The afternoon sun is no longer as spicy as at noon, and occasionally the wind blows, which makes people feel cool, and the proprietors of the grain store add vegetables, and the hired people also figure out that those people are the farmers of the Zhang and Wang families, and all the meals are in charge of the family, and they are happy to eat to their heart's content, and they no longer quarrel.

But when I went down to work in the field, I found that as soon as I bent down, the food in my stomach surged upward, so I had to endure the discomfort while sighing that I had eaten the food.

Naturally, the Zhuang households of the Zhang Wang family will not eat like those who seem to have not eaten in eight lifetimes, they only eat seven points full, and the rest of the food can continue to eat when they are finished working and hot.

Two hours later, the farmers of Zhang and Wang harvested all the remaining rice, took off the grain, poured it into their saliva, rested for a while, and rushed to the storehouse, and then came back to make the rest of the meal hot and ready to eat.

"Listen, everyone, don't eat it, hurry up and take it home, give it to the people at home, someone here will invite us to eat in a while, the soup of the fungus is gone, there will be no less, and there will be wages."

Without waiting for the farmers to heat the dishes, Steward Zhang trotted over and shouted to everyone.

The dealer didn't even ask, he divided the meal, whoever had more people in the family brought more, turned around and ran home, they were absolutely convinced that the master was now absolutely convinced, and let them do whatever they wanted.

Steward Zhang looked at the scattered people, smiled, and instructed the people who followed him, "Bring all the things you have prepared." ”

After speaking, he walked again to the place between the water and the clouds.

The proprietors in the water cloud room are more and more dissatisfied with the helpers they have found, they did a good job in the morning, but at noon they actually spent a lot of extra money, and it turned out to be one hundred and twenty yuan on everyone's body, no way, the price of the meal is three times more expensive than normal, plus the water money, one hundred and thirty yuan.

I ate only twenty-six taels of silver for one meal, and I originally calculated that it would cost more than a dozen taels a day.

The most annoying thing is that these people are full of food and drink, but they are not as neat as they are in the morning, and they stand up and rub their stomachs after a few cuts, and at this rate, they can't finish it in three days.

"Brother Jin, we can't go on like this, we don't have money and nowhere to spend, look at what they do, the villagers on the Zhuangzi are doing much faster than them, and the food is not bad, where is this to find helpers, it is clearly to support the ancestors."

Lu Dongjia looked over the window and shook his head helplessly.

"Poor people, finally have some delicious things, they have eaten enough, naturally they don't have the strength to work, and when they finish work in the evening, tell them, if you really want to turn your face, where will you find someone to go to, is it possible that you and I will cut it in person?"

Jin Dongjia could think of the reason, and at the same time there was no good way, so he said angrily: "If you blame those helpers, it is better to complain about the people of Zhangjia Zhuangzi, it is too bad, they deliberately came to eat together, and they eat so well, I don't believe that they usually eat like this?" ”

"Jin Dongjia, you are really wrong, there are no these talents when harvesting a few days ago, but the whole sheep soup can be eaten, no less than this consumption, we let people come to cut rice is not intended to harm you, it is really going to rain this day, if you don't believe it, you go and ask the local old people, they know the climate here best."

As soon as Jin Dongjia's words fell, Steward Zhang turned in from the door, and explained, but his eyes were telling them that he was a little bit of a villain.

"Rain? Steward Zhang, you weren't joking? Jin Dongjia trembled after hearing this, afraid of something, and stared at Steward Zhang, wanting to know if he was a liar.

Steward Zhang smiled and sighed again, "Jin Dongjia, did you think that I was idle and had nothing to do, so I came here to talk nonsense to you?" Don't you feel cool and a little stuffy in the afternoon? The wind is up, look at the sky, and it will be like night at once. ”

Steward Zhang said as he walked to the window and pushed open the other two windows that had not been opened, and sure enough, a gust of wind swept in, swirled in the room, and blew out through the other window.

"How? Doesn't it feel much more comfortable? Ay~! We are really afraid that when the rain falls, the things in the field will be finished, otherwise why would we call people back? The place on the hill hasn't been repaired yet. ”

Steward Zhang stretched out his arms, stood in front of the window and felt the coolness of the wind, and said quietly.

What the proprietors felt was not cool, but cold, not only the fear that their seeds would run out after the rain, but also the fear of the two Zhuangzi of Zhang Wang.

As Steward Zhang said, only those old people in this place can know how the local climate changes, and Steward Zhang deliberately delayed for a few days, so that they could harvest the store first, and it turned out that they were all preparing for this rain.

What to do? What should I do? It looks like the rain is about to fall, no matter how you say it, it won't last tomorrow morning, the seeds in the field, you don't need to get seedlings anymore, and then there will be those that are not moldy, and you can plant them directly after they grow sprouts, but can you plant them this season?

