Zhou Shuren washed his feet and didn't want to think about it, this person is not easy to choose, the main thing is that the money is from the yamen, and the candidates involve too much to be cautious, "By the way, is Old Man Zheng gone?" Last time, I said I'd go back after a while. ”

Zhulan really knows that because her mother's family has a lot of land, she has been going back a lot recently, "The old man is back, this time I came mainly to see you, and when I met you, the old man left." ”

Zhou Shuren twitched the corners of his mouth, it was indeed to see him, first he sighed, and then regretted that the Zhou family did not have a boy who could marry the Zheng family, the old man did not hide that he did not fancy Changzhi at all, but he was worried about a handful of Mingyun and asked him to interrupt it, bah, he disliked his son when he came to the door, and he wanted to think about his grandson, but there was no door.

What's more, this old fox, he was stunned when he saw it, so he didn't want to marry with him!

Zhou Shuren didn't want to mention the old man, "It's not early, let's rest early." ”

Zhulan said while taking the pillow, "It's time for the autumn harvest to end in my hometown, and I should have set off half a month before I received the letter last time." ”

Zhou Shuren pulled Zhulan, "Sleep, don't worry about it, they are all adults who have a family, they can take care of themselves, and they will naturally arrive when they arrive." ”

Zhulan knew that Zhou Shuren felt sorry for her, so she lay down and said, "Okay, okay, I don't worry about it, let's sleep." ”

Zhulan didn't say anything, she calculated the days in her heart, she estimated that Zhou Lao Er and they should be in late November, Zhulan counted the days, closed her eyes and thought about hiring someone to pick apples, and it would take a lot of people to hire people to transport them down from the mountain, hey, this is all a thing.

The only thing that makes Zhulan easy is that her own apples have signed a contract with foreign merchants, and a pound of apples is charged for 50 yuan, no matter how big or small the fruit is.

Zhulan was in a daze and calculated in her heart before falling asleep, Zhou Shuren opened her eyes and tucked the quilt for Zhulan, muttering, "Worry about your life." ”

Early the next morning, as soon as Zhou Shuren left, Li and Boss Zhou went out shopping.

Zhulan called for February, asking February to hire people and prepare to pick apples in five days, and there are many people in Lizhou City who follow the trend and grow apples, and there are many people who follow the trend, which is also an additional income for the people.

Zhulan's grain has not been sold, and the grain settlement is still half grain and half silver, twelve cents a day, two catties of cornmeal, and a meal of coarse grain vegetarian buns at noon.

The Yang family's orchard also signed the deed, and Zhulan sent someone to the Yang Mansion to ask her father, and they would pick it together when the time came.

Zhou Shuren is a Zhizhou, whether it is a foreign merchant or a merchant of this dynasty, he does not dare to default on the silver and not give it, he pays the money with one hand and the fruit with the other.

When Zhulan's side was arranged, Boss Zhou and the Li family came back, and Zhulan looked at the things that the Li family bought, "I'll give you ten taels of silver, and you will buy a few pieces of muslin?" ”

Zhulan counted the hours, and the two of them walked around for an hour and a half for three hours, and then bought a few pieces of cotton cloth?

Li touched the purse, she was reluctant, she held the monthly money of the big house in her hand, plus her own savings and her mother-in-law from time to time, a total of one hundred and fifty taels were saved, and she had to count yesterday's ten taels of silver, and there were more children in the future, she couldn't help but give the child silver, so this is enough to be addicted, if it weren't for the lack of muslin in the sewing room, she didn't even want to buy muslin.

Zhulan pressed her forehead and waved her hand, "You're tired after shopping all morning, go back and rest!" ”

Boss Zhou moved his mouth, he felt uncomfortable, don't look at Li's big grin, in terms of money, Li is very clear, or he didn't give Li confidence.

Zhulan didn't leave the boss when she saw it, the first family has little industry, and the silver she invests now is not enough, it is impossible to distribute the family's property to the boss, and her eccentric eyes will not break the balance, the family is full of human sperm, once she is too biased to the boss's room, don't think about stopping.

In the following days, Li did not go out again, and used the newly purchased fabric to make small clothes.

After arriving in Lizhou City, there was a sewing room, Zhulan would allocate silver to the sewing room every month to buy fabrics to make clothes, she and Zhou Shuren had to make two new clothes a month, and Zhou's boss Li and others had one every month.

Twelve months a year, except for her and Zhou Shuren, twelve clothes per person, three clothes in a quarter, quite extravagant.

But there is no way, Zhou Shuren is an official, Zhulan has received a lot of invitations, and a few posts are sent every month, she wants to take her daughter-in-law or daughter-in-law out, and her son and grandson are also invited, and the family can't wear a lot of clothes all the time, so they spend a lot of money for decent money.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of apple picking, and the orchard that Zhulan went to the day before picking the fruit, the sweeter the fruit tasted better the further up the mountain, and Zhulan asked people to keep the twenty fruit trees on the top of the mountain to eat at home.

The fruit trees of the Zhulan family are five-year-old fruit trees, which is the harvest period, although some of them were wasted when transplanting, and each fruit tree also produced thirty catties.

The history of apples in the overhead dynasty was introduced from Europe in the previous dynasty, and it was first settled in the northwest region, and there were apples in the local area, but it was a matter of variety, not called apples, the fruit had less moisture and poor taste, and later introduced European apples, and the local ones were eliminated.

Ding housekeeper went to Sichuan to buy fruit trees, it is said that the apple variety is the best variety introduced, although the taste is still not as good as the modern one, but it is not bad, the expensive is not pesticides and fertilizers are natural.

For the apple orchard of more than 100 acres, Zhulan Jiaguang hired 50 men, and because of various problems such as transportation, it took six days to finish picking, and the main time was wasted on transportation and picking fruits.

Although it is big or small, there are some bad fruits, which are more bad than those eaten by squirrels, rats, birds, etc., and these bad fruits must be picked out.

The fruit that was picked out was also wanted by the merchants, but it was very cheap.

Thirty catties of a fruit tree can actually be sold for more than twenty catties, and in winter, animals come out to find food and are eyeing the orchard.

Zhulan counted a total of more than 3,000 apple trees sent at the beginning, and more than 2,600 survived, and the mortality rate was quite large, excluding the 20 apple trees left, and the ones that could be sold were only more than 2,600.

In the end, the accounts were settled, and more than 2,700 taels of silver were recorded, and the investment of a year was not earned, if it were not for the dead fruit trees, this year would also be able to return to the capital, the only comfort was the first year of this year, and next year was basically pure income.

In fact, the benefits of planting apples are still very large, and a tree does not only bear fruit for one year, of course, the premise is not to encounter drought, otherwise the fruit trees will die of drought and the input will be wasted.