"No, no, don't worry about the affairs of the Xiao Mansion, my father has already made arrangements, and Yuchen's daughter-in-law is also very good and capable, my eldest sister can't stretch her hand too long. Besides, he hopes that I can live a good life with you, and I can't interfere in my mother's affairs. "What Wen Jin said is also the truth, Xiao Yi and Xiao Yuchen, and Mrs. Xiao will never allow her to leave her man and live in her mother's house for a long time for Wen Jin's happiness, let alone allow her to change her husband's decision for the sake of her mother's family, since Wen Jin wants to live a good life in this society, she still tries to follow the rules of this society, she has done a lot of things out of the ordinary.

Qian Jun still felt a little guilty, but he didn't say anything, and after a long time, he would let his wife know how good he was one day.

There is seafood in the port city, but if it is too simple, it is not as delicious as ordinary vegetables, especially the mainlanders who are not used to such a strong smell of the sea feel so, therefore, although Wen Jin liked seafood in his previous life, he didn't eat much here, mainly because the taste of the locals is too light, almost all the seafood, either steamed, or stewed, sprinkled with salt and served, in their words, it was so delicious that it was incomparably delicious, but Wen Jin and Qian Jun were smoked by the strong fishy smell before they walked to the table. Not to mention that it can be eaten, later the cook cleaned the seafood according to Wen Jin's analogy, marinated it with ginger and shallots, and then fried, stewed, and steamed, and the local people admitted that it was more delicious.

The two of them first visited the village outside the city for a few days, there are rice fields everywhere, there are few large lychee orchards that Wen Jin has seen in his previous life, but they are planted in front of the house and behind the house, on both sides of the road, this year's lychee is still a big year, it is very dense, although it is still green, it still arouses Wen Jin's gluttony, it seems to have eaten a sour and sweet delicacy, and he can't help but salivate.

Qian Jun had been paying attention to Wen Jin all the time, but suddenly saw a crystal water thread flowing from the corner of her mouth, and before she could react, Wen Jin suddenly swallowed her saliva back, and he laughed out loud with that embarrassed look.

Wen Jin said in disguise: "This fruit is delicious at first glance." ”

"This is a lychee, haven't you ever eaten dried lychee? The taste is so-so. ”

"It must be delicious, haven't you heard that Yang Guifei loves to eat lychees, and Tang Xuanzong asked the post station to be sent from the south for 800 miles for her hobby?"

"Tang Xuanzong?" Qian Jun thought about it, why didn't I remember that Tang Xuanzong still doted on his concubine so much? ”

Wen Jin was embarrassed and squeaked: "Xu I remembered it wrongly, or I heard about it when I was a child." ”

Qian Jun let out an "oh", and was not suspicious, thinking that Wen Jin had lived in the countryside when he was a child, and it was normal for such a mistake to occur.

No wonder Qian Jun didn't know that lychees were delicious, although he had been here a few times before, it was not the ripening season for lychees, Wen Jin thought secretly. They further afielded into the port city, where there were only clumps of pineapple seedlings left except for the pineapple orchard, which was nothing to see, and went to the citrus orchard, where the little oranges had grown to the size of walnuts. Because pineapples and citrus are shelf-stable and can be transported to other places, and here is a port with convenient transportation, there are more orchards for these two kinds of orchards. Wen Jin saw it and was very happy: "Oranges are also good for canning, these somewhat sour fruits have been stewed in sugar water, sweet and sour are more delicious, but pure sweet is not beautiful." ”

"Then let's just buy a piece of land and build a Zhuangzi to make canned food, canned pineapples in the summer, and canned oranges in the autumn."

"Well, in addition to making canned food, you can also process plums, yingzi, and tangerine peel in the spring. Hehe, when the time comes, the goods will be like a rotation, the financial resources will be extensive, and what the prince wants to do will not be constrained by lack of funds. ”

Qian Jun glanced at his wife gratefully: "When we get through this difficulty, we can earn our own money and spend it ourselves, you can buy whatever you want, and you can have whatever you want." ”

Wen Jin smiled, she was not greedy, as long as the family was harmonious, smooth, and had food and drink.

Thinking that in two months, Jin Jin and Qian Qian would come over, Wen Jin still wanted to spend more time with her children, so she took advantage of the time now to make a good plan for a food processing factory, and adjusted the canning processing line to make it more hygienic and more productive.

