After marrying the sister next door

After the three arrived at the place, Li Chun looked around. He knew that there was mountain spring water on the mountain. After thinking about it, he drew a picture on the ground with a small stick, and told the village chief and Anji how to build the winery.

Anji took out a pen and paper from the back basket, and drew pictures according to what Master Li said, clearly marking where to make the air hall and where to make the cellar. , couldn't help sighing in my heart, I didn't expect to build a winery with so many famous halls.

An Ji put away the pen and paper, looked at Li Chun and asked: "After the winery is built, can we make wine this winter?" Once the winery is built, the money will be thrown in, and the winery will brew wine earlier. In order to sell wine for profit.

An Shengcai also looked at Brother Li. After the autumn harvest, when the wine shop was built, the labor force in the village would be able to finish it in less than two months. It's all built, it would be a pity to leave it there idle.

Li Chun frowned and thought for a while and said: "It's too late to make distiller's koji when I start work in winter, unless I buy koji, but the price is a bit expensive." For medicinal wine, since you don't make money by selling shochu, it is actually cost-effective to buy distiller's yeast to make wine.

After hearing this, Anji and the village head decided to buy koji and start wine making this winter. They asked Master Li where to buy good koji, and planned to arrange for someone to go to Fucheng to buy koji after the harvest.

Anji asked Li Chun to write down all the brewing equipment and things needed by the winery to the village chief. These things will be purchased after the autumn harvest, and the winery can start construction after the equipment is installed.

The three of them talked all the way back to the village, and Anji and the village chief went home after discussing with each other before they left and went home.

When Anji came home, he saw that Dafu Ergui brought his daughter-in-law. Several people were chatting and laughing in the yard.

Baicha held the child and saw Anji came back, with a smile in his eyes, he grabbed Nanfeng's little hand and waved to her.

Anji looked at it and smiled, went to sit next to his wife, and asked curiously: "What did you say just now, you smiled so happily." After saying that, he directly looked at Ergui, feeling that this kid was having a good time again.

Ergui's eyes lit up with pride on his face: "Today, there is a new guy who came out to set up a stall at the Nancheng Gate. He saw me bullying me. My wife kicked that guy down. Now that guy looks at me. Go around." Haha, look, his Erya is just so powerful.

Erya also stood up with You Rongyan, it was right to protect her husband.

Anji glanced at the two of them after hearing this, and couldn't help laughing, my God, these two are really a perfect match, she dared to say that Ergui and his wife will have a super good relationship in the future, look at Ergui, the best pride of my daughter-in-law So, Er Ya has to pamper him all the time.

Baicha laughed and shook his head, okay, as long as Ergui and Erya are happy, it's good for the two of them to be tolerant and dependent on each other in their lives.

Dafu just wanted to stretch out his hand to hit his younger brother, but Er Ya glared at him, and immediately withdrew his hand, regret flashed in his eyes, well, now that Ergui is in pain, we don't dare to play the role of brother casually.

Wang Daya was very happy to see the joys of her younger sister and brother-in-law every day. Every time she went home, she talked about it, which made her parents and third sister laugh again and again.

A few people chatted and laughed, Anji frowned when Wang Daya said that her third sister wanted to become a female householder, and she couldn't help raising her brows. It was unexpected but reasonable, after all, there were only three Wang Liehu's family. Girl, now that I'm married to two, it's not a bad idea to have this little one, who can inherit the family fortune and continue Wang Orion's branch.

In ancient times, no one wanted to end their household unless it was a last resort. Compared with adopting, people here are more willing to let their daughters become female householders. After all, they are the continuation of their own blood, just like An Dahe. The remaining ones don’t even have daughters. She would choose adoptiveness, and she was able to marry Baicha because both parents were gone, otherwise it would not be so easy for her to marry Baicha.

Anji thought that he would be busy with the autumn harvest soon, and then he would be busy with the related matters of the wine shop. He had to find two helpers for the job of drying herbs.

Anji looked at Da Ya and smiled and said: "I want to find two workers who dry herbs. Your Sanya is willing to learn how to dry herbs with me. The apprentices are [-] cash per month. Afterwards, they will sign a contract with the winery for [-] cash per month." arts."

Don't underestimate the six hundred wen, it's a monthly salary, that is to say, after signing the contract, you can get six hundred wen every month, which is more than seven taels of silver a year, which is how much a farmer earns from farming all year round.

Drying herbs can be regarded as technical work, and the price is neither high nor low. It only takes a few months to make money by picking herbs and drying them yourself, and it may not be as much as working in a winery in a year.

Anji chose Wang Sanya firstly because the two families have relatives, and secondly because of the strength of this girl, who is no worse than a man at all, and if Wang Sanya really becomes a female householder, wouldn't she have a stable monthly income? no.

