The New Year has come to an end, and Nuan Nuan’s family is also getting busy.
The restaurant and another shop in the county town began to be renovated.
The decoration workers were looking for warmth from Pan Shichang.
He worked in a dental shop and knew many workers.
Because the restaurant is still very new and does not need much decoration, Wen Nuan redesigned the unreasonable parts that he did not like and left a fire exit.
Then he generously replaced the windows of the restaurant with bright glazed windows.
After being decorated like this, the entire restaurant will look much more impressive.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Wen Jiagui finally bought a suitable shop to open a medicine shop. The shop was in a not prosperous area of the town and cost only one hundred and eighty taels. The place was quite large and there was a backyard, which was perfect for a warehouse.
The decoration of the drug store, the purchase of goods, and the recruitment of people were all handled by Wen Jiagui alone.
There is no need to worry about Wen Nuan, just explain some things.
She still takes time to teach everyone various skills every day, and occasionally goes to the county to check on the decoration status of shops.
Cang Zhu's carving skills are becoming more and more proficient.
The taste of the dishes Li Mei made was almost the same as the warm ones.
My sister-in-law is becoming more and more proficient in ceramics.
Wen Xin and Qing Dai fell into crazy enthusiasm for baking.
In addition, Wen Nuan went to Youcai's house to eat pig meat during the Chinese New Year and thought it tasted very good, so he hired Youcai's wife to be the cook in the restaurant and taught her how to cook with Li Mei.
However, the two of them learned different dishes.
Five taels of silver a month, and a penny commission for each dish. The rich daughter-in-law studies very energetically every day!
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Wen Jiarui followed Wen Nuan's request and bought the outskirts of the town, a piece of inaccessible wilderness and forest on both sides of the river downstream.
The warmth of the wild forests on both sides of the river has been bought!
Nuan Nuan asked Feng An and He Ping to supervise one area respectively.
A ceramics workshop and a papermaking workshop will be built on both sides of the river. When the time comes, a stone bridge will be built on the river to connect the two sides.
We also found some villagers and day laborers to help build the workshop.
After the New Year, Wen Jiaxiang went to live in a shop with a backyard in Wenwen's family in the county town, and Tian also went there.
It was bought by Pan Shichang recently. It was originally a lumber shop.
Because whenever he goes out and is seen by Mrs. Zhu, he will be scolded.
Nuan Nuan asked Wen Jiaxiang to help make some exquisite wooden boxes at the shop in the county.
Tian's hands are skillful, and Wen Nuan taught her to weave various baskets and other things out of bamboo and rattan, which are sold in the shop and also used in restaurants.
Nalan Jinnian still comes to eat every afternoon.
Everything is going on in a busy and chaotic manner.
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After the beginning of spring, "From now on, the snow disappears and the wind softens, and the plum blossoms bloom together to make the willow branches new."
Although the chill is still there at this time, the grass is sprouting again and the recovery of all things is already unstoppable!
Ningyuan County does not belong to the north, and spring starts relatively early. It has already entered the early spring state of "the light rain on the street is as moist as crisp, and the grass is green from a distance but not up close".
The wheat seedlings survived the winter successfully, but the winter rice was a little miserable.
Wen Jiarui recruited several villagers he was close to to use warm methods to hoe and loosen the soil to preserve moisture, and applied greening fertilizer to the wheat.
Spring rain is as precious as oil. After several spring rains, the wheat in Nuan Nuan's family grows well.
Although a large area of rice in the rice fields was frozen to death, only a few scattered plants were left living listlessly, looking like they were about to die at any time.
But the warmth did not disappoint.
Not only does the wheat from Nuan Nuan’s family grow well, but also the village chief’s family, grandma’s family, the blessed and wealthy family, etc. all do well!
The rain has been quite normal recently, and there is no sign of any natural or man-made disaster.
This shows that Ningyuan County can really grow winter wheat!
The villagers felt itchy looking at the wheat in Wen Nuan's house.
Regret!
My eyes are hot!
Villager A: "Brother Jia Rui, your wheat grows so well! If I had known, I would have planted it with you! Then our family would have white flour to eat all year round!"
