I ate two meals of meat and vegetables for three meals a day, and the happiest person was Xiaojuan. She walked around the house and greeted everyone she saw warmly. Seeing Shengge and them playing outside, she also deliberately ran over and picked up each little guy one by one and spun around twice, causing them to giggle.

Qing Shu scolded a foodie with a smile, turned around and left with Xiaoyu, not ready to wait for her.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the New Year will be more than a month away.

This year, there are more pigs raised on the Zhuangzi in Gufu than last year. In the spring, I bought fifteen piglets, and in the process of raising them, two of them died because of a problem, and a total of thirteen pigs survived and grew into fat pigs. When the weather is cold, the pigs are no longer fat. Therefore, although there was still some time before the Chinese New Year, Qingshu still gave an order to Zhuangzi to slaughter six pigs first.

Chen Qiaojiang said that he wanted to go to Zhuangzi to see the pig killing, but Qingshu did not approve it and directly rejected it. Chen Qiaojiang was unhappy and pouted for a long time.

Before the time, the cart that delivered meat in Zhuangzi came, and the ancient housekeeper commanded people to move the things on the cart one by one. Only one pig's meat was left on the Zhuangzi, and the meat of the other five pigs was all delivered. These meats, which had been picked before they were delivered, had already formed some ice stubble at the moment, and they had not frozen to death, but the outer layer had hardened.

The fat meat has been cut into the size of tofu cubes, the ribs and big bones have been picked, the tailbones have been cut and stewed one by one, the pork belly has been cut into long strips, and the elbows and hooves have been separated. And those bits and pieces, such as pig hearts, pig ears and pig trotters, were all delivered. As for the pig's head, pork liver, etc., half of the Zhuangzi has been left, and the other half has been sent to the flavor snack shop.

and the pigskins, which have been peeled off piece by piece, and all of them have been sent to the house. These pork skins, Xu Sanniang and Guan Pozi will cut them into skin jelly, and then some of them will be left in the house to eat, and the rest will be sent to the flavor snack shop to sell. Skin jelly is a good cold dish for wine in winter, and it is also a cold dish that men, women and children love to eat.

The filled blood sausage is divided into three. One is kept on the village to eat, one is eaten in the house, and one is sold in the flavor snack shop. If you want to preserve this kind of thing, you have to freeze it. When you want to eat it, you can take it out in advance and melt it, and then boil it in a large pot of water, and the taste is as good as when it is fresh. If you cook it and then freeze it, when you melt and eat it, the blood sausage will be dry, and if you take a knife, the blood clots inside will become scattered, and the taste will be much worse. Therefore, the ancient mansion was filled with blood sausage, and except for the food that was eaten that day, it would be cooked, and the others would be taken raw and frozen.

This time he killed six pigs, and he had to kill four more years ago, and there was no shortage of fat. Therefore, the ancient housekeeper asked people to carry more than 100 catties of fat and three pots of fat to the kitchen, so that the kitchen could be used for oil refining. He had a large basin of blood sausage brought to the kitchen. It was cooked and eaten at night.

Xiaojuan walked over, "Housekeeper, Miss ordered to come down and leave some big bones and tailbones for the kitchen, and add a big bone stew of sauerkraut to the house at night." Also, weigh out 10 catties of big bones, 20 catties of pork belly and 20 catties of fatty meat, and send them to Mr. Lu's courtyard. ”

When the ancient housekeeper heard this, he left about thirty catties from the big bones and tailbones that were about to be frozen, and sent them to the kitchen. Then immediately prepared Mr. Lu's side and asked people to send it in a backpack.

Zhang Da came with the car, and he handed the five pig bladders that had been blown and tied to Guan Mu, "Clean, washed." Take it to the young master to play with. ”

Guan Mutou grabbed the thread tied on the pig's bladder and ran outside the classroom. Qingyang and the others were taking Mr. Lu's class, Guan Mutou didn't dare to go in, and stood outside waiting.

After a while, Mr. Lu's class ended, and Chen Qiaojiang was the first to run out. He saw five strange things in Guan Mutou's hand, "What is this?" ”

Guan Mutou stepped back, "I don't know, little one." After a pause, he immediately added, "For the young master." ”

Chen Qiaojiang was very curious, and stretched out his hand, "Bring it." ”

Guan Mutou retreated again, "This is for the young master." ”

Qingyang was coming out, and at a glance he saw what Guan Mutou was carrying in his hand, and his eyes lit up, "Ball, it's a ball." ”

Chen Qiaojiang wanted to rob it, Guan Mutou found the backbone, avoided Chen Qiaojiang and rushed to Qingyang, "Young master, this is Zhang Da to play with you." ”

Qingyang's eyes lit up, "Brother Xiaorong, Brother Hao, come out quickly, let's play football." ”

Chen Qiaojiang was very dissatisfied, and took advantage of Qingyang's inattention to snatch one over.