As for the other quota, she wants to give it to Anping's wife. She heard from Liu Ziyan that Mrs. Wang looks enviously at those women who go up the mountain to collect medicine in the yard every day. The [-] households who collected herbal medicines missed Anping's family. Although she had arranged for Ansheng to learn how to sell wine, Anping's family was struggling right now, so she wanted to let Wang come over to learn how to dry medicinal herbs. , Earn some cash to supplement the family.

In the past few days, she will set the salaries for each type of work in the winery, and start recruiting workers in the village after the autumn harvest. The winery will sign a long-term contract with each worker. If the profit of the winery is good in the future, the benefits will increase accordingly. It's something later.

When Wang Daya heard this, she immediately agreed for her sister. How could she not do such a good thing? Even if her sister is not a female householder, she can still find a good family in the village if she has this job.

Angie looked amused, so I have to ask what I mean.

They chatted and laughed for a while, and waited until Xiao Nanfeng made trouble before they left.

During the autumn harvest season, the whole Dahe Village is busy. After the villagers have harvested the grain, they pull it to the drying yard or in their own yard to dry, and when all the harvest is finished, they take advantage of the good weather to thresh the grain overnight with a flail.

Everywhere Anji went for several days, she could hear the crackling sound of flails beating the millet. Fortunately, her family grew potatoes and sweet potatoes in the field, so she only needed to dig out the potatoes and sweet potatoes, instead of overnight like them. Thresher.

She was digging the two acres of land in the front with a hoe, and Baicha was picking potatoes in the back. Anji put down the hoe and looked back to see that the potatoes in the wife's box were almost full. Potatoes piled up against the wall.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law had to go to the field, Anji immediately pulled her and said with a smile: "The rest meeting, our family is not in a hurry to do this." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to spread the mat standing by the wall on the ground, and pulled his daughter-in-law to sit down. She was in his arms.

A smile flashed across Bai Cha's eyes, and a hint of sweetness appeared in her heart. She knew that Anji was afraid that she would be tired, and she was about to finish it anyway. It would be a while, so she leaned on Anji's arms with peace of mind. She could relax like this Also because the gate to the front yard was bolted.

Anji looked at the piles of potatoes and sweet potatoes in the yard, and felt a little worried. How can I eat so many? Now that the living conditions are better, who would eat potatoes and sweet potatoes every day? They are not worth much after selling them. As for dried sweet potatoes and potato chips, she It has been dried for a long time, and I can't finish it at all. It's not hard enough to grind it into sweet potato powder and potato powder.

What Anji looked down at was his daughter-in-law's white neck, his eyes dimmed and he couldn't help but lowered his head and kissed her, feeling his daughter-in-law struggled to hug her tightly, and only let her go after taking advantage of it.

Bai Cha's face turned peachy, and she reached out and pinched Anji's waist. She took a look at her before getting up and picking up potatoes in the field. She was worried that this man might do something if she stayed any longer, thinking of Anji's boldness. And thick-skinned, Bai Cha's face had a strange pink color.

Anji smiled, got up and followed the white tea to the field, the daughter-in-law was thinking too much, what could she do with the dirt on her hands, at most she just took advantage of the clothes.

After the villagers have finished threshing the grain, they will raise the field. The villagers use a wooden shovel to raise the grains and use the wind to blow off the rice husks and other things, and take the clean grains home. The autumn harvest is considered to be over.

The most important thing after the autumn harvest is to pay the grain tax. The grain tax in the Liang Dynasty adopted a system of [-] taxes, and one bucket of grain was paid per mu of land. There were two collection methods, one was to pay grain directly, and the other was discounted Silver collection, Anji’s family doesn’t accept the potatoes and sweet potatoes, so they can only pay in silver. Her family has to pay [-] cash for two acres of land.

Every year at this time, the county government will send officials to the village to collect at fixed points. The time is five days. If you miss these days, you will have to go to the county to pay.

The villagers of Dahe Village go to line up in the middle of the night, even if they usually come back at night.

Anji drove the mule cart to the tax collection place in the village, and saw that the queue was endless at a glance. He clicked his tongue twice, and under the envious eyes of everyone, he walked to the silver collection point where no one was queuing, and paid a hundred cash. Qian took back a tax payment voucher, and then went shopping at the village market before going home.

Baicha was teaching Wang Shi and Wang Sanya to dry herbs in the yard, and she taught them exactly what Anji taught her.

Hearing movement outside the courtyard, he looked up to see that Anji was back, got up with a smile in his eyes and went out, and saw that there was another bullock cart behind him, he couldn't help asking curiously: "What did you buy?" He even bought a cart.

Anji turned her head and smiled: "I bought a car of charcoal, and I bought all these things when I have time now. If I save money, it will be more expensive in the future."

After talking to his daughter-in-law, he smiled and said, "A catty saves a penny." If there were no outsiders behind, the daughter-in-law would definitely praise her. This kind of life is often staged between her and Baicha.

