After half a month of busyness, everything in Qinghe Town slowly stopped.

Under the planning and management of Lord Xiao Lidian, Qinghe Town not only has an additional primary school, a mill, and an additional pharmaceutical factory, but also a new blacksmith shop and carpenter's shop have been repaired, several new tools have been built, and carpenters and blacksmiths are making tall seats and newly designed curved plows and rakes according to the arrangement of Lord Xiao Lidian.

Of course, because Chen Xu only remembers the general appearance of the quyuan plow, after the principle of deep ploughing and turning the soil is said, the carpenter and the blacksmith can only cooperate with the research, such as the ploughshare and the ploughshare need to be repeatedly tested to achieve better results, and the plough can be cultivated quickly and labor-saving.

The high-legged chair was specially requested by Chen Xu, and sitting on the couch and the ground made him feel very aggrieved, especially after sitting for a long time, his legs were completely numb, and the ground was wet and sitting for a long time was not good for his health.

The mill has a huge stone mill and several stone mills, the stone mill is contracted to a farmer with a mule, the income is half of a person, and the processing of a stone of grain is charged four yuan, which can also be replaced by twelve catties of grain, and a stone of grain is one hundred and twenty catties (note: the Jin of the Qin Dynasty, not the Jin of later generations, only half of the later generations), calculated is one-tenth of the processing fee, this cost is quite high, but there are still many residents of the town to process, not only because the grain milled out of the stone mill is relatively fine, and the molting is also clean, and the taste is much better.

As for the processing fee, the villagers in the town have recently earned some money by digging medicinal materials, not to mention that the residents of the town are also richer than the villages below, and they can afford to eat seven or eight dollars a pound of meat, and the processing fee will naturally not be too stingy, after all, a stone of grain should be slowly scooped up in the domestic stone mortar, at least two or three days, and two days to go out to dig medicinal materials have already earned back, lucky to dig a little Poria cocos or find a nest of bees or something, hundreds of dollars can be obtained.

There is also a composite stone mill, this thing is a new thing, the wheat in and out is fine flour, after sifting like snow, the noodles and dumplings made are simply delicious, the toothless old man and the baby can also eat a big bowl, but because it is all by manpower to grind, the processing fee is slightly expensive, five catties of wheat for three catties of flour, although the processing fee is ridiculously expensive, but this new food still aroused the interest of all the residents of the town, this year's summer grain harvest is good, all want to grind some flour to taste fresh.

Therefore, the mill is the busiest these days, coming and going with people carrying wheat on their backs, and a group of people in the mill are also busy with continuous rotation, but everyone is smiling, even if it is half open with Chen Xu, he can earn thirty or fifty yuan a day, and he will definitely accumulate a lot of wealth over time.

And the mill is also the place where Chen Xu invests the most, the stone mill costs more than 300 yuan, the third pair is close to 1,000 yuan, and the stone mill costs 2,000 yuan, which adds up to more than 3,000 yuan, this investment in Qinghe Town has not been spent, ordinary families want to be the same as later generations, it is impossible for each family to buy a stone mill for their own use, the cost is too great, before the industry has not developed, the self-sufficient small peasant economy can not support this investment, and the main goal of the people is to eat.

Then there is the pharmaceutical workshop, relatively cheap, the pergola and the earthen stove basically don't spend much money, the money is mainly spent on collecting medicinal materials, but the medicinal materials are cheap, you can buy several catties for one penny, and it took a total of more than 1,000 yuan to collect a lot of medicinal materials such as banlan root and licorice to treat the summer epidemic, and then let the two pavilion chiefs escort them to the county seat with a few town servants and sell them to Jiangbei Pavilion.

The collection of medicinal materials is after returning from Wancheng last time Jiangbei Pavilion told him, in order to prevent and treat the diseases of bruises and diarrhea of the people who build the road, the county keeper informed the counties that they can use the money and grain taxes to deduct a batch of medicinal materials according to their own conditions, and the list of medicinal materials and treatment methods have been distributed to the counties, and the summer epidemic is not only the people in Pheasant County, but also the construction sites contracted by other counties have more or less summer epidemics, and the serious situation is much more chaotic than that of Pheasant County.

Because Pheasant County was discovered early, Chen Xu also treated it in time, and only more than ten people died, and Chen Xu heard from the mouth of Jiangbei Pavilion that more than 70 people in Wuyang County next door died, and hundreds of people fled in panic and did not know where to go.

And because only Chen Xu knew in advance that he was going to dig medicinal materials in Pheasant County, he started relatively quickly, and almost a week he got two or three thousand catties and transported them to the county seat to get a hundred stone tax grain, worth more than 4,000 yuan, and these grains belonged to him, stored in the warehouse in the town, and when the time came, he could temporarily lend them to the farmers to survive the famine season.

During this time, Chen Xu did not slow down the speed of purchasing medicinal materials, because according to the report of the escort of medicinal materials, the collection of medicinal materials in other counties was obviously slow, because the supply of medicinal materials was not available, and there were people who were constantly sick and dying, and the inspectors who supervised the construction of the road from Luo to Nanyang also sent an order, requiring Nanyang to provide a large number of medicinal materials for the treatment of summer epidemics and wounds, so Jiangbei Pavilion asked Chen Xu to quickly hand over a large number of medicinal materials.

In addition to these emergency medicinal materials to be handed over, Chen Xu also purchased a large number of high-end medicinal materials, such as licorice, yam, poria cocos, honey, etc., which he wanted to use to open a pharmaceutical workshop to make pills, and then transport them to Wancheng so that Shui Qingrou could arrange to sell them to all parts of the country with the tea caravan.

Therefore, during this time, the pharmacy was also very busy, every day there was an endless stream of villagers coming to sell medicinal herbs, and honey pills were also being manufactured on a large scale.

Two hundred meters down from the medicine shop, there is a newly repaired small courtyard, which has not yet been completely repaired, and several people are stepping up construction.

The courtyard is built near the river, and there are several stone mortars and a few pottery jars in it.

The tank was soaked in water with some broken linen cloth and old hemp rope, as well as some bark, bamboo shoot shells, hemp silk and some wild grasses with good toughness.

Because I have been soaking for several days, and the sun is high and the temperature is high, I can smell the smell of rotten water and sour as soon as I enter the yard.

Niu Dashi was leading two thirteen or fourteen-year-old half-sized children, and his face was covered with a piece of linen, and he kept stirring in the clay jar with a wooden stick, and the smell of the bubbles was even more unpleasant.

Seeing Chen Xu riding in on a horse, Niu Dashi sweated profusely and dropped the wooden stick to uncover the mask, gasped a few times and shouted: "Brother Xu, how long does it take for these things to soak well?" ”