Farmer's happy event

Chapter 87
When Lianzi heard someone calling her, she took a closer look and saw a head and half of a pink body protruding from the window of the carriage covered by the green cloth, it turned out to be Zhang Zihe.

"Why are you here?" Lianzi said, because of her habit, although she no longer hated Zhang Zihe, she was still as fierce towards him as before.

Zhang Zihe snorted, "Why can't I come?"

Lianzi muttered, "Will love come?", bypassing the carriage, and entered Huzi's house.

Huzi heard Zhang Zihe's voice calling for Lianzi, and hurried out the door. At the door, he ran into Lianzi and Lizi.

"How was the exam?" Li Zi asked with a smile.

She had already heard about the status of their exams from Lianzi, and she knew it was good.

Huzi shook his head, and said proudly, "It's a small thing."

Lianzi chuckled, she never felt that Huzi was not the material for reading.

Zhang Zihe originally wanted to leave, but when he saw Lianzi and Lizi coming, he also got out of the carriage, planning to wait until later.

It turned out that after the exam, Zhang Zihe, Hu Zi and Su Keyan went for a walk around the city.Just as Lianzi expected, before he knew it, it was getting late, and Huzi couldn't bear Zhang Zihe's entanglement, so he agreed to stay at his house for one night and come back in a carriage with him tomorrow morning.

It can be said that Zhang Zihe and Huzi didn't know each other. At the beginning, they couldn't tolerate each other. But after going to Lianzi's house for a long time, and seeing each other without looking up, there is not much enmity between children. During the day, the two people's previous festivals were canceled and they played together.

"Go inside," Huzi said to Lianzi, "I have a present for you."

As soon as Lizi heard that there was a gift, she immediately became happy and cheered, but Huzi immediately threw cold water on her.

"Did I say it was your part?"

Chestnut rolled his eyes and snorted.

Huzi entered the house with Lianzi, took out a small cloth bag from his bookcase, and handed it to Lianzi.

"What? It's still mysterious." Lianzi teased and opened the cloth bag.

It is a thread bound book.

The corner of Lianzi's mouth raised, and she turned to the first page.

It turned out that this book was not an ordinary book, but a picture book, similar to the comic book she liked when she was a child in her previous life.Most of the pages of the book are illustrations, with only a few lines of text next to the pictures.

"Thank you".Lianzi said happily.Although she doesn't need this kind of book now, it's Hu Zi's wish after all, and she can't live up to it.Besides, books in this era are still quite expensive, which is really hard for him.

Lizi glanced at it, saw that it was a picture book, and was not very interested, so he asked Huzi, "Where's mine?"

"Who said there is yours?" Huzi said with a glare at her, but turned back to look for it in the bookcase.

Zhang Zihe smiled and said, "No really, no really."

Everyone present ignored him.

Huzi turned around and threw another small cloth bag to Lizi, Lizi reached out to catch it, opened it happily, and was instantly delighted, it turned out to be a pink head flower inside.

She laughed a few times, and got a contemptuous look from Huzi.He really couldn't stand her virtue, and every time he wore a new hair flower or a new dress, he would ask him if he looked good, and if he didn't say it was good-looking, she would not give up.

Because of buying this head flower, he was laughed at by Zhang Zihe for a long time, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

Lianzi still asked them carefully about the exam, and was a little relieved when she found out that they were all doing well.The only thing we can do now is to wait for the result.Even if they fail the exam, that's fine, they are still young, at worst, they will take the exam again next year.

The few played together for a while, and learned that Su Keyan would come back tomorrow, and continue to prepare for the government exam in April here.Lianzi couldn't help jumping with joy, but she still didn't forget to tell them to keep working hard and study hard.

At noon, Lianzi and Lizi went home talking and laughing. Unexpectedly, when they entered the house, they saw Mrs. Yang standing in the yard feeding the chickens with a sad face.

"Mother." Lianzi and Lizi each called out.

"What's wrong?" Lianzi asked again, nothing happened at home.

She suddenly remembered something, and said again: "Just now, Zihe sent a message to shopkeeper Zhang, saying that our family hastened to make strawberry preserves and candied fruit this year."

Speaking of this matter, Yang frowned even tighter, and said: "It's exactly this matter, you just left in the morning, and the people from Caojiawan came and said yes Strawberry pests are serious this year, and we can’t supply them anymore, so we have to pick and choose, and we can only get those.”

Lianzi followed Yang's finger and saw that there were more than half of the strawberries in a medium-sized basket. She opened it and looked carefully, and found that there were quite a few strawberries with worm eyes.

Lianzi's heart felt a little cold for a moment. The preserved strawberry fruit should be on the market soon, but now it is said that there are no raw materials. What should I do?

Crop pests are unavoidable, and strawberries are a fruit that is prone to pests.But in her previous life, she mostly studied crops, and she knew very little about these fruits, just like medicinal materials.As for what kind of pest it was, she didn't know.

After looking through it carefully, Lianzi saw that although some of these fresh strawberries had slight insect bite marks, if they were made into preserved fruits, they could still be used after repeated high-temperature sterilization.

