Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 628 New money-making project
"Okay, I'll ask her when the time comes." Du Jinning said.

Zhuang Yue felt relieved after hearing this, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something: "Master, in the past two months, many people have bought land outside the city to plant tea trees."

Every year from October to January in the lunar calendar is the tea planting season.In the area around Jiangxi, there were monks planting tea and making tea as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it is not surprising that some private people bought fields to grow tea later on.It's just that there are a little more people growing tea this year, which is different from previous years, which caught Zhuang Yue's attention.

Du Jinning didn't find it strange: "It's normal. People take advantage of the advantages and avoid the disadvantages. The price of the fried green tea we make is so high, naturally some people will use their brains to imitate it and sell it."

Speaking of this, she asked: "The tea fryers in the tea garden, have outsiders contacted them?"

Zhuang Yue shook his head: "The tea gardens here are managed by Lord Qi and Lord Yuan. We were originally in Guangxi Province and had no manpower, so we didn't interfere with the tea garden. It's not easy to ask now."

In fact, when Zhuang Yue saw other people growing tea, he also wanted to buy more land to grow tea.The profit of this tea is so high, their family has technology and experience, how can they give this profit to others?
He was just worried about Qi Bokun and Yuan Xiuzhu, so he couldn't bring it up.After all, it was done together in partnership at the beginning, and now it is not very authentic to leave them alone.

"I'll mention it to Grandpa Qi at that time." Du Jinning said.

Zhuang Yue nodded: "If you want to mention it, you have to do it as soon as possible. It's too late and you can't plant tea trees this year, so you have to delay for a year."

"Okay, I see."

After Zhuang Yue left, Du Jinning went to the inner courtyard, and as soon as he entered the hall of the inner courtyard, he saw Mrs. Chen talking to Chen Li.

She quickly retracted her feet from the threshold, turned and returned to the corridor.Guo'er, Chen's servant girl, saw her, and hurried in to report, "Madam, come here, young master."

Chen Li stood up in a panic, bowed to Mrs. Chen and went out through the back door.

Guoer came to invite Du Jinning to enter the hall, and after sitting down, let the maids and wives go out, and asked Chen Shi: "How is Chen Li now?"

At this time, there were no outsiders, so to Du Jinning, Chen naturally told the truth.

She shook her head and sighed: "I can read some characters. But she is stupid, and she can't remember it even after being taught. After studying for so long, she has just finished reading the Three Character Classic. I want her to be like your fourth sister." Similarly, learn some skills of planting fruit trees and flowers. When I get married in the future, I will accompany her with dozens of acres of fields. She can earn some money without leaving home, and she doesn’t have to rely on men to live. Although the fields will have to be planted at that time , she doesn’t need to do it herself, but she knows something so that people won’t be confused. But she doesn’t seem to have much talent in this area.”

Although Du Jinning is a time traveler, he still uses his original body and mind.The original body has a very good memory, so her sisters who share the same father and mother are not stupid, at least Du Fangling and Du Fanghui have very good memories.So it was easier for her to teach them how to read and write.

And Chen Li's memory is worse than that of ordinary people. In comparison, the difference between the two is very big.

"It's been almost a year since she came to our house, why is she still so shy?" Du Jinning frowned and asked again.

She is a woman, and Chen Li was taken to Du's house because of her.So Du Jinning hoped that Chen Li could stand up more than others, no matter in terms of knowledge or character.

Chen said with a smile: "That's not true. She has changed a lot in the past year. At least I took her to meet those wives. She won't keep her head down and dare not look at people. You have such an impression, it may be that she sees For your sake."

Speaking of this, her smile gradually disappeared, looking at Du Jinning's beautiful face, she was really worried.

Chen Li is a village girl who has never seen anything in the world before.Now that my fiancé looks so good, not to mention his temperament, and he is still a young man, it may be difficult to keep Chen Li from being in love.

"Before you enter the inner courtyard in the future, let the maidservant tell you." She said.

Du Jinning nodded helplessly.

You can't act freely in your own home, and you have to send someone to report when you come out and in. Those who don't know think she is putting on airs at home.

Putting this topic aside, Du Jinning asked, "Mother, how is your business negotiation going?"

Speaking of this, Chen wanted to sigh: "I didn't think of anything good to make a living."

"Shall I give you a suggestion?"

Chen hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "OK."

"It's better to go to the suburbs and buy some fields."

After Du Jinning finished speaking, seeing Chen's disappointed expression, she continued with a smile: "But instead of growing rice and tea, you call someone to grow jasmine."

"Jasmine?" Chen frowned, "Don't you have a field to grow flowers? Why, there are not enough flowers and plants for you to sell?"

Du Jinning shook his head: "This jasmine is not grown for sale, but for making tea."

"Make tea? How do you make tea from this flower?" Chen asked curiously, "Oh, I see, just like the scented tea your fourth sister made?"

When Du Fanghui was still unmarried in Gui Province, because the flowers in the garden at home were in full bloom, she picked some flower petals on a whim to try to make tea.Later, under the guidance of Du Jinning, she made chrysanthemum tea and rose tea.So when it comes to making tea from flowers, Mrs. Chen thought it was Du Fanghui's.

Du Jinning shook his head: "It's not that kind. It's scented with tea leaves. There are only floral fragrances in the tea leaves but no petals. This kind of scented tea is a serious tea, not petal tea."

Chen thought about it, but really couldn't imagine what it would be like.

She shook her head and didn't go into it: "Forget it, I don't bother to find out what it is, you just tell me how to grow jasmine."

"Planting your own farm to worry about. You just need to know that I will buy all the jasmine flowers grown in your field and use them to make scented tea. That is to say, as long as I keep making tea here, your side will The jasmine flowers are not worrying about selling. Then we will agree on a qualified price together."

After thinking for a while, she said again: "You can call eldest sister, third sister, fourth sister, the wife of the Fang family, and the wife of the Xu family. As long as they have spare money, they can buy a field and plant it together. Most of the fields are planted with jasmine. , a small part of which is planted with sweet-scented osmanthus."

Chen hesitated for a moment, then frowned and said, "There are too many people involved, will there be any disputes in the future?"

"When you buy the land, you can separate it, don't buy it together. After you buy it, you just make a suggestion, don't force them to plant anything. There will be no problem with the three sisters, and the Mrs. Xu's capital is small, and the fields are not good. Many, and we have been friends for many years, we still know her personality, and nothing will happen. Only the Fang family, you suggest that Mrs. Fang use her dowry money to buy the land, so that the involvement will be smaller, and it shouldn't be a big deal. contradiction."

Chen nodded: "That's good."

(End of this chapter)