Qingyang waved his fist, but he didn't really make a move.

Luo Xiaorong came out of the school, saw the thing in Qingyang's hand, and jumped up, "Ball, it's a ball." He also recognized that when he was in the capital, he played with Qingyang when he followed his grandfather to the ancient mansion.

Hao also came out, he just stared curiously.

Qingyang stuffed the three to Guan Mu, "Take it to my sister and let my sister hide it for me." "It's arranged like this because he knows that Chen Qiaojiang didn't grab the things that his sister put away. Seeing that Guan Mu was gone, Qingyang threw the one left in his hand on the ground, raised his foot and kicked it, and the pig's bladder rolled away. He chased, "Come on, come on." ”

Luo Xiaorong pulled Shanghao and chased after him.

Chen Qiaojiang was stunned, looking at Qingyang and the three of them rushing to kick while chasing the so-called ball that was rolling, he glanced at the one he had grabbed, quickly threw it to the ground, and raised his foot to kick. The so-called ball rolled away, and he was happy, oh oh shouting to chase it.

At this time, Qingyang suddenly ran from the side and kicked the ball away before him.

Chen Qiaojiang jumped to his feet angrily, "Mine, it's mine, don't rob it." ”

Qingyang screamed and chased and kicked at the same time, and soon kicked Luo Xiaorong and them together.

Looking at the four students who were shouting and screaming and running after the ball, snatching each other and having fun, Mr. Lu stroked his beard and smiled.

Qing Shu happened to come over with a book, "Sir, do you have time?" ”

Mr. Lu nodded and said yes, and entered the school first.

Qing Shu followed in, put the book on the table, and then took off the cotton gloves on his hands. She flipped the bookmarked page of the book and pushed it in front of Mr. Lu, "Sir, which of the fruit trees on this page grow in the boundary of Huizhou?" ”

"Why are you interested in fruit trees again?" Mr. Lu said, took the book to him, and looked down for a while, "As far as Mr. knows, there are apple, pear, peach, and apricot trees in Huizhou, and there are not many jujube trees. He said a little orange tree, "I have only seen it on the south bank of the Anning River." "This plum tree, Sir has heard of it, but has never seen it. As for this sour fruit, it grows in the mountains and is not easy to see. Others, some have heard of them, some have not heard of them, in short, the gentleman does not recognize them. ”

It is already rare for a person who is not a grain to recognize some fruit trees, Qingshu put the book away, "Then, does Mr. know where there is an orchard in Huizhou?" Say a few to the juniors. It is better to have an orchard with many varieties of fruit trees and willing to sell fruit tree seedlings. ”

Mr. Lu stroked his beard and looked at Qing Shu, "Are you starting to think about things again?" ”

Qing Shu directly admitted, "Yes! The juniors are ready to buy wasteland. When the flowers bloom in the spring of the next year, the wasteland will be reclaimed, the fruit trees will be planted, and after a few years, when the fruit trees bear fruit, the younger generations will have their own orchards. ”

"The orchard is not easy to tend." Mr. Lu said this, paused, "Decided?" ”

Qing Shu replied simply, without a trace of hesitation, "It's decided." ”

Mr. Lu looked thoughtful, was silent for a moment, and said, "Go ahead!" The matter of the fruit tree sapling, Mr. will solve it. If you go back and think about it, write down all the fruit tree saplings you need, and before planting, Mr. will try to find them as much as possible. ”

I just came to ask the well-informed Mr. Lu about the orchard, but I didn't expect Mr. Lu to take on the errand of finding fruit tree saplings, which was really unexpected. Qing Shu made a standard woman's salute, "Mr. Xie." ”

Mr. Lu smiled and waved his hand, "Hurry up, hurry up, if you don't leave, those few people outside will only care about playing for some reason, and they won't come in for class at all." ”

Qing Shu grinned, put on gloves, and left the school with the book in his arms.

On the second day, Qingshu asked the housekeeper to follow Cheng Yaren to the yamen. A large area of nearly 100 acres of barren slopes between Sunjia Village and Fengjia Village in the north of the town, as well as nearly 1,000 acres of wasteland and a small hill north of Fengjia Village to the border of Liangzhou, Qingshu decided to buy all of these places.

Cheng Yaren and Master Zhang were surprised, they didn't expect that the ancient mansion would really buy it.

