If Xiao Lian hadn't been waiting to take the ox cart from the neighboring village, she would have sold out her braised vegetables long ago and came back!
With Xiaolian as a labor force, the speed of picking vegetables is faster. Not long after, the baskets brought by Housekeeper Yao were filled with juicy vegetables, which looked so tempting.
While Picking vegetables and loading them into the car, Steward Yao went to the backyard of the Yu family and the three or four acres of vegetable fields that had been reclaimed by the lake. Beans and cucumbers are all over the shelves; eggplants and peppers are growing well; the roots of lettuce and carrots are not too big, but the leaves are very green and lush; lentils and fungus decorate the surrounding fences into emerald green walls. There are also those vegetables that he can't name, which are everywhere...
I believe it will not be long before these vegetables will enter the harvest period. The vegetables in other people's homes were nothing more than small vegetable seedlings at that time. It was more than a month earlier than the seasonal vegetables, and Housekeeper Yao knew exactly what this meant!
He looked at the humble house of the Yu family and the simple furnishings inside. Looking at it now, the Yu family is impoverished, but with this skill in growing vegetables, why not make a fortune? Butler Yao didn't dare to underestimate the Yu family.
After the baskets of vegetables passed the scale, they filled Yao's carriage. All kinds of vegetables add up to a total of six hundred and eighty catties. Butler Yao knew that his old man had a strong appetite. If he knew the vegetables of the Yu family, he would definitely have more of them when dealing with them in the future! So they generously priced all the vegetables at the price of lettuce - twenty-five cents a catty.
Old Yu saw that the vegetables that cost only three to five yuan a catty in previous years were sold for five or eight times the price, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears: "Dahai, you sell all these vegetables for the price of pork." Are you not afraid of being blamed by the noble?"
"Grandpa! This is a fair trade, one is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, what is there to blame?" Yu Xiaocao brought a basin of water, asked Grandpa to wash his hands, and continued:
"The Yao family is a well-known rich family in the town. Meat or something, after eating it all winter, I'm already tired of it! If you don't believe me, ask Butler Yao, at this time, Mrs. Yao, would you like to eat meat or our vegetables? "
"But... we are green vegetables after all! It's so expensive, isn't it a scam?" Old Yu felt a little uneasy.
Housekeeper Yao counted the money for vegetables, and said, "Old man, as the saying goes, what is rare is the most expensive! Now, if you want to eat vegetables, there is nowhere to buy them if you have the money! Your vegetables are the only ones in the town. Son, if it’s expensive, you won’t have to worry about selling it!”
After finishing speaking, he handed two ingots of white silver to Yu Hai's hand, and said: "Big brother, this is twenty taels of silver, you take it!"
Yu Hai waved his hand and said, "I can't use so much, six hundred and eighty catties of vegetables, a total of seventeen taels of silver. You are already taking care of us, so I can't ask for more money from you..."
"You take it first! The remaining three taels are fixed money. You have to save some of the vegetables in your backyard for my brother and me, and don't sell them all to Zhenxiu Restaurant." Yao Butler also knows how to put a long line to catch big fish. reason. You have collected my deposit, and it will be a matter of course to buy vegetables in the future!
Yu Hai was still a little hesitant, but Yu Xiaocao had already accepted the money, and said with a smile: "Since Steward Yao said so, if you need any vegetables in the future, let someone send a message, and we will send them to your house!"
Steward Yao nodded repeatedly and said: "I just want you to say that! I know you are short of manpower, so I will send someone to drive to the door to buy in the future! Sis, memorize the route, and I will teach you how to buy vegetables in the future. Good!" Do it, don't embarrass my godfather!"
The latter sentence was addressed to the boy driving the carriage. The young man was also dexterous, nodding his head like a pounding garlic, and his face showed the joy of being flattered. From a boy raising horses to becoming a buyer in the mansion, not only has his rank increased, but his treatment is even more different.
You know, shopping is a very oily job. In the future, I have to respect my godfather well, without his godfather's promotion, how could he have a bright future as a junior among the many servants in the house
"Thank you godfather! Thank you godfather!!" Xiao Si kept thanking him, as if no amount of thanks was enough to express his gratitude.
"Do it well! You will have more time to deal with the Yu family in the future. Be polite to them. Especially that little girl, she has a good idea. Don't neglect!" Four benefited a lot.
In the days that followed, Xiao Si'er frequently traveled between Dongshan Village and Tanggu Town. He kept his godfather's words in mind, called Yu Hai and his wife "uncle and aunt" affectionately, and even offered to help with some chores. He and Yu Hang, who are not much different in age, get along like brothers. He even takes care of Xiaolian and Xiaoshitou like younger siblings, and brings them some pastries every time he comes to buy vegetables. But for Yu Xiaocao, who looks like Xiao Lian, who was carved out of the same mold, he unconsciously developed a sense of respect.
