Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 172

After staying at home for two days, Qian Feng was going to take the pomegranate to the station.Shiliu packed up two big burdens of things that she and Qian Feng usually use.

It was enough for a horse to carry two people, and it also carried two big burdens. After the horse ran for a while, Pomegranate wanted to come down and walk by herself. She felt sorry for the horse.In her eyes, cows and horses are as important as people, and they cannot be tired and thirsty.

Qian Feng came down to walk with her, "Pomegranate, when you get to the station later, you can call Jia Dapang your big brother. If you don't call him big brother, he will definitely call you sister-in-law. He is not much older than me. No, we still have to respect him."

Shiliu laughed when she recalled Fatty Jia's appearance back then, "Okay, although he is easy to fool, let's not fool him in the future, when he brings his wife over, I will call his wife my sister-in-law. "

Because they dismounted and walked for a long time, they missed dinner when they arrived at the post station.Fatty Jia asked the cook to leave food for Qian Feng. When he heard the sound of horseshoes, he came out to meet Qian Feng. Unexpectedly, Qian Feng also brought pomegranate. He spoke first, "Brother Jia, do you still remember me?"

Fatty Jia laughed and said, "How can I not remember, I still remember that you love beef."

Pomegranate blushed and smiled innocently, "Brother, you can call me younger brother or sister or Pomegranate."

Fatty Jia still felt that something was wrong, so Qian Feng led the horse into the stable and walked over and said, "Fatty, you can bring your sister-in-law when you go home tomorrow. You don't have to worry about being alone at home when she is pregnant. The two families will live here well, and when officials come over, let the two of them stay in the house and not come out."

Fatty Jia immediately jumped up when he heard this, "Can I bring my wife here too?"

Shiliu responded immediately: "Why not, I can come, why can't sister-in-law come?"

Fatty Jia blushed with joy, then scratched his head and walked in front of Qian Feng, "Then can I go home now?"

Qian Feng laughed loudly, "Look at you fat, can't bear to miss your wife? Go quickly."

Jia Dapang jumped three feet high and ran happily to the stable.Suddenly, he remembered something, and ran into the yard of the post station again, asking the cook to make a quick dinner for Pomegranate. The meal left just now was only enough for Qian Feng alone.

Pomegranate didn't have time to appreciate the post station, so she ran to the stable to feed the horse with fodder and water, and stroked its head, "Horse, horse, eat more quickly, I have to work again later, it's really hard for you .”

After feeding the horses, she started admiring the station with great interest, "Qian Feng, this yard is really big and beautiful, and there are so many rooms in it, how many people have to go there!"

Qian Feng said with emotion: "These rooms are empty most of the time. We live in the small house at the back, which is far worse than here."

The two put down their things, Qian Feng took out the key to open the two rows of houses in front, and took a look at each room with the pomegranate. The difference is that you can live well and eat well wherever you go.

They went back to their little room at the back, where the cook had already brought the food.

The two cooks are both in their forties, and they usually work silently and don't like to talk.Seeing that she was being served like this, Shiliu was not used to it, "You two uncles, if I have nothing to do in the future, I will help you cook together."

Chef Guo nodded and bowed his head and said with a smile, "Ma'am, you are joking, how can you do rough work like us."

Chef He also echoed, "If Madam is allowed to work, wouldn't it be a waste of money for the two of us to be here?"

Shiliu stood up in embarrassment, "What kind of wife am I? You can call me Shiliu from now on. I'll be idle even if I'm idle. It would be nice to help you with some work."

At this moment, Qian Feng remembered that Fatty Jia said that he would hire two sweepers. Although the eight rooms in front were empty most of the time, they had to be cleaned every day, and the windows had to be cleaned, because no one knew when. There will be officials coming, and the cost of hiring a sweeper is also approved by the county magistrate.

Qian Feng said: "I know it's not easy for you two cooks to work here. Although there is not much work, just cooking three meals a day, the monthly salary is too low, only one hundred and two a month, and every other It takes half a month to go home in turn. If I talk to Yicheng, I won’t hire another person from Sala, and I will do these jobs for you, and you will get 220 yuan a month. Monthly money, so that I can save more money to support my family.”

The two cooks were just looking forward to earning more money. How could they not be unhappy when they heard that such a good thing happened, and they almost kowtowed to thank them. Pomegranate was so frightened that he quickly helped them up.

Pomegranate was still thinking about helping them with work, and said: "If you are too busy, I will help you. Don't worry, I don't need wages."

The two cooks laughed when they saw that Pomegranate was so fond of laughing. They both went down, and Qian Feng and Pomegranate started eating with chopsticks.

"Qian Feng, the two uncles really know how to cook. They are no worse than the chefs in the Yicheng restaurant. How could they be willing to work here with such a good skill and receive such a low and monthly salary. It is not bad to be a cook in a restaurant. Okay?"

Pomegranate never pays attention to the appearance of eating, let alone talking about food and sleep, she asked while eating, excited.

Qian Feng sighed: "They are slaves, and they can only be arranged arbitrarily by the government. They have to go wherever they are arranged to cook. I heard that they all worked in the county magistrate's mansion before they came here, and they Your mother-in-law and children are also slaves, and they work as servants in some officials' homes to serve the master, so the two of them keep calling you madam, which is what they are used to calling the master."

Shiliu felt that they were very pitiful, "I will help them even more from now on."

Qian Feng picked up a piece of food for her, and said with a smile: "Okay, I know you can't be idle."

After the meal, the two cooks came to collect the dishes again. Pomegranate also helped them clean up the dishes and clean the table, and then went to the kitchen to clean the floor and do household chores with them. The two taciturn cooks also became joking and thought they were coming Pomegranate is such a good master. Usually the yard is quiet and dull, but now that Pomegranate is here, it immediately becomes festive.

Pomegranate asked them to treat her as their own daughter, of course they didn't dare, but they were no longer as cautious as before, and they worked more vigorously.

Qian Feng was reading in the room. When he took office, Fatty Jia brought a county chronicle, and several official records given to them by the county magistrate, which were the backgrounds of the officials, where they were from, and various resumes in the past few years. What kind of hobbies do you usually have, and which officials you have close contacts with.

(End of this chapter)