Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 40

The Zhang family has taken root in Beidong Village for several generations and has accumulated a lot of fertile land. However, there are three brothers in the family. After their grandfather and grandmother passed away, the family separated, and each had [-] acres of fertile land. They have already sold the land and went out to develop. The youngest is Zhang Ren, who has been staying in the village. This is the family that Du Xian and the others are looking for.

Things went very smoothly, and the Qiu family soon got news that Du Xian's family had agreed with Zhang Ren to buy four mu of land, and they would pay five taels of silver per mu, and they would sign a contract in a few days.She was naturally not reconciled, she made such a big fuss, she just wanted people to see how useless the Du family was, how they were trampled under their feet, if they really did, how would she have any face?Immediately, I rushed to find Zhang Ren and threatened him not to sell it.

But everyone has a temper, the Zhang family has been bullied by her all these years, and now they are about to leave the village, so how can they sell it? Naturally, they are unwilling, even if the village chief is moved out, they will ignore her.

Qiu had no choice but to resort to the last trick and pay for it himself!Anyway, there wasn't too much fertile land, and it was next to her house, so there was no harm in buying it. In the end, a deal was made, and she bought four acres of land for 24 taels of silver.But what she doesn't know, this is just the first step.

Soon, another news came out, saying that Du Xian was not angry, and he had to save face for his family no matter what, and was willing to pay an extra tael of silver, that is, six taels of silver per mu to buy five mu of land from the Zhang family. Of course, the Qiu family still wanted to suppress him, but she exchanged 35 taels of silver for five acres of land.Again and again, and for the third time, she spent 48 taels of silver to buy the last six acres of the Zhang family's land.

She won, and the Du family didn't even buy an acre of land!
The Qiu family was overjoyed, and even went to Du's house to show off with the land deed, but was beaten out by Du Xian with a broom.

Du Xiaoyu's stomach ached from laughing, and after careful calculation, the Qiu family spent a total of 75 taels to buy [-] mu of fertile land, and if these fields were calculated at normal prices, they would actually only cost [-] taels.

Those who saw it had a share, and two taels of silver were distributed to the Qin family, and the remaining 30 taels of silver were shared by the Zhang family and their family.

Mrs. Zhao couldn't believe her eyes when she looked at the white money, money came so easily sometimes!At this time, her anger has long since dissipated. Even if four acres of fertile land can be planted for a year, they can earn three or four taels of silver at most. However, they are playing tricks and fooling the Qiu family to make money, so they can't buy land for the time being. What?It will be a matter of time before there is money.

This day, Du Xiaoyu was gnawing a big white steamed bun. Seeing that Mrs. Zhao was feeding the chickens, she walked over to test what she hadn't done last time.

It's still about Du Huanghua. If Mrs. Zhao lets go, she can tell her sister right away.

"Mom, last time I said..."

Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, she saw her father hurried over, "The head of the Bai family is pretty good. As soon as we heard that we wanted to ask his cousin to be a guarantor, he immediately agreed, saying that Wen Yuan is promising. His cousin I definitely would, so I invited him to dinner the day after tomorrow. Damn, what kind of treats do you want to buy? Fortunately, I hunted a wild rabbit last time, and I have a snack, and cut some bacon..."

"How long has the wild rabbit been marinated, it doesn't taste good." Mrs. Zhao interrupted him, and asked carefully, "Is his cousin really a scorpion? I haven't heard of it before."

"Of course it's true. It's just that I didn't teach like Mr. Liu. Later, I went to learn crafts from others. I'm old, so it's normal for others to forget." Du Xian sighed, "There are few scholars in our village. If we didn't offend Liu family, and won’t lose Wen Yuan’s guarantee for nothing, fortunately, I heard Mrs. Qin mention it when I went to Zhang’s house that day, otherwise it may be too late to find someone to point out after a year.”

"Since it's confirmed, I will definitely invite you." Mrs. Zhao nodded, looking at the chicken shed, "I will kill a chicken when I see it, and I can't treat others badly."

"Alright, you can figure it out." Du Xian went out after saying that, "I have to fix those farm tools."

Du Xiaoyu understood some meaning. It turned out that someone was required to be a guarantor in the examination of a scholar. In the past, Master Liu was the guarantor. Now they must be replaced. They seem to have found some relatives of the Bai family.But after such a delay, he forgot what he was going to say, and by the time he remembered it, Mrs. Zhao had already gone to the yard.

Hey, Du Xiaoyu sighed and chewed a couple of mouthfuls of steamed buns. This food was really unpalatable, if she didn't get up late and didn't bother to eat noodles, she wouldn't eat it.

It's really tasteless, maybe it would taste better with dipping sauce or something.

Thinking of her, she frowned, meat sauce?jam?peanut butter?chocolate sauce?All kinds of sauces that I had eaten before jumped into my mind, and I couldn’t help drooling for a while. Finally, I found that meat sauce and peanut butter might be easier to make. As for jam, they don’t have fruit trees in their house. It’s not realistic to buy it. If her mother saw her doing the experiment, she wouldn't be scolded to death!

