Chapter 309 Is it nonsense?
Huo Erhuai collected a lot of shrimps and crabs and sent them to Zhuangzi, and Yang took Zhuang servants to make bald butter and various shrimp products.
None of the shrimp and crabs received by Huo's family were sold this year. All ready for gift giving. He also killed a lot of chickens and ducks and made them into chickens and salted ducks, etc., and prepared to send them out as a gift.
The business gets bigger, and there are more relationships to leave.
It is not appropriate to send anything. If the gift is worthless, people will look down on it. If the gift is expensive, others will think that you are trying to curry favor with him. It's just right to give these local products.
In the past two years, the Huo family made a living by selling bald butter and shrimp and crabs. The fishermen are not stupid, they all learn to do it.
There is no technical difficulty in this thing, and the taste is very similar. In the past two years, the Huo family has not made it for sale, but only for gift giving. The ones that can't be delivered will be put on the Guangfengshui shop to sell some, not many.
Now the family doesn't rely on making these seafood to make a living, and Huo Xi doesn't want his parents to be tired.
This time, Huo Xi didn't let Mrs. Yang do the bald butter making, but only called a few women who are good at cooking from the village to help.
Now there are six servants in Zhuangzi, but the manpower is still barely enough.
Since Huo Xi said that the servants of the farms are not allowed to raise poultry privately, the chickens, ducks and pigs have been collected from each family with money, and special chicken sheds and duck houses have been built to raise them together.
Also called half-labor, half-child girls, or the old and weak who can't work on the farm, to help clean, feed, and take care of them every day. Five copper coins a day, plus 30% of the money after the cultivation and sale, and every family rushed to sign up.
Huo Xi weighed it, called one person from the family, and ordered them to take care of the chickens, ducks and pigs.
Now invite them to help make bald butter and shrimp and crab, and give an extra ten copper coins a day.
The farm servants were originally prostitutes. In addition to the fixed monthly money, they usually gave rewards from the master's house, or raised some poultry, or planted other things in front of and behind the house, or picked some from the slopes in the forest. Sell other things for money.
Unexpectedly, the new master asked them to work and gave them more copper coins, so they all rushed to come.
Ms. Rong is good at tea and rice. Her son turned out to be Zhuangtou, so she only takes care of her grandchildren at home and cooks for the family.
But this time Zhuangtou is no longer his own son. Although he can't do much work in the field, he still goes to the field every day. Huo Xi saw all this, this time he asked someone to help him make bald butter, and he also called her.
After finishing the work assigned by his boss, Mrs. Rong returned home with some bald butter and grilled dried shrimp.
When all the family members came back, they found that there were more things on the dinner table.
"Mother, this smells so delicious, where did it come from?" Wu Qiushui looked at the shrimps on the table and a bowl of yellow sauce-like things, and asked his old lady Rong.
"The little boss gave it to us. The defective products made were distributed to us. You all have a taste."
Rong looked at the original big family, but now only she and her second son were left with a family of six, feeling a little disappointed.
Looking at the children and grandchildren sitting together, with a smile on his face again, he picked up some bald butter with chopsticks, put it on top of the rice, and put it in his mouth...
"Smell! No wonder the little boss wants to give it as a gift. This gift can be handed out." This is just a defective product.
After eating, his eyes lit up: "Mother, what kind of bald butter is good for eating."
When the others heard this, they also stretched their chopsticks into the bald yellow bowl, and nodded in praise after eating.
"I originally thought that the new owner was a farmer's family just like us, but these days I heard that the owner has a shop in the city." Wu Qiushui ate another grilled shrimp, nodded and said something.
Mr. Rong nodded: "I don't think Xiaodong's family is like a farmer. Your brother may be mistaken."
"Mother, why don't I take you to my brother's place? They have built a house in my in-laws' village. I'm worthless, and I'm afraid I will stay in the village in the future."
"What's wrong with staying in the Zhuangzi? When the sky falls, there is a tall man to stand on top of you. You can eat and drink without worrying about food and drink. You can keep your income in drought and flood. There is still money and clothes to wear. There is nothing wrong with it. Whoever you are, you have to accept your fate. Whoever is wrong Officials are ordered to do business. It is better to stay in Zhuangzi than to plan food outside."
All the children and grandchildren listened intently.
Mrs. Rong said again: "Our family is originally a farmer's family. When we are outside, we have to worry about drought and waterlogging, and we have to interfere with this and that. We are always worried about having nothing to eat. Mother is as worthless as you, so I will stay here. In Zhuangzi, I’m not going anywhere.”
"Okay, then I will stay in Zhuangzi with my wife."
Mrs. Rong nodded: "If your brother is in the Zhuangzi, he can continue to be the head of the Zhuangzi. His life is no worse than outside. He has to worry about everything outside, worrying about the family's livelihood. Now that my mother is looking at the new owner, it is a Okay, no airs, no beating and scolding servants. Called to work, although there is no reward, but there is wages, mother can feel at ease."
Wu Qiushui frowned: "But I see that the little boss seems to be giving directions blindly, and even told his in-laws that the field will grow grain for two seasons. Isn't this nonsense! The land is so cruel that the land is not fertile enough. After giving birth, can we still eat to fill our stomachs?"
Rong's hand holding the chopsticks paused.
"I saw that the two masters listened to the younger master. I saw her words and deeds were very organized. Maybe she could really grow two seasons of grain. By then Zhuangzi will be rich."
"Can this work? The old master is an official, and so many people in the family are educated, and there is no mention of growing grain for two seasons."
Ms. Rong cast a glance at him: "This is a Zhuangzi bought by the owner at a huge price. Can you use the money for fun? Doesn't it mean that he can do this?"
The family was silent.
Wu Qiushui's daughter-in-law Wu Qi said: "I heard from my father that after the Double Ninth Festival, there will be some kind of workshop in the village, and everyone will be invited to work. He also said that if we don't have enough manpower, we can also invite tenants. villagers."
"What workshop?"
Everyone is still interested. The owner wants to open a workshop and hire people to do the work, so don't they all get the money?
Wu Qi shook his head: "My father asked, and the little boss will know when the time comes. Now I just ask my father to ask someone to sort out the mountain land, and he only said to plant bamboo and mulberry trees. At that time, silkworms will be raised. My father I have been running outside these days, not only looking for winter wheat seeds, but also looking for mulberry saplings."
"Creating silkworms? Is that going to build a silkworm house? I know how to raise silkworms, but when the time comes, will each family raise them by themselves, or will they be raised together?" Wu Qiushui's wife, Mrs. Zhuang, said.
Mrs. Rong thought for a while: "Look at the behavior of the little boss. They should build silkworm houses in the village and raise them together. I found that the centralized breeding that the little boss said is better than each of our previous ones. One piece, one piece, one piece It takes one labor to raise one pig and two chickens, but now it only takes one labor to take care of one chicken coop.”
The Wu family was talking about the behavior of the Huo Xi family, and after a few days of busy work, the Huo Xi family boarded a boat and left Zhuangzi early on the first day of the Double Ninth Festival.
There will be more later~
(end of this chapter)