Chapter 418: Fighting Horses into the Village
In the end, Wen Yao and Luo stayed behind to prepare to make canned food, and there was also Li Yi, who was embarrassed to be called, and Deshun, who was close to him, and everyone else followed Wen Laohan up the mountain to pick cherries.
This mountain full of cherry trees, the weather is good these days, the sun is shining, and the cherries are ripening faster.
Can Wen Laohan not be in a hurry? I didn't know that this thing was easy to break before, but now that I know, I can't wait to keep it under the tree every day, and pick it off when it's ripe, not to mention that now Wen Yao's girl still has a way to store it, so he can't sit still for a day.
Fortunately, the family is united, and they don't feel that this fruit mountain has nothing to do with them, so they find reasons not to work, and basically everyone works very seriously.
While they were going up the mountain to pick cherries, Wen Yao called Xunfeng and drove the carriage straight to Yunwu Town, bought rock candy and clay pots, and let them buy everything they could, and also ordered a lot of the same size for the people who specialize in making clay pots, and sent them directly to the Wen family in Gutong Village when they were ready.
Everything was ready, and at noon the cherry picking army came back, sent the cherries home, and then began to wash, dry the water, fill the rock sugar and start steaming, and then sealed the jar and put it in the cellar for storage.
The Wen family's cellar was dug deep, and the temperature was not high all year round, so for the sake of insurance, Wen Laohan asked Wen Yao to get a lot of ice and put it in the cellar to maintain the temperature of the cellar.
The old man is so attentive and positive, the rest of the Wen family will naturally not go to this interest because the money earned by this fruit mountain has nothing to do with them, except for going out every day, they are basically helping the family pick cherries and make canned food.
Over the course of a decade, most of the cherries on the mountain were canned and placed in the cellar, and only some late-ripening ones were still hanging on the trees.
Looking at the sparse cherries on the tree, Luo Che persuaded Wen Laohan: "Don't make canned food for the rest, you have to give them away at home to return favors, and then take some to sell, the people in the village have long said that they want to try it." ”
Although he was a little reluctant, Wen Laohan still nodded.
"Okay, listen to you, everyone is tired during this time, buy more food tomorrow and have a good meal." After Wen Laohan finished speaking, he greeted everyone in the forest.
"Okay, don't pick it off, that's all for this year."
Wen Laohan knew very well that even if it was selling canned food, it was only a matter of one season a year, but he was content.
"Master, what about these?" Moon Young ran over with her basket and asked.
Wen Laohan looked at his granddaughter's gluttonous appearance, and smiled helplessly: "Eat it yourself." ”
"Okay, thank you." Although Wen Ying usually eats secretly when she picks it, how can it be the same as eating it openly.
After speaking, she grabbed a handful and stuffed it into her mouth, and ran away with the rest: "I'll take it back to my eldest sister and second sister to eat." ”
Wen Laohan saw that she was running in a hurry, for fear of falling, so he could only shout from behind: "You run slowly, don't fall." ”
But where is there still a little bit of Wen Ying's figure, Wen Laohan couldn't help but complain: "Why is it like a rabbit." ”
Luo Zhi continued: "No matter how rabbit it is, it is also the rabbit of your old Wen family." ”
Wen Laohan: "......"
The others also came out with their baskets, and Luo looked at the baskets of the two daughters-in-law and said, "Send them to your mother's family." ”
"Eh, thank you, mother." The two of them thanked each other again and again, and planned to go back to their parents' house in a while, after all, the cherries would not taste good if they were left for two days.
As for the rest, when I got home, Roche divided a few portions.
"Send this to the village chief."
"This, send it to your second uncle's house."
"Whomever are you going to send to deliver these yourself?" Roche stuffed a basket in the hands of Wen Laohan.
Wen Laohan smiled, or the old woman understood him.
Luo took out some more and prepared to take it home for Xiao Luo, and took some beautiful ones in a food box and sent them to Chen County.
The Zhang family, Xiaojiao's grandmother, all those who have some dealings with the Wen family are basically arranged.
Finally, there was the academy, and the gentlemen of several cubs and the dean of the academy also sent them.
The rest can be sold.
Wen Xiuzhu carried the basket and prepared to send it to the village chief's house, thought for a while and asked, "Mother, if the people in the village ask us how to sell it, what will I say?" ”
Luo Shi paused and glanced at Wen Yao.
Wen Yao waved her hand indifferently: "Milk, you and my grandfather will do it." ”
Roche looked at Li Yi again.
Li Yi: "Listen to you and Grandpa Wen." ”
Only then did Luo look at his second son: "If someone asks you, you will say that fifty wen a catty, there are so many left on the mountain, and it will be gone after it is sold." ”
"Okay, then I'll send it to the village chief's house." After speaking, Wen Xiuzhu went out.
Li and Cai also packed themselves, and in addition to cherries, they also brought some extra food and a few pieces of cloth to their parents' family.
"There are also two pieces of meat in the kitchen, and our family is not short of such a little now." Roche Road.
The two of them thanked each other for a while, and when Wen Xiuzhu came back, the four of them drove the ox cart out and accompanied their respective daughters-in-law back to their parents' homes.
Wen Xiuzhu went out, and someone came to Wen's house to buy cherries that afternoon.
Although the fruit is expensive for fifty wen a catty, it is not unaffordable for every family to eat it now, they have never seen this new thing, and it is not impossible to buy it back for the family to taste fresh.
Originally, Luo was worried that the price of fifty wen would be too expensive, and he was afraid that not many people would be willing to do it, but as a result, most of the people in the village bought it, and some even bought two catties or three catties.
When the cherries on the mountain were almost picked, and there were only a few catties left, Luo Che and Wen Laohan sighed: "Look, it's really different, who is willing to put it on this before." ”
Fifty wen a pound of fruit, a farmer like them, will buy it and eat it when their brains are not good.
But sighing to sighing, since the fruit is sold out, the two of them can calm down and count how much the remaining cherries have been sold.
I didn't expect that these cherries left on the mountain alone would be sold for more than ten taels of silver.
After the inventory was completed, Roche put the money box directly into the hands of the old man Severn.
"You can keep it for yourselves."
Wen Laohan held the money box and looked confused: "Huh? Keep it for myself? Then, don't you collect all our money? ”
Roche patted the clothes on his body, glanced at him, and said faintly: "I can take out any one of my boxes more than yours." ”
Wen Laohan: "......" pierced his daughter-in-law's heart.
However, he still went back to the house with his money box and found a place to put it away.
He will also be a rich man of his own in the future.
After a period of time, suddenly one day, the originally peaceful Gutong Village suddenly ushered in a rapid sound of horses' hooves.
A group of men and horses from unknown places rushed into the village on horseback.
When the fleeing victims came, the members of the escort team that had been formed when they heard the news, they simply left their work and rushed out with their things.
By the time they arrived, the team had already arrived at the door of Wen's house.