"It's okay, let's do these first." Lianzi said, smiling at Yang Shi, telling her not to worry.

It's just that, this year's strawberry production is bound to decrease, and whether it's fresh strawberry fruit or finished products, the price will probably rise.In this case, it is necessary to increase the price in order to maintain the previous profits.

These are not within her scope of consideration, it is enough for shopkeeper Zhang to consider for himself.Moreover, shopkeeper Zhang is not the same as shopkeeper Dong, who can accept her opinion.

Speaking of shopkeeper Dong, he is really good at doing business. In just over a year, he insisted on turning the dilapidated restaurant that was on the verge of bankruptcy into the largest, highest-grade, and most visited restaurant in Cangshan Town.

Although Lianzi has made a great contribution to bringing the restaurant back to life, the restaurant's current success is mostly due to the good management of shopkeeper Dong.

Yang is still worried, this insect bites, can I still eat it?What if something goes wrong with the food?
Lianzi had no choice but to continue to comfort her, saying: "It's okay, the production process, just steaming at high temperature will take half a day, what poison can't be removed?"

"It's just," she continued, "it doesn't look like I'll make much money this spring."

Since the candied strawberries and candied fruit were sold in the shop, the income from strawberries can account for a small half of the total income from selling candied fruit every year.In this way, the matter of making money must be greatly reduced.

But that's something that can't be helped. Farmers depend on the sky for food. If God is not careful, people can starve to death, just like the famine two years ago.Although Lianzi experienced it late, she still remembers it vividly. It was the first time she had tasted the feeling of being hungry for several months.

At the beginning of spring this year, the marriage between the third uncle and aunt alone cost a total of nearly a hundred taels of silver, and now this kind of thing happened again.

While the mother and daughter were talking, Lianzi took the fresh strawberries to the well and washed them carefully several times before starting to prepare other things. She was going to make strawberry preserves now.

The mulberry seedlings had just been planted in the past few days, and Liu Jingren had been cleaning the pond over there, planning to buy fish fry and put them in in a few days.

According to what Lianzi said, he first made an opening on the edge of the pond, diverted the water from the pond into the small river, cleaned the bottom of the pond, then changed the diversion channel, and then diverted the river water into it. In the pond.

Now, the water quality in the pond is very good, and it is ready to throw fry.

The next day, the preserved strawberries at home were ready, and Liu Jingren took the carriage to the town. Not long after leaving, Su Keyan came.

"So early".Lianzi said, with a relaxed smile on her lips.

Su Keyan was still the same as usual, wearing the uniform clothes in the azure school, and said with a slight smile: "Father told me to go early, so I can still catch the morning class."

He must have left before dawn. After arriving at the village, he ran to Lianzi's house before he had time to rest.

This time Lianzi didn't ask him about the exam, nor did he tell him like Huzi and Zhang Zihe.Because he is a person who never needs to be instructed in his studies.

The two exchanged a few words, and Su Keyan left in a hurry because he had to catch the morning class. Before leaving, he said that he would come to Lianzi's house for dinner tonight.

Lianzi happily agreed, and gradually got busy from now on, no time to cook lunch for them anymore, it's still okay to have a meal in the evening.

In mid-March, spring plowing started in full swing. Lianzi's family now has a lot of land, and there is not much difference between one more person and one less person.So starting from this year, Yang will not let the children of the family go to the fields, and only let them help with some housework at home, such as cooking.

With the arrival of spring plowing, another good news also flew.That is the three people who took the children's entrance examination at the end of February, and passed all five county examinations.

Su Keyan was the first to know the news. At that time, Su Muan sent a servant at home to inform him, but said: "The master said, the young master passed the No. 3 exam, and he doesn't have to go home for these two months. This is where you can study with peace of mind.”

In addition, there is also a news that in their school, out of the eight students who participated in the children's examination this time, five of them passed.It is not difficult to see from this that Mr. Liu is worthy of being a great Confucian of the generation, and the students he teaches are also very good.

Of the two people who hadn't been there, one continued to study in the school, while the other packed up and went home.

When Huzi heard the news, he was really ecstatic.Because he didn't intend to pass by himself, and he wanted to wait for the result, so he packed up his things and went home just like the student who left.Unexpectedly, it has passed, so let's stay here for a while, if Zuo and Zuo go home, their parents will definitely not agree.

In addition to Huzi passing the government examination, there is another thing that shocked Lianzi, that pervert Zhang Zihe actually passed the exam No. 6.

Lianzi always thought that even if he could pass, he would just pass the exam, but he didn't expect that he was not much worse than Su Keyan.It's not fair, it's not fair, how did Su Keyan learn?How did he learn it?

Whenever Lianzi said this, Su Keyan always smiled and said lightly: "Zihe is very smart".

That's why he didn't object to Su Kewen and Zhang Zihe getting close.

However, that guy Zhang Zihe said: "Master, I am a genius!"

Lotus seeds can only express aversion to cold.

　It's on the shelves, and I'm very nervous, please make the first order.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)