Chapter 157 Why hasn’t Liang Xiulan gotten married yet? Sigh…
Once a person has money, people will immediately come to cling to him.
That night, Liang Xiulan and her family were eating in the kitchen when someone suddenly knocked on the door.
When Liang Jianguo opened the door, he saw Xu Dongmei, the wife of Zhao Shuanzhu from the village.
"Haha...Brother Jianguo, have you eaten?"
Liang Jianguo stepped aside and let the person in: "Everyone is eating in the kitchen, come in and sit down."
Xu Dongmei walked in and shouted towards the kitchen: "Why are you eating so late?"
As he spoke, he strode into the kitchen.
Liu Guizhi casually moved a small stool and handed it to her: "The workers who built the house finished work late, so we will eat later."
Xu Dongmei stretched her neck to glance at the table, then bent her legs and sat down.
"You're so tired after a day's work, why can't you bear to eat something good? It's just radishes and cabbages."
"It's easy to make radish and cabbage. I'm tired after a long day and I don't want to bother. Have you eaten yet? Or why not have some here?"
As Liu Guizhi spoke, she tore off a piece of oily steamed bun and handed it to her.
Xu Dongmei waved her hands repeatedly: "I've eaten, you guys eat now."
Liu Guizhi didn't let her eat anymore and stuffed the oil-fried bun into her mouth.
Xu Dongmei took out an insole and an awl from her pocket and started sewing the soles.
"Your Xiulan is really promising. She made a fortune in just a few days."
"Didn't I hear about selling noodles in town? What kind of noodles are they selling that can make so much money?"
Liu Guizhi drank a mouthful of soup and said with a frown, "I haven't sold noodles for a long time. The noodle stall was taken away by the second brother's family."
"What? Leaving? Why would she need your stall?"
Liu Guizhi picked up the food, put it into her mouth and chewed it twice.
"I had appendectomy at that time and couldn't go out to the stall. She said she would help me out for two days and come back when I was better."
"As a result, I was delayed for a full month from surgery to recuperation. I couldn't even calculate the cost of food, clothing, housing, and other expenses, so I just gave up."
Xu Dongmei hooked out the thread on the sole of the shoe, feeling indignant.
"Why don't you want it? That's a profitable business. This bastard, you're just asking for it because you think you're easy to bully!"
Liu Guizhi shook her chopsticks and said, "You already know what kind of person she is. Do you think she will give it to me if I ask her for it?"
"Even if I give it to you, you'll have to argue with me all day. I don't want to waste my time. We're all family, so I'll just give it to you."
Xu Dongmei poked the sole of the shoe with an awl, then pulled the thread back, feeling helpless for Liu Guizhi.
"Yeah, your second son can say anything."
"You are kind-hearted and can't do anything to save the servants' face."
After this topic was discussed, the kitchen was silent for two minutes.
Xu Dongmei asked again: "So what are you doing in the town now?"
“Selling sweet potatoes and seasonings.”
"Sweet potatoes? Can you make money with that?"
"Sweet potatoes don't make much money, they're mainly used as seasoning."
"What seasoning? Thirteen spices and salt? Aren't those sold everywhere?"
At this time, Liu Guizhi had finished the soup in her bowl and put it on the chopping board.
"Not only that, there are a wide variety of seasonings. You'll find out when you have time."
"Okay, where can I buy it?"
"Lilac Street, the shop is called Yizhilan."
"Yizhilan? Who named you and your daughter?"
"Xiu Lan."
"Oh my, I didn't realize Xiulan was this good. Okay, young people, you have a good brain, hehe..."
She continued to flatter for a while. Liang Xiulan and Liang Xiujuan finished their meals and put their bowls together on the chopping board.
Liang Xiulan was about to wash the dishes, but Liu Guizhi took the bowl and said, "You go and do your own thing, I'll wash the dishes. I'll talk to your aunt for a while."
At this time, Liang Jianguo had also finished eating. He cleared the table, put the bowl on the chopping board, and the three of them left the kitchen together.
Liang Xiulan returned to the house and began to think about the sweet potatoes.
After selling sweet potatoes for a whole winter, the ones we had at home were sold out long ago. Since last November, we have been buying from others.
It’s time to plant sweet potatoes again, so I have to plant more this year.
There is not much land at home, and they are all small plots, and not all land is suitable for growing sweet potatoes.
She roughly estimated the number of sweet potatoes sold every day, and then went to Liang Jianguo to discuss whether she needed to contract some more land or something.
"Dad, how many sweet potato seedlings do you plan to plant this year?"
"Same as every year, three hundred, what's the matter?"
"No, we're selling sweet potatoes now. I'm thinking about growing more, otherwise we'll run out of them in two months."
"Plant more?" Liang Jianguo leaned against the head of the bed, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a puff.
He exhaled a long stream of smoke, his eyes blurred, as if he was calculating how much to plant.
Liang Xiulan directly told Liang Jianguo her estimated quantity: "We can sell nearly 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes a day now. Even if business is slow, we can still sell 10 kilograms."
"These three hundred sweet potato seedlings are definitely not enough."
Liang Jianguo took another drag on his cigarette and exhaled: "Then how much do you want?"
"According to your calculations, even two thousand trees might not be enough. How will we harvest them then?"
"If I harvest thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes by myself, wouldn't I be exhausted to death?"
Although his words were somewhat resentful, Liang Xiulan felt that they made sense.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Then I'll just hire someone to collect it when the time comes."
"Hire people? Why not just go to the village and harvest them? It would save us the trouble of planting the seedlings."
I have to say that Liang Jianguo is definitely the smartest among the Liang family members when it comes to being lazy.
Liang Xiulan sighed and shook her head, "No, the crops grown by others are different. It would be troublesome if I had to accept crops from one family and not from another."
"Besides, if we stop selling sweet potatoes one day, they will not be able to sell their sweet potatoes and will blame us."
Liang Jianguo was smoking quietly, and it was unclear whether he was listening to Liang Xiulan's words.
After a long silence, he flicked the ash off his cigarette and said, "You go back first, let me think about it..."
Is this even worth thinking about?
It’s just planting sweet potatoes, do you need to think so much?
Although Liang Xiulan grew up in the countryside and has been dealing with the land since she was a child, she was not a worrying person in her previous life.
In previous years, she would do whatever her parents asked her to do when farming and harvesting the land, and would go home when her parents asked her to.
She never worried about watering the fields.
I never thought about the yield per mu, how many seedlings to plant, how much fertilizer to use, and how much water to use.
Farming is a science, it is not as simple as planting and harvesting.
What Liang Jianguo is thinking about right now is that they are building a house, a century-old foundation, and he has to keep an eye on it.
If Liu Guizhi were asked to plant thousands of sweet potatoes by herself, she would be exhausted.
So how do I farm this land? I feel like I'm too busy to do anything else.
Land is divided into irrigated land and dry land, and the yields of the two types of land are naturally different.
For some land on the mountains, we need to consider how to transport the sweet potatoes down and how to water them.
As he was thinking, an idea suddenly popped into his mind: it would be nice if he had a son.
This way he won't have to carry the burden of the family alone.
I wish Liang Xiujuan was a boy, what a pity...sigh...
The cigarette in his hand went out, and he began to wonder why Liang Xiulan hadn't gotten married yet?
It would be great if my son-in-law could come and help, ah...
Why did Jiang Jinzhou go to Lin County? If he were at home, he would definitely come to help with this matter.
well……
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