A time-travelling peasant girl becomes a wealthy woman

The rich aroma of wine made Huang Bo swallow his saliva, but the others couldn't help it. The smell of wine was too pungent and intoxicating.

He Hui Niang quickly opened the kitchen door and window to dissipate the smell of alcohol, otherwise she would have a headache if everyone except Huang Bo was drunk.

Huang Mulin used chopsticks to gently push aside the white hair, picked out the tofu, rolled it in rice wine for a few times, then put it into a bowl seasoned with five-spice powder, pepper powder, and salt, continued to roll it until all six sides were covered with powder, and then put it into another clean jar.

After completing this step, pour the water that has been boiled with fennel, bay leaves, star anise, tangerine peel and other spices into the jar, covering the tofu. Then continue to seal it for fifteen days, and the water fermented bean curd will be ready.

The whole family is looking forward to it.

After making the fermented bean curd, the sons read for half an hour, and then went to the yard to practice horse stance and Tai Chi with Huang Mulin.

It was not until 15:30 that he took a bath and went to bed. Because he had to get up early to prepare lunch, Huang Mulin disagreed with his family working too hard, as it would not be worth it.

The box lunch business is stable, and the fermented bean curd is waiting to be finished. The next step is to buy land and build a house.

That day, after Huang Bo finished his meal, he took a piece of pork belly and went to Huang Dachuan's house.

"Uncle Dachuan," Huang Bo knocked on the door: "Are you home?"

After dinner, Huang Dachuan and his wife went to the yard to enjoy the cool air. Their son, daughter-in-law and grandson were away visiting their grandfather, so they were not at home. Their daughter was also married, so for the time being, only the couple were at home.

"coming."

Hearing the knock on the door, Zhang Liuzhi got up and opened it.

"Why is Hiroko here?"

"I have something to talk to Uncle Okawa about."

After taking a look at the meat in his hand, Zhang Liuzhi enthusiastically led him in.

"Uncle Okawa, I need your help with something."

Zhang Liuzhi looked at the meat eagerly, and Huang Bo immediately handed it to her. Huang Dachuan didn't say anything, and asked Huang Bo to follow him into the house to talk.

"How's business lately?"

Huang Dachuan took the lead.

"It's OK, thanks to the folks."

"Rebellion." Huang Dachuan took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile: "It's thanks to you that they made some money."

"It's nothing. We are all from the same village, and we should take care of each other."

"That's right." Huang Dachuan nodded, "Why did you come here today?"

“I want to buy land.”

"Buying land?"

Huang Dachuan was surprised. Huang Bo's family had changed so much in recent days.

It is said that he visited several households a few days ago and paid off all the debts he had previously incurred from building adobe houses. Everyone also said that his family must have made a lot of money from the business.

But buying land is not a small amount of money. I have only been doing business for more than a month, and I can buy land?

Huang Bo repeated to Huang Dachuan what Huang Mulin had taught him.

"My fourth son is a capable man. All the food we cook now is the dishes he came up with. The guys at the dock love it, and our business is doing well."

"A few days ago, I met Mr. Tang, the shopkeeper of Weimancheng, who was inspecting the docks. I ate a meal and it caught his eye. He asked my fourth son to cook a few dishes for him. Mr. Tang was very satisfied and spent money to buy the recipe."

"The food business consumes brown rice very quickly. We have to cook dozens of kilograms of rice every day. My family has only five acres of land, and the rice we grow is barely enough for our family. Now it is far from enough for making food. We can only ask fellow villagers or buy it in town."

"So I thought, why not buy more land and hire workers to grow rice, so that it won't affect our food business in the long run."

"How much do you plan to buy?"

"It's just the area around my house. Uncle Dachuan, see how much I can sell."

Huang Dachuan thought for a moment and said, "In the beginning, only your father bought five acres of wasteland at the foot of the mountain to open up wasteland. Later, when the family was divided, all of it was given to you. There are also wastelands next to it, about 20 acres. I will know the exact amount tomorrow when I go to the ancestral hall to look through the booklet."

"Sure." Huang Bo agreed, "I have to go to town tomorrow morning, so I can't come here until this time in the evening. Is that okay with you?"

"Row."

After the two agreed, Huang Bo left Huang Dachuan's house.

After Huang Bo left, Zhang Liuzhi came into the house to find out what Huang Bo wanted her husband to do for her. Huang Dachuan knew that his wife was a nagging one, so he didn't dare to tell her. He just scolded her and went out to smoke a cigarette.

Zhang Liuzhi felt bored and didn't dare to say anything. He muttered to himself as he went to boil water to wash up.

The next evening Huang Bo arrived as promised.

Huang Dachuan took out a booklet, pointed to the area around Huang Bo's house and said, "Look, this is your current land. This area is all wasteland, and there are still twenty-one mu and three fen of land."

"How much per acre?"

"Five taels of silver. Your father paid this much for the wasteland."

"Then buy them all."

"Buy all!" Huang Dachuan couldn't help himself. "This is 21 acres of land! At least 100 taels of silver!"

"I have enough silver. Uncle Dachuan, please help me make the trip tomorrow." He took out two silver bars, totaling twenty taels, and said, "Is this enough for the deposit? If not, I will go home and get more."

Huang Dachuan saw that he even took the silver with him, and thought that he must have made up his mind.

"That's enough. I'll go to the government office tomorrow to ask the officials to come and measure it. The specific number of officials will be decided. The running fee is necessary, in case the officials are not doing their job well. I need to bribe them with a few taels of silver. You have an idea of ​​it."

"I understand. Uncle Dachuan, please do whatever is convenient for you. Measure the land and get the title deed as soon as possible. Money is no problem."

Huang Dachuan said that he would first go to the town government office to confirm the measurement time with the officials and then inform him. Huang Bo thanked him repeatedly.

Three days later, Huang Bo received advance notice from Huang Dachuan that officials were coming to survey the wasteland.

Yesterday he told the guys at the dock that he had something to do at home and would not be setting up the stall today, so the whole family waited at home after breakfast.

Soon, Huang Dachuan came with two officers.

The process was simple and smooth. The two officers gathered the change in their sleeves and were very satisfied with Huang Bo's "understanding". They promised him that they would get the land deed completed within three days and he could go to the yamen to pick it up after three days.

The officers left happily.

Huang Dachuan sighed with emotion, Huang Bo has really made progress. It hasn't been long since then, but he has paid off his debts by doing business and even bought land. It's true that one should not look down on the poor young man!

After seeing off the village chief, Huang Mulin began to discuss the house building plan with his family.

According to her idea, the current house should be demolished and a new one with two courtyards should be built. The workshop should be built next to the house with a door for entry and exit.

Huang Mulin hoped that the house and the workshop could be built at the same time, but such construction would be extremely expensive. She estimated that Duke Zhong’s money would not be enough, unless he took out the one thousand taels that he had saved for her.

"Dad, Mom." Huang Mulin hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Let's use the one thousand taels to build a house and a workshop first?"

Huang Bo and He Hui Niang said nothing.

This is the dowry left for my daughter. Building a house and a workshop will be considered public assets, which is unfair to my daughter.

If Huang Mulin had not selected seashells with pearls, learned cooking skills and then taught them to the fourth son Huang Jinlin, and given advice on setting up stalls and selling recipes to make money, their family would still be poor farmers, still working hard in the fields to make a living, and not having enough to eat in years of famine.

Huang Bo and He Hui Niang were unwilling to use the money that originally belonged to Huang Mulin.