There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 83

[Chapter 83, Upfront Investment]

when Yan Zhiqiang bought Zhuangzi in the early stage, in order to take care of it, in addition to the fertile land, the big and small Zhuangzi also need to be close to each other. Therefore, the big Zhuangzi of the Yan family and the small Zhuangzi of Daohua are both in the same village. One at the head of the village and one at the end of the village.

The village where Zhuangzi lives is called Danlin Village. There are more than 500 households in the village.

Yan Zhiqiang sent his servant back to Yan’s house to deliver a letter, saying that he, Mrs. Yan and Daohua would stay in Zhuangzi for a few days, so that everyone should not worry, and then went to work on the fields.

That night, both Daohua and Mrs. Yan slept soundly, and there was no such thing as sleeping.

The next day, Yan Zhiqiang saw that both of them were in good spirits, so he was relieved and devoted himself to the two Zhuangzi’s watermelon planting.

As for Daohua, seeing that the third uncle was watching the watermelon planting, and Mrs. Yan would also be watching, she turned her attention to the barren hill.

Zheng Zhuangtou didn’t dare to neglect the new owner, so he brought back a cart of fruit saplings for her that day.

Daohua took a closer look at the saplings, finally nodded with satisfaction, looked at Zheng Zhuangtou and asked: “Uncle Zheng, do people in the village have any free time?”

Zheng Zhuangtou: “Yes, the fields of each family in the village There are not many, and there is a lot of labor in Jia’s family, and many of them are busy with spring plowing in early April. Many industrious young people are now planning to go out to find work to subsidize their families.”

Daohua smiled: “In this case, please ask Uncle Zheng to help me Find some people to reclaim the barren hills. As for the salary, it will be calculated according to their work outside, what do you think?”

Zheng Zhuangtou nodded again and again, gratefully said: “Thank you for taking care of me, I will take care of it later. Go to the village to say hello, and I promise to find enough people for the girl immediately.”

Daohua: “My grandmother, third uncle, and I won’t stay in the village for too long, so it doesn’t matter if there are more people, but I don’t want to see There are people who steal and play tricks.”

Zheng Zhuangtou looked straight: “Don’t worry, girl, I know all the hard-working people in the village, and I guarantee that there will be no such people as the girl said.”

Daohua smiled: “That would be the best. There are not enough fruit saplings. , please trouble Uncle Zheng to buy three more carts and come back with every variety. By the way, I just saw that there seems to be grape vines. You can buy more of these things. The yard in the village is very big. I will find them later People set up some shelves to grow grapes.”

Zheng Zhuangtou listened carefully, and when Daohua finished speaking, he said that he would do it immediately.

Daohua: “Okay, I’m fine, go get busy!”

When Zengzhuangtou left, Daohua asked Wang Man’er to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone to start keeping accounts.

When she came out, she took all the silver that had been placed with the old lady over the years, and deducted the one thousand taels of silver for buying the Zhuangzi, and now she only had more than three hundred taels of silver left.

It takes money to hire people to open up wasteland, and it takes money to buy fruit saplings.

Daohua doesn’t know if the little money in her hand is enough for Zhuangzi’s initial investment?

While grinding the ink, Wang Man’er asked suspiciously: “Girl, can’t you just dig a hole to plant fruit trees? Why do you ask someone to reclaim the barren hill?” Daohua

: “Because I not only want to plant fruit trees on the mountain, We need to plant other things.” Planting fruit trees will take a few years before they can be harvested. During this period, she must of course think of other ways.

Wang Man’er was curious: “Others? What?”

Daohua smiled: “Of course it is the medicinal material that pays the fastest.” After coming to Xingzhou, she read some travel notes, which recorded that Xingzhou is very suitable Plant Chinese medicinal materials such as skullcap, schisandra, gentian, Ligusticum ligusticum, licorice, and five plus.

These medicinal materials are common, and the seeds can be bought in drugstores. The growth cycle is short, which is very suitable for planting and selling for money.

As soon as she heard that Zhuangzi brought a barren mountain, she made up her mind to grow medicinal materials.

Daohua wrote down the medicinal seeds she needed and handed them to Wang Man’er: “Give it to Uncle Zheng, he is going to buy fruit tree seedlings, so he happened to buy these medicinal seeds along the way.”

Wang Man’er took the note and went to find Zheng Zhuangtou.

At this moment, Zheng Zhuangtou is still at the village head’s house.

Zhuangzi needed people from the village to open up wasteland, so he had to talk to the village chief about it.   The village head and Zheng Zhuangtou

are cousins, and they are not much different in age. When they heard that Zhuangzi wanted to hire someone, they immediately said anxiously: “Then what are you waiting for, I will call someone for you right away.”

He didn’t stop him, he knew that this job was very precious to most people in the village.

In the past two years, there has been a severe drought in various places in the north. Their side is facing the Grand Canal, so the drought is not so severe, but everyone’s life is still very tight.

Now I can find a job, even if I don’t pay wages, just eat, there are still a lot of people rushing to do it.

As soon as the two of them reached the door, Zheng Zhuangtou saw his wife leading Wang Man’er to this side.

“Master, this girl said she has something to do with you.”

After a long distance, Zheng Zhuangtou’s wife shouted at the top of her voice.

The voice was so loud that Wang Maner almost couldn’t help covering his ears.

Zheng Zhuangtou knew that Wang Maner was Daohua’s personal girl, so he ran over immediately and asked, “What do you want, Miss?”

Wang Maner handed the note written by Daohua to Zheng Zhuangtou: “This is the medicinal seed that the girl wants. , let you bring it back along the way.” After finishing speaking, he quickly took out a fifty taels of silver bill from the pocket at his waist.

“You keep the money. Remember to report the account to the girl when you get back.” After finishing speaking, he turned and left.

The village chief watched from the side, and after seeing Wang Man’er left, he stepped forward: “Why, the person in charge is a little girl?

” It’s the eldest girl of their family.” The

village head glanced at the note in Zheng Zhuangtou’s hand, with a worried look on his face: “How can a little girl be the master? It’s buying fruit saplings and medicinal seeds. If the planting doesn’t work , will the master blame you?”

Zheng Zhuang frowned: “Probably not, I followed orders.” The

village chief sighed: “It’s rare for Zhuangzi’s previous master to blame you indiscriminately? If the people above don’t go their way, they will take you away.” You have worked hard enough for the lowly people these years.”

Zheng Zhuangtou showed helplessness: “Everyone is the same.” As the head of the village, he can at least support a large family, and he will not sell his sons and daughters. Many people are much better off, so we should be content.

“Let’s go, I’ll call someone to go.”

That night, Zheng Zhuangtou brought back three carts of fruit saplings, and the medicinal seeds that Daohuarang bought back one by one.   After the inspection, Daohua said to Zheng   Zhuangtou

: “Is the person hired yet?” Let’s plant fruit trees and medicinal herbs.”   Afterwards, Daohua sent someone to put the fruit saplings in the empty warehouse, and after dismissing Wang Man’er, he put the fruit saplings into the space.   In order to ensure the quality of the saplings, they were directly planted in the black soil, and then they left the warehouse as if nothing had happened, and locked the warehouse to ensure that no one would find that the fruit saplings were missing.   (end of this chapter)