Chapter 50

"Very well, you haven't even dreamed about it, what about you?" Qiao Zi looked at Ye Lan with a smile.

"I had a dream, a dream that I was going to learn from a teacher." Ye Lan smiled.

Originally, she just said it casually, but she didn't want Qiao Zi to stop her chopsticks and look at her daughter carefully, Ye Lan was furious by her, and couldn't help but be nervous, "Mother, what are you looking at me for?" ”

"Lan'er reminded my mother, when our family is almost busy, my mother will go to the city to invite a teacher to come back, and then teach Lan'er piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, okay?"

"I'm not that interested, I just need to be literate." Ye Lan smiled, what should it be.

"That's not good, although a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, but those who are really beautiful girls, which one is not talented, my Qiao Zi's daughter, naturally she can't be worse than others."

"Okay, whatever my mother says, it just so happens that Jinxiu Village is so poor that I can't afford to hire Mr. Teacher, if we invite it back, we can also let the children of Jinxiu Village stick to the light and let them learn together." Ye Lan couldn't bear to refute her mother, so she could only nod her head in agreement, but she didn't care about it, but she really didn't have any interest.

Qiao Zi vaguely felt that her daughter had changed her concept, but she couldn't say anything wrong, so she had to nod, "En." ”

As soon as the two of them had eaten, the villagers from the village came to help open the land, and they came together, looking at the twenty or thirty people in the yard of the station, Qiao Zi was glad that she had listened to her daughter's words and made the yard bigger, otherwise as soon as these twenty or thirty people came in, it would be crowded, but now she still feels relieved.

The great feature of the northern border is that the land is wide, most of the villagers are next to the river in the village, Qiao Zi is naturally no exception, there is a big open space next to everyone, Qiao Zi takes everyone, directs everyone to expand outward, and reclaim as much as she can, until she shouts to stop,

"Although I am a villager, there are some things Qiao Zi still has to say in front, first of all, the salary, I will settle it every day, and then everyone will perform, I will give a good performance at the end of the life, and more people will be rewarded, secondly, if I find that someone is mixed with money here, then I'm sorry, I have the right to ask you to leave, and later, if someone doesn't come one day, you can, but you have to tell me in advance to get my consent, otherwise, I will automatically when you don't plan to do it, and no longer pay you wages, if everyone has an opinion, You can always ask me or my daughter Ye Lan to ask me, in addition, if Qiao Zi has something that is not authentic, please bear with me. ”

"Sister Qiao, we're all right, can we do it?" Jinhua is an anxious child, and the hoe in her hand is already ready to move.

"Wait a minute, Sister Jinhua." Qiao Zi glanced at Jin Hua with a smile, and divided the more than 20 people on the scene into four groups, with Li as the leader of the four capable women, Jin Hua was the leader of the group, the team members reported to the team leader if they had something, and the team leader reported to the team leader if they had something, and the team leader and the team leader would give an appropriate amount of rewards according to their performance at the end.

Although there were some men in the field, Qiao Zi named five women, and the village was all famous and spicy women, and their abilities were also first-class, and the more capable men in the village were their men, so they had no opinion on Qiao Zi's arrangement.

The announcement was completed, and Qiao Zi gave an order, and everyone was in full swing.

"Sister Jinhua, I can't stay here all the time, I'll trouble you to watch it for me here, you don't have to go to the ground, when it's hot, you can get some water for everyone to drink, if it's inconvenient for one person, call a few team leaders to help you together." In this village, Qiao Zi can be trusted at present, that is, Li Jinhua is a woman.

"Sister Qiao, you trust me so much, I will definitely live up to your expectations." Jinhua patted her chest and promised.

"Here is everyone's salary today, you will send it to everyone when the sun goes down, Lan'er and I are going to the city." Qiao Zi took out a money bag and handed it to Jin Hua, which was full of copper coins.

"Okay." Jin Hua didn't say anything, and took it, "I am here, don't worry, I will definitely be optimistic about them, if anyone is lazy, don't blame me Jin Hua for not giving face." ”

"Then I'm bothering you." Qiao Zi smiled, not to mention that Jinhua is spicy and shrewd by nature, just because she will see some minor diseases, so the people in the village dare not offend her casually, so it is absolutely right to let her be the leader of this group.

This method, or Lan'er mentioned it during the meal, it was really good, Qiao Zi felt that she should try to believe in her daughter, maybe her daughter can really create miracles, even if she really can't, at least as she wants, as a mother, she has no regrets, it's okay.

When she got home, Ye Lan was ready to go, and next to her, she had never entered the city Lan Jian, she also chatted with him, and when Qiao Zi came back, she knew that he had grown so big that he had never entered the city once, and she was a little sad for a while, and immediately decided to take him.

Qiao Zi didn't have any opinion on bringing more children into the city, but they had something to do when they went into the city, she was worried that Lan Jian would be bored if she followed them, who knew that Lan Jian shook her head again and again, saying that she was already very excited to go into the city to see, no matter what they did, he would follow them, and definitely not run around and not cause trouble to them.

