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Chapter 226 Two Chapters in One
"They are here to deliver fish to the shop. Mr. Mu, don't worry about them. Let's get off the car."

This is Jiubao's first time riding a dog sledge, and Huo Yunqian's first time riding a sledge.

Needless to say, the experience was quite fresh.

Just for now.

After Mrs. Xu waved her hand, the three women who had just asked who they were sat on the small sledge, smiled and waved their hands and said, "The final decision is made, then let's go."

In front of the sledge where the three women were sitting, there was no animal pulling the legs, but there might be a pulley at the bottom. Each of them carried a basket behind them, and when they pushed hard with two sticks, the small sledge would slide far away. .

This is the means of transportation used to transport goods in Erdaohe Village in winter.

Jiubao asked Xu Tianxin in a low voice: "Have the businessmen from other places ever ridden on a sledge? They may be wondering, we in the North can still use this to pull our feet."

Xu Tianxin put the whip on his waist and told:

“I sat there, and the children in our village even had a snowball fight with them.

Moreover, there is no ice road on the road into the village, so it is not very fast.

Later, I will lead the young master and you towards the river. You will see that there is a specially poured ice channel on that side, so you can slide down without using any animals.

Do you know about slides?It just so happens that the side is downhill.

The first time I played it, I would scream all the way down the slide.

So when we in the village go to the store to walk on the snow track, we always slide down that side when we come back. "

Xu Tianxin remembered that young businessmen from other places had asked, apart from dog sledges, what else did you Northeastern people use to pull your feet? Then the scrub man said casually, "The snow is small, but if the snow is heavy, you can ride a Siberian tiger."As a result, people believed it and believed that there were Siberian tigers and blind bears on their trip.

Xu Tianxin laughed twice when he thought of this, and told Jiubao Geqi and the others.

It may be that even northern romance is rough.

Hot kang, strong liquor, and calf-high snowdrifts everywhere.

A few people gathered behind Huo Yunqian to joke and park, and touched the fur of the hero's big dogs. Xu Tianxin did not see Huo Yunqian turn around to look at her or the bombed-out house.

It was Mrs. Xu who noticed this.

Mrs. Xu pointed to the house of Guan Ertu's house and the scratched courtyard wall of Da'ezi's house next to it, and introduced: "Yes, that's right here."

Then he smiled at Huo Yunqian and whispered:

"At that time, there was a loud thunderbolt, and I didn't expect that the general would come to the countryside today.

It’s also a blast to get your money’s worth.

And don’t worry, although our big family can spend money, the money for building a house has been prepared for a long time. We will start to make up for it as soon as next spring. "

Well, I need to repair the house for my fellow villagers.

Huo Yunqian also thought of the houses that were bombed by Xu Tianxin on the mountain side of the military camp.

Next year, the camp will also need to build houses.

"Sir, please."

"Ah."

"Sir, the houses you see with wooden signs right now are houses that have no room for their shops and are hosting businessmen from each other."

It is written on the wooden sign that the eldest cousin is the third cousin, the fourth uncle is the fifth aunt, and the sixth cousin is the sixth cousin.

The guests asked each other about this conversation:
"Whose house do you live in?"

"I live at my uncle's house in the village."

There are fifteen in total.

At this time, Huo Yunqian came to his fourth aunt's house.

Look at the Double Happiness posted on the wall.

After entering the house, there are several wooden basins stacked on the wooden shelves for guests to wash their faces.There was a lidded urine pail on the floor.

There is also a long table with wooden stools by the window. There are more than a dozen wooden water glasses and a candlestick neatly placed on the table.

He then looked at the quilts folded up on the bed, and even the walls were covered with children's calligraphy papers (Liu Jingdong's work of tracing large characters) and nodded with satisfaction.

It can be felt that under the current situation, this is the best hospitality the villagers can give to the traders.

Jiubao was visiting from behind and said to Xu Tianxin: "The accommodation environment in your village is much better than Datongpu in the town."

Xu Tianxin informed: "But these fifteen families in our village can spare their rooms to entertain guests, and there are no more extra rooms. Converted to the number of caravans, they can accommodate up to three caravans at the same time. If new caravans come, we will refuse .”

The situation is here, sometimes the money delivered to you cannot be earned.

Jiubao thought to himself: In fact, there are not enough hotels and car shops in the town. This is a phenomenon caused by the sudden announcement of the mutual market news and insufficient preparation.

They are all waiting for the spring to dig the foundation to build a house.

I heard that some caravans arrived in the town and saw that the inns and large car shops were in short supply and the prices were rising, so they simply rented a house with a yard.

Ordinary people secretly invite guests to stay at home, and they can earn some household income.I'm afraid that if things go on like this, many problems will arise.

"How do you charge accommodation fees in your village?"

"We were not well prepared at the beginning. It was like entering the village and spending the night without any money. We only charged money for meals and bathing. It was only a while ago that we started paying ten coins per person."

