Chapter 14 Small Wealth and Big Use
"Boss, do you have any novel seeds to sell?" Ziqing asked.
When the boss saw that it was two children, he thought it was a joke, "Go and go, go somewhere else to play, don't block my door." ”
Zifu hurriedly said: "Boss, we really want to buy seeds, not to tease you, can you let us see if there are any novel seeds?" ”
The boss took a closer look at Zifu and took them to the house. A small wooden barrel contains all kinds of seeds, and the name of the seed is written with a brush on the outside of the barrel. ”
Zifu listened and said: "Let's buy them all, in case there is not much left, the eldest mother will definitely want it, and our mother will definitely not be able to compete with her." ”
So Ziqing picked a little cabbage that can be sown now, cucumbers, loofahs, winter melons, bitter gourds, pumpkins, and bracken to be planted in the spring, these seeds are very cheap, Ziqing bought some of them, but the peppers were not bought, the local humidity, spicy, pepper planting has been popularized, and it is enough to ask Grandma for a few. Ziqing unexpectedly found that there were watermelon seeds, but not much, the boss said that this is a precious fruit, this kind of seeds were brought by the owner from the capital, and he wanted to try planting here, and the remaining seeds were used to sell. There are very few people who can plant here, and they are generally sold for more than ten dollars a pound when they are first listed.
Ziqing was happy when she heard it, in her last life, when she was a child, she helped her grandparents grow watermelons and watch watermelons in the countryside. Ziqing wrapped the remaining watermelon seeds round, and what made Ziqing even more happy was that she found a bunch of potatoes in the corner of the wall, the boss said that it was a foreign potato, which came from the seaside of a neighboring province, and there were more people planting there, and it was said that the yield was very high, but there were not many people planting in Anzhou. Ziqing asked the price for five cents a catty, Ziqing gritted his teeth and asked for it all, but the boss was happy, but he didn't expect the two children to wrap up his inventory that he couldn't sell for a long time, which really made him overjoyed. This trip took almost 200 Wen.
When she got home, Ziqing called Shen into the room, touched and touched the silver ingot carefully, looked and looked, and almost bit it with her teeth, before she reluctantly handed it over to Shen, and saw Shen and Zifu laugh, "This is really an authentic money fan." It's all in the eyes of money and can't be pulled out. ”
Shen put away the silver ingots and went out to work again, Zilu came in with Zixi in his arms, put Zixi on the bed, Ziqing, Zilu and Zifu began to count the remaining copper plates, at this time, there was a noise outside.
Ziqing stood behind the door and listened, it turned out that Zeng's was scolding Peng's child again, Peng's heard it, and the two scolded each other, anyway, now there is no one around Zeng's to support him, and there is no biological child around, and most of the family's money is in the hands of Peng's eldest son, that is, Xiao Fusheng, so even if Zeng's money is in the main room, Peng's is not afraid. The concubine who has been boiling out for many years is also amazing, almost every day there is a small quarrel, and there is a big quarrel every three days.
Although Ziqing sympathized with Zeng's family, she couldn't help. I can only talk to her often. At this time, Ziqing heard that there was a fuss again, and he didn't go out, but he still went back to the room and Zifu and Zilu to clean up the remaining copper plates, plus the money of more than 200 couplets sold by Zifu yesterday, the eldest brother counted out one hundred and one hundred, Ziqing wore it with a rope, there were actually twenty-six strings, and the money to buy seeds was planed, and this time he actually earned more than seven taels of silver by selling couplets, and when Ziqing handed over the money to Shen, Shen actually cried. As soon as Shen cried, Zifu, Zilu and Ziqing's eyes were also red, Ziqing didn't know how to comfort Shen, and then Zeng Ruixiang came in.
"What's going on, what's going on?" Zeng Ruixiang panicked when he saw the four people crying in front of them.
"It's nothing, I'm happy, the children are really sensible, I'm very pleased, his father, guess how much money the children earned this time?" Shen wiped his tears and asked with a smile.
"How much? There are five taels. ”
"His father, there are seven or two, six, and the children have bought the spring vegetable seeds. His father, with these seven taels of silver, can our family build a house? The children of the province live in wooden houses, and even after the Chinese New Year, it is still very cold. ”
My father pondered for a while and said, "It is estimated that the six rooms to be built are almost the same, and the four houses are about the same, so you let me think about it carefully and see how I can build a few rooms first and then add them later." ”
When Ziqing heard this, she thought of her dream, the courtyard house in the north, can't you build the wing room first? But I couldn't open my mouth, so I had to hit Zifuna with my idea. "Big brother, didn't you go through the miscellaneous book of customs in your house on the day you wrote the couplet, didn't you have everything in it? You go and see if there is any housing in various places, and pick a suitable one. ”
After dinner in the evening, Zifu was still there holding a book to study, Ziqing leaned over, and saw that Zifu was turning to Kyoto of this dynasty, it turned out that this dynasty was called the Feng Dynasty, and the capital was called Shangjing, in fact, the building was the courtyard in the north, and I don't know where history turned.
Zifu really lived up to Ziqing's wishes, and took the book to Zeng Ruixiang to discuss, Ziqing followed, and it happened that the whole family was there, Zifu said his thoughts again, "Dad, mother, we have a lot of families, even if our family builds the six-room house we live in now, our family will not be able to live in the future." I think this kind of courtyard house is very good, there are main rooms, side rooms, and inverted seats, which is most suitable for many people like our family. Let's build a wing room first, and then slowly build it all when we have money in the future, so that the left and right wings can be inhabited, and can also be used as a stove room, and there is an inverted seat that can be used as a warehouse. ”
Zeng Ruixiang said that he had been to the north and lived in such a house, and felt that the lighting was better than the house he lived in now, but no one had built it like this here, and he was afraid that others would gossip, so he pondered it these days.
The closer we get to the end of the year, the busier the adults become. The old man and Tian took Zeng Ruiqing, Xia Yu and Qiu Yu to buy New Year's goods, and Zhou and Shen were busy cleaning the house, tidying up utensils, taking stock of the food to be entertained after the New Year, and preparing for the banquet where the first son of the New Year was happy to enter the family tree and set up wine. In short, Shen was so busy that he barely had time to breastfeed his children, and even the children's new clothes had to be made secretly at night.
The children are idle, and they don't have to pick up the loose hair, Ziqing made a shuttlecock with beautiful chicken feathers, and ran to the open space by the pond to kick the shuttlecock with the friends, and had a lot of fun. It wasn't until Zishou asked her that she remembered that she hadn't caught insects for the chickens for a few days, and she had only fed some vegetable leaves recently, and this time Zifu and Zilu were idle and could be sent to catch insects.
Zifu listened to the fox and asked suspiciously: "Qing'er, who did you listen to catch insects and feed chickens?" How do I think you're so much smarter than before since you've recovered? ”
"Big brother, didn't you see the insects on the leaves that Grandma and Auntie saw when they were choosing vegetables, they all threw them on the ground, and the chickens rushed to eat them. Rushing to eat something must be a good thing, you just look at the appearance of Da Mao's cousin grabbing meat and eating it. Besides, we don't have any food to feed the chickens. ”
Zifu thought about it for a while, hehe, he was happy, probably because he thought that the Mao people were grabbing meat, and he hurriedly told Ziqing not to go out and talk nonsense. Ziqing knew that she had passed.