Chapter 439 High Production
The yield of persimmons here is good. The persimmon tree not far from the swamp can bear hundreds of kilograms of persimmons per tree. The reason why Xia Chan planted persimmon trees here is because of the high yield of persimmons.
That persimmon tree has big, round and plump fruits. I don’t know when it grew there, but it was not discovered by the villagers. The drama later came to Xia Chan’s advantage.
Xia Chan has a retractable fruit-picking tool, which is very convenient for picking any kind of fruit, so as long as she goes into the mountains, she will never come back with an empty basket.
After Xia Chan picked the persimmons back, she asked Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Mimi to peel the persimmons and dry the persimmon cakes. When the money was made, the four families would share it equally, so they should do some small things with her.
The peeled persimmons are spread out on bamboo mats one after another. They look yellow and orange, which is particularly spectacular. Xia Chan did not dry all the persimmons, but left a third of them, planning to simmer them and eat them frozen in the winter. Persimmons, and persimmon puree can be fried with persimmon cakes. The fried cakes are also orange-yellow and look particularly attractive.
Xia Chan taught Xiao Tiantian and Xiao Mimi every step of drying persimmon cakes, and planned to leave this matter to them in the future, because she had to be busy with other things.
Time in autumn is very precious. If you run more, you can bring more things home. If you delay it if it snows, you won't be able to find anything in the mountains.
Entering November, the temperature here is extremely low. People in the village quickly dug cassava in the ground. Xia Chan also took everyone to dig cassava and konjac. It took a while to dig out all the cassava and konjac. , take home.
Xia Chan seemed to be storing these things in the small courtyard, but in fact most of them were stored in the space. Because the temperature in the small courtyard was too high, they had to be stored in the space to keep them forever.
After it snowed, Xia Chan took everyone directly into the small courtyard and spent the winter there. However, the young people would come out occasionally because the family raised pigs and poultry, which needed to be fed, and they also needed to be fed. They have to deliver goods to the vendors in the vegetable market, so the elderly and children spend most of their time inside.
Now that this small courtyard has been taken over by Xia Chan, everyone no longer has to go to the mountains so hard.
The two ginseng trees from before were also dug up and planted in the small courtyard by Zhou Qizhi. The ginseng seeds collected before, except those planted near the house halfway up the mountain, were also planted here.
There are also wild ginseng seeds that Xia Chan bought. Some of them were planted outside and some were planted in the small courtyard.
Xia Cicada also lit up the heating stove in the poultry greenhouse early. This is the first year, and these poultry have only been raised for a few months. Doves and quails.
These things are all alive, so I deliver them to people once a week.
Now there are three more things to sell: yams, cassava and taro, so I found another vegetable stall owner and cooperated with him to sell these things. Now that the weather is cold, I can give him a little more at a time, so that People are selling slowly, and now everyone is stocking up on supplies for the winter, so these things are selling quite well.
There are also fresh wild vegetables, mushrooms, and summer fruits and vegetables at the back. Xia Chan and the others will also deliver them to him. Although greenhouse vegetables are being built everywhere, it will take time for them to be fully popularized, so fresh vegetables in winter are very popular. .
Fortunately, I stocked up a lot during the summer and planted a lot in the small yard, so the pressure of supplying a stall was not so great. Moreover, the second stall owner did not expect that they would have these things. Seeing that business is so good every day, Fortunately, he agreed to cooperate with them, otherwise he would not have the opportunity to make money like this.
And he also knows that a dominant company will definitely be remembered by others, so he will add a few cents to the purchase price to supply other stall owners. In this way, although he will earn less, at least he will be safe. Ah, and I’m making more money than before.
As long as he doesn't tell others who supplies the goods to him, everyone will have to take the goods from him and respect him, otherwise he will cut off everyone's supply of goods. After Xia Chan and the others lived in the small courtyard, they started processing konjac tofu. It was difficult to make konjac tofu, especially since they only had a stone mill at home, so Xia Chan put the konjac tofu made every day into the space to store it until it accumulated. If there are so many, I will send them to others when I go out to deliver them.
Nowadays, the market is held every month. Unlike before, people were not allowed to go to the market until the end of the year. However, there are not many people attending the market at ordinary times. By the end of the year, the market is extremely popular.
It was market day. Xia Chan, Xiao Tiantian, and Xiao Mimi went to the market together. Because there were too many people at the end of the year, they were afraid that children would be taken away when they came to the market.
In the 21st century, it is difficult to find a kidnapped child, let alone in this era without surveillance, so the children are kept in small courtyards.
After Xia Chan saw something delicious and bought it, she would find an opportunity to put it directly into the courtyard so that the children could eat it.
The end-of-year fair was indeed more lively than the usual fairs. Not only was the whole fair crowded with people, it was also steaming. There were many stalls selling food. The heat was white and thicker than the fog, which was especially obvious in the ice and snow.
The three of them, Xia Chan, went their separate ways to buy what they needed. In fact, Xia Chan didn't need much, because she had all the things she needed every day, and even if she didn't have anything, she could buy it in the space.
But occasionally the desire to buy comes up, and I still want to buy something to satisfy my cravings.
Xia Chan slowly started to look at the first stall. Twist twists, pancakes, wontons... When she encountered these foods, she would pack them. She brought a big bowl and asked people to put it into their own big bowls. When I was putting the things in the basket, I put the things on the table of the pavilion in the small courtyard while others were not paying attention.
Xia Chan did not buy other meat. Xia Chan raised a lot of things, so she was not short of meat.
She has so many chickens, ducks and geese at home. When she wants to eat, she can just grab one and dispose of it.
There are many children in the family, and they need to supplement their nutrition, so the family often eats meat.
Xia Chan also saw a stall selling seafood. There were actually fish and shrimp. Seafood was rare these days, and she was reluctant to spend her savings from her previous life to buy it because it was too expensive, so she saw that there were frozen seafood here. Xia Chan just wrapped them all up.
But there were too many things on the stall, and she couldn't take them away at once, so she paid a deposit and asked the stall owner to deliver the seafood to a designated place.
After the stall owner left, Xia Chan put all the seafood into the space and stored it. Seeing so much seafood, Xia Chan wanted to go to the seaside port to collect more seafood.
Seafood is very cheap at this time, a lot of it is only one or two yuan a pound, and there are many things that people have not discovered are edible, so they just don’t want them. If they go to collect them, they can probably get the most seafood at the minimum cost.
It's just that the trains in this era are too slow. If you really want to go to a coastal city, you will probably have to take a train for several days and nights. The long journey and travel are really tiring.
It’s better to wait until the transportation is more convenient in the future and fly over to buy it directly. If your family really opens a B&B in the future, you will also need seafood. Then I will go there and stock up on more seafood.