kingnovel Chapter 932: Warehouse First
Chapter 932: Warehouse First
Zhou Guo was tactful and didn't say anything about the cheap dishes this time. He just said, "These are all the good things in my farm. I have done my best to entertain you. Please eat and drink well."
Lord Yao didn't even have the chance to talk about how his office's food was every day.
The adults smiled and politely exchanged their meals happily.
In fact, we just had this snack not long ago, so we couldn’t eat much if we really wanted to, just drink some wine and eat some food.
Zhou Guo ignored them. For her, the snacks were only enough to fill her up. After wandering around for so long, she had already digested them.
He held the bowl and ate the rice and vegetables with relish, not caring how they ate.
The two county magistrates had never eaten with Zhou Guo before, so they were a little uncomfortable seeing Zhou Guo like this. They wanted to say some polite words, but she just kept her head down eating and never raised it. Young people just have good appetites and can eat a lot!
Seeing their hesitation, Lord Yao said, "Eat quickly. We have to leave after we finish eating. The autumn harvest is in progress in various parts of the county. We have to go and see how the harvest is this year."
After the meal, there was nothing left on the table.
Zhou Guo ate half of it.
After dinner, she sent the adults out of the farm. Facing their eager eyes, she nodded and said, "I know what you want to say. Don't worry, I will keep all the wheat and rice seeds for you. Although there are many places in the north that have been renovated into salty and bitter land, they are all after you. If you want to grow food, I'm afraid it will take two years. There won't be so many people who need it. I can still reserve some for you."
Several people were overjoyed. With these seeds grown on the salty and bitter land, no matter how bad the harvest was in the first year, it would not be worse than this one. If managed properly, the yield would be even higher than that of Zhou Guo's field.
Anyway, it's much better than the seeds from normal land!
Several people left satisfied.
Zhou Guo no longer wanted to harvest rice, so he rode his horse and took Dashu and Xiaoshu to the countryside, while Erpang stayed at the farm to take charge.
In the past two years, many farmers in Song County have planted new wheat seeds. After all, she has a good relationship with Lord Yao.
The key is that farmers also trust her. They plant whatever she tells them to plant and as much as she tells them to plant. As a result, the lives of the people in Song County have been getting better in the past two years.
Every household is busy working in the fields at this moment.
As soon as Zhou Guo arrived, the farmers happily told her the good news, "Mr. Zhou, the weather this year is about the same as last year, and with the new wheat seeds we left behind, the harvest is much better than in previous years. Although the land is not much, at least we don't have to go hungry!"
Everyone responded happily. In their opinion, not being hungry all year round was a great life.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Congratulations, your family has enough food now. You can raise some chickens and ducks, weave some cloth, and do some odd jobs during the slack season. The money you earn can be used to buy meat and cloth, and you can also save it to build a house. Next year, your children will be able to say that your wife gave you a grandson."
This statement was unanimously agreed by everyone. These were the things they were thinking about. After paying off the debt, they would have some extra food to eat, nice clothes to wear, find wives for their children, have more children, and their lives would become more and more prosperous.
Zhou Guo looked at each village one by one, and everyone was smiling.
Those households who did not plant the new wheat regretted it deeply.
I didn't finish my tour of Song County, I only toured halfway and then went to several other counties.
These counties grow both rice and wheat.
Everyone is busy in the fields now. Some families with less land have harvested the land, and the men have come out to look for work, so there are still many people working in the fields.
We have harvested a lot in the past few days. According to the current progress, with so many people, it will take a month to harvest all the land.
The progress of several counties is similar. Those with less land will definitely be the first to finish harvesting.
Ten days later, the vehicles that had been prepared in advance by the various farms set off.
Go to each village and each farmer’s home to start collecting grain!
Cars set out empty-handed and return fully loaded.
The wealthy families this year were quite conscious. They asked their servants to return the grain with cartloads of grain before they had even finished harvesting their land!
From families like Mr. Liu and Mr. Wu to small landlords, no one needed her to visit.
People like Mr. Liu were not stingy in lending their car to Zhou Guo, knowing that she was busy and didn't have enough car.
Zhou Guo refused and said, "I appreciate your kindness. I am very grateful that you can deliver the food to my farm. You have helped me! You all have a lot of land at home, and now is the time to use your cars. I can't ask you to use your cars at this time. Everyone, take them back. Without you big families, my cars are barely enough."
Everyone tried to persuade her a few times, but seeing that she still refused to accept it, they had no choice but to go back.
Er Pang said, "When you personally came out, only some big households came to collect fertilizer. Now these people are so conscious to come and return the grain in person?"
Zhou Guo said, "You are so diligent, isn't it just for the grain I have? Why do you think so? But it's good this way. There are quite a few of these big households, and they have a lot of grain. This way we don't have to go to their homes, which saves us a lot of manpower and animal power. This year we don't have to rush to harvest grain like last year."
It won’t be so tiring.
So, "If they want grain seeds, we'll give them to them when the time comes. Last year, we rented 2,000 acres of land from Master Wu. The wheat seeds from those 2,000 acres are enough for them to share, and there's even more."
Er Pang was a little worried, "They won't find out, right?"
Zhou Guo said: "What did you find? Although the yield of the Wang family's wheat seeds may be slightly worse than ours, its stability may be better. After all, it is estimated that the Wang family has been planting for many years. Seriously speaking, our seeds may not be as good as theirs, but the yield is not bad.
Didn't Mr. Wu see it with his own eyes when he came to the farm? He was arguing and making a fuss, fearing that I would change my mind, so he asked for it directly. He did his homework and couldn't see it, so what could others see?"
After thinking for a while, he said, "Besides, I didn't lie to them. They are all new wheat seeds."
She touched her nose, feeling a little guilty. She just hoped that there would be no problems with the wheat seeds from Mr. Wu next year. Although they were almost the same, they were not in her hands after all.
At this time, grain from the wealthy families in Yunzhou were pouring into Song County.
After a few granaries were full, they could no longer hold any more.
Erpang came to ask for help.
Zhou Guo thought for a while and said, "Then we have no choice but to store some of the grain first. There are more temporary workers and laborers on the farm now. Let the temporary workers do the farm work, and we will transport the grain with the permanent workers at night. The cave is empty now, so we can store as many as possible."
Er Pang hesitated, "Are the farmhands going too?"
Zhou Guo sighed, knowing his concerns, "There's nothing we can do about this. The business is too big now, and we need people everywhere. We don't have many people on the farm to begin with. With so much food, even if we work ourselves to death, we still can't transport it all. We have to use farmhands."