Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 120 Entering the City to Open a Store (Pink!!!)
Chun Equinox held back his smile, wiped his wife's face with a cloth towel, helped tidy her hair by the way, and completely let go of the heart that had been hanging over the past few days.

At this time, Qingfeng reported outside the door that it was Xiao Heng who came, Mu Ai hurriedly arranged her clothes, and took her maid to welcome her out, but it turned out that two children, Cheng'er and Tao'er, ran in first.Tao'er was older, and although she was very excited, she still knew how to salute, and Cheng'er jumped into her aunt's arms like a monkey.

Mu Ai smiled and asked Chun Equinox to lead the two children in to play games with Simba, then personally greeted Xiao Heng into the hall, waved the maid back, and said helplessly, "Brother, I know, you feel in your heart about this matter I owe it to you. To be honest, I am not without a little bit of anger. However, until now, we can only deal with it with all our strength. I have said a long time ago that you don’t need to send your children to express your determination to advance and retreat with me. I was already a little worried about not being able to protect myself, but now I have two more children, wouldn't it be more worrying. You should take all the children back later."

Xiao Heng took a sip of tea, listened carefully to the three children chirping and playing in the inner room on the east side, and said in a low voice, "Sister, don't worry, I have already sent a letter to Huadu. They will send people over to guard secretly. With the addition of Kong Xi and the ten of them, there is no problem in terms of safety. Besides, with these two children here, those people dare not be too blatant out of fear of me and Lord Wei. .In addition, we really want to put our children here and learn something from you."

"Learn from me?" Mu Ai looked at her suspiciously, a little amused in her heart, "Brother, are you kidding me? I'm a woman who knows how to eat, drink and play besides farming. I really have nothing to teach children. Why bother?" Letting them follow me, instead of delaying their serious studies?"

"No, my sister is too modest." Xiao Heng shook his head, insisting on his face, "Even if it's eating, drinking and having fun, they will learn whatever my sister teaches, and Master Wei and I believe in you."

Mu Ai nodded helplessly, it seems that the task of the preschool teacher cannot be pushed out, but fortunately Simba has also reached the time of enlightenment, so he might as well teach together.Telling some short stories, practicing big characters, and learning simple addition and subtraction should be fairly easy to teach.After this year has passed, when the food matter is in full swing and the rewards are awarded, the two families will definitely be recruited back to Huadu, and the children will naturally follow back, and she will also solve the trick of misleading the children .

The two brothers and sisters had lunch with the children and discussed the planting plan after the spring. If the village grows new vegetables in large quantities, it will not be a problem to supply the whole city's restaurants or rich families, but Xiao Heng Xiaozhuang can be sold to other places. , or simply planted in other places, which not only avoids transportation damage, but also saves a lot of manpower.

Since Muai wants to stand out and attract the attention of interested people, she will naturally not be as cautious as before. This year, she will no longer plan to add a small farm, and will only toss about her own ten acres of land.The general planting category has also been changed, and five acres of peppers, five acres of peanuts and sesame seeds, seven acres of watermelon are planted, and the remaining one is reserved as a vegetable field.

Of course, chili is prepared for Cyclamen, no matter it is fresh or dried, it can definitely make countless good dishes.The peanuts and sesame seeds are prepared for opening dim sum shops in autumn.Naturally, the watermelon is to attract everyone's attention. I want to come to a large watermelon of thirty to forty catties, with green skin and red flesh, sweet and sandy, and each priced at ten taels of silver. It will definitely cause a sensation in Kao City. At that time, the rice can be harvested and transported away smoothly.

Xiao Heng was still a little worried about her plan at first, but after Mu Ai took out the watermelon in the space, he was completely relieved. While gnawing on the watermelon, he shouted that ten taels of silver is too cheap, it should be one hundred taels .

After eating enough watermelon, Xiao Heng remembered that his restaurant no longer needed to rely on dim sum to attract popularity. He was overwhelmed with just cooking dishes every day, but because of the requests of many female customers, he had to assign people to bake dim sum from time to time. Stretched.If Mu Ai opened a dim sum shop, and the restaurant needed dim sum, he would send someone to pick it up. Wouldn’t it be more convenient to settle the accounts at the end of the month? Now Mu Ai should not be allowed to delay until autumn, and just said that he has a home two streets away from the restaurant. Cloth Village, because of the low profit, has always wanted to sell it.

The storefront is spacious and clean, which is very suitable for a snack shop. Anyway, there are still two months before farming, so it's better to open it up.

Mu Ai glanced intently, there was no shortage of freshly picked walnuts, hazelnuts and peanuts in the space, so she nodded and agreed, and made an appointment to visit the store in seven or eight days before sending Xiao Heng away.

There are two more children in the family, which is obviously much more lively. Cheng'er is just as mischievous as Simba, but also a little more familiar. It was the first time for Tao'er and Simba to meet each other, and they are a little bit older than them. When I was a few years old, I was a little bit out of the group, and I always used to look at my aunt's face before doing anything.

After spending two days there, seeing Mu Ai not only not stopping them from going crazy, but sometimes even joining in, lying on the carpet with them to build blocks, although I was surprised, but really relieved.

