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After Lao Zhou’s unremitting efforts, Xiao Shulin finally drank fresh and delicious soy milk. He Jinying, the proprietress of Heji West Point Restaurant, made it fresh every morning, put it in glass bottles and placed it on the store shelves. A bottle sold for four For a dollar, it can be sold well.

This kind of soybean milk also uses soybeans from Niuwangzhuang, and it is also fresh soybeans produced in the same year.Because it was something that Lao Zhou insisted on being made and sold by others, he naturally couldn't be vague about the supply of raw materials.

The soy milk in Luo Hongfeng's breakfast shop is also made from this kind of soybeans, and it costs only two yuan a piece. However, soy milk is easy to make. Relatively speaking, soy milk is much more refined, and it takes a lot of work to make.This kind of soy milk costs four yuan a piece, which is not expensive, but it is generally bought by families with better economic conditions. The main consumer groups are those outsiders, those in Tongcheng of Yongqing, and Those who came from farther away came to see a doctor, to work in Niuwangzhuang, and to hang out with the whole family.

Although the current Buffalo Town is richer than before, the townspeople earn hard money every day. No one has become rich so quickly, and most of them are still frugal in their lives. habit.

In terms of wealth, Lao Zhou himself is not very rich now. Except for the land on Niuwang Village and the mushroom shed in Shangshui Village, the rest are basically unprofitable businesses.If he is frugal, he is also very frugal.Some people take the lead and others follow suit. After a long time, everyone is not ashamed of being careful and careful, and the atmosphere is probably formed in this way.

Xiao Shulin would go to He Ji Pastry Shop almost every day after his martial arts practice, to fill his stomach with a whole piece of old-fashioned bread and a bottle of fresh soy milk.

He went to the pastry shop with him that day and there were a few half-grown children who practiced martial arts with him. They were all students, but the summer vacation was not over yet, and they were free. Today they told Xiao Shulin that they wanted to go to the pastry shop. Niuwangzhuang was working, no, Xiao Shulin led them over.

"Fuck, it's really expensive. You can buy two cakes with a day's work in Shangniuwangzhuang."

The middle school students in the town are obviously not the main consumer group of this cake shop. In Buffalo Town, generally, for children of this age, it is more than enough to have more than ten pocket money a day, and they can’t just eat a piece of cake and other things Do not buy it.

"Do you want bread?" Xiao Shulin didn't ask them to choose by themselves.

"want!"

"I want it!"

It's not good if someone treats you. You are at the age where you can eat. After practicing for a few hours, the little thing you ate this morning has long been digested and there is no residue left. You can have free bread to eat. It's also very good. The old-fashioned bread in this store costs five yuan a piece.

In the end, Xiao Shulin not only treated them to bread, but also bought them a bottle of soy milk. They just stood on the side of the road eating while waiting for the ox cart to pass by.

I just had a hard time practicing martial arts. It's just right to eat something now and then take a rest in the bullock cart.When they get to Niuwangzhuang, they have to start working again. The pocket money given by their parents is always limited. Before school starts at this moment, they also go to Niuwangzhuang to earn some money. I heard that Niuwangzhuang recently I started harvesting soybeans at the beginning, and after the soybeans were harvested, sweet potatoes were harvested, which was the time when there was a shortage of manpower.

Just as Xiao Shulin and the others got into the bullock cart, another middle-aged woman entered He Ji's pastry shop: "Is there any more bean dregs?"

"No, today's bean dregs were bought by the barber shop." The salesperson replied.

"Their family only raised a few ducklings, why do they need so much bean dregs?" the middle-aged woman said carelessly.

"Why don't you share some with her."

"By the way, go and see their ducklings." The middle-aged woman said and left the pastry shop.

There is a barber shop not far from He Ji West Point House. It is run by a young couple, and the shop is also their own.

"Where's your mother at home?"

"It's in the back room."

"Have your ducks grown quite big? Are they alive?"

"They're all alive, and they look pretty good."

"I'll take a look."

After a while, I entered the back room and walked out of the backyard. Sure enough, I saw a corner of the cement yard behind which was fenced off, and there were seven or eight water ducks of medium size in it.

"Yo, they all look good." The woman raised her voice.

"No, in a few days, you will be able to disperse outside, and I don't know if you will be able to find your way back in the first few days." The speaker was a woman in her early fifties, who was squatting in the open space beside her. Knead the bean dregs in the bucket into balls and place them on the cleaned concrete floor to dry.

"At that time, don't go back to other people's houses with other ducks." The woman laughed.

"Anyway, I can't go to your house, those ducks in your house are bullying."

"Then maybe, how well my ducks grow."

"What are you doing here with me now?"

"I heard that you bought all the bean dregs today, and I want to share some bean dregs with you."

"It doesn't matter."

"How much can you eat with these ducks, don't save them all moldy."

"If it's moldy, I'll use it as fertilizer."

"That's such a waste, just the few vegetable baskets on your balcony, just picking up two piles of cow dung from the roadside is enough."

"It doesn't matter, I'll save more, in case I can't buy it later."

"Why don't you give me some bean dregs and I'll give you some broken noodles?"

"...that's it."

There is also a noodle workshop in Buffalo Town, and a lot of noodles are dried every day. Some noodles are broken by the wind and fall to the ground, so they can’t be bought. There are also crumbs produced during cutting and packaging. It is sold at a low price to those who feed chickens and ducks as feed.