"It's okay, mother, I have already left a note for Aunt Jinhua, if Aunt Jinhua comes back, when she sees the note, she will know that we will take Lan Jian and leave, we won't be in a hurry, let's go into the city, there are a lot of things today." Ye Lan opened her mouth to urge Qiao Zi.

Hearing this, Qiao Zi nodded and stopped arguing, let the two children into the carriage, and sat on it again, with a rather chic posture and a wave of the horsewhip, "Drive ......"

The first time he entered the city, Lan saw that he was a little restless all the way, moving around in the carriage, and asking non-stop, in fact, Ye Lan had only stayed in the Northern City for one night, and had not been to the Northern City, but Qiao Zi had come a few times and was more familiar, and when he met Ye Lan, he didn't know how to answer the question, so Qiao Zi would take it.

Laughter along the way, I arrived at the North City, and went straight to the North City Big Seed Store, this store mainly sells seeds for various crops, and it is the only seed store in the North that is complete.

Seeing Qiao Zi's carriage, the shopkeeper personally ran out and welcomed Qiao Zi and the three of them in, and did not despise them because of Qiao Zi's wife, Ye Lan and Lan saw the two children.

"Madame needs something, just look at it."

"We need more things, shopkeeper, do you have all the seeds here?" Ye Lan Qiao Zi opened his mouth in front of him.

Seeing that Qiao Zi didn't open her mouth to interrupt Ye Lan's words, the shopkeeper knew that she was useful in her words, and she didn't treat Ye Lan as a child at the moment, so she smiled and spoke,

"The things in this lobby are just ordinary seeds in the north, some more precious seeds, and there is only a little bit of them in the lobby as a display, and the rest are kept in our warehouse."

"Rice seeds, corn seeds, barley seeds, sorghum seeds...... Chinese cabbage seeds, soybean seeds, ......" read all the seeds in the lobby in one breath, Ye Lan accurately called the name of each food seed, and there were some plant seeds that she was not interested in for the time being, seeing that she was so skilled in these seeds, the shrewd shopkeeper immediately knew that Ye Lan could not be regarded as an ordinary child, and his expression became more and more modest,

"I wonder what seeds the guest officers wanted?"

"Rice seeds, corn seeds, barley seeds, sorghum seeds, we all want these, shopkeeper, you have too few vegetable seeds here, is there anything else besides what you have? Like potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, winter melons, beans, lettuce, ......" said in one breath the names of more than a dozen of those vegetables that are easier to feed outside and common, Ye Lan looked at the shopkeeper, his face maintained a look of wanting to smile or not, and it looked very ridiculous,

"Shopkeeper?"

"Ah, I'm sorry for this guest officer, all our varieties are in the lobby, there is no one in the lobby, we don't have them, you just came from other places and don't know, we can plant in the northern land, that is, we show these in the lobby, and because of the barren land, the harvest is extremely low." The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, this is a big customer, but obviously the things in her store can't satisfy her, but her store is the only seed store in the northern city, and the things in the store are already very complete for the people of the northern realm.

"Can you help with the stock if we need it?" There is no one in the northern city, but there is one outside the northern border, but with this transportation, I am afraid that it is not cheap, thinking so, Ye Lan still asked the boss.

"Yes, but the entire northern plains are barren, and if we want to get in the things you need, we have to go to cities outside the northern plains to buy goods, plus labor, transportation costs, and all kinds of expenses, then it's not cheap." The shopkeeper said,

"And the important thing is that even if I bring the goods to you, this northern land is not suitable for growing those foods, and it will be all wasted."

The shopkeeper is not deceiving, the government has invited a good farmer from the outside to experiment, but nothing has been found, the ancestors of the people of the northern city have also tried various methods, many of which are good at farming, there is no way to improve the harvest of the northern land, not to mention that it is not suitable for the northern land to grow plants.

"Lan'er, the shopkeeper is right, let's buy these seeds of crops that can grow in the north, and if we can get a good harvest, let's find a way to get other seeds." In the past few days, Qiao Zi has not been idle, and when she has nothing to do, she will inquire about the situation in the north, and for her to live here, these are the inevitable things to know.

"Okay then." Ye Lan is actually very confident, no matter how barren the land here is, she can find a way to make her rich, but she knows that she is a child now, and she can't be too much master in front of Qiao Zi, if she doesn't support herself, it should be difficult to implement her plan, so the only thing she can do is to make achievements for Qiao Zi first, and then let her transfer the power of the house to herself.

"Shopkeeper, if I buy more, is there a discount?"

"Yes, what do you need?" Hearing Ye Lan's tone, the shopkeeper was happy.

"I need 50 acres of wheat seeds, 10 acres of Chinese cabbage seeds, 20 acres of soybean seeds, 20 acres of pepper seeds, and the rest, I will buy them when the season changes, and you will calculate how much it will cost me."

