From the Late Qing Dynasty to the 21st Century

Chapter 13
This time, as soon as she saw this adventure mission, Shen Luoxing was ready to check the situation. After all, Shen Luoxing was also aware of the situation at home. The medicinal materials business could barely maintain a balance of payments before, but because of her own medicinal materials needs, Therefore, some medicinal materials need to be purchased from other places, so the expenses gradually increased. Shen Luoxing also wanted to solve this problem.

Because the system's adventure missions have basically never disappointed Shen Luoxing. It just so happens that there is such an adventure mission now, and Shen Luoxing is still very excited.

Not long after, Shen Luoxing fell asleep with anticipation.

Early the next morning, Shen Luoxing asked Xue'er to help him bring a message to her husband to ask for leave as usual, while she took her servants and went to a small town outside the city.
It is said that it is outside the city, but in fact it is only a little more than five miles away from Guang'an County. This road is full of official roads, and the so-called banditry is generally more than a hundred miles away from the county. After all, if it is close, it is estimated that The county magistrate also doesn't care about spending more effort to clear up the banditry, which is a great achievement anyway.

After leaving Guang'an County, heading west, there are farmlands on both sides of the official road. It is early summer at this time, and there are still quite a lot of pedestrians and farmers on the road. They lived in the villages near the farmland, mostly tenant farmers and rich peasants with small land holdings.

Along the way, many farmers greeted Shen Luoxing. These were basically tenants of the Shen family. The fertile land owned by the Shen family was basically distributed in Guang'an County, and many of these properties outside the city belonged to the Shen family. , but of course it is impossible for the servants of the Shen family to manage so many land properties, so Master Shen used these tenants.

It is said that they are tenants, but they are not much different from hired helpers. Mr. Shen will not force them to work on their own fields and they will not be allowed to go back to their own fields. However, during this period, can these farmers’ families It's hard to say that there is an acre of fertile land, but if Master Shen can reward them with a bite of food, they are naturally grateful.

The current peasant households are still quite simple, and they will not do anything. Your Shen family has so many fields, why don’t you give us some speeches like this, but instead work very hard to help Master Shen? No, even Shen Luoxing, who had only been here a few times, was remembered by them, and now they could hear greetings on the road.

Not long after, Shen Luoxing came to the town outside the city. The town is estimated to have a population of less than 5000. There are three streets in the east, and there are many residential buildings in the west. of farmland.And those townspeople who specialize in raising livestock are basically gathered on the edge of the farmland on the west side of the city.

Passing through Donghua Town, which is obviously not as prosperous as the county seat, Shen Luoxing quickly found the townspeople who raised livestock. After a question, Shen Luoxing found the township mentioned in the mission description. Grandma Wang.

Granny Wang’s name is Xia Lan. She is only 40 years old this year. There are two sons in the family. The eldest son is a soldier outside, and the youngest son is a tenant in the county. But he was reluctant to part with a homestead in Donghua Town, so he stayed in Donghua Town.

However, the Wang family didn't have the ability to build a house on the homestead. Fortunately, Grandma Wang still has a lot of experience in raising chickens, so Grandma Wang raised chickens outside the town in order to return to the town to repair a house in the future.

After Shen Luoxing understood the situation, she first ruled out the possibility that Grandma Wang could help the Wang family in providing medicinal materials. The eldest son was serving as a soldier outside, and there was no certainty when he would be able to return. The youngest son was working as a tenant in the city. , the home that can't be returned for a long time all year round, it is even more impossible for these two people to help themselves.

After ruling out a series of possibilities, the only possibility is that Grandma Wang has some good special method to help the Shen family reduce costs or expenses.

So Shen Luoxing went to Granny Wang's residence in person, oh, there were two servants behind him, as for where did the former servant go, it couldn't be that he lost his job, it's just that Young Master Shen was promoted to his post. My boxing partner also got a salary increase. When I left the city, I brought three servants with me. He is guarding the carriage now, so I don't need him to run errands.

Granny Wang saw someone approaching her house from a distance, and she didn't pay much attention at first, but when Shen Luoxing was about to walk to the door, Granny Wang suddenly noticed that the person's clothes looked quite expensive, and the two people behind were clearly It is the servant of the little prince in front.

All of a sudden, Granny Wang became flustered. She was worried that something happened to her child. Otherwise, there would not be such a wealthy family coming here. My wife passed away, but I have never seen anyone visit my house. At most, people from the town came to buy chickens, but this is not the time yet, and this young master doesn't look like him either.

As a last resort, Grandma Wang stepped forward to meet her, "I don't know who you are, this nobleman?" Her tone was quite humble.

"This is Mr. Shen from Guang'an County. We're here to ask you for business." Before Shen Luoxing could speak, the servant next to him couldn't wait to show it off, but his tone was a bit heavy, and Granny Wang seemed a little taken aback. Terrified, he squeaked and dared not speak.

Seeing this, Shen Luoxing quickly raised his hand to signal the servant to stop talking, and comforted Granny Wang, "Grandma Wang, my servant is impatient and speaks quickly, don't worry, I am indeed the young master of the Shen family, come here It’s not for any reason, but I heard that your chickens are very delicious, so I asked you to buy some.”

After all, it was a young man with a good face. Granny Wang was relieved after hearing Shen Luoxing's words, so she said, "Master Shen, if you want to eat my chicken, you can just send someone over here, why bother to eat it yourself?" Come all the way." As she said, Granny Wang went to her own chicken coop, searched around, and picked out the fattest rooster.

"I have raised this rooster for two and a half years, and I have always kept it as a breeder. Over the years, I have produced several rounds of chicks. It is the fattest among my chickens." Granny Wang said While talking, he tied the rooster's feet with hemp rope, and left a special handle for easy carrying. Then he took his family's scale and weighed it. Good guy, it weighs more than ten catties. To be honest, Shen Luo Xing had never seen such a big chicken.

"Eleven catties and two taels, this one counts as your eleven catties, you can just give one hundred Wen." Granny Wang usually buys chickens for ten yuan a catty, but today the young man who came here, Moreover, she was kind to others, and Granny Wang generously gave some discounts.

Hearing this, Shen Luoxing asked his servants to give him money, and then Shen Luoxing stopped Granny Wang, "Grandma, I think it's almost noon, why don't I have a meal at your house, and the chicken is also And cooked it, by the way, my family member also has some cooking skills, let him help you, and I will give you another [-] Wen later, which will be counted as the price of this meal."

When she heard that she was rich, Granny Wang agreed.

"By the way, Granny Wang, if you're talking about rice, cook for six people." Shen Luoxing didn't forget to remind, and then Shen Luoxing thought about it again, because he always felt that he forgot something.

(End of this chapter)