In the first month of the first month, Liang Chuan and his artistic wife traveled all over Xinghua to eight villages, burning incense and worshiping Buddha in various temples and ancient temples, just to pray for peace and blessings. Yi Niang has become the key protector of the family. All the furniture in the house that has a little bit of edge is put away or wrapped in soft cloth. All housework was out of the question. Ever since Chi He's children found out that Yi Niang was pregnant, when they were burning charcoal, they would let Yi Niang watch or less often, and they would watch this lovely woman from all angles. The son was protected.
After the new year, Liang Chuan will no longer go around visiting people and drinking with others at night like he did before. Instead, he will try to stay at home and accompany his art mother, because Liang Chuan does not have much time and will leave for Qingyuan in a few days. .
Next time I come back, I should be able to see my baby.
Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, the sugar-cooking room in the back room started to be busy again. In the first month of the year, it started to rain. If the sugar cane in the field was not collected, it would rot in the ground from the roots down.
These are just free money. When boiled into sugar, they are worth a lot of money. In the first month of the year, it is better to make some money than to live in a dream.
Zheng Ruoying crossed Nanxi one by one at the beginning of the day and went to Helu to find Liang Chuan. She has no intention of celebrating another year. Now she has more than 1,500 kilograms of brown sugar and nearly 300 kilograms of white sugar. It's time to think about how to exchange these sugars for money.
Zheng Ruoying has reached a consensus with Zheng Yiqian. This year, all the land on the North Bank will no longer be planted with other grains. The value of one thousand acres of grain is not as valuable as the sugar squeezed from one acre of sugar cane. All the land on the North Bank will be planted into sugar cane. There are still many on the North Bank. All the wasteland will be purchased and used to grow sugar cane.
He Baozheng also saw the value of brown sugar and white sugar, and he also had a few acres of land on hand. Next year, he would buy a bunch of sugarcane seedlings from Liang Chuan and convert all the land into sugarcane. So next year, not only Liang Chuan's own land, but also many villagers in the three villages will be watching Liang Chuan's actions, following his example and trying to make a fortune. The sugarcane planting area on the north bank of Nanxi River will increase several times. This year is just a small trial, and the sugar output will be completely different by then.
During the first month of the first month, the students of the academy went to pay New Year's greetings to Meng Liangchen one after another. Although the students usually do not have to pay tuition to the academy, there is a saying in self-respect that when studying, you must pay something to the person first, not to receive gifts, but to teach them. Some of the children were carrying fish, and some were carrying vegetables, or a knife of pork, or a bag of millet, which Meng Liangchen's small thatched cottage could hardly hold.
Zheng Ruoying has asked the housekeeper Lao Cai to take over the management of the three hundred acres of mountainous land on the hillside. Now he is recruiting tenant farmers. The ground will be broken and cultivated as soon as the Lantern Festival is over. The land is still relatively rough in the first year, so he will definitely not be able to grow anything good. crops. Liang Chuan explained that if you work hard, the harvest will be determined by God. The college's expenses are not too big. The food is enough to support yourself for three meals. The college has just been built and there is no need for any repair funds.
The land on the mountain is sloping. Liang Chuan described the concept of terraces to Zheng Ruoying. The sugar cane fields need to be surrounded by water and locked up. Sugar cane cannot be grown in the mountains, but food can still be grown.
The North Bank has many mountains and little land, so it is the most appropriate development method to compete with the sky for life and the land for food.
This year’s Shangyuan Festival in Xinghua has stopped a lot. Last year, there was a lantern festival. This year, Duan Peng did not engage in such things that wasted people and money. Instead, he recuperated. After listening to Liang Chuan’s opinions, he began to prepare for the Nanxi river channel. To govern.
The south bank of Nanxi River is low-lying. Last year, all the rice fields on the south bank were destroyed due to the breach of the embankment. If it is not managed properly this year, after the stream water surges in summer, the year's rice will be sown again.
Liang Chuan also raised a small opinion with Duan Peng, which was not private but public. The Shima Bridge over Nanxi River was washed away by the stream last year, making it extremely inconvenient for villagers to travel. He hoped that the government could forgive the people's hardship and build another bridge for the common people. .
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Liang Chuan arranged everything properly and was finally ready to leave.
Yi Niang can't do anything now. She wanted to go to Qingyuan with her. Liang Chuan thought about it for a while and gave up the idea. Qingyuan was afraid that it would not be peaceful, there were many people, and there were people coming and going in the store. If something happens, there is no need to worry about regrets.
Although Fengshan is remote, it is clean. What is needed most now is a comfortable environment for raising babies. He Baozheng also has his own adult management team to help take care of the family. Even if something happens, it will not be a big deal. It is also very convenient to hire a doctor. Convenience, good home environment, staying at home is the best.
Yi Niang is not as reluctant to leave as she was last time. Now she has a thought of her own. She no longer has to think about Liang Chuan, touch her belly, and look forward to giving birth to a new life for Liang Chuan. .
Liang Chuan called He Baozheng and told him several important things.
First of all, he has to help look after the house. Now that Yi Niang is inconvenient, he may have to take care of her more. There is only one Li Chuyi in the family, but Li Chuyi is far from being upright in his worldly manners. He Baozheng is doing things steadily and Liang Chuan can rest assured.
