Chapter 122 Planting Grapes
He couldn't figure out what was going on at a quick glance, but he was stunned as soon as he entered the main room. He tried to rub the floor with his shoe soles several times and found that the floor was incredibly flat and very solid. He had no idea how it was done.
Su Tai came in with tea and snacks and saw this scene. She couldn't help laughing, "Brother-in-law, don't look at it. The floor was carefully paved by Shen Yi using various stones to smooth them out. He also got some clay that we don't have here. It took a lot of effort!"
Su Sheng suddenly realized it, straightened up, and smiled awkwardly, "I have never seen the world, Xiaotai, please forgive me."
"No, try our pot cakes. This is what we sell on Chen Yi's ship. There is also spring tea, which is picked from the mountains. It is a bit bitter, so I use mountain spring water and add some maltose."
She placed the food on the table, and the elegant tea bowls amazed Su Sheng again.
After tasting the pot cake and drinking a bowl of tea, Su Sheng felt so comfortable that he couldn't describe it and just kept cheering.
Su Tai chatted with him for a while and when they talked about the situation in the county town, Su Sheng couldn't help but mention Cuilan's miscarriage again.
After a brief moment of shock, Su Tai quickly regained her composure, "Since my cousin said it's okay, then it must be okay. Brother-in-law, wait a minute, I'll go to the backyard to get some material for you to take a look."
After a while, Su Tai brought out the cotton cloth, which came in purple, cyan, yellow, watercolor, blue, black, brown and gray.
"At present, there are only these colors. Originally, there was also bright red, but most people wear bright red for no reason, so I didn't buy it. If my cousin likes it, my brother-in-law can tell me later and come back to pick it up in a few days."
Su Sheng waved his hands quickly, "No, no, these colors are enough to dazzle me. My father-in-law and his family are simple, just some white, blue and black materials. Cousin Yunyun wants more, your cousin said she likes purple and yellow."
Su Tai probably guessed that Su Yu wanted to build a good relationship with Ke Yunyun, so she immediately picked out the yellow and purple materials, and also took out the cyan, rosé, and white materials.
"Brother-in-law, take all these away and say hello to them for me. If they have time, it would be even better if you ask them to come and sit with me."
Su Sheng was so wide-eyed when he saw Su Tai being so generous, "Xiao Tai, why don't you discuss this with Shen Yi? The money I brought is not enough for all these materials!"
He prepared two taels of silver.
Su Tai sneered, "Who wants you to pay? Give whatever your brother-in-law has, and the rest is mine. You don't have to worry about Shen Yi, he listens to me."
Seeing this, Su Sheng didn't bother to be polite with Su Tai anymore and quickly packed the materials and moved them onto the ox cart.
Seeing that he was in a hurry to go back, Su Tai quickly packed some steamed bread and a pot of tea for him.
In the evening, when Chen Yi came back, Su Tai came out to help and mentioned this matter casually, "My cousin's husband came and gave me two taels of silver to buy materials. I took the silver and gave me some more as a gift to my uncle and his family. By the way, how was business today?"
Chen Yi immediately took out his purse and put it on the table. He drank a large bowl of water to suppress his excitement. "This is my first time doing business today. I thought no one would be willing to buy. But before the boat even left, the people on the boat were already drooling over the aroma of our pot cakes. Those who had some money in their pockets bought one to share, and those who didn't have any money also bought one to share.
Maybe they thought our pot cakes tasted good, so they kept praising them after eating them. They were still not satisfied, and when the boat docked, some of them couldn't help but spend a few cents to buy one or two more.
I still had half a basket left to sell, so I carried it to town to try. There was no market today, so not many people were on the street. The owner, Li, of the Jixiang Inn was easy to talk to, so I greeted him and squatted down opposite the inn to sell.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the remaining pot cakes were bought up by people passing by. When I returned to the river, there were still not enough people, so I had to wait another half an hour before the boat set sail.
Today is the first day of opening. They prepared ten of each of the three flavors of thin-noodle pot cakes and fifteen of each of the three flavors of rough-noodle pot cakes. The total sales amounted to 140 wen, plus the 40 wen earned from luring people across the river, making a total of 180 wen.
Su Tai was quite satisfied with the result. "After deducting the cost, I made about 100 coins from selling Guokui today. I can prepare more tomorrow. I think we should double the quantity tomorrow and see how much is left. This way it will be easier to adjust on the third day.
I also brewed some wild tea and added some maltose. You can also bring it to the boat to sell. Two bowls for one penny. If you can sell it, sell it. If you can’t, there’s no loss.”
"Okay!" Chen Yi agreed immediately. After taking a rest, he immediately prepared the ingredients for tomorrow's use. Then he went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, had a delicious meal, and took Su Tai back to the house to sleep as soon as it got dark.
The next day, before dawn, he got up half an hour earlier than the day before to start work. When Su Tai woke up, it was still dawn outside. When she found that Chen Yi was not around, she did not panic, but went to the Earth Time and Space first.
The time for harvesting the ten acres of water chestnuts had come, and she felt nothing at all when 90,000 virtual coins arrived in her account.
He only took a look at the distance to the upgrade goal, sighed helplessly, turned around and went to the Mu Shikong Seed Store and Vegetable Store to buy a batch of ingredients for making pot cakes, spending 500 virtual coins.
When she arrived at the kitchen, Shen Yi had already made half of the pot cake. She hurriedly helped him roll the dough and said, "I plan to try to plant some grapes in the one acre of vegetable garden we have left in the next two days."
People should always be prepared for danger in times of peace. Although their family is richer than the villagers now, their foundation is too weak. They must always think of more ways to make money during the good years, so that they will not be afraid of starving to death even if they encounter a bad year again.
Shen Yi looked at her belly and frowned slightly, "Don't worry, leave it for me to deal with when I come back."
Su Tai nodded, but she already had an idea in her mind.
After Chen Yi left, she immediately ran to the Mu Shikong Tree Seedling Shop and asked the boss for a batch of grape seedlings, including Kyoho grapes, Summer Black Seedless Grapes and Sunshine Roses, which cost around 20 to 30 yuan. She ordered a total of 200 plants, and the boss gave her a discount and charged her 5,000 yuan.
After planting two hundred grape seedlings in the empty vegetable plot, Su Tai went back to the house, brought a small stool, took a pair of scissors and a shovel and started working.
When she was tired, she would take a break. When she was hungry, she would eat a pot cake and drink a bowl of goat milk. She would stop and rest for a while. By the time Shen Yi came back, she had only planted twenty seeds.
He pulled Shen Yi to see the fruits of his labor, "Look, I played, worked and rested at the same time today, and I only planted twenty. Give me ten more days and it will be almost done."
Chen Yi looked at her expression and couldn't describe it in words, "Actually, you can leave it there and wait for me to come back and fix it."
Su Tai shook her head and said seriously: "You are already so busy, and there is no rush for this job. Look, the fruit seedlings are all in the pots, they won't die in a short time. We can't eat grapes this year, so there is no need to expect anything. Just let me do it slowly.
By the way, how is business today? "
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