Travel to ancient times and make a fortune

Chapter 169 Greenhouse Vegetables
Li Xiao looked at the cabbage tofu soup, radish bone soup, and the cake in his hand on the table, and sighed helplessly.

Hey, I have to eat cabbage and radish almost every day. I feel like I will almost turn into a rabbit after a winter!
Fortunately, when they came from Liuning, they still brought a lot of vegetables. Otherwise, she was really not sure whether she would be able to eat radish and cabbage!

"Hey, how long until we can eat fresh vegetables!" Li Xiao swallowed the radish pieces in his mouth and sighed resentfully.

"Miss, if you want to eat fresh vegetables, it's probably late April!" Chun Xing heard Li Xiao's words and replied without thinking.

"What? Late April?" Li Xiao was surprised.

You know, when she was in Dapo Village, the vegetables in her garden basically never ran out, but some vegetables were really not cold-resistant and couldn't be eaten in winter.

But she still didn’t expect that if she wanted to eat fresh vegetables in the capital, she would have to wait until late April!
Isn't she really capable of eating a rabbit?
"In the palace and the palaces of the princes, do they eat carrots and cabbage every day in winter?" Li Xiao was unwilling to accept it.

"That's not true..." Chun Xing said uncertainly, "I just heard that some powerful families have greenhouses in their homes. Charcoal fires are burning in the greenhouses every day, as warm as spring, and some delicate flowers and plants are planted there. , will be kept in a greenhouse during the winter, and those days will be better than those of the servants!"

"While the greenhouse is used to grow flowers, it will also grow some vegetables for the owner's occasional consumption in winter, but there shouldn't be many." After all, Chun Xing is young and has never stayed in a wealthy family, so the specifics are She couldn't explain the situation clearly.

Li Xiao didn't care, because she heard something that made her eyes light up: Guangfang, this is a good thing.

Li Xiao immediately calculated in his mind whether it would be cost-effective to build a greenhouse at home.

If you choose a land of about [-] square meters and build a greenhouse, you will need three or four charcoal pots. If you burn it all day long, it will cost about two hundred kilograms, right?
In the capital, ordinary carbon costs fifty cents per catty. Two hundred catties is twelve taels. In a month, it is at least 300 taels.

And this winter, the greenhouse needs to use charcoal for at least five months, which is 500 taels per year.

Well, okay, not too much, but the cost is not small.Especially if you want to grow greenhouse vegetables on a large area to make money, it is somewhat uneconomical to compare the cost and output.

After all, when the cost is high, the selling price must be high, and when the selling price is high, the market will be restricted.

And those powerful families who can afford it basically have greenhouses. Why do they spend a lot of money to buy her greenhouse vegetables?

It seems that she needs to optimize it, at least let her family eat some fresh vegetables as soon as possible!
So, in the extremely cold December, after the first heavy snow stopped, Li Xiao, wrapped into a ball, started to get busy again.

After two or three days of "visit and investigation", she really came up with an idea that she could try.

On the Dali side of the kang, on the outside of the wall next to the kang bed, a kang stove will be built at the head of the kang, and a chimney will be built at the end of the kang.

A low house five or six feet high will be built next to the wall to cover the kang stove, and at the same time, enough dry firewood will be placed.

When the weather is cold, firewood is burned in the kang stove, and then the large pot on the stove boils water. The host can use it at any time when needed.

During the visit and investigation, Li Xiao found that the low house was actually very warm. Although it was not as warm as the kang inside the house, once the door was closed, it was much better than outside.

This also made Li Xiao tempted!
The short house can be regarded as a greenhouse to some extent. Although the area is a bit small, it still looks about four square feet.

Except for the kang in the servant's room that was only heated at night, the kang in the rooms of Li Xiao and his masters were heated all day long.

The combined area of ​​several short rooms is quite large. If they don't make good use of it, Li Xiao will really feel sorry for herself.As a result, Li Xiao became busy again, and Li Dashan and Li Qingzhu were also used.

The layout of several low-rise houses has been adjusted.

Next to the wall of the room, a three-story shelf one foot seven wide, five feet long and four feet high was placed.

It is said to be a shelf, but in fact it is more like an artifact for growing vegetables on the balcony that I bought on a certain store in my previous life.Each layer is a wooden trough nearly a foot deep. There are some small holes drilled in the bottom of the trough. The wooden trough is used to put soil.

Li Xiao plans to make rational use of the "heating" of the low house while maximizing the space utilization of the low house!

There are four short houses and four shelves, and the soil is fertilized soil that Li Xiao asked Li Cunliang to transport back from Zhuangzi.

Because he was anxious to eat fresh vegetables, the day before Laba, Li Xiao finally sowed the seeds: mustard greens, lettuce, Chinese cabbage and green vegetables.

These are all vegetables that can grow in about a month, and when the Li family moved, Li Xiao specially packed a lot of seeds, so that even if they failed to grow, they were not afraid of wasting them.

Moreover, in order to grow vegetables in his own greenhouse, Li Xiao even added a man and a woman to the family who are knowledgeable about farming!

In Laba, Li Qingbai also returned from the military camp.

The family rarely got together and had a reunion dinner.

Li Qingbai is now an infantry captain, but he still belongs to the military camp where Ouyang Yifeng is located, and he still spends most of his time in the military camp.

However, there are many more opportunities to go home than before, and I can basically come back two or three times a month.

After eating Laba porridge, the weather in the capital became even colder, and Li Xiao was even more reluctant to go out during the day.

But December 17th is Min Shulan's [-]th birthday. She has already sent a message to Li Xiao in advance. She has to go. Moreover, that is the third sister-in-law she is optimistic about in the future, so she can't neglect it!
Fortunately, on December [-]th, all officials in Dali began to take annual leave, so Li Xiao took Li Qingzhu with her and went out with her to have a good time.

The Min family belongs to a long-established family in the capital, so even if the head of this generation is only a second-rank minister of the Ministry of War, the Min family still occupies a place in a relatively prime area in the east of the city.

Because they were siblings and Chun Xing was still following them, Li Xiao asked Li Qingzhu to sit in the carriage with her. It was not until they were approaching Min Mansion that Li Qingzhu took the initiative to sit outside the carriage.

Because she was born in December, it is too cold, so Min Shulan's birthday has always been simple except for the ceremony of hair extensions.

Those who came to attend her birthday party were either her in-laws' family or people with whom she had close contact.In short, everyone is an acquaintance.

But this year, there are two more "strangers", Li Xiao and Li Qingbai.

After Li Xiao's brother and sister were welcomed into the house, Li Qingzhu stayed in the front yard, while Li Xiao was taken to Min Shulan's boudoir.

In Min Shulan's boudoir, a group of seven or eight girls gathered together, sitting on the kang and chatting lively.

(End of this chapter)