Chapter 276 The New Year is coming
Persimmons were carefully picked from every household and sold in batches to the persimmon cake workshop. When the final tally was tallied, the lowest income was 500 to 600 wen, the highest to over 300 liang, and most people earned between 700 and 800 wen and over 100 liang.
It may not seem like much, but you have to know that this is just the beginning. With so many persimmon trees planted and grafted this year, the income will basically double next year.
If we plant and graft more next spring, won’t there be even more next year?
Zhao Liya said, the more the better, they can grow as much as they can, and they will buy whatever they can. The contract is still signed!
Maybe in the future I can sell fresh persimmons directly.
The route is clear, what is impossible?
Even delicate fruits like lychees can be transported to the south of the Yangtze River by sea, so why not persimmons?
Although persimmons are also produced in Jiangnan, as long as the persimmons here are big, sweet and beautiful in color, they may occupy a part of the market.
Everyone in Baijia Village was excited, happy and full of energy!
"Miss Zhao and the others are such good people. Our village is finally going to be prosperous, hahahaha!"
"I was originally worried that they would not buy next year or the year after, but now that we have the contract, I feel relieved." There are so many families in the village, and there is a contract. If the other party dares to break the contract, everyone can sue the government.
"I think so too, but I still believe that Mr. Zhao and Miss Zhao would never go back on their word!"
"Anyway, our family will continue to plant persimmon trees next year!"
“It’s the same in our family!”
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When things become stable in the future, it doesn’t matter if there are no paddy fields. I just need to take care of the persimmon trees.
Many families have even started looking for wild persimmon trees in the mountains during the winter. When the weather gets a little warmer, they can transplant them back and use them as rootstocks for grafting.
In addition to the persimmons from Baijia Village, the persimmon cake workshop will also purchase the persimmons picked from other villages and sent to us, provided that the persimmons are intact and any rotten ones are not accepted.
Fortunately, when the persimmon cake workshop was built, the place was built large enough, so there was no need to worry about more people from other villages coming to sell the persimmon cakes. After all, this is a manual job that requires gathering a lot of people, and it cannot be done if the place is not big enough.
At the beginning, when the villagers of Baijia Village saw people from other villages coming over to sell persimmons, they were very unhappy and repulsive, and a conflict almost broke out.
The villagers of Baijia Village subconsciously felt that this persimmon cake workshop belonged to them. Why should people from other villages come to their village to take advantage of it? Absolutely not allowed!
They want to get rich and find ways to make their own wealth.
Zhao Liya, Hu Ling and others were at a loss whether to laugh or cry, so Zhao Liya said to the villagers that buying these persimmons into the workshop was like giving them more work, and the wage was 30 cents a day, wasn't that good?
When the villagers heard this, they were enlightened. Yes, that's exactly the truth, and they became happy again.
At the end of December, a few days before the Chinese New Year, the second batch of planted sugarcane can finally be harvested. The harvesting time for this batch of sugarcane can be slow and there is no need to rush. It can continue until the first month of the lunar year.
After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so of course the Chinese New Year is more important.
At the end of the year, farmers have been busy and toiling all year long. It is natural for them to take a good rest, recharge their energy and continue working next year.
The Zhao family celebrated the New Year as lively as usual this year. Lin Mo, Zhao Liya and others went into the mountains to hunt and had a bountiful harvest. There was so much game at home that they couldn't finish eating it.
There were several wild boars, and many of them were sold cheaply to villagers.
It was not until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month that Zhou Hansheng finally arrived and brought Yu Xiaofang back to Yan Village.
Yu Xiaofang was like a monkey that had been unlocked and was finally free. He was so excited to return to Yan Village!
Zhou Hansheng finally came. Zhao Liya had been looking forward to his coming, but after waiting for a long time, the Chinese New Year was about to come and he still hadn't come. She thought she had to wait until after the Chinese New Year and didn't know when he would come. It would be a lie to say that she was not disappointed. She never expected that he and Yu Xiaofang were so good at choosing dates.
After everyone exchanged greetings, Zhou Hansheng found an excuse to take Zhao Liya to a small orchard outside the back door of the Zhao family's yard to talk.
Zhou Hansheng didn't completely avoid people, and it was impossible to avoid them in broad daylight. But his relationship with Zhao Xiang and Deng was semi-public, and even Zhao Xiang and Deng had tacitly accepted it. Naturally, no one tried to stop him from talking, and everyone's eyes were filled with friendly smiles.
Instead, Zhao Liya felt a little embarrassed.
Zhao Liya didn't know much about Zhou Hansheng, but Zhou Hansheng seemed to know her intimately, praising her non-stop. Zhao Liya initially felt a bit aggrieved, with so much to say she didn't know where to begin, but soon he made her laugh, covering her face with her hands.
"Did General Zhong tell you? He knows everything!"
Zhou Hansheng took the opportunity to gently embrace her and said with a smile: "I asked him."
Something like what happened to Mao Dexing once was enough, and it would save her trouble, but he would naturally ask people to keep an eye on her movements.
However, her ability, growing prosperity, and rolling in wealth were indeed beyond his expectations, and made him proud: his wife was truly capable!
Zhao Liya raised her eyes, and her clear, dark pupils carefully examined Zhou Hansheng twice, "Are you okay?"
Zhou Hansheng was about to say "It's okay," but seeing her concerned expression, he swallowed the words back. "It's nothing serious, just small things. I can handle it. I'm just a little tired, so I came here to relax and rest."
Therefore, he really needs his wife's gentle, meticulous, patient and considerate companionship and comfort! He must have his wife by his side every day.
Zhao Liya suddenly felt distressed. He must be deliberately trying to make a big thing small in front of her, right?
She said softly, "This is a great place to relax and recuperate. Now that you're here, don't think about anything else!"
"Okay!" Zhou Hansheng smiled and gently held her hand: "Whatever you want to do, I'll accompany you."
The two smiled at each other.
When Zhou Hansheng said he would accompany her, he really meant it. He accompanied her during the New Year, accompanied her to visit various villages, accompanied her to hunt in the mountains and fish by the river, and he also accompanied her to the provincial capital, to visit Zhong Jing, and by the way, they went to Hainan Island during the first month of the lunar year.
Zhao Liya went out quite often, and every time she was accompanied by someone, she originally thought that as long as someone was accompanying her, everything was the same. Now she knows that there is a difference between accompanying and being accompanied.
It's not the same whether Zhou Hansheng is there or someone other than Zhou Hansheng is there.
The three children didn’t have to go to school during the Spring Festival, so except for Hainan Island, they went to other places together, and it was very lively.
(End of this chapter)
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