First, he stretched his waist, but his butt didn't hurt, because Tao Zhu sewed him a very comfortable cushion.

But after sitting for too long, his shoulders hurt a little, so he moved his hands and feet before opening the door and walking out.

Tao Zhu's attention has been on the hall, it is almost dark, Li Qiao should be coming out, at this time he really saw Li Qiao, he immediately stood up from the small bench: "Are you tired?" Brother Qian'er sent a basket of pomegranates, which is quite sweet, come and taste it. ”

Zheng Qianqian also saw Li Qiao at this time, and also said busily: "Brother Qiao, come and eat pomegranates, otherwise you will be eaten by Li Dashan!" ”

"I didn't!" Li Dashan immediately shouted injustice: "I left it for my uncle!" ”

"Okay, I'll try one."

Li Qiao opened her mouth with a smile.

The transportation in this world is not convenient, and the fruits from other places cannot be transported to Pingcheng, and there is no technology of counter-season, so Li Qiao crosses by himself and eats very few fruits.

Zheng Qianqian's family planted pomegranate trees, and now that the pomegranates are ripe, he has to eat a few more, otherwise in winter, he will have nothing to eat.

"The pomegranate that Brother Qian'er brought is big and red, and it is very sweet, but there are insects." Tao Zhu Road.

"It doesn't matter." It's too normal to have bugs on pomegranates, and Li Qiao doesn't care.

When he sat down at the table, Tao Zhu placed a small bowl of peeled pomegranate seeds in front of him, and a spoon was placed in the bowl: "Eat." ”

"Thank you, Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu is so good." Li Qiao thanked her first, then picked up the spoon and started eating.

Tao Zhu smiled lightly, picked up another pomegranate, and continued to peel the seeds.

Zheng Qianqian looked at this scene and glanced at Li Dashan: "Li Dashan, go find a husband who can peel pomegranate seeds for you." ”

“…… I don't want my husband to peel it for me, I'll peel it for my husband. Li Dashan hurriedly said.

"Hmph." Zheng Qianqian gave him a roll of the eyes, and then said to Tao Zhu: "Brother Zhu, I don't know what your sweet potatoes are like, anyway, my family's sweet potatoes have a bumper harvest this year, and my father said that I should eat more sweet potatoes this winter, otherwise it will definitely be spoiled." ”

He sighed, "I don't like sweet potatoes. ”

"I don't love it either, we can definitely eat together at dinner." Li Dashan interjected.

Zheng Qianqian ignored him, and still said to Tao Zhu: "Your sweet potatoes are not ripe yet, I asked my father to send a few sacks, right?" You and Brother Buckwheat help you eat a little. ”

"Dashan only used an ox cart to pull over three sacks in the afternoon, and now there is no shortage of sweet potatoes in my family." Tao Zhu shook his head.

"Then pay the autumn tax in a few days, and my family will pay the sweet potatoes." Zheng Qianqian's little face wrinkled.

He really doesn't like sweet potatoes.

"Then when the road is built, the big guys will definitely eat sweet potatoes."

Tao Zhu Road.

The summer tax must be paid for wheat, but the autumn tax does not have so many regulations, and all miscellaneous grains can be paid.

Some people grow a lot of corn, so they hand over corn.

Some people grow a lot of sweet potatoes, so they hand over sweet potatoes.

After paying the autumn tax, he immediately had to serve as a conscript.

The conscripts in Sanliu Village are building roads and digging rivers, and each family has a man, and the men bring half of their own dry food, and the government will also provide some meals.

The food provided by the government is from the grain collected in the autumn tax of that year, and there are many sweet potatoes in the autumn tax, so the food provided by the government at that time must be sweet potatoes.

Corn, millet, sorghum and other grains are not a problem for a year or two, but sweet potatoes are not.

In general, sweet potatoes can be stored in the cellar for three to six months, but if they exceed this time, they will spoil, so they must be eaten as soon as possible.

As for cutting them and drying them directly into dried sweet potatoes, the government doesn't have that kind of effort.

The government will only find a way to eat the sweet potatoes earlier.

"That's right, but I don't have to eat, my family pays for the annual servitude."

Zheng Qianqian said.

If you pay the money, you don't have to serve the conscription, and the Zheng family can afford this money.

In the past, the Tao family couldn't afford it, and Tao Zhu looked like a man, so from the age of fourteen Tao Zhu, he went to serve in the Tao family.

"My family will also pay this year." Tao Zhu Road.

"But your family will definitely have to pay for food, why don't you also hand over sweet potatoes, I'll sell my sweet potatoes cheaply to you and Brother Buckwheat, you can help consume them."

Zheng Qianqian still wants to push his sweet potatoes out.

There is no shortage of food in his family, and the sweet potatoes planted every year are kept for his own consumption, but this year's sweet potatoes grow well, and the yield per mu is one-third higher than last year, so his family has more sweet potatoes.

In the past few days, his family has sweet potatoes every day, he doesn't like sweet potatoes, he wants to dispose of the sweet potatoes at home.

"Li Qiao, look?" Tao Zhu turned his head to look at Li Qiao and asked for Li Qiao's opinion.

"It's up to you, little things." Li Qiao swallowed the sweet pomegranate in his mouth, this is really a trivial matter.

"Then buy the sweet potatoes of Brother Qian'er's house." Tao Zhu Road.

"Wow! I'll go home and tell my dad. Zheng Qianqian was very happy.

"Let's go back after dinner, when Li Qiao came back today, I caught some small fish, fried it later, and then paired with the barbecue sauce prepared by Li Qiao, it must taste good."

Tao Zhu wanted to stay with Zheng Qianqian for dinner.

"Good!" Zheng Qianqian nodded without thinking.

