Chapter 10 Division of Labor
"Then now everyone closes their eyes, and I'll take you to see this treasure." Xia Qingyun said, let everyone hold hands together, and with a thought, bring the whole family into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion.
She kept an eye on it, and did not tell her family that she had discovered the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion through Guò Xiang Shen. In this way, if anyone accidentally talks about it in the future, no one will be able to find a way to get in, so just listen to it as a legend.
"Alright, open your eyes!"
"Wow!" The little sister was amazed. Everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them, and they didn't know how they had arrived at this place all at once.
In front of the emerald green rows of small trees, clear ponds, in the distance is a row of white-walled and tiled houses, the breeze is warm, the sun shines through the thin clouds, reflecting a beautiful rainbow in the sky, a quiet pastoral beauty!
Xia Qingyun was also slightly surprised, the space was more than ten times larger than yesterday, and there were more than ten more houses. Now it looks a lot like a small basin in a mountain col.
"This is the Queen Mother's Wishful Treasure Pavilion." She said, "The spring water over there is called Qixing Spring, and the small trees planted in the field are tea trees, and the leaves of the tea trees can be used to make tea, and our silver is exchanged for tea." ”
"Leaves can also be exchanged for money?" Dad walked out into the field in disbelief and carefully touched the green leaves.
Xia Qingyun said, "Of course, just the leaves are not enough, only by using the method taught by the fairy to process and make tea can I get money." ”
Xia Huayun added thoughtfully: "Dad, the emperor's family in the town spent a full two hundred taels of silver to buy two catties of tea with my sister. ”
"Two hundred taels?" Daddy's mouth opened in surprise.
The mother shook her head and said: "This is given by the queen mother, it's not expensive, it's not expensive." ”
Xia Qingyun was amused by her mother's words, and intimately held her mother's arm and said coquettishly: "My mother is still knowledgeable." ”
"That's, that's." Dad nodded frequently, "Qingyun, how should these tea trees be served?" ”
"Dad, don't be in a hurry, let's go to the house and have a cup of tea and talk slowly."
Xia Qingyun led everyone to the tea room and sat on the ground. The white peony was taken from the bamboo tube and made a cup for each person.
"Doesn't this tea leaf need to be boiled?" Mother asked.
Xia Qingyun was a little surprised, but she didn't expect her mother to have seen tea.
"Just brew with boiling water." She replied, lifting the lid of the cup, and the elegant aroma filled the tea room, "How about a taste." ”
After drinking a sip of tea, everyone suddenly felt refreshed, the indescribable sweet taste in the throat, and the fragrance in the mouth lingered for a long time.
"It's delicious!" The little sister drank one after another, "No wonder the lord in the town spends so much silver." ”
"This tea is not only delicious, but also very good for the body, and can make you more and more beautiful the more you drink." Xia Qingyun said with a smile, "However, you can't drink too much at once, just drink three or five pills a day." ”
"Qingyun, tell me, how are we going to serve these precious tea trees?" Dad put down the teacup and continued with the question just now.
"Dad, in this wishful treasure pavilion, the wind and rain are harmonious, there are no pests and diseases, and the tea trees can grow naturally, and there is almost no need to take care of them. We first have to raise seedlings here and pick tea to make tea. Xia Qingyun explained.
"For a long time, someone always asked back where we got our tea." Dad said worriedly.
Xia Qingyun nodded, "That's what Dad said, so we still have to open up a tea garden on the mountain outside." Tea trees are originally to absorb the essence of heaven and earth and grow, and it is nothing more than loosening the ground, fertilizing, removing weeds and pests, and proper irrigation, as long as it is diligent, it is not difficult to plant. ”
"That's good. If you want to be diligent, there is no one in this Beixi Village who is more helpful than your father. The mother interjected on the side.
"Relying on my father alone, I can't take care of the tea plantations full of mountains." Xia Qingyun said with a smile.
"Mountains of tea plantations? How many to plant? Dad frowned, "I'm not afraid of being tired, but I'm afraid of delaying these precious tea trees." ”
Xia Qingyun explained: "Tea can only be made with newly grown shoots and fresh leaves, and old leaves cannot be used to make tea. After the fresh leaves are processed, one acre of tea garden can only produce 200 catties of tea at most, so it is not possible to plant less. ”
"One hundred taels of silver and one pound of tea, that acre of land is 20,000 taels of silver a year!" Dad calculated for a moment and was shocked by the results, "Our family can't spend it all in our lives." ”
It's not to blame my father, he has been honest all his life, where has he seen so much money. But Xia Qingyun is different, she was born in the richest family in her previous life, and her assets are calculated in units of 100 million, and 20,000 taels is not even a drizzle in her eyes.
Xia Qingyun patiently explained to his father: "We are going to walk out of this mountain in the future, in those official families, 20,000 taels of silver is just a month's expenses. Moreover, if the tea trees are transplanted to the mountains outside, the quality will inevitably decline, and with the increase in production, the price will not be so high. ”
Mother's mind turned relatively quickly, "Dad, Qingyun is right." There are a lot of diligent people in our village, and we can hire someone to take care of them when the time comes, so that the villagers will also have more income, and life will be better and better. ”
"That's, that's." Dad listened to his mother's words and kept nodding.
"Sister, do we have enough money to buy land? When did you start opening up tea plantations? Xia Huayun asked.
