Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 98

Early the next morning, Chang Man picked up the utensils sent by his own family and Zhang's family, took Chang Ming, Chang Liang, Chang Zhu and two other children from relatives' families, and sent shopkeeper Chen to Bailidu together. He went to Changyuan Town by boat together, and shopkeeper Chen was going to transfer the boat there. The few of them helped put all the goods on the boat, watched the boat go away, and then turned around.

"Manzi, you used to come to the town to sell tofu flowers every day, but today you can't sell them like this." Everyone walked back together, and Chang Ming talked about it on the way.

Chang Man smiled and waved his hands, "It's okay to miss one day of sales on such a happy day."

"Manzi, why are you working so hard these days? You want to save money to marry a wife." Chang Liang suddenly laughed and teased, which made Chang Man a little embarrassed, and it was hard to tell them the truth, so he had to He replied: "There's nothing wrong with saving money, even if you save to marry a wife, there's nothing wrong with it."

The boys burst into laughter when they heard this. When talking about marrying a wife, Chang Man immediately thought of Zhang Yun, and a sweet feeling came to his heart. It didn't matter whether they smiled or not, but the corners of their mouths curled up, and they missed him even more. Come on that man.

Chang Man specifically told me not to disclose the matter of Shopkeeper Chen, and no one in the village knew about it. Everyone still went to the market every Friday to sell it loosely. Although the sales were not very good, but this thing cost nothing, and it was still a bit of income. , so seeing the second crop of cattail grass growing, Lizheng also assigned the task of mowing the cattail rush, and no one said they would give up. Everyone was still ready to harvest when the time came.

The day soon came to mid-September, the corn in the field was ripe, and every household picked up the corn, entering the real busy season of autumn harvest.

Before the corn is ripe, the ghost gingers on Qingtun Mountain withered their flowers one after another. These days, Zhang Yun was very busy on the mountain. Zhang Youqing, Zhang Zhang and the others also went up the mountain to help when they got up early and came back late at night. I dug together until I was busy breaking corn. After more than 20 days of digging, I finally filled up the four large cellars dug at home.

With these ghost gingers, coupled with silage, the pigs in the family will not have to worry about eating for at least a year.

After the ghost ginger was stored in the cellar, Zhang Yun had a lot of free space. In a few days, the family would have to take turns to pick camellia oleifera, but the corn in the field hadn't been broken yet. She was anxious, so she went to the field, Putting it into the autumn harvest, so that the whole family of Zhang's family was dispatched, just to break off all the corn before picking it.

In such a hurry, the corn in the field was finally broken off on the 24th. Before the whole family had time to take a breather, the whole family went up the mountain again the next day to pick camellia oleifera in the land allocated to them.

Most of the Camellia oleifera fruits on the mountain are already ripe, and Zhang Yun discovered them late in the past, so most of the camellia oleifera fruits were cracked and wasted in vain. This year, there will be no more camellia berries, as they were picked at the right time, so there will be no more waste.

During these three days, the members of Zhang's family spent almost the whole day on the mountain, picking all the fruits from their own camellia trees, and the three days were just right.

There are still many processes from picking the camellia oleifera fruit to pressing the oil, but the first step is to pile up the camellia oleifera fruit, and pile all the camellia oleifera fruit on the corner of the main room. Zhang Yun took a look and felt that the number of camellia oleifera fruit picked this year is not much less than that of the previous year. Almost two hundred catties of oil can be squeezed out.

Fortunately, it took several days to pile up the retting, so that Zhang's family could take a breather, and the next day they devoted themselves to cutting cattail grass.

The cattail grass will not crack at the right time like Camellia oleifera, so there is no need to hurry. Zhang’s family smoked Zhang Youqing and Zhang Zhangzhang to cut it in the pond, and Zhang Liangen went to the field to cut the corn stalks. The family plans to cut the cattail grass After that, start to order wheat.

Zhang Youqing and Zhang Zhang spent two days mowing cattail grass, while Zhou and Zhang Yun helped pick and dry the wheat field. This is the case in busy autumn days. Almost every household is like Zhang’s. They are so busy that no one has time to spare. .

After cutting the cattail grass, Zhang Youqing and Zhang Zhang went back to the field without taking a breath. Together with Zhang Liangen, they cut corn stalks. After cutting, they had to prepare the land, compost, and start to harvest the winter wheat.

The men of every family are busy in the field, and the women are no less busy than them. After finishing their work in the field, they have to take advantage of the time after dinner to go to the wheat field to weave straw utensils. The busy autumn harvest lasted for almost a month. It counts.

The cut cattail grass is almost finished weaving, when the camellia oleifera fruit is turned over to dry, and the wheat of every family is also planted in the field, the men start to go to the pond to pick lotus root joints, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, and lotus leaves.

After picking up several ponds, Yu Lizheng led everyone to distribute lotus root joints, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, lotus leaves, and water chestnut vegetables to every household. It is food, whether it is a dish or a snack, it is enough for every family to eat for some days.

After the Zhang family got these, Zhang Yun prepared to burn the water chestnut vegetables first, and the rest were not so easy to spoil, so it would be no problem to store them for a while.

This day Zhang Yun was taking out all the lotus leaves and was about to spread them on the sieve to dry, when Chang Juan came to call her, "Yun'er, can you come out with me?"

