Farmhouse Stone Mountain

The shopkeeper of Chuan Fu Lou dialed the abacus and calculated the account. His face was so dark that he looked at the performance that had been declining for several days in a row. The few customers in the shop could not sit still and hurried upstairs and downstairs. The chef walked around and tasted the dishes in the back kitchen. The taste is unmistakable. There are so few customers, what is the problem?

The shopkeeper recruited the clerk and reprimanded him for a long time, and the clerk also had a bitter face, not because they greeted the guests carelessly, but because there were only a few guests who came, and he didn't know what went wrong. I will still come back to their Chuanfulou after the heat, not for anything else, the old brand, the most authentic taste dishes.

The shopkeeper was also puzzled. He went to the newly opened Phoenix Restaurant to inquire. The decoration is not as good as their restaurant, not to mention the taste of the food. What is wrong with the half of the customers? The restaurant is also the Phoenix Restaurant, no, wait, the shopkeeper seemed to have thought of something, stood up with a grunt, and asked the waiter, "Last time you said that besides the Phoenix Restaurant, where is there a shop on the corner of the street?"

"Yes, but it's a pretty small shop"

"Have you ever gone to find out?"

The guy shook his head.

There are more and more people eating in Shiji Building here every day. The kimchi made by Shishan a few days ago, pickled lotus white, is sour, crunchy and delicious, which is the right time to eat.

Every day, Shi Shan takes out two large bowls of kimchi and puts them next to the soup bucket, with a sign on it that reads: Soup and kimchi are self-serve for free, please don’t waste them!

Shi Shan hired two guys and a girl who was as fat as a steamed stuffed bun, Fat Ya. The two guys were a couple of men and women, one was honest and strong, Liu Feng, and the other was Da Lin, a kid who loved to laugh. The legs are mainly responsible for steaming rice and paying for the meal.

The fat girl greets the guests, washes vegetables and does chores. A little girl is so strong that she can lift the wooden barrel for rice with one hand.

Shi Shan was dumbfounded, and immediately decided to recruit her.

The little pumpkin was honorably laid off, so he went to the door to be the "lucky cat" that his father said, showing his glutinous rice and small teeth to the guests who lined up to enter the door.

"Xiaoshan, this pickle is sour! It's good!" Lao Hei, who ate on the first day of opening the store, has been eating here in Shishan, and claimed that he will return to the village after the helper's time is over. It's time for dinner.

Shi Shan also got acquainted with him, and when he heard the words, he replied, "It's not easy to want to eat. I'm afraid I won't be able to eat it when I arrive in the town with an ox cart for one or two pennies."

"You have to queue up ahead of time to eat. When I make an ox cart and arrive in town, all the food will be sold out."

"If you want to eat, I have to make it for you no matter what." Shi Shan laughed and laughed.

Lao Hei burped after eating, then put down the bowl, intending to give way to the later guests, after thinking about it, he went to the counter and said to Shi Shan, "Xiao Shan, don't think I'm meddling, just the person you recruited , that man named Dalin is a gambler, his lame leg is the one that was crippled by someone who gambled before, you should be careful, don’t be fooled by others.”

"Old Hei, don't worry, I know what happened to Dalin before, no matter what, I should give someone a chance to correct his mistakes. If he doesn't correct, I won't keep him."

When recruiting people, Shi Shan had his eyes on Liu Feng, but Liu Feng would rather have less money than to let Shi Shan recruit Dalin together. The young couple seemed to have a good relationship, so they took it as a chance.

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In a few days, it will be the Rice Transplanting Festival. Nanjia Country’s Rice Transplanting Festival is considered grand, and the people in the town are fine, but for the villagers who are digging food in the fields, it is a bigger festival than the Spring Festival. Transplanting rice seedlings is almost at this time.

Shi Shan celebrated this festival for the first time, and wanted to join in the fun. He posted a notice that he would go home for a few days, gave the shop assistants a holiday, and gave each person a box of snacks. Little Pumpkin went back to Aunt Mao's house in Lishui Village for the festival.

Because of the holidays, everywhere is very lively, there are a lot of ox carts coming and going, and there are things bought by every family on one ox cart, big and small bags, and the ox carts are crowded when they go back and forth. The old man Liu couldn't send them off one by one now, so he stopped at the entrance of the village.

Shi Shan bought a lot of things, and even cut half a pig, wrapped it in banana leaves, miscellaneous things and some odds and ends, he really couldn't get these things without delivering them to the door of his house alone with a small pumpkin.

Fortunately, Tie Zhu knew that he was coming back, so he rushed to the entrance of the village to pick him up, otherwise he would not be able to carry so many things back.

Seeing the big strip wrapped in banana leaves, Tie Zhu thought it was something, but he was stunned when he saw it. Shi Shan pushed him, and he picked up half a pig and put it on his shoulder without saying a word. a carry.

When they walked away, there were still many people talking at the entrance of the village:

"Oh my god! It's half a pig, and it's really rich to buy so many things! It must be a fortune."

"I heard that I opened a store in the town, and the business is booming. I am very angry that this stone mountain has improved. My family's natal family even asked me to find out if he is thinking about finding another one."

"Oh, Dashuan's family, they are rich, so you rush to curry favor with them, right! They even have a cub, it's not easy to be a stepmother"

"I'm going to drive the car. If I don't deliver it to my house today, hurry up and get off. I have to go to the town again." Old man Liu saw that their talk was getting more and more out of line, so he hurried to chase them away.

