Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 223

The dishes in Siweizhai are divided into: frying, frying, roasting, stewing, braised, fighting, hot pot, dry pot, and soup pot.

It can be said that people in Dazhou have seen more than they have ever seen.

There are fifteen chefs in the kitchen alone, eight for washing vegetables, five for cutting vegetables, six for side dishes, seven waiters, and Yufeng and Aofeng, the shopkeepers, for a total of 43 people.

On the opening day, Xu Xiaomi launched a half-price sale, which made most of the people in the capital come here to join in the fun.

It can really be described as crowded.I saw the carriage parked at the entrance of Siweizhai for a whole street.

The store was full of seats, among the bustling crowd, Yufeng, Aofeng, and the seven guys that Xu Xiaomi asked Jin Yulian to buy, shuttled upstairs and downstairs, very busy.

Accompanied by Xiaoxiang, Xu Xiaomi sat upstairs in the private room reserved for her by the window, looking out the window at the street.

Today she is wearing a pink and yellow tight dress with a purple cotton cloak over it.Combing the falling cloud knot and inserting a glazed step shaker, it further complements the pink and tender oval face with white eyebrows and picturesque eyes.

Xiao Xiang was still dressed in colorful lace clothes, she was very happy seeing the bustling scene downstairs.

Seeing Xu Xiaomi also had a peaceful face, drinking the honeysuckle chrysanthemum tea she baked herself in the cup, while watching the customers who came into the store downstairs for dinner.

Said: "Master! It's really easy to do business in this capital city. Look at how many people came to eat today!"

Using the lid of the teacup, Xu Xiaomi lightly brushed the flowers floating on the water and said with a smile: "There are a lot of people entering the city, and it is originally the richest place in the country. Doing business here is definitely more profitable than other places!

However, most of the guests who came today came for half the price! "

After hearing this, Xiaoxiang thought for a while and asked, "Master, can you make a profit if you calculate the half price?"

Xu Xiaomi put the teacup to his lips and pursed lightly, then slowly put down the teacup and said, "There is some profit, but relatively speaking, it will be less!"

After hearing this, Xiao Xiang said, "Then the master plans to only charge half the price in the future, or will he adjust the price after a while?"

This question is also what Xu Xiaomi is considering.In fact, this half price is only mentioned in the capital. In the past, the regular price in the Jiaoxiang hot pot restaurant in Jinquan County was only this price.

She wants to use today's price, and today, customers who spend 50 taels of silver here at one time will be given a membership card, and they will always enjoy this initial price from now on.

For new customers in the future, customers who spend up to 100 taels at a time based on the regular price will be given a membership card directly, and they can also enjoy today's price in the future.

After thinking about it, she asked Xiaoxiang to go downstairs to Yufeng and the others to convey her thoughts.

After Xiaoxiang walked out, Xu Xiaomi saw from the window several gorgeously dressed young people coming down from a carriage with the word "Mu" floating towards the gate of Siweizhai.

Xu Xiaomi thought to himself: The character Mu should be the car of Mu Yuanqing's family, the Minister of War, right?

Are these young men from his family?

Xu Xiaomi was suspicious in her heart, afraid that it would be bad if they bumped into her when she came to the store!

However, she turned her head and thought about it, in fact it was nothing, she just wanted to come here as little as possible in the future.

Now, I have to let Yufeng do the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the original plan.

At this time, after Xiaoxiang went down to explain and just walked in, Xu Xiaomi said to Xiaoxiang again: "Xiaoxiang, I saw some acquaintances, you go and ask Yufeng to cut the ribbon for me! In front of these people, I still It's better to show up as little as possible!"

After hearing this, Xiaoxiang backed out again and gently closed the door behind her.

As soon as it was three quarters in the afternoon, Xu Xiaomi heard the sound of firecrackers downstairs.After the sound of firecrackers, I heard Yufeng congratulating at the gate.

At the same time, he also briefly explained Xu Xiaomi's sales strategy to all the guests.After he finished speaking, the guests entered the store after a burst of noise, enjoying the rich dishes and changing glasses with their relatives and friends.

Seeing that the opening ceremony was over, Xu Xiaomi put on a veil and quietly left Siweizhai with Xiaoxiang.

Qiu Yongzheng in the palace was still desperately remembering the mill that Xu Xiaomi owned at that time.

He wants to build a water mill in Da Zhou's own place where conditions permit, so that firstly, water conservancy can be promoted; secondly, it can also mobilize the enthusiasm of the people.

He also asked the minister of the Ministry of Industry to accompany him to check the rivers and ditches around the capital.

In the end, he asked the people in the capital to take advantage of these few days and spare their time to help build embankments, ditches, and mills.

For a while, under Qiu Yongzheng's management of Da Zhou, the whole nation was thriving.

As for Xu Xiaomi, this year he planted a lot of peppers, eggplants, potatoes, and lotus roots that are not available in other places in Dazhou.

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the wheat harvest again, and she showed Qingfeng how many pedal threshers he had made at home.

Qingfeng told her that 39 sets have been made.

After hearing this, Xu Xiaomi thought for a while and said, "These are basically enough to harvest the wheat this year. You should find the right manpower so that you won't be in a hurry when harvesting the wheat."

Now, Xu Xiaomi has planted more than 300 mu of wheat in Xujia Village.Nearly a hundred acres of potatoes, and nearly a hundred acres of soybeans.Based on the characteristics of the ancient times that there were many people and little land, she could be regarded as a landlady.

