Chapter 97 Time passes by in a hurry

The sun is getting lower and lower, and the water is reflected in the red waves, geese sing through the clouds; geese sing, harmonious with the wind, croaking and croaking home geese, the mother calls her son and whispers, and the smoke from cooking covers the dusk.

After summer, the fields still have a month to do, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. As soon as it comes, there are people who can't sleep outside to look at the night and the stars. Naturally, the farmers who are tired all day will not use the news time like this. Only some people in the homes of the owners of the village have such leisure.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan ate buns made of leeks at night. After drinking some spinach soup, they were full. They fell asleep quickly when they lay down on the pomegranate. When they were screaming at the pomegranate for about two hours, they found that there were still people outside that couldn't sleep and wandered around.

"Xiaobao, everyone's energy is really too strong. Find some entertainment activities for them. Now I can't sleep at night. When the weather is the hottest, wouldn't I have to stay out of bed all night? It will delay doing things the next day."

Wang Juan sat in front of the desk and was about to study. When she saw the lights of the back window changing brightly and darkly, it should be that the torch in the yard was blocked by someone's body and left.

"No entertainment is useful. If you ask them to play mahjong, they may play for one night. This means that there is less work during the day now. The main reason is that there are more people in the yard. If everyone earns a point of living, there will be not much. Since you can't sleep, then study."

Zhang Xiaobao laid the paper and opened the book. He began to review the knowledge he learned from his father. He also admired the energy of these servants. While grinding the ink, he said to Wang Juan:

"You can also find something for them during the day. Go up the mountain to pick mountain vegetables. If you pick ferns, you can see if you can find monk heads, which are four-color flowers, scientifically named Platycodon. Pick more. Come back and pick them with salt, seal the jar, and dry them. Take them out when there is no vegetables in winter."

"Okay, then that's it. It seems that we have to find more work for them in the future. We can go to bed when we are tired." Wang Juan felt that this idea was good. Those who were still strolling outside didn't know that the young master and the young lady had found something fun for them.

The next morning, most of the people in the yard of the two masters took a day's food and drink out of the yard and walked up the mountain. The task was arranged. As long as it was food, they had to pick them up. Two or three people were in groups, and they were thinking about snakes and insects.

The little kids who were originally playing in the village saw so many people mobilizing the master's family. They thought there was something big, so they went up to ask, and learned that it was picking mountain vegetables. They gathered together to discuss it and went to the mountain to pick them. They didn't dare to go too far, so they looked for them nearby, eating and picking while playing, and they didn't feel tired.

When it was evening, the children delivered the things to the master's house first. Although they looked small, the speed of picking mountain vegetables was no slower than that of adults. A group of kids actually made two big sacks of mountain vegetables and put them outside the master's yard, waiting for the people inside to come out to get them.

It is appropriate for people in the yard to go out to work, and there is no need to pay extra compensation. The little kid has been busy for a day, so of course he can't ask for it for nothing. The housekeeper took out some salted duck eggs and gave them two of them. The little kid was content with something, not to mention that there were not many salted duck eggs. He saved some food and could eat them for five or six days. He put the duck eggs in his pocket and left cheerfully.

The people in the yard came back later. I don’t know how far they went. They were all listless. There were dozens of sacks worth more than 3,000 kilograms. If they were all marinated with salt, a lot of salt would have to be used, so it was naturally impossible.

I had to pick some better ones, brine them with salt water, and take the others to a cool place to dry. Then I hung them in a ventilated place and could be kept for a long time. Those people had to sleep after dinner in a hurry, and then they were instructed to recognize words. The three special maids in the yard were responsible for teaching these people.

After studying for an hour, these people finally couldn't stand it anymore. They went back to the room one by one and fell asleep. No one could sleep in the night.

"How is this? Is this a good idea? We have gained a lot of things and solved other people's insomnia." Zhang Xiaobao said to Wang Juan while studying at night.

"Okay, but after two days, the mountain vegetables are gone? What else do they do? You can't cut wood on the mountain, right? You always have to arrange some things for them to do for a long time. In addition to some festivals and busy farming, they can help, and they don't seem to do much work in normal times?"

Wang Juan found that since she found some people to come to her home, she had fewer capable work. She and Zhang Xiaobao helped plan most of the things. The efficiency was improved and the manpower was left. She was not so stupid that she let the people in the yard live nine to five in the morning and nightlife.

Zhang Xiaobao also doesn't want to see so many people idle, and it is easy to form a laziness mentality. If they can do something by themselves while idle, it will be easy to do, which means they have a yearning for life, but if they are idle, they don't know what to do, that will be troublesome.

