The sun is setting, the sky and water are dyed with red waves, and the geese are singing; The wild goose sings, and the wind is harmonious, the sound of the goose is chirping, the mother calls the child to whisper, and the smoke covers the twilight.

After the summer, there is still a month of work to be done in the field, and the day is getting hotter and hotter, as soon as it is night, there are people who can't sleep outside to look at the night and the starry sky.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan ate leek stuffed buns at night, drank some spinach soup and were full, lay down on the collapse and soon fell asleep, and when they were called by pomegranates for about two hours, they found that there were still people outside who couldn't sleep and wandered there.

"Xiaobao, everyone's energy is too strong, find some entertainment activities for them to do, now they can't sleep at night, when the day is the hottest, don't you want to sleep all night long? It's going to delay the next day. ”

Wang Juan sat down at the desk, ready to study, and saw that the light in the back window was changing, which should be caused by the torches in the courtyard being blocked by someone's body and leaving.

"It's useless to have any entertainment, you let them play mahjong, it's likely that they play all night, which shows that there is less work during the day now, mainly because there are more people in the yard, everyone will work for a point, there will not be much, since you can't sleep, then study."

Zhang Xiaobao laid out the paper, opened the book, thought about the knowledge he learned from his father and began to review, and admired the energy of these subordinates, and said to Wang Juan while grinding the ink:

"You can also find something to do for them during the day, go up the mountain to pick mountain vegetables, there are bracken picks, see if you can find the monk's head, it is a four-color flower, the scientific name is bellflower, pick more, come back and salt it, seal the jar, dry it, and take it out to eat when there is no vegetable in winter."

"Okay, then do it, it seems that I will find more work for them in the future, and I can sleep at night when I am tired." Wang Juan thought it was a good idea, and those who were still wandering outside didn't know that the little boy and the little lady had found something fun for them.

Early the next morning, most of the people in the courtyards of the two main families took the day's food and drink out of the courtyard and walked towards the mountain, the task has been arranged, as long as there is something to eat, they must be picked back, two or three people in a group, the idea of snakes and insects.

The little babies who were originally playing on the Zhuangzi saw so many people dispatched by the main family, thinking that there was something big, and came forward to ask, and learned that it was picking mountain vegetables, so they got together to discuss, and also went to the mountains to pick, not daring to go too far away, just looking for it nearby, eating and picking while playing, and not feeling tired.

When it was evening, the children first sent the things to the main house, don't look at the small people, but the speed of picking wild vegetables is not slower than the adults, a group of little babies actually got two bags of mountain vegetables, put them outside the main yard, waiting for the people inside to come out to get them.

The people in the yard should go out to work, no need to give extra pay, the little baby is also busy for a day, of course, can not be in vain, the housekeeper took out some salted duck eggs, a baby to two, the little baby has something to be content, not to mention two salted duck eggs are also a lot, save some food, can eat for five or six days, put the duck eggs in his pocket, cheered and left.

The people in the courtyard came back later, and I don't know how far they went, all of them were listless, dozens of sacks were more than 3,000 catties, and if they were all salted, the salt would need to be used up a lot, which was naturally impossible.

I had to pick some good ones, marinate them with salt water, and dry the others in a cool place, and hang them in a ventilated place when the time comes, so that they can be kept for a long time, and those people are about to go to bed after a hurried dinner, and then they are instructed to read and write, and the three special maids in the yard are responsible for teaching these people.

After studying for an hour, these people finally couldn't stand it anymore, and one by one they returned to their rooms and fell asleep, and no one could sleep that night.

"How? Okay? We have gained a lot of things, and we have also solved the problem of insomnia in others. When studying in the evening, Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan.

"Okay, but in two days there will be no more wild vegetables? What else are they asked to do? You can't go to the mountains to cut wood, can you? You always have to arrange something for them to do for a long time, except for some festivals and when the farm is busy, they can help, and they don't seem to do much work in normal times? ”

Wang Juan found that since she found some more people to come to the house, there was less work to do, and she and Zhang Xiaobao helped plan most of the things, the efficiency improved, and the manpower was surplus, and she was not stupid enough to let the people in the yard live from 9 to 5 in the morning, as well as the days of nightlife.

Zhang Xiaobao also doesn't want to see so many people idle, and it is easy to form a kind of inertia, if they can do something by themselves when they are idle, it is easy to do, which means that they have a yearning for life, but they don't know what to do when they are idle, then it will be troublesome.

They must have a goal, even if it is a passive blind goal, listening to Wang Juan let him think of a long-term solution, pondered, shook his head, "No, you can't use a long-term job to imprison them, you have to let them feel the freshness of the work they do at all times."

