More than 20 days later, the Ming family and the Yu family finished harvesting, and Liu Dalang had already learned how to use the mountain bags and ponds.

In order to facilitate his contact with the other party, Ming Xu also asked Sun Yaren to write a text message to the young man.

Liu Dalang thanked him repeatedly, and even asked the two sons of Gu Zhixian to hold a banquet on his behalf to entertain the Ming family and the Yu family.

Gu Zhixian responded, and then picked a good day to feast on the Ming family and Yu Jiayan before Liu Dalang went back to his hometown.

There is no doubt that the Yu family will attend the banquet Mingyue and Yu Jiayan, after all, their Yu family has a limited number of personnel, and the Ming family sent Mrs. Ming, Mingdi, and Mingxu as representatives.

The two families each sent a large cart of things to the Gu family, and as before, all they gave to the Gu family were "worthless souvenirs".

Because it was sent by two families together, there was no duplication of the things sent.

The Ming family sent the family's female relatives to dry dried apricots, dried peaches, dried sand fruits, salted duck eggs pickled by hand, new rice, millet, soybeans, mung beans, red beans, persimmons, dates, pears, lotus seeds, chestnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, fish, shrimp, crabs, lotus roots newly fished out of the pond, the Yu family sent the fine white noodles newly ground in the mill, the newly made Yumai noodles, sweet potato vermicelli, artichoke vermicelli, bacon, sausage, preserved chicken, preserved duck, meatballs, fermented bean curd, tofu, and newly picked up eggs in the forest. and the last little greens in the vegetable field.

Gu Zhixian's family is used to the style of the Ming family and the Yu family, and they don't bother to say "don't send it again" now, and they don't listen to each other anyway.

The response that the two people of Gu Zhixian came up with was that the Ming family and the Yu family sent them "local products", and they took the fabrics, jewelry, velvet flowers, fat powder, ornaments, tea, wine, books... Make a return gift.

Anyway, there are so many such things in their family that they can't use them up at all, and they have to take care of her husband's husband's "face of the county magistrate", so they can't take these things out and sell them to subsidize the family.

Instead of putting them in the treasury to occupy space, Mrs. Gu felt that she might as well pick the ones that the Ming family and the Yu family could use, and let them take them home.

Anyway, the things that can be sent to the Gu family as gifts by those people are relatively valuable, and whether the two families keep them for themselves or give them as gifts to relatives and friends, these things are very good.

Mingyue was quite happy to see Mrs. Gu's response, and they could be regarded as taking what they needed and digesting each other's excess inventory.

This kind of "exchange of gifts" type of exchange is worry-free for her and the Ming family, and Gu Zhixian and Mrs. Gu are also worry-free.

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The day after the Gu family invited the Yu family and the Ming family to the backyard of the county government for dinner, Liu Dalang followed the convoy of the dart bureau to embark on a long journey back to Nansha County.

Early in the morning, Yu Jiayan went to see off Liu Dalang outside the city with Mingxu and Mingdi.

Originally, Mingyue also wanted to go, after all, she had already promised Mrs. Gu to accompany her yesterday.

But she didn't feel well when she got up early in the morning, Yu Jiayan saw that she was listless, and she couldn't feel at ease, so she simply left her at home and asked her to wait for the doctor to come to see her.

Mingyue couldn't resist him, so she had to ask Cheng Yi, who had added ten taels of silver to the carved lacquer box given to Liu Dalang.

Yu Jiayan recalled the four gifts prepared by Mingyue last night, "Add ten taels to twenty taels, twenty taels of silver, two pieces of muslin, two horses of silk, and two boxes of tea?" ”

Mingyue nodded, "I changed the winter solstice to ten taels of silver ingots, as well as the new millet, white noodles, vermicelli, lotus root, fermented bean curd, meatballs, bacon, sausages, chicken, and duck from Zhuangzi, and I also asked people to prepare some and put them on the mule cart." ”

Yu Jiayan couldn't help but chuckle when he heard this, "Is this a tacit understanding between the two of us?" I heard from my eldest brother that he planned to send a few baskets of seeds for high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, artichokes, and jade wheat to the Liu family. ”

Mingyue was a little surprised, "Nansha County should also have these things, right?" ”

"I don't know if there is one in Nansha County, but Uncle Liu and their hometown really don't grow this at present." Yu Jiayan sat on the edge of the kang next to Mingyue, "Big brother still plans to wait for the spring of next year to send someone over to help the Liu family raise sweet potato seedlings." ”

Raising sweet potato seedlings is a technical job, and it is not something that can be done by letting people say a few words casually to Liu Dalang, so Ming Xu has already made up his mind, and will wait until the beginning of spring next year to send someone to Nansha County to teach Liu Dalang how to raise sweet potato seedlings.

The generosity of the Ming family and the Yu family made Liu Dalang very embarrassed, he insisted on returning the money for the rice planting he had collected before, the money he taught the two families to plant rice, and the money he and his two younger brothers used to eat and live in the hotel and hire a dart master to the Ming family and the Yu family.

But in private, he made up his mind to go back to Nansha County and teach all the things he learned in Fuxing County to the cousin who helped Gu Zhixian take care of his hometown's house and land.

There are also these things given to him by the Ming family and the Yu family, and he will also pick out some of them and send them to Gu Zhixian's cousin's family. Especially the seeds of those high-yield crops that the Ming family gave him, when the spring of the next year comes, he will definitely send half of them to the Gu family.

It is not appropriate for the Ming family and the Yu family to meddle in these matters, and he doesn't know that Ming Xu is going to wait until the beginning of spring next year to send someone to Nansha County to teach him to raise sweet potato seedlings, so he didn't mention his plan to the Ming family and the Yu family.

However, Gu Zhixian and Mrs. Gu had a brief mention.

Gu Zhixian was very happy that Liu Dalang could think of his cousin when he had good things, he asked Gu Chenghui to write a letter home in person, and then asked Gu Chenghui to urgently buy a batch of sweet potatoes, artichokes, and jade wheat and send them back to his hometown for his cousin to keep for next year's seeds.

As for the share given to Liu Dalang by the Ming family, Gu Zhixian told Liu Dalang not to toss, just pull it all back to Liu's house for proper storage.

Liu Dalang was also obedient, and after returning to his hometown, he really only sent cloth, food, tea and other things to his cousin's house in Guzhi County.

Gu Zhixian's sister-in-law was still complaining that Mrs. Gu was only trying to pull out her own family, but Liu Dalang quickly brought her eldest son Gu Chenghui's handwritten letter to her house.

Along with Gu Chenghui's handwritten letter, there were also various gifts prepared by Mrs. Gu for their family, plus Liu Dalang picked a few good ones from his own share and gave them them, Gu Zhixian's cousin and sister-in-law suddenly disappeared.

The two first read the letter written by their son happily, and then with a feeling of guilt and guilt, they cleaned up a large table full of chickens, fish, meat and eggs to entertain Liu Dalang.