Here, the old Zhong family of three came in the second door, the Yang family put the clay pot in the main room, and Zhong Xiaohe moved the chair and put it in the ventilation of the back garden.

The old bell put the curtain with the dried apricots on the chair, removed the cage cloth, and spread out the apricot kernels to dry. At noon the next day, it is better to move to the yard to be exposed to the sun.

Usually eat a small amount of apricots, and the apricot kernels are thrown away, or they are taken to dry by children to play a game of smashing apricot pits.

But now that Lao Zhong has a mind, he naturally wants to keep the apricot kernel first.

"I will plant an orchard in the future and plant a lot of fruit to honor my father and mother."

"Yo, girl, okay! Daddy is waiting! Lao Zhong smiled, no matter whether it was feasible or not, his daughter's filial piety would make him happy for a few days.

However, planting an orchard is really not an easy task.

He didn't hear of any orchards in the whole county, they all planted one or two trees in the yard by himself. When the fruit comes down, I will eat a few to try it, and the rest will be picked and sold sporadically, in exchange for a little money to make up for some chewing.

As for the earth, it still has to grow grain, and who has the luxury of planting fruit trees on a large area of land?

Not to mention Liucheng, that is, the entire Yingzhou, there is a small drought in three years, a medium drought in five years, and a major drought in ten years, and the food is not enough to satisfy the stomach.

Even if there is wealth, it must be preserved to prevent disaster years.

Now it looks like the people's lives are still passable, mainly due to the geographical location of Yingzhou, which is the throat to the north, where is the Khitan-controlled steppe, and the east is the Bohai State, so Yingzhou is naturally also a military fortress.

Fortunately, since Emperor Shizong pacified the Central Plains, and recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, of course, there are also Yingzhou, not to mention the pain of foreign people, but also slightly relaxed the border trade, so with these decades of peace, the people of Yingzhou can recuperate and slowly live a better life.

Thinking far, pull back, and say orchard.

The fruit is expensive and indeed delicious, but whoever buys it when they see the sky, and it is good to eat it once in ten days and a half months, then it has to be a person with good conditions.

The fruit is difficult to store, and it will rot after a few days outside, but it can be stored for a few more days, but like this apricot, the storage time will not be long.

The above is that if there are a few fruit trees at home, if there is really an orchard, the output is relatively large, and it cannot be consumed locally, so it can only be sold abroad. But this thing is not only resistant to storage, but also very easy to bump and bruise, once on the road, the loss is not a star and a half.

Unless......

Lao Zhong looked at the dried apricots that were drying, golden yellow and oily, no, they were dried apricots.

If it does, it's a rarity.

It's not that the orchard can't be planted, not only can it be planted, but it can't be kept evenly, but it also makes a lot of money.

What Zhong Xiaohe didn't expect was that the soup for boiling apricots was welcomed by the family, from the old Zhong and his wife, to the tiger character and the second egg.

It's a strange mystery.

It tastes a bit like the soup in canned fruit, but it's too sweet and a little panicked. Even so, let them not want what they like.

What is particularly incomprehensible is that Lao Zhong actually likes it too, doesn't it mean that adult men generally don't like to eat sweets? Especially the strong physique of Lao Zhong, it is obvious that the style does not match.

When I went to bed at night, the old clock, who had a discordant style, was chatting with his own lady in the dark.

"I think there's something wrong with the apricots."

"I saw it earlier, if you say there is a head, then there must be." She knew that her old bell had an idea, otherwise she couldn't secretly do it in the kitchen like a thief.

"Hehe~" Lao Zhong just likes his mother's strength to trust himself, "I tell you, I have to hurry up and arrange to collect more apricots, besides, the sugar basket or something, and you have to prepare more, this matter of drying dried apricots will fall on your head, ventilate in time, turn over, and the most important thing is not to let Huzi and Erdan secretly hoop." ”

"Okay, I know. Isn't it too urgent? ”

"Can you not be in a hurry, the apricots are not in a few days, and besides, I will go to Fucheng to buy in a few days, and try it over there by the way." Otherwise, how much sales can we have in this small county. ”

"That's right." After speaking, Yang sighed again and said, "You say, my daughter remembers what happened over there, and I don't know if it's good or bad?" ”

"Originally, I was also worried, but you see, she has a good temperament and is still worried about eating, so it's not a bad thing to think about it, don't you think this will bring good things?"

"That's right, this girl is with me."

"I was thinking about what to do a while ago, isn't this there? Otherwise, I would have wanted to run to the Northeast. ”

"What? Running to the Northeast? Daddy, how worried am I? ”

"Okay, just think about it, isn't this not implemented, don't worry about it, sleep."

Lao Zhong also sighed in his heart, and he didn't know when he started, his hard work was small, and when he thought of going out, he was a little timid, and he was worried about home when he went out.

He is the pillar of the whole family, he is middle-aged, but the tiger is still young, and the mother-in-law is a gentle character.

Now that the girl is better, she is in a much better situation than before.

To the northeast, the main thing is the border trade, where the mountain goods are cheap, but they are sold very expensively to the south, which is a matter of great profit.

But money is not easy to earn, not to mention the complicated flow of people, it is the old forest along the way, which is enough to drink a pot. Even if there is an official way, it will not work, not only there are fierce beasts, but also bandits who lick blood with knives. It's a trivial matter if money is lost, but life will follow.

If you want to be safe, you have to rely on the inevitable big caravan, but you also have to share some money.

Forget it, I still don't want to think about this road for the time being.

Early the next morning, all the students who went to school were sent away, and Lao Zhong and Comrade A Hua began to act separately.

Lao Zhong was busy chattering, on the one hand, in the West Market, that is, in front of and near his grain and oil shop, hanging out a sign for buying apricots, and on the other hand, clearing a place in the back garden, building a simple stove, and installing a large iron pot on it.

"Dad, I don't know what happened to this post, you are starting to make a big deal now?" Zhong Xiaohe was a little weak-hearted, for fear that he would have a bad idea and cause Lao Zhong to lose money.

Lao Zhong smiled indifferently, "Girl, doing business is like this, and when you grasp it very well, the opportunity may be gone." ”

"The apricots will come down for a while, and if you miss it, you can only wait for next year. It doesn't cost much money to do this, so it costs a little to buy apricots. It's okay, if we do a good job, we will make money and open the way. If it didn't work out, we can use it as a snack at home, and we can also give it as a gift, and we won't lose money. ”

Well, if you recognize it, you will start working, and you are willing to pay first, maybe this is the reason why Lao Zhong started with a burden and now has a field and a store.

Zhong Xiaohe stretched out his thumb and gave Lao Zhong a thumbs up, this we must learn, after all, what Lao Zhong currently has is actually what Zhong Xiaohe wants to have in the future.

Zhong Xiaohe used to be a coercion and was reluctant to pay the cost first, so she could only rely on labor to eat. Right now...... It's still a bit picky, it's not something that can be changed overnight, or how to learn it.