When those families in the village who did not raise pigs saw the smiles on the faces of the pig raising families when they got the money, they looked envious, jealous, and regretful.
I regret not listening to Shi Jiang's words. If I had raised a few heads early, I could have exchanged a lot of money during the Chinese New Year.
Yang Tiexin also raised three pigs. Originally, he was worried whether his mother would refuse to accept his pigs.
But I went from house to house and didn't miss his family.
Holding almost two taels of silver in his hand, Yang Tiexin's smile never dropped.
Liu Pandi was also very happy. If she had known that the money was so easy to earn, she should have raised a few more.
Wang Dani next door had a drooped face. Because of her, her mother-in-law refused to accept the pigs she raised. She watched helplessly as Shi Jiang's servants walked past the house without any intention of stopping.
The rumors that had been encouraged by the family before were dispelled by the elders of the Yang family themselves.
The whole village has received a lot of benefits from her mother-in-law, and she can't even say a bad word about her mother-in-law when she goes out.
Before I could say anything, I was pointed at my nose and scolded.
Now that the pig has been harvested, Wang Dani can imagine that the people in the village will definitely exclude her even more.
After everyone had a good year, before spring started, every household went to buy piglets.
This time we bought more piglets than in previous years, with the smallest family raising three or four piglets.
Shopkeeper Li kept his promise. When he learned that the Jiang family's pigs were ready for slaughter, he sent someone to slaughter them.
What they want is pork. They don't want pig heads, pig feet, bones and internal organs.
If it's small, it can still be digested in the restaurant, but with so much, it's obviously not needed.
Shi Jiang thought for a while and gave Shopkeeper Li an idea.
Brine all the internal organs, bones, pig's feet and pig's heads. It's winter. After braising, it can be stored for a long time without going bad.
This made Wangtianlou, whose business was slightly better because of the sausages, become popular again.
After all, most dishes nowadays are still based on stew.
Shi Jiang asked them to place the large iron pot in which pig heads, pig feet, and pig offal were braised at the entrance of the restaurant.
The lid was lifted, and as the soup boiled in the pot, the overbearing aroma filled the entire street.
Almost everyone who passed by was attracted by the scent and entered the restaurant.
After coming in, everyone who orders drinks will be served a platter like this.
At first, shopkeeper Li felt that he was losing money, but after a day of business, he found that the income of this day was actually equal to the income of the previous ten days.
Shopkeeper Li opened his mouth wide and took a breath of cold air, thinking to himself, no wonder his boss asked him to look at Boss Shi carefully when he left.
Sure enough, smart people have great abilities.
You can make so much money just by using your brain.
Shi Jiang didn't know what shopkeeper Li was thinking. All the pigs that could be put into the market were sold.
The rest were all piglets and sows that had just been born.
This year, Shi Jiang doesn’t even have to go out to collect the piglets. The piglets born to her own sows can almost fill the pig pens in two pig sheds.
Shi Jiang did not eat much of the sweet potatoes and corn harvested before. Instead, he asked his servants to dig up all the wasteland within the wall and plant them.
She had a premonition that something big was going to happen after spring began.
Cheng County belongs to the northernmost boundary of Jiangnan. Due to the order of the county magistrate, all the villages in the county have planted some sweet potatoes.
Unexpectedly, after digging out the sweet potatoes, they were overjoyed.
Therefore, at the beginning of spring this year, those people were reluctant to eat, so they planted all the sweet potatoes harvested last year to raise seedlings, hoping to plant more varieties this year and harvest more sweet potatoes.
Today, the entire county seems particularly prosperous.
However, as more and more people fled with their families from the north, the people began to panic.
At first, the county magistrate allowed the rich people in the city to give porridge at the city gate, but as more and more people fled the city, and there were several cases of wounding and robbery in the city, they had no choice but to order the city gates to be closed tightly to prevent those fleeing from the city.
people have entered the city.
"Chief, it's not good, there are people fleeing the famine and coming towards us!"
Because the number of people fleeing famine was increasing day by day, Shi Jiang discussed with the village chief and elders of the Yang family to send young people from the village to patrol around the entrance of the village.
After all, it can be said that their village is now considered wealthy.
What should we do if there are those fleeing from famine with evil intentions who come to kill people and steal food?
The village chief and the clan elders were convinced, and they summoned the whole village to send out people to those who had people and food to those who didn't.
Sure enough, within a few days, the fugitive sneaked into the village with evil intentions and was arrested.
It's just that he was arrested, but he can't be locked up like this forever, right?
After all, it is not cost-effective to capture more and more people, and you cannot starve them to death, but you still have to take care of their food.
For this reason, the village chief and clan elders almost went bald with worry.
Those captured escapees were still panic-stricken at first, but later on, they broke through jars and fell, and were no longer afraid at all.
Because although these villagers arrested them, they did not bully them, they just locked them up. However, they did not miss out on two meals a day.
This gave them hope of survival, food, and no hunger, so they couldn't think of anything else.
Originally, I sneaked into the village just to have enough food.
The village chief and the clan elders felt even bald when they learned that this group of deserters had such an idea.
"Mrs. Shi, what should we do? Is it possible that our village is still raising these people in vain?"
I don’t know when the village chief and clan elders called Shi Jiang from Tachita’s wife to Shi’s wife.
Although there are sporadic people who say that Shi Jiang is not good, most people think that Shi Jiang is a truly good person.
After all, it is a fact that under Shi Jiang's leadership, everyone's life is getting better and better.
Hearing Li Chang's words, Shi Jiang smiled and pointed to the many wastelands remaining at the foot of the mountain.
"How long will it take for the people in our village to dig these fields alone? If they want to live here, it is not impossible. As long as they are willing to work, we can first lend them grain and sweet potato seedlings.
Just wait until a few months later and then return it to us."
Li Chang followed the direction Shi Jiang pointed, patted his thigh, and said with bright eyes: "Yes, just lend them the grain and sweet potato seedlings first, and then return them to us after a few months."
As for the borrowed grain, compared to the free food they now eat every day, Li Chang felt that it was nothing.
The escapees who just wanted to be salted fish were all pulled to the wasteland. The chief pointed to Xie Liancheng to buy a large piece of land next to the wasteland, and asked them to cut down wood from the mountain to build houses, and then build houses on the wasteland.