However, there were really few well-drilling masters in Pingcheng. Thinking of his special abilities, he pretended to be asking for advice from the well-drilling masters, and then started working with the villagers.
In his previous life, he had done many things with water, but this was the first time he had used it to find water sources and dig wells.
It's great to have superpowers.
The villagers didn't know the truth, but they admired Li Qiao even more when they saw Li Qiao looking for a suitable place to dig a well.
Not only is he talented in reading and making snacks, he is also so good at digging wells.
If Li Qiao doesn't fly, it would really be a shame for his talent.
They had to show their love to Li Qiao quickly before Li Qiao could fly. How could Li Qiao pay for such a thing as digging a well?
They have money now, and they can afford it.
Moreover, let alone digging wells, they are willing to pay for digging rivers.
As long as Li Qiao gives an order, they will definitely obey!
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There are a lot of things going on these two days, so the update is late... QAQ
Chapter 82 The running account of this chapter: The happiness of the landlord, Song Shitou came to find him
This summer, Li Qiao had a busy and fulfilling life.
When I got tired of studying, I took the villagers to dig a few wells.
Not to mention, the water power is really good for digging wells. Wherever the groundwater is relatively shallow and the soil is easy to drill a well, he can find it with just a touch of his hand.
Drilling wells and cultivating supernatural powers are both perfect.
However, for farmers, this summer has been hard.
Although drilling wells is fast, with so many fields in every household, it is too slow to rely solely on manual irrigation.
Moreover, in addition to irrigation, weeding and catching insects are also required.
There were no pesticides at this time, so weeds and bugs had to be managed manually.
Therefore, in less than two months, every household has lost weight, but even if all the meat is lost, the crops are not as good as in the previous two years, regardless of whether they are corn, sweet potatoes, or other cereals, it is visible to the naked eye. Production is going to be reduced.
The people in Sanliu Village sighed.
Corn and sweet potatoes can bring them a lot of money. Reduced production will not only reduce food, but also money.
Fortunately, they still have the sweet potato workshop as a guarantee, otherwise, they would have really suffered a huge loss this year.
It was more tiring than the previous two years, but the food harvested and the money earned were less.
Sanliu Village relies on the job of the sweet potato workshop to make ends meet. The mentality of the villagers is relatively stable, but the hearts of people in other villages are bleeding.
Reduce sweet potato production, how much money will be lost!
This morning, Li Gu came to Li Qiao's house and brought over some watermelons he had just picked that morning.
Li Qiao’s family planted their watermelons late, but now it’s the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the watermelons are beginning to ripen.
It is green-skinned and red-flesh, small, only the size of a buckwheat palm. It is not very sweet, but has enough water. If you chill it in well water, it tastes very good.
After lunch, Li Qiao cut all the watermelons Li Gu sent and everyone had a share.
Zheng Qianqian cannot eat iced food because she is pregnant, so he can only eat watermelon at room temperature.
Since Zheng Qianqian got married to Li Dashan, she has been cooking snacks with Li Dashan at Li Qiao's house. The wages are the same as Li Dashan's, 150 yuan a day.
After getting pregnant, it was not obvious because it was in the early stages. In addition, country women and husbands always did whatever they wanted to do after getting pregnant, so he did not have the baby at home and still came to work every day.
"Brother Qian, watermelon is cool in nature. If you are pregnant, you should eat less."
Li Qiao saw that Zheng Qianqian wanted to get another piece after eating it, so he reminded her.
"Um... Then I won't eat this piece after I finish it." Zheng Qianqian didn't want to give up. He rarely got to eat watermelon. It was a rare occasion that he was a little greedy.
"Uncle, it doesn't hurt to have another piece, right?" Li Dashan asked hurriedly.
"I can only eat this piece." Li Qiao pointed to the piece of watermelon Zheng Qianqian was holding.
"Hey, okay!" Li Dashan smiled, turned to Zheng Qianqian and said, "Qianqian, eat more slowly, so you can eat longer."
"Yeah!" Zheng Qianqian also had this plan.
Alas, being a pregnant woman is so troublesome. You can’t eat this or that.
Tao Zhu looked at Zheng Qianqian's wrinkled face, lowered his head and took a big bite of watermelon. It was good that he was not pregnant.
"Da Shan, you and Brother Qian will make mooncakes later. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, and Xiaowu has also sent the molds we made earlier."
Li Qiao explained to Li Dashan while gnawing on the watermelon.
Ever since he received a commendation from the Holy Spirit, his snacks have become very popular.
But he is a restless person and doesn't want to just sell a few fixed snacks. In the past two years, his family has been flooded with eggs and duck eggs, so he plans to make some mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Egg yolk lotus paste.
Egg yolk mung bean puree.
Egg yolk and red bean paste.
Egg yolks are used anyway.
The egg-laying peak period is about to begin again. If we don’t waste the time quickly, the villagers’ eggs and duck eggs will flood their homes.
