Xiaoqiao Liushui Renjia

Chapter 76

As for Hao Shi, it's even more impossible. She was the first to know about this matter, and she expressed her attitude from the very beginning.Fluttershy is impossible to go.

The three sisters-in-law here have made up their minds to ignore that quarrel, and Mrs. Zhao over there doesn't know where she heard about it. She was teased by Mai Mai and came over to find out. She and Mrs. Wu had some conflicts. But now that we meet, it's easy to talk and laugh.

luck?After listening to Zhao Shi's words, why is Wu so uncomfortable?But this kind of person she just met and nodded.

Mrs. Zhao didn't come here specifically to talk to Mrs. Wu, but she just wanted to hear from others that the second room is better off, and Ye Zhu has gone out to do business. Although what happened last time made everyone feel ashamed, but I put on my face, and then I didn't send fish to my family. Isn't it worthwhile?So I took this opportunity to fix the relationship.

"Mother, I'm going to school!" Li Qiu said goodbye to Mrs. Wu with his schoolbag. He can read a lot now, and sometimes when Wu Shan came over, he would give him pointers, and he was very motivated to study.

"Go! Listen carefully to Mr. Wu." Mrs. Wu said while chopping up pig food.

"Brother! Are you running out of pen and ink?" Xiao Qiao hurriedly asked through the window.

"There are still some!" Li Qiu hurriedly said.

"Why are there more? Last time I saw that there were not many!" Although pens and inks are expensive, but now only the second brother is studying alone, and they all supply them. Although the pens and papers bought in the county are not very good, but Much better than writing in the sand.To read and recognize characters, this character is equivalent to the face of a scholar, as soon as you take it out, you will know whether it is there or not.

"Hey, I started writing the reverse side too." Li Qiu said with a smile.

Xiaoqiao was both funny and sad, and said: "Brother, I also want to write. When the time comes, you can practice handwriting with what you have written, and you can use new ones." Anyway, there is not enough time in Liqiu. Anyway, Xiaoqiao If you don't believe that the second brother doesn't need it after buying it, the second brother is also afraid of wasting it.

Ye Xiaoqiao finished feeding the chickens, cleaned the yard again, and went to his dry land with Wu and Xiaofeng to pick dry cowpeas. This kind of cowpea is shorter and fatter than ordinary cowpea, but it is especially drought-tolerant. Cowpeas are planted later than usual, and are usually interplanted next to the corn, and when the vines grow out, they cling to the poles of the corn.

Today, their mother-in-law three mainly get some and dry them into dried cowpeas.

Half a catty of fresh cowpeas can be dried into two taels of dried cowpeas, which is not easy.There is a lot of water, there is no way, but when the year ends, people in the city buy a lot of dried cowpeas. At this time of winter, there are not many fresh vegetables, and the colder the weather, the more expensive the price. Most people really can’t consume them. First of all, in addition to the pickles and sauerkraut pickled at home, the meat in the pot is stewed together, which is the dried cowpea and dried plum beans. This thing is particularly oil-absorbing and delicious to eat.

Yejia Village usually grows it by itself in the summer and then waits for the Chinese New Year to entertain guests. This year, under Xiaoqiao's persuasion, Ye Zhu and Wu's also planted more of this kind of cowpea in the Baogu field, and now they can produce a lot of cowpeas every day. If I couldn't finish it at home, I washed it with boiling water and exposed it directly to the hot sun. After a few days, the moisture was completely removed and it became dried cowpea.

Dried cowpeas are dehydrated, and it takes several catties to make a catty. Naturally, the price is several times or even ten times higher than that of fresh cowpeas. Everything is expensive, and secondly, there are few people who sell it, and the rarest things are the most expensive, so the price can naturally rise further.

So since Ye Xiaoqiao encountered this business selling dried cowpeas at the market last year, he wondered if he could store more and start selling them in winter.

"Don't look at the size of this kind, it has a lot of knots! At that time, it will not be weaker than the long one." Mrs. Wu went down to the cornfield, and was very happy to see the bunched cowpeas. "Don't get the corn leaves on your face, it will itch." Wu told Xiaofeng and Xiaoqiao.

Xiaoqiao thinks there is no problem at all. Although it is the end of summer, the weather is still hot, but it is such a hot summer. At this time, women can't show their arms, otherwise you will die. They wear long sleeves. Where are you? Like modern times, short-sleeved, sleeveless, and even exposed thighs abound.

"Mom, we can pick another hundred catties today!" Xiaoqiao said with a smile, such a big piece is really cool.

"Let's say it's a hundred catties. It's dry and crisp. There are twenty catties. According to 25 Wen per catty, ten catties is 250 Wen. The twenty catties, that's, how much? Xiaoqiao?" Xiaofeng also counted excitedly. billed.

"Twenty catties is five hundred renminbi. But this is based on the previous highest price, and there are still [-] renminbi." Since you want to sell this dried cowpea, you must find out the previous price clearly, otherwise it will not be worthwhile if you suffer a loss. .

"Our family's dried cowpea is so good, it must be able to sell for 25 yuan, even if we can't sell it, we have so many, we can sell it for more money." Xiaofeng said while picking it.

"Hehe, sister, you used to say that I was a money addict, but now I am too." Their land can pick for 20 days, and they can dry [-] catties of dried cowpea a day, which is [-] catties in [-] days. It is estimated that there are not so many, and the weather is not as hot as before, and it will take several days to be exposed to the sun, and the quality cannot keep up.