"Steward Zhang, you can't cheat people like this, let us throw the money into the ground, we will pay to death, the shops in the capital are all bought according to your requirements, and now they are given to you, you will give us such things?"

Wang Dongjia stood up suddenly, walked in front of Steward Zhang in two steps, grabbed his arm and said with a sad face.

"Wang Dongjia, if you have something to say, what we gave you is right, put it in the ground, waiting for you to cut it, the reason why we don't cut it for you is afraid that you will suspect that we have changed other seeds, you have to know this painstaking work."

Steward Zhang dodged to the side, but still didn't break away from Wang Dongjia's hand, so he could only persuade him loudly.

"No, it's not like that, Steward Zhang, you know it's going to rain, why didn't you tell us a few days earlier?" Wang Dongjia's hands were bruised, which showed how hard he worked.

Hearing this, Steward Zhang's face sank, his eyes widened, and he said, "Wang Dongjia, what did you say?" How can it be a few days earlier? If we knew a few days earlier, we would have collected it a few days earlier, and you can see that our farmers are tired, and you don't know how much effort the farmers have sold compared to the speed of the work you have found to help?

Fang Cai Jin Dongjia complained that the food that Zhuangzi gave to the villagers was good, and the hearts of the people were all fleshy, and the villagers worked hard, so they didn't even give them a meal? Our Zhang and Wang families can't do that kind of thing, even so, the villagers will have to raise it for a few days to recover.

The old man said, I will give the farmer something better in a while, buy a few sheep, kill them to eat, where to find such a good farmer, and then look at you people, the better the food, the worse the dry. ”

"Steward Zhang, don't be angry, there is something to discuss, when we bought those shops, we made some more, there are 1,800 taels of silver, we don't want the money, buy a few more shops for you, you can help, is there any way to let us pay less."

Lu Dongjia was afraid that Steward Zhang would leave angrily at this time, so he also came over, pulled away Wang Dong's house, and discussed in a low voice.

"That's the way...... It's not good to think, don't worry, Zhuangzi won't just look at it, come and come, sit down and talk, let's think about it in the long run. ”

Steward Zhang helped Lu Dongjia to sit on the stool, where he began to frown and remember.

******

"Xiaobao, it seems that what people say is right, there is an old man in the family, there is a treasure, we have so many treasures here, look, this day is counted, it is called a quasi, saying that it is raining today, it is raining today, and it is said that it will rain in the middle of the night, it is estimated that it must be the middle of the night."

On Zhangjia Zhuangzi's side, Wang Juan was adding vegetables to the thin cake, and when he saw that the sky was overcast outside, he said happily to Zhang Xiaobao.

"Yes, let them quote the money falsely, let them not pay all the shipping money, really think we are easy to deceive? If I don't get him a thousand eight hundred taels of silver this time, my Zhang Xiaobao's name will be written backwards. ”

Zhang Xiaobao's face showed a yin smile, echoing there, he didn't like to eat rolled up cakes, holding the cake with one hand, holding chopsticks with the other hand, just eating it separately, spring cakes are usually made at the beginning of spring, he took them out at this time for the dealer to eat, oh, people call this a spring plate.

Wang Juan didn't understand why Zhang Xiaobao didn't like to roll and eat at first, but when she rolled the cake and saw that Zhang Xiaobao ate most of the two-inch square cakes and ate several bites of food, she realized that it was a waste of time when rolling.

Even when eating shredded pork in Beijing sauce with a little soup, Zhang Xiaobao doesn't roll it, and he can hold the cake in his hand and block it under the green onion and shredded meat with chopsticks.

After taking a bite of the cake, Wang Juan took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and said, "Except that there is no taste of hot sauce, the others are almost the same." ”

"Just those things, it's pretty much the same." Zhang Xiaobao picked up the second cake again.

"Xiaobao, even if our people help them harvest, they may not be able to harvest it in the middle of the night, right? They still have to lose some. Wang Juan asked suspiciously.

Zhang Xiaobao was eating, nodded, waited to swallow the thing, and then said: "Of course, don't say it's too late, if it really doesn't work, I have to let them delay for a while, the reason has been found, it's too tiring to work during the day, this is to help them work hard." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xiaobao took off a little bean curd with chopsticks, sipped it in his mouth, clicked it twice and continued:

"It's to let them lose a part, what they buy is calculated, one is to sell to the people they have a good contact, the other is their own seeds, they lose, and the ones we have left don't have to find buyers elsewhere and sell them kindly."

"Xiaobao, you're still so bad, I know, the amount you're going to let you lose is exactly the amount of rice left over after we keep the seeds ourselves, come, Xiaobao, this stinky tofu is rewarded to you."