Pei Yao also started pulling up the weeds in the ground, and the three of them chatted casually like this.
Before planting, Pei Yao had mixed a lot of fermented farmyard manure into the soil of her vegetable garden, so the seedlings grew very plump.
Chunlin also noticed the problem, looking down at her sparse vegetable seedlings.
Even though her family planted their vegetables earlier than the Pei family, it seemed that the Pei family's vegetables were growing better than hers, so she decided to ask Pei Yao for advice.
Pei Yao was very happy to hear this and shared some of her tips for composting with Chun Lin.
Actually, the best fertilizer for farmers is the fermented manure in the cesspool behind the outhouse; that's the most fertile farmyard manure.
The villagers had mentioned this method before, but Chunlin couldn't accept using manure to water the seedlings.
Therefore, she never fertilized her vegetable seedlings, and Pei Yao couldn't accept watering vegetables with manure.
So most of the time she used the droppings from the pets she kept at home, but the Pei family didn't keep a lot of pets, so sometimes it wasn't enough. Pei Yao would also compost the droppings herself.
She used to grow flowers in her own yard. Back then, in order for the flowers to grow better, Pei Yao even went online to learn a lot of composting techniques. For example, she would bury fish intestines and fish meat in the ground, and they would soon be decomposed into various fertilizers by the small organisms in the ground. The flowers planted next to them would grow very fertile the following year. Or she would pour kitchen waste into a sealed bucket and let it ferment naturally, and then use it to dilute water to water the flowers.
However, in this era of food shortage, there wasn't much kitchen waste. You could go outside and cut some wild grass, put it in a bucket, and the fermented water would be very fertile for watering flowers.
Fertilizer produced in this way can effectively replace farmyard manure.
Chunlin was overjoyed to hear this. All she needed to do was use wild grass to make fertilizer, and after watering the seedlings, they would grow as fertile as the Pei family's. How wonderful!
Pei Yao also reminded Chunlin, "Auntie, the composting process will be quite smelly, so you can just put the composting bucket on the ground."
"Okay, I'll find an old jar to try when I get back."
So that night, following Pei Yao's advice, he went outside and cut a lot of tender wild grass, put it in a jar, and fermented it as fertilizer.
After weeding the field, Pei Yao spread fertilizer on it.
Then she went to the riverbank and dug up some mint to take home, intending to plant it in the yard. Some of the vegetables that Yunniang had planted in the yard before hadn't even sprouted.
So Pei Yao planned to replant mint in the areas where it hadn't sprouted yet.
Mint is a plant that grows very quickly. Once planted, it will grow into a lot of mint in a short time. Their family needs mint leaves every day, so they don't have to come to the riverbank to use them in the future.
When Pei Yao returned home, the people in the yard had almost finished their work. Pei Yao planted all the mint leaves she had dug up.
Then it's about time to wash up and go to bed.
Having gone to bed early yesterday, Pei Yao also woke up early today. When she got up, even Yunniang, who usually gets up earliest, hadn't gotten up yet. She groped her way out of bed and then went to the courtyard to wash up.
It seemed like there had been a light rain last night, so the ground was still a bit damp, and the weather was still muggy. Pei Yao brushed her teeth with a willow twig as she washed herself, and the sky gradually brightened.
In the chicken coop in the corner of the yard, the chicks that Pei Yao had raised for a month or so had grown a lot. After the other roosters in the village crowed, Pei Yao's little rooster also tried to crow, but because it was too small, its crow was not loud.
The rest of the family members gradually woke up, and Qiaohui and Shen Jing also came over.
They came to learn how to make spicy snails, and Pei Yao patiently taught Qiao Hui the recipe.
Although the orders for Deyun Restaurant were outsourced to Qiaohui and her team, Deyun Restaurant ultimately still recognized Pei Yao's services.
On the surface, it was still Pei Yao's order, so Pei Yao was very attentive when teaching Qiao Hui.
Previously, because Deyun Restaurant was doing better and better, Manager Qian was not always there when Chen Fang went there.
It was too troublesome to settle accounts every day, so after a discussion, the group decided to record the daily earnings and settle accounts every half month, with half a month's earnings settled in one lump sum at the middle and end of each month.
Anyway, with a hotel as big as Deyun Restaurant, there's no need to worry about him running away.
Now that the job has been handed over to Qiaohui, it will still be the same as before. Pei Yao will settle accounts at Deyun Restaurant in the middle and at the end of each month, bring back the money and give it to Qiaohui. Then, as previously agreed, the Shen family will take 80% and the Pei family will take 20%.
Qiaohui was very intelligent, and since she had often come to help the Pei family before, Pei Yao only had to teach her once before she understood.
All I need to do next is get used to it.
The group worked busily all morning, and then Liu Tiehe and Niu Qingshan arrived. Everyone helped load the items onto the car.
Today happened to be the bi-weekly settlement day, so Pei Yao got on Liu Tie's oxcart and went with him to deliver goods, and also to settle the payment for the past two weeks' worth of goods.
Pei Yao didn't bring Qiao Hui along because she didn't plan to tell Manager Qian about subcontracting the order to the Shen family.
After all, this is their own family matter, and there's no need to tell everyone everything. It's also to avoid unnecessary trouble. As long as the taste of what Qiaohui makes in the future is the same as what their family makes, that's fine.
Liu Tie has been coming over in the mornings to deliver goods to the Pei family, and during the day he also goes to their Liu Family Village to help collect dried thunderbolt seeds.
The Pei family now frequently needs Thunder Fruit seeds, and the Thunder Fruit seeds collected by the villagers are no longer enough.
Knowing that Pei Yao was collecting dried thunder fruit seeds and dried lychees, Liu Tie led the villagers to go out and look for them as well. He would then collect them from the villagers and sell them to the Pei family, earning a small profit from the difference. This allowed him to make a decent income every day.
Thanks to this income, his and his mother's lives are slowly getting better.
Actually, he could support his family now with the income from collecting mountain goods, but he still insists on coming over every day to help the Pei family transport and deliver goods.
Pei Yao is still buying large quantities of dried lychees and dried pili fruit. She definitely needs to collect more dried pili fruit, not to mention whether Gu Mingqian will come back to order more from her later, her own family also needs it to make ice jelly.
When Pei Yao arrived at Deyun Restaurant, Manager Qian had just finished his work and was sitting at the counter calculating accounts. Seeing that he was calculating seriously, Pei Yao did not disturb him.
First, ask the restaurant staff to help unload the goods from the oxcart. Deyun Restaurant is now ordering more and more goods every day, about ten taels of silver worth each day.
When Erdan saw that the goods were almost unloaded, he went to call Manager Qian.
Upon hearing that Pei Yao had arrived, Manager Qian quickly put down his abacus and then picked up the money bag he had prepared beforehand and came over.
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