After Shi Bantou came and exchanged pleasantries, the three of them returned to their seats. Xiao Er stepped back after serving the food, Huaizi helped the team leader pour wine, and thanked him for handing over the message in front of the master bookkeeper and helping him.

Shi Bantou was young and shrewd, looking at the farmer in front of him with a smile, although the clothes were ordinary, but he had thick eyebrows and handsome eyes, and his appearance was not bad.

He said with a smile: "Brother Zhang's words are too obvious, in the last case, I received a lot of help from my brothers, and I wanted to find a day to thank Brother Zhang and make friends again, so I told Shopkeeper Yang a few times." Now that Brother Ling has been lifted, he has a great future, and he has climbed high in the next place. ”

Huaizi smiled and shook his head, said a few polite words, and beckoned him to drink and eat, but he was not surprised or cold.

Because there is a stuffed chili pepper on the table, that is, the minced meat is stuffed into the chili belly, fried first and then stewed, the three of them ate it, felt that it tasted very good, and unconsciously talked about selling chili peppers recently.

Shi Bantou put the chopsticks on the bowl and said to Huaizi: "Brother Zhang, you don't need to worry too much about this chili pepper, if it is useful to the place below, just open your mouth." I'm afraid that Brother Zhang will dislike it, and it shouldn't be used. ”

Huaizi looked at this team leader, and his heart moved: as the saying goes, "the county official is not as good as the current management", the three classes and six rooms in the yamen are all directly facing the people, sometimes more difficult than the county order, and there are many people with magical powers, who can deal with cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

He said with a smile: "The size of the team leader is also the official errand of the yamen, how can you dislike it?" I'm afraid of causing trouble to the team. ”

Shi Bantou was very happy to see that he did not refuse, picked up the wine glass in his left hand, took a sip of wine, held chopsticks in his right hand, took a piece of chicken and chewed it in his mouth a few times, and sighed to Huaizi: "What official errand? It was all for the people of the country. I'm not afraid of brothers' jokes, so I just eat with a mouthful of food, and I don't want to say anything in between. ”

Mouth talk but don't say. After another sip of wine, I couldn't help but pour bitter water with the two of them, and told the pain and difficulties of this errand one by one, in short. It's the business of being angry in the heart, and I can hear that I can be happy and Huaizi stunned for a while.

Lai Xi rolled his eyes and said to him with a smile: "Team leader, we don't understand the twists and turns in this yamen. I'm just a businessman. If you want me to say, everything in the world is a reason. When I do business, I am honest with people, but I also want to make money. Otherwise, just let people drink the northwest wind by themselves? I think the errand of the team leader is the same: don't talk about getting some oil and water and pumping some benefits on weekdays, the important thing is to help the people do things, and you have to do things well, otherwise just like that yellow eye, just care about exploiting people, how can there be a good end? ”

Shi Bantou nodded again and again when he heard this. said that he was reasonable, and said: "But he is just a small official, and he can't help everyone exempt from the tax." Even if you want to do good, you can't do it. ”

Huaizi listened quietly for a while, then looked at him seriously and said, "Don't say that, the team leader." Since he is on an errand in Xiatangji, he is inseparable from the people here. As the saying goes, 'relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the water to eat the water', the team took some effort to manage the lower pond, and the oil and water will naturally not be less, and everyone will be grateful. Tax exemption is certainly not possible. Let's just say that the traffickers still come from time to time, and the team leader pays more attention to the street and docks. Isn't this just doing things for the people? ”

Laixi happily continued: "That's it." Also, since the gambling halls, brothels and those who put money in the seals can't help it, the head of the team should be more closely managed to prevent deception and blackmail, and if someone is confused, of course it doesn't matter. ”

He and Huaizi said a word to me, and said seven or eight straight points. simply regarded Shi Bantou as the parent official of Xiatangji, his eyes widened when he heard it, and then he smiled bitterly.

"Is that easy? Let's not talk about traffickers, the gambling halls and brothels are all supported by people. ”

Huaizi said: "Naturally, I don't want the team leader to act as the master of the blue sky, as long as you handle it a little impartially." Although the head of the team is only a small official, he must act in an orderly manner. If you can maneuver properly, you will be able to win the respect of the people and the appreciation of the superiors; And blindly aiding and abusive, the fate of Huang Yan'er is an example. Moreover, the team leader is still young, and I always think that there will be some success in the future, although it is so hard, if I am lucky enough to get the blue eyes of a chief officer, will it be transferred at that time? ”

When Shi Bantou heard this, his eyes lit up, he thought carefully, looked at Huaizi again, and suddenly felt that maybe he could really make good luck if he worked harder!

So, he patted his chest with the two and assured that he would do his best to maneuver in the future, and went up and whispered many indecent things in the yamen, and their intimacy seemed to have become brothers with the two.

The three of them ate until the sun was tilted.

Zhang Huai went out to the lobby and found that Heipi was talking to a small house, it turned out to be a descendant of the Fang family, and invited him to go to another private room to see Steward Song, and closed the door for half an hour before returning to the village with Heipi.

