Chapter 145
Seeing the boss's evasive look, the aunt immediately had other thoughts. She coughed and stretched out two fingers.
The boss's face fell, but before he could say anything, his aunt interrupted him.
"To be honest, your shop has been empty for a long time. Every day it's empty means a day less profit. No one has been interested in your shop for half a month. We can give you two hundred taels of silver right now. If you agree, it's just a matter of asking!"
The boss looked pale, but when he thought about the fact that the shop had not been sold for a long time, he was afraid that if he didn't seize this opportunity, it would be even more difficult to sell it later.
A fly's legs are still legs, and a mosquito's flesh is still flesh! He gritted his teeth and nodded.
Ruan Mian immediately handed over the purse and asked the boss to bring pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
They signed the contract in Ruan Jinxiu's name. After delivering the goods, Ruan Mian began to plan how to ask the carpenter to make some cabinets.
When the aunt heard this, she quickly stopped her.
"Why bother making a cabinet? My son is very strong. Besides, Longchang Mountain is full of wood! Let Xiu'er do it."
Ruan Mian didn't know that when his aunt lived with Ruan Jinxiu and her son, everything in their poor home, from the cabinets and beams to the tables and chairs, was built by Ruan Jinxiu himself.
Although this child has some mental problems, his strength is beyond doubt.
After giving these instructions, Ruan Mian planned the areas in the shop. In addition to selling medicine on a daily basis, he also needed to have a shopkeeper who knew about medicine and two servants to help.
Another doctor who can see patients is also extremely important.
But the requirements for this doctor were not as high as those for the clinic.
Ruan Mian thought of his father.
Although my father was self-taught and his medical skills were not particularly advanced, he could still treat common colds and minor ailments with no problem.
If you really encounter any serious problems, the worst that can happen is that you can just take care of it yourself.
Thinking of this, she quickly finished the work at hand and went to Shopkeeper Lin to sell the remaining goods to him.
Then the two of them went to buy some necessary things.
I went back with two full backpacks.
The speed of the big white tiger was beyond doubt, and they arrived near the valley before dark.
In order not to attract other people's attention, the two men got off the white tiger early and walked back to the house.
Unexpectedly, I met some people who were returning from work on the way.
Seeing that the road construction was going very smoothly, Ruan Mian fulfilled her promise to them. Not only did she pay them wages every day, but she also provided them with meals every day. Everyone treated her very well and treated her as their boss.
Ruan Mian knew that they were working hard, so he took the opportunity to take out the corn and wheat seeds that he had prepared long ago from his backpack and handed them to them.
"Everyone has worked hard. Today I went to Guancheng and bought a lot of grain seeds."
"Spring is coming soon. When the weather gets better, we need to be self-sufficient. If anyone wants to grow some food, they can come to me and get some seeds."
Everyone was slightly surprised and looked at each other before speaking.
"Madam Ruan, although you bought the seeds, our conditions in that valley are limited, and we don't know if we will have a harvest."
Ruan Mian smiled and said, "People are alive, so we have to find ways. Maybe if we just sow the seeds, they will grow wildly. At least we have tried it. Here are my seeds. If you want them, you can come and get them anytime."
Now that we have the seeds, we certainly can’t let them grow wildly.
Ruan Mian also had a countermeasure for this.
There are quite a few agricultural and industrial books in her space, which were moved from the Xie family's warehouse and study room when they were looted.
The old man of the Qi family was a scholar who liked to collect all kinds of books. Look, she had moved them all here at once.
After dinner, she took advantage of Cuizhu and the others going to take care of Jingger and asked her aunt to come into the house.
She took out a lot of books, placed them in front of her aunt, and asked, "Aunt, you should know how to read, right?"
My father once mentioned that he and my aunt went to school together since they were young.
Because my aunt was a girl, she didn't go to school anymore.
However, what she didn't expect was that her aunt not only knew how to read, but also had beautiful handwriting!
She could remember everything she read after just one visit and even copy it down.
Ruan Mian's face lit up with joy, and another idea came to her mind. However, she was not in a hurry to tell her aunt yet. She just wanted to deal with the important matter first.
"Aunt, can you draw the blueprints for some of the tools in these industrial and agricultural books according to their descriptions?"
Since she has a photographic memory, according to what is said in the book, and she has experienced traveling through time and space, it is not difficult for her to draw some tool diagrams.
The aunt guessed her intention, so she asked Ruan Mian to light the lamp, prepare the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to carefully draw the blueprints of some of the industrial and agricultural tools mentioned in the book.
Based on this, the two of them made some improvements and produced several drawings in one night.
There are tillage tools for turning the soil, harrows for leveling the land, and harrows for conserving moisture and preventing drought. These can grind the surface soil into finer pieces, forming a loose layer of soil to cut off the capillaries in the soil and reduce water evaporation.
In addition, there are plows that can be used for digging furrows and sowing.
As for the most important irrigation, if the planting area is expanded, it will take a lot of energy to carry water back and forth for irrigation as usual.
There were many mountain springs upstream of the stream near them that gushed out from the cracks in the bedrock.
Instead, rising spring diversion structures can be used for drainage and irrigation.
This structure is usually built with piled stones and then surrounded by wooden piles to prevent the spring water from escaping.
Lead them all the way into their planting area and then dig trenches to ensure greater efficiency.
With these clear and detailed plans, Ruan Mian immediately took action.
The next morning, she told her family about her idea of farming. Except for Cuizhu and Meixi who were busy with the kitchen fire every day, the rest of the people were basically involved in road construction.
Ruan Mian asked Lao Ding to take a few people to turn the soil, and then found Mr. Xue to tell him about the spring diversion structure. He also borrowed several careful people from their area to build the spring diversion project.
Before officially starting to farm, Ruan Mian gave the drawings drawn by his aunt to Ruan Jinxiu.
This child has excellent hands-on skills. As long as Ruan Mian prepares the materials for him, he can make several tools in one morning.
Of course, they are some relatively simple tools.
Those wooden materials were brought into the space from time to time when she was working in the forest farm of the internment camp.
But it comes in handy here.
In addition, she also has to squeeze out time to make some moisturizing cream, ginseng mask, etc. for Shopkeeper Lin.
Over the past few days, she was busy from morning to night and was rarely seen.
He was either in the house, by the mountain spring, or on the plantation; in short, he was always busy.
But it’s good to be busy, it’s fulfilling enough and it makes me more motivated.
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