After crossing over, it's hard

Li Ran said to Zhang Guihua: "Brother Osmanthus, I want to ask you something. My family wants to hire someone to guard the pond. I don't know if you have a suitable candidate. I want to find someone who is honest and down-to-earth to be the person in charge. Are you right?" I know people in the village, see if there is such a person."

Zhang Guihua didn't expect it for a while, and asked in a daze, "Pond? What pond?"

Li Ran said with a smile: "It's the small puddle I bought before. I dug it into a pond and raised some fish in it. Now it is being supplied to Huibin Restaurant. There have been fish stealing incidents before." There are only a few things, but recently I can always see suspicious people by the pond. I am afraid that someone will try to steal fish or play tricks, so I want to find someone to watch over. Ji Nan and I can rest assured and save it. After working so hard for a long time, I actually made a wedding dress for someone else."

Zhang Guihua suddenly realized, and said: "Oh, so you were talking about the pond. Look at my brain, I didn't remember it for a while. There are many honest and responsible people in the village, but I don't know you. What to look for specifically.”

"It's like this. After all, my pond is far away from my home. Unlike the previous watermelon field, I can take care of it at home during the day. I want to find one that can stay at the pond all the time. When the time comes, I will Build a house for him over the pond. I wonder if there are any suitable people in the village?" Li Ran said his biggest request.

Zhang Guihua nodded, thought for a while, and said: "There is indeed one person in the village like you mentioned. He is Uncle Jiang in the village. Hey, he is also a poor man. Uncle Jiang's father and Ah Mu escaped to our place. Uncle Jiang was conscripted when he was young, and he didn’t come back for many years. His husband, that husband, was shameless, prodigal, and hooked up with other men in the second year I got married after the new year, and said that Uncle Jiang died outside. Originally, if Uncle Jiang didn’t come back, he would marry as soon as he married, but after six or seven years, Uncle Jiang came back again , but fell into something wrong, limped one leg, and became a kidnapper. When I got home, my husband married someone else, and the fields and houses were taken over by others. What could I do? There is no foundation, only a brother of the same father, his husband is from the same village, and there are many brothers in the family. In the end, it was Uncle Jiang who threatened to report to the government, so he took back half of the fields and houses. But the house So what if you get the land back, you’re not alone.”

"Then what about this Uncle Jiang?" Li Ran asked a little tempted. According to Zhang Guihua, this Uncle Jiang should be a retired soldier, and his skills should be better than half of the country guys. How lame is it? This affects walking, but it's not very good.

"Uncle Jiang is really nice. Even though he usually doesn't talk much, he is the most friendly person. Although his leg is lame, it doesn't affect his walking too much. The fields he got back are all planted by himself, but Now that I’m in my 50s and almost [-]s, it’s not an option to go on like this. If you really need someone to guard your pond, you can hire him. He’s alone anyway, so he can live in the house you built. Go, there is no burden." Zhang Guihua really thinks Uncle Jiang is good, if Li Ran's family can really invite him, it will be really good for Uncle Jiang, Li Ran's family are good people, kind, and they will definitely not treat you badly Uncle Jiang, maybe his old age will not be so miserable.

Li Ran had already decided in his heart that he wanted to invite Uncle Jiang, so he had to discuss with Jinan at night. Although Jinan would definitely listen to him, Li Ran was used to discussing family matters with Jinan. "Then why didn't Uncle Jiang marry another husband?" According to Zhang Guihua, Uncle Jiang is a nice person, and his family has a house and land. Difficult, how could he end up lonely in his old age now!

"Hey, who said otherwise? When he first came back, he used a lot of matchmakers to come to the door to propose a marriage, but Uncle Jiang rejected them all. It was probably because he was hurt by his previous husband and had a shadow in his heart. Anyway He has lived alone all these years." Zhang Guihua sighed while shaking her head as she worked on the cloth shoes in her hand.

After talking about this, Li Ran then asked Zhang Guihua: "Brother Osmanthus, do you know where we sell lambs? I want to buy some sheep." At first Li Ran wanted to raise pigs, but just now Moving to the thatched cottage, there are not many houses to live in, and there is no place to raise pigs at all, and Li Ran dislikes the smell of raising pigs, so he gave up.Now that the family has built a house, Li Ran has built another four-room brick and tile house next to the house, which is specially used to raise poultry. Now the family's cows, chickens and four dogs live there.