Qian Jun is looking around for a place that can be made Zhuangzi, that is, to have water, and cheap, come and go, find a small hill in the northeast of Nangang City, where the stream is murmuring, the trees are verdant, the air is clear, the environment is quiet, the most important thing is that the surrounding land is sloping, not suitable for planting rice, the land price is very cheap, and it is seventy or eighty miles away from the port city, if you drive a carriage, you can go to the port city on the same day, and the delivery is very convenient.

Qian Jun and Wen Jin went to see the site selection together, Wen Jin was very satisfied, and Qian Jun sent someone to contact Li Zheng to start buying land.

Although it is relatively close to Nangang City, it is not on the traffic route, the population is not much, and it can even be said that it is sparsely populated, and the small mountain village is only one hundred and ten households, they choose a low-lying place to reclaim and plant, Qian Jun chose a semi-sloping land, which is overgrown with wild grass and bushes, or an ownerless wasteland, the land ownership is in the hands of the government, Qian Jun's next steward Liu Jing and the village Li Zheng made some contact, and soon returned to report that one acre of land is three taels of silver, and temporarily purchase a hundred acres, I was going to go to the county office to pay the money and go through the purchase procedures.

Wen Jin left the small village, but she always felt strange in her heart, and she couldn't say that there was anything wrong, Qian Jun saw that she was always contemplative, so she patiently asked, "What have you been thinking about these two days?" The gold and money are coming, just endure it for a few more days, don't be so worried, it's not good for your body. ”

Wen Jin shook her head: "It's not a child's business, I always think it's weird that we like that small village, but I can't think of anything wrong." ”

When Qian Jun heard this, he smiled slightly: "What's so difficult about this, let's go and see if we can find out?" He never dragged his feet in things, and just happened to have no urgent matters at hand, so he ordered people to prepare horses, and took a group of entourages to accompany Wen Jin to the small mountain village again, the scenery was still the same along the way, standing outside the village, Qian Jun looked at his wife with a puzzled face: "What do you see?" ”

"Xianggong, the people here only know how to open the fields and grow rice, why don't they plant trees on the slopes to grow citrus and pineapples? We are thirty miles out of Nangang City, and we can still see the orchard on the side of the road, but when we get here, there are only a few trees planted in front of the house and behind the house within a radius of ten miles, why is this? ”

Where could Qian Jun answer Wen Jin's question, so he called Liu Jing, who was following, to ask.

Liu Jing didn't think about this question either, and said to the master with a red face: "I'll go and ask Lizheng in Ma Village." ”

"Call someone."

Li Zheng Ma Shiwa is a thin little old man, his dark face is full of wrinkles, and only a pair of small eyes are very bright, which makes him more shrewd than the other people in the village.

Qian Jun appeared in the name of a businessman, and the other party didn't have so much respect, but only hugged his fists with a big grin: "I don't know why the guest official called the little old man to come?" ”

Qian Jun turned over and dismounted, and then asked: "There are many pineapple citrus growers in Hong Kong City, why are there so few here?" ”

Ma Shiwa stalled his hands: "It's not easy to sell." ”

"Isn't it every year that someone buys it in Port City?"

Ma Shiwa nodded: "We are here and the port city across the river, rapids and rapids, the road is difficult, or the year before last to build the bridge, to the winter and the road was repaired, this is good to go, we didn't expect to plant pineapples and citrus, thank you, guest officer, next year, I will plant some try." ”

Wen Jin couldn't help but praise: "Your parents here are really good, you can spend so much effort to build bridges and roads, which is a bloody investment." ”

"Not really!" Ma Shiwa sighed with emotion: "We are also following the light." ”

Qian Jun asked curiously: "Who did you follow?" ”

The old man lowered his eyelids, squeaked and mixed up, didn't tell the truth, Qian Jun and Wen Jin didn't ask, turned around and went to Hong Kong City, this inquiry shocked both of them.

Yao Guangyuan turned out to be a native of Hong Kong City, a few years ago he invited a feng shui gentleman to find a cemetery for his old parents, and he actually fell in love with Lao Heling, which is more than ten miles north of Ma Village.