After arriving home, the sun has set behind the mountain, and also took away the residual heat of the sun, the cold breath swept again, the kitchen door and near the well, the place where the water was poured were frozen, and the gourd and chestnut and other babies deliberately stepped on it, making a "crunch" sound, which was funny.

In the west room, Aoki and Chrysanthemum sat at the round table, listening to Huaizi talk about their experiences in the past few days, and then said the requirements of the shopkeeper Song.

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum pulled down the small abacus and said, "If these five thousand catties are sold to the Fang family, it will indeed save a lot of trouble, and it will not be publicized." One hundred wen per catty, and a net of five hundred taels. What do they want so much for, and not for takeaway? ”

Huaizi said with a smile: "Their family has a big business, and there are many powerful people who have made friends, even if one family sends a hundred catties, it can only send fifty families." However, how can so many peppers be transported to distant places if they are not buried with grass ash? I think that's what they had in mind, but they didn't want to talk about it, and they wanted to wait for us to take the initiative to sell it to them. ”

Chrysanthemum and Aoki glanced at each other, and Aoki tapped his fingers on the table and said: "Then sell it, let's not be greedy, don't provoke someone to blackmail or something, it's troublesome, besides, this method is also easy to leak." ”

Chrysanthemum smiled bitterly: "You don't want to sell it?" However, this method is really simple and profitable, and when they make a lot of money, people who have a heart don't dare to go to the Fang family, come to us? According to me, I will make this method known to the world, so that we can live a peaceful life. However, I am a little unwilling to think about it. ”

Huaizi thought for a while and chuckled: "It's better to sell it to them for a year, and when the peppers are harvested next autumn, this trick will be made public." Before that, the Fang family would definitely plant or buy a large number of chili peppers, and when they sold it out in winter, those who coveted this secret found that this method was no longer a secret, and there was no need to make a move. It's hard to get a hand in the hand—the peppers are out of season. ”

Aoki's eyes lit up and he smiled, "That's a good idea." I just don't know if they're happy or not. After all, their family has a big business, and they may not be able to look down on this bit of silver. ”

Chrysanthemum said unbelievably: "No matter how big the family is, you can't look down on ten thousand taels of silver, right?" When you get this method, you are still like us, only collecting more than 20,000 catties of chili peppers? He only had to hide this method for more than a month, and successfully collected the chili peppers after autumn, and sat at home to collect the money at that time. They have ships that can transport them to the various state capitals, or they can simply collect the chili peppers locally, and they dare not say how much money they make. ”

Huaizi nodded and said, "At the moment, this matter is not very popular, and it will be even more silent to give the remaining chili peppers to the Fang family." Next year, after this method is made public, we will still be able to do this business, and the price of chili peppers will definitely not be so high at that time, but the profit will be less. ”

Chrysanthemum nodded, and said to Huaizi: "You will go and talk to the Fang family about this matter tomorrow, spread out the discussion, and tell him the advantages and disadvantages of this method." This time, it will cost 3,000 taels of silver, mainly because this method is too easy to make money, and it doesn't cost much, and it doesn't cost much. Although it is only one year, if they run it well, I am afraid that they can make profits from those two workshops for several years. ”

Huaizi smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Don't worry, the Fang family is not the visionless family, and they must be grateful to us in their hearts, otherwise, the shopkeeper of Song would not have given up that wasteland last time." ”

The three of them decided on this matter, and they felt a lot more relaxed, and they felt much more down-to-earth, mainly because it felt very bad to be remembered and red-eyed.

After Aunt Liu and the others packed up the lotus leaf chicken, duck, and fish, the two families began to dig out the chili peppers from the cellar again, because the chili peppers in the backyard were all sold out.

Under the light, the baskets of chili peppers in the hall shimmered with a deep sheen.

Zhang Dazhuan smacked his mouth and asked Huaizi, "Don't we keep some for ourselves?" I like to eat tiger peppers made from chrysanthemums. It's no wonder that those rich people spend so much money on this, and it seems to taste better in winter. ”

He had already heard that he was going to sell all the remaining chili peppers to the Fang family, so he asked.

He's body has been well early, because his son was lifted, and he came to report his safety, and bought her a piece of cloth to make clothes, as soon as he was in a good mood, he got up generously, and said to Chrysanthemum with a smile: "My mother has also figured it out, I can eat it if I want to, and I will leave dozens of catties to eat for the New Year." ”

Seeing her generous and uncaring look, Chrysanthemum couldn't help but smile and said, "Mother, it's not enough to leave a few dozen catties, I let you keep two hundred catties." ”

He Shi felt pain again when he heard this, and felt that she had stayed too much.

Yang also said that the farmer's family is in charge of chili peppers, and there are many pickled chili peppers at home, so it is better not to keep so many fresh chili peppers, and it is good to sell them for more money, "Or, give more to Dr. Yun." She is pregnant and wants to eat some new tricks, and she needs to save more of this pepper so that she can eat it in the first month of next year. ”

Chrysanthemum said, she had already specially helped Yunying leave two baskets, and the two hundred catties were left by the Zhang family and the Zheng family themselves.

Zheng Changhe waved his hand rarely: "Two hundred catties is not much, you are now the father and mother of the old man, and you are still distressed to eat a chili pepper?" ”

Huaizi, Aoki and others all laughed when they heard this.