They must have a goal, even if they are passive and blindly following the goal, listen to Wang Juan asking him to think of a long-term solution, think about it, and shake his head, "No, you can't use a long-term job to imprison them, so that they can always feel the work they are doing fresh.

Except for pomegranate, red and cherry, they have regarded that work as an honor, love that thing from the bottom of their hearts, and replace them, they will think we have denied them.

These people asked them to pick mountain vegetables for two days and then they would go to get lotus flowers. County Magistrate Cheng found so many lotus flowers and put them in the pond? He asked them to make this first, and then let them raise shrimps and crabs in two days, so that they would not be too familiar with them. They would change other things if they were raised for a few days, and others would change them with them.

The disadvantage of this is that we don’t think of high yields in the things we raise, and they are prone to death. The advantage is that when they encounter something they are not familiar with, if they want to satisfy the owner, they must learn it. They must learn from those who have done this before, and those people also need to learn from them."

"I know, in the process of teaching others, they will have a kind of spiritual reward, strengthening their communication, and at the same time force them to take everything seriously. Otherwise, when others ask them, they will not be able to say it and be told by someone else, that would be embarrassing."

After Zhang Xiaobao said that, Wang Juan also understood that this is to use the money of the two of them to cultivate people. One person has developed the habit of doing things seriously and will maintain it when he changes to other jobs. In order to teach others better, he can only learn hard, think carefully, and summarize some experiences.

The two wrote a few lines, and Wang Juan said again, "In fact, there will be no loss of much money. The so-called loss means that there is a difference between the output and the actual harvest. The lotus transplanted does not cost money. The ready-made pond, shrimp seedlings, crab seedlings, and those who sell shrimp and crabs can come.

I think it's OK. In addition to these things, there are some vegetables in the backyard, some of which should be grafted, and the same is true for fruit trees. There will always be new things waiting for them. Keep writing, write for a while before going to bed."

Before we knew it, the Dragon Boat Festival was coming soon, and the spring plowing ended a few days ago. We usually take a little care and then harvest it. One crop of wheat has been harvested, and the second crop will be later.

At the same time, the restaurant in Zhuangzi has also been built, and the supply of MSG to the three restaurants in the county has always been so small, and it is planned to use its own industries. Of course, the names of these industries are not from Zhang and Wang families. Zhang and Wang families have always been pure farmers. The ancestors of the Zhang family have made some contributions and are also considered loyal descendants.

As for business, it has nothing to do with the previous family. Others are all made by others, who occupied the Zhang and Wang families. Even the mountain on Xiao Luoshui was bought by the head of the Zhang family and sublet it. I don’t know what the sublease people are doing.

The project on Xiao Luoshui has not been completed yet. The river needs to be dug, the embankment needs to be repaired, the house needs to be built according to specifications, and the wharf must also be built. These projects are carried out at the same time, solving the problem of idle labor in many counties. The small roads and pavilions on the mountain, as well as the artificial lake below, have to wait for other things to be done before they can be done.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, those who pick wormwood and those who pick other medicinal materials also take advantage of this time to pick all the things that can be picked. The two families of Zhang and Wang also purchased a large number of them this time. Zhang Xiaobao paid for the money to stock up on these things and waited for the medicinal materials store to consume almost the same amount and sell them together.

It was the Dragon Boat Festival, and the two families of Zhang and Wang started to send rice dumplings to the farmers again. The restaurant also opened on the same day. Strings of firecrackers rang out like money. County Magistrate Cheng brought some people from the yamen to congratulate him. Zhou Yu did not lie, and also called the people in the state to come here to eat and drink for free.

Song Jing's reputation is everywhere, and she has attracted many literary friends to come here to support her. These people will know about it two days ago. They all work hard at home to write poetry while they still have time, so as to wait to show off at the place.

In such a remote place in Tuqiao Village, it became very lively because the restaurant opened, making the three merchants in the village happy together.

It was impossible for Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to participate, and they could not stand in front of the door to welcome guests. All the adults went there, and only the two of them were left to play in the yard.

"Xiaobao, do you think there are any zongzi that children can eat? Just like us." Wang Juan was a little greedy as she watched others steam or cook rice dumplings there, and was worried that it would be difficult to digest the food inside her stomach, so she asked Zhang Xiaobao boredly.

"It should be there? I was thinking about not making sticky rice, so I used ordinary rice, some meat foam and some other stuff in it, wrap it up and steam it in a pot, and then you can eat it." Zhang Xiaobao analyzed.
Chapter completed!