freenovelworld Chapter 567 Annual Gift
Chapter 567 Annual Gift
Turning his head to look outside, it started snowing again. "Come on, uncle, let's go downstairs and have a barbecue around the fire."
It was really cold outside, so she put the stove in the house, and it was much warmer inside than outside.
You can eat barbecue and drink wine while looking at the snow scenery outside the window.
A few people grilled and ate at the same time, and by the time of dinner, they were already 60% full.
Zhou Guo was only three-quarters full and finished two bowls of rice before stopping.
Zhou Dacang laughed and said, "In previous years, when the food was not oily, you could eat three or four bowls of rice in one meal. Now that every meal is full of oil, you can still eat so much."
Zhou Guo said, "That's not true. As I get older, I grow taller and stronger. It's good that I don't eat more. How can I reduce it?"
Li said, "I have grown a little taller in the past two years, but not too much. Let's see if I can grow taller next year or the year after. A tall person is always better looking than a short one. If nothing else, at least I can see farther than others."
There is no short person in the Zhou family.
This requires more fabric. During those difficult years, Huang lamented more than once that if she was born shorter, she would have to spend less fabric.
Zhou Dacang's health gradually improved, and his complexion also improved.
Later, he couldn't stay at home anymore, so he went to the mountains all day to see the sheep mushrooms planted by Zhou Guo in the fields and the small flower mushrooms planted in the trees. He was more excited than Zhou Guo when he saw some movement, and more anxious than anyone else when he saw the small flower mushrooms were motionless. "Why haven't they come out yet? Isn't it like a worm? It's too cold in winter, so it's hibernating now? It's so cold, won't the flower mushrooms die?"
Zhou Guo checked the tree species one by one and nodded, "They may die, so I said it would take two or three years to grow small flower mushrooms and sheep mushrooms. This year it depends on their adaptability. Many species may freeze to death, but some will survive. It is these living ones that we want. If they can withstand the severe cold, we need to increase their cultivation. So the obvious harvest next spring will not be too much, but it will be enough. All I want is to plant. Sooner or later, I will plant flower mushrooms and sheep mushrooms on these two mountains."
The small flower mushrooms all over the mountain could not be well insulated, so they could only be wrapped in thick hay. She couldn't build a shed for the entire mountain, could she?
That would be so time-consuming and laborious. Besides, she felt that compared to things grown in a shed, those grown naturally tasted better. Since sheep mushrooms could grow on such a high mountain, it meant that the sheep mushroom species here had adapted to the climate here and could survive without a shed.
After understanding this, she was no longer worried about such bad weather.
Only the fittest survive, and those that survive are the finest products. Those that come out of the shed may lack fragrance.
It is possible that the yield may not be good, but she cultivates it year after year and does not believe that she cannot cultivate a high-yield variety.
Zhou Dacang was stunned when he looked at the sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms all over the mountains, then at the farm piled with manure, and the various deeds of the house that Zhou Guo took out.
Zhou Guo said, "Uncle, if you go on missions in these places in the future and you run out of money or food, you can go to these places. These are our own shops. If we rent them out, you can collect the rent. I will give the order."
Zhou Dacang couldn't help but touch her head, and said with great emotion, "You are really a lucky star. Your uncle is so lucky."
Zhou Guo said: "Uncle, you are also our blessing."
Two months later, Zhou Dacang's injuries were completely healed.
During this time, he received a letter from the army, saying that the troops in the north had been withdrawn and that he was asked to rest at home and spend more time with his family.
He was no longer in a hurry to go back and planned to wait until the New Year was over before leaving.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. After Laba Festival, Zhou Guo had no time to stay at home.
Taking Wu Jiang, Zhou Gu and others, they were out all day long. They had to prepare New Year gifts for several shopkeepers, distribute New Year goods to the farm, and also prepare for the home.
In addition to homemade food, the gifts given to the shop owners also included a lot of things bought from outside.
You can't just give people cheap food.
There are tea-tea snacks, homemade pickles, bacon, game, and some good leather. The most abundant thing in their house is leather.
She placed the four jars of preserved eggs in several boxes as a new treat for them.
After thinking about it, he gave each person a pair of deer whips, as there were plenty of these things at home. Another person put a deer antler in. Although it was not velvet antler, it was also useful.
There were so many things in total that they made up a big box.
Although it is not expensive, the friendship is there.
Just as the New Year gifts were given out, New Year gifts from several shopkeepers also arrived.
As usual, there are local specialties from various restaurants. Everything that the restaurants have is here, and even things that the restaurants don’t have are also here.
In addition to sea cucumbers, abalone, dried shrimps, scallops, shark fins and other marine products, there were also various kinds of meat, beef, mutton, chicken, duck, as well as boxes of stationery, half of which were filled with paper.
In addition to these, cloth is of course indispensable. Last year there were cotton cloth, and this year the gifts from the other shopkeepers were all silk.
There are few colorful ones, but there are many colors of fabrics suitable for young men to wear.
This year, Manager Yang's New Year gift is the heaviest. In addition to these, there are twelve rolls of gorgeous silk and twelve rolls of cotton cloth. They look better than in previous years. This year's gift is particularly heavy. In previous years, the most given was six rolls of cloth.
Several other shopkeepers also added more tea and wine, and overall the quality was better than in previous years.
Zhou Da Cang looked at the boxes of things and was stunned. "You're going to use those things to exchange for these treasures?"
In the box that Zhou Guo gave away, only the few pieces of leather and deer antlers and penis were valuable. The rest, including the tea and snacks, were far less good than what was inside.
Zhou Guo said, "So what? I'm a poor peasant who makes a living from the soil. These things are the best I can afford! When giving gifts, you should give according to your ability. As long as the intention is there, there's no need to pretend to be rich."
Zhou Mi and others nodded and said, yes, yes, that’s right.
Zhou Dacang looked at the boxes of stationery and asked, "What about these? Why are all the stationery sent to you?"
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "Uncle, most of the papers we use at home now were given by the shopkeeper. After we use them up, more papers are given. These papers have made our handwriting improve by leaps and bounds. The teacher even praised us, saying that we have made rapid progress. It is obvious that we have put in a lot of effort."
It doesn't matter how much paper and ink they use, or how many pens they wear out. How can they not make progress?
Zhou Dacang thought about the price she sold it at. She sold it to them for three hundred coins per catty, which became six or seven taels of silver per catty in the hands of the restaurant. Even though he knew their selling price this year, it didn't increase much, and he felt that it was not excessive to charge that much.
That’s why I understand.
He smiled and said, "With these cloths, our family doesn't need to buy cloth in recent years, and we don't need to buy stationery. Tsk, it seems that we don't need to buy our own New Year's goods?"
Knowing that Zhou Guo liked to eat beef, every shopkeeper gave him some as a gift. Shopkeeper Yang even gave him a whole box, weighing about 40 to 50 kilograms. How long would it take to finish eating all this?