Standing on the familiar land of Xujia Village, I watched the golden ears of wheat being blown by the river wind like tides, sweeping over in waves.

I am thinking of a beautiful vision in my heart: now, if I stock up enough food, by this winter, I will bring back all my relatives who took refuge in Dingzhou, and let them live the same life as before.

The Wei family's house in Jinquan County was destroyed, and the house must be built for their family at that time, so let them live in it!

Xu Xiaomi doesn't have to go to the fields by herself now, but she is busy with another thing all day long.

She knew that two hundred miles to the east of Da Zhou's capital, Ling Hai was close to the sea.She wants to build a fleet to go out to sea to do business, and bring jade, gemstones, and spices from countries she knows to Dazhou.

In that way, she can also take her business abroad, and then she might even be able to travel around the world!
With this beautiful dream in mind, Xu Xiaomi is full of confidence in everything she does.

After Qingfeng took back the wheat with the long-term workers at home, she asked Caixia and the others to dry the wheat and put it in the warehouse.

He also taught Qingfeng and the others how to grow rice. After the hundreds of acres of rice were transplanted, it was time to plant corn and the second crop of soybeans, peanuts, and potatoes.

This year, the water level of the Daqing River has been very low, and since the beginning of the first month, it has never rained.

After a few months, the water in the Daqing River is only flowing in the middle of the river.

After the rice seedlings were planted, the weather got hotter and there was less water in the river.

This made Xu Xiaomi very anxious. Seeing that things were getting worse, she asked Qingfeng to quickly build a few water trucks for use first.

After Qingfeng got the order, he drove out two water trucks overnight and pressed them on the gates of the ditches on both sides of the original mill to make people tread water into the ditches day and night.

However, as the weather gets hotter and the seedlings get taller, the fields need more and more water.

The water brought up by the two waterwheels was simply not enough.Therefore, Xu Xiaomi asked the long-term workers to dig a few ditches in the lower reaches of the Daqing River, and Qingfeng built more than a dozen water trucks for emergency!
Xu Xiaomi adopted the method of stepping on the water in the ditch at the riverside, and stepping on the water truck into the embankment. This is like a relay race, and the water is sent to the high place step by step, and the rice finally boils. Pregnancy heading.

At this time, it was already autumn, and Xu Xiaomi stood on the embankment, looking at the green paddy fields, he felt infinite emotion in his heart.

If it weren't for the Daqing River this year, there would have been no crops due to drought.

At this time, suddenly dark clouds covered the top of the head, and a gust of wind blew, Xu Xiaomi was thinking about something unknowingly: I wonder if Dingzhou is also suffering from drought?

Because, a few days ago, Xiao Xiang, who went to the capital to check the business, came back and said that there was hardly a single rain in all areas of Dazhou this year.

All local officials have reported the drought, and the emperor immediately reduced and exempted all local taxes.

Fortunately, this year the emperor in the capital personally went out to guide the construction of water conservancy, and this year the danger of drought was avoided.

However, it is different in other places, especially in the north, where the severe drought has caused all the crops to wither and there is not a single green leaf in sight.

Xu Xiaomi was worried about how many people would starve to death on the streets this year?Here, there are too few water conservancy projects, and people only rely on God's love to grow crops.

If there is a drought year, there will be no crops in many places. At that time, I am afraid that something will happen again!

Xiaoxiang said that she also heard a little-known thing in Siweizhai, which was the incident of Qiu Qiming bumping his head against a pillar in the Golden Luan Hall that day.

Xu Xiaomi just smiled and didn't say anything. In fact, Qiu Yongzheng was not very important to Xu Xiaomi.

I haven't paid much attention to him yet. I helped the Qiu family like that before because I was also entangled in it.

Now, she doesn't owe the Qiu family anything, and she doesn't have any interest relationship with those powerful people. She has nothing to fear except being forced by Qiu Yongzheng to live with him in the palace.

However, if Da Zhou had just changed its ruler and caused civil strife, it would definitely attract the attention of neighboring countries, and maybe a war would be launched at that time!
well!What every country fears most is internal and external troubles.She remembered that in the modern history she had learned in her previous life, it was because of the continuous civil strife that the Celestial Dynasty attracted the opportunity of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and burned down the Yuanmingyuan, which the Qing Dynasty was proud of.

If there is a day in this big week, I, a landlady who relies on farming for a living, will be dragged into the water again...

Just as she was thinking about it, her head and face were suddenly drenched by the oncoming heavy rain.

She raised her head, the bean-sized raindrops hit her face with deep pain, she hurriedly used her hand as an umbrella, covered her eyes and ran desperately to the house by the river and the lime kiln.

By the time she arrived, the heavy rain had soaked her thin dress.

Xiaoxiang was busy making clothes for the men in the gold pan with Yunxia and the others in the courtyard of Qinglong Town.

The sweltering weather forced them to move their sewing baskets to a shaded place in the yard to work.

At this time, the raindrops were heavy and everyone was busy moving their sewing baskets under the eaves, and Xiaoxiang remembered the owner who went out to see the crops.

It hurriedly dragged an umbrella and ran outside, but the rain was getting heavier and heavier, so it could only hold the umbrella and fly to Xujia Village. Fortunately, it was raining heavily at this time, and no one outside saw it.

(End of this chapter)