After hearing this, the villagers quickly calculated the accounts. He was used to doing crops, so he could still calculate the accounts in this field.
Their family earns a minimum of 40 dan from an acre of sweet potato land. If they sell it all, they can get 2 taels of silver.
If the rice harvested from an acre of land were to be sold, it would only cost two or three taels of silver.
For two taels of silver, if you buy a whole stone or rice, you can buy four stones.
Four kilo of rice is enough for their family for half a year.
These sweet potatoes are very cost-effective!
Between eating sweet potatoes for half a year and eating dry porridge for half a year, any fool knows which one to choose!
The village chief was overjoyed. He pulled Yuan Shuanzi and said, "I'll go back and tell my family to get some stuff and dig sweet potatoes right away! Just wait for me. Let's send it to Songshan Village together!"
After that, he ran away without waiting for Yuan Shuanzi to come back. He ran so fast that even a young man might not be able to catch up.
Yuan Shuanzi couldn't help but smile when he saw his brother running like this.
Afterwards, many villagers saw Yuan Shuanzi digging sweet potatoes and asked him. Yuan Shuanzi said what he said. When everyone heard it, they all thought it was a good deal to sell sweet potatoes, so they all went back to dig sweet potatoes.
In these ten miles and eight villages next to each other, which family does not have relatives?
Therefore, in just two days, with a gust of wind, everyone knew that the Song family in Songshan Village, the girl who collected red peppers and opened an inn, was about to harvest sweet potatoes!
That set off a wave of people gathering together to dig sweet potatoes. They were afraid that they would be too late to deliver the sweet potatoes and the Song family would collect enough. The whole family went out to collect the sweet potatoes and would not stop until they were all collected.
Song Qiu had heard rumors about this matter, so she just pursed her lips and smiled, saying nothing. She wanted to accept them all, as long as they were not rotten or broken, she would accept as many as they were given.
The sweet potato matter was answered, and as for the workshop matter, Mr. Tang called Tang Wenlai and asked Song Qiu to come to his house the next afternoon.
Song Qiu knew there was news, so he didn't delay and immediately followed him back to the village.
When he met Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang didn't waste any time and said directly: "I asked your Uncle Mingde to go to Chengjiazhuang to ask about the house. I heard that you, Uncle Donggua, want to use it for a workshop."
, agreed immediately, and said there was no rent required, you can just use it, but there is no need to go all over the village to say this. When everyone asks, just say that I gave it to you at my own discretion."
With that said, he handed over a key.
Song Qiu thought that Uncle Donggua would definitely agree if she knew she wanted to rent a house, but she never thought that Donggua would not rent the house and would give it to her for free. He then waved his hand and said, "I know this and I won't say it nonsense, but I don't want this."
Why am I so embarrassed to use my rent for nothing?”
Mr. Tang smiled incomprehensibly, "Anyway, I gave you the key, and I also mentioned what Winter Melon said. As for the other things, whether you want to count the rent, Ah Qiu, you can talk to your Uncle Winter Melon later."
After Song Qiu heard this, he thought about it and took the key.
After talking about the house, the village chief went on to talk about recruiting people for the workshop, "Aqiu, you said there are twenty people in the kitchen. This morning I walked around from house to house. For those who were idle at home, there was one person from each house.
Come out, it’s hard to miss anyone, do you think there are two more people here?"
There are a total of twenty-four households in Songshan Village, not counting one’s own family. If there are two more people, that’s twenty-two households. When Song Qiu heard this, he thought that the village chief’s grandfather did not count his own family.
Also, the village chief's grandma and Aunt Mingde are both busy with embroidery work and can't spare any time, just like the last time they chopped peppers.
She nodded and said: "It's just a matter of two people. If it doesn't interfere, it's better for one family to come. It depends on which family comes. They will all come to my house after dark and I will tell them about the work."
The village chief agreed and said he would talk about it soon.
After settling the matter, Song Qiu returned to the inn, prepared dinner for the guests, and had dinner at home. He left Du Chuanfu and the others in the inn, and returned to the village with Old Yuan and others.
The guest surnamed Yang has been staying there for a month, and he has become familiar with it in the past two days. He cannot stay in the inn for a month. Just wake up Du Chuanfu and the others at night.
There were no other guests, so they had better go back to the village.
As soon as I got home and looked at the chickens and pigs, there were villagers coming together outside.
The village chief also came over with his old cigarette stick in his arms.
Song Qiu hurriedly brought out stools and asked everyone to sit down.
No one had that many stools, so the village chief sat down. Everyone else waved their hands and said they had just eaten and wanted to stand for a while, but they didn't sit down.
The people who came here all knew each other, and Song Qiu didn't feel embarrassed. After a quick look, half of them came back to help chop the peppers.
If there is one for each family, then the whole family will really be together.
It's Mrs. Zhang, there are only two people in the family, she doesn't need the salary, she has nothing to do anyway, so she comes to join in the fun.
There were also six or seven men, including Zhang Hugua.
Song Qiu looked around and said directly: "We still have to wait for the sweet potatoes to be harvested before the workshop can start working. It is estimated that someone will send sweet potatoes later. Let's start from tomorrow, twenty coins a day.
The work is paid on a monthly basis, and it is estimated that it can be completed within the next month at most. What exactly needs to be done, I will come over and tell you when the work starts, please help me clear out the workshop tomorrow."
The Li family's house has not been inhabited for so many years, and those nooks and crannies must be tidied up.
Everyone listened and agreed.
This cat is idle, and they have no land. Even though each family has its own craftsmanship to make a living, if someone is idle and can do a job to earn some money, that is a good thing.
But what on earth is this sweet potato going to do? A workshop can be opened, just open it, and it can be completed in a month at most?
It's not that I can only earn this salary for a month, I'm just curious.
Jin Juhua was quick to speak, and immediately asked: "Aqiu, how do you harvest these sweet potatoes? I have planted several ridges in my backyard, and I can dig about a hundred kilograms of them!"
Song Qiu knew that people in the village would ask. As far as she knew, sweet potatoes were planted in many of the courtyards with wide feet.
It's Uncle Lao Meng's house, which lives close to the forest. I heard that a low land has been opened. The land is fertile and can be used to grow the most productive sweet potatoes.
Their family had a large population and they ate with their mouths open. They had to eat more sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs, so they tried their best to dig the ground everywhere.
The land in Songshan Village is still ample. After all, there are only about twenty households here, so every household has a large and secluded yard.
There is a lot of land that can be cultivated, but it is only suitable for growing vegetables and the like. If you really want to use it to grow rice, it will not work.
For sweet potatoes, as long as the ground is fertile and the soil is good, and you dig a hole and plant it without following any rules, you will always be able to harvest something.
"Collect according to the stone, fifty coins per stone." Song Qiu answered.
"Fifty coins and one stone? That's feasible. I can buy twenty kilograms of brown rice from what I planted. I'll dig it up when I get back." Jin Juhua nodded after hearing this, obviously very satisfied.
Liu Laomeng's second daughter-in-law couldn't help but smile from ear to ear as she listened. Fifty coins and one shi. How could they earn 20 shi from all the sweet potatoes their family grew together? Isn't that just one tael of silver?
Good guy, that’s enough to buy one stone of brown rice!
Being able to eat porridge is better than just eating sweet potatoes!
I have to tell my father-in-law as soon as I get home and start digging sweet potatoes tomorrow!
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Well, one stone here is calculated as about one hundred and twenty kilograms.
A stone of brown rice costs five hundred cents, and a kilogram of brown rice costs zero cents for five cents.