Calculated at [-] Wen per Jin for [-] catties, it is also [-] Wen, which is a full income of [-] taels of silver, which is much better than farming alone!And it’s done like this all season. It’s not that Ye Xiaoqiao never thought about growing greenhouse vegetables in winter, but he quickly rejected it. One is that his family doesn’t have the conditions, and it would cost a lot of money to build a greenhouse. Steward Sun said that someone in Zhu Dahu’s family had done this before, but the kiln had to be built, and several people had to guard it. Just like that, there was only a little bit in one winter, which was only enough for the master at the top to satisfy his greed. After all, it took a lot of effort, and the price was much more expensive than the vegetables shipped from the southernmost point!It's like eating money.

Second, although Ye Xiaoqiao has these modern ideas, many of those ideas cannot be realized. They make greenhouses for vegetables in modern times, and the greenhouses are made of plastic and are very strong. What do you use instead in ancient times?It is said that someone built a house with colored glaze to make a greenhouse, but how much is the colored glaze?

The growth of vegetables requires not only temperature, but also photosynthesis.If the idea doesn't work, it won't work.

We can only think of other ways on the basis of the original, such as selling dried cowpea, everyone is basically self-sufficient, and few people want to grow a large piece by themselves and then sell it.Ye Xiaoqiao found out, and thought it was very good. Ye Zhu was still worried about what to do if he couldn't sell it, but Li Xia said, this thing can be kept for a long time, it won't break, and Manager Sun can accommodate it At that time, Zhu Dahu's family might also want some.

At home, you can also go to the fairs and temple fairs in winter, and you can sell some. Another way is to introduce them to customers through a middleman. This is less money than buying it yourself, but it’s fast!
Since there is a way to sell it, let's plant it. Ye Zhu took the task of planting without hesitation.So there is such a harvest mood today.Besides, this cowpea was planted when the cowpea in the vegetable garden was in need of palladium.

Good dried cowpeas have to remove all the stems, otherwise they will be hard to chew. Ye Xiaoqiao saw that those who sold dried cowpeas did not do this process last year, because this process is very troublesome and needs to be removed one by one. If you want to sell well and sell at a higher price than others, you must treat it well, otherwise the business will not last long.

Ye Xiaoqiao's family had a delicate idea, of course, there is only better, not the best.

In the countryside, sun-dried cowpea seeds are usually dried on the ground, and when they are put away, they will be mixed with soil, which is not clean at all. Ye Xiaoqiao's family specially made a clean mat, scalded it with boiling water, and dried it in the sun. , and then put the cowpeas that have also been boiled in water.They are coded one by one in order, and it will be noon when they are finished. It happens to be in the sun at noon when the sun is at its hottest. The whole yard is full of dried cowpeas, which looks very spectacular.

Don't farmers just like to see the harvest?There are so many cowpeas produced in my own field, I feel comfortable thinking about it.

Several strings of bright red dried peppers have been hung under the eaves of Ye Xiaoqiao's house, and they were also dried in his own home.

"Brother, you said that if we had a lot of fields, we could grow a variety of peppers, and just dry them in the sun, and we could sell them for a lot of money." Ye Xiaoqiao also knew a way of making chili sauce, which she figured out by herself. Add sesame seeds. The sesame seeds in the countryside are very expensive, and everyone is reluctant to use them. No wonder Xiaoqiao made a jar by himself. Although it is delicious, everyone is reluctant to eat it. I haven't eaten half of it yet. You must know that their family is a family that likes spicy food.

Li Xia said: "When we sell the fish in autumn, we are going to buy more land. Since you want to grow peppers, let's get a few more acres of dry land, so that the price will be cheaper and we can buy more. "Lixia is very supportive of Xiaoqiao, and Xiaoqiao's words are reliable, and he can check it himself. He said that the small jar of hot pepper that Xiaoqiao figured out by himself is really delicious. I wanted to introduce this to Guanshi Sun, but I still didn’t say it. Now that Xiaoqiao has mentioned this idea, it’s really good. I grow my own chili peppers, and then make my own chili peppers. I can save a lot of money in the middle of selling them, and it’s still long-term. Isn't business much better than getting it out all at once?

The road is walking step by step, Ye Xiaoqiao also nodded, if the family had a hundred acres of land, what would she plant?Now it is obvious that the land is still not enough. This is the problem of money. Buying land requires money.It can only come slowly.

Fortunately, the older brothers and sisters in the family can listen to opinions, otherwise it would be hard for her to say anything by herself.

"It is said that anyone with a daughter under the age of ten will go to the ancestral hall. This time there is such a big commotion, I really choose Fenghuang." Hao's daughter, Xiaodie, who is just ten years old, is also going.

"Did Mai Niang over there come today?" Wu Shi asked Hao Shi. The purpose of Zhao Shi's visit last time was so obvious that it was impossible for Wu Shi not to know, but she didn't care and was busy drying cowpea seeds.Still doing it at home.

"Why didn't you come? I brought the wheat from her home. I saw it when I passed by my door. Second sister-in-law, you have dried so many cowpeas in the sun. You will finish eating them by then." Hao looked at this There are too many dried cowpeas in the yard.

"Sell it if you can't finish it. In the past, when I went to the market, I came across something for sale, so someone must buy it."

The girl in Xiaoqiao also said that it can't be sold now, because everyone wants it at this time, so it's not uncommon, and the price will naturally not go up. She should wait until the end of the year to sell it. She will listen to this girl once to see how the effect is this year.

"It's the second brother and the second sister-in-law who are bold enough to plant this thing in the field. Our family doesn't dare. When we really get out of the way in the future, second sister-in-law, don't hide your secrets."

"Of course not." With so many people, there must be some people who can't buy it just for this. The third siblings can sell it together if they want to. It's not difficult to dry cowpea seeds, is it? Everyone knows it, maybe they are doing this now, and some people will follow suit, so helping the third sibling is really nothing at all.

(End of this chapter)