There are also things from Xinghua. Liang Chuan wants people to transport them to the Wanda store in Qingyuan and sell them. Although the profits of these bamboo weavings and charcoal are not as good as sugar, the accumulation of small amounts is still a very considerable source of profit. With income from preserved eggs and bamboo weaving, Fengshan does not have many industries, but it still needs people to take care of it.
The only thing missing was an errand boy. Liang Chuan thought about it and decided that the best candidate for this job would be He Baozheng. By the way, he could also tell him about the situation at home. No one else could do this.
He Baozheng thought about it and figured out that he didn't have to rush to Qingyuan every day. He could only come once or twice a season and call a truck to haul more goods. This wouldn't be a chore. Besides, you can also sell your mosquito repellent incense at the Wanda store in Liangchuan. The people in Qingyuan are much richer than in Xinghua. If you sell more, you will naturally earn more.
The two hit it off immediately, and a road to mosquito-repellent bamboo charcoal was opened.
Because Yi Niang was pregnant, Xiaochai had a deep relationship with Yi Niang. She would rather leave Liang Chuan and stay in Fengshan to take care of Yi Niang. The only people who followed Liang Chuan were Zhaodi and Shen Yuzhen. Shen Yuzhen also wanted to stay, but Liang Chuan also had to be taken care of. Besides, Shen Yuzhen had been taken care of by others in the past. She was so poor at these menial tasks that she might as well give Liang Chuan an advantage.
Zheng Ruoying had prepared the motorcade early and was waiting for Liang Chuan on the other side of Nanxi River. This trip back to Qingyuan lasted almost two days.
Qingyuan County has been missing for more than a month, and the whole county has completely changed its appearance. The streets are decorated with lanterns and ribbons everywhere, and the number of lanterns and ribbons is countless more than in Xinghua. Colorful banners are floating in front of the merchants, and most of the businesses have reopened. People are wearing all kinds of new clothes, and the streets are full of spring.
A group of people walked to Chengtian Alley. The current Chengtian Alley was bustling with people because of the existence of Yuetai Temple. People prayed from the first lunar month to the fifteenth day. Everyone came for the miracle of Arhat’s appearance. of.
Because of the strong popularity of incense, many businesses in the surrounding area, including food, entertainment, and accommodation, gradually recovered.
Zheng Ruoying hadn't found a suitable store when she first arrived, so she temporarily stayed in Liang Chuan's store. The Wanda store has not been open for a month, but fortunately Zhao Xiaopin has been living there, otherwise it would have taken a lot of time just to clean the house.
"Master, you are back."
Zhao also went back to Luocheng during the sketch, and after the Chinese New Year, he took his mother with him. Now he rents a small room in a private house behind Chengtian Lane for his mother to live in. She is the only one living in Luocheng. There was no response.
"Is it okay here when I'm not around?"
"Fortunately, those little kids in the academy wanted to bring bad luck to their boss a few times, but they came back disappointed when they saw that their boss had turned around."
"Oh? What kind of trouble do these stuffed people want to come here to cause trouble? Damn it, didn't their husband teach them how to behave?"
"Also, it seems that our neighbors have gotten into some trouble, and some people are trying to bring bad luck to them. Is it because the feng shui here is wrong and the year is going to be bad for us?"
Liang Chuan was quite surprised. This Bi Zhaosheng was a well-educated person. This business was quite unpopular. There was little competition in the market and there were usually no accidents or trivial matters. Why did he offend others?
"I gonna go see."
Liang Chuan walked out of the door and went straight to Bi Zhaosheng's printing shop.
The shop has also opened, but the shop is even more deserted. There used to be two or three masters and apprentices working, but now only two masters are still in the shop. Tools and wooden boards are scattered on the floor. It seems that there is no careful management.
"Where's Bi Zhaosheng?"
When the two chefs saw that they were the owners of the shop next door, they pointed to the back room to indicate that Bi Zhaosheng was in the room. They didn't say anything. It seemed that they were not in a good mood during the Chinese New Year.
When he walked into the house, Bi Zhaosheng had a sad face with a beard and lifeless eyes. There were several wine bottles in front of him. He exuded a strong smell of alcohol. He was drunk in broad daylight. This was because he had been stimulated by something.
"Old Bi, what are you doing? It's broad daylight. If you want to drink, why don't you go to my place to drink at night?"
Bi Zhaosheng was startled. After not seeing him for these days, his courage became much weaker.
"Liang Chuan, you're back. Hey."
"What's wrong? What happened? Tell me about it. Maybe I have an idea. Look at Master Hongyi's ruined temple. Didn't I also start it?"
Bi Zhaosheng was like a drowned man grasping at a straw, his eyes regained a little life, and he sighed and told Liang Chuan what happened.
It turns out that the business of Bi Zhaosheng's printing shop is getting worse day by day. There is another printing shop in Qingyuan County. The two shops compete with each other and have been feuding for generations. Later, the other party's store attracted several big customers, and the business was out of control, leaving Bi Zhaosheng's store several blocks away. In the past few years, Bi Zhaosheng has been poaching Bi Zhaosheng's people, raw material suppliers, and customers. Bi Zhaosheng has been manipulated to the point that now there is no enthusiasm at all in the store, and it is one step away from closing.
