Chapter 40 The whole village was shocked!
"What? Jiang is buying pears for a penny per pound? Those pears that pigs won't eat, Jiang is buying them for a penny per pound?"
"Isn't that funny? It must be fake. Is Jiang crazy? If she wants pears, why doesn't she just go to the mountains and pick them? And she has to pay money for them? And one penny per pound? Where did she get so much money? She was so poor a few days ago that she didn't even have food to eat..."
"I heard she made a lot of money selling autumn pear paste these past two days!"
"How much can we earn? We won't waste it like that... We can't go. If we go, people will laugh at us for being stupid."
"But, Dad, this autumn pear paste we make at home doesn't taste like it. The pears will rot if left alone..."
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Finally, it was a few children from the village who were usually good friends with Erbao. They also went to the mountains to pick wild pears these two days.
They tried to sell a basket of wild pears to Jiang.
Jiang weighed it and it was more than 30 kilograms.
I counted out over thirty coins for the little kids right there...
Suddenly, the whole village was shocked!
Everyone was secretly watching these kids, and saw that they really got the money, one penny per pound.
Bring all the stock from home.
Jiang Lianzhu didn't want all the pears. She picked the ones from the top of the tree, the ones that were big and juicy.
Dabao and Erbao both have experience. They were responsible for selecting the quality of the pears. They picked and chose carefully and collected more than 2,000 kilograms in one go.
"Everyone is here. Let me repeat the rules for picking pears. We pick pears every morning for only one hour. We want the freshest pears, and we also look at the quality. We don't pick all the pears, and we don't pick everyone's pears. Those who have bullied us mothers or have grudges against us should not come. I, Jiang, am a stingy person. I will take revenge if I have a grudge, so don't bother yourself. Well, we have picked enough pears for today. Thank you everyone."
The villagers of Wangjia Village who received the silver felt like they were dreaming.
Jiang is really crazy!
You really have to spend real money to buy wild pears, and they cost one penny per pound.
If one person picks fruits in a day, they can pick about 200 kilograms. If they can sell it, they will earn 200 coins!
Ten days means two taels of silver! A family can pick hundreds of kilograms...
What could make more money than this?
After calculating the accounts, the villagers who had sold pears stopped eating, taking naps, and working in the fields. The whole family, young and old, some with baskets on their backs, some with baskets, and rushed to the mountains to pick pears without stopping.
Those villagers who had bullied Jiang Lianzhu and her son in the past were secretly smacking their lips and gritting their teeth in hatred.
"You made a couple of stinky silver coins, and you think you're so great. Ugh!"
"It's rare. I don't know where this recipe came from. Maybe he stole it from a man."
"that is……"
Having said this, he picked up the basket and went to the mountain to pick pears.
In order to save time in making autumn pear paste, Jiang Lianzhu and her son did not make a proper lunch at noon.
I ate the big meat buns I made last night, and then made a pot of egg soup.
I had big meat buns and egg soup for lunch.
The wolf cubs cooked some meat porridge separately, and little Nanbao went to feed them.
There were more than 2,000 kilograms of pears piled in the yard. Jiang Lianzhu and the others started working right away. Four people came to Grandma Lu's house, and they were all quick and hardworking.
Washing and peeling the pears is the tedious part.
A person was also assigned to make the fire.
Jiang Lianzhu set up two large pots in the kitchen and cooked at the same time.
Later, it was discovered that there were not enough containers for packaging. Jiang Lianzhu thought of the thick bamboo tubes in the mountains. If she cut thick bamboo tubes to store the autumn pear paste, it would be much better than using jars or bowls.
They also asked Grandma Lu's son to go to the mountains to help cut bamboo.
Jiang Lianzhu described to Erbao the size and uses of bamboo. Erbao understood and followed the uncle to the mountains to find thick bamboo.
Dabao helped Jiang Lianzhu, passing things and small items. During the critical process of cooking, Grandma Lu was very conscious and did not let her family members enter the kitchen to peek. Even if Jiang Lianzhu and Dabao were busy alone, it actually did not take much effort.
Two large pots were boiling at the same time. In one afternoon, Jiang Lianzhu made more than 50 kilograms of thick soup and more than 50 kilograms of regular soup. The harvest was considerable.
After such a busy schedule, the two families cooked together.
Both pots in Jiang Lianzhu's house were used to boil autumn pear paste, so there was no extra pot for cooking.
Grandma Lu asked one of her daughters-in-law to go back to their home to cook, and everyone ate together.
Jiang Lianzhu agreed. She didn't do any work, but provided the ingredients. She gave a pheasant and a wild rabbit to Grandma Lu as a partner. When everyone heard about it, they started drooling and worked even harder.
Anyway, they were caught in the mountains. Keeping them would waste food and they would become thin and hungry in a few days. It would be better to kill them and feed them to the children to nourish their bodies.
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There were still dozens of pounds of peeled pears. After dinner, I started to boil them again and made more than fifty thick cups.
Jiang Lianzhu felt that cooking in two pots at the same time was not effective enough, so she could add two more pots and more people to help.
This way the output can be doubled.
See how the business in the county is doing. If the business is good, we will expand the scale.
When they finally finished, it was already late at night, and Grandma Lu and the others helped her pack up and prepare to leave.
"Aunt Lu, wait a minute. I'll pay you today's wages first. Since you've worked the night shift, it'll be counted as a full day's wages. Fifty coins per person. Since there are four of us, that's two hundred coins. Zhuzi and Shuanzi and the others picked pears, so they'll give you two hundred coins. And I asked my eldest brother to help cut bamboo for half a day. It was manual labor, so he'll give you one hundred coins. The total is five hundred coins. Please keep it."
When Granny Lu heard this, she said, "Oh, no, no, no, no, we're just fellow villagers, please help me, how can I accept so much?"
Jiang Lianzhu said, "Don't say that. You saw it too. I accepted pears from others at one penny per pound. It makes no sense for me not to pay my own people. If you don't accept them, I won't let you come to work here tomorrow."
Grandma Lu had no choice but to accept it.
She would accept it first, and if Jiang and her son had no food to eat again in the future, she could use the money to help them. It would be the same.
Now Jiang is generous. She collected several thousand kilograms of pears today and spent several taels of silver. If these autumn pear pastes cannot be sold, then all the money will be wasted!
She had already stopped talking.
It was obvious that Jiang was a kind-hearted person. She had finally made a few taels of silver from making autumn pear paste, so she wanted to subsidize her fellow villagers. Who else would be so kind-hearted as to buy those unwanted wild pears for such a high price, just one penny?
Grandma Lu held back her anger and took her family home.
The next day, Jiang Lianzhu got up early. The three cubs were exhausted from helping with chores yesterday. Unexpectedly, they still got up with Jiang Lianzhu in the morning.
Even the second and third treasures got up.
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