Chapter 40: The Joy of the Harvest It's the harvest season again

After Xiaoqing went back with the agreement, Zhuang Tou said to everyone: "Actually, what Qing Ye said is not wrong, these things are the secret of our ability to make money, especially to make a lot of money, if you have a formula, are you willing to tell others?" If you tell someone, won't someone else do the same? So, you can't take this matter lightly and think that it's nothing to just say it in passing? You have to know that our things don't actually have any technical content, we can grow them, but others won't? How much did it cost to grow those seeds, and all of them were profitable, and there were more people selling these things, so could we still afford to sell our things? Remember the past? When the wind and rain are good, we have a bumper harvest, but the price of grain has dropped, the disaster has come, and we can't eat enough, what are we doing? Food shortage! Food is expensive, but we can't eat enough food ourselves, so where can we sell it? That is, because there is less food, so in disaster years, it is expensive, and in harvest years, there is more food, and it is naturally worthless! ”

As soon as Zhuang Tou said this, those mothers-in-law who didn't care about it were all excited in their hearts, yes, this is the truth.

Then, Zhuang Tou said: "I have no objection to you helping your relatives, but do we have any other way?" However, if it were me, I didn't help my relatives, in the past few years, when we were the poorest in Wangjiazhuang, I didn't see any relatives who funded us, and they all disliked us for being poor, but if there was a little family affection, I wouldn't do it, I went home with my mother-in-law on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and I couldn't eat anything, and I was scolded by the Yue family for a while, as a shameful thing, so, if it was me. I won't fund them, and I'm not really going to starve to death, since I didn't have money before, I didn't want to communicate, so now that we have money, we don't have to go back and forth, and the feelings that can come and go are all fake! Therefore, don't worry about those people, just celebrate the New Year's holidays. When we were unclothed and about to starve to death, no one said to come and see us and send us a piece of clothing. Get some food! ”

As soon as Zhuang Tou said this, everyone also remembered it. Basically. Those who can marry into Wangjiazhuang basically can't marry Lu, and the people are also very simple, otherwise, even if they would rather be an old aunt, they don't want to marry into this poorest village. If someone comes over with a married daughter, they tell the girl directly that they don't have to go back to their parents' house in the future, and they don't want this daughter. I was worried that Wangjiazhuang was too poor and would ask them for all kinds of things.

The matter was settled in this way, and the people of Wangjiazhuang were completely relieved, and what they had to do every day was how to do tomorrow's things well and how to create more benefits for Zhuangzi.

In fact, now there are a lot of people in Wangjiazhuang, Wang Ya said that all the chickens, ducks and geese have been sent over, and a few goats have been bought, and there are still a few nests of rabbits and pheasants on the mountain, just waiting for them to breed on the mountain, and even wait until the winter, but also use some means of keeping warm, let these pheasants survive the winter, and wait until a certain stage, these pheasants are sufficient, and then sell.

Therefore, Wangjiazhuang now does a lot of things every day, the first thing to do every morning is to release the chickens from the chicken coop and drive them to the field, so that the chickens can catch insects for those seedlings, and then drive the ducks to the pond, let the geese go, let them walk around at will, and then, to pull the cattle and sheep to graze, so that they have enough weeds to eat, and to cut weeds, and to pick up firewood every day, so that there is firewood to burn, and every day can pick up as much as you can, if you have more, you can buy less firewood in winter, Now they all use kang at home, and they know from Zhuangtou that this thing costs firewood, so if you don't want to spend money to buy firewood, you have to pick up more firewood.

Moreover, there are twelve piglets in the pigsty, waiting to eat every day, the pigs eat a lot, there are so many pigs, but also to eat more, some children will dig wild vegetables according to the words, come back to the piglets to eat, even if it is a piglet, that is also a pig, the amount of food is larger than anything else, every day the wild boar only has wild vegetables is naturally not good, but also bought some leftover meals in the restaurant back, for these pigs to eat, this is enough, and when these pigs grow up, it is estimated that they will have to buy some more rice, aged rice can, as long as there is no mold, the pig can also eat, Then, every day there is nothing to do, let the children run in the pigsty with a stick and stab the piglets, the children regard this thing as a joke, but they are happy to do it, although the people of Zhuangzi do not know what to do for the village, but they feel that the owner of the village must have a certain reason to do this.

