Chapter 32

After returning to the room, Zhang Moyuan took out a box from the cabinet and handed it to Lin Yan.

Lin Yan asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

Zhang Moyuan smiled, "Shouldn't you take care of the money at home, I forgot about it earlier."

Lin Yan's eyes lit up, and he asked like a little money fan, "How much money is there?"

"I saved this before I went to the county. Later, after reclamation started, I didn't have time to write any more books. It should not be many, about a few dozen taels."

Lin Yan opened the box, thinking that there should be some broken silver inside, but when he opened it, the neat silver ingots almost blinded him.

"so much?"

How can this be dozens of taels?The naked eye can see more than one hundred taels.

Zhang Moyuan said lightly, "I didn't notice either, there are too many books sold, and I didn't deliberately count them."

Lin Yan: "..."

How did he hear a feeling of showing off his wealth?

"Are you showing off?"

Lin Yan has been busy for more than a month. The whole family just counted the money all night, and more than half of it is copper coins. Unlike Zhang Moyuan's silver ingots, which are neatly arranged, they don't need to be counted.

Zhang Moyuan raised one corner of his lips, "How come?"

Lin Yan looked at him suspiciously, "Is there really not?"

"certainly."

Zhang Moyuan smiled helplessly. His wife is too good at making money. As a husband-in-law, he can't look too behind, can he?

the next morning.

Lin Yan and Zhang Moyuan went to the town to save money, and the family's ox cart was used by Lin's second brother Linsan, so they went to rent the ox cart from Uncle Yuan's house.

Brother Linsan also brought three big jars of lemonade out, and he didn't forget to do some business when he stepped on the spot, which shows how motivated he is.

After Lin Yan and Zhang Moyuan finished saving their money and came out of the bank, they went directly to Boss Ma's house to buy some fruit.

Every summer is the off-season for Boss Ma's house. Because the weather is too hot, the fruit will go bad as soon as it is put out. He only dares to eat a little bit each time.

But this year is different. There are probably dozens of large and small ice cups in his shop, and several of them are just open, so that customers can see the neatly stacked fresh fruits as soon as they come in.

And as a result, the temperature in his shop is much lower than outside, and passers-by like to come to him to escape the heat, and the sales of fruits will increase every time they come and go.

There was no such grand scene in previous years.

So when he saw Boss Lin Yanma, he showed a big smile and said enthusiastically, "Brother Yan, isn't it too late to talk about today?"

Lin Yan smiled, "Come here to do something."

When Boss Ma saw Zhang Moyuan behind him, his expression became serious immediately. He even bent down to bow to Zhang Moyuan, and shouted respectfully, "Scholar Zhang."

Zhang Moyuan bowed back, "You're welcome."

Lin Yan chose several kinds of fruits, among which lemons were the most. He almost emptied the lemons in Boss Ma's house.

After paying the bill and preparing to go out, Boss Ma suddenly grabbed Lin Yan's sleeve and reminded: "Brother Yan, I have something to tell you. I have often seen people from the Qiu family coming over these two days, as well as that young master Qiu.I’ve been here too, it should be to watch you, you must be more careful when you go out recently.”

Lin Yan said gratefully: "I see, thank you for reminding me."

"Brother Yan, you don't know. In previous years, Young Master Qiu didn't pay attention to us little shopkeepers. He always judged people with his nostrils. This year, I can see that he has lost his air. No one around us asks him to buy it."Ice cubes from his house."

"Guess how much the Qiu family sells for this box of ice cubes?"

Lin Yan estimated the price of Qiu's house, and asked tentatively, "Two taels of silver?"

Boss Ma smiled mysteriously, then stretched out three fingers and shook them, "Three liang."

Lin Yan was dumbfounded. He said that two taels was already a lot higher than the quoted price, but they sold three taels.

Where to steal money?

Zhang Moyuan knew Qiu's family well, so he opened his mouth at this moment, "They lost so many customers in the area of Xishou Street this year, so they naturally have to increase the price to earn back from other customers."

And this year is a scorching summer, presumably the Qiu family has high expectations for the ice business, and the current situation is obviously far from meeting their expectations.

Lin Yan glanced at him in disbelief. When there are fewer buyers when doing business, they will lower their prices appropriately. The Qiu family is doing the opposite.

It's a monopoly.

Boss Ma nodded, "Scholar Zhang is right. I heard that the rich households in the county have a lot of opinions."

Coming out of Boss Ma's shop, Lin Yan asked Zhang Moyuan: "Mo Yuan, do you think we can sell ice cubes to the county? If not this year, what about next year?"