With the exception of Pomegranate, Little Red and Cherry, who have taken that job as an honor, and loved it from the bottom of their hearts, and if they were replaced, they would have thought that we had denied them.

These people let them pick mountain vegetables for two more days, and then they will all go to get lotus flowers, didn't Cheng County Order find so many lotus flowers and get them into the pond? Let them get this first, and then let them raise shrimp and crabs in two days, so that they are not too familiar with it, as long as they raise it for a few days, they will change to other things, and others will be exchanged with them.

The disadvantage of this is that the things we raise don't want to have a high yield, and they are easy to die, but the advantage is that they meet people who are not familiar with them, and if they want to satisfy the master's family, they must learn from them, and learn from the people who used to make this thing, and those people also have to learn from them. ”

"Knowing that, in the process of teaching others, there will be a kind of spiritual return, which strengthens the communication between them, and at the same time forces them to take everything seriously, otherwise when others ask them, they can't say it, and it will be humiliating to be told by another person."

After Zhang Xiaobao said, Wang Juan also understood, this is to use the money of the two of them to train people, a person has developed the habit of doing things seriously, and he will maintain it when he changes to other jobs, in order to be able to better teach others, then he can only study hard, think seriously, and sum up some experience.

The two of them wrote a few more lines, and Wang Juan spoke again, "In fact, there will be no loss of money, the so-called loss refers to the gap between the hope output and the actual harvest, and the transplanted lotus flowers do not need money, ready-made ponds, shrimp seedlings, crab seedlings, and those who sell shrimp and crabs can come."

I think okay, in addition to these things there are some vegetables in the backyard, some of which should be able to be grafted, and the same is true for fruit trees, there are always new things waiting for them, continue to write, write for a while and then go to sleep. ”

Unconsciously, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, the spring ploughing is all over in the first few days, usually take care of it a little, and wait until the time of harvest, the wheat has been cut a stubble, and the second stubble will be later.

At the same time, the restaurant on Zhuangzi's side has also been built, and the supply of monosodium glutamate to the three restaurants in the county has always been so much, ready to be used in their own industry, of course, the names of these industries are not Zhang Wang's two families, Zhang Wang's two families have always been pure farmers, and the ancestors of the Zhang family have a little credit, which can be regarded as loyal and good.

As for the business matter, it has nothing to do with the Shang family, the others are all others, and they occupy the place of Zhang Wang's two families, and even the mountain on the other side of Xiaoluoshui was bought by the Zhang family's family and subleased, and the subleaser does not know what he operates.

The project on the side of Xiaoluoshui has not yet been completed, the river has to be dug, the embankment has to be repaired, the houses have to be built according to the specifications, and the wharf has also to be built, these projects have been carried out at the same time, solving the problem of idle labor in many counties, and the paths and pavilions on the hills, as well as the artificial lake below, have to wait for other things to be done before they can be done.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the picking of Artemisia seeds, as well as the picking of other medicinal materials, also took advantage of this time to pick all the things that could be picked, and the two Zhuangzi of Zhang Wang also bought a large number of them this time, that is, Zhang Xiaobao paid for it, hoarded these things, and waited for a while, the medicinal material store consumed almost everything, and sold them together.

The Dragon Boat Festival is over, Zhang Wang's two Zhuangzi began to distribute zongzi to the villagers again, and the restaurant also opened on the same day, a string of firecrackers rang out like no money, Cheng County Ling brought some people in the yamen to come to congratulate, Zhou Qi did not deceive people, and also called the people in the state to eat and drink here for nothing.

Song Jinggong is famous, and he has attracted a lot of literary friends to come here to cheer, these people knew it two days earlier, and they all worked hard to write poems at home while they still had time, so as to wait for them to shine in the place.

Tuqiao Village, such a remote place, has become very lively because of the opening of the restaurant, which makes the villagers on the three Zhuangzi happy together.

It was impossible for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to participate, let alone stand in front of the door to greet guests, and the adults of the family went, leaving only the two of them to play in the yard.

"Xiaobao, do you say there are any zongzi that children can eat? Just like us. Wang Juan watched others making zongzi there, steaming or boiling, a little greedy, and worried that it would be difficult to digest it in the stomach, so he asked Zhang Xiaobao boredly.

"There should be, right? I thought about the rice that didn't stick, so I used ordinary rice, added some meat foam or something, wrapped it up and steamed it in a pot, and then I was ready to eat. Zhang Xiaobao analyzed.

"Don't say it, is that still called zongzi? After a while, if Zhou Qi came to ask about things again, he had to answer him. Wang Juan lay on the chair, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.