Now even the rotten vegetable leaves in the vegetable market are picked up.Those vegetable stalls throw away a lot of vegetables every day, and the huge piles were used to be taken away by the cleaners one by one. Now when it is close to noon, there will be some women carrying baskets to pick them up. Well, after these people pick and choose, those piles of rotten vegetables will be reduced by at least half.

The radish and greens that I picked up home should be washed, chopped, and mixed with feed like rice bran. They are good for feeding chickens and ducks. The main reason is that it doesn’t cost money, and I can pick up some eggs and duck eggs every day. Yes, whenever you want to eat meat, it is ready-made.

Besides, on Xiao Shulin's side, a few people wobbled up to Niuwangzhuang in an ox cart, got off at the stone tablet at Xikou, and walked towards the courtyard.

When the few of them arrived at the courtyard, Guanshi Chen and Fatty Hou were sitting on the promenade outside the courtyard eating melon seeds. Guanshi Chen had just arranged the work for the day, and it was time for leisure. Fatty Hou hadn’t I'm starting to get busy, anyway, I don't need him to wash and chop vegetables.

"They said they wanted to work." Xiao Shulin said to Chen Jianhua.

"Okay, these days are just the time when we need manpower." Chen Jianhua threw away the melon seed shells, picked up a file folder on the table next to him, and pulled out a piece of printing paper from it: "Look at the number on it, Remember the number of your group, you choose a group leader yourself, write down the name of the group leader, if you forget the number later, report the name of the group leader, but it will be more troublesome if they find it.”

"Just fill out this form and hand it over to the person in charge of counting later." Xiao Shulin took the printing paper and handed it to a boy beside him.

"I know, I have done it before." Not only is there a number on this printed paper, but they also need to fill in the number of people in the group, the name of the team leader and the names of all team members. There is also a blank form below to record their today. For the labor performance, the salary calculation method of each job and the grade evaluation standard are also printed on the back.

"Well, today we mainly collect soybeans. You go along this road and go east. Just start harvesting from the east." Chen Guanshi said again.Soybeans are planted first and then later, and the harvest is also in order.

"I'll take them there." Xiao Shulin is quite familiar with the crop fields on Niuwangzhuang, and he knows which land should be harvested first and which should be harvested later. After all, these few are still children, so don't teach them. Don't worry too much.

"That's okay, you take them there, I have to continue to be on duty here." Although Chen Jianhua seems to be quite free at the moment, it is inconvenient for him to leave. He has re-trained a right-hand man, and now he has to take care of many things in Niuwangzhuang.

There is no need to bring any complicated labor tools for harvesting soybeans. Just take a bundle of grass ropes and a few pairs of labor protection gloves, and then lead two cows and head up the slope.

The task of these people is to pluck the soybeans from the field and bring them back, and move them to the platform on the roof of the cowshed to dry. They don't care about the rest. There are people in the cowshed who are responsible for weighing.

"Let's just pull the soybeans back?" said one of the younger boys.

"That's right, just tie a bundle with a straw rope after pulling it out, and tie it to the back of the cow so that they can hunch back." An older student in a grade said.

"Why do they have tricycles?" Someone asked again.

"There are people who specialize in riding tricycles. They should be able to pull a car for us in a while. Those people don't belong to any group. I heard that some people rode tricycles overturned before, so they don't use them casually now."

A few people talked and went up the hillside, and then Xiao Shulin pointed to a field of soybeans in front of them and said to them: "You can start pulling from this side, the soybeans on the slope over there are still a little green, if you see it, go there Don’t pull it out, first pull out the ones that have turned yellow.”

"Okay!" A child ran to the ground excitedly, picked up a soybean stalk and pulled it up...it didn't come out!

"The soybeans are quite solid." He smiled a little embarrassedly, grabbed them with both hands and pulled them out forcefully, and this time he finally pulled them out.

"Don't worry, pull it out slowly." Xiao Shulin distributed the gloves to them, left the buffalo and the grass rope behind, and then went down the slope by himself.

When he first plucked soybeans, he also thought it was an easy job. After pulling them, he knew how powerful they were, especially because the soil here is hard, unlike the black soil in the north, which is loose and soft. All the soybean plants have their roots deep and tight, and they can't do the job without a couple of hands.

Speaking of which, none of the work in this field is easy.

When Xiao Shulin walked into the courtyard, he saw Lao Zhou sitting on the porch and taking a nap.In the past few days, several day laborers have yelled at him that they want to eat pork liver, and then he went to the village early this morning to buy pork liver.

Luo Hanliang’s pork liver is selling very well. These days, the pigs in the pig farms outside eat the feed, plus the problem of drug abuse. People can no longer eat things like pork liver and pig kidneys with confidence. , but Luo Hanliang's pigs don't have this kind of problem, so their pigs sell very well. If Lao Zhou doesn't get there early, it's hard to say whether he can keep them later.

I got up at four or five o'clock, and I was a little sleepy after busy work. It would be very pleasant to move a bamboo chair and take a nap on the porch.

Xiao Shulin took a look, went up to the second floor and took a long-sleeved shirt to cover him.With such a small body, how dare one person plant so much land back then...