The old crane ridge is like a white crane standing in a flock of chickens, far higher than the mountains next to it, the mountain is also steep, Mr. Feng Shui took a fancy to the part of the crane's back, said that if the ancestral tomb is built there, the children and grandchildren will be honored and noble, the blessing will be long, healthy and long, Yao Guangyuan heard the great joy, gave the brothers a large sum of silver, let them build the ancestral tomb of the Yao family.

However, there is a river between Laoheling and Gangcheng, and it is very inconvenient for the descendants of the Yao family to worship and worship, so a group of officials in Gangcheng began to build bridges on the Tongjiang River in order to tie up with this cabinet minister.

The city department contributed money, and the state government sent laborers and manpower, and it took three years to build before and after, and only then did they have the stable and spacious porous stone bridge when Wen Jin and the others came.

Almost all the people of Nangang City have served in labor, and Qian Jun asked people to inquire about it, and the stone bridge took about 30,000 manpower and took ten months to build.

"Cysts!" He pounded his desk angrily and told his uncle Shen Mingzhao about these letters.

If you want to buy land and build a farm, you have to spend money, Qian Jun is already a little tight, and this time it is even more difficult, fortunately, at this time, the person who went to pick up Jin Jin and Qian Qian arrived, Chunming jumped out of the carriage with Wen Jin's jewelry box, and his eyes were red: "Mrs. said to leave, and she left for so long at once, slaves and maids, slaves and maids are worried about death." ”

Wen Jin smiled embarrassedly, opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he felt that his throat was blocked, his nose was sore, and he was a little choked.

Jin Jin got out of the carriage by the nurse and ran over to Wen Jin: "Mother! ”

Qian Qian is a small person, and in two months, he actually forgot Wen Jin a little, and hesitated for a moment before rushing over, and the two unanimously chose to forget Qian Jun, so that the father stood aside, and looked at his wife with his two sons in his arms with great jealousy.

"Come, Jin Jin, Daddy hugs you, Mom hugs my brother."

"Daddy-" Jin Jin seemed to have just noticed his father, and while shouting, he raised his hands, Qian Qian saw it, and hurriedly screamed, squeezed out of Wen Jin's arms, and staggered to Daddy.

Qian Jun was happy at this time, one arm hugged a son, stood up and walked home, Jin Jin hugged his father's neck tightly, Qian Qian also wanted it, two heads against their heads, arched in Qian Jun's arms, and entered the house.

The next day, Wen Jin took Chunming, took her most valuable jewelry, and handed the silver ticket to Qian Jun: "Xianggong, if we don't do it, we won't do it, if we want to do it, we have to have a little strength, a hundred acres of land is too stingy, it's better to build a fruit base by ourselves." ”

Qian Jun was very moved in his heart, women in this society have no status, their sense of self-protection is particularly strong, almost all women are very tight with their dowries, and there are very few Wen Jin like this, who do not hesitate to give their dowries to men.

"What? Am I too impulsive? Seeing her husband staring at her without moving, Wen Jin asked in surprise.

Qian Jun laughed a little disguised: "You can do whatever you want, you can buy more land, let's open a big cannery, in the future, we will build a big manor in the orchard, the children will grow up, take the boat to walk around, play, come back when they are tired, be with us, eat canned food in winter, have fresh fruits in summer, what a good day." He took the silver ticket in Wen Jin's hand, but the excitement was difficult to hide, his hand trembled slightly, the last time he received Wen Jin's money, he promised to return it, this time, he felt that it was too hypocritical to say that, he wanted to use all his efforts to create a better life for his wife and children, which was much more useful than verbal promises.

Wen Jin didn't know that the land Qian Jun bought was in her name, that is, in the future, this manor would be her private property, and only her sons and daughters could inherit it, and Qian Jun and the rest of Prince Ren's mansion had no right to interfere.

On this day, Qian Jun took Wen Jin and her children to a big hotel in Gangcheng, where the seafood dishes and soups are very distinctive.

There is no private room in the hotel, and the second floor is considered a high-end restaurant, Qian Jun and Wen Jin went up with their children in their arms, and left the servants downstairs according to Xiao Er's request. The people who came to eat were very elegant, and their voices were small, not at all as noisy as the restaurants of later generations, and there were a few red-haired and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in the corner of the restaurant, Jin Jin and Qian Qian stared at them in surprise, but fortunately, they did not point or shout.

