Originally, Qi Erniang sold apples, and it took half a day to carry a basket, but after selling for a few days, Qi Erniang's tongue for selling apples gradually grew, and a basket of apples was sold out, and the time in the morning was enough.

There was more and more free time left, and the second lady of Qi was so idle that she panicked, and she didn't want to go back to farming, so she wanted to go around and take a look.

She gave the handkerchief to Sheng Jiaojiao, and Sheng Jiaojiao looked at the embroidery technique on the handkerchief, and wondered:

"It doesn't seem to be the embroidery of our Zhishou County, it's a bit like the craftsmanship of the county south of Daze."

"Really."

Qi Erniang glanced at Sheng Jiaojiao unexpectedly, she didn't expect Sheng Jiaojiao to recognize it, and only said:

"That lady is a person from the south of Daze, the family was sent to our side of the barren area of Xinjiang because of sin, the family is slave, the poor really can't open the pot, so she married a widower in Huangguo Village, when I went, I saw her sitting in the yard with a big belly embroidery, that look quite standard, and saw that she embroidered well, so I took her a few embroidery jobs."

Qi Erniang, who has planted all her life, does not know the difference between these embroidery skills, but the old lady Qi and the second girl Qi at home always do embroidery work and go out to sell, she does not know how to embroider, and she has seen others embroider for more than ten years.

Therefore, Qi Erniang can see at a glance that the handkerchief embroidered by this widower lady is more exquisite and different than that embroidered by her eldest girl and mother-in-law.

She immediately saw a small business opportunity.

Sheng Jiaojiao glanced at Qi Erniangzi with appreciation, returned the veil to Qi Erniangzi, and said:

"The second aunt will take it to the market tomorrow to sell and see, if it sells well, you can collect embroidery work with this lady for a long time in the future, or you can invite her to come to the house to do embroidery work for Grandma and Auntie, and it can be regarded as helping her supplement some household expenses."

She had told A-Niang before that she wanted to ask an embroidery girl to help her do embroidery work at home, and A-Niang also scolded her for spending money indiscriminately.

Now the widower's lady's embroidery work is still eye-catching, Sheng Jiaojiao invited her to come to her home, and the commission for the flower is not much, but it can make Grandma and Auntie work less.

That's right, in her previous life, Sheng Jiaojiao still thought that the embroidery work embroidered by her grandmother and aunt was good, but now she can't even get into her eyes.

If you want to say that the embroidery work is good, the embroidery work in Nanjun is the most exquisite, the women in Nanjun are skillful, and most of the embroidery girls in the palace are from Nanjun.

Sheng Jiaojiao told Qi Erniang about this, and Qi Erniang thought about it and said:

"She is a criminal slave, she was assigned to us, it is said that there are two sisters in the family, who are working as prostitutes in the military dormitory, and the money for embroidery work is not much, I think, it is already very good to give her this number."

She said, raising a few fingers, which is less than three-four tenths of Niu Ju's daily salary.

Qi Erniang wanted to say it before, in fact, Sheng Jiaojiao gave Niu Ju so much salary a day, which was already very high in Zhishou County.

Sheng Jiaojiao is like this, she seems to have been living in heaven, and she is not so clear about many small things about people's livelihood.

Life in the frontier is poor, the cultivated land is half dead, and the day's salary she gives Niu Ju can hire someone to do some murder and arson.

But because Niu Ju is Sheng Jiaojiao's only best friend from childhood to adulthood, she is willing to take care of Niu Ju more, and Qi Erniang doesn't say anything.

Only the matter of inviting embroidery girls at home, you can still save some is some.

Sheng Jiaojiao took Qi Erniang's suggestion and asked Qi Erniang to talk to the embroidery girl from the south tomorrow, and then go to deliver food to Niu Ju.

Niu Ju is a capable person, when Sheng Jiaojiao left, she built a square earthen frame for the sheep shed, and when Sheng Jiaojiao brought her food, the square earthen frame had already risen a little, with calf height.

Not only that, but she also picked a solid basket of herbs, side vegetables and apples, and stacked them on the edge of the sheep shed.

It's ridiculous.

Sheng Jiaojiao put down the bamboo basket she was carrying on her wrist and said:

"Niu Ju, you are really amazing, this cowshed is finished, you can build a grape trellis in my yard." "Grape trellises?"

Niu Ju wiped the sweat from her forehead, rolled up her trouser legs, stepped forward barefoot, sat on the edge of the bamboo basket, held the big rice bowl, and began to devour her meal.

The girls in Zhishou County are like this, they do their work well, but they also eat a lot of food, compared with Niu Ju, Sheng Jiaojiao's amount of food is like a cat cub.

