The construction of the two mansions started, and there were more than 200 laborers, and each of them was paid two taels of silver every month, which was definitely a high price!

The villagers in Yushu Village rent out their houses to these people, except for going to the construction site to earn some cash during the slack season.

Professional laborers, two taels of silver a month.

For non-professional laborers, fifty coppers a day.

The work is tiring, but three meals a day are provided on the construction site, but I have to find a place to live.

There is no way, with so many people, it is really impossible to arrange a place to live. They simply pay high wages. These people come up with a flat price of one hundred copper coins a month to find a place to live here.

It is suitable for people with many rooms.

The room in Old Qiao's house is the most sought-after, because their house is close to the construction site!

If you add cleaning and laundry, the monthly price is [-] copper coins.

These people are basically given the price of [-] copper coins. They have hot water to wash every day when they come back, and the bedding they cover is also very clean. In addition, the clothes need to be washed diligently.

Liu San'er's family was the hardest. He and Liang Fulang moved to the vacant room next to his own warehouse, and rented out the three main rooms, the left and right east and west wing rooms, a total of nine rooms.

Farming the land by himself, Fu Lang is at home. Occasionally, when he is free, he also goes to work on the construction site to earn some cash.

And the food that can be provided on the construction site is only that, big fish and big meat are impossible, but ordinary meat stews are still possible, but when Aunt Xiao saw this situation, she actually made a pot of marinade, and then bought a lot of dried meat. Tofu rolls, marinated dried tofu, one roll is only two sheets of dried tofu, she sells a copper plate per roll.

There are also peanuts, which are also stewed, mixed with celery, and made into side dishes.

These two dishes are best served with wine, but they were sold out in her grocery store!

Brother Xiao deliberately went to get a plate and came back: "Try it, Auntie's sells it very well."

Tie Qing took a look: "Oh, I see, I heard people say today that my aunt's business is doing well."

Isn't that right? Aunt Xiao asked Sister-in-law Xinghua to make this dish. She made a lot of troubles for the pot of marinade, but it's good to make it. Sister-in-law Xinghua said, marinade is a thing , the more you make it, the more fragrant it is. There is such a century-old shop, and there is such a pot of century-old stew, which is very fragrant!

Tie Qing wanted to say, is the marinade expired?

But since he didn't know anything about the kitchen, he didn't ask.

"My aunt's business is doing well." Brother Xiao took a bite: "It's really delicious."

In fact, it's a psychological problem. Tie Qing's marinade is not bad, and Xinghua's sister-in-law also made marinated peanuts, but they didn't mix diced celery.

"Well, it's delicious. It would be even better if there is some chicken skeleton or something." Tie Qing thought for a while: "Or pheasant?"

The chickens raised at home will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of this group of people, and the pheasants are much easier.

There are not many other things in Xishan, but there are a lot of pheasants. Every year, he can catch a lot of them. Even this thing, some people can catch two of these things when they go up the mountain to collect firewood.

"Pheasant chicken soup is the best, or marinated eggs!" Brother Xiao suggested: "What do you think?"

"Then braised eggs, just in time. At this time, there are definitely a lot of eggs in the house." After the Spring Festival, after the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of poultry will start to lay eggs, but at this time, eggs are very cheap, after all, every household There are poultry, and the eggs that have been laid cannot be sold at a price when sent to the county.

In winter, an egg can fetch a high price of five copper coins, and it can be sold for eight yuan or even ten yuan in a grocery store.

But at this time of summer, the eggs are only two copper plates, or one copper plate.

The price is very cheap, and because the summer is too hot, eggs can't be kept!

After a few days, I will take it out and sell it, and exchange it for copper coins to buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

This is the life of the peasant family. At most, they scramble an egg with miso at home and eat it.

If it is made into marinated eggs, the eggs can be stored for several days without spoiling, and the taste is also delicious.

"Okay, I'll tell my aunt tomorrow." Xiao Geer said: "Our family also has marinade, and marinated eggs are ready, so we can eat it at home."

"Want to eat eggs so much?" Tie Qing laughed: "Didn't you eat enough during confinement?"

"Is it okay?" Brother Xiao said shyly, "It's just that it's been hot recently, and I want to eat something special."

"Dan? Have someone cook boiled fish to eat!" Tie Qing said, "You can eat it, too?"

"Should be able to do it." Xiao Geer clicked his mouth: "I'm really hungry for boiled fish, so I'll make it tomorrow."

Their family's boiled fish is actually a very famous dish, and the sixth prince has never eaten it!

When Xiao Wei got married, he had this dish!

"Then let's eat boiled fish tomorrow, ask who else in the family wants to eat it? Let's do it together!" Tie Qing said: "Anyway, it's boiled in oil."

The oil for boiled fish is vegetable oil, not pure vegetable oil. The vegetable oil is boiled first.

It's not easy to boil once, so just cook more, and anyone who wants to eat should sign up first.

Brother Xiao went out to his mother's house in the evening, and asked who would like to eat boiled fish?Asked to eat.