Wen Jiarui smiled: "It won't be too late next year."
Villager B: "Oh, I regret it so much! I wanted to plant it at that time! The rumors in the past killed people! It turns out that it can really be planted! Damn, our ancestors have been hungry for so many lifetimes because of that legend!"
Wen Jiarui: "Rumors stop only among the wise."
Villager C: "No! I was so stupid before! I actually believed in a legend! Next year I will definitely plant all the land with wheat!"
The villagers couldn't help but sigh: "I plant too! This wheat field is growing so well! I need to harvest hundreds more kilograms of grain!"
No one grows wheat in Ningyuan County, so white flour is very valuable!
How can everyone not be jealous
Rice production in this dynasty was low, and because every household had no measures to avoid breeding, many families had too many children and there was simply not enough to eat!
If we can grow more grain for one season, I don't know how much more grain there will be. After all, the court does not increase the tax revenue for this season's grain.
This way, when you are not full from rice, you can also eat steamed buns!
"But brother Jia Rui, if you just grow wheat, why do you still grow rice? Look at it, this is absolutely dead!"
"Rice likes warm weather and needs a lot of water to grow. Where can it be grown?"
"No, isn't this nonsense? They're all dead! It's a waste of grain! This grain is quite expensive."
Everyone looked at the miserable rice in the rice fields and shook their heads.
Wen Jiarui laughed off everyone's words and said, "How will you know if you don't try!"
"That's right! Now that I know, just don't plant any more this winter."
Fortunately, Wen Jiarui tried, and they don't have to be fools next year!
Wen Jiarui smiled and did not respond.
Sister Nuan has the final say whether to plant or not.
Wen Nuan doesn't care what those people say.
She looked at the few rice plants that were still alive here and there, full of hope.
Even if you only receive one grain of rice by then, it is still a success!
"Sow a grain of millet in spring and harvest ten thousand grains in autumn."
It can produce one grain of winter rice, and this grain of rice can produce dozens of grains of winter rice next winter.
Next year, those dozens of winter rice grains can fission into thousands more...
She will succeed one day!
The rice in the health garden was kept warm because of the warmth, so more of it survived.
Only two of the rice pots froze to death.
Wen Nuan nourished the rice plants in the health garden with purple energy, and they were full of energy the next day!
When the family saw it, they couldn't help but sigh: "A blessed land is a blessed land, anything you plant can survive!"
Nuan Nuan smiled and said nothing.
On this day, Nalan Jin was in his new year. He heard the Wennan family discussing the situation of the wheat fields and took a special look.
Then he said to Wen Nuan: "Write a detailed wheat planting situation to me."
Nuan Nuan directly gave him a notebook: "Read it yourself."
Nalan Jinnian took it and looked down at it.
Then he discovered that it clearly explained how to manage the plowing, sowing, fertilizing, overwintering, greening, etc., and how the wheat was growing.
There are records every day, no matter the weather, they will never change! I can even record clearly how much rain and how much snow it has fallen in the past few months!
This girl is really serious about her work!
If the watchtowers and Liannu can keep the people of Nalan safe, then this season's wheat can keep the people well clothed and well fed!
Letting the people live and work in peace and contentment, with adequate food and clothing is what emperors of all dynasties have pursued!
Always pursuing it but finding it difficult to achieve!
Throughout the ages, no emperor has been able to do it!
There is only so much fertile land! That’s a lot of production! There are more and more people! How can there be enough to feed everyone
But if we can grow more food for one season, this situation will be greatly alleviated!
Nalan Country has many counties with a similar climate to Ningyuan County!
This girl has made great achievements again!
"Lend me this book."
"Here you go!" This notebook has been written, so there is no problem for Nalan Jinnian to take it.
She had a photographic memory, and the content was written by her. It had been engraved in her mind for a long time, so she could write it out silently without missing a word.
After Nalan Jinnian finished his meal, he took the notebook back to the mountain.
Mr. Wen also went to see the wheat fields of Wen Wen's family every day. Now he was finally relieved and happily told Mrs. Zhu about it when he came back.
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