The ancient housekeeper asked Master Zhang, "May I ask Master, how much silver does it cost to buy these wastelands?" ”

Master Zhang said, "Wait a minute. Then he hurried out. After a few moments, he returned, "I have asked for advice. What Lord Yu means is that the barren slope between Sunjia Village and Fengjia Village collects 75 taels of silver, and 1,000 acres of wasteland collects 800 taels of silver. What does the ancient housekeeper think of this price? ”

The ancient housekeeper listened and said busily, "Thank you Master for speaking for the ancient mansion in front of the adults, the ancient mansion has no opinion on this price." ”

Master Zhang smiled, "It's okay if you have no opinion." Ancient housekeeper, that's the case, your mansion has to pay a fixed amount of one hundred taels of silver first. After paying the fixed money, the yamen will send an official to re-measure the number of acres and draw the boundary. When the time comes, there is no need for your mansion to add silver taels when the number of acres increases, the number of acres is a little worse, and the price is still that price, and the yamen will never collect a lot. What do you think? No comment! He immediately added, "But don't worry, it is customary to only have a few more acres, and there is no reason to have fewer acres." "Because no one wanted it before, I didn't measure it carefully at all, and the number of people left in the yamen was roughly estimated, and the actual number of acres would only be more, not less.

The ancient housekeeper said that he had no opinion, opened the burden he had brought over, took out a hundred taels of silver, and handed it to the official who was in charge of land sales next to him.

Master Zhang was excited, but his face was not obvious. Bai Xianfu left Yu Daren is basically an empty shell, and their current situation is that the Qingshui Yamen is more Qingshui Yamen than the Qingshui Yamen. Now that he has unexpectedly sold the wasteland, he can collect eight hundred and seventy-five taels of silver at once, and the days of tightening his belts have finally come to an end.

Master Zhang walked with a flutter, and quickly arranged for the official messenger to measure the wasteland to come out, and personally followed, together with the official messenger, to accompany the ancient housekeeper to the wasteland and wasteland. The current Kangxi Town Yamen is a poor jingle, and the county assistant master himself is also a poor jingle, so there is no means of transportation for the yamen to travel far.

The ancient housekeeper saw it, went back to the house, handed over the silver and silver tickets on his body to Qingshu, and asked people to set up a carriage and pick up people in front of the yamen. He invited Master Zhang and the four officials into the carriage, and he finally sat in. The coachman flicked his whip and set off with a carload of people.

They did not make it back that day, and only returned to town the next day. The results of the measurement are out. There are 112 acres of barren slope between Sunjia Village and Fengjia Village. The wasteland north of Fengjia Village to the border of Liangzhou is 1,067 acres, and the small hills attached to it are immeasurable.

According to what was said in advance, the yamen did not add silver, and the transaction was still made according to the original agreement of 875 taels of silver. After the land deeds of these two places were completed, Qing Shu asked the ancient housekeeper to write her name on the land deed. The other industries of the ancient mansion are all written with the name of Qingyang. Therefore, this is Qingshu's first personal property in ancient times. In the eyes of outsiders, it was not wise for Qingshu to buy these two pieces of land.

Qingshu got his own deed paper, first showed it to Qingyang, and then put it away.

Qingyang blinked his eyes and asked, "Sister, do you want to plant fruit trees?" ”

Qing Shu said his thoughts, "No, it's not wise to plant fruit trees, because we don't know if it's suitable for fruit trees to grow. When spring comes, we will plant as many fruit trees as we can buy. However, it is estimated that there are not many fruit tree seedlings, and it would be good if the fruit tree seedlings bought could be planted on twenty or thirty acres of land. Let's take a look first, if the survival rate is good and the seedlings are long, we will plant them again in the second year. ”

Qingyang asked with interest, "If it grows well, will it be planted in the third and fourth years?" ”

"Yes, it grows well, it bears fruit, and the fruit is delicious, which means that it is suitable for the growth of fruit trees. When the time comes, we will continue to plant, and then we will plant three or four hundred acres of orchards. ”

"Well, there is still a lot of land left, do you want to plant buds and wheat?"

Qing Shu blinked, "Sister is going to plant peppers." ”

Qingyang immediately shrunk his neck, thinking of the feeling of being spicy by his sister's fried cabbage a few days ago, and still had palpitations.

Qing Shu covered her mouth and snickered. Next year, she will grow more chili peppers, which are a good condiment for cooking, and she still points to them to earn money. Where food doesn't grow, it doesn't mean vegetables don't grow. She will make good use of the land she bought next year. Since it is not a saline-alkali land, and the grass and trees grow very lushly, then, turning it twice more increases enough fertility, and growing vegetables is not a problem. Perhaps, when the soil quality improves, it can become a fertile land for growing grain.

The upfront investment in transforming wasteland will be large. However, no matter how much she invested, it was not her own hard-earned silver, and she didn't feel distressed at all.

There was the sound of hurried footsteps in the yard. Qing Shu locked the box and brought the key to him.

It was Xiaojuan and Lily of the Valley who came in.

Xiao Juan was very excited, "Miss, Miss, Escort Du and Escort Luo are back." They bought a lot of stuff and loaded four wagons. Mademoiselle, how much money did you give them? The slave guessed that they must have spent all the money given by the young lady before they had to come back. ”