Steward Lin smiled and said, "You haven't been here, this stone is the mountain stone of the back mountain." Follow? Dream?. lā”

He fumbled a little more, and then pushed the stone away and led Fang Datong down.

It was a wide walkway, and it was not a problem for four people to walk side by side, and there were two axle prints on the ground.

Following Steward Lin to walk in for a hundred steps, the front suddenly opened up, the rock wall was pried open, and the space inside was as big as Zhuangzi's threshing floor.

If you want to ask him why he can see so clearly, of course, it is because there are many lamps sealed with glass on the rock wall, although it is not bright, but it is not so dark.

But looking up, he still didn't see how high the hole was, because it was dark above.

He looked at the mountains of grain in a daze, swallowed his saliva and asked, "This is all our family?" ”

Steward Lin nodded with a smile, "This cave is not a secret, the guards all know it, and you farmers can guess that there is another mechanism in the grain depot, right?" ”

He stretched out his hand and patted the rock wall and said, "This hole is natural!" ”

At the beginning, the old lady of his family fell in love with the cold spring on the mountain, so he bought this surrounding area as a Zhuangzi, but in fact, the first design of the house was built on the other side.

After occasionally discovering this cave, the house was built here, just blocked at the entrance, and then expanded slightly, and the entrance to the cave that was supposed to be only allowed for one person to crawl in became like this.

In order not to let people find out, the old lady also asked the craftsmen at home to install a mechanism and build a row of houses along that area, which was originally used to put sundries, until Lin Qingwan came back, which was changed to a granary.

This cave is actually used to escape, Steward Lin did not tell Fang Datong this, but just told him, "Most of the grain of the Lin family enters here every year, what you see now is last year's grain, and when this batch of wheat is harvested, the grain in it will be sold, and then the new grain will be transported in, you must be the general manager of the farm, then you will naturally be responsible for these things in the future." ”

Fang Datong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Can I bring the dealers in?" ”

Steward Lin nodded with a smile, "The subordinates of the family, the guards and your group of farmers are all trustworthy. ”

This is a place for them to store grain, and they will not know the real secret, and it is not a secret that the old lady discovered this cave.

Back then, there were several heads of families who followed the old lady, and their families may not know about it, but future generations may not be able to remember it for a while.

The real secret is behind these walls.

"Our Lin family has three grain merchants, we have sold two batches in the beginning of spring and March and April, and the remaining batch is to be sold after the summer harvest, remember, the price can be lower than the new grain, but not too low, although our family's grain is the previous year, but it is very good."

Fang Datong nodded.

Steward Lin took him to see the grain pile inside, and reached out to touch it, the grain was indeed very dry, and there were several piles of marks on the ground not far away, obviously it was full of grain before.

"Food prices are still high, so why not sell them now?" Fang Datong was puzzled: "Although the wheat has not been harvested, it can be seen that this year is a bumper harvest." ”

"The grain has not been put into the warehouse, don't make a conclusion too early, although it will be sold at a loss after the summer harvest, but our Lin family can afford to eat it." Steward Lin taught him: "Since the old lady, the Lin family has the habit of stockpiling grain, which was not used in this place before, but the Lin family has granaries in Suzhou, Yangzhou, Jiangdu, and Hangzhou. ”

"Except for the accident in the disaster year, in other years, a batch of grain is sold after harvesting, a batch is sold in the spring, a batch is sold in March and April, and the batch left is sold after the summer harvest after the new grain. The other clans are no different. ”

Fang Datong couldn't help muttering, "No wonder there is a bumper harvest every year, and there is a shortage of grain in the market every year." ”

Steward Lin laughed when he heard this, shook his head and said, "As soon as the grain enters the market, it is the worst for the people." The price of grain in the grain store may not be lowered, but the purchase price of the grain merchants will definitely be low. ”

Steward Lin has been in charge of the Lin family's grain depot for more than ten years, and he knows these best, so he sighed with his hands behind his back: "The imperial court's control over grain prices is weak, and only a few major families are willing to work hard, so that grain prices can be so stable, otherwise it will ......."

He shook his head, as long as one of them changed his mind, the price of food in the market would collapse.

The Lin family originally lost this status after selling those big farms, but now that Lin Qingwan has managed this jue field, although the families did not say it explicitly, they actually silently accepted the Lin family back.

Because this year, the New Year's gift received by their Lin family is thirty percent thicker.

Since the alliance still existed, Steward Lin and the others had to abide by the rules of the game, so he told Fang Datong, "Remember, you must not sell grain after the summer harvest and autumn harvest." ”

Fang Datong was a little ignorant, but still nodded.

Steward Lin patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "You'll know when you contact several other stewards in the future." ”

Steward Lin took him around the cave before going out, "I'll teach you, just know this." The cave is not a secret, but don't make a big deal about it. ”

Fang Datong is not a fool, so he naturally understands.

Steward Lin fell down and sighed: "The Lin family used to have a total of five grain depots, but now there is only this one. ”

"In the future, there will be more and more grain depots of the Lin family." Fang Datong said ambitiously: "Don't worry, the housekeeper can always earn back the grange sold by the Lin family." ”

Steward Lin nodded with satisfaction, "It's good that you can have this goal." ”

Steward Lin went back to report to Lin Qingwan, she nodded with satisfaction, "After you have chosen, open the sickle the day after tomorrow, notify it, and let people go to the orchard tomorrow to pull a pig back and give everyone a good meal." ”

Steward Lin should go down and go down to make arrangements.

Some of the wheat fields are already ripe, yellow-orange-orange and orange, but some have not yet been harvested, but fortunately, the sun is good on these two days, and the wheat is almost the same day by day.

Everyone first harvested what they could harvest, and when they had dried the wheat cut here and carried it to the threshing floor, the wheat over there could be harvested again.

Although Lin Qingwan didn't have to go to the ground herself, she had to watch carefully.

Don't look at the little money that the farm made in the end, but it has always been what Lin Qingwan attaches the most importance to.

A few days after the Lin family opened the sickle, wheat was harvested in other places, and Suzhou officially entered the summer harvest season.

Seeing the truckloads of wheat being pulled to the threshing floor, Lin Qingwan couldn't help but smile.

The long-term and short-term workers are also very happy, and whenever the farm is busy, their food is very good, not only do they have meat soup to drink, but if they are lucky, they also have large pieces of meat to eat.

Here is jubilant and hot, but I don't know that hundreds of miles away from here, there are four fast horses running towards Suzhou.

And dozens of miles behind them, there was a group of people chasing after them.