After becoming a top-notch peasant woman, she continues to be a top-notch

After the two of them ate a little, Qiao Chao told them what Zhou Yan had said.

Qian was very happy. She patted her thigh and looked at Zhen Yue, "This is a big business! Sister-in-law, let's do it."

Zhen Yue: "What?"

Qian: "From now on, we will supply all the dishes to Zhou's Restaurant?"

Zhen Yue shook her head. "We don't have enough land. It's not feasible to send them vegetables regularly. If we do the same as the Song family, it won't be a good idea either. How many acres of land do we have for growing vegetables?"

Qiao Dashan: "Apart from the four acres we rent, we only have over one acre of land for growing vegetables, and the land behind the house."

That is to say, there are only five acres of land with more than 100 kinds of vegetables. If they are eaten at home, it is quite a lot. But every time they go to the Song family, they send two or three hundred kilograms. Sometimes it is less. The same is true for the Zhong Mansion, the Huang Mansion, etc. If you add the Zhou Family Restaurant...

There are many people in the Song Mansion, but two or three hundred kilograms are actually consumed very quickly. However, they also have their own farm, so it is impossible that they only eat the Qiao family's dishes. The other families are about the same, so it is not a big problem if some are reduced. The main thing is how many dishes does the Zhou family restaurant need each time?

It’s the same as the Song family, which is about two or three hundred kilograms. So every time they have to send at least one thousand kilograms of vegetables to the county town. What if there are new customers?

"Did Zhou's Restaurant say what kind of dishes you want? Or just whatever?"

Qiao Chao: "No, they just want whatever we supply."

Zhen Yue thought for a moment, "Well, we can supply Zhou's Restaurant starting next year, but..." Zhen Yue tapped her fingers on her knees, "Let them bring their own carriages here to transport the fruits, or let their own people come here to pick them. This way, they will be fresher, and they can come whenever they want."

"You can give us a discount on the price, so we don't have to deliver them. Otherwise, there will be so many that we can't deliver, and we don't have the time."

Qiao Chao: "Maybe I need to talk to Zhou Yan about this. Do you want to go?"

Zhen Yue: "No need, just go and talk. I'm just an ordinary vegetable-growing peasant woman, how can I talk?" Zhen Yue said without feeling guilty.

Qiao Chao: ...I have never seen such an ordinary peasant woman growing vegetables.

Qiao Er: "What if the vegetables are gone? Or if they don't have enough time to grow?"

Zhen Yue: "That means it's out of stock. We won't sell it if it's out of stock. If it could be supplied every day, this dish wouldn't be rare in our house." Scarcity makes things valuable.

Qiao Chao: "That's it, I'll ask next time I go to the county town."

"Ah."

Until the New Year, although the vegetables behind the house had grown a little, the Qiao family did not pick them and send them to the Zhou family restaurant, mainly because they also had to eat them.

The debt collection is usually the most intense before the New Year. Ma has been observing the Qiao family recently. She has been wondering why no debt collectors have come to collect the debt from the Qiao family. Wasn't it said that the Qiao family had borrowed money at high interest?

Strange? The Qiao family couldn't possibly pay off their debt so quickly, right? They made so much money? She had never seen a family that didn't go bankrupt after borrowing money at high interest rates.

When Ma was leaving, she ran into Mrs. Zhang. "Mrs. Zhang, didn't you say that the Qiao family borrowed money at high interest? Why haven't we seen anyone asking for repayment?"

Mrs. Zhang thought about it and it seemed to be the case. "Yes, why hasn't anyone come to collect the debt? Could it be that the Qiao family cheated us?"

Ma: "Didn't you say that they had borrowed money from a high-interest loan? Otherwise, how could they have the money to buy a donkey?"

Mrs. Zhang: "I was just guessing at the time, and the Qiao family didn't deny it, did they?"

Ma was very angry, her voice was very shrill, "So it is possible that the Qiao family didn't borrow money at all?"

Mrs. Zhang looked at her strangely for a while. "What does it have to do with you whether the Qiao family lends money at interest or not? Why are you angry? Did they borrow money from you?"

Ma was a little embarrassed, "That's not the case. I'm just wondering, didn't Zhen want to borrow money from us at that time?"

Mrs. Zhang thought for a long time, and suddenly she slapped her thigh and cried "Aiya", which scared Ma.

Mrs. Zhang took Ma's hand and said, "Do you think the Qiao family didn't borrow money at interest? Did they make money? Could it be that Zhen didn't want to lend us money? That must be the case!"

"No, I need to go and ask around." Mrs. Zhang said and left in a hurry.

Ma kept thinking about what Mrs. Zhang said about the Qiao family making money. The Qiao family made money? How is that possible? Hasn't their family always been poor? How did they make money?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Ma left thoughtfully.

That day, Qian was bored at home and went out again. As soon as she arrived under the big banyan tree, Mrs. Zhang grabbed her and asked, "Qian, did your family make money? Otherwise, why didn't you see any debt collectors coming to your house to collect debts?"

Qian: …She was asked this question right after she came out. How would she answer?

Qian could only smile awkwardly, "How is that possible? Haha, I have something to do so I went home first." Qian turned around and ran home quickly. It was not a good day to go out today, so she decided not to go out.

Mrs. Zhang was looking at the clothes Qian was wearing, and then she said to everyone, "Hey, do you think Qian's clothes are new? I don't think I've seen her wear them before."

When the others heard this, they seemed to agree. "It seems so. Hey, have you seen Qian Shi? She seems to have gained weight."

"Not only that, you know their three children, Xiaohua, Xiaocao and Xiaonian. Didn't they all wear tattered clothes before? Now, everyone is dressed neatly."

"Now that you mention it, I realize that Xiaocao didn't even have pants to wear before, right? I remember last year when it was very cold, I passed by the little girl from Qiao's house working in the yard with her legs shaking. Now... wow, this is incredible."

"Could the Qiao family really be making money? Didn't Qian always look sallow in the past? How could she have so much time to come out? Didn't she work at home all day? These days, it seems like she doesn't have much to do."

"But how does the Qiao family make money? They even bought a donkey. Didn't they borrow money at high interest?"

Mrs. Zhang: "What do you mean by usury? They probably didn't lend us the money. They are just cheating us because they are afraid that we will borrow money from them."

"No way? So abominable?"

Qian told the story right after she got home, "I was so unlucky. As soon as I left, Mrs. Zhang asked me why no debt collector came to collect the debt."

Qiao Er: "Don't worry about them. I understand now. They just want to see how lively our family is." After his family made money, Qiao Er became more confident. Before, his family was poor, so he felt inferior. Now that his family is much better off, he has become more confident, so he sees more things.

Qian: "You are right. I don't know why everyone doesn't want our family to have a good life, especially those women like Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhou."

At this time, there were more and more speculations outside, and most people said that the Qiao family had made a lot of money. Even the next day, someone came and knocked on the door. Qiao Chen was cleaning the yard. As soon as she opened the door, someone asked: "Sister Chen, did your family make a lot of money?" He said while looking at the Qiao family's yard.