The cannon fodder of fast time travel, she chooses to farm Chapter 484 The Cannon Fodder Cousin of the Male Protagonist of the Imperial Examination Paper (7)
Chapter 484 The Cannon Fodder Cousin of the Male Protagonist of the Imperial Examination Paper (7)
It's late spring, the peach blossoms and pear blossoms have faded, and the fruits are still very small. They are almost all green, just light green, light green, and dark green.
Across Taoli Mountain, there is a fruit tree mountain, all planted with bayberries.
The old man loved drinking wine when he was alive. When the bayberries were ripe, he ate fresh ones and used the rest to make bayberry wine.
The Xu Mansion also has a cellar dedicated to storing wine for the old man.
However, after the old man passed away, his original parents were not interested in bayberry wine, and as they were keeping filial piety for the old man, they left everything that had nothing to do with the spice business to be handled by the stewards.
Xu Da, who was originally the steward of his father's yard, hired outsiders to pick out the bayberries as soon as they were ripe, and sold them to the houses of dignitaries in the city. This bayberry mountain alone made him greedy for a lot of money.
"From now on, just do what you did when the old man was here!" Xu Yin walked through the Yangmei Forest and said to the village chief, "Send some fresh fruits to the house and make wine for the rest. Except for the fresh fruits to make wine, I will give you another one later.
Here is a recipe, try fermentation method to make bayberry wine."
The village chief naturally agreed.
Xu Yin thought that it would be nice to live here. After a month or two, the peaches, bayberries, and pears would begin to mature, and she could eat as much as she wanted. It would be enough for dinner.
If you can't finish eating, you can make wine, make wine, or make jam.
"Jam? What is that?" The village chief asked in confusion after hearing what she said, "Is it made like bean paste?"
"Almost. If you are interested, I will give you a recipe. You can try it when the fruit is ripe. However, jam is not suitable for selling in the market. It requires sugar and the cost is too high. Ordinary people may not be willing to buy it. You can find someone to do it.
They might be interested if you knock on the back kitchen doors of those high-profile families."
The village chief took her words to heart.
Further inside Yangmei Mountain is Tea Mountain.
Xu Yin raised her head and looked at the Xu Mansion Courtyard built on the top of the mountain, and twitched her lips:
No wonder there are soft sedan chairs in Xujia Village. Among the masters who are accustomed to living in a pampered way, who can climb the top of the mountain after climbing two mountains?
Fortunately, the tea mountain is not high, the mountain road is not steep, and the steps are shallow, so it is not tiring to walk.
The group of people went up to the top of the mountain and entered the courtyard. When she decided to come and stay, the housekeeper sent someone to clean it up, so she could move in directly.
Xu Yin took her maid and mother-in-law to live in the second courtyard. The front yard was reserved for the nursing staff and the servants who ran errands. The cooks brought from the mansion were also placed in the front yard.
The village chief waited for her to settle down and then went down the mountain to go home.
We made an appointment to take people to start cleaning the Chai Mountain next to the tea garden early tomorrow morning.
Xu Yin has to go to the cemetery tomorrow. After all, she is here to pay her respects.
It is still the tea-picking season, and tea farmers picking tea can be seen everywhere on the tea mountains.
Although the tenderest Mingqian bud tips are no longer visible, the tea produced before and after Grain Rain has plump buds and leaves, green color, fresh taste and pleasant aroma, and is still very marketable.
Xu Yin had nothing to do after taking a nap, so she asked Ziyuan to take a small wide-mouthed bamboo basket, walked out of the courtyard, picked an area that the tea farmers had not yet harvested, picked a basket of buds, and took them back to the mountaintop courtyard to fry them themselves.
When the old man was still alive, every time he came to the cemetery to pay homage to his ancestors during the Qingming Festival, he would stay here for a while and experience the joy of picking tea with the tea farmers. Therefore, the courtyard is equipped with complete tea-frying tools.
The maids and women who were waiting around were all beaten by the old housekeeper before going out. As long as the girl could get over the grief of her deceased relative, she could do whatever she wanted.
What's more, isn't it just tea picking? There is no danger, as long as the girl is happy.
But when it came to making tea, they were worried about burning her hands, so they all waited with caution and fear.
"Girl, why don't you let the tea farmers do this job? I'll go call a woman with quick hands and feet to come up right now?"
Xu Yin has already been fired.
Although I haven’t fried tea for a long time and my hands are a little raw, I soon became familiar with it. I shook my head when I heard this:
"I just want to experience it, there is no need to disturb the tea farmers."
I think back then, my sister even fertilized and planted the tea trees herself. What was the point of just picking and frying tea?
"But……"
"Zi Yuan, do you want to come together? It's quite fun!"
"..."
Zi Yuan looked suspicious.
Isn’t it like cooking tea just like cooking? It’s just that the spatula is replaced by hands, how fun can this be?”
Xu Yin said slowly while frying tea: "Think about it, wouldn't it be a lot of fun to pick the tea yourself, fry it yourself, brew it yourself and drink it later? It's a great sense of accomplishment, right? Really! If you don't believe me, try it!
"
She deceived the eldest maid and the little maid into going to the shore, and they made tea together and experienced the daily life of a tea farmer.
After frying the picked tea, it became dark.
After eating a six-course vegetarian meal cooked by the chef in the house, plus a small bowl of rice, I rested early after washing up.
The next day I got up and braved the morning dew to go to the cemetery.
She paid homage to the ancestors of the Xu family, the old lady, and her original parents in turn, and promised in front of their graves that she would carry forward the Xu family's incense industry and never let her ancestors' hard work end in her generation.
In fact, she didn't just say this to her ancestors. If the ancestors wanted to hear it, they had to hear it! She mainly said it to the people who served around her.
Next, she has to vigorously develop her aromatherapy business. If she gets too involved and the maid or mother-in-law becomes suspicious, she will be in trouble.
Now, in front of her ancestors, she vowed to inherit the Xu family's spice business and carry it forward even if she never married. This shows her determination.
Once a person makes up his mind, he will not move forward, and his personality will change greatly, which makes sense.
Coming out of the cemetery, Xu Yin saw Zi Yuan peeking at her, and raised her eyebrows lightly: "If you have anything to say, it's okay to just say it."
"Girl." Zi Yuan spoke boldly, "You just said that even if you never marry, you will develop the Xu family's spice business and it will never be in your hands. Is that true?"
"That's what I said."
"But if you don't get married and have no heirs, how will you pass on the Xu family's property? Then don't you have to stop it?"
Xu Yin: "..."
Hey! This girl is very logical! It’s a waste of time to be a maid!
When the two wives who came with me heard this, they started to persuade me:
"Girl, it's impossible to get married without getting married! If you are worried that no one will take care of the business in the house after you get married, you can just do what Madam did and recruit a son-in-law!"
"That's right! When the girl's filial piety period is over and she reaches the age of marriage, she can throw the hydrangea to attract a bride and find a good uncle who loves his wife as much as the master does!"
The two mothers-in-law became more and more excited as they talked.
Xu Yin twitched the corner of her mouth. Fortunately, she was out of the cemetery. Otherwise, would it be ridiculous to talk about her lifelong events in front of the tombs of Xu family ancestors?
But the mother-in-law said: "I didn't listen to Lingqing just now, otherwise the girl would have to take back those words in front of the master's and madam's graves. Master and madam know what they are doing, and they will definitely hope that the girl can find a husband and have children, but the girl must not
Motivated by emotions..."
Xu Yin pinched her forehead with a headache: "Okay, okay, I will consider this when the filial piety period comes."