Chapter 373

"What's the matter?" Song Xintong asked faintly.

Zhang Cuihua said with a smile, "the chili peppers planted in our family are all red, and the yard is narrow. I want to send the fresh chili peppers directly."

People in the village are willing to sun dry pepper, only a few families send fresh pepper, including Xie family and he family, as well as their mother's relatives and so on.

Song Xintong guessed that someone in the Song family had analyzed it for her. It's cost-effective to send the fresh peppers to the sun drying barn. Isn't there someone counting the accounts? You can go directly

"Good." Zhang Cuihua said with a smile, "Xintong, I will plant your pepper next year."

"Yes." Song Xintong nodded. She had heard from her mother-in-law Qiu for a long time. Zhang Cuihua and song Dajiang had been making wasteland in the east of the village for the past six months. They mostly wanted to raise the land for half a year and grow more peppers next year.

Song Xintong was a little worried that the mountains over there would be completely reclaimed. Ah, I don't know whether they planted cherries or not. In fact, the price of planting cherries per mu is estimated to be much higher than that of pepper.

"Thank you, Xintong." Zhang Cuihua was very happy, "then I'll go back first."

After waiting for someone to leave, song Xintong and the Zhou family behind him said, "go back first. I may have to go back later."

"Yes, ma'am." Zhou's respectful response, and then along the bluestone path back to Lu's home.

Song Xintong turned back into the room, went to the kitchen and drank a large cup of herbal tea. Then he looked at the small pool outside the room and the grape shelf in the corner. He had already produced several clusters of fruits. He was so green that he didn't know if he could eat them in July.

"The girl is tired?" Wang came in with a bucket and saw her standing at the door. "You have a rest. My maid steamed some cakes in the steamer. You can eat some to cushion your stomach."

It's only a quarter past midnight. It's still early for dinner.

Song Xintong really felt hungry, went to the platform, opened the lid of the pot, took a red bean cake and ate it, "Auntie Wang, you make it delicious."

"Just like the girl. I haven't done it for many days. I'm afraid it won't suit your taste." Wang said.

After Zhou's coming, Lu's kitchen was wrapped up by her, and Wang's had no place to use.

Song Xintong took another bite of the soft glutinous red bean cake, "what do you think of Zhou?"

Wang considered the words, "you look like a diligent and smart man."

After a pause, he said, "I heard Xiaoyue's father say that Zhuang GUI and Zhuang and his two brothers are capable. They used to work in the outer yard, which is very smart."

All the same answer, song Xintong also know ask no other, "then look."

Wang said: "girls actually don't have to worry. Maidservant and Xiaoyue's father are in the village. They can take care of Mrs. landing, and if they understand people, they will like to be in this place."

Song Xintong nodded.

Daya's voice came from the outside, "Aunt Wang, there's something to eat. I'm so hungry."

"Is Daya back?" Song Xintong looked outside and saw Daya running in sweating. "There's red bean cake here. Come and eat it."

"Here is the girl." Da Ya shrinks her neck and looks at her embarrassed, for fear that the girl will be angry.

"What are you looking at me for?" Song Xintong funny said: "red bean cake is hot, go to eat."

Daya ah, ran to the side of the pot, grabbed four or five steamed buns and two red bean cakes, and wolfed them down.

"Why, no lunch?"

"No, girl. I don't carry peppers today. I use too much energy." Daya is embarrassed to smile, and took a few steamed bread to eat, the stomach just had a little full feeling, "girl, today's field of pepper are picked up, pepper seedlings also pulled."

Song Xintong said, "how much is the total number?"

Daya thought about it and told Xie Yi what they said: "it's more than 90000 kg, but the drying field and workshop haven't finished, and the rest have been moved to the outside yard to dry."

"Did you pick up the green pepper?" Song Xintong asked.

Daya shakes her head. "There are not many green peppers, and it's not easy to pick. Uncle Yang says that it doesn't matter if they are sun dried at the same time."

"That will do." Song Xintong worried that there would be too many green peppers, and the color would not look good at that time. He estimated that he could sun dry 18000 kilos of dry peppers, and the 20000 kilos of dry peppers in the village could make up 50000 kilos of dry peppers?

"Girl, there's some hot peppers from villagers outside." Yang Xiaoyue ran in in a hurry, looking at Daya eating cakes, also can't help but want to eat.

"Then I'll see." Song Xintong wiped his hands, turned and went to the yard outside. The yard was covered with fresh peppers, and there were several people shouting at Zhuang GUI.

The people in the village who sent the peppers stood by the shelter, waiting for song Xintong to receive the goods.

"Xintong, you're here. We don't have many dry peppers. They're all here." Aunt Liu took pictures of nearly ten boxes of dried peppers, 20 to 30 jin per box, and more than 300 Jin per box.

Song Xintong touched the pepper, dried it in the sun, and grew well.

"Uncle Yang, take out the documents they signed before, and I'll compare them one by one." Song Xintong said and asked Wang to send out some cold dishes, "aunts, you drink some cold tea to relieve summer heat."

"Thank you, Xintong." Women are embarrassed to carry herbal tea, sitting on the side of the stone pier to drink slowly.

Song Xintong looked at other people outside, "Auntie, you've made an appointment to come here together today?"

"Yes, I picked them together. It's sunny these days. I'll send them together when they're dry." Cui Tiezhu's daughter-in-law said.

"That is to say, we can come here together and talk, ha ha."

Song Xintong sat to one side, with broken silver and documents, as well as the account book table. He found the documents of Mrs. Liu's family, who was photographed in front of him. "You come first, then put them on the big scale."

"Good." Aunt Liu was very excited.

Yang Shu and Zhuang GUI said, "thirty two Jin." Then he poured the pepper on the linen cloth which had been laid on the ground. After a little inspection, there was no fraud. Then he went to weigh the basket. "One kilo of the basket, and finally 31 kilos of pepper."

Next, they weighed all the remaining boxes. Ten boxes weighed about 330kg, which was similar to the weight of the original contract. They only planted an acre of land, and it was good for them to dry more than 300kg.

Song Xintong counted six hundred and twenty-six coins and handed them to Aunt Liu, "count them. If you're sure there's no problem, just press a fingerprint here."

Mrs. Liu and her daughters-in-law looked at the white silver and copper. Their eyes were bright and they couldn't close their mouths with a smile. After counting, they carefully put it in their purse and pressed it on the paper.

Seeing so much silver, the people nearby were all envious and said: "Aunt Liu, you can earn so much silver, how can you spend it?

Aunt Liu's eyes became a crack with a smile. "You are not the same. You still talk about me."

Then he and song Xintong said: "Xintong, next year I will plant more peppers."