George rushed out of the villa with Weiyi, Liu Ci was very clear about his thoughts, but he didn't keep it.

She doesn't like to explain things to the same person, and besides, she is an outsider, so does she have any plans to explain it to an outsider? At noon that day, when it was time for dinner, the twenty-three children had not yet been seen, and the wives of the hired workers were very worried when they looked at the snow-capped mountains.

Liu Ci didn't have time to calm them down, because Stull Garland was back. The smiling merchant is not alone, and he also brings the "profit" from selling vegetables this time. Four thousand catties of gold coins were sold by Stuart at a total price of more than 10,000 yuan, which has the value of out-of-season vegetables, and more profits are probably due to speculation.

Stuart proved his business manipulation with facts, and Liu Ci was very proud of his vision.

"Boss, in addition to the cost of selling, here are the remaining more than 9,600 gold coins."

Stuart pushed the account to Liu Ci, Liu Ci held down the account book, "Vegetable seeds are not valuable, and the glass greenhouse can be used more than once, and I am too lazy to calculate the real cost, so you will take 20% of the selling price in the future." ”

Stuart hurriedly refused, Liu Ci smiled and stopped: "The shops and labor are all from you, and we don't just do one transaction, there will be more production cooperation in the manor in the future, the market is not only in Emster, and you have to pay a lot of costs." ”

If you only grow cash crops, in Emster, where labor is cheap, Liu Ci feels that the cost of farming is not large, and she is not distressed at all when she gives Stull 20% of his income. Let's not say that she is not stingy in terms of money, if you want to cooperate for a long time, friendship or something can only be referred to for a short time, and tying everyone's interests together is fundamental.

In the end, Stull left with two layers of income, and more than 9,000 gold coins were stacked in sacks in the corner of the house, and Liu Ci called the chief butler James to bring the gold coins into the account.

Holding the ledger, James's tense brow finally loosened completely.

Although he knew that out-of-season vegetables would not lose money, seeing that the gold coins were really in front of him, the stereotypical Steward James smiled: finally he did not have to lose his job immediately and faced the dilemma of returning to Rhine City.

James asked the gold coins to be removed, and Liu Ci looked at the snow-capped mountains. It's already afternoon, and none of the twenty-three and a half children who went up the mountain have returned.

"Nana, let the cook boil the ginger syrup."

The wives of the hired servants were worried and Nana was infected, and the lively maid listened to Liu Ci's order to leave lightly.

Seeing that the women were depressed, Liu Ci found work for them.

Inspired by Amy's sprinkling of flower petals in the tub, Liu Ci decided to plant flowers in the greenhouse. The people sent into the city bought back several kinds of flower seeds, among which various varieties of roses were the majority, flowers representing love, no matter which continent they were not worried about, and they were the main objects that Liu Ci planned to cultivate.

However, there is a big drawback in sowing seeds with flower seeds, which takes two or three years for the plants to bloom.

Liu Ci has been pondering in her heart for the past few days, there is a rune array designed for the birth of spirit plants, with her current ability, it is no problem to draw a life-giving talisman, and she wants to set up a rune array...... What is lacking is not only experience, but also completely uncertain.

In addition to roses, there are also tulips, lavenders, daisies, sunflowers and other varieties among the repurchased flower species, among which roses and tulips are the most expensive, but unfortunately both are perennial varieties and cannot make Liu Ci profit in a short period of time.

Daisies, sunflowers and other varieties are "annual" herbaceous plants. Sowing seeds in spring, flowering in summer and autumn, and then withering, they cannot keep the stems to bloom again, and in one year they will complete the whole process of germination, leaf-bearing, flowering, fruiting, and wilting.

Carefully cared for roses, the plant can survive for more than 20 years, suitable for long-term development, Liu Ci thought about it, and neither side was ready to give up.

Sunflowers have no aroma and are mostly used for flower arrangement, but the fruit "sunflower seeds" are not only roasted snacks, but also can be squeezed for oil, and they are also a kind of flower varieties that will not lose money after planting. According to Qi Min Yaoshu, the best way to grow sunflowers is "peat soil", which is associated with swamps and is rich in nutrients, and the quality of peat found in alpine regions is especially good.

Amster is a typical alpine region, but Liu Ci has not found any swamps near the valley, and it seems that he has to prepare nutrient soil only to plant sunflowers.

Liu Ci values lavender more, lavender is a small perennial shrub, which can generally be used for about ten years, it is not only a spice, but also a function that the people of the Magic Continent have not discovered: medicinal herbs.

In the Earth Federation, it also has a name called "aromatic herb", suitable for any skin, promotes cell regeneration, accelerates wound healing, improves acne, abscesses, eczema, balances sebum secretion, has a miraculous effect on burning sunburns, inhibits bacteria, reduces scarring. The stems and leaves can be used as medicine, which has the effect of strengthening the stomach, sweating and relieving pain, and is a good medicine for treating colds and flu, abdominal pain and eczema. It has a wide range of curative effects and can treat at least 70 kinds of diseases.

Liu Ci feels that the flowers that have not yet been truly recognized by the mainlanders are a treasure waiting for her to be discovered.