Ordinary family of three, it's too much to buy five acres of seeds, Ye Lan opened her mouth to hundreds of acres of seeds, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, he knows all the big farmers in the north, where does this girl come from?

Subconsciously looked at the only adult, this is not to entertain himself, but he found that Qiao Zi also looked at Ye Lan with a little surprise, but he didn't say anything.

"Shopkeeper, what do you see my mother doing, are you afraid that I won't be able to pay for it?" Ye Lan was displeased, because of her age, she couldn't call the shots, and this feeling was not very good.

"Ah, okay, Miss, please wait a moment, Xiao will calculate for you immediately, we wheat seeds one acre of one penny, that is, half two pieces of silver, fifty acres of twenty-five taels, Chinese cabbage seeds one acre as long as half a penny, ten acres of two two five, soybean seeds are slightly more expensive, one mu to one tael, ten acres of ten taels, pepper seeds are expensive, one acre of five taels, twenty acres of one hundred taels, a total of one hundred and thirty-seven taels of silver, you buy more, the little master will give you one hundred and thirty-five taels, and in the northern city, free delivery to the door, what do you think?" It's a big deal, the shopkeeper smiled and his eyes narrowed.

Fifty acres of wheat seeds cost only twenty-five taels, and twenty acres of chili seeds cost one hundred taels, this price made Qiao Zi gasp, these days she understands a truth, in the north, as long as it has something to do with eating, it is very expensive, but in other aspects, it is extremely cheap.

Maybe it's because I'm used to the RMB, Ye Lan has always been a little unaccustomed to the concept of silver, thinking that she still has more than 10,000 taels, Qiao Zi also has money there, and more than 100 taels of money don't seem to be so much, she nodded without thinking about it, and looked at the shopkeeper with a smile,

"Okay, it's one hundred and thirty-five taels, but the shopkeeper, you can give me another ten acres of wheat seeds, and my family will ask someone to reclaim the wasteland, and it won't be long before I come."

"This, ten acres of wheat seeds is five taels of silver, miss, this is too much, I have already given you less than two taels and five, it is said that it is a lot of money, because you buy more and I give you less."

"The shopkeeper is really stingy, since he knows that we buy a lot, is he reluctant to give us something?" The head of the house knows that it is difficult to be the master, Qiao Zi has learned to be careful in her calculations, listening to what the shopkeeper said, she immediately picked up, since she has handed over the decision to her daughter, she has to respect her decision, even if it is more than 100 taels of water, she has to support it to the end, who let her now only have her daughter alone.

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly, seeing that these two people didn't look like they were short of money, and their expressions and behaviors were not like ordinary people, how could they bargain?

"Two guest officers, it's really not a lot smaller, but it's small and it's also a fight, I can be the master of two or three things, and I can't be the master if I have more."

"Feng Shopkeeper ......"

was negotiating with the shopkeeper, and someone entered the store, and when he saw the arrival, the shopkeeper was like seeing a savior, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Young Master, you're here."

"What's going on?"

Many years later, Ye Lan still remembers the feeling when she first saw Shangguan Rumo that his facial features were not particularly outstanding, but when you put them together, you have the ability to lock him at a glance in the crowd, his eyes are narrow and long, he likes to habitually squint his eyes slightly when he speaks, covering all kinds of emotions in his eyes, and when Ye Lan is familiar with him, there are only two words for him: profiteer. When the profiteer saw Qiao Zi's mother and daughter for the first time, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, although there were obviously two children standing in front of Qiao Zi, although Lan Jian was also a very cute child, but in front of Qiao Zi's mother and daughter, his sense of existence was too low, so the profiteer's eyes automatically ignored unimportant people, and his eyes flashed with surprise, because he saw a beauty like Qiao Zi in this northern land, and Ye Lan, although she is still a child, her facial features can be described as beautiful, but there is no way for you to ignore her, her sense of existence is too strong, so strong that people are curious.

Maybe someone here is going to ask the profiteer, why did he see Qiao Zi's mother and daughter for the first time, especially when Qiao Zi, knowing that the beauty in the north was hard to find, his eyes flashed with surprise instead of amazement?

Shangguan Rumo will definitely answer like this: There is only one thing that can surprise me, and that is silver.

Please don't discuss beauty with the person who gets into the eye of money, he will think that beauty will only spend money and is not cute, there is no problem with his vision, he will know whether you are beautiful or not, but he will not stop for you.

The shopkeeper quickly introduced the two parties, and then put Ye Lan's request out, Shangguan Rumo is the owner of this store, as the shopkeeper, he has no power to be the master, but as the owner, Shangguan Rumo has the sovereignty.

"You're planning to open up a large area of wasteland for planting?" Unlike the strong accents of the people in the north, Shangguan Rumo is fluent in the capital dialect, and his voice is soft and sounds very comfortable.

"Yes." Qiao Zi nodded.

"I guess your accent is also from the capital, and you just came here not long ago."

(End of chapter)