Hearing the words, Bai Cha was amused, so he cast a glance at her, turned around and walked back, this person would be more honest when he was around.

Anji rubbed his nose, turned around and asked the master who drove the ox cart to help unload the charcoal to the warehouse in the backyard. When the master finished moving, Anji gave an extra five cents for unloading the goods.

Angie drove the mule cart into the yard, untied the mule, and went out of the cart to get things. She just bought a lot of vegetables at the market, including radishes, mushrooms, eggplants, pumpkins, peppers, etc. It is to be dried and eaten in winter.

Bai Cha helped take the things to the kitchen, and said with a chuckle, "How do you eat these?" Looking at the vegetables piled in the corner, there were too many of them.

Angie smiled and talked about the uses of these dishes: "Cut radish into strips and dry them in the sun, save them for eating with pickles, slice eggplants and pumpkins and dry them in the sun, wash and dry mushrooms and peppers, and save them for winter. "The cabbage in the vegetable garden is reserved for pickled sauerkraut and frozen vegetables, plus what are the potatoes at home, and some bean sprouts in winter, the vegetables are almost the same, as for the fish, buy them when they are cold.

A smile flashed across Bai Cha's eyes, and he started to clean without saying anything. In the past, it would be good to have pickles and cabbage to eat in winter. How dare you think about these things.

Anji raised his mouth slightly and rolled up his sleeves. After washing his hands, he picked up a knife and began to cut radish sticks. He chatted with his wife in a rambling manner. The two stayed in the kitchen until Ankang came to look for her.

Anji heard that the village head asked her to go there, and she knew in her heart that it should be a shareholders' meeting. After talking to her daughter-in-law, she went back to the room and took the winery regulations and drawings to the village head's house.

Anji arrived at the village chief's house and saw that several shareholders had arrived. She greeted everyone with a smile, and sat next to the village chief. It seemed that this seat was reserved for her, so she was not polite.

An Sheng saw that everyone had arrived, and said aloud: "I'm here to discuss with you about the winery. Everyone has paid all the money for the shares. Yesterday I went to the county government to complete the procedures for opening a winery in our village. After the villagers paid the grain tax, they started to build wineries." After explaining in a few words, let everyone talk about their opinions.

For a while, the people present began to whisper, and they will build it after all the money is paid. There is nothing to discuss.

Anji almost didn't laugh when he heard what An Shengjin muttered next to him. Seeing the helplessness on the village head's face, he suddenly felt that the village head must have a sense of loneliness.

In fact, everyone can understand it like this. If you ask them to talk about how the land is grown, these people can speak clearly and logically. Their ancestors have been farming for generations, and they can explain things in the field clearly with their eyes closed. But let them talk about the wine shop They must be at a loss about the matter, after all, no one has been exposed to these things, and they don't usually read books, so what can they say.

Wang Fugui looked gloomy. Since he became the village official, in addition to taking over the security of Dahe Village, An Shengcai has also given him the management of the small villages that were merged into Dahe Village. Now he will visit those villages. It will take most of the day. Most of the small villages are in the ravines. There are no decent roads in these villages. If you want to go, you can only rely on walking. Now he wants to understand why An Sheng is so relieved to let him be the village official.

Anji waited and saw that no one made a sound, so he couldn't help laughing and said: "Since the money is in place, many things can be purchased. The equipment and wine songs needed in the winery are for Master Li and An Sheng Ankang to buy. To build a winery, you need to trouble Mr. Wang Baochang." Now, this is the picture of the distillery I drew according to what Master Li said, see if you can build it." Hua Luo handed the modified drawing to Wang Xiangui, and at the same time handed the paper with the distillery regulations to the villager. long.

After Wang Xiangui saw it, he said that he could build it. He knew that this job was for him to be the supervisor. Now that he is the head of the security, he would have to take care of it even if he didn’t pay the money. After all, he also took a stake in the winery. As for his sons Forget it, a few days ago, I took over the job of building a house from a brewer. Master Li is going to build three brick houses, so he will be busy for a while.

Anji smiled and said: "That's good. Building a winery requires a lot of workers. My idea is to hire the village's strong men for twenty cents a day." Since she is asked to manage the winery, the wages are naturally determined by her. She set the price according to the price of a part-time job in the county.

The people present looked at each other and didn't say anything. Angie had the most shares, so she didn't care if they had anything to say, but where the job came from, it had to be clarified.

An Shengjin and Wang Xiangui, as well as the village chief Wang Fugui, who is also a part-time security chief, are more concerned about this issue. The villagers under their management are now jealous when they see the people in Anjinabao collecting herbs every day. Is there anything good on our side that makes them embarrassed.

As a representative, Wang Fugui asked this question. If this matter cannot be treated fairly, he has something to say.

Anji smiled and looked at the village chief. This is the village chief's job, and she can't take it away.