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Since Da Niuwangzhuang was established, this was the first time someone had asked for money, and Lao Zhou's mood at the moment was complicated.

So this afternoon he asked Fatty Hou: "Fatty, can you make cakes?"

"Cake? I know how to make it." Fatty Hou was holding half a vegetable melon and gnawing there. The vegetable melons on Niuwangzhuang grow well, and each piece can be as thick as an adult man's arm. Others eat it. The vegetables and melons are all cut into small pieces with a knife, and Fatty Hou can eat half of them in one sitting.

"Then let's make our own cakes in the future." Old Zhou said.

"No." Fatty Hou refused without even thinking about it.

"Why?" Lao Zhou was puzzled. If he made it himself, Fatty Hou would want to eat as much as he wanted. This foodie has never had much resistance to food, but this time he refused so simply.

"It's available in the town. It's so convenient for us to buy and eat. Why do we have to make it ourselves?" Even by Hou Fatty's standards, the cakes in the cake shop in the town are quite good.

I heard that the store even makes its own butter, eggs are local eggs bought in Buffalo Town, and buffalo milk is ordered from Daxi Town.

With the development of Niuwang Village in recent years, buffalo milk has been sought after by many people in the Tongcheng area. As the demand increases, other people will naturally start raising buffalo to produce milk.

There used to be a lot of people raising cattle in Daxi Town, and now many cattle farmers will raise a few cows to produce milk. Although the quality of the buffalo milk is not as good as that of Niuwangzhuang, it is still very good, and the price is also reasonable. not cheap.

Not to mention the local eggs in Buffalo Town. Now many people in the city buy eggs from them. During holidays, they come here by themselves, and some of them ask relatives and friends to help them buy eggs. Homemade steamed buns, put them in the refrigerator and eat them slowly at home, they say they are very nutritious.

This kind of eggs, this kind of milk, plus high-quality butter flour and other materials, are carefully crafted, and a piece of plain cake only sells for 18 yuan. In Hou Fatty’s opinion, this is already a conscience price. If he doesn't go to the cake shop to buy it, why does he still have to do it himself?

"Old Zhou, I'm not talking about you, we have to have a limit, right? I still have a lot of work here, so many people, two meals a day..." Fatty Hou began to babble while chewing vegetables and melons.

"Is your salary enough to eat cakes?" Lao Zhou asked him.Fatty Hou hasn't bought less cakes recently, not only for himself, but also for Liu Ruhua. Two days ago, when he was enjoying the shade on the promenade, Lao Zhou saw them sitting there, facing a cake that was more than ten inches long. I ate it up one bite at a time.

"I still have some savings." Fatty Hou thought for a while and said.

After working in Niuwangzhuang for so long, he usually lives and boards in Niuwangzhuang, and it doesn't cost much to go to the town once in a while. Slowly, Fatty Hou has accumulated some savings.

"Are you going to spend the money first?" Lao Zhou asked him.

"Hey...not that fast." Fatty Hou waved his hand nonchalantly.

"..." Lao Zhou felt that he had no common language with the big-hearted guy.

It was the responsibility of the complicated mood, and Lao Zhou asked Lin Zaichun to call the other party in time for this sum of money.

Then he spent some time looking at the statement faxed by the other party. In just a few days, the goji berries that her cake shop uses every day have increased from three catties to five catties, and there may be more in the future.In autumn, when the thorn rose fruit on the mountain matured, Lao Zhou decided to recommend his own thorn rose fruit pulp to her. It would be good to exchange the thorn rose fruit pulp for some cake.

On the evening of July [-]th, another group of young students who looked like students came to Buffalo Town. Seeing how they all carried backpacks and walked lightly, they probably came to work in Niuwangzhuang.

After these people got out of the car, they didn't go to Niuwangzhuang immediately, but went to the food stall of Luo Jingliang's family at Qiaotou, and ordered a few dishes of side dishes and a large bowl of boiled sweet potato noodles.

It’s only July now, and the sweet potatoes are still very tender at this time, wash and peel the tender sweet potatoes, cut them into strips, put some onion oil in the pan, fry until fragrant, then add water to boil, until almost cooked, then put Wu Zhanfang Dried their flour, added some salt and pepper, and put a handful of Luo Jingliang’s home-grown scallions into it before serving. Young, he ate up the big pot of boiled sweet potato noodles without even leaving a few mouthfuls of soup.

After filling his stomach, he left Luo Jingliang's food stall contentedly, and walked slowly along the street towards Niuwangzhuang. Just after walking not far, he saw the Heji West Point Restaurant that was open on the street.

"Is this the shop they're talking about?" Before coming here, these people had already heard from people on the forum that a very good cake shop had recently opened in Buffalo Town.

"Why don't you go in and have a taste?" Someone suggested.

"Can you still eat it?"

"Hey, I haven't been here for too long. I couldn't hold back just now, and I was a little too full."

"I still haven't eaten Liangpi from Qiaotou."

"What's the hurry, let's find time to come down from Niuwangzhuang to eat some other day."

"Then let's not eat this cake today?"

Just as they were talking, a couple pushed open the glass door and came out, holding a box of cakes in their hands, walking past these young people with smiles on their faces, and drifting past with them , There is also a wonderful cake sweetness.