As a result, the next day, Tie Qing bought a lot of grass carp and came back, sliced ​​a lot of fish fillets, and made more than a dozen pots of boiled fish. The long-term workers of the Tie family sent two pots to relatives.

Later I heard Mr. Bin Fulang say, "I didn't lose any oil from the boiled fish in my family. I just used it to stew the fish. It tastes good. I didn't lose the chili pepper. It was delicious when I put it in when I stewed the fish."

This is a simple farmer who is reluctant to throw away such good oil.

As soon as the early summer arrived, the apricots in Tie Qing's house were already ripe, brother Xiao would eat some fruit every day, after dinner.

Brother Shan has been two months old. The little guy looks good, but he just likes to sleep.

"Why are you still sleeping?" Tie Qing looked at the little baby, reluctant to blink his eyes: "When do you think he can run around? At that time, I took him to the mountains to play, taught him martial arts, brought him He hunts!"

"Sanggong, this is a brother!" Brother Xiao rarely looked at him with black lines on his face: "It's not a boy."

"Then when do you think he will be able to run all over the place to piss me off?" Tie Qing said with great poise: "At that time, do you think it's appropriate for me to sing the red face or the bad face?"

"I think it's suitable for you to sing the colorful face." Xiao Geer was helpless: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, you two will be angry at me by running around."

Isn't this a boy, who also practices martial arts and hunts?

When his family was in such a difficult time, his father didn't ask him to go hunting in the mountains.

Seeing his husband's posture, he was really afraid that his husband would raise brother Shan as a boy. If that was the case, would his brother Shan be able to marry off?

What kind of martial arts does my little brother learn, and what kind of hunting do you hunt?

My brother should be like his brother-in-law, Xi Fulang, who can play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and good needlework.

This is what a little brother should learn.

But at this time, Brother Shan slept soundly and spit out a few milk bubbles, but Tie Qing was extremely rare.

Brother Xiao turned around and said to Aunt Xiao: "I'm afraid that he will spoil the child in the future, I don't know how powerful the sky is!"

"Isn't he a rare brother?" Old Aunt Xiao sent a gauze cover to the child: "Hold it up for the child at night, now that there are mosquitoes, if you put this on the mosquito net, you won't be afraid of mosquitoes biting the child."

The child is too young to smoke wormwood, so he can only use a mosquito net, but he is afraid that the mosquito net will open and close and get into the mosquitoes, so he puts a gauze cover on the child to prevent the child from being bitten by mosquitoes.

Such a small milk baby dare not let a mosquito bite.

"It's just too rare." Brother Xiao put the gauze cover next to the child: "Yesterday I was thinking about when the child would be able to run all over the ground, and he would chase after him, and he said he would have a red face and a white face. I said At that time, don't make me mad at you two running around."

"The stewed egg you mentioned last time, your aunt made it, and it's not bad, and the stewed egg can be sold at a price, five renminbi a stewed egg, ten renminbi a stewed goose egg." Old Aunt Xiao said: "She charges three renminbi for eggs and five renminbi for goose eggs. It's cheaper than selling them outside. Everyone in the village goes to her place to sell eggs!"

No one sells duck eggs. At this time, duck eggs will be pickled. In winter, salted duck eggs will be eaten.

Some people also pickle some eggs and goose eggs.

But not all of them will be kept for food, and many of them will be sold for money.

"I heard from my husband that wild eggs are also good, so why not marinate some, they are small and delicious." Xiao Geer thought for a while: "I see that many people went to the mountains to collect firewood last time, and they picked up firewood. There are a lot of wild eggs!"

Old Aunt Xiao thought: "Isn't it!"

Aunt Xiao's old Aunt Xiao went to talk about it, and sure enough, for the purchase price of three wild eggs and one copper plate, many people came to sell wild eggs, which is quite a lot.

And when Aunt Xiao specially marinated the first pot, she sent a pot to Tie Qing and the others: "Everyone, try it first, I'm going to make a copper plate and a braised wild egg for this one."

"Your business is booming!" Tie Qing ate one, and it was full of flavor, it's a good accompaniment to wine.

Aunt Xiao smiled happily: "Of course, this is an opportunity to make money."

The imperial court sent people to build the two mansions, and all the expenses were paid by the imperial court.

That's why Xiao Weicai was so generous to ask people to hire people, and the high price he gave, one was to meet the deadline, and the other was to benefit his parents and fellow villagers.

They made money, and so did the people in Elm Village.

In late spring and early summer, Aunt Xiao was ready to make money, and now she really made a lot of money. Although she is very busy every day, she is living a solid life.

When June comes, it's time to pick up the garlic.

This time, Aunt Xiao simply hired people to do the work, all of whom were family members. The husband and the woman went to pull garlic together, and by the way, tidied up the land, sprinkled cabbage seeds, and planted autumn cabbage.

It was very busy in the summer, but Tie Qing sent someone to help, and he took care of his husband and children by himself.

As a result, just after packing up the garlic and selling it for a sum of money, it was cloudy, and it was raining, and there were thunder and lightning, Brother Shan cried in fright!

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