My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 76 Business Cooperation with Guanshi Xia
Of course, this is a bit risky for her. After all, Gu is the daughter-in-law of the Xia family. It is also possible that Manager Xia will not give her a good face, let alone discuss cooperation, in order to protect his daughter-in-law.

Fortunately, Jiang Tangtang's judgment about Manager Xia was right.

Early the next morning, Manager Xia and Wang Lachun came to her home in person.

Wang Lachun praised Jiang Tangtang for the delicious wild berries he sent. He also said that his daughter-in-law was a confused person and asked Jiang Tangtang not to argue with her.

Seeing Wang Lachun's attitude, Jiang Tangtang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Aunt Yi, tell me, will you make a profit from selling these wild berry seeds?"

"If it can be grown, it must be there, but I have never seen this wild berry before, and I have no idea how to grow it."

"I dug up a few plants and planted them, and I got some ideas. In fact, they are not far different from growing vegetables, but they are a little more delicate than vegetables. They cannot be exposed to the cold or exposed to the bright sun."

Jiang Tangtang has his own orchard, so he naturally has research on how to grow strawberries.

"I have planted a few strawberries at home for you to see." Jiang Tangtang said, taking the two of them to see the strawberries at home.

Because she watered the spring in the morning and evening and moved the big wooden box back to the room when it was cold at night, several strawberry plants grew well.There were several half-ripe fruits hanging on it.

Seeing that the fruits in Jiang Tangtang's field were growing well, both Xia Guanshi and Wang Lachun felt a little relieved.

But even though the Xia family lives a much better life than other families because of Manager Xia's status.But the Xia family has a large population, and their sons are all honest and have no other skills except farming.

The old couple also has a young son who is not married, and they value the land as much as ordinary farmers.I couldn't make up my mind to use a large and precious piece of land to grow wild berries.

Xia Tangtang saw the hesitation between the two, so she proposed that she would plant the seeds, while Manager Xia found sales channels, and finally made half the money.

In Wang Lachun's view, this was equivalent to Jiang Tangtang giving them money for free.She shook her head and said: "How can that be done? We have no talent, how can we get half of the money for nothing!"

"Although you are not responsible for planting, you are responsible for selling. It's just that the areas of effort are different. This distribution is no problem."

Although Manager Xia is only a small steward of the village, he can barely be considered a member of the imperial staff. In addition, he has lived here for so many years and has certain connections and influence in the county.

It takes much less effort to leave the sales to him than to do it yourself.Although he suffered a little loss in terms of profits, Jiang Tangtang felt that it was a good deal.

As long as I can establish a good relationship with Manager Xia and give her the green light to move freely in the future, the money will be well spent.

After all, she didn't just plan to do this business.

"Let's do this. Once your wild berries are grown, I will be responsible for helping you contact the buyer. Then you can share [-]% of my hard work." Manager Xia said, "I will ask a few of my boys to come over and help you. , if possible, my family will also learn to grow it and give it a try."

Jiang Tangtang immediately understood what Manager Xia meant. Although he asked for less share, he still wanted to learn the technique of growing strawberries. If the income was considerable, he would use the land to grow strawberries in the future.

She didn't care, nodded and said: "Okay, it's settled then. My servants just opened a large piece of land, and I will use half of it to raise seedlings."

Manager Xia said, "If you have any difficulties in opening up wasteland, just tell me."

When he said this, Jiang Tangtang was not polite and took the drawing he drew last night to Manager Xia and said, "What do you think of this iron plow?"

Jiang Tangtang designed the drawing based on his family's diesel cultivator, which is much more advanced than the current iron plow.

Manager Xia didn't have time to marvel at Jiang Tangtang's strange painting skills before he was attracted by the strange iron plow above.He said excitedly: "I didn't expect you to be so good at farm tools. I know a blacksmith with good skills. I will take you there and he will be able to type out the things on the drawing according to your requirements."

Jiang Tangtang naturally wanted it, so he hitched a donkey cart and went to the county town with Manager Xia.

When leaving, Jiang Tangtang called Xue Banxian by the way.In the past two days, he was preparing to treat Lu Shiyan's leg and needed herbs, tools, etc. Jiang Tangtang gave him 20 taels of silver and asked him to go to the city to get the medicine.

Wang Lachun also got on the donkey cart and went to the city to buy things.

After entering the city, Wang Lachun went to the cloth store to buy needlepoint and thread.Xue Banxian, however, shrank his hands and feet, looking around as if there was a beast outside.

"Are you avoiding your enemies?" Jiang Tangtang tilted his head and looked outside.

"Who is hiding from the enemy?" Xue Banxian jumped like a cat whose tail was stepped on: "I'm just not familiar with the county, I'm just watching the road."

"Really?" Jiang Tangtang didn't believe him.

Xue Banxian grumbled and got out of the car. Jiang Tangtang was a little worried, but she had no choice but to suppress her worries and follow Manager Xia to the blacksmith shop.

Old Li Tou of the blacksmith shop was not only an old acquaintance with Manager Xia, he took the drawing and carefully asked about the size of the iron plow and other issues. He tugged on his beard and thought about it for a while before nodding and saying: "I'll give it a try, it should be It can be done.”

Jiang Tangtang breathed a sigh of relief, "When will it be ready?"

"Of course the people Lao Xia brought here are here to take care of your business." Lao Litou said with a smile: "Three days! Come pick it up after three days. Since we are acquaintances, we won't charge a deposit. Then we will bring ten people with you." Just two pieces of silver and it will be done.”

Iron tools were relatively expensive in this dynasty, and the iron plow drawings Jiang Tangtang brought were more complex and required a lot of iron, so the price was naturally not cheap.

Jiang Tangtang sighed in his heart that spending money was like running water, and he couldn't help but think about how to get more money again.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard a surprised voice, "My dear lady, it's you!"

The man said excitedly: "I finally found you."

Jiang Tangtang looked at the strange man in front of him and secretly said on guard: "Brother, I'm afraid you got the wrong person!"

"How could you admit the wrong person! You bought this donkey cart from me! Have you forgotten?" The man said: "When I saw this donkey cart when I was passing by, I recognized it at a glance. It was made by my son. I took one more look, and I didn’t expect to see you! It’s a good thing I took one more look, otherwise I would have missed it today.”

Jiang Tangtang then remembered and said with a smile: "I wonder what my boss wants from me? But what's wrong with the donkey cart you sold me?"

"It's not that I'm looking for you, it's the Young Master of the Song Mansion who's looking for you!" The man said, "My dear lady, could you please come and sit with me in the teahouse opposite, and I'll send someone to notify the Young Master of the Song Mansion."

Hearing about the son of the Song Mansion, Jiang Tangtang had roughly guessed why, but there was a look of confusion and fear on his face, "The son of the Song Mansion? My old employer, are you not mistaken? I don't know the son of the Song Mansion." !”

"Don't be afraid, little lady. Mr. Song just wants to ask you something. Don't worry, Mr. Song is a good person and will not embarrass you."

As the man spoke, he looked at Manager Xia behind Jiang Tangtang and said, "This is your relative! If you are worried, ask your relatives to accompany you."

(End of this chapter)