kingnovel Chapter 657 The Master Hires
Chapter 657 The Master Hires
Zhou Guo pouted, "I don't want it. Why don't you just stop getting married and stay at home with me as an old lady?"
Zhou Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and she responded casually: "Okay, since you said you won't marry me, then I won't marry you. We two sisters will depend on each other and grow old together."
As soon as I heard it, I knew he was just trying to please her.
After lying down for a while, she sat up and walked with heavy steps to the desk, lit the lamps on both sides, spread out the paper, ground the ink, and picked up the brush.
If you feel uneasy, practice calligraphy.
After writing six or seven words, my heart slowly calmed down.
He practiced more than ten pictures one by one in one breath, twisted his neck, rubbed his wrists, read a book for a while, and turned off the lights to go to bed.
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The third batch of fertilizer was much more than the previous two batches. As his fertilizer fermenting skills had begun to mature, Zhou Guo began to add more fertilizer to the pile. Originally, there were five stones in a pile, but now there were ten stones and twenty stones, which was exactly twice as much as before.
The old man looked at the pile of fertilizer that had grown overnight and kept thinking, "It's amazing! If we take all the fertilizer home, how much more grain will we get in the autumn harvest this year?"
Zhou Guo said, "Don't think too much. I have to keep some to sell to other people. Recently, villages far away have heard the news and come to buy fertilizer. I have to keep some for them. It's useless for you to have so much. It's just a waste of money."
Having said this, he glanced at him, took out a small notebook for accounting, and wrote down the old man's information. Hu Zi hurriedly handed him an ink pad and came close to the old man.
The old man looked at the things in front of him and said, "I don't need it, right? They are all acquaintances, do they still need to put their fingerprints on them?"
Zhou Guo said, "You have to record them all, otherwise it will be difficult for me to keep accounts. I have a count of the fertilizers when they come out. Otherwise, if you don't record them, how can I enter them into the accounts? It's just 100 dan of fertilizer, more than 10 guan, are you so upset?"
The old man said: "It's not more than ten strings of cash, it's sixteen strings of cash!"
Zhou Guo was speechless. "Is that a lot? I sold it to someone else for 180 guan, and I sold it to you for 160 guan. I'm already 20 wen less. Isn't that good?"
Speaking of this, the old man had more to say, "I heard that you sold it to Wang Fugui and his family. The neighbor sold it for 141 dan, which is 20 wen less than mine!"
Zhou Guo coughed, and then said, "How can it be the same? They are just like us, they all fled from the village, and their families are not well-off. I thought that I could help them as much as I could.
You, you are a big landlord, so rich, but you still care about my little money. Don't you know to take care of my business? I am a small business. If you don't pay me, come to pull a few trucks today, come to pull a few trucks tomorrow, how can I do this business? Otherwise, I will just give it to you. "
The old man was almost jumped up by her retort, and said dissatisfiedly: "Who do you think I am? I am not a robber. I pull a few carts today and a few carts tomorrow. It's just money. I will give you more than ten strings of money, right? Humph, I won't give you anything. I will also use grain and beans to pay for the autumn harvest like other people. You will be pissed to death."
Zhou Gu and the others looked at each other and wanted to go up to persuade them, but the old man stopped them, "Forget it, let them quarrel, it will be fine after a while."
Zhou Guo handed the account book to him and said, "Press your fingerprint. Only then will I send it to you."
When the old man heard this, he pressed the button obediently, but he felt something was wrong, as if he had signed a contract to sell himself.
Zhou Guo put the account book into his arms with a smile and said to the old man, "I'll send it to your house right away."
He shouted to Wu Jiang: "Load the truck, Mr. Zhao, one hundred shi!"
In a word, all the servants were mobilized, and one hundred stones could be transported in twenty carts.
The old man was also very happy because these children were busy working for his family.
After all the fertilizer was loaded onto the truck, Zhou Guo said to the old man, "Do you want to go back?"
The old man nodded and said, "Go back. If I don't go back, you guys don't know where to take the manure. I'll go with you. Do you want to go with me and take a look?"
Zhou Guo shook his head. "I won't go. I have other things to do. Let my master accompany you back."
"What's up? What's up?"
There was a voice outside the manor at this moment. She looked out and said with a smile, "Yes, my work has come."
People who want to buy fertilizer came again. There were more than twenty of them in a group. It was obvious that they were from the same village.
The fertilizer in Zhuangzi is in short supply now. This time, the woman is responsible for two piles alone. During those days of turning the piles, she was so busy that she didn't even have time to drink water.
Fortunately, there is not much work in the mountains now, and the work in the fields is not heavy. I don’t have much land, and most of the people on the farm are here. Otherwise, if I rely on these women, they will be too busy to handle it.
When these people saw so many Fei, they were overjoyed and said to Zhou Guo: "I brought all the people from my village here. When I came last time, you said that Fei would come out in the next two days. Has he come out?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "It's out. You came at a good time. Not many people have reserved this wave of fat. Come, tell us how much you want. We will take note of it and send it to your village when the convoy comes back."
The other people who came with me were also very happy. They originally thought it would take several days to get the baby, but they didn’t expect to be able to take it home as soon as they arrived. Today is really an auspicious day to go out.
After Zhou Guo finished registering, he smiled and said, "You don't want much. We can deliver all the fertilizer to your village today. You just wait here. The convoy will come back and take you back together."
Those people were even happier, "Hey, we'll wait here, you don't have to worry about us."
After that, they found a place close to Fei and sat down. They each took out their dry food and water bottles and started to eat.
Zhou Guo was holding the account book in his hand. It was a new one. When the autumn harvest came, this account book would be exchanged for cartloads of grain.
He said to the fat man beside him, "Call Chief Butler Wu."
Wu Jiang came in a moment, "Master, what's wrong?"
Zhou Guo said, "After the autumn harvest, we will collect the grain. Now we don't have the land to store so much grain, so we need to build more granaries. Go and hire a few temporary workers to build two large granaries on the farm, next to your house. Remember to keep them away from the forest, waterproof and fireproof, and big."
Wu Jiang happily responded, "Master, how much grain can we harvest this autumn?"
Zhou Guo raised the account book in his hand and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, it will be a lot. More and more people from the surrounding villages are buying fertilizer from our village. We can apply two more crops of fertilizer later. I guess more people will come to our village. In this way, the amount of grain harvested in autumn will be considerable. So I asked you to build two farms in case one is not enough."
Wu Jiang had also experienced hunger before, and he said happily, "If the granary is really full, we won't be hungry for years."
Zhou Guo said, "Business at the county shop is getting more and more stable. The most they sell is four or five strings of cash a day, and none of them sell less. Everyone says there are too few things. After autumn, we will put food in the shop. Remember to give the same price as the county shop. We don't ask for a good sale, after all, we don't have much money and can't afford it."