Sheng Jiaojiao nodded and emphasized,

"That's right, grape trellises, even if I don't plant grapes, I can plant some climbing vines and flowers and plants, which is quite meaningful."

What is the mood? Niu Ju was stunned when he heard this,

"I've never heard of what a grape trellis is, how do you build it?"

So Sheng Jiaojiao sat beside Niu Ju elegantly and compared Niu Ju with what the grape trellis was.

Niu Ju shook his head while puffing out his cheeks and said:

"You can't build this thing without wood."

"Why is there no wood? Yes, my family has planted so many trees. ”

Sheng Jiaojiao supported her cheeks with both hands, looked at Niu Ju with a smile, and said in a low voice:

"Just go cut the wood in my backyard and I'll pay you more."

Niu Ju was cooking, and when she glanced at Sheng Jiaojiao's extremely cordial smile, she was very drumming in her heart.

I heard that the trees of the Qi family were forcibly bought by the subordinates of the abolished prince's mansion, and the Qi family did not like those trees.

Maybe it doesn't matter if they were sawn, but I heard that when the trees were bought, they cost a lot of money.

Niu Ju felt a little pity, looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, and asked innocently:

"Do you really want to cut down trees?"

"Cut!"

Sheng Jiaojiao made the final decision.

So Niu Ju settled down, and he was also arrogant:

"Okay, cut it, but don't give me processing money, you've already given enough money, and if you give me processing money, I won't come to work for you."

She is too honest and refuses to take advantage of her best friend, so the two salaries that Sheng Jiaojiao gave her can make Niu Ju work for her, if Sheng Jiaojiao adds money to her, Niu Ju will feel ashamed.

Looking at Niu Ju's honest face, Sheng Jiaojiao smiled,

"It's okay, I won't give you processing money, I'll give you meat every day, and you will work for me in the future, and you will eat at my house three times a day.

This line, Niu Ju thinks this is okay.

After talking to Niu Ju, Sheng Jiaojiao went home and told the people in the family, she spoke very skillfully, and she didn't explain anything in the col, only said that she hired Niu Ju to plant medicine fields, small vegetable fields, plant trees, build sheep sheds, raise sheep, and build grape trellises.

When this string of work was spoken, Sheng Jiaojiao's speech was fast, and the Qi family was dizzy when they heard it, and they naturally thought that Sheng Jiaojiao had let Niu Ju open up a few more plots of land.

Because everyone was very busy, they didn't ask where Niu Ju was going.

I only heard Qi Erniang think about it and say:

"It's okay to give Niu Ju two salaries, but since she has to do so many things for our family, she will go to the market to sell apples in the future, so let me do it."

Recently, Qi Erniang has sold apples, and she has sold a lot of experience, she likes to sell apples too much.

Sheng Jiaojiao also thinks it's okay, Niu Ju is okay to do farm work, doing business is always a little bit meaningless, if it weren't for Niu Ju selling apples alone, it is estimated that she would not make money.

It's better to let Qi Erniang go to sell apples specifically.

Anyway, Qi Erniang likes it.

In the hall, a woman was sitting and chatting, Sheng Jiaojiao sat next to Qi Erniang, tilted her body and said:

"Since the second aunt has to go to the market every day, it is better to cut some of the small vegetables in the backyard of our house and sell them, which is also the same entry."

The small vegetable plot in the backyard was originally only half an acre, but later because of its good growth, it was opened by the three uncles of the Qi family for half an acre, and now the land is open to the edge of the woods in the backyard.

These acres of vegetable land are in the hands of Jiaojiao, and Qi Sanniang will help take care of these acres of vegetable land while preparing the medicine field.

She used the fertilizer made by the Qi family to eat and drink the dung and water from Lasa, while the Qi family drank the water released by Sheng Jiaojiao.

Therefore, the vegetables in the vegetable field also grow well, and the medicinal herbs in the medicine field also grow well.

This growth rate is the same as that of other crops in Zhishou County, but the quality is much better than that of other crops.

The Qi family blamed this on the luck of the family, it was going to be developed, and the whole family business was going up, so the crops of the Qi family also felt this fortune and were growing in a good direction.

Qi Erniang thought about so many lush side dishes in the backyard, she had already had this meaning, and when she was selling apples, she also promoted side dishes by the way, and now Sheng Jiaojiao took the initiative to mention it, she was very cheerful, and she responded in one bite.

On the second day, before everyone got up, Qi Erniang began to work in the vegetable field in the backyard.

This time, Qi Erlang came back from Shang and brought back the three mules that the family had originally given him, Qi Huan originally had a mule sent by Tan Ji, and there were a total of four mules at home.

