Guo'er thought about it carefully in her heart. She just believed her father easily and thought he really wanted to buy jewelry for her mother as a birthday gift. That's why the gap between her fingers became enlarged. She sponsored him so much money at once, but it turned out to be a disaster.

Come up with a joke.

During this period of time, she was pulling everyone in the family to make money, and after thinking about it, she was the only one who didn't pull her in.

My mother earns money from doing embroidery every month, plus the dividends from the peanut business that my grandma’s family sends me from time to time. In this way, my mother has at least several taels of income every month, so I thought about giving it to her as well.

His father might be a little sweet, and maybe his father would change. Who would have thought that this father, who is completely untested, would go through so much trouble.

"It has nothing to do with you, Guo'er. I know you are a good girl, and it is your father who is worried. So, go back and persuade your mother not to take it to heart."

Father Yao is a sensible person and will not just blame his wife and granddaughter when something goes wrong like Mrs. Tao, so he comforts Guoer with words.

After a speechless night, Yao Sanzhu limped back to the East Crossing Courtyard the next day. He first dug out the little money he had hidden from the flower pot under the plum blossom tree, and took Ai Ai into the house to apologize to Mr. Bao.

Mr. Bao turned his head to one side and ignored the person in front of him. After so many years, neither husband nor wife knew each other. He was forced by the old man to apologize like this. It's not unusual!

The embroidery workshop was opened, but Mr. Bao claimed to be ill and did not show up for several days.

As the saying goes, good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles. Now no one in the village knows that Yao Sanzhu bought her a pair of fake bracelets. I'm afraid everyone is laughing at her secretly. Bao was hiding at home, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

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In fact, Mrs. Bao was overthinking it. The villagers just listened to it as a joke and it was over. No one kept holding on to it. Now among the women in the village, who doesn't want to enter the Yao family's workshop?

Do you have the eyes to see the Yao family’s jokes?

Besides, even if the pair of silver bracelets are fake, they are still worth seven to eight hundred cash, which is not something ordinary people can afford.

Seven to eight hundred cents is enough for an ordinary farmer to spend several months. Who has the capital to laugh at the cheap bracelet that Yao Sanzhu bought for his wife? Why don't you try buying a more expensive one?

Yao Fushan came back from the city and brought a man to Yao's house. Father Yao thought he looked familiar when he saw him.

"Fushan, this is..."

Zhang Yaren didn't wait for Yao Fushan to speak, stepped forward and said: "Uncle Yao, you don't recognize me anymore. We did business before."

"Ouch - it turns out it's you."

Only then did Father Yao realize that the man in front of him was Zhang Ya, who had dealt with their family before. It was Zhang Ya who had originally bought the thirty acres of land in his family.

Yao Fushan: "Third Uncle, Zhang Yaren has some land in his hands this time. I wanted to ask your family if you want to buy it, so I came here with me."

People from Zhang Ya also said: "Yes, Uncle Yao, Zhang came here uninvited this time for the purpose of selling land. There is a family in a nearby village who wants to sell land. It's not much, only twenty-four acres. Because it happens to be with

Your family's thirty acres of land are next to each other, so the first thing I thought of was your family, and I came over to ask if anyone wanted to buy it. If not, it would be okay for him to look for another property."

After speaking, the smile on Zhang Yaren's face became more sincere.

When Father Yao heard this, he was immediately moved. Who among the farmers doesn't want to own more land? As long as he can afford the price, the more land under his name, the better.

It's just that Father Yao doesn't have the financial power in the family, so if he wants to buy land, he must get Guo'er's consent.

Father Yao felt excited and immediately called Guo'er over.

When Guoer came over and heard that it was about buying land, she was as happy as Yao Yao and said bluntly that as long as her father and uncle were optimistic about it, she would just pay for it.

Father Yao was overjoyed and immediately took his two sons to the fields over there with Yao Fushan and Zhang Yaren.

Several people came back with happy expressions on their faces. Without asking, they knew that they were interested in it, so they took out the money they had prepared from their wallets without saying a word.

It was still the original price, six taels per acre, for a total of twenty-four acres. Including the errand money given to Yaren and the cost of exchanging the official deed, Guoer spent a total of one hundred and fifty-five taels of silver.

This is done.

When writing the land deed, Father Yao made it clear that the twenty-four acres of land would be put in Guo'er's name, and Guo'er's name would be written on the land deed. In the future, these lands would be Guo'er's dowry.

Father Yao's move made Guo'er a little embarrassed. She was actually not keen on being a small landowner. She still had a long, long way to go, so she insisted that Father Yao's name be written on the land deed.

name.

The old man could not refuse, but was moved to tears by his granddaughter.

At this point, the Yao family already owns fifty-four acres of land, and they can definitely be regarded as small landowners in this area of ​​several dozen miles.

The ducks raised in the old house started to lay eggs. The eggs they laid at first were very small, not much bigger than quail eggs. Guoer went into the duck house and picked up a small duck egg. He looked around at a bunch of plump ducks, shaking their heads and wagging their tails.

