PFC Chapter 130: Hiding Silver (Seeking Power Generation)
Chapter 130: Hiding Silver (Seeking Power Generation)
Lin’s frozen food is already famous in Dayi Town.
Lin Xiaoman made the icy, melt-in-your-mouth jelly into three flavors: mint, cucumber, and osmanthus.
The most popular one is the osmanthus flavor, which has the fragrance of osmanthus.
Lin Xiaoman decided that in September and October, she must pick more osmanthus flowers and dry them for preservation.
The osmanthus flowers preserved in the space still retain their original golden color. When sprinkled on the ice, they are delicious and beautiful.
The price of mint and cucumber flavored frozen snacks has not changed, still two cents a bowl.
A bowl of iced salmon with osmanthus flavor costs only three cents.
Because it is located in Ruyi Restaurant, diners who dine in the restaurant often order a cold frozen dish as an after-meal snack and take it home.
Most of the old customers accumulated last year brought their own bowls and took one home.
This year's summer heat came quickly, and frozen foods sold out quickly.
Rich families from several nearby towns near Dayi Town would also drive their donkey carts to Ruyi Tower to enjoy the delicious food.
Because of the cold weather, Ruyilou's business is much better than in previous years.
Plus we have to sell it at the side door of Mingyitang, so five buckets of frozen food are not enough.
Now, except for the two little ones in the family, the other four people get up and rub themselves with ice to cool down as soon as the rooster crows.
It went from five buckets a day to seven buckets a day.
Ruyilou kept three barrels and gave two of the remaining four barrels to Lin Xiaoman's two uncles and one to Lin Dahai and Lin Lichun. They all went to nearby villages to sell them.
The last bucket was given to Li Erli, who went to the side door of Mingyitang. After all, Li Erli was the one who sold there last year, so he was very familiar with the place.
Even though there are only two more buckets of ice-cold frozen food, after each person rubs one bucket, only one person needs to stay to rub the ice-cold frozen food, and the remaining three people can make dumplings, steamed buns, and fry crispy food.
Now there are seven buckets. After each person rubs a bucket and freezes it, three people have to continue rubbing another bucket. Only one person can go to the kitchen to work, and he is so busy that he is exhausted.
Later, Li Taohua and Lin Xiaoman decided to invite Aunt Li from next door to be in charge of making dumplings and steamed buns.
Li Taohua uses the thin crisps to make her own dumplings and fried pancakes.
Aunt Li worked from the beginning of the morning to the end of the evening, an hour and a half, and was paid 20 wen a day, which means she could earn half a tael of silver a month.
In addition, Li Erli carried a bucket of ice-cold things on his shoulder and went outside to sell them every day. He could earn an average of fifty cents in half a day, which means he could earn one and a half taels of silver a month.
If I add the five taels of silver I saved from selling frozen food, grass carp, radish and cabbage, as well as house rent last year, I could buy two acres of land if I saved a little.
Therefore, Aunt Li was filled with gratitude and said in her heart that Li Erli had made the right decision to rent the house. Every time she came, it was always quiet.
She didn't tell anyone about it, for fear that others would find out about this good job and take her job away.
Good things always come together.
The Lin family's frozen fritters were selling like hot cakes, the Lin'an tabloids were back on track, and the head of the village brought another piece of good news - the land that had been confiscated from landlord Liu was to be measured and sold.
The villagers of Shanglin Village who had collected money were all very happy and were waiting for the government to finish measuring and buy land.
Those who had not yet gathered the money ran to their relatives and neighbors, but at that time every household was short of money, so who would lend money to others to buy land?
It is better to buy an acre of land yourself than to lend money to others!
Why borrow people?
Lin Dahai and Lin Lichun sold frozen foods for more than ten days and collected five taels of silver.
He felt that his elder brother had helped him again, and he would do whatever his elder brother asked him to do from then on.
Maybe after a few months, they will be able to buy two acres of lower-quality land.
As a farmer, who would complain about having too much land?
Lin Dahai was happy every day. In the morning, he and his son carried baskets to sell frozen food. In the afternoon, he and his son were busy cultivating rice seedlings. In the evening, he continued to weave straw mats and bamboo baskets. He didn't even listen to Wang Chunxiu's complaints and Old Lady Lin's daily nonsense.
On the day of the official land sale, Lin Dajiang bought five acres of top-quality farmland at once, and even Lin Dahai, who usually remained silent, bought two acres of land.
Li Erli also bought two acres of inferior land, and the two sons of the village head bought one acre of superior land and two acres of inferior land respectively.
Others who bought the crops included those who followed Lin Dajiang in growing cabbage and radishes.
This left Old Mrs. Lin dumbfounded.
The eldest and second oldest have already bought land without realizing it, so how could the third oldest not buy one?
Old Mrs. Lin couldn't sit still any longer, so she asked Old Man Lin to go to the town to give a letter to the third son, asking him to bring back the money to buy the land.
Such cheap land, you will miss it if you miss it.
Old Mrs. Lin waited and waited, and finally Old Man Lin came back with a gloomy face.
She couldn't wait to ask, "Old man, what did the third child say? Why didn't he come back with you? Are you going to buy it or not?"
Old Man Lin frowned and said, "The third brother said that he doesn't farm the land in the village, so it's useless to buy it. It's better to save more money and buy a house in the town later."
"Hey, you fool, land is your root. If you can't stay in the town anymore, you still have one mu and three fen of land. You won't starve to death. Besides, the land price is cheap now because of the grace of the court. It won't be this price in the future."
Old Man Lin put his hands behind his back and said, "Forget it. The third son is determined not to buy the land. Don't worry about it. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. If you continue to interfere, you will create an ungrateful person."
"No, the third child is ignorant and I can't just ignore him."
Old Mrs. Lin hurried home, lifted the bed board, knocked and scratched at the corner of the wall, and dug out a burlap bag in front of Old Man Lin's incredulous eyes.
"Old woman, what are you doing..."
Old Man Lin suspected that the old woman had hidden silver here in the early years.
When the family was divided, the old woman only gave out such a small amount of silver to share with the three children, and he felt something was wrong.
Although he doesn't take care of the accounts, he still has some knowledge of the family's finances.
But no matter how he tried to ask, the old woman insisted that she didn't hide anything.
After that, the family ate black flour porridge without oil or water, and he never saw the old woman buying meat. Only then did he believe what the old woman said.
"If I don't hold back, do you think the eldest and second oldest will help the third oldest?"
Old Mrs. Lin took the purse, put the bed back in its original shape, walked to the other side of the mud wall, and scratched around again, finally digging out two dimes.
Old Man Lin pointed at Old Lady Lin, his hands shaking, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly.
"Old woman, when did you hide?"
Old Mrs. Lin looked quite proud. She poured out the silver in her purse and added the two dimes she had dug out. She knew without weighing it that there were about seven or eight taels of silver. As for the exact amount, she had to weigh it again.
"Oh, my family sold a lot of land to the landlord Liu for my third son's education. I thought that although my third son's education was important, the family couldn't be without life-saving money. Look, this is the life-saving money I saved."
Hearing this, Old Man Lin said earnestly, "Old lady, are you planning to use the money you hid to buy land for the third son? If someone asks you where the money came from, what will you say?"
"Of course it was given by the third brother."