"..." Those young people glanced at each other before walking towards the store.

"Welcome, there is a freshly made wolfberry cake, do you want to eat it?"

"What other flavors?"

"There is also a banana flavor, which is made of naturally ripe bananas that we specially ordered from the south."

"I heard that there are pig's blood peaches."

"The pork blood peaches are sold out today."

"There is also strawberry flavor, where did you buy this strawberry?"

"I ordered it from a nearby village. There are several strawberry sheds over there. If you are interested, you can also go there to pick strawberries. The entrance fee is only 20 yuan, and you don't charge for how much you eat. The strawberries you want to take away are counted."

"Hey, we all go to Niuwangzhuang to work."

"Give me the original one, I want the original one."

"I'll just have a cake roll."

"Banana."

"I want goji berries."

"..."

"Eat here or take away? There are still a few seats in the store, and we have also set up some tables and chairs by the river."

"Let's go sit by the river."

"Do you need any more tea?"

"What kind of tea do you have?"

"Black tea, green tea, various scented teas, wolfberry cake, it's best to eat it with lily water, it's not easy to get angry."

"..."

A few minutes later, these people sat on tables and chairs by the river and ate cakes. Although it was summer, the night in Buffalo Town was still very cool, especially at this small river, where the night wind blowing across the water brought Bursts of coolness.

The cakes in the plate tasted so good, sweet and soft, and not greasy at all. After eating a few bites of the cake and taking a sip of hot tea, the aftertaste is endless.

That night, when these people went to Niuwangzhuang, Old Zhou's family had already gone back to the hut to sleep.

When I was having breakfast the next day, I saw Lao Zhou and Hou Wazi in the cafeteria, so they gathered together.

"Old Zhou, do we grow lilies in Niuwang Village?" A few young people sat down at Lao Zhou's table with their breakfast.

"No, what are you doing?" Lao Zhou picked up his deep-fried dough sticks and dipped them in the soy sauce dish next to him. Although their soy sauce was light in color, it was actually salty.

"How can there be no lilies? We have white fungus and goji berries, so let's plant some lilies." These young people began to encourage Lao Zhou to plant lilies.

"I don't have much free land this year, let's talk about it next year." How much land is on Niuwangzhuang, what crops are being planted in each field, and what is planned to be planted in the second half of the year, all of which are planned.

"You don't need those fields, you can grow on the mountain." The young people said.

"On the mountain? That must be medicine lily, right?" Lao Zhou knew about medicine lily. When the old men in the buffalo restaurant came up with medicinal materials to identify them, there was medicine lily, and there was also a kind of edible lily. It's called Cai Baihe. When Lao Zhou was doing business in the city, he often went out to socialize with people, went to restaurants, and ate Lily.

"Yeah, yesterday when we ate cakes at He Ji West Point Restaurant, their goji berry cakes were served with lily water. It tasted bitter and had a little fragrance. I heard that it can nourish yin and reduce fire. Isn’t there a medical clinic, and this thing can be used in the medical clinic.” Those young people tried their best to convince Lao Zhou that they wanted him to grow lilies.

"Why, you don't want to go up the mountain to dig trees?" Old Zhou asked with a smile after taking a bite of fried dough sticks.

This summer, there were no major projects at Niuwang Village. The houses on the mountain were also built, and the turtle pond was repaired a long time ago. During the summer vacation, many student workers came, so Lao Zhou thought about it and decided to Let Lin Kuo lead them up the mountain to dig trees, dig up the miscellaneous trees on the mountain that are not very good and not very rare, and make room for growing medicinal materials.

In the future, Lao Zhou plans to grow some things on the mountain. Phellinus may not only be planted in the ditch on the other side of the Niuji ditch. If other places seem suitable, he will also try it in the future, like this one. For a more spiritual medicinal material, it is better to disperse the species than to concentrate the planting.

"Planting lilies is more interesting than digging trees," said the young people.

"Okay, after dinner later, let's go up the mountain to have a look." Lao Zhou himself is a bit lazy now, and he doesn't have so much passion to toss and think, but young people have that kind of toss, as long as they If this energy is used in the right place, it can also create benefits for Niuwangzhuang.

After breakfast, Lao Zhou took Houwazi and led the student workers up the mountain. They did not go deep into the mountain. They were on a slope more than 20 minutes away from the courtyard. A lot of weeds grew around the pit left behind, and no medicinal materials were seen.

"How is this land? You will plant lilies here in the future." Lao Zhou pointed to his weedy and potted wasteland and said to the group of young people.

"Okay." The young people are quite happy, there is a piece of land for them to toss about, how beautiful it is!

"But I won't pay you wages. I'll just take care of food and housing. When the lilies in the field are harvested, I'll take [-]% and you [-]%. You can ask for money if you want lilies. If one of them doesn't work out, you can do it again in the future." Niuwangzhuang, don’t tell me to plant that kind of thing again, just work hard.”

Lao Zhou is not sure whether these young people can grow lilies. If they can't grow them, he will pay the wages and give the place. Will it be a waste of time to fetch water from the bamboo basket?

"No wages at all?" A young man asked.

"Young people, take a long-term view. If these lilies are planted well, you will definitely earn much more money than that." Lao Zhou patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him.