The duck seemed to see jumping gold ingots walking towards her, and she couldn't help but smile and narrow her eyes.

Ducks are full of treasures. In addition to roast duck, duck legs, duck necks, duck gizzards, and duck tongues can also be used to make various delicious braised products.

All of this must be done step by step. What Guoer needs to do now is to try out the two delicacies of preserved eggs and roast duck as soon as possible.

I have experience in making preserved eggs. My grandma in my previous life would make some preserved eggs every year. After she got a few years older, she would be able to help.

Prepare plant ash, quicklime, rice husks, salt, alkali, tea water and other materials, mix them thoroughly into mud shape according to a certain proportion, wipe the fresh duck eggs clean, wrap them in a thick layer of mud, put them in a jar and seal them, about

It will take about fifty days.

Afraid of not being able to grasp the proportions of the recipe, I didn’t make much fruit at first, so I only filled four small jars.

Looking at the small jar sealed with wax oil, Guoer suddenly felt happy that in her previous life, her father did not love her mother. It was their care that allowed her to have some ability to make a living in this life.

Preserved eggs were easy to make, but roast duck was difficult. She had eaten a lot of these before, but she had never made them herself.

The most difficult thing was the hanging stove used to make roast duck. Guoer could only rack his brains to remember the stove, especially the internal structure of the stove. After repeated it many times, he finally drew the style of the oven and asked the craftsman to make it.

came out.

The pre-processing of the roast duck is also simple. When it is officially roasted in the hanging furnace, it is the time when the skill is most tested.

Guo'er and Yao Sizhu worked hard for many days. It was difficult to control the heat at first, and the duck came out half-cooked. Later, it was constantly burnt, making the two of them sigh every time they looked at the duck.

During these days, the Yao family had a few ducks in their meals every day. The whole family rubbed their bellies and sighed. They were finally living like big landowners. They had meat to eat every day. They could eat whatever they wanted.

My uncle!

When the Yao family almost couldn't hold on after eating duck, they finally heard Guo'er announce that this is what it tastes like!

The Yao family was relieved that they no longer had to eat duck.

The research on roast duck was successful, and the braised duck gizzards, duck necks and other braised meats that everyone was taught to make looked decent. Guoer began to plan the future development direction of the duck meat business.

She couldn't rely on the Juxianglou family, so Guo'er decided to make some roast duck and braised duck meat and promote them to all the mid-to-high-end restaurants in the city. Based on this unique taste, she believed there would be restaurants willing to cooperate.

After gaining popularity, he can also open his own shop in the future, specializing in roast duck and braised duck meat. Well, the name of the shop will be called Yao Ji Roast Duck Shop, which is quite satisfactory.

The roast duck and braised duck meat will be left to the fourth uncle. From now on, he will be in charge of cooking. The second uncle will be the salesperson outside. Then we can invite the uncle and cousin to come over and start working together.

When the old house was renovated, it was deliberately divided into two parts and separated by a fence. There was an embroidery workshop in the front yard, and two more were built next to the upper house in the backyard. All the doors opened to the backyard, so that the workshops in the backyard could be opened independently.

Come.

The cowshed and chicken coop in the backyard were moved to the new house, and the original vegetable patch was shoveled and leveled, making the entire backyard look much more spacious.

At the end of the year, I slaughtered the two pigs in the pigsty, and I will no longer raise pigs after dismantling the pigsty, freeing up more space to expand production in the future, and focus on raising ducks and making duck-related delicacies.

From then on, the division of labor in the family became more clear. The eldest uncle was responsible for taking care of the family's fields, the second uncle was responsible for outside business, and the fourth uncle was the cook in the roast duck workshop.

Finally, there was her biological father. After much thought, Guo'er thought that with her father's temperament, it would be better to stay away from him when it comes to dealing directly with money in the future, so as not to be tempted and make mistakes again.

The job of herding ducks is actually easier. My fourth uncle has mastered the art of roasting ducks and will be cooking in the workshop in the future. Of course, he will not have time to herd or raise ducks anymore, but with his father's careless virtue, he goes out with the ducks.

Still not sure who to let whom?

After much deliberation, I decided to leave the work of cleaning the duck house and butchering the ducks to my biological father. This work does not require much effort, but being under everyone's noses all day long is just a good way to temper his temperament. Well, it's up to me.

Tell him.

At present, the family's business is increasing, and there is naturally a lot of work to be done every day. It is impossible for them to do it all with their family working from morning to night. There are still more than fifty acres of crop land that need to be plowed every day.

Manager, it seems that we need to expand our manpower.

After discussing this matter with the eldest uncle and the second uncle, they both felt that what Guoer said made sense. The most important thing now was to start the duck business. Of course, the key craftsmanship and recipes must be in the hands of their own people. In this way, they

There will be no more time to do other things, so recruiting people is imperative.

The two brothers have been running around with Guo'er these days. They have seen a lot of people and things, and their minds have already become active. After listening to Guo'er's suggestion, the three of them quickly decided to recruit workers for the workshop and hire workers to farm the land.
Chapter completed!