As of now, a total of ten caravans have come to Erdaohe Village. As for accommodation, they have not actually recovered their money.After all, the initial investment in bedding, sewing, and thread is a cost.

And among these fifteen families, three still owe the Xu family cotton money.

Isn't that right? Mrs. Xu was also quietly asking Huo Yunqian how many teams of traders there would be.

The old lady thought that it would be more accurate to ask this person than anyone else, so she would just ask casually.

She had never considered such a big official. Under normal circumstances, she would not answer such a small question.

"38 teams." Huo Yunqian gave the accurate answer.

Until March, that is, before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this number of teams will come.

The imperial court and overseas parties also agreed to hand over the goods on February [-]nd.This is the first batch of deliveries.

After March next year, there will be more than three times the number of teams than now. Next year, the Zhenbei Army will need to transport salt and pots three times, let alone the year after.Basically on average, more than a dozen caravans will arrive in the Northland every month.

Mrs. Xu was happy when she heard it, so that's good, it means that there are more than 20 teams, which will be in place before March.

Even excluding half of the people who pass by Erdaohe and have no place to stay, by March these fifteen families can still earn a small two taels of silver each, excluding bedding and other costs for accommodation.

Jiubao asked Xu Tianxin from behind: "Is this all paid for by your family, girl?"

Before Xu Tianxin could answer, Mrs. Xu turned around and said with a smile: "It's impossible. Everyone in our village has agreed that we won't earn this kind of money. After all, we have other ways to make money. And the families with more strength and labor in the village also I don’t know how to make money. These fifteen merchants who host guests are all old people in the village who are too old to work, so let them make money.”

Jiubao was curious: "Grandma Xu, why is this?"

I thought your family would become a big boss behind the scenes.

For accommodation like this, your family will also earn half of it.

"Because there's a saying, get rich first and then get rich later. Our village doesn't allow it. Only a few families are extremely rich, while the poorest people below are starving to death. What's that for? Everyone gets a little bit of it, like this It will also help the stability of the village."

Mrs. Xu smiled and waved her hand again and continued: "To be honest with you, our goal in Erdaohe Village is that after making money in the morning, every family can go shopping in the town. We don't want to leave anyone behind. Whoever has a stew? I don’t want to have a bunch of kids squatting at the door to smell the smell. I hope that after this mutual trade, if there is too much meat and we can’t afford it, everyone can still afford to eat at least one and a half kilograms of meat.”

While several people were talking, the fourth aunt came with a cane and a bowl of sugar water, insisting that Xu Tianxin drink it.

He also grabbed Mrs. Xu's arm and said, "The boss is in charge. I owe your family the money for cotton cloth. I have to entertain you for two more nights and I can get it all." Mrs. Xu said with a smile: "Why are you saying this in front of the guests? How can you do it?" I'm not in a hurry when I see you raising money every time. Besides, I've asked the right adults today, and there are still more than 20 caravans that haven't arrived yet. Your days of earning family income will come later."

"Ah? Do you have more than 20 more? That would be great."

Huo Yunqian felt a little complicated when he heard this conversation.

For military generals, only when the court is ignorant and officials are greedy for life and fear of death will they choose to compromise and trade with each other and use supplies to seek temporary stability.

But I have to say that for the common people, not being in a war and being able to make some money for their families is what they want most.

Huo Yunqian thought about this, lowered his head slightly, crossed the threshold and left here.

When passing by Xu Tianxin, Huo Yunqian paused and glanced at the bowl of sugar water. There was the black fingerprint of the "fourth aunt", and Xu Tianxin drank it.

Xu Tianxin misunderstood: "...are you drinking?"

It's cool and air-conditioned, drink it yourself.

Xu Tianxin thought to himself: Finally, you can no longer hide your arrogance. This is it.

It's still different from a farmer, and it doesn't look like wearing a bunt either.

When the group arrived at the next stop, Jiubao understood why Miss Xu said that only fifteen families could vacate the house.

Because on the next trip, there were probably more than 20 houses, and every house had one or two empty rooms rented by Grandma Xu as a temporary processing point.

Ge Qi had heard about it because he was stationed here, but Jiubao was a little surprised.

"The boss always calls the shots." The villagers who help the workers are not used to calling the boss, so they like to call Mrs. Xu the boss.

"Hey, these are distinguished guests coming to visit our village. You are busy. Let's take a rest early today after our work is done."

After Mrs. Xu waved her hands to the villagers who were working, she introduced to Huo Yunqian:

"I rented the first three houses and hired twenty women to fill them with sausages from morning till night every day.

My sausages are easy to carry and store. They are both vegetables and food.The Xu's cobblestone grilled sausage sold in the town comes from my family and is also sold as far away as Fucheng.

