The first peasant daughter of the green garden

Chapter 29 Finding the Market (1)
The land of Liujia Village is fertile and full of rivers and ponds. It is twelve miles away from the capital, and it is the most important place for the supply of food and vegetables in the capital.

Now it is the busy season of farming, and in the fields, everyone is busy harvesting early rice.After the early rice is harvested, the second season of rice must be planted quickly.

Seeing Liu Jiacheng chopping firewood outside the house, Li Caiwei approached and saw that he was sweating from exhaustion, and handed him a wet towel, "Jiacheng, there is no food at home. I want to see if there is any farm work to earn more money. In this way, we can sell food and accumulate some money.”

Liu Jiacheng nodded.

This Liujia Village is so big, it is not difficult to find work, but you have to go to the kind of landlords or rich peasants. It is impossible for ordinary people to spend extra money to hire people to work.

"Jiacheng, I asked my third sister about the situation in Liujia Village yesterday. The third sister doesn't know much about the situation in Liujia Village. I want to ask you, who are the landlords in this village."

Liu Jiacheng handed her the towel, put down the axe, and walked into the house.Li Caiwei followed in and saw him take out a tattered household registration book, which recorded the situation of every family in the village, but this household registration book was still ten years ago. With different changes.

Li Caiwei turned to the first page, it said Zeng Dahai, landlord, 120 mu; Li Yincai, rich farmer, [-] mu;...

With so many names, she chose the middle name, "What's the situation in Liu Laigen's family?"

"Poor peasants."

Hearing that he actually said the same thing as in the notebook, Li Caiwei was shocked, and immediately said another one, thinking he still said it.

"Then what about Zeng Dahai's house?"

"Landlord."

"Jiacheng, do you have such a good memory? You know everything about Liujia Village and remember everything?"

Liu Jiacheng nodded.Li Caiwei was a little surprised, and gave him the household registration booklet, "There is not much food at home, I have to earn some money, and tomorrow I will go to Zeng Dahai's house to see if there is any suitable farm work."

Going to work at a big landlord's house is equivalent to going to a company for an interview in modern times, and you must take care of yourself.

I chose a suitable dress from the clothes given by the third sister, a gray short-sleeved one, and tied my hair with a hair rope, which made me look more capable and easier to get work.

Facing the dilapidated bronze mirror, Li Caiwei wiped some water on her hair. Looking through the mirror, Li Caiwei found that Liu Jiacheng was standing at the door of the house, with a little displeasure in his eyes.It's rare to see him express! "Jiacheng, I'll put the lunch in the pot, heat it up and eat it."

After giving some instructions, when I got to the door, I saw him blocking the door.

"Jiacheng, why are you blocking the door? I have to find some work, otherwise the family will not be able to eat. You can chop firewood at home, and I will do the rest." Li Caiwei saw that there was a cut in his hand, and put He took it with his hand, looked carefully, and went back to the firewood stove to pinch the pot ashes, "Jiacheng, you should be careful at home. I'm going. If you hurry, you can come back at five or six in the afternoon."

Li Caiwei walked along the path to the avenue.On both sides of the road, the ripe rice emits the fragrance of rice, and the smell of harvest is in the air.On the mountain, a peasant woman is picking mulberry leaves with a basket.In the lotus pond, the lotus leaves are graceful and graceful, and the lotus flowers are showing pink and tender stamens. There are children who are naked in the lotus pond picking red water chestnuts.

What a good time.

The green hills are faint in the distance, and the small bridges and flowing water are nearby. This situation makes people feel like they are in a paradise.

There are many small roads in the countryside, and very few avenues. Most of the general avenues are official roads.

Unconsciously quickened the pace.

The Zeng family mansion is really big.

Zeng Dahai's ancestor was the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and in Zeng Dahai's generation, because he didn't seek to improve himself and indulged in wine and sex, he relied on the assets left by his ancestors to survive.As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Zeng Dahai is considered the richest man in Liujia Village.

Li Caiwei was standing at the gate of Zeng's mansion, the gate was open, and the peasant women were working in full swing.To the east is the drying yard, and to the west is the place where silkworms are raised.

Peasant women in coarse clothes are drying rice, some are responsible for moving bamboo mats, some are responsible for spreading out, and some are holding wooden targets to push away the newly plucked grains.

Here, the peasant women are putting the newly picked mulberry leaves into the baskets. There are more than 20 baskets, let alone tens of thousands of silkworms, and the white silkworms with thick hands are lurking in the emerald green mulberry leaves. Ye Zhong enjoys the food comfortably.

The peasant women were busy with their own tasks, and they didn't even notice that a person was coming.

Li Caiwei found a kind-hearted peasant woman, and went to talk to her, "Hello, Auntie, I would like to ask if there is still a need here?" The peasant woman was busy pushing away the rice, "Go and ask the boss."

"Which one is in charge?"

The peasant woman pointed in the southeast direction, which should be a residential area.

Following the pointed direction, I saw a peasant woman in blue coarse cloth sitting in the living room, holding a sewing box in her hand, and she was sewing with her head down.

Li Caiwei walked up to her and said politely: "Hi, I'm here to do some work, may I ask if there is anyone here?"

The blue denim woman looked up and saw a clean-looking little girl standing in front of her. She frowned and shook her head coldly, "There's no one here, girl, you should go quickly."

Li Caiwei said anxiously, she was rejected before recommending herself! "Don't look at my young age. In fact, I know a lot of things. I saw a lot of silkworms in the yard died. The silk spitting out was yellow in color. There was a pile of problematic silk beside it. I guess silkworms It’s definitely not going to be sold, why don’t you ask me, I’ll help you sell the silk.”

The peasant woman stopped what she was doing, with surprise in her eyes, "Tell me what you can do?"

Li Caiwei smiled knowingly, "If you want to know the way, then you have to ask me, and I will tell you after you pay."

Hearing the word pay, the peasant woman immediately returned to her indifference, her eyes showing some doubts, "Then you can come back tomorrow."

Li Caiwei was a little disappointed, this was simply rejecting herself!Looks like the job hunt has failed.Just when she was disappointed, she was stopped again, "If there is any good way to sell the silk, then I invite you, but not more than a month, at most 100 Wen."

"Okay! I do!"

But she has to face a problem, how can this silk be sold?

Along the way, I was wondering how to sell it?Silk is expensive, and ordinary people can't afford such clothes, so the user group should be targeted at relatively wealthy families, that is, only ladies from wealthy families.But the girls of rich families can only stay in the county town, and ordinary people in the countryside can't afford to wear them, so it seems that they have to go to the county town.

When I got home, it was almost dark.There is no kerosene lamp at home, so we can only feel in the dark.

(End of this chapter)