It takes about 18 weeks for lavender to bloom from sowing to flowering, and no matter what kind of flowers are planted, the spawning rune array seems to be imminent. Making money is small, cultivation is big, she has drawn a lot of runes, and she really hasn't tried the rune array.

There is a special article about the rune array, the rune array can magnify the effect of the rune several times or even a hundred times, and the coverage area is also wide, the rune drawn by a monk in the middle stage of foundation building may have little effect in the face of high-level monks, but if he knows how to use runes to arrange the array, he can be sure of killing the monk of Jiedan!

With the surplus money in his hand, Liu Ci has the confidence to do things.

While asking James to purchase glass and wood, Liu Ci prepared to build a few greenhouses to plant flowers. Under the leadership of Harvey, the brick kiln was opened day and night, and the women were doing the work of soaking seeds, sifting soil, and fertilizing under the guidance of Liu Ci.

Before sowing, the seeds should be constantly soaked in water, so that the flower seeds can be easier to germinate, and a part of the shriveled and not full flower seeds can be sieved by the way.

Sieving soil is to smash the hard soil finely, and sieve away impurities to leave only fine soil, which is similar to the requirements when planting vegetables.

Planting flowers requires "base fertilizer", and grass ash and livestock manure are not very adaptable, but Liu Ci still knows a "bone meal". The food of more than 200 people in the villa has also accumulated a lot of boiled bones, and Liu Ci has been letting people collect them, and now it is time to come in handy.

As the women were distracted and making preparations, time passed little by little, and when the snow fell in the afternoon, a small figure finally appeared at the foot of the mountain.

It was a sturdy boy, only 12 years old, already more than 1.6 meters tall, and he was raised like a calf by the food of the villa. The lips were blue from the cold, the cheeks were still colored, and the epidermis of several bloody wounds had been covered with a thin layer of ice.

He held his hand in his arms, tightly clutched a small flag, and when he raised the flag in his hand, his fingers were red and stiff, and he looked embarrassed. But the look on his face was a pride that couldn't be hidden. Of course, he was proud, because he was the first to return to the mountain in search of the flag.

"Miss Ci, flag, flag, banner ......"

Liu Ci was dressed in a red coat and stood in the snow, like a raging flame that made people dare not look at it directly.

The boy pulled out the flag, and his original pride plummeted, and he stammered and became ashamed.

The corners of Liu Ci's mouth softened, and he smiled genuinely.

"What's your name?"

Her voice fluttered in the snowy wind, haughty but warm, as if a hand had been stretched out from the far end of the mountain and landed in front of the humble boy, making the latter too excited to contain himself.

“…… Kerry Bra ......"

Liu Ci frowned, "Straighten your chest, be louder, and tell everyone, what's your name?" ”

The boy's mother was hammering bone meal not far away, and her face covered with furrows had a strange expression, as if she was proud and distressed, and looked at him with blank eyes. The women who worked with him were also very concerned about him, and their eyes wandered behind the boy, trying to find their own child.

Feeling his mother's gaze and Liu Ci's gaze, the boy whose feet were shivering from the cold straightened his waist.

"Kerry Blatter, Miss Tzu, I'm from the Blatter family!"

Liu Ci stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, feeling Kerry's beating heart.

"Very well, Kerry Blatter, you're the boss of the Twenty-Three team from today because you're doing well! If one day one of them comes up with a better child, you can't be the captain, don't slack off, understand? ”

Kerry nodded vigorously.

Liu Ci turned his head and said to Nana: "Take him to the bath and tell the big housekeeper that the Kerry of the Blatter family will get 5 silver coins a month in the future!" ”

Can I get paid without working? Nana wondered if Liu Ci was too generous, but she didn't say anything and led Kerry down.

Liu Ci looked around at the women who were working with their heads bowed, and it was clear that they were eavesdropping, but when they heard that Kerry Blatter had gone to climb the mountain and came back today to get paid, the expressions on their faces were shocked.

"The manor will develop in the future, the children are the backbone of the future, and I will not treat any loyal servant badly!"

Liu Ci's words were cut to the core, not only the women present, she wanted to tell everyone the truth.

Kerry took the lead, and before dinner, the children who were taken by Liu Ci to climb the mountain returned to the villa one after another.

Small flags are hidden in all corners of the mountaintop, and in the afternoon it snows again, and if you don't find them before, you probably won't be able to get anything for the rest of the year. Liu Ci counted the number of people, and the children who had taken a hot bath sat on the long table, gobbling up soft bread, but the number of men and women was the same, and one person did not come back.

"It's little Harvey!"

The eight-year-old boy? The steward Harvey was still working overtime in the brick kiln, and he rubbed his hands happily, blindly trusting Liu Ci's arrangement.

And his wife, who works in the cafeteria, has already repeatedly looked for her children when preparing food, and there is no little Harvey over and over again, and she cries in front of the fat cook.

"Miss, I'll arrange for someone to go up the mountain to find it." Nana stepped forward.

Liu Ci shook his head, "Don't alarm them, I'll go in person." ”

It was she who made the decision to ask the children to go up the mountain, so as to test their qualifications and temperament, and when they went, they were twenty-three, and when they came back, they naturally had one less.