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Chapter 221 Pepper Mining

Because July [-]th is Ghost Festival, Shisi set the date for picking peppers on July [-]th.

Early in the morning, there were a hundred people standing on the field, mainly young women and girls, and each of them was given a cloth pocket that Tian Qiao led the women in the village to sew, which could be tied around the waist.

Dense red lanterns hang from the green chili stems and leaves, as long as an index finger and as thick as a thumb.

The others looked at the glowing red thing with surprise on their faces.Fourteen looked at it with joy on his face.

In addition to being able to make money, the sense of accomplishment of growing something "creatively" for the first time is not bad.

Fourteen, like teaching them how to grow peppers, demonstrated how to pick them by himself.Everyone watched intently, for fear of missing any small details.

We all know that the things grown in Fourteen Niang's fields are precious. If they accidentally damage them, the possibility of losing money is small, but they will definitely lose this lucrative job.

If you pick a catty, you will be given one penny. If you pick a hundred or so catties a day, you will be given a hundred pennies.And Qilang's wife said that this kind of work mainly depends on being fast and careful, and it is most suitable for women. If you are proficient in picking, you can pick one or two hundred catties a day.

"Have you seen it clearly?" Fourteen picked all the peppers that could be picked from a plant, "Be careful when picking, only pick the ones that are this size or bigger, and don't pick the ones that are smaller."

Everyone nodded.

"Also, remember one thing, this thing will irritate the eyes, the hands that touch it should not touch the face, especially the eyes."

"Ah! Is it poisonous?" A person in the crowd asked fearfully.

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous." Fourteen explained, "It's something you can eat, but it tastes so spicy that your eyes can't stand it."

"It's similar to scallions, garlic and dogwood. When you touch them, your eyes will be irritated and tears will flow."

There is no chili in Dali Dynasty, but it is not without spiciness.In normal cooking, the spicy taste mainly comes from onion, ginger, garlic and cornel.Garlic is the main provider of spiciness, and cornel is mashed into juice to obtain spicy flavor.

It's just that compared with the spiciness provided by chili peppers, this kind of spiciness always seems a bit nondescript, and this is the case for Fourteen, who has tasted authentic spicy taste.

When she explained it like this, everyone understood.The worries that arose just now disappeared, and he challenged wages again with full confidence.

"Okay, let's start picking. One line per person, and another line at the other end."

"Master, Tong Yang said that he also wants to try." Qi Xian also followed, saying that today is also a big day, and as Shisi's only apprentice, he must be present.

When he came, of course he brought Tong Yang along.The two of them act like conjoined twins on weekdays, and the people in Huangliang Escort are used to it.

"He wanted to try and used me as an excuse." Tong Yang glanced at Qi Xian and said calmly.

"Cut, stingy." Qi Xian rolled his eyes at him, "Don't you want to try?"

"I……"

"Don't tell me you don't want to, I know you do."

"Okay, you two." Fourteen interrupted their bickering, "If you want to pick it up, go over there and get the cloth bag, remember my words, don't..."

"Okay!" Qi Xian jumped up and ran over to get the cloth bag.

Tong Yang is always more cautious than him: "We remember Mrs. Xiao, the hands that have touched the pepper must be washed before touching other things."

Fourteen waved his hand, signaling him to go.

Then he turned around and looked at Chen San's subordinates who were standing not far away.

This subordinate came here today to give a congratulatory gift, saying that they were ordered by the head of the family to congratulate Mrs. Xiao on pepper mining, and the congratulatory gift was two high-quality brocades.

"Come here." Fourteen walked to a place far away from everyone's work, beckoning the gift giver who was waiting at a distance to follow.

Brocade was expensive, and it was considered a currency in the Dali Dynasty.He hugged the two brocades directly, which had already aroused a wave of people's eyes and discussions just now.

Fourteen walked in front, and the latter followed immediately.

"Go back and tell your Master Chen that I'm just harvesting crops normally here, not opening a shop, so I don't need to send congratulatory gifts." Fourteen said in a business-like manner.

Chen San still had the previous thoughts, she knew it, so she didn't want to have any contact with him other than business, and avoided sending him any possible signals.

She doesn't like to procrastinate and drag back and forth in everything she does, especially when it comes to relationships.Being liked does increase her sense of self-identity, but she is already confident enough that she doesn't need this extra support, and if she doesn't like it, she doesn't like it.

Taking her son and earning money is her ideal life.A man will only hinder her from developing her career.

"I beg Miss Xiao to take pity on the poor little girl." The visitor had a bitter expression upon hearing the words, "If you don't accept this gift, our head will definitely lose his temper. He's not happy... we don't even want to be happy. "

"Does your highness have anything to do with me?"

"Ah?" The visitor was dumbfounded.He originally thought that the hearts of women are soft, so he might get away with pretending to be pitiful.

But this Mrs. Xiao, she, why doesn't she play cards according to common sense, her?
Is it hard to eat soft?Then... how hard is it?

"resemble……"

"Is there anything else to say?" Fourteen asked.

"No...no, hehe, there's nothing to say." Fortunately, this person's reaction was fairly quick, and he was glad that he had a quick reaction.

Let's be tough... This is the first-class escort of the Huangliang Escort Bureau.

It's not cost-effective to use one's own life to make the head of the family happy.

"Since there is nothing to say, then take your things and go back to your life."

"Uh, yes, yes, I'll go back and report to you, little one. Mrs. Xiao...you take care."

Seeing the other party turning around and running towards the carriage, Fourteen couldn't help but want to laugh. She felt that her attitude was quite kind, why did she feel that it scared people?
……

Twenty acres of chili peppers sounds like a lot, but a hundred people went into battle together, and most of them were mopped up in one morning.

Together with Xiao Qilang and his wife, Lin San skillfully directed people to pack the freshly picked and weighed fresh peppers into big bags, and then moved them to the drying base next to them and spread them out on the ground made of stone slabs.

The dormitory in the drying base was ready to move in, and Lin San also officially moved out of the temporary hut and lived in a spacious single dormitory.

The hut on the ground was dismantled and rebuilt by the fourteenth party, Fang Xu, and his men, making it a decent living place.In addition to this one, there will be another at the other end of the lot.

These two houses mainly serve as security booths, and someone will live in them later to watch the peppers in the field for her.

Picking peppers is very simple, all that is needed is the proficiency of the pickers.After a morning of exercise, everyone's work efficiency was significantly faster in the afternoon.So before the sun goes down, the first picking of peppers in the [-]-acre field is completed.There needs to be an interval of one to two days in the middle, waiting for the small peppers to grow longer, and then start picking for the second time.

At the end of work, when they were getting paid for the queue, everyone laughed from ear to ear looking at the large basket of money placed next to Tian Qiao and Xiao Qilang.

Tian Qiao settled the wages with them according to the ledger. One of them, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, picked 230 catties a day!With a net gain of 230 Wen, he won the top spot in the income list in this picking job.

The mother and daughter came to their family together. Besides her, there were her mother and her sister, who also received 180 Wen and 170 Wen respectively.Together, the mother and daughter have a total income of nearly 600 cash a day!
The income of this family makes the villagers envious, but the income of other people is also a lot. The person who picked the least also got a salary of more than 90 and nearly [-] Wen.

Holding the money, these women thanked Xiao Qilang and his wife and Shishi while praying that there would be more such jobs in the future.

In the past, except for the harvest in the field, the men of the family went out to do handyman to earn some money to subsidize the family, but the work was not every day, and the earning was very little.

Since Fourteen Niang was farming here, women can also work and earn money.So good, so good!

(End of this chapter)