"I don't know how to sell the land in this back mountain, so I have to ask my father to go to the village chief and ask about it, and it's better to buy the whole mountain. By the way, the gentle slope in front of the mountain also has to be bought, and our family can afford a house. ”
Xia Qingyun took a sip of the teacup, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "The rice should be eaten in one bite, let's sort out the things we need to do now." ”
First, Dad and Hua Yun went to Master Jin's house to repay the silver first, and those evil men in the province came to the door to force debts.
Secondly, discuss with the village chief, buy the gentle slope in front of the mountain, and hire someone to build a house.
Moreover, the tea seedlings should be raised in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion first, and everyone should also learn to master the process of picking tea and making tea.
"Just do what Qingyun said, and in the future, this family will be handed over to your eldest sister." Dad made up his mind and said that he hadn't earned a few copper plates in half his life, and if it weren't for Qingyun, the family wouldn't even have enough to eat. In addition, she has the protection of the Queen Mother, and the whole family will have to rely on her in the future.
Of course, my mother and younger siblings don't have any opinions. Since this is the case, Xia Qingyun began to divide labor without giving in.
She first led everyone to the field to branch and raise seedlings. Because after half a month, it will be handed over to Huangfu Zheng two catties of the best white peony, at least a few acres of tea trees must be planted first.
After two hours, hundreds of tea seedlings were neatly arranged in the field.
Coming out of the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, the mother shared the bacon rice balls that the sister and brother bought from the polder, and urged them to rest quickly.
Early the next morning, my father brought the broken silver and led Hua Yun to repay the money to Master Jin. After returning, he took the whole ingots and went to the village chief to talk about buying land and building a house.
Xia Qingyun was in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion, teaching his mother and little sister how to pick tea. The mother and the little sister are both ingenious people, and they soon learned the skills of tea picking.
The little sister has grown a lot taller during this time, and she is like a big girl. Her fingers fluttered deftly on the tips of the green leaves, and the fresh buds and leaves flew into the bamboo basket like green butterflies.
"Oops! There are snakes! The little sister exclaimed.
A green bamboo-leaf green snake swam out from among the branches of the tea tree, spitting out a letter at the little sister.
"Don't be afraid, not afraid." Xia Qingyun hurriedly ran over to comfort her, "This is the Queen Mother who stayed to guard the tea garden." ”
Since everyone believes in the Queen Mother so much, let's push all the things that are unclear to her old man.
"Look," Xia Qingyun said, stretching out her hand, the bamboo leaf green snake licked her fingers obediently, "It doesn't bite our family." ”
The nine small snakes had grown to the length of a zhang and were the thickness of their wrists. According to the different patterns on their bodies, Xia Qingyun named them separately.
"This is Xiao Wu, and it has several brothers and sisters." Xia Qingyun whistled, and several others swam towards her.
"This is the boss, and the pattern on his body is the most gorgeous. The second child has a figure-eight pattern here, and the third child has a beautiful gold thread here," she pointed to the little sister one by one.
The little sister also followed her example, and boldly stretched out her hand and touched the scales on the little snake's body.
"It's so slippery, it's so cool! Mother, come and see, these snakes are obedient. She shouted excitedly.
The mother smiled and said, "Silly girl, these are fairy snakes, and they have spirituality." ”
Xia Qingyun couldn't help but smile, her mother would really arrange an identity for them. She thought so, but she didn't tell who started the lie.
The family didn't get back together until dinner.
Xia Huayun said while eating: "You didn't see it, that Master Jin saw his father take out the broken silver, and his face turned green. ”
"What is he angry about?" The little sister pouted and said, "Dad only borrowed one or two from him, and now he gives him two taels, why is he still angry?" ”
Hua Yun glanced at his sister, "It's not that I thought that our family couldn't pay off the debt, and I wanted to rob my sister to be a concubine for him, but I didn't expect my father to come up with the silver, and the dream was in vain." ”
"He deserves it, who made him uneasy and kind!" The little sister took a bite of the steamed bun in her hand fiercely, as if she wanted to bite off a piece of meat from Master Jin.
The mother put a chopstick dish in her father's bowl and asked, "What did the village chief say?" ”
Dad put down his chopsticks, took out a piece of yellow paper from his arms and spread it on the table. The paper is marked with two big characters of the title deed, and the names of the buyer and the seller are neatly recorded in small letters, the size of the location, the value of a number of clouds, and the end is a few fingerprints pressed with cinnabar.
"Today I bought the gentle slope first and used five taels. If the whole mountain is bought, it will cost at least fifty taels. Hire someone to start the house, and say that it is 30 copper plates a day, and there is no food. Crafts such as stonemasonry and carpenter are counted separately. Let Qingyun keep the title deed. ”
Xia Qingyun said: "Put my father there first, and tomorrow I will take the money to buy the mountain, and even this land deed will go to the town to exchange it for an official deed, and someone will find trouble in the future." ”
"What Qingyun said is that the tree is a big move, as soon as our family starts construction, there will definitely be people in the village and the old house, or replace it with official deed insurance." Dad nodded in response, put the yellow paper well, and put it back into his arms.
The things in this world really can't help but chatter, and before my father's words fell, the voices of the second uncle Xia Jian'an and the third uncle Xia Jianxi came from the courtyard.
"Big brother, are you at home? I heard that you went to the village chief's house to buy land today? ”
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