensive than other people, about five cents per catty. Together with the fish in the lake, a total of more than 120 taels of silver can be profited.

The income of the big house, the second room, and the third room also feels that it is the right thing to buy land and dig ponds.

Wan Dazhong took care of his family's digging pond in the west of Huaxi Village, not only did he go to the third room of the Qian family to eat two meals in the middle and evening, but he would go to his house almost every once in a while. Either drink water, or go to the thatched house, then say a few words to Qian Sangui, then look at Qian Manxia twice, stay for less than half an hour and hurry back.

Qian Yixiu smiled and quipped, "Uncle Wan, why don't you just sit at my house and don't move, and let Brother Huang Tie help your family watch the pond digging." You're so tired that you've spent more time on the road than you have spent at my house. What if you drink too much water and go to the thatched house before you get to the soil of your house? ”

Qian Manxia on the side blushed with shame, stomped her feet and scolded, "Xiu'er, you start talking nonsense again, see if I don't sue my mother." ”

Wan Dazhong smiled good-naturedly, "No, no, in case of that, if you come back, Uncle Wan is not afraid of being tired." ”

Seeing his good gentleman's appearance, Qian Yixiu covered his mouth and said, "Uncle Wan is happy in his heart, of course he is not afraid of getting tired." ”

When Wan Dazhong and Qian Manxia heard this, they both glanced at each other with blushing faces, and quickly turned their eyes away.

This is the bad place in ancient times, even if the men and women who are married are tender and sweet, they must be polite, and they are not even embarrassed to say a word.

However, seeing the little aunt's immature little face full of the honey of falling in love, it is still a little disagreeable. This is still the age of the second year of junior high school, okay?

Entering the winter moon, Qian Sangui's body bones are a little bad, but he is not strict enough to lie on the bed and can't move like in previous years, but he can't go out, and he wears a big cotton robe and a fox fur hat every day to bake charcoal in the house.

Now there is the old man Cai, the chief manager, and he has made decisions on many things, which is really important, so he will go to report the three expensive money.

Qian Xiang's family began to organize sausages again. Although sausages are now a food in many places, the best taste is Qian Xiangjia's sausage.

Aunt Li listened to Qian Yixiu's Jianyì, and packaged the home-packed sausage, named it "Li Ji" sausage, not only making sausages, but also making old bacon, which was sold by Jinxiu Xing. Of course, the capital is still in charge of the Cui shopkeeper, and the provincial capital is still in charge of the Song government.

Today, the company has also established a long-term trade partnership with the Song Dynasty.

This time, when the shopkeeper Cui returned to Beijing, he not only brought sausages, but also sent hundreds of catties of lotus root to the Guogong Mansion. As a New Year's gift, he gave 400 catties of lotus root to the Zhangjia, Song Mansion, and Zhai Mansion, and 100 catties of sausage and old bacon.

The Zhang family was sent by Qian Yixiu, and the New Year's gifts of the Song and Zhai mansions were sent by Qian Yijin to the provincial capital on leave.

The Zhang family and the Song family happily sent back gifts, all of which were some cloths, school supplies and other things, and the economic value was higher than that given by the Qian family.

Lord Zhai was not in the house, but the head of the family knew that Qian Yijin was Lord Zhai's "little friend", so he not only accepted the New Year's gift with great face, but also gave a return gift of the same value.

But two days later, Mrs. Zhai sent her mother-in-law to find the splendid store in Xishan County, saying that the family liked to eat the sausages and lotus roots they gave very much, and wanted to buy some more, and gave five coins of silver to Qian Hua.

Qian Hua looked at the five coins of silver in his hand and thought about it, so he asked people to take fifty catties of sausages and two hundred catties of lotus roots for them. Then, he hurriedly sent someone to deliver a letter to Qian Sangui, and he made a loss of business.

Qian Sangui listened, and asked the person to go back and say that he had done the right thing, and he had to do this business loss.

Qian Yijin's children listened to it and became entangled again. He didn't know whether to tell Lord Zhai or not, his wife was too much, although it was just a little food, it wasn't worth a few dollars, and even if it was given, it wasn't a bribe. But it's always bad for Lord Zhai's official reputation.

Qian Yixiu persuaded, "Lord Zhai is so smart, he must know his mother's whereabouts, how to deal with him." There are not many things in this matter, and it can also be said that it is one of our hearts. He also said, "That old lady Zhai may still have the old concept in the countryside, thinking that five dollars of silver is five hundred yuan, and she can buy a lot of things." She didn't mean to buy more things with less money, if Uncle Qian Hua only gave five dollars of silver, the old lady would not be angry. ”

Qian Yijin listened to it, and his heart felt better. After all, Lord Zhai is his idol, and he still doesn't want the idol's wife to discredit the idol.

A few days later, Lord Zhai, who had returned from the capital, quickly learned about the incident and asked one of his staff, Mr. Wei, to come to Jinxiu to find Qian Hua. Mr. Wei smiled and said that the sausages and lotus root were delicious, thank them for their kindness, and gave Qian Yijin a red envelope in advance and asked Qian Hua to help transfer it.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the private school has a holiday, and it will not start until the twentieth day of the first month of the next year.

Qian Yijin wanted to go to the county seat for one night and taste what it was like to be a county person. Qian Yixiu had long wanted to go to that house for one night, but she couldn't get her wish.

Seeing that Xiao Zhengtai was going to live, his heart itched again, and he pulled Cheng Yue's skirt and said that he wanted to go with his brother. can see the red circles under the little lady's eyes, and she can only raise her hands to surrender.

Wan Dazhong said that he was going to the county seat to buy some New Year's goods, so he took Xiao Zhengtai to the county seat, and Qian Yishan went with him.

Xiao Zhengtai played in the county seat for three days, and when he came back, he brought back an old man. (To be continued.) )