Chapter 371： confidence

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Nongmen Granny's Road to Destiny Chapter 371 Confident Zhou Shuren has washed his feet and thinks about it, this person is not easy to choose, mainly the money is from the yamen, there are too many candidates to be involved, so be careful, "By the way , is Mr. Zheng gone? Last time I said that I would go back after a while."

Zhulan really knows that because her family has a lot of land, she has been going back a lot recently, "The old man is back. This time I mainly come to see you. After seeing you, the old man will leave."

Zhou Shuren twitched the corners of his mouth. It was indeed to see him. He first expressed his emotions, and then regretted that the Zhou family did not have a boy who could marry the Zheng family. He was interrupted, bah, he came to dislike his son, and wanted to miss his grandson, but there was no door.

What's more, this old fox, he was terrified when he saw it, he didn't want to marry him!

Zhou Shuren didn't want to mention the old man, "It's getting late, rest early."

Zhulan took the pillow and said, "It's time for the autumn harvest in my hometown. It was more than half a month before I received the letter last time, so I should have set off."

Zhou Shuren pulled Zhu Lan, "Go to sleep, don't worry about it, they are all adults who have married, they can take care of themselves, and they will come naturally when they arrive."

Knowing that Zhou Shuren felt sorry for her, Zhulan lay down and said, "Okay, okay, I don't worry about it, just sleep."

Zhu Lan didn't say anything, she was thinking about the days in her heart. She estimated that Zhou Lao Er and the others should arrive in late November. After counting the days, Zhu Lan closed her eyes and thought that it was time to hire someone to pick apples and bring them down from the mountain. To hire a lot of people, hey, that's all.

The only thing that made Zhulan relaxed was that her apples had already signed contracts with foreign merchants, and they charged fifty cents per pound of apples, no matter how big or small they were.

Zhulan thought for a while before falling asleep. Zhou Shuren opened his eyes and tucked the quilt for Zhulan, muttering, "Worry about your life."

Early the next morning, as soon as Zhou Shuren left, Mrs. Li and Mr. Zhou went out to go shopping.

Zhulan called for February and asked him to hire someone to pick apples in five days. Many people in Lizhou City followed suit and hired more people, which was an extra income for the common people.

The Zhulan family did not sell any food, and the overpayment for the food was still half the grain and half the silver. Every day, 12 pennies, 2 catties of cornmeal, and a meal of coarse grain and vegetarian buns at noon.

The orchard of the Yang family also signed the deed, and Zhulan sent someone to the Yang residence to ask her father, and pick them together when the time comes.

Zhou Shuren was the prefect. No matter whether it was a foreign merchant or a merchant of the current dynasty, he would not dare to default on the money, but he would pay the money with one hand and the fruit with the other.

After Zhulan made arrangements, Boss Zhou and Mrs. Li came back. Zhulan looked at the things that Mrs. Li bought, "I'll give you ten taels of silver, how many pieces of muslin cloth did you buy?"

Zhulan calculated the time, the couple spent an hour and a half and three hours shopping, and how many pieces of cotton did they buy?

Li touched her purse, she couldn't bear it, she was holding the monthly money from the big house in her hand, plus what she saved and what her mother-in-law gave from time to time, she only saved one hundred and fifty taels in total, including the ten from yesterday. Two silvers, and there will be more children in the future. She can't help but give money to the children, so today's eye addiction is enough. If there is no muslin in the sewing room, she doesn't even want to buy muslin.

Zhulan pressed her forehead and waved her hand, "You are tired after walking around all morning, go back and rest!"

Boss Zhou moved his mouth, and he was not feeling well. Don't look at Mrs. Li's carelessness. In terms of money, Mrs. Li was very clear, but he didn't give Li's confidence.

Zhulan didn't leave the boss when she saw it. The first family's property was small, and she didn't have enough money to invest. It was impossible to distribute the family's property to the boss. It's human sperm. Once she's too far from the boss, don't stop thinking about it.

For the next few days, Mrs. Li didn't go out again, and made small clothes with newly bought fabrics.

After arriving in Lizhou City, there is a sewing room. Zhulan will allocate money to the sewing room every month to buy fabrics to make clothes. She and Zhou Shuren will make two new clothes a month. .

Twelve months a year, except for her and Zhou Shuren, one person wears twelve clothes and three clothes per season, which is quite extravagant.

But there is no way. Zhou Shuren is an official, and Zhulan gets a lot of invitations. Several posts are sent every month. She wants to take her daughter-in-law or daughter out, and her son and grandson are also invited. The family cannot grow old. Wearing a suit of clothes costs a lot of money for decent money.

In the blink of an eye, it was time to pick apples. Zhulan went to the orchard the day before the fruit was picked, and the sweeter the fruit tasted better the more you went to the top of the mountain. Zhulan let people keep all the twenty fruit trees on the top of the mountain to eat at home.

The fruit trees of Zhulan's family are five-year-old fruit trees, which is the high-yielding period. Although some wasted during the transplanting, each fruit tree also bears 30 kilograms.

The history of apples in the overhead dynasties was introduced from Europe in the previous dynasties. It was first settled in the northwest area. There are also apples in the local area. It is just a matter of variety. It is not called apples. Apple, the local one is eliminated.

Butler Ding went to Sichuan to buy fruit trees. It is said that the variety of apples is the best introduced. Although the taste is still not as good as modern ones, it is not bad.

The apple orchard with more than 100 acres of land Zhulan Jiaguang hired fifty men. Due to various problems such as transportation, it took six days to complete the picking, and the main time was wasted on transportation and fruit picking. up.

No matter how big or small it is, there are also some bad fruits, more than those eaten by squirrels, mice, birds, etc., these bad fruits have to be picked out.

The fruit picked out, the merchant also wants, but it is very cheap.

A fruit tree of 30 pounds can actually sell for about 20 pounds. It is winter, and animals come out to find food to focus on the orchard.

Zhulan had given a total of more than 3,000 apple trees, more than 2,600 of them survived, and the mortality rate was quite high. Excluding the remaining 20 apple trees, there were only more than 2,600 apple trees that could be sold. point.

In the end, the accounts were settled, and more than 2,700 taels of silver were entered into the account. The investment in one year did not get back. If it weren't for the many dead fruit trees, this year would be able to make a return. The only comfort is the first year of this year, and next year will basically be pure income. .

In fact, the benefits of planting apples are still very large. A tree does not only bear fruit for one year. Of course, the premise is that there is no drought. Otherwise, the fruit tree will die from drought and all the investment will be lost.