OBS Chapter 380 Finding a Way for the Egg
Chapter 380 Finding a Way for the Egg
In the following days, the children were very anxious. Looking at the wheat grains in the water that showed some signs of germination, they asked worriedly, "Auntie, won't they sprout?"
Gu Qingqing smiled confidently at them, "Yes! But germination is only the first step."
It takes some time for wheat to germinate. During this process, the grain officer from the town who was responsible for going into the village to check on the grain harvest came.
They did not check every household, but just took a booklet and picked out individual households. Not sure whether it was lucky or unlucky, Wen Wuyan's family was not among those drawn, but Old Wen's family was.
The old Wen family did not have to pay taxes at all because they had the scholar Wen Youcai. The grain official went there just to make friends with the new scholar. Who knew if he would pass the imperial examination and become the top scholar in the future?
"Wen Youcai was chatting happily with the senior officials in the county. He said that his laughter could be heard from outside their yard. He also said that the senior officials in the county liked him very much and now the whole village knows about it." Niu Yuzhu said this when he brought his children to Wen Wuyan's house to play.
"Does the whole village know about it?" Gu Qingqing stopped what she was doing and asked.
"Yes, I walked around the village, and everyone was talking about it." Niu Yuzhu seemed to be worried that people would not believe it, so he raised his arm and scratched an area towards the village.
Gu Qingqing just smiled after hearing this. "You all know"? How could it be such a coincidence?
Gu Qingqing did not expect the simple-minded and honest Niu Yuzhu to be able to discover the twists and turns in this matter. She thought that these words were also "intentionally" spoken.
Therefore, the old Wen family and the Wen Wuyan family became the topic of conversation in every household before and after meals in the village. The two children were so outstanding that the villagers sighed again and again, and they all fantasized that if the relationship had not been broken off, wouldn’t the Wen family have become big landlords?
Naturally, these have nothing to do with Gu Qingqing.
Now, all she does every day is look at the malt and worry.
Because the sales of fresh chicken and duck eggs in Ladao Town are far from ideal, and the chickens and ducks on the hillside are laying eggs very well, the total number of chicken and duck eggs can reach nearly 300 per day.
The dog days of summer are coming soon, so we have to release these things.
After pickling nearly three hundred chicken and duck eggs in salt water, Gu Qingqing decided to go to the town to find a way out.
The first stop must be Zhiweilou. At the price of five cents for eight eggs and five cents for six duck eggs, she was required to buy fifty eggs and fifty duck eggs each every day.
The delivery time is up to Gu Qingqing, and it can be delivered every two or three days.
One third of the daily egg production is solved.
Then, she went to the shop where she often bought food and negotiated with the owner to leave the eggs in the shop and let the shop sell them on her behalf. "Boss, I will leave a hundred eggs with you first. You can sell them at any price. If you sell all the hundred eggs, you only need to give me seventy coins. If you can't sell the remaining eggs, I will come to collect them in two days."
The shopkeeper was worthy of being the shopkeeper. After listening to Gu Qingqing's words, he repeatedly confirmed with her.
"No matter what price I sell them for? As long as I sell all these 100 eggs, I will only give you 70 wen? What if I can sell them for 80 wen or 90 wen? I will still give you 70 wen?"
Gu Qingqing generously gave the shopkeeper a thumbs up and said, "Shopkeeper, I only charge 70 cents for 100 eggs. The extra money is your ability and will naturally belong to you."
"Hahaha, Madam Wen is quick at buying food, and she's also quick at selling things. Okay, just leave the things here, and I'll help you sell them."
Gu Qingqing nodded and saluted the other party. "Then let's put it this way. I will arrange to send a hundred tomorrow?"
"to make."
This is different from Zhiweilou. We can only say that we helped solve the problem, but not much was solved.
When the son of the butcher's stall owner who had been sent to the water came, Gu Qingqing said the same thing to him as she did to the grain shop owner. The next day, the other party took away 100 chicken eggs and 100 duck eggs.
She did not find a partner for the remaining products, but continued to sell them in her own shop.
At the same time, she arranged for some of them to be made into preserved eggs, because she believed that if preserved eggs were popular, the profit could be much higher than that of fresh chicken and duck eggs.
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Niutoushan Village has had a big happy event recently. The lime mountain not far from the village has been designated as part of the village's territory. The scope only includes the Bald Mountain, which is the name annotated on the county map.
It means that no grass grows.
If we were to buy another mountain, the county magistrate might have to think twice, but as for this bald mountain? Niutoushan Village was willing to pay for it, and the county would be able to increase its fiscal revenue by thirty taels, so naturally they were willing to give this barren place to Niutoushan Village.
Does the forest between Tushan and Niutoushan belong to Niutoushan Village?
Naturally not returning?
Why don't you come back?
After looking at the map, the county said that if they wanted to assign this forest to Niutoushan Village, it would cost at least two hundred taels.
To everyone's surprise, the county explained that the timber on the mountain was valuable.
"If there weren't even a single tree on the bald mountain, do you think we could take it with thirty cents?" said the county staff.
Wu Shan naturally knew that he had taken advantage, and hurriedly bent down and nodded in agreement.
The procedure was quite quick. If I didn't have time to pay on the first day, I could pay on the second day.
Three days later, the county document came down and the mountain named Bald Mountain became the land of Niutoushan Village.
The manure pits of every household in the village have been dug, and they are just waiting for lime to be added. Although Gu Qingqing's family has also been burning lime these days, all of it was brought by Zhao Dong and his team to the town for use.
If the villagers need it, they have to cook it themselves.
"Village chief, where should we burn it?" asked the villagers.
"Uncle Wu, don't look at me. The kiln I'm working in is too small and I can't burn too many at a time." When Gu Qingqing saw Wu Shan looking at her, she waved her hands repeatedly.
"Hahaha, I don't think highly of your small kiln, but who built the kiln for you that day?" Wu Shan asked.
"Uncle Zhang He and Zhao Dong helped build it." Gu Qingqing answered, while her eyes involuntarily searching the crowd.
Seeing that Niu Zhanghe was not there, Wu Shan simply said to the others, "Let's go find Zhanghe and build a kiln."
The villagers did not go out of their way to buy bricks. When Wen Wuyan built his house, there were some bricks left over. Everyone also bought some old bricks from Wang Jie's house and put together a kiln that was bigger than Wen Wuyan's. The kiln was built that afternoon.
Before they had to deliver grain, Wu Shan organized everyone to go and open up the mountains.
Soon, the first kiln of lime came out, and Wen Wuyan and Gu Qingqing began to busy themselves teaching everyone how to make it.
With the appearance of the manure composting pit, people seemed less concerned about going to the town to deliver grain, and when the day came, the whole village went to the town under the leadership of the village chief.
I'd rather finish my errand early so I can go home earlier.
There was nothing unexpected about delivering the grain, but the grain officer always felt a tension in his heart, which became especially tense after he saw the grain production of one household in Niutoushan Village.
"Wait." The grain officer looked at the numbers on the booklet and shouted subconsciously.