The pastoral concubine of space

Chapter 201 Get the sapling
Winter goes to spring, when the winter snow melts, and after the stinging sting, everything starts to recover, and the farmers who have nestled for the winter begin to prepare for spring plowing one after another.

This year's Youxi Village is quite different from the spring plowing period in previous years. Everyone's face is full of excitement and anticipation, because they all know that if there is no accident, they will all make a lot of money this year and make a fortune. day!
On this day, the village chief who got the news in advance invited the villagers to go to the entrance of the village to welcome them. Some people who were late in the news wanted to ask what happened, but soon thought of what they had been looking forward to. Brighten up your eyes and quickly catch up.

As expected, when we arrived at the entrance of the village, we saw a group of horse-drawn carriages carrying a large number of saplings driving towards the village. Many people in the leader recognized at a glance that it was the servant Xiao Yunchu had taken in before, Lu Jiu.

Compared with the embarrassing and thin appearance when I first met Lu Jiu, less than half a year later, my whole temperament is different, my figure looks more upright, my complexion is rosy, my eyes are firm, and I am dressed in a suit. Jin Pao, who made no one in the village dare to approach him, said that he was a refugee who came to earn a living during the drought. I am afraid that no one would believe it. It would be more reasonable to say that he was the young master of a wealthy family.

Naturally, the villagers didn't know that Lu Jiu used to have a similar identity and background, but obviously these things are not the most important right now.

Although Xiao Yun sent a lot of New Year's gifts to several families in the village who had a good relationship with him during the Chinese New Year, after all, he himself has never been back, and the few hired workers who stayed in the yard rarely interacted with the villagers, so they were not uneasy. What if Xiao Yunchu regretted it and didn't plan to sell fruit seedlings to them?
Many people in the village inquired about the news when they were going to the market in the town, and some even went to the county town to ask about the situation. They all knew how well the rare fruits they had tasted or seen were selling well in Fucheng. The dignitaries couldn't afford it, and many people still asked around, wondering where they could get saplings of those fruits.

While the people in Youxi Village were proud, they carefully controlled their mouths, fearing that the cooked duck would fly away and be shared by others. At the same time, they eagerly hoped that the envoys of spring plowing would come soon.

No matter how good the promise is, only when they see the real thing can they really put their hearts in their stomachs.

When the carriage approached several years later, Village Chief Liu greeted him happily, and said to Lu Jiu in a very kind manner: "It's been hard work all the way from Fucheng, why don't you come to my house and have a drink of tea first?"

Lu Jiu shook his head, "No need, just unload the saplings. These saplings were just dug out of the soil this morning, and they are fresh. They should be distributed and planted early, so as not to be planted to death if they are not enough vitality. There are a lot of things that the master ordered to deal with, I have to go back today, and there is no delay."

"That's okay, where do you think we are?" Everyone in the village looked eagerly at the vibrant fruit saplings behind. In fact, everyone couldn't wait any longer, and Lu Jiu was impatient to entertain the village chief.

"Go directly to the master's yard, and the person who ordered the saplings will come over with the silver and pay the money with one hand and take the saplings with the other."

"Hey! Good! I'll tell the villagers right away." After saying this, many of the villagers who had kept their ears pricked up hurriedly walked back home to collect the money.

Although they all saw the juicy and fresh fruit saplings, they still wanted to pay the money early so that they could choose the best ones.

Lu Jiu asked the carriages behind to follow to Xiao's compound, and the hired workers guarding the yard came out to say hello to him, and then helped unload the saplings, leaving an empty cart for Lu Jiu to sit in when he returned. Yes, the others will leave first.

Afterwards, the chairs and benches were brought out from home and placed in front of the door. After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, many eager villagers appeared one after another.

"Everyone line up, come and report your name one by one, and count all the money. If it's not enough, you can only go back to the back line." The Wanbaolou clerk who came with Lu Jiu cleared his throat and said loudly.

Originally standing scattered, there were still villagers who were pushing and shoving forward, and then slowly lined up.

Lu Jiu took a look at the situation and saw that they were all peaceful, so he spread out the prepared pen and ink, as well as the original list of villagers given by the master, and said calmly, "Let's get started."

The first villager walked forward enthusiastically with a purse in his hand.

Lu Jiu glanced at the other party, "What's your name?"

"Wang Dahu."

"Wang Dahu... ordered a total of twenty saplings, [-] apple trees and [-] peach trees. Each sapling is [-] Wen, a total of [-] taels of silver. The deposit of [-] Wen is thrown away, and another [-] tael and [-] Wen are paid. .”

"That's right, that's right, it's silver, please order it." Wang Dahu unconsciously used the honorific, somewhat reluctantly but decisively shook out the silver and copper coins in the money bag, and rubbed his hands awkwardly.

The hired worker standing next to Lu Jiu neatly began to count the money, and nodded to Lu Jiu after confirming that it was correct.

Lu Jiu put a tick next to Wang Dahu's name and raised his chin: "You can go get the saplings now."

"Okay!" Wang Dahu happily followed another hired worker to collect twenty saplings from their family, and waited for the rest of the Wang family to follow and help after seeing this.

The people who came to line up basically came several times from the whole family, so many saplings could not be carried by one person alone.

Seeing that Wang Dahu had picked away twenty particularly well-grown saplings, the people in the back row were all agitated, but looking at the hulking Xiao family employees standing on both sides and staring at them, they didn't disrupt the team, just He stretched his neck and looked ahead.

"Next one, what's your name?"

"Zhao Gang."

"Thirty saplings, a total of three taels of silver, go to the side to get the saplings."

"next."

"..."

The speed of the team was not slow, and soon a dozen people took away the saplings, but the number of saplings in the front line was basically relatively small, twenty or thirty saplings, the further back, the more the number, take them out and a lot of silver.

The people who were a little further behind in the row still looked a little irritable at first, because they were afraid that if they were too far behind, there would be no good seedlings. Every time someone took away the saplings, they stared carefully, and found that even the people who were behind the leader, the saplings were all gone. As fresh as the previous ones, my heart slowly relaxed, and I felt more and more that Xiao Yunchu was very kind.

Although I didn't come in person, I was unambiguous at all, the saplings are all the best!

After it was about 20 people's turn, a familiar person stood in front of Lu Jiu.

"Zhao Chuan, one hundred saplings, thirty oranges, thirty cherries, and twenty apples and peaches each, totaling 13 taels, a deposit of one tael of silver, and another 12 taels."

Zhao Chuan happily handed over all the money, but did not leave immediately, but scratched his head and asked, "My mother asked me to ask, how is his mother Zichen and Zichen Zixi living in Fucheng? My mother often talks to Aunt Ying and the others, because she is afraid that they will be far away, and they won't know if there is anything."

Lu Jiu didn't feel that Zhao Chuan's words were overstepping. He naturally knew that Zhao Chuan's family had always taken good care of his master. Before the master left, the relationship had been very good. Even if Zhao Chuan's family could give out so much money at once, it was because of the master's private Persuaded Zhao's aunt to borrow part of it with her first.

Otherwise, with such a large population, the Zhao family would not be able to save much money, and would have to set aside a part of it for flowers before the autumn harvest. The ten or two taels of silver in one breath would not have earned a lot of money, and they might even have lost their rations.

(End of this chapter)