After the sweet potato workshop stopped working, people in the village were able to earn a small amount of money. Li Qiao was indeed the reincarnation of the living Bodhisattva!
Such a landlord has never been seen in opera scripts, let alone in reality.
Li Qiao must fly hard and get rich!
But how to thank Li Qiao? They had already given New Year gifts to Li Qiao before. If they gave them again now, Li Qiao would definitely not accept them.
But Li Qiao has given everyone another way to make money. Except for the best products like Li Qiao, who would have the nerve to take it for free?
I must give something more.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, according to the custom here in Pingcheng, every household will make dumplings, and each family will make a lot of dumplings. They will eat them not only tonight, but also on the morning of New Year's Day.
Well... just give them dumplings, they are not expensive and they can express their feelings.
The villagers all wanted to send dumplings, and Li Qiao's family was now flooded with dumplings.
Li Qiao: "..."
He refused.
But in the face of the enthusiasm of the villagers, his refusal was invalid.
The villagers put the wrapped dumplings on the steaming grate, and each family gave at least one steaming grate. After entering his house, they ignored his refusal and promised to put the dumplings down.
The white, fat and bulging dumplings are all made by the villagers themselves. You can't really put these steaming grates on the ground.
There was no other way, so Li Qiao moved all the shelves, stools, and tables at home to the yard so that the villagers could put the dumplings.
When the weather is cold, you can freeze it in the yard and it will last longer.
"Li Qiao, my bag is stuffed with shepherd's purse and pork. Brother Qiu found this shepherd's purse on the mountain. It's the freshest and tenderest. You and Brother Zhu can try it tonight."
Zhang Xiuhua held a steamed dumpling and said to Li Qiao with a smile.
"Li Qiao, what I have is stuffed with dried bamboo shoots and pork. The bamboo shoots inside are bought in the county. They cost dozens of pennies per catty, but they are expensive. They are delicious when made into dumplings."
"How could I be willing to buy this kind of dish that is more expensive than pork in the past? The good life I have today is all because of you. You and Brother Zhu must try this stuffing tonight."
Wang Liang also held a steaming grate in his hand, with his dumplings stuffed with dried bamboo shoots and pork on it.
This filling was learned from Wangyuelou. Compared with other dumplings in the village, his dumplings are definitely unique and fresh.
Li Qiao must eat his food!
"Li Qiao, mine is stuffed with mushrooms and pork..."
“My version is stuffed with mutton!”
"The ones I have are made with shepherd's purse and eggs, and most of them are filled with eggs!"
"...Tsk, my family just makes ordinary cabbage and pork, but with a lot of lean meat, it will never be greasy. Li Qiao, you and Brother Zhu can give it a try."
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The villagers' dumpling fillings come in a variety of varieties, half of which is conventional cabbage, pork, radish, pork, etc., and the remaining half is a variety that has never been seen in the village before.
But no matter which restaurant it is, the dumplings are filled with meat fillings.
Li Qiao looked at the dumplings all over the yard. While he was worried about the overflow of dumplings, he was also very happy. Everyone's life had really improved.
very nice.
He has contributed to this paradise.
With so many dumplings, the Li Qiao family would definitely not be able to finish them all, so Li Qiao called the Li family, the Zheng family, the Zhuang family, and the Zhao Mancang family to come over and eat dumplings.
Not only do you want to eat tonight, but you also want to eat tomorrow.
On the New Year's Day last year, Li Qiao's family cooked meat, including pig's trotters, sausages, and ribs. They stewed various meats for several pots. A group of people cooked rice in his house in a lively manner, which gave him a feeling of his own. It felt like having another wedding banquet with Tao Zhu.
This year, it’s still a group of people doing the cooking.
But the type of rice changed from meat to dumplings.
In order to prevent everyone from getting tired of eating these dumplings, he not only boiled them, but also steamed them, fried them, and fried them.
The dumpling banquet was welcomed by everyone. Except for the Zhuang family and the Zheng family, everyone else had lived a hard life before. These white flour dumplings stuffed with meat could not be eaten even if they wanted to.
They don’t feel bored at all!
With the efforts of everyone, it took three days to finish the dumplings sent by the folks.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather that had been gloomy for many days cleared up.
As soon as the weather clears up and the temperature rises significantly, winter is about to pass.
The sweet potato workshop is up and running again.
Sweet potato production has been reduced this year, and sweet potato workshops will be completely shut down in another half month.
Although the villagers were reluctant to give up, they had no other options.
On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu got on an ox cart and went to the county seat. It was time for them to collect money from the sweet potato workshop.
When they arrived at the county government office, Magistrate Jiang settled the money to them, and then talked about building roads.
Ming Zhifu decided to build the official road from Fucheng to Pingcheng into an adobe brick road. This road was too long and cost a lot of money.
Ming Zhifu originally did not plan to build this road, but the vermicelli business in Pingcheng needed such a road, so Ming Zhifu and Jiang Zhixian discussed it and decided to build it anyway.
