Summer is coming, and the back mountain of Zhaojia Village is full of fruit again. Some are green and immature, and some are red and ripe.
Because they sold a few small jars of fruit wine last year and made tens of taels of silver, so this year Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zhengan discussed whether to continue brewing. Although they were not short of the money, they didn't have too much money.
And brew more this year, you can keep some for yourself to drink, grandparents and grandparents can drink it, and soon uncles and uncles will come, it is inevitable that people will drink more, and they may have to take some back when they like it.
Zhong Ziqi, who is careful in all aspects, has thought of it. If you brew too much, you are not afraid that you will not be able to drink it. The longer it is left, the more mellow it will be.
There will be a lot of fruit needed for wine making this year. Zhao Zheng'an simply hired a few people from the village to go up the mountain to pick it, and picked more than a dozen baskets. It looks like there are a lot of these things, but in fact there are not many after the wine is made.
Now Zhong Ziqi's stomach is as bulging as a balloon, and he often suffers from backache and leg pain. Zhao Zheng'an massages him every day to relieve his soreness, and at the same time, he also tries to avoid making him work. He only needs to walk back and forth appropriately every day.
Now it is even more difficult to ask him to make wine, so Zhong Ziqi moved a small stool to direct him.
The brewing method is not complicated. Although Zhao Zhengan was stupid last time when brewing wine, he actually still had some impressions. In addition, Zhong Ziqi's command did not make any technical mistakes.
After brewing, seal the altar and put it in a shady wing room. Two jars of wine were also buried under the trees in the garden by Zhao Zhengan. In Zhao Zheng'an's words, wait until their children can run and jump, and then dig them out when they are sensible.
While Zhong Ziqi was amused, she followed him.
In August, the two children of the Zhong family, Zhong Zijun and Zhong Ziheng, got married one after another. One got married and the other moved to another village. I didn't make fun of myself, and stayed at home happily.
Zhong Ziqi heard that the well-informed Zhao Ning said that Zhong Zijun married a mean family, and that family gave a generous dowry. The Zhong family was really speechless, so she married her brother after a while. I didn't even get to know the specific situation of that family carefully. I heard from people in the same village as that family that people in this family are very mean. The two old people like to pick and choose and find faults. Those who are frugal, have money, but are reluctant to spend it, and spend a lot of money. One can imagine what kind of treatment Zhong Zijun will receive if he marries, but all of this has nothing to do with Zhong Ziqi, Zhao Zhengan and the others. They can have a little sympathy, but they don't mind meddling with mice.
Zhong Ziqi was a little sad during this period, his legs were swollen, and now he needs to walk with his waist when he goes out, Zhong Ziqi deeply understands the difficulty of women. Then it hurts more when giving birth, Zhong Ziqi thought so.
Zhao Zhengan felt sorry for Zhong Ziqi, and whenever he had free time every day, he would sit on the kang and massage his hands and feet. Now their family's daily income has been fixed, more than fifty taels of silver, and the family has already saved a lot of money.
"Daughter-in-law, have you thought about buying the land?" Zhao Zhengan asked. I said before that when I have money, I will buy land and rent it out. This is the safest way to make money.
Zhong Ziqi lay lazily. Enjoying Zhao Zhengan's increasingly proficient massage techniques, he said after a while, "What do you think? Will you be overwhelmed?"
Zhong Ziqi still longs for that kind of landlord life, leisurely.
"I have no problem. It would be nice to buy it. Now there is a phenomenon in our village or other villages. There are more and more people, but the land is not enough. It is too expensive to buy land. Their annual harvest It’s not necessarily whether we can buy it or not. So if we buy land and sublet it out, there will definitely be many people who will buy it.” Zhao Zhengan analyzed to Zhong Ziqi.
"Well, if it's like what you said, then we can buy it back, and sublet it out and earn a lot of money every year."
"Well, I think so too, so I want to ask you what you think." Zhao Zhengan said.
"Then buy it, the money is enough anyway." Zhong Ziqi finally nodded in agreement.
"Well... I'll go to the county tomorrow to ask the master." Zhao Zhengan nodded and said.
The next day, Zhao Zhengan entered the town with enough money in his pocket. The master in the yamen was already acquainted with Zhao Zheng'an, because Zhao Zheng'an would often bring good things to bribe them, even the magistrate of the county knew Zhao Zheng'an, and treated him with a pleasant face.
"Brother Zheng'an, what's the matter with you coming so early in the morning?" Master asked while stroking his mustache.
Zhao Zheng'an smiled and handed the delicious food he brought over to the master: "Yes, the boy is here today to find the master."
The master took the things and put them aside and said, "What's the matter?"
"Master, it's like this. I want to buy land. I don't know if there is a suitable one." Zhao Zhengan said.
"Oh? Want to buy land? How much?" Zhao Zhengan shook his head: "I have to buy a lot, and I want to rent it out."
"Rent it out? Don't say that I have some suitable ones here, not far from your Zhaojia Village. They are all next to each other. Do you want it?"
"Yes, of course." Zhao Zhengan said pleasantly. He originally thought that there were not many lands around, but he was naturally very happy to be told that there were today.
Zhao Zhengan discussed with the master for a long time in the county, and finally bought hundreds of acres of land. Zhao Zhengan happily returned home with the land deed to show Zhong Ziqi.
Zhong Ziqi took the land deed and read it twice, expressing that she was also very happy.
Now that the land was sold out, Zhao Zheng'an went to Li Zheng's house, and informed Li Zheng's house first, and Zhao Zheng'an also told Li Zheng to go around. When Li Zheng's family heard that Zhao Zheng'an had bought so much land, they immediately ordered more than ten acres of land without saying a word, and then ordered a few acres for their son. They were short of land, so Zhao Zheng'an came here to help. Let him help publicize it, then he will naturally not break his promise. Lizheng will tell the villagers who often come and go. As soon as the villagers hear that there is land to buy, they immediately surround Zhong Ziqi's house. Generally, some wealthy people or People with less land came to inquire in detail.
Zhao Zhengan quoted a price. Some people are hesitant to hear how much a mu of land is a year, and some people are scared off by the price, but they still agree to buy more.
Because of the price quoted by Zhao Zhengan, they will understand after thinking about it that their annual income per mu of land is definitely much more than the rent. Since it is suitable, they will naturally buy it. Zhao Zhengan still used this method to promote the propaganda in the neighboring villages. He first found the village chief and asked the village chief to help with the publicity. It didn't take long for hundreds of acres of land to be rented out. Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi As expected, the response was good and the speed was fast. Most people in the village respect Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zhengan. From then on, they are Zhao Zhengan's farm laborers and must be treated with care.
It's just that after they make a reservation, they can't grow anything this year. At best, they can grow some vegetables in autumn. In a flash, time flies, and September is here.
September is coming soon, Zhong Ziqi estimated that grandfather and the others will come soon, wrote a letter two days ago to say that the wedding has been done, and they just need to pack up and go back, and the uncle and uncle will follow.
Zhong Ziqi was still looking forward to what his uncle would do.