The interpersonal relationship is good, even when the vegetables in the field are tense, his little four has never returned empty-handed. If the errands are done well, naturally they will be promoted quickly. From the little boy who purchased, to the small person in charge of the purchase, and then to the general person in charge of the purchase. When his godfather was promoted to be the chief steward, he in his early twenties became the youngest steward in the house.
As an unmarried man, he became a favorite in the eyes of the maids in the mansion, and the big maids who had dismissed him at first also changed the way they looked at him. And he also plucked up the courage to ask him to marry Luxiu, the big girl next to the old lady who had only dared to look at him from afar, whom he had admired for a long time. Thanks to the old lady's grace, she betrothed Luxiu, who had reached her age, to him. After his godfather retired, he took over from his godfather as the Chief Manager of the Yao Mansion...
And all these changes started on that sunny afternoon when he went to Dongshan Village with his godfather and met the noble person in his life...
This is all for the future, and now Yu Xiaocao is sitting on a small stool, staring at the vegetable field in her yard. Yu Hang looked at the dazed little girl, called out softly, and asked, "Little girl, what are you thinking? So focused?"
Yu Xiaocao looked back at him, helped him cover the quilt on his legs, then looked back at her vegetable field, and said with a little excitement: "Brother, did you find out? The output of our vegetable field is really not bad. !"
"Oh? How is that not a bad idea?" In the past, the vegetable field at home was a wasteland randomly opened in front of and behind the house, and only some common vegetables were grown for the family to eat. Who has carefully calculated the output of the vegetable field
But in Yu Xiaocao's previous life, when her parents were alive, she was a vegetable farmer. She was already in junior high school at that time, and she often helped calculate the yield per mu in the field and the income from selling vegetables.
When there were chemical fertilizers in the previous life, the output of one mu of vegetables was only about 2,500 catties. Seventy-eight percent of the land planted in the courtyard has been sold for more than a thousand catties, and less than half of it has been picked by visual inspection. In other words, the yield of the vegetables they grow is at least three thousand catties per mu, and it may reach four thousand catties! ! Properly productive! !
If you do the math, the income from this small piece of land in Guangyuan can be sold for seven or eighty taels of silver. Vegetables that grow longer in the backyard will definitely be much more expensive in price, and it should be no problem to earn more than one hundred taels per mu of land. In this way, the income from growing vegetables in spring alone can be five hundred taels!
The more Yu Xiaocao counted, the more excited she became, her eyes shone brightly, and she wished she could hug the little butian stone and kiss her hard.
The little golden cat, lying comfortably on Yu Hang's lap, enjoying the pleasure of being stroked, suddenly felt a chill all over, and the hair on its back stood up immediately—no, it's dangerous! !
Just when Yu Xiaocao was staring at her own vegetable field as if she was looking at a golden bump, suddenly the voice she least wanted to hear came from outside the door: "Where are people? Where did they die? Why are you closed in broad daylight?" The door? Could it be that you have done something unscrupulous, afraid that someone will come to the door?"
Shocked, Xiaocao jumped up from the stool. She rushed to the door, opened the heavy wooden door, and saw Mrs. Zhang standing at the door of their house with a shoehorn-like face and a strange expression on her face.
"Grandma, why are you here?" Yu Xiaocao suppressed the boredom in her heart and forced a smile on her face.
"What? The threshold of your house is so high, so your grandma can't come in?" Li Guihua looked at the show with a look on her face, and was squeezed by the fat, leaving only a slit mouse eye, and looked inside the door angrily. .
Mrs. Zhang pushed Yu Xiaocao away and stepped into the door. With her sharp hanging eyes, she first turned to the surrounding stone walls, and said sinisterly: "If you don't have the money to build such a high wall, is it to guard against thieves, or to guard against me?"
Is there a difference? You are not a thief of benevolence! People are thieves, but you can always scrape off three feet of land! Yu Xiaocao complained in her heart, but said in her mouth:
"Our old house is too close to the West Mountain. Isn't it because we are afraid that wild beasts will not find food in winter and come down the mountain to harm people? Grandma, don't worry, this fence is to prevent wolves! Look, when we moved out, I I don't know if my father's legs can be kept. My brother was sold to be an apprentice again, leaving my mother and us women and children. What if there are hungry wolves? So, I didn't even repair the house. , I used all the money my grandma lent us to build walls!"
This seemingly ordinary explanation contains many meanings: First of all, you always let us almost leave the house when my father was seriously injured, and you almost killed my brother. If you change to someone with a slightly thinner face, you will not come to the door without that face. Secondly, you don't spend a penny of the money we paid for the fence, so what qualifications do you have to make irresponsible remarks
How could Zhang's face be comparable to that of ordinary people? She didn't know if she didn't hear the meaning of Xiaocao's words or if she didn't hear the meaning of Xiaocao's words. She only glanced at Yu Hang who was lying immobile on the deck chair, and then focused on the large tracts of vegetables in the yard.
Mrs. Li cooperated with understanding and said: "Second brother is really filial! I have grown so many vegetables, but I don't know how to be filial to the elderly, and I only care about selling vegetables to make money!"
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The second one is here!