Road construction requires money, but neither the county government nor the government government can provide the money.
If you want to build this road, you have to ask people to donate money.
People in Pingcheng who made money from vermicelli, as well as people from Fucheng who often came to Pingcheng, became their key fundraising targets.
After more than a month of hard work, Jiangzhi County raised more than 40,000 taels of silver.
This was a large amount of money. Not only the rich paid for it, but also some people from ordinary families.
Building this road is extremely beneficial to Pingcheng. It will attract more traders from other places in the future, so even ordinary people are willing to pay money.
Of course, I didn’t pay much, either one penny, a few penny, or more than a dozen penny, even if I added them all together, it wouldn’t be much.
I was able to collect more than 40,000 taels of silver mainly because of the rich.
Shopkeeper Wang, for example, directly donated five thousand taels.
Shopkeeper Zhao was also very active and donated three thousand taels.
Jiangzhi County, as a parent official, also donated one thousand taels of silver.
There are also those big and small shop owners in the county, as well as big and small landowners. Some of these people are voluntary and some are forced, but it doesn’t matter whether they are voluntary or forced. They talked to him in Jiangzhi County and donated a thousand taels. Faced with the facts, they all supported road construction.
Therefore, the rich people collected 40,000 taels of silver.
There is no news from Mingzhifu yet, but there are many rich people in the city, so Mingzhifu must have raised more money than Jiangzhi County.
Li Qiao knew about the road construction. Although he and Tao Zhuqian did not go to the county seat, countless people passed the news to him about such a big matter.
He wanted to donate money at that time, but Jiang Zhixian refused. Jiang Zhixian said that he had already built the road from Pingcheng to Sanliu Village, and that he would not need to contribute to the official road from Pingcheng to Fucheng for the time being.
When he really started cultivating, if he was short of money, he would donate some more symbolically.
Jiang Zhixian didn't want Li Qiao to spend too much money, so the emperor's imperial inscription clearly stated: There must be Yuqing.
Li Qiao must get rich!
If Li Qiao spent countless amounts of money during his tenure, it would be nothing but Yu Qing.
He didn't want to leave a bad impression on the Holy Emperor because of these small details.
Li Qiao was a little bit dumbfounded by Jiang Zhi County's brain circuit, but since Jiang Zhi County wouldn't let him donate money to build roads, he should concentrate on digging rivers.
After the sweet potato workshop stopped working, the villagers had more free time and could dig ditches or continue digging wells.
After experiencing the tragic loss of sweet potato production last year, people in Shiliba Village will be very positive about this.
"You can go ahead and do it, but don't take up too much of your energy. This year's college exam is scheduled for the end of April. Studying is your first priority."
Jiang Zhixian warned like this.
"Students know, don't worry, adults."
Li Qiao responded.
There is nothing more important than his reading.
Back in the village, Li Qiao found Zhuang Fengshou. He wanted to study next, and the digging of ditches and wells could only be organized by Zhuang Fengshou.
After the sweet potato workshop stopped working, not only the people in Sanliu Village, but also the people in the surrounding villages became busy.
Li Qiao taught the people in Sanliu Village how to make bacon, and a pig-raising craze started again in Shiliba Village.
Tao Zhu's duck shop is booming, and there are many families raising ducks in Shiliba Village.
If Li Qiao hadn't repeatedly stressed that he shouldn't raise too many ducks to avoid getting sick and contagious, which would ruin everyone's hard work, then many people would have wanted to set up a dedicated duck farm.
Amid this busyness, work on digging ditches also started.
A light rain fell, covering the brown earth with green. Spring has really come, the temperature has risen, the vegetation has turned green, and everything looks bright and vibrant.
There are only two months left before Li Qiao's college examination.
Chapter 88: Li Qiao gets angry when outsiders gossip and solves the child’s problem
At noon that day, when Tao Zhu came back from the duck shop, his face looked a little bad.
Although he tried his best to hide it, Li Qiao could tell at a glance. After lunch, the two of them went back to the backyard to take a nap as usual.
The weather is getting warmer, and it has been sunny every day recently, so Tao Zhu takes out the bedding to dry in the sun every day, rotating the two sets of bedding so that he can lie on the sun-dried bedding every day.
But when taking a nap, don't take off your clothes and sleep as casually as you do at night, as this will easily make you sleep through the entire afternoon.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu usually just took off their shoes and lay on their sides on the bed, and it was the same today.
Li Qiao was lying on his side, with most of his body pressed against Tao Zhu. The tip of his nose was filled with the smell of sunshine on the quilt, and the smell of soap locust on Tao Zhu's body.
He hugged Tao Zhu hard like a stuffed toy, first he hugged Tao Zhu hard a few times, then pinched Tao Zhu's ears and pulled his arms. These actions did not contain any desire, but simply wanted to get close to Tao Zhu.
After rubbing it for a while, he finally hugged her in his arms with satisfaction.