But meat sauce requires too many spices, which is inconvenient. In the end, she decided to make peanut butter first. There are a lot of them at home, just like soybeans. They are usually eaten as snacks, and Mrs. Zhao would not say anything even if she saw them.

She became happy when she thought about it, and ran to the kitchen to rummage through the cabinets, and soon found a big jar with half a jar of peanuts in it, all of which were full.To make peanut butter, it must be pureed, but there is no blender here, so there is no other way but to mash it by hand, so Du Xiaoyu found a stone mortar to mash it there.

He is small and weak, so he only got a bowl of peanut puree in the afternoon. It was mixed with sugar and oil, and it was a bit decent. Of course, the next thing was to find someone to try it.

"Sister, do you want to try it?" Du Xiaoyu held the peanut butter and handed Du Huanghua a steamed bun.

Du Huanghua took a bite of the steamed bun, "Is it cold?"

"I want you to taste this." Du Xiaoyu threw the peanut butter in front of her.

Du Huanghua almost spat out the steamed bun, "What, what is this?"

The dark yellow lump is really unsightly, no wonder it frightened her, Du Xiaoyu twitched the corner of her mouth, "It's made of peanuts, it's not dirty, you can dip it in the steamed bun and see if it tastes good. "

"Peanut butter?" Although Du Huanghua felt strange, she had long been accustomed to her innovation, so she dipped it into her mouth a little.

"How is it?" Du Xiaoyu stared at her. She had tasted it herself before, but the taste was not as good as she remembered.

Du Huanghua frowned, "It's a bit... okay, it's not bad."

Sure enough, he was still not used to it, "Then would it be better if I put more sugar?" Du Xiaoyu asked.

"The baby may like to eat, and they all like to eat sweets." Du Huanghua thought for a while, and added, "But the steamed buns have no taste, so it's quite interesting to dip them in."

Then it was affirmed, so Du Xiaoyu was relieved, and then went to Du Wenyuan to try again. Like Du Huanghua, he was shocked at first sight. Hey, the color is really not good-looking, but it is quite funny. Felt.The evaluations they got were the same, they were neither delicious nor bad, but Du Wenyuan had a business mind, so he immediately thought of a place with her, and that was the Moon Tower in Feixian Town.

This shopkeeper is easy to accept new things. In order to maintain the business of his restaurant, he always wants to introduce new things. Du Xiaoyu knows more about peanut butter. In addition to dipping steamed buns, he can also make cold noodles. There are also peanut butter rolls. As for dishes, peanut butter chicken can also be made, and she doesn't want to make a lot of money from this. This kind of stuff is just like dried tofu.

Her main goal is to add up!
But I haven't had a chance to go to the town recently. Let's put it aside for the time being. She still has to deal with the arrangement of flowers. She has done a lot these days, and there are more than fifty flowers in total.

On the second day, she asked Du Huanghua to take her to look for Mrs. Qin, and suggested that she go to the small grocery store first.

Qin's small grocery store is at the head of the village, where there are the most people coming and going, and there are many stalls. It is basically a barter exchange, and it is the most convenient way for the villagers to complement each other's needs.

"Huanghua, Xiaoyu, why are you two here?" Mrs. Qin was surprised to see the two of them appearing in the shop. Usually, she doesn't come here by herself, so she leaves it to her natal cousin to take care of her every month. Give some wages.

It can be seen from this that she is a person who likes to enjoy herself, Du Xiaoyu replied, "My cloth flowers are all ready."

"Oh, that's it. Come on, come in, Xiaopeng, watch carefully outside." Qin led the two of them into a small room inside.

Just now Du Xiaoyu casually looked around and found that this small grocery store sells a lot of things, everything from sauces, vinegars and spices for cooking to cloths to wear, farm tools, ropes, rouge, Snacks, jewelry, etc. are all available, just like a small supermarket. I can't help feeling that Qin's brain is really flexible.

Seeing Du Xiaoyu take out a bag of cloth flowers, Qin's eyes lit up, "It's so beautiful, did your sister help make it?"

"Well, my sister picked out the color." Du Xiaoyu said.

"Okay, I'll take it out and sell it right now, but it's agreed, two cents for one flower."

"Wait." Du Xiaoyu called her, "Auntie, haven't you noticed that these flowers are different? Whether it's color or material, there are good and bad ones. Look at this, this fabric It is ordinary cotton cloth, and the color is also ordinary blue. This kind should only sell for a penny, but this one," she picked out one, "this one is made of silk, and the color matches well, there are white and light yellow. , looks very elegant, doesn’t it? So, this one has to be sold for three pennies a flower, and this..."

Listening to her call, even as shrewd as Mrs. Qin's eyes widened, the little cloth flowers were divided into five classes by her, those with one penny and those with five pennies, which shows how careful she is!
"Auntie, when someone comes to buy flowers, remember to tell them carefully. The quality of the fabric varies greatly, and so does the price." Du Xiaoyu reminded again, just like in the village, there are rich families and poor families , and there are more than five grades among them.

Because of this, many people like to compare, just want to compete for superiority, so superior people naturally want to buy superior flowers.

I feel that the writing at the beginning is a bit rough, I don't know what's going on, I'll see if I can change it tomorrow. . .

(End of this chapter)