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

When Qiao Er and Qian arrived at the Song residence and knocked on the back door, Song Tiesheng came over to open the door, "Brother Qiao, you are finally here? My master asked about you two days ago."

Qiao Er was puzzled. "Ah? I wonder if your master has something to do?"

Song Tiesheng: "Aren't you guys finished eating the food? Hey? Where's your elder brother? Why didn't he come today? I had something to ask him." Song Tiesheng felt that Qiao Chao was the one in charge.

Qiao Er scratched his head and said, "My brother didn't come today, and I may be the one who comes in the future."

Qian immediately stepped forward and bowed, "Hello, little brother. My husband and I will come here from now on. Is there anything you need? Let's go back and tell my eldest brother."

Song Tiesheng: "Did you deliver food to Zhou's Restaurant before?"

Qiao Er nodded, "Yes, one time when we came here to deliver food, we met Master Zhou, and he bought our food."

Song Tiesheng: "Why didn't you send it to our house?"

Qiao Er: "This...this..." Qiao Er was sweating for no reason and didn't know what to say. Could it be for the long-term business in the future?

Qian pulled Qiao Er and said, "At that time, it was Master Zhou who wanted to buy our vegetables. We couldn't refuse, so we sold them to him."

Qiao Er: "Yes, that's right."

Song Tiesheng thought that they were just ordinary farmers, and they couldn't make their own decisions when they met a nobleman. "You should give priority to our Song Mansion in the future."

Qian: "Of course, of course. It's not the New Year yet and we'll come over as soon as the food is ready."

Song Tiesheng didn't say anything more. He looked at the dishes that Qiao Er and the others brought over and said, "We in the Song Mansion want them all. Bring them in and weigh them."

"Okay, okay, right away." Qiao Er and Qian Shi both smiled and quickly moved the dishes down.

Song Tiesheng: "Remember to send the food here first when you have it next time."

"I know."

After earning more than 600 coins, Qiao Er and Qian went to buy some food and then returned.

The grain was purchased for a total of 100 wen, so after handing it over, there were only more than 500 wen. Zhen Yue directly gave 100 wen to Qiao Er and Qian, she and Qiao Dan took 80 wen, Qiao San took 10 wen, and the rest was given to Qiao Chen for safekeeping.

Qian was very happy to get the hundred coins, and Qiao Er, who was standing beside her, told Qiao Chao what Song Tiesheng had said.

Zhen Yue listened and said, "In the future, we will give the dishes to the Song Mansion first, but not all of them. We said before that they will be divided into several parts. One part must be given to the Song Family Restaurant. There are fewer dishes this time, and when there are more, they must be sent to the Zhou Family Restaurant."

"Okay, sister-in-law."

Qiao Dashan: "It's almost time to start tilling the land. You guys can decide what seeds to plant and we'll take care of the rest."

Zhen Yue: "Then we can plant rice and wheat on the four acres of top-quality land and two acres of medium-quality land, and plant vegetables on the remaining four acres of low-quality land. We also planted vegetables on the land we rented before."

Adding the original one and a half acres, the total is nine and a half acres used for growing vegetables. If we add the land behind the house, the total number of acres of vegetables will be almost ten acres.

"Is it too much?" Mrs. Qiao Chen was a little worried. They all depended on the weather for their livelihood. If the weather was bad or the vegetables could not be sold and rotted in the fields, they would be heartbroken.

Zhen Yue: "Not much. We want to expand our vegetable business. Maybe other restaurants will want our vegetables in the future."

Qian, who had made money, agreed, "I also think that we don't have enough vegetable varieties at home. The Song Mansion will always ask us to send vegetables over in the future."

Mrs. Qiao Chen: "Okay then, time waits for no one, so it's better to start plowing the land as soon as possible." Then how long will it take to plow the land?

When Zhen Yue thought about the farming, she also thought of another thing, "How much is a farming ox? If we buy one at home, the farming will be much faster."

Qiao Dashan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it will cost more than ten taels of silver."

Zhen Yue: "Then buy it!" Zhen Yue looked at Qiao Chenshi, "Mom, how much money do you have?"

Qiao Chenshi: "You gave me ten taels last time, and I bought other things before that, so now I only have a dozen taels left."

Zhen Yue: "First see how much the cow costs, and buy it if you can." This saves labor and everyone doesn't have to work so hard.

Qiao Chao: "Why not use this money to hire people to help?" With just a dozen taels, I don't know how many people I can hire.

Zhen Yue shook her head. "If you don't buy it now, you will have to buy it later. When you have time, go to the market with Dad to see if there are any oxen for sale."

Qiao Chao: “Okay.”

When Qiao Chao and Qiao Dashan spent twelve taels of silver to buy a working ox from the county town, the villagers of Danan Village were excited again.

"Qiao Dashan's family bought a farming ox. They must have made a lot of money."

"Hasn't it been a long time since the Qiao family has made a lot of money? Anyway, they can't lend us money."

"It will be spring ploughing season soon. We can borrow a cow then."

"The Qiao family bought a donkey cart and now they have bought a cow. This is incredible."

"So how does the Qiao family make money?"

"I heard that he went to the county town to sell vegetables."

"Selling vegetables? Then I should grow some more vegetables this year and sell them?"

"You want to sell vegetables too? You can't even grow grains, so why do you want to sell vegetables? I've seen the vegetables grown by the Qiao family, and they're like this." The person who said this gave a thumbs up, "I don't know how they grow them."

"Ah, it's all fate. Some people are destined to make money."

At this time, the whole family of Qiao was very happy looking at the oxen, and they all came forward to touch them again and again.

Qiao Dashan also smiled and said, "We need to prepare a cowshed for the oxen."

Qiao Er: "I'll go out and cut grass and come back to build a cowshed for the cows."

Qian: "I'll go too, I'll go too. Haha, there's actually a big cow at home!" Qian smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed. In the past, when she compared herself with her sisters to see who married better, Qian always thought she was the worst one. Now, humph, she thinks she is the one who married the best.

The cowshed was built next to the pigpen. Zhen Yue added another stroke to her plan. She found that as the house had more and more things, it seemed that the land was not enough?

The land to the left of the Qiao family is uninhabited, the Lin family is not far away to the right, and there is one family on the left that is even further away.

Zhen Yue thought about buying the land next door and using it as a home foundation so that she could build a big house in the future.

Zhen Yue immediately asked Qiao Chao for his opinion. Qiao Chao thought for a moment and said, "If we buy more land, will the villagers complain again? And do we need to tear down the wall and build a new one?"

Zhen Yue thought about it and it seemed to be the case. "Forget it for now. We'll talk about it later when we make more money."

"Ah."

With cattle, plowing the land became easier, but this dynasty still used straight-beam plows, which were not as easy to use as curved-beam plows.

After seeing this, Zhen Yue said, "Can't the horizontal beam be bent?"

Qiao Dashan: "Ah? That's what it looks like."

Zhen Yue: "Dad, if you can do it, I suggest you make another one and bend the horizontal beam on top."

Qiao Dashan: "Wouldn't it be easy to break if that happened?"

Qiao Chao on the side was also puzzled, "Why do we have to bend it?" Farm tools in this dynasty had also improved and were much better than those in the Great Xia Dynasty.

Zhen Yue: "I just think it would be better if I bend it. Dad, please try it if you have time." Anyway, she didn't know what to say. She just knew that a curved plow was much better than a straight plow.

Qiao Dashan: "Okay, I'll take a look when I have time."