Anyway, after the work at home is done today, he will stay a little longer.

cough, the family's business has been getting better and better recently, and he has to do a lot of work every day, and he can see this big fool every day when Li Dashan goes to his house to buy meat.

finally came to his brother Zhu's house, and he stayed for a while.

Tao Zhu wanted to buy the sweet potatoes of Zheng Qianqian's family, and the Zheng family sent the sweet potatoes the next day, and this year's sweet potatoes were harvested, but they were scarce and expensive, so the price of sweet potatoes this year was definitely not as good as last year's.

Like corn, almost every household in Pingcheng grows sweet potatoes, and there are many plants in the countryside, and the people who do not grow sweet potatoes in the county consume less, and they can't be transported, plus sweet potatoes have a higher yield than corn, so the price of sweet potatoes has always been lower than corn, which is two pennies a catty.

Tao Zhu didn't let the Zheng family reduce the price, and bought 1,500 catties at a price of two cents a catty.

The reason why I bought so much is because the yield of coarse grains is higher than that of wheat, so the amount of coarse grains in the autumn tax is a little more than that of wheat in the summer tax.

In addition to paying taxes, Tao Zhu also wants to make some dried sweet potatoes.

Although he hadn't eaten the soft glutinous sweet potatoes made by Li Qiao in his mouth, he believed in Li Qiao.

Now the family spends a lot of money, although they earn a lot, but in fact, he and Li Qiao have no savings at all.

And now every day until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, he and Li Dashan and Li Chuntao can finish all the dim sum, finish the business, and the rest of the time is his own.

He either washes clothes, does housework, or is literate, but clothes cannot be washed every day, and he can do housework quickly.

In the past, he could still be tired of being with Li Qiao, but now that Li Qiao is concentrating on studying, he wants to find something to do to see if he can develop dried sweet potatoes into a small business.

For Tao Zhu's idea, Li Qiao naturally strongly supported it.

If the soft and glutinous dried sweet potatoes are not done well, it will not only stick to the teeth, but it will also be difficult to chew, but he will definitely not have these shortcomings.

The dried sweet potatoes he makes have a hint of firmness, but they are definitely not difficult to chew, and can be enjoyed by all ages. If you take it out and sell it, you can definitely sell it.

Recently, the weather is good, and it is very convenient to dry dried sweet potatoes, but if it is winter and the weather is gloomy, it is not suitable for dried sweet potatoes.

Li Qiao asked Tao Zhu to do more while the weather was good.

"If you do more, if you can't sell it out in one time, it will smash our hands." Tao Zhu was a little hesitant.

"Don't worry, this kind of dried sweet potatoes can be stored for a long time, and if you can't sell it out in one day, then sell it slowly." Li Qiao said.

"Good!"

With Li Qiao's words, Tao Zhu let go of his hands and feet.

In the evening of that day, Li Qiao, as usual, stopped reading when it was dark, and he came out of the room, ready to help Tao Zhu and the three of them make dried sweet potatoes.

At this time, a person appeared at the gate of the courtyard, Li Qiao looked intently, and saw the appearance of the person who came clearly, he was a little surprised.

It turned out to be the head of Zhujia Village.

Village Chief Zhu carried two chickens in his left hand and two ducks in his right hand, with a bright smile with a hint of flattery:

He has something to ask Li Qiao.

The corn business in Mochizuki Tower is booming, and according to this situation, if the corn is not mature next year, then Mochizuki Tower will be able to consume the corn of every household in Sanliu Village.

There is no corn in Sanliu Village, so Mochizuki Tower must buy corn from other families.

He came to Li Qiao, hoping that Li Qiao would give them this opportunity to supply Mochizuki Tower to their village.

Li Qiao's family's three acres of land are in his Zhujia Village, and Li Qiao also fell in love with the ten acres of special land.

Therefore, as long as Li Qiao is willing to give the quota for the supply of Wangyue Tower to Zhujia Village, then in the future, the villagers of Zhujia Village will spare five days of time every month to work for Li Qiao for free.

Although there are only more than 20 households in Zhujia Village, if one person from each household is selected to work for Li Qiao for five days for free, then it can actually do a lot of things.

For example, the corn and sweet potatoes planted by Li Qiao this year, more than 20 people can not only harvest all the corn and sweet potatoes in five days, but also plant winter wheat.

Li Qian didn't expect that Village Chief Zhu was looking for him for this matter, and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded and agreed.

Village Chief Zhu has a good attitude, and the conditions offered are good, so he has no reason to refuse.

However, he had to check with Shopkeeper Wang first to see if Yuelou could consume the corn in Sanliu Village before the corn matured next year.

It happened that Li Qiao was going to the county seat on the second day to get the iron pipe that was used as a sewer pipe, so Li Qiao deliberately went to Wangyue Tower.

He also brought dried sweet potatoes made of pottery bamboo.

Shopkeeper Wang was very happy to see Li Qiao.

When it comes to the corn business, it's even happier.

"Last time, the little boy Shen Hua, who studied the main family, suddenly came to buy 100 servings of corn juice and corn roast, good guy, I was busy with the entire Moon Tower, I went to roll up my sleeves and shake the meat grinder."

"After I was busy, I found out that it was Shen Hua and his cousin who brought their friends to Pingcheng to play, so Shen Hua bought so many copies."

"Needless to say, the taste of corn juice and corn roast is needless to say, yesterday there were a few rich guys from Wangyue Tower, they were all from Fucheng, and they came specifically to taste the corn juice of the roasted sausage Qingtuan."

Shopkeeper Wang couldn't close his mouth with a smile, and there were guests from Fucheng who came to taste the food.

The business has been done in Fucheng!

After hearing this, Li Qiao couldn't help laughing.

Very good.