"Okay." Li Dashan agreed. His brother-in-law taught him how to make mooncakes before, and he can make them.
"Then I'll make egg yolk cakes later." Tao Zhu said, putting the cleanly chewed melon rind on the table.
He didn't throw away the melon rind. Li Qiao said that the melon rind can also be used for stir-frying. He planned to try it in the evening.
"Don't you want to make wine?" Li Qiao looked at him upon hearing this.
"Not today, I want to make some snacks." Tao Zhu shook his head.
The grapes in the front and back yards were all ripe, and there were so many that they couldn't be eaten at once, so Li Qiao said he wanted to make wine.
Tao Zhu definitely wants to learn, but today Tao Zhu wants to make egg yolk cakes.
Egg yolk cake was taught to him by Li Qiao. On weekdays, he only makes it for his own family and does not supply it to Wangyue Tower.
But after listening to Li Qiao's words just now, he also felt that it was time to use up his own egg yolks.
Although his family has a large vermicelli business worth tens of thousands or even two hundred thousand taels, Tao Zhu's emphasis on the dim sum business has not diminished at all.
This is the business that he and Li Qiao made their fortune in, which he and Li Qiao built little by little. Compared with the dream-like fortune of vermicelli, dim sum is more at ease for him.
The dim sum can be credited to more than ten taels a day, and it is settled daily, so you can get a lot of money every day.
Although vermicelli can make a lot of money, as long as the money does not enter his pocket, he will not be able to rest assured.
Moreover, looking at this year's situation, the income of vermicelli will definitely not meet Li Qiao's expectations.
There was a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes in the past two years, and the yield from one acre of land was as high as two thousand catties. But this year, let alone two thousand catties, it could not even reach the fifteen hundred catties in normal years.
With such a sudden reduction, coupled with the fact that the magistrates of other counties are not very cooperative, Li Qiao will definitely not be able to get the two hundred thousand taels of silver this year.
However, no matter how much you can get, it is just like a dream anyway, and it does not require any effort from him and Li Qiao, so it is equivalent to getting it for nothing. No matter how much it is, it is better than nothing.
With this in mind, Tao Zhu started making egg yolk cakes after eating the watermelon.
Li Qiao built several large ovens, enough to make egg yolk cakes and moon cakes at the same time.
After working all afternoon, he made a hundred egg yolk cakes.
Li Dashan and Zheng Qianqian also made hundreds of mooncakes.
As night fell, Brother Qiu came.
He's here to get the egg whites.
The Li Qiao family needs to use a lot of salted egg yolks every day to make dim sum, but salted egg yolks cannot be used to make dim sum, and the Li Qiao family cannot eat so much salted egg yolks. Even if the Zhuang family, the Zheng family, and the Zhao Mancang family eat it together, then I can’t finish it every day.
So Li Qiao asked the villagers. If the villagers were willing to have these salted egg whites, they could go to his house to get them at night.
Of course the villagers are willing to have such a good thing as salted egg white. Whether it is eaten with steamed buns, steamed buns, or with porridge, it is the best.
That's an egg!
The villagers rushed to get it, so Li Qiao arranged a number. Today, it was Zhang Xiuhua's turn, so Brother Qiu came over carrying a large clay pot with some salt at the bottom.
Put the salted egg whites into a clay pot and marinate them with salt. You can keep them for a while.
Tao Zhu was filling the clay pot with salted egg whites while talking to Brother Qiu: "Your mother, why didn't your brother come? This clay pot is too heavy for you."
"They went to water the fields and haven't returned home yet." Brother Qiu said.
"Then I'll send it back to you." Tao Zhu felt that the clay pot was too heavy and Brother Qiu might not be able to carry it.
"I can carry it!" Brother Qiu quickly shook his head, fearing that Tao Zhu would insist, so he added: "Lend me a cart, and I will push it back, and then send the cart back."
Hearing this, Tao Zhu nodded: "Okay."
It's better to push it on a cart than to carry it on your back.
After Brother Qiu left, Tao Zhu stared at his thin back and sighed softly.
Everyone is having a hard time this year.
The next day, Xiao Wu came.
Since the adobe brick road was repaired, Xiaowu's work has become much easier, and the carriage can carry more goods than before.
Tao Zhu gave him sixty egg yolk cakes and asked him to sell them at Wangyue Tower, while keeping the remaining forty for his family to eat.
The price of egg yolk cakes is 60 cents each, which is 20 cents more than the price of green dumplings stuffed with egg yolk and meat floss.
But Tao Zhu didn't set the price randomly. The innermost layer of the egg yolk cake he made was egg yolk, the second layer was bean paste filling, the third layer was glutinous rice skin similar to green dumpling skin, and the fourth layer was the dough.
The method was too complicated and time-consuming, so Tao Zhu set a price of sixty coppers per piece.
