Chapter 36: More than a dozen acres of sugarcane fields
"Although my family is not short of food and drink, it is not rich enough to raise six people for nothing."
"Then I don't care, anyway, you have to solve my eating and drinking, otherwise I won't let Zhao Di go." Qin Shi craned his neck and said scoundrelly.
Song Qiaoqiao heard this, and immediately laughed angrily: "Second aunt, you took this set again, didn't you really think about these three sisters?" ”
Cheng Qingwan looked her up and down, and said with a smile: "I see that you have sound hands and feet, no matter how you look at it, you don't look like a disabled person, why can't you even cook a meal?" ”
Song Pandi rubbed her swollen and aching forehead and said, "How can she cook, her mother's family depends on her mother, her mother-in-law's family relies on her concubine before she separates her family, and she relies on her daughter after she separates her family." ”
Song Zhaodi walked out with the two of them and said, "Miss Cheng, don't take what my mother said to heart, people who don't work have nothing to eat, I know this." You just have to follow your come, my family, and I will take care of it. ”
Cheng Qingwan nodded with a smile and chuckled: "Some people still can't get used to it, so as not to kick their noses." ”
Looking at the person in front of her and nodded, she took Song Qiaoqiao back to her house.
As soon as Cheng Qingwan entered the door, she took off her heavy cotton clothes and walked behind Lian Zhi, who was settling accounts.
"What are you writing about?"
Lian Zhi put down his pen and sat down with a smile: "Aunt Cheng said, you plan to open a shop in the town, and I will settle the account." The better stores in the town cost about forty or fifty taels a year, and if you want to buy them, you have to start at three hundred taels. ”
"It's so expensive." Cheng Qingwan held her head and underestimated softly, but she didn't expect that the housing prices were outrageously high in ancient times.
Lian Zhi nodded, and took out another piece of paper: "Counting the tables, chairs and benches, and counting the raw materials for purchases, we have to save at least five hundred taels." But if we open a restaurant, we can still judge a lot of money, after all, we don't have to buy these ingredients grown in the field. ”
Cheng Qingwan looked at the person in front of her and moved the abacus, and rubbed her swollen and painful forehead: "If you really open a store, you will be a proper settler." ”
Lian Zhi looked at the person in front of him dotingly, and said helplessly: "Sister Wanwan." ”
Cheng Qingwan smiled and glanced out the window: "It's the fourth day." ”
Lian Zhi thought he was talking to her, and subconsciously looked up, only to see the person in front of him touching the bracelet on his wrist and looking out the window.
She blinked, deciding not to see it, and lowered her head to fiddle with the abacus.
In the afternoon, the snow was a little lighter.
Cheng Qingwan didn't know where to bring a bunch of wood and put it in the yard to knock on it, Song Qiaoqiao sat next to her for an afternoon, and she couldn't see what she was doing.
Until a few days later, a complete sugar truck appeared in everyone's eyes.
"Wanwan, what are you doing this?" Cheng Hua'er looked left and right, and then asked.
"I know, because sugar is too expensive, Sister A's plans to make it herself." Lian Song poked out his little head and said with a smile.
"Yes, that's right. It just so happens that we have sugar cane, so we'll make it ourselves. Cheng Qingwan said with a smile: "Sugarcane is ten cents a catty, and sucrose can be doubled, twenty cents a catty." ”
When Song Qiaoqiao heard this, she stepped forward and took her hand and looked at it: "Why is this hand so coincidental, my aunt should really hope to have a daughter like you." ”
Cheng Qingwan rolled her eyes with a smile, said a few words to the poor mouth around her, and then hurried back to the house to warm up.
The heavy snow fell until mid-December, and the day after the snow stopped, Cheng Qingwan took people to harvest sugarcane.
Song Zhaodi's sisters had already stood on the edge of the field and waited, and when they saw that people were coming, they hurriedly walked up.
Cheng Qingwan pointed to the five fields and said to them: "These are all of them, let's just take them all." ”
Song Zhaodi nodded, and then took her sisters to the field to harvest.
In addition to eating, everyone spends the rest of their time shuttling through the sugar cane fields that are taller than people.
At the end of the day, one by one, my waist couldn't straighten up.
Cheng Qingwan returned home with sugarcane, had dinner, and after a little rest, she took a few sugarcane and tried to make cane sugar.
She squeezed the juice first, strained it, and then took it to the kitchen and cooked it over high heat.
When there are bubbles, remove the floating impurities and then cook them over low heat.
After about a quarter of an hour, her chopsticks, dipped in a little sugar, put them in cold water, and when they saw that they solidified, she put the sugar on a plate on the side and let it cool.
After Cheng Qingwan did all this, she was so sleepy that she began to yawn, so she quickly washed up and went to bed.
When she got up the next day, Cheng Qingwan saw that the sugar had solidified, and even went to the field a little more cheerful.
After two or three days, these four plots of land, more than a dozen acres of sugarcane, were finally harvested.
Cheng Qingwan slowed down in bed for a day before starting the next step of making sugar.
She used her tools to juice while thinking about what to cook for lunch.
"That shameless one, how can you be a mother." Cheng Hua'er blushed and scolded all the way into the house.
Cheng Qingwan rarely saw a woman like this, and looked at Aunt Liu next to her with red eyes, so frightened that she thought something had happened, and hurriedly asked, "Auntie, what's wrong?" ”
"Zhao Di, this child's life is hard, there is no good from the bottom, and the bad ones are all carried by her alone." Aunt Liu wiped her tears and said as she stuck to the side.
Cheng Hua'er didn't care so much, and scolded directly.
Cheng Qingwan listened to it for a long time, but the more she listened, the more confused she became, she turned her head and looked at Song Qiaoqiao, who was accompanying her.
"Sister Zhaodi's life is hard......"
Hearing this beginning, Cheng Qingwan hurriedly interrupted: "I know that her life is hard, you say the point." ”
"The new pavilion chief in the town has a seriously ill younger brother, and he wants to find a good girl to chongxi these days. I don't know who told the second aunt, she went with the birthdays of her three sisters, and as a result, Sister Zhaodi was taken a fancy to. ”
Song Qiaoqiao said this, and the two people next to him sighed.
"When we went to deliver the salary, we happened to bump into the matchmaker looking at each other."
Cheng Qingwan listened to the word Chongxi, and there was a chill behind her: "Then, didn't Zhao Di object?" ”
"It's against it, and I can't get out of bed after being beaten."
Cheng Hua'er sighed and said softly: "Pavilion Chief's family, I said that I would give fifteen taels of silver as a bride price, and I would pay back five hundred wen every month." As soon as her waste father heard about this money, he didn't care if his daughter was willing, and if he dared to object, he would beat him first. ”
"Sister Zhao Di has a strong temperament, and she will not compromise even if she dies." Song Qiaoqiao lowered her eyes and wiped the tears that had fallen.
Cheng Qingwan listened to these words, and suddenly felt a little powerless.
In the 21st century, you can also call the police and let the police deal with it. Or, buy a ticket and go far. But what should this overhead dynasty do, can the government manage it, or send her to other places?