vrcanaries Chapter 797 Moving the Big Stone
Chapter 797 Moving the Big Stone
After the empty shells were blown away, she separated and hid the seeds. These seeds were extraordinary. They were the first batch of crops grown on saline-alkali land and would be the ancestors of this area of crops in the future!
In fact, it’s not much. The two types of rice seeds together weigh only about 70 kilograms, and there are many half-filled grains in them. These grains are actually unqualified. She plans to select them again when sowing seeds next year.
Old man Zhang and his son looked at the grains excitedly. These were the first batch of rice they had grown on the salty and bitter soil. It turned out that rice could really be grown on the salty and bitter soil.
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After the rice was harvested in Song County, she went to Yunzhou.
The Haoguo Escort Agency has just finished its grain transportation mission, and now has a lot of work to do.
It was the autumn harvest season, and orders came one after another. Although the journey was short and they couldn't make much money, the money they earned was enough for the people in the escort agency to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and they could even have meat for every meal.
This is enough. After all, this escort agency was established not long ago. To have achieved this is already a success.
She stayed in Yunzhou for a few days and went to Baoyue Tower to reminisce with Manager Yang.
Shopkeeper Yang said with emotion: "Mr. Zhou has become a very busy man now. I hardly see you. Now, sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms are no longer the top choice for you."
Even the owner of a restaurant that has nothing to do with the city's booming fat-selling business in recent years has heard about it, as well as the crabs every autumn.
Thinking about how Zhou Guo exchanged a tofu recipe for a thousand crabs, he felt like he had suffered a great loss!
He originally thought that she would have a hard time supporting them, but in the end he was severely slapped in the face. Not only did she support them, but she also made the crabs flourish all over the north.
Apart from their Baoyue Tower, she was the only one who had crabs. She sold them for 500 coins each and made a lot of money every year. Compared to the tofu recipe he had, she was really making a fortune.
Zhou Guo said: "Manager Yang, you are joking. I am a farmer. I only sell things grown on the farm. How can sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms not be the best? I have to rely on them for a living, and they have to make money for me."
Shopkeeper Yang said, "Mr. Zhou has sold his fertilizer to Huaiyang now. I don't know how much grain he gets back every year. You are really joking. How can you rely on sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms for a living?"
Zhou Guo smiled, chatted with Shopkeeper Yang for a while, agreed on the quantity of dried mushrooms needed before winter this year, and then left.
Shopkeeper Yang happily saw her off. Nowadays, everyone with a little bit of status knew Zhou Guo. This kid had climbed so high, but she didn't mind that he was a shopkeeper and came to see him with snacks and good wine. He was still very happy.
And they keep their word. Crabs are not sold wherever Baoyue Tower is.
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She stayed in Yunzhou for more than half a month before going to Chengding.
More and more people came to Tanghe, and the progress was gradually accelerating. When she arrived, the ponds on several mountains had begun to take shape, and the few large rocks she saw before she left had all been moved away except the last one.
Zhou Guo just happened to catch the last piece. The big rock was ten feet high and required five people to hug it.
Tang He ordered his men to build a large pile of firewood around the stone, and the raging fire burned the stone black.
When the firewood pile was extinguished, everyone picked up buckets and poured buckets of cold water onto the big rock.
With a crackling sound, the boulder cracked due to the alternation of hot and cold. Everyone took an iron chisel and gently chiseled it, and the stone easily fell off the boulder.
A huge rock was moved away in just a few moves.
Zhou Guo was amazed by what she saw. She didn't know there was such a method to cut big rocks. No wonder the project in Song County was so fast.
Tang Hedao: "These plots of land will probably be completed when the rainy season arrives next summer. By then, they will be able to store water, and we can use it if we can store water."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. I brought you a few jars of good wine. How about a few drinks tonight?"
Tang He nodded happily, "Okay then."
Although the supervisor does not have to do the work himself, it is still very hard work.
Especially in those mountains, people would go to him for help with any problems, and at the end of the day, their mouths would be so tired that they didn't want to say a word.
Zhou Guo stayed here for about ten days and saw with his own eyes how huge stones were chiseled out. Tang He said that these stones could be used to reinforce dams and build walls in the future.
With more money, the fruit trees have been planted and the mountains are almost blossoming.
The cut down trees and thorns were brought back to the farm to be used as firewood. There were not so many huge rocks on the land here, and the ponds had expanded a lot since she left last time. They would be ready for use next summer.
She stayed in various cities for a few days and went to various restaurants to negotiate a big deal on mushrooms and flower mushrooms before returning to Cangshan Village.
The pine mushrooms in the village haven't come out yet, and it will take some time for the crabs to come out of the pond, but many families have already come to say hello, so we must notify them in advance when the crabs come out.
She took the account book and looked at the orders, ten or eight baskets, more than ten baskets, and sighed: "Rich families are rich families. They can eat such expensive crabs every year. If these hundreds of taels were given to ordinary families, they would never be able to spend them all in several lifetimes."
The old man said with a smile: "I don't know who said that, if these crabs were placed in someone else's house, they would also spend money to buy some to try. Why, do you forget this now?"
Zhou Guo said: "I just said I wanted to buy a few to try. At most I could buy two or three baskets. I can't bear to buy more than this."
Wu Ya nodded quickly and said, "That's right, I've been wanting to say this for a long time, these people really don't take money seriously, they're willing to spend it like this!"
Li smiled and said, "Why do you say they are rich? They are willing to eat it. Besides, they will not only eat it with their own family, but also have to treat guests to a meal. It is a great honor to have this thing on the table. If they don't have this thing, they are afraid that people will think that their family is just so-so and not as glamorous as they appear, which will lose face."
Zhou Mai and the others were stunned when they heard this.
Zhou Guo said: "Mom, you are so knowledgeable now, who told you this?"
Li said, "Who do I need to tell? I've attended so many banquets for you. You can tell without me telling you."
Zhou Guo immediately praised: "My mother is amazing. She actually figured out the tricks here. The rules of a wealthy family are not something that can be easily figured out."
Everyone laughed and nodded.
Mrs. Li was both angry and amused. "You always tease me. Your sister-in-law and I don't know many people, we don't know many words, we haven't seen much of the world, and we're afraid of saying something wrong and being laughed at. Usually, we just answer half a question when someone asks us, or we don't say anything at all and just listen to what others say. As time goes by, we go to many banquets, and we eat the same things over and over again, so we can see a little bit."
Well, in the north, if one company can buy something, other companies can buy it too. The price is no longer a secret. If everyone has it and you don't, then you are not good enough. You either come up with something better than this, or make a fool of yourself.