Chapter 51. Husband and wife are of the same heart
"Madam, I wonder how this wood is used?"
"Well, do some of the big and small, the big ones that can stand on the table, the small ones that can be done in this way, and the carvings are more delicate. This handle was made by someone from our village? ”
"Yes, I found that the glass was very cut, so I asked Carpenter Liu to make it, and he still inlaid it."
"Not bad! I asked Chen Li to recruit some more people to increase their efforts to make glass and glass mirrors, including carpenters, and you can study and make glass with peace of mind. ”
"I listen to Madame." Ma Tao felt that he couldn't control others, but when it came to the technology of burning glass, it was definitely no problem.
Afterwards, Su Yan rewarded Ma Tao with fifty taels of silver, and the people in the village were very envious when they found out.
Su Yan also promised that in addition to the monthly money every month, she would also give them dividends at the end of the year. Ma Tao and Carpenter Liu were overjoyed.
The news slowly spread to the ears of the villagers, and when the villagers found out, everyone was eager to enter the workshop to do things. Although there is no worry about eating and drinking in the village, no one thinks that silver bites hands, right? For a time, many people signed up for glass workshops.
Su Yan took the mirror and showed it to Pei Jing.
"How about selling this to those rich and noble families?"
Pei Jing looked at the face in the mirror in a daze, he was surprised that the mirror was so clear, and at the same time, he was even more surprised that his complexion was so dark. It's completely bronze. Compared with Su Yan next to her, it is a day apart. Although men don't have to be so white, they are not unbeautiful.
"Ahem... I'll see it! Pei Jing was stunned for a while before coming back to his senses. You can keep this mirror, and when the new one is made, I will take it to Weibei City and sell it. ”
"Okay, then I'll leave this sale to you. I just have to do it, let's husband and wife work together to break the gold! ”
"Yan'er is born in August! When the time comes, we will be truly husband and wife. Pei Jing circled Su Yan, the faces of the two were very close, and in the palm-sized mirror, the faces of the two were very close.
Su Yan's face in the mirror immediately turned crimson, and she glared fiercely at Pei Jing in the mirror.
Pei Jing didn't care, and dropped a kiss on the top of Su Yan's hair.
Before June, the corn is ripe. Because there are only more than two acres of corn, Su Yan is reluctant to pick and eat the corn when it is tender, so she leaves it to hang on the corn stalk and grows into a hard corn cob.
"Madam, these two and a half acres of land actually produced three thousand one hundred and fifty-three catties!" Wu Jinsheng looked at the record book in his hand and looked surprised! He always called Su Yan his wife in front of everyone.
"What!"
"So much!"
"Oh my God! We don't have to go hungry anymore! ”
The crowd instantly stirred. Everyone scrambled to see what was going on in front of Chen Li.
Su Yan was not surprised, this corn kernel is a seedling raised with gourd water, and the yield of the corn is not high, nor low according to modern comparison, it is estimated that the original corn seed is still a little worse. In addition, it is a new land, which will also pull down production.
Several masters of Panlong Village have long been curious about this high-yield grain, and they know that today's corn harvest will be lively.
"With this thing, don't we have to rob it?" Ge Zhuang touched his chin and looked pensive.
Several other people were also silent, this world is getting more and more difficult, they go to those rich families to collect filial piety, when did those people not cry that the world is not easy? Although they went down the mountain again and again to get back the money, their conscience was tormented.
"Thank you all! The corn was peeled and dried, and when it was dry, we tasted it first, and in July, we planted another 100 acres in the new land. Su Yan said, peeling off the corn cob with her hands and feet, and knotting her coat.
Su Yan's words woke several brothers from their contemplation. Several people glanced at each other, Lu Rong took a corn cob with his hands behind his back, and the corn peeled off the coat.
"Madam, how do you eat this?"
"This is dried and ground into flour, which can be eaten as cakes or corn steamed buns in flour. It is also possible to cook porridge. Su Yan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained, she didn't even react at first that Lu Rong was calling her. Because of what happened to her at the beginning, several masters in the village came out of Wu Jin, and several other people were quite cold to her, until the lone wolf village attacked the mountain, and she organized people to treat the injured, and those people accepted her as the wife of the owner of the village, but they did not very envelop her, the wife of the owner of the village.
Usually, Su Yan doesn't have any intersection with these people. This Lu Rong suddenly spoke to her so politely, she was really a little flattered.
"How does Madame know so much?" Lu Rong's eyes moved slightly, there are so many ways to eat this thing, it can completely replace the staple food.
Pei Jing looked at Lu Rong's eyes, stood behind Su Yan, and gently put his hand on her shoulder.
"I asked." Su Yan glanced at Pei Jing with excitement on his face a little inexplicably. But she didn't notice anything, turned around and excitedly shouted from everyone, "Everyone is okay, come and peel corn!" After drying, we cook polenta and eat it! ”
"I'm fine, I'll peel it!"
"I'll peel it too." A seven or eight-year-old shouted.
Everyone was very curious about this corn, and they all rushed to peel the corn, although they rushed to peel it, but they were very careful to move, for fear of breaking the skin of the corn. There are many people with great strength, and in less than a moment, more than 3,000 catties of corn were stripped of their essence.
Everyone took bamboo poles to string the corn and hung it under the eaves to dry.
At the beginning of July, the sweet potatoes are growing well, and the leaves are fat and lush. Su Yan counted the time and asked Chen Li to arrange for a few people to find a suitable place to dig a cellar for storing sweet potatoes.
Within a few days, the sweet potato leaves appeared yellow, and Su Yan led people to the sweet potato field, cut off the sweet potato vines, picked up a hoe and began to dig sweet potatoes.
A hoe went down, and a large piece of soil near the root of the sweet potato was dug up. When the people next to him saw it, their eyes widened involuntarily. Surprisingly unanimous in my heart, I was amazed at Su Yan's strength.
Su Yan had seen her grandmother digging sweet potatoes before, so she naturally knew that sweet potatoes should be hoeed a little on the side, otherwise it would be easy to dig up sweet potatoes. "When you dig later, dig away from the roots, don't dig the sweet potatoes." As she spoke, she reached out and pulled the sweet potato root out of the soil.
There are a lot of sweet potatoes in the soil, the smallest one is the size of a child's fist, and the big one is the size of a basketball. There are more than a dozen sweet potatoes in one uprooted. Everyone was stunned.
This sweet potato is several catties by visual inspection! This is not over, Su Yan picked up the soil, and there were still a lot of sweet potatoes in the soil, which needed to be dug out one by one with a hoe.
"You can dig it, everyone dig carefully, the dug sweet potatoes are easy to spoil." As soon as Su Yan gave an order, there was nothing that should not be done.
"Got it!" At this time, everyone is eager to try, eager to dig out the sweet potatoes in front of them one by one. They are all people who have fled the famine, but they know the importance of food too well!