Reborn Wangjia's little koi, reclaiming wasteland and farming to become the richest man

Chapter 96 Natural Solar Terms Irreversible

Several new medicine fields were reclaimed in Tuao, all of which were grown by cows and chrysanthemums.

The business of buying and selling apples has been handed over to Mrs. Qi Er, Niu Ju is now mainly responsible for picking medicinal materials, side dishes, apples for Sheng Jiaojiao, and helping to take care of Qi's sheep to earn wages.

The wages are still the same as before, so Niu Ju has already bought no less than ten sheep without knowing that she will meet Niu Niang.

The wool of these sheep was all harvested by Sheng Jiaojiao.

When the price of sheep in the market dropped day by day, Sheng Jiaojiao asked Niu Ju to buy more than [-] sheep for her, and entrusted them to Niu Ju to take care of them.

And Sheng Jiaojiao's sheep shed is next to Niu Ju's sheep shed, both in the earth depression.

Just here with Yaotian.

After so many days of hard work, Niu Ju relied on her own strength to build a big sheep shed for herself and Sheng Jiaojiao while doing a good job for Sheng Jiaojiao.

Not only that, she also opened several new medicine fields and vegetable fields for Sheng Jiaojiao in Tuao.

Now these medicine fields and vegetable fields occupy almost half of the area of ​​Tu'ao.

Now Niu Ju still has time to sit on the grassy slope and sigh. In next spring, Niu Ju will be too busy to do so many things by herself.

After thinking about it, Sheng Jiaojiao went down the soil again, and when she arrived at the sheep shed, she first walked around the medicine field, and glanced at the green and yellow buds inside, Sheng Jiaojiao shook her head.

It seems that after the mature herbs and side dishes are collected, the next batch of herbs and side dishes probably won't grow very well.

If heavy snow falls instead, it is estimated that the next batch of medicinal materials and side dishes will not be big yet.

After Qi Rong finished picking the apples, he also went down the hill and walked to Sheng Jiaojiao's side. He said distressedly:
"Sister, the weather is getting colder and colder, and there are fewer and fewer apples on the tree."

"Ah."

Sheng Jiaojiao lowered her head, straightened the cotton tie on the thin jacket, and ordered:

"Take me to see."

After speaking, he and Qi Rong went to see the apple trees on the grassy slope.

She wandered around on the grassy slope and patted the sturdy apple tree. In the past, the apple tree on the grassy slope could not finish picking all the apples, but now the apples on this apple tree were scattered, and there was no how much.

She cut off the rhizomes of several apple trees and buried them on the grass slopes. However, due to the weather, no matter how much water she watered, they would no longer grow.

Sheng Jiaojiao was a little unwilling to give up, and asked Qi Wei to dig out a tree stem to look at it. It turned out that it was just a short tree stem, but under the cold soil, it absorbed Sheng Jiaojiao's water and grew into a very large stem. .

Sheng Jiaojiao: "."

Dare to say, these apple trees don't germinate because the cut-off tree stems absorbed the water she poured into the ground, and developed deeper into the ground instead of protruding to the ground.

So although her water is miraculous, her natural solar terms are irreversible.

Figured it out, Sheng Jiaojiao didn't worry about it any more, the vegetables in Tuao had been harvested almost, and Sheng Jiaojiao didn't intend to sow new seeds, Qi Rong just thought that the miracles in these farmlands had slowly disappeared, fortunately It's because the family no longer makes money by selling crops.

As a middleman, the Qi family can make a lot of money just by dumping the medicinal materials of Chen Adi's line, and Wenxiu's embroidery is also a good income now.

It's just that in the knowledge of the Qi family, they feel that the land of the Qi family, because the trees are well planted, the herbs under the trees grow well, the side vegetables grow well, and there are also land treasures, such as sheep dung and mule dung, So now the whole family is very excited and plans to cultivate a few more medicine fields and vegetable fields.

But even the apple trees that have always been fruitful are like this, and it is futile to open a few medicine fields and vegetable fields.

Human beings cannot compete with nature, not even Sheng Jiaojiao who is a water ghost.

Under the grey-yellow sky, Sheng Jiaojiao raised her head in the cool breeze, her hair fluttering around her temples, she said helplessly:
"The soil is not fertile, and the weather is not good. Why don't you stop selling apples this year, and raise sheep and horses with peace of mind. After the spring of next year, you should fatten the land before planting anything."

As for the few apples on the tree, let the Qi family eat them by themselves.

He also heard Sheng Jiaojiao's order to Qi Rong behind him:

"After the second aunt came back, I told her about the situation in the field. You go back and tell the other houses, so that everyone can rest for a while. Our family will divide the interest money tonight."

"Distribute money?"

Qi Rong looked at Sheng Jiaojiao in surprise, how could there be any profit?