Zhang Moyuan looked at him sideways, his eyes were firm, "Of course, you can go to Capital City if you want."

Lin Yan smiled, he knew that Zhang Moyuan didn't just talk casually.

The two were walking while talking, when suddenly a person rushed forward, startling Lin Yan.

The man threw himself on Zhang Moyuan, and was ruthlessly pushed away by Zhang Moyuan.

The man didn't care, and said happily: "Scholar Zhang, you can be considered to have appeared. How long has it been since you released a new commentary?"

Zhang Moyuan said lightly: "I don't have time recently."

Lin Yan took a closer look at the other person and found that he knew this person. He had met him once when he went to Jiangjiayao. He was Boss Jiang's younger brother.

Mr. Jiang is about the same age as Zhang Moyuan, and it is said that he is taking a test for talent.

"How is Boss Lin's business recently?"

Lin Yan smiled at him, "It's okay."

Mr. Jiang leaned over and said in a low voice, "Help me persuade Scholar Zhang, whether I can be admitted to the scholar this year depends entirely on him."

Lin Yan couldn't help but look at Zhang Moyuan, his eyes were full of reverence.

Isn't this the kind of academic god he envied most when he was in school?

They all read the same books and took the same classes, but they are all very good.

Looking at Mr. Jiang's eyes eager for knowledge, Lin Yan couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic.

"If you are willing to help me persuade him, next time you come to my house to make things, I don't need your money."

Lin Yan: "..."

He immediately turned to look at Zhang Moyuan, and kicked him this difficult choice.

Zhang Moyuan smiled helplessly, "You can come to Jiahe Village to pick it up in three days."

Mr. Jiang was overjoyed, "Thank you Scholar Zhang, thank you Boss Lin, I will go back and tell my brother that I don't want your money next time."

Lin Yan waved his hand at him, already thinking about how to go back and draw the blueprints.

As a result, as soon as he turned around after waving his hand, he met Zhang Moyuan's quiet eyes.

If you look closely, there seems to be a hint of resentment in it.

Lin Yan chuckled, "Master, I plan to take this opportunity to give Boss Jiang a good meal, so you can work hard."

Zhang Moyuan: "..."

After returning, Lin Yan made a few jars of simple fruit tea with the fruits he bought. The ingredients in it were fresh fruit juice, sugar, and ice cubes.

He still uses the small pestle now, and his arm hurts badly every time he makes fruit tea. Lin Yan plans to make a few manual juicers.

Originally, he was embarrassed to ask Boss Jiang to do such a small thing, but now that Mr. Jiang has spoken, he is naturally not polite.

In addition to the juicer, Lin Yan also plans to make some ice trays. Now the ice cubes are all made with knives and small hammers, and the shapes are all broken, which is not very beautiful.

A beautiful fruit tea cup should be served with neat and beautiful ice cubes.

Lin Yan was thinking about it while doing it, and it was finished in no time. The lemonade at Father Lin's and Mrs. Lin's side was similar, and everyone put up the altar together, and then moved it into the ox cart.

When everything was ready to get on the bullock cart, found that Hai Bei and Haike were already sitting upright in it. After Lin Yan promised to take them there just now, the two were very happy, and kept going around the bullock cart, afraid that the adults would put them on the cart.The two were pulled down.

Several adults couldn't help laughing.

The village chief was here today, and when he saw Lin Yan, he came over to help, and after moving all the large jars down, the village chief said, "Brother Yan, I heard that you went to Yanxin yesterday.Village and Wangu Village?"

Lin Yan nodded, "Yeah, it's been too hot recently, and it's a bit overwhelming to go out every day, so I came up with this idea."

"Then, can you also make some of your barbecue and sell them in our own village? Those who have eaten them will come back and talk about them, and everyone will be hungry."

In the past, it was good for the people of Jiahe Village to have a full stomach, but now that life is much better, they began to think about eating something good.

A few people who had been to Xishou Street and eaten Lin Yan's barbecue before came back and boasted a lot, and when the big guys got together, they came up with an idea.

But before, Lin Yan had to go out to the stall every day, and everyone was busy catching seafood and couldn't go to the town, so he could only be so greedy all the time.

But yesterday when Lin Yan went to Yanxin Village and Wangu Village, everyone saw hope.

Of course, Lin Yan had no objection, and said bluntly, "I'll do it when I get back. Thank you, the village chief, for me to tell you guys."

The village head said happily: "That's good, I'll go back and inform everyone."

After speaking, the village chief ran away quickly.

