Before Mingyue left, the old shopkeeper bought out the recipe of amber walnut kernels, golden peas, salt-baked broad beans, and sugar-fried chestnuts brought by Mingyue at a price of twenty taels and one piece.

Dry, salty but very fragrant small potatoes, Mingyue directly told Jufu Restaurant for free, this thing is a small snack in her opinion, it's okay to coax the child, and there is no need to use it for business.

As for soy products, vermicelli, and dried potatoes, Mingyue plans to use these things to open a workshop next year, and of course she will not sell the recipe to Jufu Restaurant at such a time.

Carrying the eighty taels of silver given by the old shopkeeper back to Wulitun, Mingyue gave Tao ten taels for the first time, "Five taels for ten taels, mother, you have made a lot of money." ”

Tao smiled from ear to ear, holding the silver but felt that he shouldn't charge the extra five taels, "Or, my mother only takes five taels, and you still take the remaining five taels to your milk and keep them?" ”

"It's okay, I'll give it to you and you'll take it." Mingyuexin said, you are the poorest in the whole family, you can still push money out so generously, you are really a typical person of a good daughter-in-law.

Tao looked hesitant, Mingyue simply got off the kang and walked directly to the courtyard where Mrs. Ming was, "Don't worry, I will make this matter clear to my grandmother." ”

Without waiting for Dow to answer, Mingyue had already stepped out of the house.

And Mrs. Ming really didn't mind the five taels that Mingyue gave to Tao, after all, Mingyue gave her sixty taels, a proper big head.

You ask the remaining ten taels? Of course, it has been properly collected by Mingyue as her own private money - even Yu Jiayan has her own private money, and she doesn't have a copper plate in her hand, is this still like words?

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It was another year of glacial thawing, and the Ming family drilled two wells in the new house before spring ploughing.

Erlang and San Lang, who failed to obtain the name of a child last year, were taken to Fucheng by Ming Cheng again to take the exam, and Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan, who were already children, continued to run to the school in the town every day.

Now that they have obtained the qualification to be taught privately by Mr., their schoolwork is far heavier than before.

Therefore, before the start of spring ploughing, the only people in the Ming family who picked the thorny old buds were Old Man Ming, Mingdi, Mingtang, and Mingyue.

After all, they are going to Xishan, Mrs. Ming, Xie and other housewives whose physical fitness is far inferior to that of men, and at the same time, they are not as good as Mingyue and are bold and careful, so Old Man Ming does not dare to let them go together.

So Mingyue lived a hard life of following the three big men such as Old Man Ming to go out early and return late, desperately picking thorny old buds, and when all the thorny old buds on the periphery of Xishan were sent to Jufu Restaurant by their family, Mingyue, who was finally rounded, had also regained weight into a pair of ribs.

It was only at this time that Zheng Caixia realized that Mingyue was really not the happy little girl she thought she was pampered by her family at first.

Judging by the speed at which she is getting thinner, it is clear that she is really working hard.

Mrs. Ming and Tao were very distressed, and Xie and Zhou also consciously opened a small stove for Mingyue every day.

Of course, Mingyue was embarrassed to eat alone, so in the end, it became a family to improve the food together.

Fortunately, now the Ming family is not bad for this family's mouthful of rice, flour, oil and meat, and Mrs. Ming simply entered the busy state of farming, and asked several daughters-in-law to open a small stove for the family.

After the spring ploughing began, the Ming family planted soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes with 30 acres of middle field and 20 acres of lower field according to Mingyue's suggestion.

Of the remaining 82 acres of Shangtian, 20 acres of the Ming family in Taojia Village were planted with sorghum, 62 acres in Wulitun, 40 acres of the Ming family were planted with wheat, millet, millet and other miscellaneous grains, and the last 22 acres of the Ming family were planted with three new crops that He Yaren had managed to help them find - sunflowers, corn and peanuts.

At this time, sunflowers are still called "passionflower" and "passionflower", corn is called "Yumai", but peanuts have a familiar name for the bright moon, called "falling peanuts".

The seeds of these three crops were bought by He Yaren with great effort, and the price was very expensive, but Mingyue let Old Man Ming buy them without saying a word.

"Master, you believe me, the more than fifty taels of silver you spent, I can earn you at least three times as much without autumn."

With her previous "wise decision" foundation, the Ming family is now subconsciously convinced of her, so Mingyue did not encounter any opposition at all and successfully intervened in farming, which is the most important thing for the Ming family.

According to her suggestion, the Ming family not only planted more than 20 acres of sunflowers, corn and peanuts in the field, but also planted a large area of land in the west courtyard of the new house with corn seeds.

This year, peppers and tomatoes occupied all the vegetable plots of the Ming family's old house, and the common vegetables such as eggplant and cabbage used by her family every day were all squeezed out to the east cross courtyard of the new house.

"My God, this jade wheat is more expensive than sweet potatoes and artichokes!" At the beginning of June, after the Ming family sent the first batch of fresh corn in the new courtyard to Jufu Restaurant, Mrs. Ming sighed at the ninety taels of silver handed over by Mingdi.

If you want her to say, this fresh jade wheat is not sincere at all, in addition to water or water, there is only a little place where she can eat, if this is given to her, she will eat three or five sticks, and she is afraid that there is still no decline in her stomach.

This kind of thing is sent to Jufu Restaurant, the price of a pound is actually more expensive than sweet potatoes and artichokes, is there really a lot of her granddaughter's so-called "not tired of eating, not tired of eating, eating is a hunting" rich people?

"Where is this, when our family makes money, it is still to come." Mingyue smiled and stroked the nine big silver ingots placed on the kang, "Now that my second brother and third brother are also children, our family should also think about going to the county seat to buy a house and land." ”

"What? Going to the county seat to buy a house and land? You're not dreaming, are you? Mingtang was still looking at the silver ingots, but when he heard Mingyue say this, he immediately jumped up from the stool, "Do you know how expensive the houses in the county are?" This little money from our family..."

"Not all houses in the county are expensive." Mingyue pressed down with both hands to signal him to be calm, "Besides, our family won't always have this little money." ”

Mingtang was stunned.

Not to mention, if this had been three years ago, he would never have dreamed that his family could build such a magnificent mansion, have hundreds of acres of fields, and have meat to eat every day like now.

"Third uncle, there is an old saying, don't bully young people to be poor." Mingyue drew a circle in the house with her right hand, "We have a lot of family members and our hearts are aligned, and there are now eight males from our grandchildren alone (two months ago, the Zhou family gave birth to Balang Mingxun), are you still afraid that they can't let the Ming family become a famous family in this county or even this mansion?" ”

Mingyue is not greedy, nor will she irresponsibly draw cakes for her brothers and brothers, and the goals she has set are all "jump, reach", quite down-to-earth.