Chapter 38 If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it grass
Having said that, the story of Meng's mother moving three times is about the influence of environment on people.
She believes in her children but also doesn't want them to spend more energy on irrelevant things.
I will ask my child for his opinion later. If it doesn’t work out, I will wait until the second half of the year and then drop him out and find a new school.
On the way home, some people are happy and some are worried.
The happy ones were brothers Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er. No matter what others said, they had sold all the dried meat and the money went into their pockets.
"Mom, our business is so good. There must be a lot of people who want to eat more of our jerky after trying it. We should strike while the iron is hot and buy some more meat to make more."
Boss Li's eyes sparkled. If there was business like this every day, wouldn't the family become rich soon?
Li Lao Er was more experienced than Li Lao Da. "Mom, I think what my eldest brother said is right. We should strike while the iron is hot and do more. If others see the money and start doing this business, we won't make much money."
Boss Li was shocked and shouted, "What? Others are doing it too?"
"Why make such a fuss? If you can do business, why can't others?"
"No, this is something our family figured out ourselves. How could others come and learn it secretly?" Boss Li was angry and sad.
Qin Fangci shook her head and didn't want to say more. There was no such thing as patent in this era. Even in the past, there was no one dominant company and all kinds of imitations emerged in an endless stream.
"This meat jerky is just a little more complicated to make, but it's actually not that difficult. People who don't want to spend money won't be able to figure it out, but those who are willing to work hard and spend money can make it in no time."
"We're just a small family right now. We can make a little money from doing small things, but if we really want to keep doing this business for a long time, there are more people who can crush us than the hairs on your head. We can't afford to lose money. Farming is the duty of a farmer. We should live day by day and not always dream of pie in the sky."
After Qin Fangci scolded Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er, she stopped talking.
Li Yulan glanced at Qin Fangci several times quietly, and seeing that she was looking straight ahead as if she didn't see her, she let out a breath quietly and felt a little uncomfortable.
Qin Fangci deliberately ignored Li Yulan. People's cognition and acceptance require a process. It is not something that can be forced into people just by prying them open.
Everyone is an independent individual, and receiving new things also requires time and one's own understanding to transform them into one's own.
She has a lot of truths, but repeating things too much will backfire.
When we returned to Liantang Village, it was only the afternoon, which was the time for everyone to work.
Qin Fangci took his men directly to the field.
Li Laosan took Wang and Yuan to plant two more plots of land, one for beans and the other for vegetables.
Qin Fangci mainly went to see the rice seedling field.
She plans to transplant the seedlings instead of sowing them directly.
The Great Qi Dynasty already had such agricultural farming technology, but it had not yet been widely promoted.
There are many reasons why it has not been promoted, such as planting methods, manpower...
Qin Fangci didn't want to delve into the matter, nor did she have the ability to do so. She just wanted to manage her own one and a half acres of land well so that she could have two more bags of grain in the autumn.
Qin Fangci squatted on the ground and grabbed a handful of soil in her hand, "The soil is not fine enough."
"Mom, isn't this fine enough? This is the finest piece of land we've ever plowed. It's not like we're grinding flour, and we can still put the mud into the stone mill and grind it a little bit."
"Boss, you are right."
"What?" Boss Li scratched his ear, "Mom, don't you want to..."
"You two brothers, each carry a basket of soil back and grind it carefully tonight."
Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er looked at each other and saw three words in each other's eyes - Mom is crazy!
Qin Fangci was not crazy. She saw that some of the seeds soaked in wood ash in the kitchen had sprouted last night.
Soak it for another day today and it will be just right for growing seedlings tomorrow.
Once the seedlings are grown, you must take good care of the soaked rice fields.
Fertilizer should be spread in advance to prevent the seedlings from being burned due to excessive fertilizer. The seedling field should also be carefully raked. Two times is not too little and four times is not too much.
Intensive farming means spending more time and effort on the land.
It was also because of the need to carefully take care of the rice fields this year that Qin Fangci asked her family to plant two more acres of vegetables and beans.
The land planted with beans will be used to plant winter wheat this winter. The climate here is only two or three degrees below zero in winter, and the temperature is not below zero for long, so it is actually possible to plant winter wheat.
If you work hard throughout the year to take care of these two seasons of grain, and occasionally have some other income, life should not be too difficult.
Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er put grass leaves at the bottom of the backpack as Qin Fangci requested. Daya also ran back and brought Erya two shovels.
"Carry it back once it's full. Don't be lazy, be quick." Qin Fangci gave the instructions and took Li Yulan, Da Ya and Er Ya back first.
Mrs. Du was turning over and drying pig hair in the yard.
The pig bristles soaked in wood ash have been carefully cleaned, and Qin Fangci plans to use them to make toothbrushes.
Everyone in the family has to brush their teeth. Every morning when they wake up, everyone has bad breath.
Seeing her mother-in-law come back, Mrs. Du went to the kitchen and brought some boiled water that had been cooled long ago and handed it to Qin Fangci.
"Let's cook dinner early today. Have you stewed the meat and bones?"
Mrs. Du nodded and said, "It was stewed early in the morning."
"Then use the bone broth to make porridge. Make it thicker so you can still have work to do after dinner."
"I understand, mother."
Qin Fangci washed her hands and returned to the house. Li Yulan followed her in. "Mom, how much did we earn today? How much do you want to pay me?"
Only wages can heal the wounds of the soul.
"Go cook first. I'll tell you when your little brother comes back in the evening and does the math."
Li Yulan said "oh" and went out reluctantly.
Qin Fangci roughly counted the money and found that she sold more than six pounds of dried meat for a total of 1,210 wen. The unit price per pound was about 200 wen, which was more money than the 80 wen per pound she had initially quoted.
A basket of vegetables sold for thirty coins, so today's income is one thousand two hundred and forty coins.
Together with the 938 coins sold in the village before, the wild boar was sold for a total of 2,178 coins.
We gave away about ten pounds of meat and seven or eight pounds of ribs, and kept five or six pounds of meat for ourselves. The uneaten ribs are still hanging on the stove.
The pig's head and offal were braised together yesterday, and Qin Fangci kept them all at home to eat.
Spring planting is hard work, and every year we have to buy some meat to replenish our bodies. It doesn’t make sense to pick up a wild boar at home and not keep the meat for ourselves.
If these miscellaneous items were sold, they would fetch at least half a tael of silver.
The villagers got a few hundred coins off the pig, and together with the two pounds of dried meat that was lost, the pig was worth four or five taels of silver.
Qin Fangci hid the money in a hidden place and then got up and walked out.
In the evening she planned to share the thirty cents she earned from selling vegetables.
If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it grass.
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