In his previous life, Li Ran was a senior gay otaku, and he always yearned for that kind of ordinary and warm life, so he likes to read some farming novels. In those novels, the protagonists who come through time travel often raise sheep and open whole sheep. Because the mutton has a strong smell, ancient people are not like modern people, who know how to remove the smell, but the protagonists who traveled in modern times seem to have lighted up this skill, and they can remove the smell of mutton in minutes and become become a popular food.Li Ran thought that although he didn't know if he was going through the protagonist, but he had a portable pond, his cooking skills were not bad in his previous life, and he was also good at handling mutton. Li Ran wanted to give it a try and see if he ordered it Brighten up this skill.

After listening to Li Ran's question, Zhang Guihua came here and put down the cloth shoes in her hand with great interest, looked at Li Ran and said with a smile: "You are asking the right person, there are no lambs sold around our village, I married The younger brother in the outer town, they have sheep and sell sheep. If you want to buy it, you can go there to buy it. But why do you think of raising sheep? The smell of mutton is strong, not as big as those big The secret spices and sauces handed down by the chefs of the restaurant

, It can’t get rid of the smell at all, it’s not delicious, and it’s troublesome to raise sheep, and it takes a lot of time for a person to herd the sheep. It’s not like raising pigs, as long as you feed them three times a day, you don’t have to worry about keeping them in the pigsty Yes, very easy.Why did you suddenly think of raising sheep? "

Li Ran smiled and said: "Isn't this a sudden thought? My family didn't raise pigs. Now I buy piglets to raise. It's only four months before the Chinese New Year. It's less than half a year, and it's too late. So I thought of raising some pigs." Sheep will also be an income at that time. I don’t think so much about other things.”

Zhang Guihua nodded and said: "That's true. If you really want to buy sheep, then I will accompany you. Although it is an outside town, it is not far away, and I haven't been to my brother's house for a long time. It just so happened that I could go and see them this time.”

Li Ran thanked Zhang Osmanthus: "Thank you so much, Osmanthus Brother. When you raise sheep in the future, I will treat you to eat mutton."

"Okay, then I'll wait for your mutton to open. I haven't eaten mutton yet. My family is also in your family's light. Last time, the watermelon was also in your light to eat it. It can't I am a farmer in the countryside, who can eat such precious things, "

In the evening, after washing and lying on the bed, Li Ran was held tightly in Ji Nan's arms as usual. Li Ran poked at Ji Nan's chest, which was as hard as a stone, and told Zhang Guihua what he told Zhang Guihua this afternoon about asking someone to guard the pond and I told Ji Nan about buying sheep, and asked Jin Nan what his opinion was. Of course, Ji Nan was stupid. He did whatever his husband said.

After saying this, Li Ran thought about digging wells again. He just moved here before, and it was still a thatched house. He didn't know what kind of nonsense it would be to build a new house in the future, so he didn't dig a well at all, thinking that he would wait until the new house was built. Drilling a well, now that the new house has been built for a long time, it is necessary to dig a well, otherwise I have to go to Zhang Guihua's house to fetch water every day, which is very inconvenient, especially when winter comes.

Li Ran pushed Ji Nan's head away, glared at him and said, "I'm telling you something serious, stop making trouble. Hey, it's time for our family to dig a well. It's also a problem for our family to go to Osmanthus's house every day to fetch water for food." , it’s more convenient to dig a well.”

Ji Nan smashed his mouth and said, "Okay, of course it would be good to dig a well." For Jinan, it is nothing to fetch water, but he is afraid that when he is not at home, he will go to work in the field and there will be no water at home. It's time for Xiaoran to carry water, and Xiaoran will feel distressed when he is tired.

Now that the two had agreed to dig a well, they made a decision immediately. After breakfast the next morning, Ji Nan and Li Ran drove an ox cart to the town.There are no well-drilling masters in the surrounding countryside, only in the town.Those masters specialize in digging water wells for a living. They know how to find water | holes, and they know where there is groundwater and where the groundwater is good.Therefore, anyone who wants to drill a well has to go to the town to hire them. Those masters who drill wells have special shops in the town.

After entering Pingyang Town, Li Ran didn't go to the shop where the well was drilled first, but went to Huibin Restaurant first. Li Ran and Ji Nan came to Pingyang Town early in the morning. There was no one at home. Li Ran was afraid of Ji Xi Going to Jijia Village to catch fish will be empty at that time, so go to Huibin Restaurant to stop Ji Xi first.

When we came to Huibin Restaurant, it turned out that Ji Xi was calling his attendants to set up a car, and was about to go to Jijia Village to catch fish. Yesterday's fish sold very well, and they were sold out very early.In fact, the news that Huibin Restaurant will have freshly caught fish on the market has long been released, and some people in Pingyang Town have been waiting and watching for a long time.

