Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

Wang Ze sat comfortably in the chair and said with satisfaction: "Madam Yun, your tea is really delicious. I have drunk a lot of tea since I was a child, but none of them can quench my thirst like yours."

"If it tastes good, drink more." Yun Zhenzhen greeted with a smile: "It's not something precious. It's just some herbs I picked up in the mountains and boiled them in experimental water with sugar. The children at home love to drink it, and it can also help to relieve summer heat."

"It's good stuff, and it's medicinal tea." Wang Ze said and took another big sip.

Xiao Nan watched from the side, speechless. This guy must have never drunk herbal tea in his life.

"Madam Yun, your herbal tea is very refreshing. Have you ever thought about selling it in town?" Wang Ze asked with a smile.

Yun Zhenzhen waved her hand and said, "We've been busy at home lately, and we're busy building a new house. When we're done, we'll go to town to sell some new food. Young Master Wang, please remember to come and support us."

"Then I'll be waiting for you."

"..."

Yun Zhenzhen just sat under the eaves and chatted with Wang Ze casually.

Yun Jing on the side could hardly believe his eyes. His aunt could actually chat so happily with this young man.

When he met them in the academy before, he was either ridiculed or made all kinds of tricks, and he suffered a lot, so he would rather avoid these rich kids than provoke them.

But now Wang Ze in front of his aunt seemed like a different person, as docile as a kitten.

While Yun Jing was loading the wheat, he also kept an eye on that side.

After chatting for about half a minute, Wang Ze finally stood up to say goodbye. He had been wearing clean white clothes when he came, but they had turned dirty and gray when he left.

Seeing the carriage gradually disappear from sight, Yun Zhenzhen sighed.

She was actually not very good at talking to strangers, but the other party was the son of an official, so she had to cheer up and deal with him well. She found a lot of topics and learned a lot of new situations.

Taiyin County is more prosperous, has a larger population base, and a higher consumption level. We can consider expanding our business there in the future.

By then, Young Master Wang might even be able to become a middleman.

Fortunately, the other party is a child of about ten years old. Although he was brought up a little crooked, his mind is still relatively simple, and he can be coaxed into happiness by just talking about anything.

When he returned to the yard, he saw Yun Jing still mechanically loading wheat, but his thoughts were obviously elsewhere.

She ignored him. After all, he was just a ten-year-old child. It was normal for him to not understand all these twists and turns for a while. There was still a long way to go in the future, and there would be plenty of time to teach him later.

"Hey, why are you guys following your third brother's wife and making trouble?"

Suddenly, there was a voice at the door. Yun Zhenzhen turned around and found that it was Qin Erpo, the aunt of Old Lady Qin's neighbor.

Old man Qin stood in the wheat field and said with a smile: "No nonsense, this new gadget my daughter-in-law made is really useful. Look, we have done all the work that other people would take five or six days to do in just one afternoon."

"Is this true?" The old woman didn't believe it and walked straight in, then stood by and watched.

Seeing her contempt, Old Man Qin immediately picked up the stone mill and started working: "I tell you, this thing is not only fast to use, but also easy. We worked on it for an entire afternoon and didn't get a single wound on our bodies. Look at me..."

"Will it work?" Mrs. Qin's face was full of doubt.

"I've lived half my life, and I've never heard of any tool so magical. Don't be fooled, or a year's hard work will be wasted."

"..."

At the same time, many people gathered around the wheat field to watch the show.

Except for the man who just came back from the field, all the other old people and children were curiously watching his family rolling a big stone around.

The old man at the edge would reach out from time to time, pick up the wheat stalks on the ground to check, and when he saw the bare one on top, there was an indelible shock in his eyes.

They have been growing crops all their lives and never imagined that wheat could be threshed in this way.

The man who had a good relationship with the Qin family jumped directly into the store, took the rope from Old Man Qin and started pulling the millstone.

"Can you do it?"

"That's right, let me do it, otherwise I won't be able to pull it at all."

"If you can't, come down."

There were bursts of booing sounds all around.

Then I saw the man pulling the stone forward slowly. "It's not very heavy, better than a flail. I'm padding my arm with the towel Uncle Qin gave me."

"real or fake?"

"Come down quickly and let me try."

"I want to come too. It's my turn. I came before you. You can't steal from me."

Several men rushed to the threshing floor to pull the stones. In the end, it turned into three or four people pulling the stone mill around and around.

In the second half of the afternoon, the wheat was completely crushed by these curious young men.

"Erlang, Dazhuang, all right, stop grinding the wheat now. The wheat will be crushed if you grind it any further. Turn the wheat stalks over so that the bottom layer comes up, and then grind it again."

A group of children spontaneously picked up wooden pitchforks and started turning the wheat stalks, while Erlang and Dazhuang stopped and rolled the millstone aside to rest.

The rest of the people looked at the big rock curiously, and came over to look here and touch there.

"Uncle Qin," a young man looked up and asked, "Since this can be used to grind wheat, can it also be used to grind rice next year? If every family can use this big stone, work will be much easier in the future."

Yun Zhenzhen couldn't help but sigh that the person who asked the question had a very quick mind and could apply what he learned so quickly.

There were about ten people standing on the sidelines, and each of them turned the wheat over with two forks.

With the help of more than a dozen people, the Qin family's wheat was winnowed and packed into sacks in less than half an hour.

After seeing that everyone had cleaned up, Mrs. Qin, who had been cursing just now, strode over and asked with a shy smile.

"Old man, this thing is so useful, please lend it to my family. You know, the kids in my family have so much work to do in the fields that they don't have time to hoe the wheat."

Old man Qin smiled but didn't say anything. Although most of the people in Qinjia Village have the surname Qin, the relationships passed down from generation to generation are some close and some distant.

The family next door who often has trouble with them is the one who steps on their vegetable garden today, or takes away undried wild vegetables tomorrow.

To be honest, their great-grandmothers were sisters, but now their relationship is just ordinary, just acquaintances living next door.

"I can't make the decision on this. My third daughter-in-law got it. You have to ask her."

Old Man Qin stopped paying attention to her and lowered his head to tie the belt seriously.

When Yun Zhenzhen heard him say this, she was about to step forward to talk to him, but was stopped by Old Lady Qin.

"Don't move, just wait for me." Old Lady Qin patted her hands a few times, signaling her not to worry. "This old woman is at least an elder in front of you. If I ask you to reject her, it will reflect badly on you if it gets out."

She knew that many families with whom she had good relations had already reserved stone mills from the third son's wife, so she definitely couldn't rashly agree to this unfamiliar neighbor.

What's more, when everyone was helping just now, this old woman was hiding aside and slacking off. Don't think she didn't see it.

When you need people, they should move forward, and when you don’t need people, they should move backward, right?

Watch how I treat you.

"Okay." Yun Zhenzhen stood there obediently, letting Old Lady Qin deal with it.