Tie Zhu was carrying half a pig on his shoulders, and when he went home to put it down, his shoulders were covered with blood from the half pig. Yuzhen was so anxious that she thought something was wrong, and when she saw the half pig wrapped in banana leaves on the ground, she was stunned.

Shi Shan took out the things he had bought and asked Yuzhen to put them away. Yuzhen looked at the half pig on the ground, and then at Xiang Leyun's dim sum on the two big boxes, "Their dim sum is extremely expensive, why do you buy two big pigs?" Box" Fortunately, his mother is cooking chicken behind the house, otherwise, seeing these, I'm afraid I'll have to talk about it again.

"The cloud-legged peanuts are worth the price and delicious," Shi Shan said as he opened a box, took out two and handed them to the two children who were running in his footsteps.

Gouzi and Little Pumpkin got the mooncakes and trotted out to play.

"How are you doing? Are you feeling better?"

Yuzhen tremblingly held two boxes of snacks, not knowing where to put them, "It's better, we are reluctant to eat it after you buy it."

After carrying the half pig back, I pulled a bench and sat on the iron pillar next to me, looking at the stone mountain and then at the half pig on the banana leaf, which meant the same thing as Yuzhen.

"Reluctant to eat it? Will it make money if you keep it or keep it moldy? If you eat it, I will buy it later if you want to eat it. Isn't this a holiday? It's just pork and dim sum and it's not for you to eat gold."

"I'm afraid my stomach will hurt if I eat gold!"

"My stomach hurts and my teeth are burned." Shi Shan smiled and said, "I don't know if Aunt Mao has done it. I'm hungry. I'll go to the kitchen to have a look." Then he slipped out of the house.

Yuzhen and Tie Zhu were left staring wide-eyed.

After dinner, Shi Shan asked Yuzhen to steam the peanuts and chestnuts. Gou Zi had already taken the little pumpkin to the village to play. There are some paddy fields at the head of the village, which one belongs to them? Why are they all deserted?"

"Which family could it be from, the government?"

Aunt Mao knew that Shi Shan didn't nag about what she bought today. Shi Shan was sensible and able to make money, but Old Sister Gu couldn't see it.

"Why is there no one to plant, what a waste"

"It's ten acres of land, not to mention buying it or renting it, it will cost a lot of money. Rich villages can buy it."

“I want to buy it”

His words shocked everyone in front of the fire.

"Xiaoshan, that's ten mu, not one mu." Tie Zhu thought he heard it wrong, so he repeated it again.

Shi Shan said, "Yes, it's ten acres."

For a while, the three members of Aunt Mao's family stopped talking.

"I want to use it to raise fish"

"It doesn't take ten acres to raise fish, not to mention that it is a paddy field. If you want to raise fish, you need a fish pond," Aunt Mao said. I have never heard of raising fish in the field. , the fish pond will do.

"My fish will be raised in the rice field. This is my plan. I bought ten acres of land. Brother Tie Zhu just needs to go to the field to plant rice. My fish will be raised in the rice field. When the rice is harvested, All the rice you harvest is yours, I only want the fish in the field, do you think this will work, Aunt Mao?"

"I can't do this, you planted this field for us for nothing." Tie Zhu was the first to jump up and refused to agree, this kind of thing can't be done for nothing.

"Xiaoshan, it's really not good, isn't this taking advantage of you?" Yuzhen said.

"I haven't finished talking yet. The fish are raised in the rice fields. I want to open a shop in the town, and I need Brother Tie Zhu to help take care of them. Fish in the rice fields are not easy to raise. In this way, I still take advantage of it."

"You bastard" Aunt Mao said after a while, "Okay, we will raise this fish, but you have to explain to Tie Zhu how to raise it, otherwise you will die if you don't raise this fish." Aunt Mao thought that if the fish It can't be raised, but the rice harvested is real. If it can't be raised, there will be food. When the food comes out, giving Shi Shan some will not make him lose money.

It was already three days after Tian bought it. Aunt Mao asked Li Zheng from their village to help and said that it cost 60 taels of silver, which is not expensive but not cheap either.

The fish that Shishan wants to raise is valley flower fish, also known as rice flower fish. When transplanting rice seedlings, put the fish fry in the field, wait for the rice to bloom, and the golden rice flowers will fall to the field, and the fish fry in the field will eat the rice flowers and grow up. The fish will turn yellow, and the fish with yellower tail tastes particularly sweet and delicious, which is most suitable for making soup.

Shi Shan told Tie Zhu that he had to check the water every day. The water must not be dry, otherwise the fish would die, and the rice was easy to attract birds to eat, because the birds would eat the grain, and when they saw the fish, they would go there. After eating the fish, peck the back of the fish's head, and the fish will die.

"Don't worry, I'll keep watch every day. I'll make a bamboo pole to frighten the sparrows so that the fish fry won't be harmed." Tie Zhu listened carefully, for fear of missing something, but he is a farmer after all. Shi Shan knows a lot, and this is ten acres of land, so you can't be careless.

"Okay, when it's time to plant rice seedlings, I'll send someone to bring the fry over"

Aunt Mao picked some chili peppers and cabbage grown in the field, and put half an ox cart on it for Shi Shan to take back. Seeing that the beans were growing well in Aunt Mao’s field, Shi Shan picked another basket of beans, and then got on the cart back to town. inside.