Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 439 High Output

The persimmon yield here is good. The persimmon tree not far from the swamp can produce hundreds of kilograms of persimmons. The reason why Xia Chan planted persimmon trees here is because of the high persimmon yield.

The persimmon tree had large, round and plump fruits. No one knew when it grew there, and it was not discovered by the villagers. Xia Chan benefited from this in the subsequent drama.

Xia Chan has a retractable fruit-picking tool, which makes it very convenient for her to pick any fruit, so whenever she goes into the mountains, she will never come back with an empty basket.

After Xia Chan picked the persimmons, she asked Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Mimi to peel the persimmons and dry the persimmon cakes together. When they made money, the four families would share it equally, so it was time for them to do some small things with her.

The peeled persimmons spread out on one bamboo mat after another, looking orange and particularly spectacular. Xia Chan did not dry all the persimmon cakes, but kept one third, intending to steam them and eat them frozen in the winter. Moreover, persimmon puree can be mixed with flour to make fried persimmon cakes, which are also orange and look particularly tempting.

Xia Chan taught Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Mimi every step of drying persimmon cakes, and planned to leave this task to them in the future because she had other things to do.

Time in autumn is very precious. If you make one more trip, you can bring more things home. If you delay any longer and it snows, you won’t be able to find anything when you go into the mountains.

In November, the temperature here became particularly low. The villagers hurriedly dug up the cassava in the fields. Xia Chan also led everyone to dig up cassava and konjac. It took a while to dig out all the cassava and konjac and take them home.

It seemed that Xia Chan put these things into the courtyard, but in fact most of them were put into the space. Because the temperature in the courtyard was too high, they had to be kept in the space to be preserved.

After the snow fell, Xia Chan took everyone directly into the courtyard and spent the winter there. However, a few young people would come out occasionally because the family raised pigs and poultry, which needed to be fed, and they also had to deliver goods to vendors in the vegetable market, so the elderly and children stayed inside most of the time.

Now that this small courtyard has been taken over by the summer cicadas, everyone no longer has to go into the mountains with great difficulty.

The two ginseng trees were also dug up by Zhou Qizhi and planted in the yard. All the ginseng seeds he had collected before, except those planted near the house halfway up the mountain, were also planted here.

There were also wild ginseng seeds that Xia Chan bought, and he planted some outside and some in the yard.

Xia Chan also lit the heating stove in the poultry greenhouse early. This year is the first year, and these poultry have only been raised for a few months. Xia Chan has no plans to sell them. All he has been selling are pheasants, pigeons and quails raised in the yard.

These things are alive, so they are delivered to people once a week.

Now I have three more things to sell: yam, cassava and taro, so I found a vegetable stall owner and cooperated with him to sell these things. Now that the weather is cold, I can give him more at a time and let him sell them slowly. Besides, everyone is stockpiling supplies for the winter, so these things are quite easy to sell.

There are also fresh wild vegetables, mushrooms, summer fruits and vegetables, and summer cicadas will also send them to him. Although greenhouse vegetables are being built everywhere, it will take time for them to be fully popularized, so fresh vegetables in winter are very popular.

Fortunately, they stockpiled a lot in the summer and planted a lot in the yard, so the pressure to supply one stall was not that great. Moreover, the second stall owner did not expect that they would have these things. Seeing such good business every day, he was glad that he agreed to cooperate with them, otherwise he would not have the opportunity to make money like this.

He also knew that if he dominated the market alone, others would definitely target him, so he would add a few cents to the purchase price when supplying goods to other stall owners. Although he earned less money this way, at least it was safe, and he also earned more than before.

As long as he didn't tell others who supplied him, everyone had to buy from him, so that everyone would respect him, otherwise he would cut off everyone's supply. After Xia Chan and his friends moved into the courtyard, they began to process konjac tofu. Konjac tofu was not easy to make, especially since they only had one stone mill, so Xia Chan put the konjac tofu he made every day into the space for storage, and when there were enough, he would send them to others when he went out to deliver goods.

Nowadays, there are big markets every month. It is not like before when people were only allowed to go to the big markets at the end of the year. It’s just that there are not many people going to the big markets at normal times, but at the end of the year, the big markets are extremely popular.

That day was market day, and Xia Chan, Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Mimi went to the market together. Because there were too many people at the end of the year, they were afraid that the children would be taken away by others.

In the 21st century, it is difficult to find abducted children, let alone in this era without surveillance, so the children are left in the yard.

When the summer cicada finds something delicious and buys it, it will find an opportunity to put it directly into the yard so that the children can eat it.

The year-end fair is indeed more lively than the usual fairs. Not only is the whole fair crowded with people, it is also steamy and there are many stalls selling food. The white steam is thicker than fog and is particularly noticeable in the ice and snow.

Xia Chan and the other three went their separate ways to buy what they needed. In fact, Xia Chan didn't need much, because she had everything she needed for daily life, and even if she didn't have something, she could go into the space and buy it.

But sometimes when the urge to buy comes up, I still want to buy something to satisfy my craving.

Xia Chan slowly looked at the stalls starting from the first one. There were twisted dough sticks, pancakes, wontons... When she came across these foods, she would pack some. She brought a large bowl and asked people to fill the food into her large bowl. When she put the food into her backpack, she would place it on the table in the pavilion in the courtyard when no one was paying attention.

Xia Chan did not buy other meat. She raised many animals, so she was not short of meat.

She raises so many chickens, ducks and geese at home, so whenever she wants to eat something, she can just catch one.

There are many children in my family, and we need to provide them with nutrition, so we often eat meat at home.

Xia Chan also saw a stall selling seafood, which actually had sea fish and shrimps. Seafood was hard to come by these days, and she was reluctant to spend her savings from her previous life to buy them because they were too expensive, so when she saw there were frozen seafood being sold here, Xia Chan bought them all.

But there were too many things on the stall and she couldn't take them all away at once, so she gave a deposit and asked the stall owner to deliver the seafood to a designated place.

After the stall owner left, Xia Chan directly put all the seafood into the space and preserved them. Looking at so much seafood, Xia Chan wanted to go to the port at the seaside to buy more seafood.

Seafood is very cheap at this time, with many being only one or two yuan per pound. In addition, there are many things that no one has discovered are edible, so they are simply not wanted. If you go to collect them, you can probably get the most seafood at the lowest cost.

It's just that the trains of this era are too slow. If you really want to go to a coastal city, you will probably have to take a train for several days and nights. The fatigue from the journey is really too tiring.

It’s better to wait until transportation is more convenient and then fly there to buy it. If my family really opens a B&B in the future, they will also need seafood. Then I can go there and stock up more seafood.