There is already a restaurant in Fucheng, an inn has a long-term order, and there is also a restaurant in the county.Currently, Yuandao delivers goods every two months.Vendors from the market also bought some on their return trip and liked them very much. "

Mrs. Xu casually pulled off more than a dozen intestines hanging on the rope, without even cutting them, and stuffed them directly into Jiubao's arms, while continuing:

"But this refers to winter. The jelly sausages are hard and salty, so they don't go bad. That's why the shipment volume is large. When the weather gets warm, you can only sell them nearby."

In fact, there is nothing to worry about nearby. There are so many towns nearby. I really hope that the Zhenbei Army will take over a few more towns.

Jiubao looked at the string of intestines in his arms and was a little confused.

Grandma Xu gave a gift, regardless of how much money it was worth, just the gesture was grand.

After leaving the sausage production workshop, Mrs. Xu took Huo Yunchian to see the fish floss group.

Taking the fish floss and frying together, a total of ten rooms were rented.

Because the making of fish floss is secret, I only took a quick look outside.

Mrs. Xu still adhered to the principle of "opening your mouth will make three benefits, if it doesn't work, it will be enough" and asked Huo Yunqian carefully about something.

Neither she nor her granddaughter liked buying people to sign death contracts, so they only signed six-year contracts with village workers. If they broke the contract and told others the secret recipe, they would be fined a thousand taels of silver.If there is a dispute over this kind of contract, I would like to know how the government will handle it.

"Sir, I heard from Zhenting that all you need to do is sign a living contract. Is it true that you will be jailed if you break the contract?"

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin had wondered why civil disputes were criminalized here, so they were a little vague.

There is a crime called "non-repayment in breach of contract". If you do not repay for a hundred days and have no property to enforce, you will indeed be imprisoned for one year.

Huo Yunqian only responded casually.

He was a little distracted, so he picked up a piece of meat floss with his fingertips, tasted it, smelled it, and thought: This can be used as individual soldier rations.

He then looked at the ten simple production workshops here, which were only sold to the market and restaurants for overuse.

Huo Yunqian became more interested: "Is there any more?"

"Have."

The next twelve workshops are basically related to pasta.

Huo Yunqian had eaten instant noodles before. He knew that Xu Tianxin was very generous and shared the recipe directly with Jia Lai in the cave.

Frozen dumplings and sticky bean buns, including Yuhuan noodles (fish noodle) and pickled vegetables, needless to say.

Mrs. Xu just told everyone, as if she was complaining, but also as if she was showing off the trust of the villagers in the Xu family, telling them that the people in the village were not willing to be their own bosses, and they did not want to worry too much about the shops in the mutual market, so most of the women in the village They all work here.

As of now, Mr. Mu, every woman you see earns an average of two and a half taels of silver.

It can be seen that after a year, the women in this village only relied on the Xu family to earn more than ten taels of silver.

Huo Yunqian and his party also saw Grandma Xianggua’s “noodle shop.”

There are soba noodles and thin noodles.

Roll the wet dough into strips as thick as a little finger, then hang them on a wooden rack with a short round wooden stick hanging down.Under the pressure of wood, the thick noodles will gradually become thin and elongated, and then, like a dyeing workshop, the noodles will naturally dry and become dried noodles.

Not every caravan is willing to gorge on fried instant noodles and frozen dumplings, especially when the escort wages have long been distributed to the individual escort team members. Therefore, the cantaloupe and grandma brand noodles are actually the most popular take-out goods. of.

The noodles are not mixed with anything else, just salt, water and flour.

Probably because they didn't expect men to come in, there were more than thirty women in their prime in various workshops, rolling up their sleeves and exposing their tendons, making handmade noodles.

Their noodle-making skills come from Mrs. Xu.

To use Liu Laozhu's original words for selling noodles, the boss is a famous noodle expert. How did she know how to do this?Unprepared for the miscarriage, he started to pull the umbilical cord. The ramen experience was at its peak and it was overcrowded.

And the above is Mrs. Xu’s “women’s army.”

"Mr. Mu, so far, I have 180 women working in this processing workshop in the village."

Mrs. Xu led Huo Yunqian to another room.

No introduction needed this time, Huo Yunqian knew that this was Xu Tianxin's "world".

Mrs. Xu stood behind her granddaughter with a smile.

"My boss girl."

In order to increase manpower for the Zhenbei Army's delivery, Xu Tianxin's staff has been expanded. There are fifty girls aged fifteen or sixteen and fifty flower-like girls, all of whom are smiling and greeting Xu Tianxin.

Jiubao and Ge Qi felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by so many girls.

No wonder all the people I saw when I entered the village were mothers-in-law and women. I also wondered that all the ones of the right age were in the hands of Xu Tianxin.

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin conducted a guided tour without preaching.

The grandfather and grandson wanted to tell Huo Yunqian, the biggest official here, not to ignore the female productivity group.

Please also take a look at the difficult conditions we have to start a business.Every family is crowded and there is no empty room.

We want to build a big factory.

Huo Yunqian: Approval of land.

　Please vote for me, pretty girls.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)