bookcurios Chapter 637 The Poorest Village Becomes the Richest Village
Chapter 637 The Poorest Village Becomes the Richest Village
How could Butler Fang take it seriously? He waved his hands quickly, then quickly finished the meat porridge and the fried cake in his hand and left.
While it's still early, the carriage can travel further.
The sales of medicinal drinks at Ren Ai Medical Clinic are increasing, and everyone who has tried them says they are good.
It has accumulated countless word of mouth, so that anyone who is feeling a little unhappy will come to Jiang Fubao to ask for a prescription for medicinal drink. After all, this thing is cheaper than medicated food and even more expensive than taking medicine. It is just like going to a snack shop to drink fruit drink, and the most important thing is that it is good for your health.
The medicinal drinks are selling very well.
The number of people delivering medicine increased from one trip on the first day to ten trips a day. The cook was so busy that Erya had to go to the back to help.
The leaves are turning yellow and autumn is coming.
A breeze blew, and golden waves rose up in the fields.
The autumn harvest has begun in every village.
Jiangjia Village is no exception. At this time of year, Jiang Shoujia lives in the old house.
Because a lot more medicinal herbs were planted this year, Jiang Fubao also came back after the autumn harvest.
After the grain is harvested, the next step is to harvest the medicinal herbs.
Originally, everyone in the village except Jiang Guangyi's family grew medicinal herbs. After the death of Jiang Guangyi and his grandson, Fang Silang, who changed his surname to Jiang, also joined the team that grew medicinal herbs.
So the whole village moved from the fields to the wasteland.
Today's wasteland is no longer a wasteland.
The whole room is yellow-green.
Although the villagers were so tired that sweat was dripping down their cheeks, they looked happy.
The prosperous year we had last year is still hard to forget.
Life in every household has become much better. They eat rice mixed with rice, put more oil in dishes, and eat meat every now and then.
It’s even better than living in Zhangjia Village.
It is especially easy to find marriage partners for men and women in the village.
The man wants to marry a girl from Jiangjia Village, and the woman wants to marry here.
There are eight marriages in a year.
Naturally, there were also many unfamiliar faces that Jiang Fubao had never seen before.
"Everyone, be careful not to break the roots. Be careful. If the roots are broken, the price will be much lower."
Jiang Fubao felt distressed when she saw someone pulling out the herbs roughly.
This crop of medicine has been grown for two years.
If you pull out one of the roots, the efficacy of the medicine will be greatly reduced.
So she used her trump card. When the villagers heard that the medicinal roots were broken, they were worthless, so they dared not use any more force. They even wanted to use the strength of coaxing a baby to dig the medicinal herbs.
What a treasure it is.
Medicinal herbs are not as easy to harvest as crops; they need to be dug up little by little.
It took a full seven days to harvest all the mature medicinal herbs.
Jiang Fubao asked Shitou, Jiang Meng and Jiang Cheng to be responsible for weighing and paying.
"Aunt Liu, your family planted so much this year, a total of one hundred catties, one catty is calculated as one hundred coins, a total of ten taels of silver. Please take it, come and press your fingerprint." Jiang Cheng Jiang Meng has lived in the village for a long time.
It has been integrated into Jiangjia Village.
They know every villager, Jiang Meng said to the Liu family's mother-in-law with a smile.
Jiang Cheng took out the paper deed and silver.
Jiang Fubao went through all the formalities when buying medicine. She would ask everyone to put their fingerprints on the medicine they were selling, including when giving the medicine seeds, to prevent some people from having ulterior motives and secretly selling the herbs elsewhere at a high price. If they used her medicine seeds, they had to sell it to her.
Jiang Fubao asked herself, although the price she offered was lower than that of the pharmacy, she was the one who provided the land and the medicinal seeds.
The old woman from the Liu family was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling after receiving the ten taels of silver.
"Oh, so much silver, more than last year. I was so happy when I only got three taels last year, but this year I got ten taels. Thank you so much. I will plant more next year. It's just that this medicine takes two years to mature. No, I have to open up some more wasteland. Xiao Fubao, can Grandma Liu ask my grandson-in-law and his family to come over to help plant?"
The wife of the Liu family held the silver in her hands, looking left and right, she felt that she could not see enough. She thought that she still had five acres of land to cultivate and four acres of wasteland. There were twelve people in her family, not counting the young ones.
I'm simply too busy.
She had just married off her granddaughter, and was planning to invite her granddaughter's husband and his family to help. At most, she could give them 10% of the profits from selling medicinal herbs.
Unfortunately, her idea failed.
Jiang Fubao refused directly.
"No, if you do this, Grandma Liu, others will do the same, and there won't be enough wasteland to plant. So I can't agree to you. Everyone listen carefully. You have to do it in moderation. If you can't plant so many medicinal herbs, don't blindly open up wasteland. If you are too busy, you won't be able to take good care of the medicinal seeds I give you. Those who waste medicinal seeds will no longer cooperate with me. I will not give them any medicinal seeds. Remember what I said. Also, if you want to pull relatives from other villages to help, others will follow suit. I don't need so many medicinal herbs for the time being. Once there are more medicinal herbs, I will plant less next year, and you will naturally earn less. Or, I will lower the purchase price to the lowest. I guess you don't want this, right? Of course, if you plant well, I will give you a reasonable price."
I’m afraid these people have ulterior motives.
Jiang Fubao beats people with a stick and gives them sweet dates.
The flames of anger that had just risen in the villagers' hearts were extinguished in an instant.
Their lives have improved, but their married daughters or their own families are still poor.
I wanted to pull them apart.
Now it’s over, there’s no hope.
But soon, smiles appeared on their faces again.
Because Jiang Fubao gave too much money this year.
Even if you earn little, you will still have two taels of silver.
It just so happened that the one who got the two taels of silver was Jiang Silang.
He was alone, had no need to grow crops and no land, so he could only concentrate on reclaiming wasteland and planting medicinal herbs. He mostly ate and drank in the mountains on weekdays.
A lot of vegetables are also planted in the backyard of the house.
Jiang Silang worked hard every day, eating wild vegetable porridge or boiled vegetables, as well as wild fruits and mushrooms, and occasionally he could pick up a few bird eggs to satisfy his hunger.
The whole person is very thin.
After getting two taels of silver, he immediately bought food from a familiar villager.
He saved the remaining money, but he was very greedy, so he took fifty cents and bought a piece of meat.
He refined the fat part into oil and used the lean part to stir-fry mushrooms. It was the first time he ate rice porridge in such a long time and he almost cried.
He ate up half the pot by himself.
For three consecutive days, the aroma of meat wafted from every household in Jiangjia Village.
The news even spread to the next village.
"Oh my, the road is filled with the smell of meat. Who is eating meat? Why does it smell so good?"
"After paying the grain tax and selling the rice, I will also buy two taels of meat to eat."
"Where else could it have come from? It could be Jiangjia Village next door. You may not know that Jiangjia Village now not only grows crops, but also medicinal herbs. Not only that, I heard that their village chief is also collecting chestnuts in the village. There's money to be made everywhere, so they're getting rich, aren't they?
Last year, during the New Year celebrations in Jiangjia Village, the firecrackers were set off. Hey, how come they are so lucky and become rich so quickly? Look at us. A few decades ago, Jiangjia Village was not as good as us. It was obviously the poorest village in the town, but now they live happier than the villagers in Zhangjia Village. They eat meat every day and are not afraid of getting sick. "