"Aunt and aunt, don't all have an expression of hatred with duck intestines, if you cook it, you can sell it for two cents, a hundred ducks, that is, two hundred, you are busy for two days, but it is half a month's food for the family."

Hearing that a pair of duck intestines actually had two pennies, the expressions of the women who were working immediately became serious. Although at present, Weijiawan belongs to the form of a big pot of rice, but the whole village knows that if you don't work hard, you will be kicked out of the collective by Wei Chenglan at any time, and then taste the taste of hunger, that day is too miserable.

The duck neck was also unloaded, which was agreed with the buyer, but I didn't expect that Wen Jin would cut the price by two cents because of this, and he would earn it back in this form, and he would take advantage of it.

"Wen Jin, Wen Jin!" Shi Zhenzong followed the little boy who led the way and came to the big courtyard by the pond.

"Zhenzong, why are you here? Wait a minute, I'll wash my hands. Wen Jin stood up, his expression slightly cold.

Shi Zhenzong felt a chill in his heart, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't know where he made Wen Jin unhappy.

"Wei Qi Niang, I'm a guest."

Wei Qiniang was a neat middle-aged woman, she smiled, waved her hand and said, "You just have to be busy with you, Aunt Qi must take care of this matter." ”

"Let's go!" Wen Jin led the way first, Shi Zhenzong followed to Wei's house, Ge Shi led people to fry sauerkraut in the kitchen, heard the door ringing, saw Wen Jin, and retracted his head.

"The kitchen is occupied, and there is not even tea, Master Shi, please bear with me."

"Wen Jin, you, why did you get separated from me?" When Shi Zhenzong heard that he was teaching him a young master, he felt very uncomfortable.

"Young Master Shi, you're not here to force debts, are you? I, I can't get that much silver at once. ”

"Then you, then ......" Shi Zhenzong didn't know what to say, you have no money, how can you sign a contract to buy land?

"I, I was forced." Wen Jin put on a particularly aggrieved look, and told him that he was not at home, and someone was tricked and coerced the second uncle.

"Then, then, this deed will be null and void." Shi Zhenzong was full of enthusiasm, and was deeply affected by Wen Jin's words, and the whole person was wilted.

"How's that going to work?" Wen Jin hurriedly changed his tone, "It seems that you don't know about this, I'm more comfortable." I said, "Why are you like that?" ”

Shi Zhenzong barely squeezed out a smile, which was more ugly than crying.

Wen Jin comforted him and said, "Since someone has coerced you to prove that your side is not going well, you treat me as a friend, how can I be cowardly?" I admit this money, but I can't pay it all at once, can you allow me to pay it in installments? Anyway, if you take this money to buy grain and get through the difficulty of having no food after fallowing, it will not be spent in one year, but in two or three ......years."

Shi Zhenzong didn't speak, lowered his head and thought for a long time, then raised his head: "It's okay to pay in installments." ”

Wen Jin secretly rejoiced: "Zhenzong, since you are righteous, my Qian Wenjin will not be underestimated, after the New Year, I will take money and food to live in Shiwei Village, I want to work with you to do a good job in Shiwei Village." ”

Shi Zhenzong was very moved: "Thank you Wen Jin, this is not necessary, you are a small person, and you can't do much work." ”

"Zhenzong, although I don't have the strength, but I have brains, the wise eat the wise, the fool struggles, maybe I can come up with some good way to make you get twice the result with half the effort and speed up the progress."

Shi Zhenzong thought about it, maybe it was true, so he smiled: "Wen Jin, you have a heart." ”

"Humph! It seems that you still don't believe in my abilities. Not to mention anything else, this Weijiawan person, I can transfer dozens of stick laborers in the spring to help you work. Although I can't give you cash, I can use the head office of the top account, right? Shiwei Village will see the benefits sooner, and you will need less money to survive the famine? ”

"Well, that's too!" Shi Zhenzong nodded yes.

Wen Jin calculated: "It will take about two years to pay off your 1,000 taels of silver, and I will personally go to Shiwei Village to help, even if it is the interest of the delayed payment." ”

"Where do I still want your interest, if you can really let our village tide over the difficulties as soon as possible, I, our people from Shiwei Village, will not let you suffer." Shi Zhenzong couldn't say how to repay Wen Jin, anyway, he felt that he would definitely repay him, and he would never be a ruthless and unrighteous person.

"Has your village started digging rocks and ditches? It's almost the New Year these days, is it a break from work? ”

"No, the men in the village won't stop until they are thirty, and the women are busy with housework and have stopped."

"Let's go, I'll go over and have a look now." Wen Jin wanted to use gunpowder as soon as possible, even if it was a day earlier, the progress would be much faster, and it was completely manpower, which was too slow.

"But you ...... here"

"Don't worry, it will take two days to clean up here, I have taught my uncle and aunt all the methods, and I will turn around without me."

