With the help of several women in the family, Mingyue quickly made the original fried melon seeds, spiced melon seeds, and caramel melon seeds of more than 200 catties each.

Except for the snacks left for the family, which have been sent to the He family in the town, the old shopkeeper of Jufude Restaurant and the Jiang family in the county town to give them their own tastes, and the remaining total of 660 catties of melon seeds of various flavors were all sold to the old shopkeeper of Jufude Restaurant.

The old shopkeeper bought melon seeds at a high price and wanted to ask Mingyue to buy recipes again, but this time Mingyue didn't collect money for the production methods of various melon seeds, so she gave the recipe to the old shopkeeper for free.

The old shopkeeper didn't say anything polite to her, after all, Mingyue's method was not complicated, but it was novel.

To be honest, the reason why these melon seeds brought by Mingyue can be sold at a good price is because this thing is still unique in the entire county, and it can be sold as a rarity, and secondly, because these production methods of Mingyue are relatively novel, and no one will know it for the time being.

When the melon seeds are popularized, or give Jufu Restaurant a little more time, let them study the production methods of these three flavors of melon seeds, then it will be difficult for the melon seeds fried by Mingyue to sell at the current high price.

Mingyue was willing to give the recipe to the Jiang family for free, and the old shopkeeper also reciprocated the favor and asked her to fry another batch as soon as possible, "... It's better to fry them all, and I'll pay you all the money at this price. ”

Although they don't need so many melon seeds in the restaurant, the Jiang family is not the only restaurant business, he can send the melon seeds to the Jiang family's grocery store in the county seat to sell.

With such a novelty, he believes that he will be able to buy it in the county seat.

Of course, like out-of-season greens, this thing can also be used as a gift by their owners.

"Nacheng, then I'll send you the rest of the melon seeds tomorrow, there should be more than a thousand catties." The original fried melon seeds are thirty wen a catty, and the caramel and five spices are thirty-two wen a catty, Mingyue thinks that even if she takes the melon seeds to squeeze the oil, the oil will not be sold at this price, she might as well take advantage of the fact that no one is planting sunflowers now, and make a sum of money for fried melon seeds first.

The old shopkeeper nodded again and again, "It's still the same as today, the original, spiced, and caramel all need some." ”

Mingyue said she understood.

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The next morning, Mingyue and Mingdi really sent the second batch of fried melon seeds, counting those sent yesterday, the Ming family sold a total of more than 1,800 catties of melon seeds to Jufu Restaurant, and Jufu Restaurant paid the Ming family 56 taels and 7 yuan for melon seeds.

"When we go back, we'll buy the river beach." With the money in her hand, Mingyue immediately put the thing she had always wanted to do digging ponds to raise fish and lotus roots.

She took a detour to the dim sum shop and wine shop in the town, and the uncle and nephew first bought two catties of trough cakes, a small bag of sugar cubes, and then two small jars of wine, and when passing by the pork stall, Mingyue bought three catties of pork belly to make dumplings for the family.

"This sunflower seed can't be sold for money without corn." Seeing the more than fifty taels of silver that Ming Di took out, Old Man Ming smacked his lips with regret.

Mingyue also sighed with him, "The main thing is that the output is low." ”

Hearing this, Mingdi looked up at Old Man Ming and Mingyue, "Then will our family still grow this thing next year?" Why don't we plant all the jade wheat and peanuts? ”

"Planting still has to be planted, although the yield of this thing is not as good as Yumai and peanuts, but it can be extracted from oil like peanuts. The most important thing is that almost no one is planting this thing now, and if we plant it, we will still be able to sell it at a high price next year, at least far better than the income from planting sorghum or something. ”

Mingdi didn't say anything more, so the old man Ming took a small jar of wine and two pastries bought by Mingyue and went to Lizheng's house to buy the river beach.

The river beach land is very cheap, cheaper than the wasteland that the Ming family bought to build a house before, twenty-eight acres of river beach land, plus thanking the tooth people, doing red deeds and other matters, the Ming family only spent thirty-five taels of silver.

Of course, they also have to hire someone to dig the pond and slowly drain the water into the pond, which takes time and money.

Mingyue handed over this matter to Mingdi, Mingcheng and Mingtang, and the three brothers were busy by the river every day with a group of short-term workers from the village, while Mingyue herself took Aunt Huang next door and Xie's two sisters-in-law to prepare meals for these short-term workers.

At the same time as the pond excavation, there is also the official start of the two workshops of the Ming family.

In order to save trouble, the pond excavation and the start of the workshop are the same auspicious day.

The two lines moved together, coupled with the planting of out-of-season greens, the hunting of wild animals in the mountains, and the feeding of poultry and livestock at home, everyone in the Ming family other than Rokuro, Shichiro, and Hachiro were busy turning themselves into a big spinning top.

Even Xiaodou Ding Mingxue runs in and out every day to help Mingyue run errands and play odds.

"We have to hire a long-term worker!" After being so busy for half a month, Mingyue was already about to vomit three liters of blood, she crossed her fingers and asked Old Man Ming for help, "Let's not talk about fish ponds and fields, just these chores of our family, our mothers can't do it." ”

Old Man Ming looked at his old wife, who was also haggard, "Then hire one, but this candidate..."

The Ming family is now big, and they have hired short-term workers to help clean up the crops before, and their relatives and neighbors have already explored the old man Ming's mouth to see when their family needs to hire long-term workers.

Those who have no relatives and no reason are okay to say, but some of the old men Ming who are slightly involved are not affectionate, if it weren't for the fact that there are too many people looking for him to talk about, and he has always been a little reluctant to spend money to hire people to do the work, he would have relented and agreed to those who came to him to intercede.

Seeing that he hesitated, Mingyue simply took the initiative to ask him, "Master, do you have someone you want to use?" ”

Old Man Ming looked embarrassed, "There are a lot of people who come to me to talk about items, but because there are a lot, I feel that it is not appropriate to use anyone." ”

"There is nothing to talk about this kind of thing, of course, whoever is honest and reliable, and who does the work neatly, we will use whom." Mingyue immediately became vigilant when she heard this, "I can say okay first, our family hires people to do the work, not the hired old man, lady, young master, young grandmother, there are those who want to come to our house to eat and drink, and even want to climb on our heads, you must not agree to them." ”

Mrs. Ming nodded again and again when she heard this, "Mingyue is right, the people in our own family are still tired and tired, it makes no sense that the people from the outside three roads will come to our house to be powerful." ”

Before Old Man Ming could speak, Xie Shi had already opened his mouth with a worried face, "But let's do this, will others pay attention to whether we don't pull relatives?" ”

"Let relatives come to their own homes to serve their own family, which kind of family is pulling relatives? This is clearly to practice relatives and not treat relatives as people! Our old Ming family is a kind person, we can't do this thing that makes people poke their backbones! Unless this so-called relative didn't plan to come to our house to work from the beginning, but kicked his nose in the face and stepped on our family's head for a reckless idea! If there is really that incomprehensible tongue, you can completely let her get all her relatives back to her house for her to offer! If she can't do it, then who is she to say about us? ”