I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 56
In the evening before cooking, all the ripe pumpkins in the vegetable garden have been cut, but no one cares about the pumpkin leaves.Pumpkin leaves taste sweet and delicious. With meat dishes available, they are perfect for making vegetarian dishes.So, Li Xiuju went to the vegetable garden to cut a bunch of pumpkin leaves.

There are thorns on the backs of pumpkin leaves and stems. You have to break them into pieces and pull out the sharp thorns on the surface before frying.

Zhou Chenyu liked this job, so she moved a small bench and sat at the door, with soybeans crawling at her feet. She tore pumpkin leaves while looking at the rice fields in the distance.

I heard that this year's harvest was good. There were two bags more rice per acre than in previous years. The men carried bags of rice back home with bare feet. Although their faces and bodies were wet with sweat, they were not covered at all. Live the joy of harvest.

"By the way, how much did our family spend on the bag of rice we bought last time?" Zhou Chenyu asked Baoyu.

Baoyu forcibly picked up Huangdou and said, "Sister, it should have cost 150 copper coins."

"You only need 150 copper coins to buy a little rice, and you can only eat it for more than two or three months at most." Zhou Chenyu looked at the rice fields. One acre of rice fields didn't produce much food. She thought about it seriously, "It's better to have my own land. ,dont you agree?"

Baoyu stared at the piece of land snatched away by his uncle, feeling depressed and said, "Of course, but all our land is gone. How easy is it to get a piece of land for farming?"

Zhou Chenyu smiled slightly, "We can now earn more than 100 copper coins a day and save several taels of silver a month. Why is it not easy?"

According to the market price here, one acre of land costs about three taels of silver.If the amount of money they make from selling sugar water can last for a while, there is still hope.

"Am I right?" Zhou Chenyu looked at Baoyu, and Baoyu also looked over. Their eyes met and they had the same idea, which was to save money to buy land!

That night, Li Xiuju made fried small fish with chili pepper and stir-fried pumpkin leaves.The fish larvae were spicy and delicious, and the pumpkin leaves were sweet and pleasant. One was heavy and the other was light. There were both meat and vegetables. Everyone had two bowls of rice.

After the person finished eating, he mixed some pumpkin leaves and dried fish with the remaining rice, and the dog ate nothing.

After eating, Li Xiuju boiled two eggs, peeled off the shells, wrapped them in a piece of cloth, rolled them on the wound on Baoyu's face, and said anxiously: "Although you have beaten them back, those people may not be willing to let it go. You tomorrow If you set up a stall again, will they find some helpers to embarrass you?"

Rather than making a lot of money, Li Xiuju wants her two children to be safe, well-fed and clothed, and not hungry or cold. That would be enough for her.

"Chen Yu, Baoyu, why don't you go?" Li Xiuju said what she had been thinking about for a long time.

As soon as these words came out, Baoyu thought of the idea of ​​saving money to buy land, and was the first to disagree, "Mom, in just two days, we have earned almost two hundred cash. Taking advantage of the hot weather, we can put it on the market for dozens of days , we can earn one or two taels of silver. In the past, how long would we have to dig bamboo shoots in the mountains to earn it?"

"That's right." Zhou Chenyu had the same idea, finding wealth in danger.

Besides, setting up a stall is just the first step. Selling sugar water is a seasonal business and not very stable.

Her ultimate goal is to buy a permanent stall in the city and run a unique business so that small amounts of money can continue to flow into her pocket.

"Baoyu is right, business must continue. Qian Rushan was scared away by us, but I'm not afraid of the three mothers and children." Zhou Chenyu picked up the soybean and touched its head, "If they still dare to bully Let’s, I’ll let the soybeans bite them to death!”

Baoyu imitated the barking of the vicious dogs in the village and howled a few words.

Huang Dou seemed to understand what they said. He opened his eyes wide and faced the door, barking three times excitedly.

Zhou Chenyu was also surprised, "Hey, listen, it really screamed!"

"Mom heard it and screamed. This little guy is quite smart." Li Xiuju smiled, couldn't help but stretched out her hand and touched it a few times, and never mentioned what she just said again.Late at night, everyone went back to their rooms.

Outside the window, passers-by were walking past with torches in their hands, and occasionally the call of Huang Dou could be heard. Zhou Chenyu was lying on the bed. The sheets must have been washed by Li Xiuju, and he could vaguely smell the burning smell of the sun.

This point was too early for Zhou Chenyu's biological clock, and he couldn't fall asleep.

Zhou Chenyu turned over, holding the quilt between his legs, recalling the scenes that happened that day, and thinking of that person, a lazy and tired smile appeared in his clear eyes.

"Farewell." She imitated the man's tone, low and calm, "Does this man usually talk so boringly? No wonder he has no one to date with because he looks like that, and girls have long been scared away."

That night the moon and stars were sparse, and the next day it was sunny and beautiful.

In such a good weather, sugar water should be sold well, but the sugar water shop has been set up for two days. The remaining ingredients for both making red bean cakes and sugar water are running low and can only last half a day.

So, after selling things in the morning, Zhou Chenyu and Baoyu took a rest early and went into the city. They had already saved several hundred coins on hand, and they had much more money than before.

When the two siblings went to the market, in addition to buying ingredients for making sugar water, they also went to the pork man to cut two kilograms of pork, two pieces of tender tofu, and bought two cans of lamp oil.

When I came back from shopping, the empty dustpan was filled again.

Zhou Chenyu took out two boxes of red bean cakes, clapped his hands and prepared to leave, and said to Baoyu, "I've bought all the things. You can go back to the village first. I still have things to do."

Baoyu leaned over and asked meaningfully, "Sister, are you going to see Team Leader Yang again?"

Zhou Chenyu was happy and looked at him sideways, "What? You won't give it to me?"

"How is that possible?" Baoyu snickered, "Sister, you can find your right husband as soon as possible. If you bully me again in the future, I will ask my brother-in-law to support me."

Brother-in-law?

Is this brat called addicted?
Zhou Chenyu twitched her lips. She was just looking for someone to hug him, to intimidate Qian Rushan, and to tease the man. She had never thought about having a serious relationship.

She rolled her eyes at him, took two boxes of precious red bean cakes, and rushed to the front of the government office. Across the street, she saw the man guarding the gate. She remembered that Yang Xi had him with her several times. He must be some kind of helper or assistant. Category.

Xiao Qi saw Zhou Chenyu approaching from a distance. He yawned in the middle and regained consciousness. He rushed to greet her: "Miss Zhou, are you coming to the government office again?"

"Miss Zhou?" Zhou Chenyu slowly raised his eyes and looked at him tenderly, "Brother, do you know my name?"

Xiao Qi blinked and looked at Zhou Chenyu, clenched his hands and saluted: "Miss Zhou, last time you made a mountain of money in public, I was so impressed that I immediately remembered your name."

"Oh, so that's it." Zhou Chenyu looked at him with admiration from the bottom of his heart, and showed a harmless smile, "My name is Zhou Chenyu, what is my brother's name?"

(End of this chapter)