Sheng Jiaojiao turned her head back with a smile, and looked at Qi Rong who jumped up again,

"Yes, share the interest, let's go."

This year the Qi family has made a lot of money, so it is natural that the profit can be divided, and each house contributes a lot. Apart from the wages of each house, there is still a lot of interest.

Qi Rong hastily turned around and ran home quickly, just as the three masters had returned from delivering the medicinal materials from the north of the county, he told the three masters what Sheng Jiaojiao had said, and the elder master and the second master hurried to the market Go up to the north of the county and call Qi Zhang and Qi Ming to come back and share the interest.

Qi Zhang couldn't come back. Seeing that the snow was about to fall, the defense in the north of the county was the top priority, but he still had to talk to the eldest son of the big house.

Qi Ming must come back, this is a major event, the distribution of interest requires settlement of accounts, the only ones in the Qi family who can understand the account books are Qi Ming and Mrs. Qi Er.

But Mrs. Qi is not as quick-witted as Qi Ming, so Qi Ming is responsible for reconciliation.

Wenxiu in the main room seemed to know that the Qi family had a major event today, and when the second lady Qi ordered Wenxiu to get off work early, she didn't ask any more questions.

Only when Sheng Jiaojiao called Wenxiu into the room and asked Qi Rong to make a pot of tea for Wenxiu, did she ask with a smile:

"Miss Zhang, your uncle is free recently, so go to Shanqing City for me?"

Shanqing City is the capital of Zhishou County. The king of the county and the richest people in Zhishou County all live in Shanqing City, including Chen Adi's grandfather.

Wenxiu sat on the embroidered pier, touched her already big belly, responded, and asked respectfully:

"But Jiaoniang has something to do, and you want to send my uncle to do it?"

"Naturally, I got some jewelry and jade recently, and I want to be a pawnbroker in exchange for some money, but I'm worried that Jishang won't be able to make up the price, so I want to find a reliable person and go to the pawnshop in Shanqing City."

Having said that, Sheng Jiaojiao gave Wenxiu a necklace made of jade beads, and said:
"This is used by Ji Lang to run a private school."

Seeing Wenxiu take the string of jade beads, Sheng Jiaojiao held the teacup, lifted the tea cover, put aside the tea leaves on the water, and said:

"When I go back to the north of the county, Brother Tan also gave me a box of gold, silver and jade beads. He has settled the matter of the private school. At that time, the sons and daughters of the three villages will be able to come to the private school for free. This is a big deal. If Uncle Zhang can Once it’s done, the carriage and horse fees will naturally be indispensable.”

Wenxiu immediately stood up, holding the jade bead necklace in her hand, and said seriously:
"Since I'm raising money to set up a private school, I'll go back immediately and tell my uncle."

"Go, be careful on the road."

With a smile on her face, Sheng Jiaojiao watched Wenxiu salute and leave.

Miss Qi came into the room wiping Wenxiu's body, looked back at the cloth curtain at the door of the room strangely, and asked strangely:

"Jiao Jiaoer, did you give Miss Zhang some money again? When I came in, she was carefully stuffing something into her sleeve."

It's really not that Miss Qi is stingy, but that Sheng Jiaojiao is too generous. Everyone who works under her is paid a daily salary, which is quite a sum of money after a month.

I'm afraid that the salary in Shanqing City has never been so expensive.

Sheng Jiaojiao took a sip of tea, turned her head to look at Miss Qi who was sitting next to the table,
"I just entrust her uncle to do something, and find out if Uncle Zhang can use it along the way."

There are gradually not enough people in the family, and the manpower is already a little tight after the fall of this year, let alone the beginning of spring next year.

Sheng Jiaojiao wanted to add a few more people, so she had to try people first.

So she told Wenxiu that she still had a box of gold, silver and jewelry in her hand, and asked Wenxiu's man, Uncle Zhang, to go to Shanqing City to help make a jade bead necklace.

He also made it clear that this box of gold, silver and jewelry was used to run schools for Erlang from the three villages in Tiaoma Lake.

Sheng Jiaojiao still has a box of jade beads for Wenxiu, so she doesn't care if she loses the string of jade beads.

Shanqing City is far away, so if you concentrate on your work, you can come back in two days.

The pawned money is used to run private schools for the three villages, and should not be taken away.

Therefore, if Wenxiu's men were available, they would not make excuses such as losing the jade beads, but in fact they were ignorant of the property used by the village to run private schools.

Not to mention carrying money, not doing business, lingering in the prosperity of Shanqing City, and forgetting to go back to Jumping Horse Lake.

Sheng Jiaojiao had no intention of telling Miss Qi about these whimsical thoughts, and A Niang was not interested anyway.

Sure enough, Miss Qi curled her lips, stood up, and urged Sheng Jiaojiao,
"Okay, you always have a lot of things to do, let's go, the family is waiting for you in the main room."