Chang Juan often comes to the house on weekdays, and sometimes asks her out. Zhou Shi doesn't care about it, but Zhang Yun immediately senses that if Chang Juan wants to have something to do, he will basically speak directly, and will not pull her out at all. Guess it was Chang Man who asked her to come find him.

"Mother, then I'll go out with Xiaojuan for a while, and I'll be right back." Zhang Yun had an idea in his mind, and without revealing anything, he told Zhou Shi, and after getting her consent, he left the yard with Chang Juan.

After leaving the yard, Chang Juan took her directly to her home. Zhang Yun thought he was wrong, but when he was about to ask, he saw Chang Man from afar, standing in front of the corner of his home.

Looking at it like this, it was still as she expected. Zhang Yun walked up quickly, and when he reached Chang Man, he hurriedly said, "Why did you ask me to come to the door of the house? I'm not afraid that my aunt and uncle will see me." There was a hint of reproach, to be honest, she was really afraid of being seen by Shao Brothers and the others.

"Yun'er, don't be angry, I'm looking for you this time because I have business to discuss." Of course, Chang Man could hear some of her dissatisfaction, and hurriedly explained, for fear that she would be really angry.

As soon as Zhang Yun heard that there was something serious to do, he didn't blame him anymore, and quickly asked, "What's the hurry?"

"It's like this. In about a month and a half, it will be the twelfth lunar month. Naturally, the business in the twelfth lunar month is better than usual. I think our goods should sell well, so I plan to go to Changzhou again to deliver more goods. In the past." Chang Man told Zhang Yun his plan in detail.

"That's good. After this trip, it should be enough to sell for the New Year." Zhang Yun naturally agreed with such a thing, and Chang Juan listened to it, and agreed as well.

"Since you all agree, then prepare all the goods at home, so that I can take them there." Chang Man smiled when he saw Zhang Yun's agreement, and now as long as there is something wrong, he will I would think about discussing it with her, as if I didn't ask her, I felt uncomfortable.

"Hey." Chang Juan answered immediately, but Zhang Yun thought about something else. Seeing that she didn't answer, Chang Man and Chang Juan couldn't help but all look at her.

Zhang Yun thought about it for a while, and then said: "I was thinking, every time you go there alone, even if we help deliver it to the ship, you can also hire porters to pick it up when you arrive in Changzhou, but you won't be able to bring much after all. Seeing your cousin’s shop, we can’t sell so many after all, and other families in the village are not as lucky as us.” If we don’t open up the sales, I’m afraid that cattail grass will not grow long, so we can plant it for two or three years at most, and wait for each family to sell it. If there are too many utensils that can't go out, no one is willing to spend time on planting. At that time, this road will be blocked.

After hearing Zhang Yun's words, Chang Man and Chang Juan both nodded, but the current situation cannot be changed at once, and both of them frowned and began to think.

"See if this works." Now that the words started, Zhang Yun fortunately expressed his thoughts. It was still the method of door-to-door sales, which was the only way to promote new things.

"Let's find a store to sell it by ourselves?" Chang Juan blurted out as soon as she heard it, she had never heard of this.

"Well, we are a small place in Changyuan Town. I'm afraid it's not so easy to recommend. Since the people of Changzhou like it, they might as well pick a few boys with smart mouths and quick thoughts in the village. You take Let’s go together with Shanghuo, try to find a store by yourself, and strive for a few more stores to sell our goods, so that we can sell more and more slowly.” Zhang Yun has been hesitant to take this road because he feels that the rush utensils are too It's new, I'm afraid it won't work in Changyuan Town, but if it's placed in a big city like Changzhou, where there are many people coming and going, the acceptance will be much greater.

Chang Man stayed aside, his eyes became brighter the more he listened, and he was very impressed at the end. He felt that Zhang Yun was so insightful, so before Chang Juan could ask again, he nodded heavily, "Just as you said I'm going to find someone today, and I know how many people in the village can talk better."

Zhang Yun knew that Chang Man would always support her, so he felt more or less at ease. Seeing him finish speaking, he smiled and said: "Don't be so anxious, I think you really follow this method, and I'm afraid you will have to run a lot in the future." Changzhou, in this case, the travel expenses are also a big expense, even if you have no complaints, others may not be willing to subsidize the money."

"This is doing something for the village, and they are too embarrassed to say no." Chang Man was a little anxious when he heard it, but Chang Juan cast him a glance and said, "Brother Man Zi, we can't force it."

"Xiaojuan is right, how about this, as long as you push the goods to the store, and after you settle the money, some will be allocated to you, for example, if you get a tael of silver, I will give you fifty cents, so that the village can sell the goods. , You guys also have energy when you run, so you can kill two birds with one stone." Zhang Yun adopted the modern concept of commission, and she felt that this method would be beneficial to everyone.

Although this is indeed motivating, Chang Man still feels that it is unreasonable to charge money for doing things for the village, and he hesitates.

"I think Yun'er's idea is very good, so don't think about it, just go." Chang Juan has always been impatient, seeing Chang Man hesitate, she simply went up and pushed him, telling him to find someone quickly.

Since this was Zhang Yun's idea, Chang Man had no choice but to do it, so after a few pushes, he half pushed and half walked away.

(End of this chapter)