Wen Jin saw them skillfully using chopsticks, and knew that they opened a shop on the Foreigner Street in Nangang City, and they had lived in the Jurong Dynasty for not ten or eight years, but also for five or six years.

"Xianggong, we can also do business with foreigners."

"Foreigner" Qian Jun raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Do you mean those people?" ”

"yes, didn't they float from the ocean?"

"Hehehe-" Qian Jun was amused, and covered his mouth before suppressing his voice, "Mrs., you really know how to describe, foreigner, the name you gave is really vivid." ”

Wen Jin was secretly glad that he reacted quickly.

Qian Jun didn't dwell on the word foreigner, but continued to answer Wen Jin's question: "Pomegranate has just opened a shop here, let's not meddle in that, silk, porcelain, and tea are the favorite of foreigners, and we have no supply." ”

"Oh, I see." Wen Jin nodded happily, she couldn't chew too much, and she couldn't take too many steps.

At this moment, the two little two came in with a flower pot and placed it in front of the restaurant, the flower pot was planted, not flowers, but tomatoes, all of which were round and red, looking really auspicious and beautiful.

Xiao Er brought a few more pots of flowers and put them in a row with tomatoes, Wen Jin waited for Xiao Er to turn around, and hurriedly beckoned to him: "What is that?" ”

Xiao Er looked at it, bowed down and whispered to Wen Jin: "That is called Jixiangguo, it was brought by Fanren, and their name is Tumatu." The guests thought it was very festive, so we cultivated it and put it out when it was all red. ”

"Can you sell me a pot of horses? Whatever is decayed, as long as there is fruit. ”

Xiao Er hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The auspicious fruit is very expensive, it is the seeds brought by the Fanren from overseas to raise seedlings, we bought them, and the ones that we can't grow by ourselves are very expensive, and their seedlings sell at a very high price." ”

Wen Jin gave him a handful of copper, and Xiao Er immediately smiled with a smile on his face: "I just replaced a pot in the morning, maybe I can give it to you cheaper, I'll ask the shopkeeper." ”

The residents here like flowers, the fields and mountains are full of wild flowers, the rich and noble people may also go to the flower market to buy famous and expensive varieties, and the ordinary people dig a few seedlings from the mountains and put them in the house, Qian Jun is a little annoyed that his mind is too coarse, he didn't expect this, women like flowers and grass, he should buy a few pots for his wife earlier, I wanted to call Xiao Er, let him tell the shopkeeper, transfer a pot of fruit is red, but seeing his wife smiling and expectant, I don't know what she plans for a while, and I swallowed back the words to my mouth.

The shopkeeper sold a pot of ripe red soft tomatoes for a total of three seedlings in the pot, plus five taels of silver for the flower pot, Qian Jun paid a total of ten taels of silver for the meal, Wen Jin carefully picked the ripe tomatoes, Chunming helped her carry them with a food box, and the two male servants carried the tomato seedlings with flowers on the tips and the flower pots to the back of the horse, Wen Jin and Qian Jun sat in the carriage with their son, and the family returned home happily.

The two sons took a nap, and Qian Jun asked in a low voice: "Jin'er!" When no one is around, he still likes to call it that, "What do you want this auspicious fruit for?" ”

"Well, I've heard this one is delicious."

“？” Qian Jun's face was full of surprise, they still saw this fruit for the first day, where did his wife hear about it?

"When I went to wash my hands, the two mothers who cleaned the hotel secretly said that I was still puzzled and didn't know what auspicious fruit was, but I didn't expect the store guy to carry out such a pot."

"Did they say how to eat?"

"Peel the skin, cut it into pieces, and mix it with sugar."

"Oh, I want to plant it."

"Ouch!" Wen Jin patted his head, "You reminded me as soon as you said it, let's plant some." ”

"Okay! I sent someone to buy seedlings from Fanren. ”

"No, no, there are seeds in this fruit, let's plant them ourselves."

"Didn't Xiao Er say that he couldn't live?" "I'll try, I can't live anymore." Chunming walked to the door with the washed tomatoes, Wen Jin beckoned her in, she cut the tomatoes with a knife, put them in a jade-white ceramic basin, and then carefully fished out the seeds inside with a colander, there were fifty or sixty of them, and then put a few spoonfuls of sugar in the basin: "Pickle, and when Jin Jin and Qian Qian get up, you can eat it." ”

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