Then, you have to clean the pigsty every day, otherwise how dirty and smelly the pigsty will be, and at night, you must also clean the floor and clean the floor, otherwise, the place where the chickens, ducks and geese walk will always leave a little mark.

Then, these fish have to be fed every day, fortunately, the food of these fish is not expensive, what wild grasses and wild vegetables are thrown in, and there is no need to throw away the feces of chickens, ducks and geese, and there is no need to throw anything else, and the small fish in the pond eat very well.

The above things are just their side business, and the current main business, for them, is to raise silkworms and grow cotton.

The pumpkin is harvested, the land is naturally vacant, in this way, everyone has to hurry up and start planting cotton, although the time to plant cotton is a little late, but it also gives the villagers a little time, rest, because of the previous experience, this time the speed of planting cotton is much faster than before, and when the cotton is planted, it is naturally not finished, is it necessary to weed and fertilize, carefully serve these cotton seedlings.

And silkworm raising is the same reason, fortunately, the procedures for raising silkworms are not complicated, as long as you can ensure that the mulberry leaves sent are fresh and still dry, the mulberry leaves are thrown down, those white and fat silkworms naturally know how to eat mulberry leaves.

The original black silkworms have become white and chubby after this period of growth, very cute, a touch of their body, soft and soft, but comfortable.

Of course, in the eyes of some girls, it is quite scary.

The task of raising silkworms is mainly on women, and men are more in the field, because there are a lot of fields, and it is naturally impossible to finish it in one day, so everyone is also in order, how much is fixed every day, how many days to fertilize and so on, under the arrangement of the head of the village, everything is completed in an orderly manner.

In the old days, if it was time to do this, it is estimated that these people were still learning and camping, but they still didn't know what to do, wandering around the fields all day long, doing something without knowing the way, and then, day after day, they were idle, living a sad life, now, these farmers are busy every day, but no one complains in their hearts, and there is no discomfort, because in previous years, even if they worked all day, because they were poor, because there was no good livelihood, It is not the most terrible thing for them to work like this, but the most terrible thing is that after the work, there is nothing.

And now it's different, although life is harder than before, but it is rewarding, these farmers are very down-to-earth, and feel that such days are really good days.

The arrival of midsummer not only means the growth of cotton and other crops, but also a season that children prefer, that is, mulberry fruit, that is, mulberry ripe, children not only have one more free snack, adults can also pick these to sell for money, for adults, every harvest is so exciting, so, even if it is a snack, adults also limit their children to eat.

The Wang family has no restrictions on this aspect, but on this day, Wang Ya just woke up and heard that Zhuangzi was coming, that is, the mulberries were ripe, so Zhuangzi first sent some to the master's family to taste, and then saw what these mulberries planned to do.

There are a lot of mulberry trees on the mountain, if you simply sell fresh fruits, you can't sell them for much, and if you accidentally can't sell them, it is easy to spoil.

Wang Ya had already thought about it, let Zhuangzi take out the mulberry fruit to sell every day, if it was not sold out by the afternoon, then close the stall early, and make all those mulberry fruits into preserved fruit or jam, the recipe will be taught to them by Xiaoqing, and a few children will be sent to Zhuangzi to help at that time, and they will not be too busy.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the waste of these mulberry fruits, but the fruit should be ripe, although there is a sequence, but it is also very fast, at the beginning, mulberries are sold every day, ten dollars a catty, no matter who buys it, it is at this price, if it can't be sold, then it will be made into jam, or it will be made into preserved fruit, and it is also because Xiaoqing took the two recipes for making preserved fruit jam that Wang Ya said, this Xiaoqing will tell the people on the Zhuangzi to act like this, so that he does not worry that these mulberries will not be sold and will be broken and wasted, so, The price is the same, even if you buy more.

In fact, it is not only their family that sells mulberries, but also other people's families, everyone is three cents and two cents a catty, only Xiaoqing They sell ten cents a catty, if you want to ask what Xiaoqing is, they will sell it so expensive, mainly because the positioning of the crowd is different.

Those who sell mulberries for two or three cents are all positioned by those children, in fact, in Xiaoqing's opinion, just picking these things, how much effort does it take, two or three cents a pound, what else can you earn?

Of course, there is a certain reason for people to sell like this, these people don't take care of mulberry trees, so these mulberries are sweet and sour, and they can't be picked, so they are naturally sold cheaply. (To be continued......)