Reborn Farmhouse: Planting Fields, Flirting with People

Chapter 416 Sweet Potato Harvest
Autumn is always the busiest time, the workshop will be finished and the autumn harvest will begin.

This year, the family has a lot of labor force, and Mrs. Liu is relieved, as long as she sits at home, she doesn't have to work in the fields.

Li Shou led a dozen or so strong laborers to harvest the wheat. In the endless fields, only his farm had the most workers. The speed was so fast that the harvest was finished in less than half a day.

The harvested wheat does not need to be taken to the wheat drying field for crowding, but directly to the own workshop. The yard paved with bluestone slabs and bricks is much better than the drying market.

Everyone in the village knew that the Li family bought servants, but no one said anything harsh. After all, their family is now a big family, so it is understandable to buy a few servants to serve at home.

Landlord Sun's family in the village also raised a dozen servants.

But there was a person who didn't know what to do, and approached Mingzhi, and wanted to borrow a few servants from his family to help with the autumn harvest, and his words were very ugly.

"Those slaves in your family, you can't raise them for nothing, and don't do anything after eating idle food. I will borrow my brother as an envoy for two days, and I will help you train and train them."

Li Mingzhi rebuked him with one sentence, "You can borrow it if you want, but you can't borrow it for nothing. Each person earns [-] Wen per day. How much do you want to borrow?"

The man left disconsolately, and then said many ugly things behind his back, mocking Li Mingzhi for turning his back on him, but no one paid any attention to him at all, and Li Zheng called him over to give him a scolding.

Li Shou's family has a very good reputation in the village. This year alone, the villagers have made a lot of money with Li Shou's family. Who would be against the money and the God of Wealth.

In early September, the sweet potatoes planted began to be harvested one after another.

This year, the weather is good and the sweet potatoes have a good harvest.Li Shou's family alone harvested [-] to [-] catties of sweet potatoes from the ten acres of wasteland they planted.

The villagers happily took the cart of sweet potatoes to the Fushengji workshop, and exchanged money back home.This year's production is good. On average, there is an income of about three taels of silver per mu of land, which is much more cost-effective than growing grain.

In this way, the small workshop of the Li family was busy for another half a month.

By mid-September, the Li family had received a total of 580 million jin of sweet potatoes, and the four warehouses were full of sweet potatoes.

Seeing so many sweet potatoes, Li Shou couldn't help but worry. These sweet potatoes cost nearly 2000 taels of silver to recover. Just thinking about it made him feel uneasy.

"Yue'er, when are we going to start making vermicelli this year? There are so many sweet potatoes, and we only have a few people in our family. I'm afraid we can't finish it in a month or two."

Li Mingyue thought about it, vermicelli can only be made when it is cold, but some preparatory work can still be done in advance.

"Father, we can arrange manpower to start making right now, just do the first step. First, mash the sweet potatoes and filter out the starch. When the weather is cold, we can directly make vermicelli, which can save a lot of time. .”

Li Shou's eyes suddenly brightened, "Yes, why didn't I think of it, I will arrange it now... there are more than 500 million catties of sweet potatoes, we have to hurry up."

There are more than 500 million catties of sweet potatoes, and it is impossible to finish them with just a dozen or so people.

Li Mingyue just wants to sigh now, people will hate less when they are used up.

"Don't push the workers too hard. If it doesn't work, let's buy a few more people. It will definitely be busy for a while at the end of the year."

Li Shou nodded, "Then let's buy a few more people. In the spring of next year, the orchard needs to be fertilized and watered. There are hundreds of acres of land, and Wan Youliang's family can't take care of it."

Li Mingyue was not good at picking people, so she had to trouble Nanny Zhuang again. The two of them went for a walk to Ya, and brought back thirty servants, all of whom were arranged to help in the workshop.

(End of this chapter)