In the afternoon of that day, Simba acted like a baby and asked his mother to release Dabai and Erbai. The eyes of the two children were wide open. Before they had time to be afraid, they saw Simba running around giggling and riding Dabai. Both of them were very envious.

Mu Ai had no choice but to promise a pot of braised pork, tempting the two tigers to finally agree to drive them around twice, and the excited two children's faces were flushed.

Simba had a playmate, and abandoned his mother without any hesitation, and happily took Tao'er Cheng'er to occupy the big bed with him, insisting on sleeping together.The child is small, and the bed is big enough. The two-meter-wide duvet covers the three of them tightly. The children always have to fight for a while before going to sleep, and they get along more and more intimately.

Mu Ai was originally worried that the children would leave her sight and live in Xikuayuan, so it was exactly what she wanted.Let the maids set up a bed in the study and live there temporarily.Several people in the spring equinox sleep in the small hall in turn, and are responsible for covering the children with quilts in the middle of the night.Kong Xi and the others also arranged an extra hidden stake in the yard.Even so, she was still worried, and deprived Dabai and his wife of the right to return to the space, and placed them on the two thick blankets at the end of the children's bed.With such an arrangement, she was able to sleep a little longer at night with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, the black hand behind the scenes seemed to be scared, and there was no movement.

Mu Ai guessed in her heart that on the surface she was still living as usual.During the day, when the children were tired from playing, Mu Ai would tell them some fables and riddles, and occasionally reward them with a few fried chicken legs.

So until the appointed day to see the storefront, Mu Ai took the three children happily into the carriage.The spring equinox and the autumn equinox packed eight boxes, and inside were glutinous rice balls with four kinds of fillings. They were all made by Mu Ai with the big and small girls and three naughty boys yesterday. It is soft, glutinous and sweet, and has been unanimously praised by everyone, so today I packed a few boxes and prepared it as a meeting gift for the two families of Xiao and Wei.

Along the way, Ouyang drove the big cart, Mu San drove the small cart, Kong Xi and his four brothers rode on horseback to guard them, and the other five stayed in the mansion.

Mu Ai leaned comfortably in the car, told stories to the children, ate snacks, and finally arrived at Xiao's mansion at noon.Liniang smiled and picked them up, and Ouyang continued to drive Tao'er back to Weifu.

After the two families had lunch, Mu Ai instructed Liniang carefully, then changed into men's clothes and went to see the store with Xiao Heng.

Sure enough, as Xiao Heng said, the front two stores are spacious and clean, with whitewashed walls on all four sides, a glorious bluestone floor, and a spacious kitchen. There are two rows of large and small stoves for a total of four, and there is room for two or three ovens. There is also a small yard at the back, complete with east and west wing rooms, which can be used as a living room or as a warehouse.

Ouyang checked very carefully. He is a guard, so of course he pays more attention to safety. Fortunately, this place is originally a cloth village, and there is nothing wrong with it except that the back door is a little short.

Mu Ai didn't think about this at all. She only had higher requirements for the sanitary environment. Of course, she was very satisfied with the storefront and yard. Based on the market price, she and Xiao Heng set a price of 300 taels.

Raw materials such as flour and soybean oil are purchased from the grain store in Xiao's residence, and the rest is simply decorated.The two of them went to a few old-fashioned dim sum shops to get acquainted with the market, so they knew what was going on, and they didn't return to Xiao's residence together until the sun was about to set.

In the next few days, Mu Ai refused the guardianship of Kong Xi and the others, changed into men's clothes every day, and took Ouyang, Mu San, and Mu Liu to find someone to decorate the storefront, make plaques, wooden frames, and build an oven.

Although it's not a big job, it's so busy that several people can't see the sun at both ends.Considering that she would have to go to the city often in the future, it would be difficult to always live in Xiao’s house, so she bought a two-yard yard with a small garden 200 meters away from the store. Going back to do my filial piety, so this extremely elegant courtyard only cost 400 taels in total.

Mu Ai looked around before and after entering, and found that the general layout was similar to that at home.When you first enter the courtyard, there is a chariot yard on the left, a firewood house next to it, and a large kitchen and servants’ quarters on the right. There are about six or seven rooms, and it should not be a problem to accommodate more than a dozen people.

Turning around the snow-covered red plum screen, you enter the second entrance yard. The main house and the left and right side rooms are very complete, with carved beams and painted buildings, exquisite but elegant.

Passing through the half-moon arch, there is a small back garden with exquisite rockery in one corner. There is Wang Huoquan in front of the mountain. Occasionally, two small bubbles pop up. Coupled with the tall osmanthus trees by the wall, even in the In this big winter, it also gives people a sense of leisure.In summer, if you spend time in this garden with a pot of good tea and a few plates of snacks, how comfortable and enjoyable it would be.

At the moment, she didn't lower the price anymore, and paid the money directly. The owner was also very straightforward, and kept some large pieces of furniture, which saved her the trouble of buying furniture.

(1966109 No house, no fighting, playing with the palace, playing with the palace and applauding, using the world as a game field.)
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　　Ask for pink, roll for pink! !Red wine should keep the third place! !
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