PFC Chapter 112: Chosen Farmer
Chapter 112: Chosen Farmer
In the following days, Lin Yaoyao hardly went out. It was not that she didn't want to go out, but the blizzard made it impossible to go out.
The prices of many things outside have begun to skyrocket, especially the prices of warm goods, as well as food, vegetables and fruits.
Lin Yaoyao witnessed with her own eyes that in just three days, the price of the most common charcoal tripled.
Even at such a high price, charcoal is still in short supply.
Food prices are still slightly better, and the current level of increase is acceptable to the people.
But if this continues, the price will most likely continue to rise until ordinary people can no longer afford it.
Of course, there were a few families like the Lin family who noticed the abnormal climate this year in advance.
We made a lot of preparations to keep warm in time and stockpiled sufficient supplies for the winter in advance.
Everyone in the Lin family has changed into warm jackets, all of which were made in advance by Lin Yaoyao at the embroidery workshop.
A thick coat is equivalent to seven, eight or even ten pieces of clothing in keeping out the cold.
The maids and servants in the mansion basically stayed in their own residences and only went out when they were needed to work.
Someone had been ordered to buy tarpaulin in advance to cover the area in the backyard, and there would also be sufficient heating inside.
Lin Yaoyao would not miss the opportunity to make money at this time.
Of course, she earns money from the rich, and ordinary people can’t afford the fruits and vegetables grown in her greenhouse!
But we need to wait a little longer, until those people are trapped at home by the snowstorm and until they are tired of eating delicious food.
Looking at her own achievements every day, Lin Yaoyao can't help feeling proud.
She finally accomplished something great in ancient times!
She actually figured out how to grow greenhouse vegetables by accident!
I must be the chosen farmer, right?
Although she didn't seem to have contributed anything, at most she just gave orders with her mouth.
Lin Zhengping was also shocked when he saw the abundant fruits in the greenhouse.
"Yaoyao, is this the technique you learned there?"
If this technology is promoted and popularized throughout Fengyin Country, why would the people worry about going hungry?
Lin Yaoyao understood what he was thinking at a glance.
"Dad, please put your little thoughts aside. This thing is not suitable for promotion at all.
Look at these tarpaulins and then look at the heating equipment outside. Isn't each one of them expensive?
These things are tailor-made for rich people and are only suitable for people with a lot of money.
And the success rate is not 100%. I don’t have the skills, so I’d better not tease those ordinary people.”
When Lin Zhengping heard this, he was visibly disappointed.
"I thought it was too simple."
"but..."
"What are you not able to achieve? Yaoyao, stop keeping us in suspense and tell us what you are not able to achieve."
"However, most people in the north will heat the kang in their houses in winter, so they can grow bean sprouts, leeks and the like.
These things can be eaten as a dish to change the taste. If you can't finish them, you can sell them.
It's a considerable amount of income.
Of course, if you have a ground heating system in the south, you can do the same thing, as long as the temperature is right and the heat is evenly distributed. "
Lin Zhengping's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this.
The first thing that came to his mind was the military camp.
In winter, the soldiers had almost no other food to eat except dry rations and corn porridge.
It’s not that we don’t want to feed everyone, but there is nothing to sell, not even wild vegetables to dig up in the mountains.
If you specially set aside two tents, you can ask people to grow some bean sprouts and leeks in them.
We can even build two small greenhouses like this one, so our brothers won’t have to worry about having no food.
There are many soldiers in the military camp, and buying directly from outside may not be cheaper than building a greenhouse by yourself.
Do it as soon as you think of it. Lin Zhengping immediately asked Lin Yaoyao to write down all the methods and precautions.
Although he has not appeared in public yet, he has found ways to get in touch with many of his former brothers.
When it came to this good thing that would benefit the soldiers, the first person he thought of was naturally his former brother.
Of course, there are those who want to test it on others first, and only promote it to the public if it is successful.
You can't just think of yourself as a teacher before you figure things out, and then waste the people's food, right?
Lin Yaoyao ignored what Lin Zhengping was doing and just lay down in her own yard.
Occasionally, people would keep an eye on Lin Zhengfeng and Shen Yanran.
Now, as the Wanshou Festival is getting closer, not even a snowstorm can stop the enthusiasm of civil and military officials.
Many vassal states of Fengyin Kingdom, as well as envoys from friendly neighboring countries, have come here despite the snowstorm.
The weather in Beijing is getting colder day by day, but people's enthusiasm is getting higher day by day.
At this time, people did not take the snowstorm seriously. They just felt that the snow this year came especially early and was especially heavy.
Qu Manrong sent someone to call Lin Yaoyao, and even if she didn't want to go out, she had to go to the main courtyard in the snowstorm.
It’s not that Qu Manrong didn’t want to come in person, but she strictly forbade Qu Manrong to come to see her.
The excuse was that she was in poor health and they didn't want her to be exposed to the wind and cold.
In fact, he was just afraid that she would accidentally run into Lin Zhengping. Who made Lin Zhengping have no definite plan until now?
When they arrived at the main courtyard, Qu Manrong quickly stood up to brush off the snow on her body, and then forced her to drink a bowl of ginger soup to warm her body.
Lin Yaoyao: “…”
If I had known this earlier, I would have let my cheap dad go out and hide by himself, which would have been better than forcing myself to drink the hard-to-swallow ginger soup!
"Mom, I'm in good health and I won't catch a cold or get cold. You don't need to prepare ginger soup for me next time."
"Yaoyao, you don't understand, mother also put a lot of blood-replenishing herbs in this ginger soup."
During these days of getting along, Qu Manrong also heard that her daughter had never had her period.
This is not a small matter, it is a huge matter!
In order to get her period earlier, she consulted many doctors who were proficient in gynecology, and even wrote a letter to her parents asking them to find a famous doctor in Jiangnan.
Finally, I got a prescription that is mild in nature and can regulate the body.
"Mom, you called me here today, didn't you just want me to drink this bowl of unpalatable ginger soup?"
"How is that possible? If it was just ginger soup, I would have asked Chunlan to bring it to you. Why would I have asked you to go out in the snow?"
"What's that for?"
"It's for the Wanshou Festival. A palace lady will come to measure your size and make a special palace dress for you to wear on the festival."
This was something she had to rely on for a long time and paid a lot of money to get the female official in the tailoring room to tailor her clothes for her.
She has already been treated very unfairly. You can't let your daughter wear someone else's palace dress at a grand occasion like the Emperor's Birthday, right?
The other person he was referring to was naturally Lin Zirou!