Chapter 88 Successful planting and quick profits

If Wei wanted to use this cave to grow mushrooms, he would have to find Li Zheng in a nearby village to negotiate.

Although this mountain is a barren mountain, and everyone can go there to cut firewood and pick herbs, if you want to lease the cave for a long time, you still need to reach an agreement with the villagers.

After this matter is investigated clearly, we will see how to make arrangements.

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Xie Jue and Xie Ying returned to the Xie Family Courtyard first.

Xie Jue asked people to take these herbs down for processing. They dried what should be dried and washed what should be washed.

"Brother, you can't mess up these herbs for me." Xie Ying warned.

"Don't worry, sister, you picked it yourself, I will keep it safe for you." Xie Jue said with a smile.

"And the ointment just now, give it back to me, don't try to keep it secretly."

Xie Ying stretched out her palm and asked Xie Jue for ointment.

This time Xie Jue did not take it out happily, but shamelessly asked Xie Ying for it.

"Yingying, just leave this ointment to me."

"Brother, what do you want the ointment for?" Xie Ying asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just think it smells good and I want to keep it. And when the weather is hot, I am often harassed by mosquitoes when I study at night. Applying this ointment may help me avoid this trouble."

"I'll give it to you if you need it." Xie Ying is very generous to her family. As long as Xie Jue has a legitimate reason, she will not be stingy and refuse to give it to him.

Then Xie Ying added: "But don't forget that you have to give Ruoruo a gift in return. Last time I asked you to bring some good things back from the capital, but you haven't brought them back to me yet, so I don't even have a gift."

Give it to someone else.”

Xie Jue shouted: "Sister, you have wronged me. From last time to now, I have been in Xingshan County and have never left, let alone go to the capital. How can I bring you something back?"

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"Then what have you been doing in Xingshan County? Haven't you finished your work yet?" Xie Ying asked.

"Some of them are finished, and there are still some things that need to be dealt with." Xie Jue replied.

The war was over for the time being, and he really should have gone back, but because of the Seventh Prince's incident, his grandfather ordered him to stay in Xingshan County for a longer period of time.

"Let's see. I'm going to Taizhou Prefecture in two days. His Majesty the Seventh Prince is in Fucheng now. There are some things that require me to go there. Then I will take some time to come out and help you and sister Wei buy some new things."

Xie Jue thought for a while and then said.

"Okay, you have to buy it carefully. Mine is not important. People have given me things several times. My return gifts must be decent. I can't be embarrassed." Xie Ying warned.

"Don't worry, I won't embarrass my sister." Xie Jue promised with a smile.

The brother and sister talked and laughed for a while, then left the other courtyard and returned to the Xie family's main residence with today's harvest.

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After receiving the notice from Wei Ruo, the wet nurse immediately took action. While asking her husband to buy the things Wei Ruo needed, she went to talk to the villages near Xishan on behalf of Wei Ruo.

The negotiation process went surprisingly smoothly. As soon as the wet nurse said that she planned to hire people from the village, and the salary would be 150 Wen per month, Li Zheng agreed without hesitation.

In order to respect Li Zheng, the wet nurse followed Wei Ruo's wishes and handed over the power of selection to Li Zheng, asking Li Zheng to recommend suitable and capable young people in the village.

Li Zheng declined at first, but after hearing from Xu's mother that if they succeeded, they would expand the scale later and need to hire more people, Li Zheng immediately agreed.

Because it is not easy to recommend just one or two people, but if there are more than ten or twenty job opportunities, it will be easier for him to arrange it, and he does not have to worry too much about the villagers' objections to his arrangement.

This is good news for this poor mountain village located in the west of Xingshan County. They have no skills, and their family only has a few fields. They don't have enough to eat when the weather is good, let alone in the past few years.

They can have a job and earn two hundred cents a month. This income is enough to feed the family.

After collecting the materials, arrange them according to the proportions given by Wei Ruo.

Fill them into cylindrical culture media, just like dead wood sections.

Then it was sent to the cave, and the follow-up work was handed over to the hired villagers Li Erniu and He Dong.

The content of the work is not complicated. It is mainly responsible for guarding to ensure that no wild beasts or people enter the cave to cause damage. Then, it is to observe the growth of the mushrooms and report regularly.

Seven days later.

When the first batch of shiitake mushrooms were grown, the nanny made a trip herself. After setting the picking standards, she asked Li Erniu and He Dong, the two people in charge, to pick all the shiitake mushrooms that met the standard size. She sent the shop assistants to transport them.

Went down the mountain.

Immediately afterwards, the nanny sent some to the Wei Mansion for Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo's face was filled with joy when he saw the first batch of shiitake mushrooms successfully cultivated outside.

In just seven days, the harvest was achieved. The cultivation period of mushrooms is really much shorter than that of other crops!

"Miss, what should I do with these mushrooms?" Xiumei asked.

"Take it to the market immediately and sell it." Wei Ruodao, "Then let Uncle Xu and the others find a few more caves like this in the area according to the standards of the first cave I found to expand the scale of planting."

"Miss, mushrooms are not a staple food, and they are not easy to preserve. If we plant too many and they cannot be sold, we will lose them." Xiumei said worriedly.

"Don't worry, I don't plan to sell all the mushrooms when the scale expands. We will use the unsold mushrooms to dry them and make mushroom sauce. These can greatly extend the shelf life of the mushrooms." Wei

If only there had been a countermeasure already.

"Dried shiitake mushrooms and shiitake mushroom sauce? I haven't tried it yet, so I'm really looking forward to it!" Xiumei was eager to try it.

"When it's made, I'll let you taste it first!"

"It doesn't matter which one you taste, as long as the lady can grow more crops and earn more money!"

Wei Ruozheng and Xiumei were talking happily about the mushrooms. Someone from the front yard came to inform that Miss Xie had sent a gift to Wei Ruo and was waiting for Wei Ruo to sign for it in person.

Before leaving, he specifically said that Miss Xie had sent a lot of things and asked Wei Ruo to bring more people.

Xie Ying had asked Wei Ruo to return the favor several times, so Wei Ruo was not surprised when she heard this.

I just don’t know what gift Xie Ying prepared for her.

When Wei Ruo came to the front yard, there were already many people standing in the front yard, including Yunshi and Wei Qingwan.

"Miss Wei." An honest-looking old man walked up and said to Wei Ruo with a smile on his face, "I am the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion. On the order of my young master, I am here to return the gift to the lady."

Wei Ruo looked at a carriage pulling goods behind the steward of the Xie Mansion and asked, "Are these all?"
Chapter completed!