Shi Zhenzong couldn't help but laugh out of his white teeth: "Wen Jin, you are always so exciting, go!" ”

Mo Lingshan produced sulfur, Shi Zhenzong went to Fucheng to buy saltpeter, crushed it with charcoal powder, Wen Jin asked people to dig a pit in the stone, then put gunpowder, and lit a twist to detonate. The purity of the raw materials is low, the effectiveness of gunpowder is not large, and each time it can only blow up a pit of less than one meter, just like that, compared with pure hand, the speed is also 100 times faster. She lived in Shiwei Village for three days, stipulated strict safety regulations, and called two old people with prestige in the village: "Uncle Guangcan, Uncle Qiwang, Wen Jin specially called you here, just for one thing, that is, safety, you must not be anxious, you have to follow my safety regulations, you two have to bring a few people, change shifts, and there can be no mistakes or omissions." ”

Human life is at stake, Shi Qiwang and Shi Guangcan all looked serious and nodded again and again.

"What I'm most worried about is that your young master, who is bold and anxious, has a special ignition person, and the biggest responsibility of the two of you is not to let him touch the gunpowder, and when it is blasted, he cannot be at the scene."

If something happened to Shi Zhenzong, Wen Jin would have to go around if she couldn't eat, she wrote out the terms of what she had just said, and asked the two of them to sign: "Zhenzong has already signed, if he doesn't listen, you two will take this out." ”

Wen Jin could only threaten that if Shi Zhenzong was disobedient, her contract with Shi Weicun would be invalidated.

Actually, it wasn't a threat, if Shi Zhenzong didn't obey, danger would follow, and Wen Jin should find a way to get out. Shi Zhenzong is really important to the people of Shiwei Village, a hundred times heavier than Wei Chenglan to Weijiawan.

Wei Chenglan is just the support of Weijiawan people, while Shi Zhenzong is a monument in the hearts of Shiwei villagers, people with faith can endure not eating or drinking, but they can't bear the collapse of faith.

Wen Jin returned to Weijiawan, where the ducks and fish had been killed, washed, put into a gift box, and put into a climbing plough with thick ice that stayed on the surface of the river.

"You can't come back."

"Uncle, I'm sure I'll go with you." Wen Jin also wants to visit more businessmen in Minghu City to lay the foundation for future development.

Wen Jin brought a change of clothes, sat on the climbing plow with a shed, and the caravan set off, the black donkey's hooves, tied with non-slip chains, knocked on the ice, making a clattering sound, although there are a lot of things on the climbing plow, but the friction on the ice is very small, the donkey walks very easily, Wei Chenglan controls the speed, every time he trots more than ten miles, let the donkeys walk for a while, so that they can get a proper rest, at the end of the day, it is easy to walk more than two hundred miles, and if you are faster, you can walk three hundred miles.

This time I went to the provincial capital and stayed for three days, not only to deliver the goods I brought and recover the silver, but Wen Jin and Wei Chenglan also visited several merchants who made food.

Wen Jin was very disappointed, the aquatic products and meat merchants in Minghu City have reached a certain scale, but the fruit merchants only make dried fruits, not fruits.

It's not that there are none, but there are no big merchants, only hawkers hawking along the streets.

"Then where did you get this fruit wholesale?"

"Pomegranate fruit is okay."

Oh, there is actually one, but in this pomegranate fruit shop, Wen Jin handed over the post, but they didn't let her visit at all.

This is a particularly proud, business is also a particularly big business, in Minghu City, the gate tower of the pomegranate brick carved pattern of the shop, none of them is not the industry leader, their business is not much, but there is a one, a big shop.

For example, pomegranate silk sells the best silk in Minghu City, and there are good goods that other families can't buy, and they also sell at staggering prices.

For example, the pomegranate silver building, one, two and three floors, each selling different classes, especially the third floor, there are special stairs, a set of heads, at least a thousand taels of silver, this price, not to mention the ordinary people, even the merchants who live in three houses and have three or two shops at home, will bow their heads when they hear this price.

But in Minghu City, there is no shortage of rich people, just because along the Jin River, most of the various boats coming up from the south have to stop and rest, and the transportation is convenient, bringing all kinds of consumers here.

The business of the pomegranate flower firm is only for the rich, and the goods are naturally selected, which occupies the characteristics of "new, strange, few, refined and expensive".

Wen Jin took homemade kiwi fruit to the pomegranate fruit store, and couldn't even enter the door, although when she introduced it, she raised the price to a high position of one or two silver boxes, and people still disdained it.

Wen Jin is not in a hurry, her kiwifruit planting base has not yet been built, and now, it is just a stone to ask for directions and lay a foundation.

"If you don't pass it on, forget it, this box of candied fruit will be left to you uncle, so you can taste it, it's definitely delicious."

Just now he kept saying that he would get a tael of silver for a box, but now he just gave it away, Menzi's eyes became very sharp, and he seemed to treat Wen Jin as a liar.

"Uncle, what if I bring it back? A tael of silver, I'm not rare, give you a taste, someone knows how delicious it is, doesn't it? The gatekeeper's face was slightly pale, and he finally said something that could be heard in his ears: "This little brother, it's not that I am difficult for you, our big shopkeeper, that is what a small merchant like you can see?" You'd better come by other means. ”

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