It wasn't until the husband struck the gong for a day that Sun Da and the others came back.

"Have you eaten?"

"Not yet."

Fangcao brought a basket of steamed buns over.

On the first day, Fangcao took a few of them to find a craftsman, saying that they wanted to build a house, and the other party warmly received them.

The next day, Sun Da found an old man who used to run the official road in Huai'an, the old man said a lot, Sun Da and others had an impression, but they still didn't understand.

"I still go for a walk, and I remember the ground I have stepped on the most."

The three of them were ready to measure every inch of land in Huai'an Mansion with their feet.

So, she gave each of the three of them two months' rations + a pair of straw sandals.

A while ago, it was good to eat and drink, which means that when the bandits had a full meal and a hungry day, now they are saving again, which is to stimulate their desire to make money.

"Go ahead, eat hard, and become a master."

"In addition, when you come back, go directly to Huai'an."

Early the next morning, she first asked Sun Da and a few people to pull the exchanged things to Hongjia Village, recognize the way, and then let them go to Huai'an Mansion on foot.

officially moved, from the yard of the Sun family in Nanxun to Hongjia Village.

Also early in the morning, Village Chief Hong was squatting at the entrance of the village.

Village Chief Hong immediately took a few of them to a vacated courtyard.

"Last night, I came to clean up!"

"Female doll, how many people do you live? It doesn't matter, there are still houses in the village, enough for the seven of you! ”

The three of them are leaving, and it is enough for the four of them to live in one room.

The earthen house is similar to Lu Er's mother's house, with two rooms, she and Fangcao have one, and Sun Lao Er and Sun Xiaohou sleep in one bunk.

Go into the house and let Fangcao come up with the prepared agreement.

"What's an agreement?"

"Notes. There is no basis for empty talk, so let's write it down, how many peaches you sell me, how much money I will give you. ”

"I can't write."

"Are there any literate people in your village? You can let him take a look, and then we will sign and draw the handprint, and this certificate will be in duplicate, one for you and one for me. ”

"Old village chief, do you want to gather the villagers and talk to them about it?"

Village Chief Hong just cleaned up an empty house and came out, and slept in his arms with the bag of money she gave him for the night, and he didn't dare to say a word about selling peaches, for fear that it would be empty.

When the village chief Hong reacted, he went door to door to notify people.

At present, there are about 80 people in Hongjia Village, many women, girls and children, followed by the elderly (also forty or fifty years old), and only seven or eight adult men.

Because she didn't know the exact number, Village Chief Hong asked her if she was going to pick peaches right away.

She looked up at the sky, the sun was very big, it was difficult to open her eyes, it should not rain in the last few days, but the matter of the heavenly family, who can say for sure, in case the peaches were picked in the past two days, it rained for a few days in a row, and the temperature went down, and her first business was ruined.

"Old village chief, you come." She spoke to him alone.

"Yesterday you said that there were more than 20,000 liters, so we will first calculate it according to 20,000 liters and buy and sell it for one penny, a total of 100 yuan, do you think it's right?"

Village Chief Hong nodded and shook his head again and again: "No matter how many, it will be calculated according to this hundred, and the many peaches will be yours!" Female doll, if it's not enough, my Lao Hong will make it up for you! ”

"Old village chief, I have a request, you can discuss it with the villagers again, if they all agree, this matter will be done. If there is no problem, then we sign the agreement, and I will pay 50 yuan first. ”

"What requirements?"

"Peaches, I won't take it directly, I want to ask everyone for a favor."

It didn't take long for the peaches to be fully ripe, and even if she bought them, there was nowhere to sell them.

Therefore, she asked for dried peaches instead of fresh peaches.

It's hot now.

Isn't it a good time to dry peaches?

As long as it doesn't rain, dried peaches are fine.

Another problem is that she bought so many peaches, but there was no one to make dried peaches.

The old village chief didn't know what to do with dried peaches, but he said that there would be no problem in helping to make them, and there would be no one in a village of seventy or eighty people who would not be unhappy.

"That's good." She walked out of the mud house.

The old village chief first explained the situation, and then asked her to explain the method of making dried peaches.

She didn't say anything first, and asked Sun Er to lift the veil on the two-board cart that was pushed.

One car is nearly two hundred catties, and the mountain road is not easy to walk, so a few of them can only push two board cars over.

"Yo!"

"This ...... This is? ”

The villagers gathered around the courtyard were all stunned.

"Please help, it's not for nothing, all the rice on these two carts will be given to everyone, and some will be sent later, a total of seventy buckets of rice."

"Seventy buckets?"

"Really?"

"All for free?"

"To thank you all, I gave this rice to everyone, and everyone can go back and get things to pack now. Trouble the old village chief, can you count the number of people and see how these rice should be divided? ”

The peaches were sold, and the rice was given for free, and the men, women, and children of a village ran fast, and some people did not go back to get the rice bags, but took off their clothes.

Village Chief Hong asked the villagers to line up, and half of the villagers who took things came back, and Village Chief Hong was still counting with his fingers: "This, how can this be divided?" ”

"Old village chief, do we divide it according to households, or according to the head?"

"The head, according to the head, the child under the age of six, half of it."

"Yerba grass?"

Fangcao held a small abacus, and her fingers flicked quickly: "There are a total of 81 people in Hongjia Village, 9 children under the age of six, and a total of 32 buckets of rice in two carts...... One person gets four liters, and the rest is divided by the village chief. ”

Village Chief Hong said "good".

The rice was in full swing, and she quickly reminded everyone to go home and pick peaches.

This momentum lasted until midnight.

The villagers picked a lot of peaches.

The next day, after receiving the rest of the rice, she talked about how to make dried peaches.

Peel the peaches, pass them through the water, slice them, pass them through the water again, ventilate them in a cool place for two days, and then expose them to the sun for three days.

Simple, right?

Hehe, it's that simple.

Friends who have the conditions can also use the oven, and they can make crispy and delicious dried peach slices.

Boiled peaches with water and sugar, that is preserved peaches.

At this time, there are no preservatives, food additives, and no refrigerators, so there is no need to consider preserved sugars and fruits.

"What are you doing with this?" Village Chief Hong looked at the peaches exposed to the sun and was confused for a while.

"Old village chief, if I make money, I will contract all the peaches in your village in the coming year."

"What is contracting?"

"Even if you sell it to me directly, you don't have to bother to ship it to other places, we still sign an agreement, and we can sign it directly for three or five years."

"Three or five years?!"

"Don't worry, you won't suffer at a loss if you receive it at a normal price."

"Don't worry, naturally you are relieved, thanks to you, you saved a village of us." Village Chief Hong took a step closer, lowered his voice and said, "Actually, if you don't send us rice, we will make dried peaches for you." ”

Village Chief Hong was still afraid that she would suffer a loss.