Chapter 96: Taking the Opportunity to Farm the Land
A familiar diner quipped: "Okay, Mrs. Zhao will be embarrassed, hurry up and talk about it, we are all in the light of new customers, listen again." ”
"Go, go!" Zhao Niangzi waved her little fat hand and took Xu Ling's bowl away, so that her man could add another bowl of hot soup and bring it over.
Xu Ling saw that her hands were red and swollen from the cold, and knew that the work of setting up a stall was definitely not easy.
Zhao Niangzi talked about the past, quite nostalgic.
Her maiden name is Xu Xingliu, and the people around her call her Xu Liuniang. When she was seventeen years old, she got married, but she was not married to the current Zhao Dalang, but to another person in the same village as Zhao Dalang.
In the past two years of marriage, she gave birth to a son and a daughter, and her life is quite smooth. Zhao Dalang also had a wife at that time, and he also had a son and a daughter under his knees, so the two would not have anything to do with each other.
Who knew that her man was working and drowned in the river, and she became a widow.
When Zhao Dalang's wife gave birth to her third child, she didn't cross the ghost gate, she left, and the child had no mother just after birth.
Xu Liuniang said while pinching the wontons: "She is much more beautiful than me, she is a good person, and her heart and eyes are good, God really doesn't open her eyes." ”
Xu Ling drank the hot soup and listened to her continue to tell.
Zhao Dalang's daughter-in-law also left, and his little girl was born without a mother, and she was so hungry that she screamed. At that time, Xu Liuniang raised more than a dozen sheep at home, and Zhao Dalang came to the door and wanted to ask for some goat milk for the child to drink.
The two of them went back and forth, and they actually looked at each other.
But they were widows, widowers, and children, and if they were together, the villagers would drown them with spittle.
The two of them didn't dare to say it at first, and when Xu Liuniang took care of her deceased husband's mother, before she died, her mother-in-law persuaded that Xu Liuniang was a pitiful, Zhao Dalang was a rule, and the two of them lived together, and the whole life passed quickly, so why care what others say.
actually supported his daughter-in-law to remarry and live with other men.
It was also her persuasion that Xu Liuniang and Zhao Dalang quickly came together, and as expected, there were indeed a lot of rumors in the village.
Later, Zhao Dalang separated from several of his brothers, sold land and took the children and Xu Liuniang's two children, and the two went to the town to set up a wonton stall together, and life was getting better day by day.
Now the eldest child of the two, who is fourteen years old, is a boy, and works as a shopkeeper in Deyue Building, Xu Liuniang still wants to take advantage of his young age to send him to study for two years.
When Xu Ling heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt her with a smile: "Is there such a coincidence in the world? The business I want to do is related to Deyue Tower. ”
Xu Liuniang was surprised: "What kind of business are you doing?" ”
Xu Ling said: "I send Chinese vegetables to Deyuelou, and sometimes I sell some other dishes. ”
"You actually offered the cabbage in their building?" Zhao Dalang laughed, "My son came back from rest last time, and he also mentioned to us that the vinegared cabbage in Yuelou was better than other houses, but I didn't expect it to be given by you." ”
Xu Liuniang was also interested, and she didn't pinch the wontons, dried her hands and sat next to Xu Ling, and asked with a smile: "Brother, do you have more dishes?" If there are more, let's give us some if the moon building can't be used up. ”
Other diners also cooperated: "Deyue Lou has recently made a few good dishes, and there are cabbages in them. Zhao Niangzi, if you can buy this little brother's cabbage, maybe you can really make the stall bigger, and you won't be used to make a night market! ”
Xu Ling shook his head and refused.
"I signed a book deed with Deyuelou, and the cabbage can only be sold to their family. But if Liuniang needs other dishes, she can talk to me, and I'll see if I can give you some. ”
"Brother Xu, what other dishes can you bring?"
Xu Ling said several kinds in a row, there are cabbage radishes that can be grown in autumn and winter, and there are vegetables that can only be grown in spring and summer.
Xu Liuniang said with a smile: "Don't make fun of me, where are the beans and cucumbers at this time?" It's not summer! ”
"Don't worry about this Liuniang, since I said it, there is naturally a way to grow it, you haven't seen it, some rich and noble families build houses with glass in order to eat summer vegetables in winter, and burn charcoal all day long, what can't be planted?"
"Ah, isn't that kind of food rarer than gold?"
Who can afford to eat!
Xu Ling said again: "Just don't build a glazed shed, and then go to the southernmost, where it's spring and summer all year round, and there is no snow, can you still lack vegetables?" ”
Everyone listened carefully, and they all agreed: "I've heard of it, but when it arrives with us, it's all frozen to death, right?" ”
Xu Linghan smiled, "Then who knows, I'm a vegetable seller." ”
It's a pity in my heart, if the Zhao couple really want to open a restaurant to supply him with food, Xu Ling can really come up with dishes that are out of season, but it will definitely cause a lot of inquiries and suspicions.
If it really comes out, for the current Xu Ling, it will be like a five-year-old child holding gold in the city, and he really doesn't know what trouble it will cause.
At this time, Xu Ling suddenly thought of the invitation of the scald man again.
If he could get on the boat of the scald man, wouldn't some things be much easier to explain?
But the scalding man is really not a good boat, and the grass platform team is one. Dozens of bandits all rely on those few stolen boats to survive, just like a makeshift leather bag company, and they can't even see a future.
The Zhao couple only thought that Xu Ling was joking, and also joked: "When the two of us save some more money and really open a restaurant, we have to ask Brother Xu to also provide food for our restaurant." ”
Xu Ling naturally agreed.
chatted at the wonton stall until the sky was slightly bright, and Xu Ling said goodbye and left.
After going out of the city and walking for a long time to reach a place where no one was, Xu Ling entered the space to load vegetables on the board car, thinking that if he had money in the future, he would buy a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere, so as not to run so far outside the city.
On this day, Xu Ling managed to send two trips of food to Deyuelou, each car had two or three hundred catties, and he made a net profit of four taels of silver.
Immediately after finishing the work, he left the city, took the opportunity to enter the space, and began to work with a hoe.
I can't always find the opportunity to enter the space at home, Xu Ling hasn't opened up the wasteland for several days, and his hands are itching.
Some of the early cabbages were old, so Xu Ling simply took the old cabbage and received the seeds on the wooden rack for preservation.
Pick the ripe cabbage and pile it together, and send two more carts to Deyuelou tomorrow, and he should go home.
In addition to cabbage, radish, shallots, coriander, gourds, lentils, and broad beans in the space...... Xu Ling bought vegetables and planted them when he was idle.
These dishes are not limited to autumn and winter, Xu Ling can't find a suitable reason to take them out, so he can only stack them in the space.
Anyway, as long as the vegetables are picked, they won't be corrupt, and you can make money by hoarding more and selling them a month or two earlier next year.
Xu Ling was inspired by the cabbage elder's ability to take seeds, so he left some for other vegetables that he had not picked, and wanted to wait for the seeds.
I don't know if there will be any changes in the mature vegetables in these spaces when they are planted outside, Xu Ling plans to give it a try.