Ji Xi was very happy to see Ji Nan and Li Ran, greeted them to Jin Restaurant, laughed and said, "I was just asking someone to take a car to Jijia Village, why did you come here?" Because it was the first time yesterday , Ji Xi was worried, so he followed. From now on, the matter of going to Jijia Village to fish every morning can be handed over to the people below. As the shopkeeper of Huibin Restaurant, Ji Xi is still very busy every day, and it is impossible to Followed to Jijia Village to fish, not only tiring but also a waste of time.

Li Ran said with a smile: "Jinan and I came to the town today to invite the master who drilled the well to dig a well at my house. Didn't this mean that today the restaurant will go fishing for fish? I am afraid that you will miss nothing, so I will come with you." Let me just say, you wait for us for a while, and I will go back with you after Ji Nan and I go to the well-digging master."

Ji Xi nodded and said: "You still have to come here, otherwise, they will leave Pingyang Town at this moment. Well, we will wait for you to go back together." After finishing speaking, Ji Xiyou continued: "Little Ran, the number of fish may need to be increased, thirty fish a day is not enough to sell."

"Then Uncle Ji Xi, your restaurant will add to that number?" This is too much, and their pond is only that big, and it may not last long.

"This has to be doubled at least, and it will be fixed at hundreds of fish in the future." Ji Xi compared the number. The people who buy fish at Huibin Restaurant are not just those who come to eat at the restaurant, but those who are rich Wealthy family, I heard that Huibin Restaurant has fresh and good fish, and they often come to take away, and the sales of these takeaways are also very impressive.

Li Ran frowned. There were so many fish in the pond and the size of the pond, it was not enough.Li Ran had an idea and said, "Uncle Ji Xi, to tell you the truth, if the restaurant asks for this amount every day, it won't last long at all. But I have a way. I think the quantity of fish is the best It’s better not to add too much, too much is not beautiful. You think, the reason why this fresh fish sells so well is because it is small? If there is too much, it will be no different from Chinese cabbage. However, if the fish restaurant has a limited supply every day, it will show the preciousness of the fresh fish, and the rare is the most expensive. Are you afraid that the fish will not be sold at a high price? And it will also be good for the restaurant's reputation. Just imagine, the whole Pingyang Town Only the Huibin restaurant can supply freshly caught fish every day, and then the restaurant will be improved to a higher level."

This is the hunger marketing method that almost everyone understands in modern times. It is very profound in Daqing country. Ji Xi was stunned when he heard it, and looked at Li Ran in shock.Taking watermelon as a comparison, the reason why watermelon is so expensive is not because it is rare.

Ji Xi smiled and said: "It's true that Xiaoran said so, but I was thinking about it earlier." Although Ji Xi was also curious about why Li Ran understood this, Ji Xi didn't think much about it, just thought that Li Ran was born with a different temperament , smart brain.

In the end, the two of them agreed to catch forty fish a day, which Li Ran could afford.Then Li Ran told Ji Xi the two dishes he was thinking of, both of which were related to fish, namely: boiled fish fillet and fish with pickled cabbage.Li Ran was going to give these two dishes to Ji Xi yesterday, but he was so happy yesterday that he forgot about them.Ji Xi looked at these two dishes, of course he was very happy. With these two dishes, the fish in the restaurant will definitely sell more popular, but Ji Xi still told Li Ran to think about other dishes, and It doesn't have to be about fish.

Li Ran nodded in agreement, then left Huibin Restaurant, went to the shop where the well was drilled, and agreed with the master in the shop that they would come to dig the well tomorrow. It would take about a day or two to drill a well, and a lighter day Enough is enough, the deep well will take two days or even longer.

The next day, the master brought three people to the door. After searching and looking in the yard of Li Ran's house for a long time, he finally chose a place to dig a well. According to the master, this is a good water hole, and the water is easy quick.The well is really as the master said, the water comes out quickly, and it won't be a day.It costs three taels of silver to build a well, which is very expensive. This is why, in the countryside, few people fetch water alone. Everyone goes to the public wells in the village to fetch water. There are three public wells in Jijia Village. Because it is far away from the public wells in the village, almost every household has a well.

Not two days after the well was dug, the master carpenter over there came to tell Li Ran that the custom-made furniture and beds were ready and could be brought back.Li Ran was counting the days in his heart, and it was time for him to be ready. Ji Nan drove the ox cart and moved three times before moving the furniture and beds back home.

After setting up the room, Li Ran and Jinan went to the old hunter's house, and told the old hunter that they wanted to invite the old hunter to their house, and Jinan would take care of him.

The author has something to say: Thank you Xiaozhu and mmm idiots, Lei Lei