Huo Erhuai collected a lot of shrimps and crabs and sent them to Zhuangzi. Yang took the village servants to make butter and various shrimp products together.
None of the shrimps and crabs received by the Huo family this year were sold. They were all prepared to be given as gifts. They also killed a lot of chickens and ducks to make chicken, salted duck, etc., and prepared to give them out as holiday gifts.
As the business gets bigger, there are more connections to make.
It’s inappropriate to give anything. If you give something worthless, people will look down on you. If you give something expensive, others will think you’re trying to curry favor with him. Giving these local products is just right.
In the past two years, the Huo family made a living by selling butter, shrimps and crabs, and all the fishermen were not stupid, and they all followed suit.
There is no technical difficulty in this thing, and the taste is very different. In the past two years, the Huo family has stopped making it and selling it, and only makes it for gifts. If there is not enough to give away, some will be sold at the Guangfeng Water Shop.
not much.
Nowadays, the family no longer relies on making these river delicacies to make a living, and Huo Xi doesn't want her parents to be tired.
This time to make bald butter, Huo Xi did not let Yang do it. He only called a few women from the village who were good cooks to help.
Nowadays, although Zhuangzi said that six households of village servants have left, the manpower is still barely enough.
Since Huo Xi told the village servants that they were not allowed to raise poultry privately, chickens, ducks and pigs were collected from each family with money, and special chicken sheds and duck coops were built to raise them together.
They also hired half-laborers, half-grown girls, or old and weak people who were unable to work in the fields to help clean, feed, and take care of them every day. They received five coppers a day, plus after raising and selling money, they were given 30%, each of them.
Everyone is rushing to sign up.
Huo Xi weighed the situation and called one person from the family to take care of the chickens, ducks and pigs.
Now I invite them to help make butter and shrimps and crabs, and I will give them an extra ten coppers a day.
The farm servants were originally prostitutes. In addition to the fixed monthly payment, they also received daily rewards from their masters, or raised some poultry, or planted other things in front of and behind the house, or went to the woods to pick up some on the slopes.
Sell other things for money.
Unexpectedly, the new owner asked them to work and gave them extra coins, so they all rushed over.
Rong was good at tea and rice. Her son turned out to be a village head, so she only stayed at home to take care of her grandchildren and cook for the family.
But this time Zhuangtou was not his own son. Although he couldn't do much work in the fields, he still went to the fields every day. Huo Xi saw this and asked someone to help him make bald butter this time. He also asked her.
After Mrs. Rong finished the work assigned by her boss, she returned home with some butter and grilled and dried shrimps.
When everyone in the family came back, they found that there were more things on the dining table.
"Mom, this stuff smells so good, where did it come from?" Wu Qiushui looked at the shrimps on the table and a bowl of yellow sauce-like stuff, and asked Rong's wife.
"The little boss gave us some defective products and distributed them to us for you all to taste."
Mrs. Rong felt a little disappointed when she saw that she and her second son were now the only ones left with a large family of six.
Then he looked at the children and grandchildren sitting together, with a smile on his face again, picked up some butter with chopsticks, put it on top of the rice, and put it into his mouth...
"Smells! No wonder the little boss wants to use it as a gift. This gift is worth it." This is just a defective product.
Wu Qiushui listened to his mother's words and picked up a chopstick of bald butter. His brother was a Zhuangtou, and he often ate shrimps and crabs before, but this was the first time he tasted bald butter.
After eating, his eyes lit up: "Mom, what kind of bald butter is this? It's so delicious."
When the others heard this, they all stretched out their chopsticks into the bowl with the bald yellow, and nodded in praise after eating.
"I originally thought that the new owner was a farmer like us, but these days I heard that the owner has a shop in the city." Wu Qiushui picked up another grilled shrimp and ate it, then nodded and said.
Mrs. Rong nodded: "I don't think the young boss behaves like someone who started as a banker. I'm afraid your brother may have misunderstood."
"Mom, how about I take you to my brother's place? They have also built a house in my in-laws' village. I am a loser, and I am afraid I will have to stay in the village from now on."
"What's wrong with living in a village? If the sky falls, you'll have someone tall to hold it up. You won't have to worry about food and drink, and your harvest will be guaranteed by droughts and floods. You'll still have money to take out, and you'll have clothes to wear. There's nothing wrong with that. You have to accept your fate according to who you are. Which family doesn't take responsibility for it?
The official's destiny is to do business. It is better to stay in the village than to dig food in the fields."
All the children and grandchildren listened intently.
Mrs. Rong added: "Our family is originally a farmer. When we are outside, we have to worry about drought and floods. We have to worry about this and that. We are always worried about having no food. My mother is a loser like you, so I will stay here.
I’m not going anywhere in Zhuangzi.”
"Okay, then I'll stay with my mother in the village."
Mrs. Rong nodded: "If your brother is in the village, he can continue to be the head of the village. Life is no worse than outside. He has to worry about everything and worry about the family's livelihood. Now my mother looks at the new owner.
Okay, I don’t have any arrogance, and I don’t beat or scold the farm servants. I ask them to do work. Although there is no reward, there is wages, and I can feel at ease with it."
Wu Qiushui frowned: "But I see that the little boss seems to be giving directions blindly. He even told his parents that the land must be planted with two seasons of grain. Isn't this nonsense! The land has been treated harshly, and the fertility of the land is not enough.
After giving birth, can we still have enough to eat?"
Rong's hand holding the chopsticks paused.
"I see that the two bosses are listening to the little boss. I see that her words and deeds are very orderly. Maybe she can really grow two crops of food. Then Zhuangzi will be rich."
"Is this possible? My old master is an official. There are so many people in the family who are studying, and there is no mention of growing two crops of food."
Mrs. Rong glanced at him: "This is a village bought by the owner at a huge price. Can you just squander the money? How can you do this without even counting the success?"
The family was silent.
Wu Qishui's daughter-in-law, Wu Qi, said: "I heard from my father that after the Double Ninth Festival, some kind of workshop will be set up in the village, and everyone will be invited to work. He also said that if we don't have enough manpower, we can also invite tenants from nearby.
villagers.”
"What workshop?"
Everyone is still interested. If the boss wants to open a workshop and hire people to work, won't they all get money?
Wu Qi shook his head: "My father asked, but the little boss only said that he would know when the time comes. Now he only asked my father to hire someone to clear out the mountainous area. He only said that he would plant bamboos and mulberry trees, and then raise silkworms. My father
I have been running out these days, not only looking for winter wheat seeds, but also looking for mulberry saplings."
"Raising silkworms? Does that mean building a silkworm house? I do know how to raise silkworms, but will each family raise them by themselves or together?" Wu Qiushui's wife Zhuang said.
Mrs. Rong thought for a while: "Looking at the style of the little boss, they should build silkworm houses in the village and raise them centrally. I found that the centralized breeding mentioned by the little boss is better than raising each family on their own before.
It takes one labor to raise a pig and two chickens, and now it only takes one labor to take care of a chicken coop."
The Wu family was talking about the behavior of Huo Xi's family, and Huo Xi's family boarded the ship and left Zhuangzi early on the first day of the Double Ninth Festival after a busy few days.
