If Wei wants to use this cave to grow mushrooms, he will have to find Li Zheng in a nearby village to negotiate.

Although this mountain is a barren mountain, you can go to the mountain to cut wood and pick herbs, but if you want to lease the cave for a long time, you still need to reach an agreement with the villagers.

After the investigation of this matter is clear, we will see how to arrange it.

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Xie Jue and Xie Ying returned to the Xie family's courtyard first.

Xie Jue asked people to take these herbs down to be processed, to dry what should be dried, and to wash what should be washed.

"Brother, you can't mess up these herbs for me." Xie Ying advised.

"Sister, don't worry, you picked it yourself, I will definitely keep it for you." Xie Jue said with a smile.

"And the ointment just now, give it back to me, don't try to keep it private."

Xie Ying stretched out her palm and asked Xie Jue for the ointment.

This time, Xie Jue didn't take it out happily, but cheekily begged Xie Ying.

"Yingying, leave this ointment to me."

"Brother, what do you want ointment for?" Xie Ying said curiously.

"It's nothing, I just think it smells good, I want to keep it and smell it, and when it's hot, I'm reading at night when the market is harassed by mosquitoes, and applying this ointment may help me avoid this trouble."

"You'll be given what you need." Xie Ying is very generous to her family, as long as Xie Jue has a valid reason, she will not be stingy and refuse to give it to him.

Then Xie Ying added: "But don't forget that you have to give a gift back to Ruoruo, I asked you to bring some good things back from the capital last time, and you haven't brought them back to me until now, so I don't have any gifts to give to others." ”

Xie Jue shouted wronged: "Sister, you have wronged me, from last time to now, I have been in Xingshan County, and I have never left a single step, let alone go to the capital, how can I bring you something back?" ”

"Then what have you been doing in Xingshan County? Haven't you finished your work yet? Xie Ying asked.

"Some of them are busy, and there are still some things that need to be dealt with." Xie Jue replied.

The war was over temporarily, and he should have gone back, but because of the matter of the Seventh Prince, his grandfather ordered him to stay in Xingshan County for a few more days.

"That's it, I'm going to go to Taizhou Mansion in two days, His Royal Highness the Seventh is now in Fucheng, there are some things that need me to go over, and I'll take some time to come out and help you and Sister Wei buy some fresh things and come back." Xie Jue thought for a while and said.

"Okay, you have to buy it well, mine is not important, people have given me things several times, my return gift is decent, I can't be ashamed." Xie Ying admonished.

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass my sister." Xie Jue assured with a smile.

The brother and sister talked and laughed for a while, and then left the courtyard with today's harvest and returned to the Xie family's house.

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After receiving Wei Ruo's notice, the nurse immediately took action, and while telling her husband to buy what Wei Ruo needed, she went to talk to the villages near Xishan on behalf of Wei Ruo.

The process of negotiation was surprisingly smooth, and as soon as the nurse said that she planned to hire people from the village, the monthly salary was 150 yuan, and Li Zheng agreed without hesitation.

In order to respect Li Zheng, the nurse handed over the power of selecting people to Li Zheng according to Wei Ruo's intentions, and asked Li Zheng to elect suitable and capable young people in the village.

Li Zheng first refused, but after hearing Xu's mother say that if they were done, they would expand the scale in the future and need to hire more people, so Li Zheng agreed.

Because it is not easy to push only one or two people, but if there are ten or twenty job opportunities, he is relatively easy to arrange, and he does not have to worry too much about the villagers having opinions on his arrangement.

This is a blessing for them, a poor mountain village located in the west of Xingshan County, they have no skills, and their family has a little bit of thin land, and they don't have enough to eat when the wind and rain are good, let alone the past few years.

can have a job for them to do, and there are 200 yuan a month, which is enough to feed the family.

After the materials are collected, they are configured according to the ratio given by Wei Ruo.

It is packed into cylindrical mediums, like dead wood segments.

Then it was sent to the cave, and the follow-up work was handed over to the hired villagers Li Erniu and He Dong.

The content of the work is not complicated, mainly responsible for the care, to ensure that no beasts or people enter the cave to destroy, and then to observe the growth of mushrooms and report regularly.

Seven days later.

The first batch of shiitake mushrooms grown, and the nurse personally ran a trip, and after formulating the picking standards, she asked Li Erniu and He Dong, who were in charge, to pick all the shiitake mushrooms that reached the standard, and she sent the guys in the store to transport them down the mountain.

Immediately afterwards, the nurse sent some to Wei Mansion to Wei Ruo.

Seeing the first batch of shiitake mushrooms that had been successfully cultivated in the outside world, Wei Ruo's face was full of joy.

In just seven days, there is a harvest, and the cultivation cycle of shiitake mushrooms is really much shorter than other crops!

"Miss, what to do with these shiitake mushrooms?" Xiumei asked.

"Take it to the market and sell it right away." Wei Ruo said, "Then let Uncle Xu and them find a few more such caves near that area according to the standard of the first cave I found, and expand the scale of planting." ”

"Miss, shiitake mushrooms are not a staple food, and they are not easy to preserve, if we plant too much, if we can't sell them, we will smash them." Xiumei said worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to sell them all when we get bigger. We use the shiitake mushrooms that can't be sold to dry them to make dried shiitake mushrooms, and we can also make shiitake mushroom sauce. All of these can greatly extend the preservation time of shiitake mushrooms. "Wei Ruo already had a way to deal with it.

"Dried shiitake mushrooms and shiitake mushroom sauce? I haven't even tasted it yet, so I'm looking forward to it! Xiumei was eager to try.

"Wait until it's made, the first one will be for you to taste!"

"It doesn't matter how many tastes you have, as long as the young lady can grow more crops and earn more silver!"

Wei Ruozheng and Xiumei were happily talking about the mushrooms, and the front yard sent someone to inform them, saying that Miss Xie had sent a gift to Wei Ruo and was waiting for Wei Ruo to sign for it in person.

Before leaving, he also said that Miss Xie sent a lot of things, and asked Wei Ruo to bring more hands.

Xie Ying shouted several times to return the salute to Wei Ruo, so Wei Ruo was not very surprised when he heard this.

It's just that I don't know what gift Xie Ying has prepared for her.

When Wei Ruo came to the front yard, there were already many people standing in the front yard, even the Yun family and Wei Qingwan also came.

"Miss Wei." An honest-looking old man walked up and said to Wei Ruo with a smile, "I am the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion, and I am here to give the young lady a return gift on the order of the young master of my family." ”

Wei Ruo looked at a carriage pulling goods behind the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion and asked, "These are these?" ”