"Only wealthy families can afford such expensive meat. We can't go door to door and ask, right?" Yang Feng felt that this matter was really difficult.
"That's definitely not possible. The door of a wealthy family is not that easy to knock on. Besides, if you give it away rashly, others won't eat it." Xiao Mu said.
"Why don't I go ask the restaurants and see if they are willing to accept the braised pork we have prepared. In this way, with a fixed sales market, this business can be started."
"The second brother is right!" Xu Zhengxiang said: "Just find an opportunity and take the braised pork we made to ask."
"Actually, there is another way." Xiao Jing finished chewing a pig's trotter and said while twirling his fingers: "I just thought of it. The pig's trotters made by my sister-in-law are so delicious. Why don't we go to the academy before autumn next month? Braised pig's trotters are sold at the door."
"Do scholars like to eat pig's trotters?"
This statement is truly unheard of.
"Sister-in-law, don't you know?" Xiao Jing said: "Before the candidates take the exam, relatives and friends will give pig trotters to each other, which means 'inscription in the red book' and is auspicious. Every autumn, candidates often give pig trotters to each other. , Our pig's trotters are so delicious, they must be popular. So selling them at the entrance of the academy is definitely a good idea."
"Xiao Jing is right, this custom does exist." Xiao Changhe also agreed.
"That's great. No one will be stingy with the few pennies on this kind of thing. Let's try it at the entrance of the academy before they rush for the exam." Ye Luoxin had an idea.
Counting it all together, there were only a few days left. She was counting the days in her mind, and she had to prepare all the seasonings in advance.
…
After washing up at night, Xiao Mu picked up a book on the bookshelf that he had never read for the first time.
Ye Luoxin had been wondering why there were bookshelves and desks in the room since Xiao Mu was not Xiao Jing.
But as time passed, she came to know that Xiao Mu was also literate and knew quite a few people.
"Why do you want to read a book today?" Ye Luoxin wiped her hair and leaned over to read.
A faint scent of honey locust and pear blossom followed.
Xiao Mu had long discovered that Ye Luoxin had a faint scent of pear flowers, and this scent would be more obvious after sweating.
"Just take a look." Xiao Mu replied, while naturally taking Ye Luoxin's hand and letting her sit on his lap.
Ye Luoxin approached and found that Xiao Mu was reading a policy book.
This is by no means an entry-level book. It seems that she still underestimated Xiao Mu.
"Why are you looking at the policy?" she asked.
"My wife is so capable, I can't lag too far behind, lest I end up being a weakling in the future." Xiao Mu smiled softly and started to feel restless with one hand.
Seeing that he refused to answer properly, Ye Luoxin wanted to get up and leave.
Xiao Mu suddenly increased the strength of his hands and hugged her tighter.
"Husband!" Ye Luoxin shouted softly.
In this posture, she had clearly noticed changes in certain parts of Xiao Mu's body.
"Let me go quickly." She said urgently.
"No." Xiao Mu said in a lazy voice, resting his head on Ye Luoxin's shoulder and nibbling gently on her fair neck.
"Yuan Bao has seen it." Ye Luoxin's back felt tight.
I have been in the mountains several times before. Although I felt shy, fortunately it was quiet in the mountains and no one would notice.
But now there were five other people in the yard. It was so quiet at night that any movement would attract attention.
She was embarrassed to say it for fear of being overheard, so she had to use Yuanbao to talk about it.
Xiao Mu looked up and saw the little tiger lying at the door, tilting his head to look at them. His eyes turned cold and he said to the tiger in a deep voice:
"Stay away!"
Yuanbao lies in the same position every day, and the years are peaceful.
I never expected that this man would suddenly go crazy, his eyes looked like he was about to eat a tiger.
It reacted flexibly and quickly dragged its unhealed leg away before Xiao Mu made the next move.
Xiao Mu didn't know what happened to him.
Before getting married, he had never been interested in anything between men and women.
Xiao Changhe mentioned getting married several times, but he refused every time.
He didn't agree until he couldn't hide anymore.
But now, he seemed to be addicted to the woman in front of him.
The shadow of the moon danced, and Ye Luoxin's eyebrows relaxed and sometimes frowned.
After a while, the moon seemed to be shy, and a cloud covered its face, and the room became completely dark.
But that thin hum continued for a long, long time.
…
At the end of July every year, the Qinghe County Magistrate will send people to various places to check the status of the second crop of rice transplanting. If the progress is slow, the County Magistrate will ask Li Zheng from the village to come and lecture.
He worked conscientiously for seven or eight years, but never made any achievements in political performance.
Seeing that there was no hope of promotion, he just asked for nothing, as long as the taxes and grain could be collected in time every year.
The yamen officials would report the information they discovered every day.
When the yamen who went to Qingshan Village came back to report, the county magistrate finally raised his head from the pile of case files.
"What are you talking about? All the early rice in Qingshan Village has been harvested? Their grain production has dropped so much this year?"
"Replying to the master, I asked Li Zheng and said that there is no reduction in production. Someone in Qingshan Village has developed a good thing that can thresh the rice quickly, thus greatly reducing the time of harvesting rice."
"This Xiao Dasheng doesn't know how to report something good even if he has something good. Go and ask him to come see me as soon as possible."
Xiao Dasheng is Li Zheng’s name.
After giving the instructions, the county magistrate looked up at the sky and changed his mind: "Forget it, it's getting late today. I'll go to Qingshan Village with you tomorrow."
"yes."
The next day, a carriage drove into Qingshan Village, and the villagers gathered around to watch. A man in a government uniform stepped forward and helped out a middle-aged man with a slim figure and gentle features.
The man was wearing a scarlet robe and a black gauze hat on his head. He turned out to be the county magistrate.
A group of common people had never seen such a big official before, and they all knelt down and saluted.
Magistrate Liu didn't have any official airs. He waved his hand for everyone to get up. After briefly asking about this year's harvest, he and his men rushed to Li Zheng's house.
I was planting rice in the field when I heard that the county magistrate was coming. My legs softened and I plopped down into the paddy field.
"Why are you here, Lord County Magistrate? Could it be that that boy Xiao Youcai committed something in the county?"
"Bah, bah, bah, why don't you look after your son and be kind to him? My talented family is not the kind of people who make trouble! It might be a good thing, go back and have a look!" Madam Li Zheng helped her old man calm down.
Li Zheng waited for a long time by the field, until his legs and feet were no longer weak, and then he ran home.
While running, I muttered in my mind: "Buddha bless you, but please don't let this be bad news!"
