Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 35 Plan
Grandma Zhang replied, "I want fifteen Wen a catty, Madam, do you want it?"

When the woman heard [-] Wen, she felt that it was too expensive, and said again and again: "Your price is too expensive, it can even catch up with pork!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaocao replied in a crisp voice: "Madam, you also know that it is difficult to see garlic sprouts in winter, and only my daughter's house has them all over the street, so they are more expensive than ordinary vegetables, not at all at fifteen cents a catty." Expensive, and besides, this garlic sprout is a good thing, eating it can also prevent wind and cold!"

When the woman heard this, she felt that the fifteen cents were really not expensive!Forget it, left and right are a new thing, and she can't afford it!
So, the lady picked up a handful and handed it to Grandma Zhang for weighing.

Grandma Zhang took it with a smile and put it on the weighing pan, weighing one catty and two taels.

Zhang Xiaocao quickly calculated in her heart, and quickly said: "Madam, there are eighteen coins in total. You are the first guest, so we will accept fifteen coins from you. If Madam enjoys eating, I hope Madam will give you [-] coins in total next time." Come again!"

Grandma Zhang took a look at Zhang Xiaocao, wondering how she could settle accounts so quickly!

Zhang Xiaocao stuck out her tongue when she met Grandma Zhang's gaze, secretly thinking that she had revealed herself, thinking about how to get along later.

The woman was very happy, praised Xiaocao a few words, took the garlic sprouts tied with grass, paid the money and left happily.

Seeing this, the people around who wanted to buy vegetables rushed over to buy them. The garlic sprouts are expensive, but in the winter, they are tired of eating cabbage and radishes every day. This garlic sprouts can be used as seasoning or fried. Meat and scrambled eggs, buy some back, give it to the elderly and children at home, change the taste, try something new!
Grandma Zhang was in charge of weighing and tying the grass ropes, and Zhang Xiaocao was in charge of settling accounts and collecting money. Within half an hour, the 23 catties of garlic sprouts were all sold out.

Zhang Xiaocao calculated today's ledger, excluding the initial discount of three Wen, the 23 catties of garlic sprouts were sold for 340 Two Wen!
Zhang Xiaocao paid the bill quietly, and Grandma Zhang was very excited. She really didn't expect that just this little garlic sprouts could be sold for nearly three and a half dollars, which is much better than her doing forehead embroidery for a month. , the embroidery work he does can only be sold for three or four renminbi at most!

The grandparents and grandson packed up their things and left the vegetable market amidst the envy of other vegetable vendors.

The two then went to the embroidery workshop to hand in embroidery. This month, Grandma Zhang embroidered a total of twelve purses, twenty handkerchiefs, and a small screen. Interstitial screens are more expensive, 120 texts per piece, and a total of 290 six texts in total.

Grandma Zhang was about to do another embroidery job, but was stopped by Zhang Xiaocao.

"Grandma, don't embroider, it hurts your eyes too much!"

Grandma Zhang looked at her considerate granddaughter, stroking her hair with her withered hands, her heart was warm and warm, how long, how long has no one cared about her so much, since her father left, she was suffering alone and helpless, she thought After living the rest of her life in such a bleak way, who would have thought that she would have such a considerate and sensible granddaughter!

Zhang Xiaocao looked at her grandma whose eyes were full of water, and tightly held her rough hand with her small hands. In this world, only she and grandma depended on each other.

But in the end, Zhang Xiaocao still couldn't win over grandma, so she could only act coquettishly and let grandma only take half of the original embroidery work.

She knew in her heart that grandma wanted to save more money. After all, although they still had more than ten taels of silver left in their hands, which seemed like a lot, there was still a lot of silver in that precarious home!
Zhang Xiaocao looked at the grandma who was hunched over, narrowing her eyes, and carefully selecting the embroidery thread. Her heart ached so badly, and she swore inwardly that she must earn more money so that grandma could live a better life!

After leaving the embroidery workshop, Grandma Zhang took Zhang Xiaocao to the cloth shop next door to choose fabrics for Xiaocao. In winter, she always bought a cotton coat and trousers.

Zhang Xiaocao didn't refuse. After all, it was too cold. She didn't want to get sick from the cold and spend more money to see a doctor and take medicine, so she also happily chose. cotton.

The color is stain-resistant, and it is strong and cheap, which is very suitable for her.

Grandma Zhang had no choice but to obey her, but she regretted that she should not have listened to her granddaughter just now, and only took half of the embroidery work. If she had done more embroidery work, she would have been able to buy her nice-colored muslin.

When choosing cotton, Zhang Xiaocao found that cotton was ridiculously expensive. She knew that cotton production was low in ancient times and cotton was very expensive, but she didn't expect it to be so expensive!
Cotton is divided into upper, middle and lower grades. The top-grade cotton costs 160 renminbi a catty, the medium one costs [-] renminbi, and even the lowest-grade cotton costs [-] renminbi!
Zhang Xiaocao looked at the three kinds of cotton placed in front of her with a smack of tongue, and couldn't help asking the waiter in the shop: "Why is this cotton so expensive? It's because we don't produce cotton in Yuanqing, do we have to ship it from other places?"

The waiter in the store had a very good attitude, and he didn't look down on the other party because of his bad clothes and young age. Instead, he explained patiently: "Our Yuanqing naturally produces cotton, and when it first spread, it was not so good. It’s just that the yield of cotton is extremely low, and it is prone to diseases and insects. The old farmers think that cotton is too difficult to serve, so it’s better to grow other crops, so fewer and fewer people grow it, and the cotton is naturally more and more expensive!”

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaocao nodded, then shook her head again.

Seeing this, the waiter in the shop couldn't help laughing, thinking that she didn't understand, so he explained it in detail again.

Zhang Xiaocao couldn't laugh or cry, and muttered to herself, is this cotton really so difficult to grow?But how do I remember that my grandma in my previous life was able to tidy up a large cotton field by herself, and the output was still very high!
Something flashed in her mind, Zhang Xiaocao's heart jumped, could she try to grow cotton!

This idea came up in my heart, but I couldn't hold it back. All I could think of was how to grow cotton, and I didn't even hear my grandma calling her.

On the way back, Zhang Xiaocao asked a lot about cotton, and Grandma Zhang just thought she was curious, so she told her everything she knew.

It turned out that there were people who grew cotton in the village before. As the Xiao Er said, the yield of this cotton was low, and it was prone to diseases and insects. After being ruined in this way, the cotton produced in the end was not as strong as that grown by growing corn.

Zhang Xiaocao asked a few more questions, and soon knew the reason for the low cotton production, but no one here knew about topping!
The so-called topping is to pinch off the top of certain crops to increase their yield, also known as topping.The principle of topping is to remove the growth point of the stem and inhibit the secretion of auxin. The purpose is to inhibit vegetative growth, promote reproductive growth, and make the plant more flowering and fruitful.

Cotton topping means topping the plants a few days before and after the end of summer. People here don’t know about topping, so they let the cotton grow uncontrollably, thinking that the higher the cotton grows, the greater the yield will be. The nutrients are absorbed by the plant, and there will be less flowering and fruiting.

(End of this chapter)