While Lin Yan was talking to the village chief, Father Lin and Sister Lin were already busy.

Several large jars were lined up, placed on a platform temporarily built with stones, and there were two ice mirrors beside them, one of which was opened, and it was full of ice cubes.

Hai Bei and Haike stood by, and each of them took a small spoon to add ice cubes to the people who came over.

After the crushed ice cubes are used up, Hai Bei taps them with a small hammer.

At first, Father Lin and Aunt Lin were busy greeting each other, but then they put down the spoons and let everyone do it by themselves.

As for money, many people remember it by themselves, and asking family members to send money to their door is not a big money, and no one will ruin their reputation on such a trivial matter.

After all, Lin Yan was still counting on Lin Yan to collect seafood from his family.

Hai Bei and Haike put down the spoon after playing for a while.

Lin Yan took a clean fruit tea cup, filled it with fruit tea and went to Zhang Moyuan.

The Hanhai Weir has been surrounded by a long strip, and the stones are densely stacked, about two people high.

A little farther away, it will be higher.

Although the drainage station agreed earlier had not been built yet, it still looked good. At this moment, Zhang Moyuan was standing in front of a drainage station talking to a few people.

Lin Yan stuffed the fruit tea cup into his hand and said with a smile, "Drink some water."

Zhang Moyuan nodded, and the people in front of him walked away.

Lin Yan pointed to several big puddles not far away, "Are those puddles used to catch rainwater?"

Zhang Moyuan hummed, "There is a lot of rain in summer, and the rainwater is collected to wash away the sediment, so that the fields can be planted in the future."

There was a heavy rain last night, so several pits were filled with water.

Earlier, Lin Yan mentioned the problem of high salinity in the seaside soil, so Zhang Moyuan thought of several ways, and this was one of them.

Looks like it works great.

"When the sediment is washed, the salt water must be drained in time, otherwise it will easily return to the salt after it seeps to the bottom."

Zhang Moyuan understood as soon as he heard it, "Okay."

"The place near the sea in the distance has a lot of salt, wash the salt first and then surround it."

"That's the plan."

"The effect should not be very good at the beginning, but it will be better after a year."

Zhang Moyuan laughed, "Actually, there are fields elsewhere, and the effect is not as good as you imagine."

Lin Yan suddenly realized that the yield per mu of fields in this era is generally very low, after all, they all rely on the sky.

In other words, everyone is poor, so if they start off with a poor harvest, it doesn't seem to stand out that much.

And this summer is still so hot, crops everywhere will be affected.

"Then let's study the matter of fertilizing the fields after the fields are planted in the future. In the future, we can choose those rice seeds with good effects every year when we harvest, and slowly select the ones with strong adaptability..."

Lin Yan spoke enthusiastically, and Zhang Moyuan listened carefully, asking questions or simply adding a few words from time to time.

Before he knew it, more than an hour later, Father Lin came to call Lin Yan.

"Yan'er, it's time, we have to go back to make barbecue."

Lin Yan looked at the sky and quickly got up, he almost forgot about the barbecue.

Zhang Moyuan couldn't leave yet. After chatting with Lin Yan for so long just now, he had a few ideas in his mind to do.

Lin Yan and Aunt Lin, Aunt Lin, went home first, and left a few jars by the seaside, and brought them back when Brother Lin and Zhang Moyuan came back.

As soon as they got home, the three of them began to divide the work tacitly. Lin Yan cut and marinated the meat, Mrs. Lin took out the two barbecue stoves in the house and cleaned them up, and Aunt Lin handled the oysters and scallops.

Hai Bei and Haike came back earlier than them, so they also woke up now, bouncing around the room to help.

When they were almost done, the outside guests also came to the door one after another.

Aunt Wang was the first to arrive. As soon as she came in, she moved a small stool and sat next to Father Lin to help him handle the oysters. It was useless for Father Lin to refuse.

Throughout the night, the courtyard wafts the overbearing aroma of barbecue.

Because the two stoves were turned on at the same time, things were made quickly, and the number of people gradually decreased after more than an hour.

Aunt Lin took all the work to him, and Lin Yan was free here. He simply turned on the stove and roasted a large plate of vegetables and meat with little additions. He and Hai Bei ate the sea shells first.

Ever since he found out that he was pregnant, he didn't eat raw oysters much, and he didn't even dare to dip them in raw pickles, and he didn't dare to eat more iced things.

The eating habits almost fell back to the same level as the sea shells.

After they finished eating, Father Lin and the others were almost done, and started packing up.

Lin Yan glanced out of the yard inadvertently, and saw a familiar figure.