Crossing the Four Seasons Pastoral

The Zhou family's fields are all leased out, and the tenants only need to hand in a certain amount of grain every year.What's more, the biggest source of income for the Zhou family is not rent, but the household that Zhou Nan "turns in" every time he comes back from Annan City.

"Brother An, although Xiao Nan has earned a lot of money over the years, after deducting land purchases and daily expenses, it is almost enough. Now that you are married, the rest of the money will be handed over to you." Dinner Afterwards, the three of them were chatting outside, and Chen Xidi quietly pulled Ye Xiaoan into the house.

Ye Xiaoan glanced at the thing stuffed into his hand, it was a 100 tael bank note, with the words of XX Bank in the lower right corner and stamped with a bright red stamp.Based on the purchasing power here, 100 taels is really a lot of money.

"We just got married, how can we use so much money? Besides, this is Xiao Nan's filial piety to you, why don't you take it quickly." Although Ye Xiaoan has little experience in getting along with elders, Ye Xiaoan also knows that this money is absolutely unacceptable down.

Seeing that he didn't pretend to refuse, Chen Xidi showed a satisfied look on his face, nodded and pressed his hand to put the money back, and said: "Just getting married is to start planning for myself, if you have children in the future, you can Don’t you have to prepare something? The 100 taels of silver is my wish and that of your father, and Xiao Nan doesn’t have to hand over all the money he earns in the future, and the family’s fields are enough for him.”

In fact, in addition to buying fields, Zhou Nan has also given thousands of taels of silver over the years.If the two brothers had no other ideas and were willing to live in the village, they could have moved to the town or even the city.Chen Xidi took out the money just to show his attitude, if Ye Xiaoan really wanted to be in charge of his own family, he should happily accept it now.

But from another point of view, since they have formed a small family, it is really time to remind them to deal with the outside relationship on their own.So Chen Xidi's attitude was very firm, and Ye Xiaoan still couldn't return the 100 taels of silver in the end.

"Well, since I gave it to you, you can keep it." Ye Xiaoan originally expected Zhou Nan to return it, but unexpectedly he only glanced at it and said lightly.

"Then I'll keep it for you. You don't lack food and clothing at home, and I don't have anything to buy." Ye Xiaoan was afraid that he would run out of money if he couldn't control his hands and feet, so he hurriedly brought the banknote to Zhou Nan.

"Our family." Zhou Nan corrected his words clearly, and said again: "I can make money, you just keep it. From now on, our money will be in accordance with the meaning, after paying the family's flowers, I will keep it for you. "

I can earn money to support my family too!Ye Xiaoan thought silently, but thinking that he hadn't earned a single copper coin until now, he forced himself to suppress this sentence, and just glanced at him with some deep meaning.

The days passed by like water.Ye Xiaoan had the awareness to bear hardships at the beginning, but it didn't come in handy in the end.By the time he gradually adapts to the life of a large family, the busiest time in spring has passed.

He went back home twice within a month, and Ye Youping also said that there was nothing he needed to help, and each time he hurriedly pushed them back.Of course he had heard about He Chunnan's plan to come to fight Qiufeng, but he would accompany Zhou Nan every time he went back, and they would not come to him openly.Since the fourth brother always adopts the attitude of ignoring them and ignoring them, of course he supports them.

"Today, I will make you a sunny spring snow, so that I can teach you my craft." The spring plowing was over, and the school in the town resumed classes.This day Zhou Lekang and Chen Xidi sent Zhou Bei to the town together, and they were the only two left at home.There were slices of bacon and dried salted fish that had been steamed in the morning in the pot, but just as Ye Xiaoan was about to leave the kitchen with his sleeves rolled up, Zhou Nan stopped him from speaking.

"What are you looking at, don't you believe that your husband has this ability?" Zhou Nan spoke lightly again when the elder was not at home.Ye Xiaoan couldn't help thinking, what would he look like when he actually came to Annan City to do business?If Chen Xidi had seen it before, he would definitely not have said that my Xiaonan is very well-behaved and worry-free.There were two people crowded in the small kitchen, Zhou Nan had never been looked at by him with such focused eyes, and he couldn't help but said.

"You can go up the mountain and go down the field, you can write and you can cook, I was just wondering what else can be difficult for you?" Ye Xiaoan hastily denied, his skills were not up to standard, and he had to bite the bullet. It couldn't be better.

The name Yangchun Baixue was well chosen. Although I knew it was just a gimmick, I still didn't expect that the fried vermicelli with sliced ​​shallots and pork would be served at the end.And the vermicelli here is obviously very rough, almost as thick as his little finger.

"Eat it, don't look at the color of this thing is not very good, but the taste is good. I bought it from other places when I was in Annan City, and it is not easy to buy." Zhou Nan sat down opposite him, and the two sat down. Vegetables and vermicelli are also enough to eat.

"This vermicelli is not easy to buy?" Ye Xiaoan swallowed. He had eaten rice noodles, rice noodles, and potato noodles, but he had never seen such light gray noodles, which looked as if they had been stained with dust and hadn't been cleaned.Maybe it's because I have eaten well here these days, but I feel a little off-putting.