In the bustling Qi family hall, the faces of the ladies of the Qi family couldn't hide their joy.

Sheng Jiaojiao got up and went to the main room with A Niang. As soon as she sat down, she asked Qi Rong to carry a stack of ledgers and several large boxes of money into the main room of Qi's family, and waited for Qi Ming to come back to reconcile the accounts.

Qi Rong and Uncle Qi worked hard to carry these big boxes into the main room, and the Qi family was in an uproar.

Miss Qi San stared and asked:

"Why, why are there so many boxes?"

"They are all bought one after another."

Sheng Jiaojiao explained, and asked Qi Rong to bring out some melon seeds and peanuts, and distributed some to the aunts, Miss Qi, and Mrs. Qi in each room.

These peanuts and melon seeds were bought by a shopkeeper she asked Qi Rong to pass by on the way to Jumping Horse Lake.

The real thing, I bought it from a peddler.

Miss Qi looked at Qi Rong dividing the melon seeds and peanuts, she smiled in her eyes, and blamed her in her mouth:

"It costs money again, what do you buy these for?"

On the main seat, Mrs. Qi, who was holding a handful of melon seeds and began to nibble with relish, gave Miss Qi a blank look.
"Eat yours, you save money, Jiao Jiaoer buys it for you, you can't shut your mouth!"

"Auntie!"

Miss Qi refused, she is old lady Qi's own daughter, why is she almost the same as the one she picked up now, as long as she scolded Sheng Jiaojiao for spending money recklessly, old lady Qi would come out to protect the calf.

Seeing Sheng Jiaojiao's slightly complacent look again, Miss Qi looked back at Old Madam Qi,
"Just take care of the old lady, one day she will spend all of our family's property, let's see how you drink the northwest wind."

"Jiao Jiaoer will make money, and spend more than enough money."

The old lady Qi didn't listen to her daughter, she just smiled and looked at Sheng Jiaojiao who was busy going around, and ordered Qi Rong to take this and move that, and said:
"Our family is rich now, what's the matter with buying some melon seeds and peanuts as snacks? Girl, don't be ignorant, if you let you eat it, you can just eat it casually, so you don't have to talk about it."

The ladies next to them, seeing that the eldest girl was being trained, only pursed their lips and smiled, each grabbed a handful of peanuts and melon seeds, drank hot tea in teacups, and sat in the warm main room, chatting all over the place.

The door of the main room was closed to prevent outsiders from prying. There was firewood burning in the pit inside the room. Sheng Jiaojiao leaned over and spoke to the second lady Qi who was sitting beside her, and said casually:
"Second aunt, I'm afraid the country can't wait any longer. The men are fighting outside, and we have to do logistics work at home. The harvest in the field is getting worse day by day. We have to find some new ideas."

Once the heavy snow falls, there will be endless months of falling snow, and the heavy snow can bury the neck, and Zhishou County will fall into a difficult situation of lack of clothing and food.

The vassal state will not give up this opportunity to go south.

In fact, since this year, the subordinate country has been harassing Zhishou County intermittently, but Qi Zhang and Tan Ji suppressed it several times in a row.

Now the cellar of the Qi family has a lot of grains, side dishes and apples, and the beams of the house are also covered with bacon.

It is not difficult for the Qi family to survive this winter.

The difficulty is how the people in Zhishou County will survive this winter.

And how can the Qi family continue to make money this winter.

Yes, Sheng Jiaojiao still has a lot of things to do. When winter comes, nothing can be planted in the fields, and the snow in Zhishou County will last until April and May next year. This snow season that lasts for more than half a year is impossible. He lives by reselling the medicinal materials of the Chen family.

What if the Chen family doesn't trust her anymore?

Sheng Jiaojiao has struggled all her life in the cannibal palace, never putting all her eggs in one basket.

This is her way of life.

Every year in Zhishou County, a large number of people will freeze to death and starve to death. Although most of them are slaves, there are also many local people who simply cannot survive this season.

In the final analysis, the reason why so many people died was not because there was not enough food in Zhishou County.

When it was time to bury their necks in heavy snow, every family covered up their food, and those who had no food at home could not buy food even with money.

The grain that can be bought is sold at sky-high prices, and the family is bankrupt, and I am afraid that they can't buy a few buckets of rice.

Not to mention the medicinal materials, except for those who died of freezing and starvation, most of the rest are caused by lack of money to see a doctor. The medicinal materials in Zhishou County are so expensive that ordinary people can't afford the medicine and can only resist it. Yes, can't we just wait to die?
When there are many people who are on the verge of death, it is easy to be chaotic. If Zhishou County is in chaos, Qi Zhang and Tan Ji will be unstable in the rear.

When the general environment is in chaos, how can the Qi family get better?
Among other things, some people in Huangtu Village are panicking now.

(End of this chapter)