By the time the spring is warm, other people's vegetables have not yet been sown, while Xiaocao's green leafy vegetables have been able to be sold. The four acres of land in the front yard are all planted with green leafy vegetables with short growth periods. The growth period of most leafy green vegetables ranges from 20 to 40 days, but the vegetables of the Xiaocao family are still harvested within 20 days despite two spring snowfalls in between.

In the early spring, when everything has just recovered, a yard of green and tender vegetables makes people feel comfortable when they look at it. More than eight months pregnant, Mrs. Fang, who is about to give birth, holds her waist every day, supports her round belly, and walks around the vegetable field, which achieves the effect of exercise and is in a comfortable mood because of the green eyes.

Every morning, the Yu family comes to buy vegetables in an endless stream of carriages, most of which are from the town's well-known families. At this time last year, the green leafy vegetables cooked in oyster sauce in Zhenyulou were only five taels of silver each, and they made a lot of money. The Yao family has grown a big face in the town because of fresh vegetables. This year, some families inquired about the source of vegetables in advance and made a contract with the Yu family early, for fear that they would not be able to order vegetables and fall behind others if they were late.

The vegetables of the grass family are growing well, and they are so strong that they can pinch out the water. Things are vaguely expensive, except for Zhenyulou and Yao's house, the price is calculated according to the old customers, and it is the same as last year. This year, the price of new customers will increase by one-third.

Although the Yu family's four acres of vegetables produce more than 3,500 catties per mu, they cannot supply all the needs of the town. Adhering to the principle of first-come, first-served, the Yu family chose the top ten supplies. Fortunately, each family does not purchase a lot of vegetables every day, but it can be supplied.

The eldest uncle of the Liu family was inspired by selling watermelons, bought a mule and set up a carriage, pulled a cart of vegetables from his brother-in-law's house every three or five days, and worked tirelessly to deliver vegetables to Fucheng. Because of General Fang's care, he set up an online with a vegetable and fruit shop in Fucheng, and the vegetables that were transported over did not need him to guard the carriage and wait for guests, as long as they were transported to the vegetable and fruit shop, weighed and paid, and they could come back. Although it is less profitable than retail, it is not so hard.

Liu Pei is not the kind of person who takes advantage of his sister and brother-in-law, and the Yu family has been arguing over the price for a long time, and finally reached an agreement to go according to the price of Zhenyulou. Originally, Liu Pei insisted on calculating the price purchased by the other eight, but Yu Hai resolutely rejected it. Fortunately, such a fresh green leafy vegetable is unique in Fucheng, and even if it is wholesaled to vegetable and fruit shops, the price is much higher. Liu Pei can earn at least a few dozen taels of silver when he goes to Fucheng!

As for the picking of vegetables, the Yu family was still too busy to go into battle, so they spent money to hire a careful daughter-in-law in the village to help, working for one or two hours every morning, and the salary was 20 wen. In previous years, 20 yuan was the wages of a male laborer in the prime of life selling a day's labor.

Since the construction of the port and the wharf, the wages have gradually risen, and the adult labor force is paid between 30 and 50 a day. However, those are all hard-earned money from selling coolies, how can there be a light picking of vegetables in the Yu family, only working for an hour or two, and the money comes happily?

Anyone in the village who can have a relationship with the Yu family will come to talk about friendship. There are too many people, and the Yu family only needs about a dozen people. In the end, they are all girls and daughters-in-law from Dongshan Village, and they don't see anyone who looks down and doesn't look up, but they embarrass the Liu family, and they can't say anything if they refuse.

Xiaocao knew her mother's character, so she picked up some gifts for her and asked her to go back to her parents' house for a few days. Since marrying into the Yu family, I was afraid that the Zhang family would be unhappy, and the Liu family never returned to her parents' house once. After the separation, the family was so busy that they couldn't touch the ground on their heels, and there were few opportunities to go home. Take this opportunity to let my mother stay at my grandmother's house for a few days and contact the relationship between mother and son.

As for the work of hiring people to offend people, leave it to the two big girls of the godmother. can climb to the position of the housewife's personal girl, the two girls are naturally not simple, they should be careful when they should be careful, and they are also powerful masters when they are dry. In addition, they have the general and the general's wife behind them as backers, even if they are rejected, those daughters-in-law and girls dare not say anything.

The two girls also had a mirror in their hearts, they first registered all the people who came to inquire in a booklet, selected ten according to the intimacy of the relationship, and sent people to inform them to arrive on time the next day, and if they were late, they would be deducted from their wages. The others came to inquire again, and the two girls had pale faces and sent them away with a sentence of "If there is other work in the future, I will consider you first".

The helpers included the daughter-in-law of the tethered pillar, the daughter-in-law of the second dog, Xiaocao's two cousins (Yuxi Yujiang's daughter-in-law), Xiaocao's cousin (Yuxi's eldest daughter), Zhou Shan who came to earn pocket money, and several other daughters-in-law who were close to the Yu family. These people also knew that Pearl Linglong chose them because they looked at the face of the Yu family, and they worked very hard and meticulously.

Originally, they were all used to working in the village, and the work of picking vegetables was not difficult for them at all, and they finished the work for more than two hours every day. Every vegetable is not stained with any soil, and it is neatly arranged, and the people who buy vegetables praise them for their hard work!