"Not necessarily, it can be stored for a long time. If you like it, let's buy more next time." Zhou Nan has seen people in some places use this kind of vermicelli as a staple food, and after selling it in Annan City Very popular, so I mistakenly thought he liked it very much.He had inquired about it at the beginning, and knew that this kind of vermicelli was probably made from a kind of plant root, but he couldn't figure out how these two things with completely different shapes and tastes were connected.The other party didn't elaborate, and probably didn't want to reveal the secret.Life in the city is still different from that of ordinary villagers. They are tired of eating two or three meals a day, and occasionally want a change.This kind of thing can fill the stomach, and the taste is not bad. It can be stir-fried and can be made into soup, especially children are particularly willing to eat it.

Ye Xiaoan took a sip. Although the color and aroma were different, the taste was smooth and the taste was not bad.

But this kind of vermicelli, he can make it.When I went to travel and watched the mountains and rivers, I was attracted by the local people's busy washing purple potatoes to make vermicelli, and I watched them seriously.However, the colors made by others are much more beautiful. After drying, they are tied into small rolls with small white thread, and they are all transparent with light purple in them.In the end, he bought several boxes in one go. Unfortunately, he came here before tasting it, and no one will remember it in the end.

Hululu ate two bowls, Ye Xiaoan suddenly asked: "Is there no one in your village who grows sweet potatoes?"

"Sweet potato?" Zhou Nan thought for a while, before he remembered those verdant and fast-growing vines, as well as the rhizomes that were dug out of the ground like ground eggs when they were harvested.There are very few people in Tangqiao Town who grow this kind of thing, and he has seen a lot of them at the edge of the fields when he was traveling elsewhere.If it is traced, someone in the village tried to grow it when he was about ten years old, but they all abandoned it for various reasons. Now I am afraid that the family will not be able to find it.At the beginning, it was passed on to the village as a rare item, and it is still relatively rare now, but everyone looks down on it.

Thinking of this, he roughly said what he knew, and then said: "I heard people say that although this thing is very easy to survive and has a good yield, it doesn't fill the belly, so most people would rather farm eggs."

Hearing this, Ye Xiaoan understood that sweet potatoes are actually quite filling, but eating just this will cause gas.And because it promotes digestion, if poor people eat only two meals, they will definitely be hungry quickly.Although there are still people who live in poverty, as long as they have a field, they can always earn rations, so they naturally don't think much of things like sweet potatoes.Both ground eggs and sweet potatoes are grown in dry land, so of course only one of them is chosen for the convenience of management.

"Is this kind of vermicelli really selling well?" During this period of time, Ye Xiaoan had nothing to do. During the day, Chen Xidi didn't order him to cook. According to him, Lao Zhou couldn't get used to other people's cooking.In the evening, they are fighting wits and courage, but recently they have been in a situation where they have fallen step by step.The idea of ​​making money was always in his mind, but the ideas he came up with were always quickly denied by himself.

Now he is hot. Zhou's family members have their own affairs, and they can't expect others to help.But in a small business, it is not easy to break the original pattern and share a share with others, unless you can find something new and different.

He was also thinking like crazy. Just now, when Zhou Nan said that the sale was good, he changed his mind.Probably because the place they went to was a relatively closed ethnic autonomous region, and the method of making vermicelli by those people was also very primitive, with almost no technical content except for some hardships.

"Of course, I know a friend from other places. He spends a lot of things every year when he travels to Annan City. I heard him mention that the cost of this kind of vermicelli is very low. He bought it from people in the village. Before Annan Most of the grocery stores in the city get their goods from him, and they have not been able to supply them in the past two years, so some people have followed his example." Speaking of which, what a businessman does is nothing more than buying low and selling high, as long as the profit margin is large enough, nothing can be done. Regardless of what you're selling.It's no wonder they took it back at a low price, maybe it's only worth that price in the local area.As long as a village has such a business, it can support a lot of people, just like the brothers of the Yan family make green bricks, and many buyers sell them.

"What about the town? Can't you buy it?" Ye Xiaoan looked at the vermicelli in the bowl, the quality of which was far inferior to those he had seen.If he tries it twice, he is [-]% sure that he can do it.If there is a market, let the fourth brother plant sweet potatoes on the dry land in the future, and teach him how to make vermicelli to make a small profit.

"It's relatively rare. Have you ever looked for it before? Most of them have been crushed, and they must have flowed from other places." Not to mention the distance, it will take a long way to go from Annan City to Tangqiao Town. No better than bringing home your own.But after he asked in such detail, Zhou Nan also guessed his thoughts: "Could it be that you want to fiddle with this kind of thing?"

Having said that, he couldn't help feeling suspicious.Living here, Ye Xiaoan would inevitably hear about his reluctance to get married in the past, so one day he asked him why he chose to come to propose marriage by himself in the end?

Why?Maybe something has been urging him, and he knew that sooner or later he would not be able to hold on, so he let go at this moment.It can't be called love at first sight, but before he was pulled over by Beizi to "mind his own business", he really didn't expect to meet such a different little brother.When he was at a disadvantage, he was unhurried, with firm eyes, as if he could rush up and bite that big fat man at any time.

But now, Ye Xiaoan was clearly methodical when he questioned, he was inquiring about the sales of this kind of thing, from far to near.In fact, if he can make vermicelli by himself, it must be a good business, but how can he, a little brother who has never traveled far, come up with so many ideas, and he doesn't seem to hesitate at all?