Before dawn, Qi Erniang took a mule, hung a basket of small vegetables and a basket of apples on the mule's back, and went to the market in a hurry.

Didn't even eat breakfast.

Qi Erye lay on the bed, touched the cool quilt beside him, and got up with a sigh.

He has always had a feeling lately, has his mother-in-law forgotten him?

But he recently saw light in the eyes of his mother-in-law.

Thinking of the second lady's radiant look recently, Qi Erye rubbed his soft heart, forget it, his mother-in-law has always been sullen and depressed, and now there is a rare thing to make her happy, so she went with her.

In this way, in the morning, while the family was busy, Sheng Jiaojiao called Qi Huan, who delivered goods back to the barracks, and Niu Ju, who had finished picking medicinal herbs, side dishes and apples, and the three of them ran to the back of Qi's house.

She pointed to the dozens of trees planted outside the backyard and said to Niu Ju and Qi Huan:

"Pick one and cut it down."

Niu Ju has never been outside the backyard of Sheng Jiaojiao's house, although she and Sheng Jiaojiao have a good time, but outside the backyard of the Qi family, there is a rugged and bumpy loess slope, and no one will deliberately go around here to walk this kind of not very good road.

As a result, I came to see it today, and there was a small forest planted here.

Niu Ju couldn't help but ask:

"Jiaojiao, how many trees have you planted in your house?"

"I don't know, I can't count it, Lord Chao said let's buy it, we can only buy it."

Sheng Jiaojiao replied very helplessly, which deepened the passive situation of her family being bullied by the people of the abolished prince's mansion.

Niu Ju didn't know what to say, these nobles were like blood-sucking locusts, obviously Brother Qi Zhang was promoted in the army, which was a very happy thing, but as a result, good things came, and bad things followed. Now the people in the whole village are envious of the Qi family starting to make a fortune on the surface, but secretly they are also shaking their heads and sighing.

They were looking at the subordinates of the waste prince, how to transport trees to the Qi family one by one, which did not make it clear that they were forced to buy and sell, but they saw that the Qi family was making a fortune, so they came to fight the autumn wind.

The Qi family is still partial to life, and they can't offend the descendants of this abolished prince.

Think about it, how humiliating it must be.

Everyone thinks that this Qi family hates the descendants of the Waste Prince's Mansion a lot, maybe even the Waste Prince.

Originally, some people said that Sheng Jiaojiao of the Qi family might marry a noble person in the future and become a golden phoenix flying out of this nest.

But now looking at the style of the abolished prince's mansion, the Qi family has been bullied like this, even if Sheng Jiaojiao does not marry for life, she will not be able to marry this kind of family.

Therefore, the more trees Chaozong went to "forcibly sell" to the Qi family, the fewer people who arranged Sheng Jiaojiao to marry a nobleman.

Niu Ju looked at the trees in the grove, walked to a small-leaved sandalwood, and said to Sheng Jiaojiao:

"Cut this one."

Sheng Jiaojiao turned her head and took a closer look at the tree that Niu Ju pointed to, if she was not mistaken, this tree should be small-leaved red sandalwood, right?

Small-leaved red sandalwood with grape trellises.

Sheng Jiaojiao: "Cut." ”

Under an order, Niu Ju cut down the small leaf red sandalwood.

Sheng Jiaojiao's hands were so tender that she couldn't do heavy work, and as soon as she lifted the axe, she was snatched by Qi Huan.

Qi Huan's head was so big that he looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, with a look of "don't help", and said:

"Sister, you go and get us some water and food, you don't have to be busy, I'm injured in a while, my aunt has to beat me to death."

After speaking, Qi Hua took the axe, and cut down another huanghuali on the edge of the small leaf red sandalwood.

Sheng Jiaojiao was a little painful, so she quickly dodged to avoid causing trouble to Qi Ju and Niu Ju, she went back to the house, carried out the clay pot, and took a bowl for Niu Ju and Qi Ju.

They brought down a total of three trees, namely small-leaved red sandalwood, yellow pear, and camphor wood

For the Qi family, who had already planted dozens of trees, cutting down three trees would not be an eyesight at all.

Niu Ju and Qi Ju even wanted to cut a little more to build a horse shed. Although the Qi family used to have a shed, half of that shed is now used for tethering four mules and half for drying straw paper.

The stables are simply not enough.

You'll have to expand it a little bit.

Therefore, after building the grape trellis, they can also use the remaining rosewood, camphor wood, and huanghuali to expand the stable.

Sheng Jiaojiao listened to Niu Ju and Qi Huan discuss, she silently bowed her head, rubbed her eyebrows, and made a reliable conscience suggestion:

"Let's just make some furniture and make a set for each room."

(End of chapter)