There is nothing to do at home, and Xiaocao, who just wanted to be idle for two days, was invited by Xiaolian to help at the dock. Xiaolian's business at the dock is now getting bigger and bigger. In the warm spring season, after the winter off-season, the dock gradually becomes busy again.

There are people who work on the docks, and there are people who eat. The weather in early spring was still relatively cool in the morning and evening, and the business of cold noodles on the dock had stopped since late autumn last year. Xiaolian and her aunt are already too busy just to work on the noodle stall and the business of braised vegetables.

The noodles on the noodle stall are not like Lao Liu Tou's only boiled noodles in clear water at that time. Xiaocao taught Xiaolian and her aunt the methods of fried sauce noodles, scallion oil noodles, mustard and shredded pork noodles, and lo noodles one by one. In order to enrich the variety of noodles, a batch of noodles was specially steamed to make fried noodles with eggs and shredded pork. The taste of northerners is heavy, and although the price of fried noodles is higher, it is unexpectedly well received.

Xiaolian's braised vegetables are no longer laboriously divided and sold one by one, but brought old braised vegetables from home, and marinated them on the spot with Xiaocao's secret seasoning package. The stove was just up to Xiaolian's waist, and in the stove was a blazing charcoal fire, and in the boiling marinade on the stove, all kinds of marinated vegetables were boiling in it. Snow-white smoke, rising in the air; The thick fragrance can't stop rushing into people's noses. If the wind is favorable, the strong fragrance almost envelops the entire pier.

A bowl of somen noodles with two pennies of braised vegetables will satisfy your hunger and fill your stomach. Whenever it was time to eat, the Yu family's noodle stall was crowded with people, and the table could not sit down, and some people would rather squat on the ground to eat than go to other homes.

The other food sellers on the dock could only watch the Yu family make money. Especially the Xiaocao sisters, who had refused to sell braised vegetables next to her noodle stall before, the business was so light that they couldn't go on. The proprietress deeply regretted that if she hadn't made a wrong decision in the first place, maybe the people who waited in line to eat noodles would have been replaced by theirs!

On this day, Yu Xiaocao was caught by Xiaolian as a free laborer. She was not allowed to do the "heavy work" of rolling the noodles, underneath, and cutting the braised vegetables, and she was only responsible for bringing the finished noodles to the guests. Even so, she was busy enough.

The peak of eating finally passed, and Xiaocao just wanted to sit down and rest, when she heard the dock suddenly burst into flames. Hey? What's wrong? Why are there so many strangers on the docks all of a sudden? Could it be that someone is smashing the field? Or does someone take a fancy to the fat meat of the dock and want to get a piece of the pie with the sixth brother?

Xiaocao curiously leaned in the direction of the dock, and found that the wave of people who appeared on the dock did not look like a rabble, but like organized and disciplined practitioners. She couldn't help but worry about the sixth brother - these guys don't seem to be easy to deal with!

The sixth brother has seen the world in the end, he has been mixed in this dock for so many years, what kind of person has not seen it? Seeing this formation, he greeted him without changing his face, arched his hand at the person who looked like the head, and said, "Dare to ask this lord, why did you come to Tanggu Wharf?" ”

The person with the head, although he was dressed in civilian clothes, revealed a kind of official authority in his gestures. He glanced at the sixth brother lightly and asked, "You are the person in charge of this dock?" ”

"In the next exactly! I wonder if you plan to load or unload the cargo? Please visit our office and register. I will give priority to adults in the following! The sixth brother never felt malice in the person, so he tentatively said.

The lord motioned to the sixth brother, took him to a relatively secluded place, and lowered his voice and said, "I am the commander of the guards in Beijing, and I have come to welcome the little county king who has returned from the sea by the emperor's secret order. King Yangjun had already sent news in advance that they had hundreds of cargo ships this time, all of which were precious species that had been transported back from the South and Western Seas. So...... You need to make arrangements in advance! ”

The pomp and circumstance of King Yangjun going to sea the year before last, and the sensation it caused, the sixth brother can't forget it even if he wants to. After a year and a half, King Yangjun hasn't landed yet, and the pomp is really not small. This so-called commander of the guards, at least fifty or sixty guards brought over, looked as if he was going to block the dock.

Yes, it is said that before the emperor ascended the throne, he attached great importance to the introduction of overseas species, especially those high-yield grains. The introduction of sweet potatoes has benefited thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty. The current emperor said such a sentence in the Jinluan Palace: "The goal of the first ten years of my ascension to the throne is to let everyone in the Ming Dynasty have food to eat, and everyone can eat enough!" ”

Such a good emperor for the country and the people, in order to search for more high-yield grain, entrusted the fifteen-year-old king of Yangjun with the important task of going to the West. This time, King Yangjun returned victoriously, and the saint naturally attaches great importance to it today.

The stakes are high, and a slip-up may be life-threatening. But if it is done well and shows his face in front of King Yangjun, in the future, if others want to take a bite of the fat meat of the dock, they will have to weigh a few points. The port will almost be completed in less than two years, and if the entire port is grasped in his hands, his sixth brother will be a well-known figure in Tanggu by then!

Rich and dangerous, this business, he took it!!

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