A Blessed Daughter - Chapter 176

A Blessed Daughter
Chapter 176 – Successful planting and quick profit (2)

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It was not easy to only recommend one or two people, but if there were around ten or twenty job opportunities, it was relatively easier for him to arrange, so there was no need to worry too much about the villagers having objections to his arrangements.

This was good news for this poor mountain village located in the west of Xingshan County. They had no skills and only had a few fields at home. There was not enough food even when the weather was good, let alone in the past few years.

There was a job for them, and they still got 150 wen a month, which was enough to feed the whole family.

After the materials were collected, they were configured according to the ratios given by Wei Ruo.

Then she filled them into cylindrical culture media, like dead wood.

Then it was sent to the cave, and the subsequent work was handed over to the hired villagers, Li Erniu and Hedong.

Their job was not complicated, mainly responsible for guarding to ensure that no wild animals or people enter the cave to cause damage and then observe the growth of mushrooms and report regularly.

Seven days later.

When the first batch of shiitake mushrooms were grown, the nanny made a trip to pick them. She asked Li Erniu and Hedong, the two people in charge, to pick all the shiitake mushrooms that met the standard size. Then she sent the shop staff to transport them down the mountain.

Immediately afterward, the nanny sent some to the Wei Mansion to Wei Ruo.

Seeing the first batch of shiitake mushrooms successfully cultivated, Wei Ruo’s face was filled with joy.

-shiitake mushroom

It had only been seven short days and there was a harvest. The cultivation cycle of shiitake mushrooms was really much shorter than other crops!

“Miss, what should I do with these shiitake mushrooms?” Xiumei asked.

“Take it to the market for sale.” Wei Ruo said, “and then let Uncle Xu and his team find several more such caves near that area according to the standards of the first cave I found, to expand the scale of planting.”

“Miss, shiitake mushrooms are not a staple food and are not easy to preserve. If we plant too many and we can’t sell them, they will rot.” Xiumei was worried.

“Don’t worry, when the scale expands, I don’t plan to sell them all. The mushrooms that can’t be sold we’ll use to dry them to make dried shiitake mushrooms, and we can also make shiitake mushroom sauce. These can make the preservation time of the shiitake mushrooms substantially longer.” Wei Ruo already had a strategy to deal with it.

“Dried shiitake mushrooms and shiitake mushroom sauce? I haven’t tried it yet, so I’m looking forward to it!” Xiumei was eager to try it.

-dried shiitake mushroom

-shiitake mushroom sauce

“When I make it, I’ll let you taste it first!”

“The first one to taste is not important, as long as Miss can grow more crops and earn more silver!”

Wei Ruo was happily talking about the mushrooms with Xiu Mei, when the front yard sent someone over to inform that Miss Xie sent a gift over to Wei Ruo, and was waiting for Wei Ruo to go and sign it in person.

Before leaving, he specifically said that Miss Xie had sent a lot of gifts and asked Wei Ruo to bring more servants.

Xie Ying had shouted several times to give Wei Ruo a return gift, so Wei Ruo was not surprised when she heard this.

She just didn’t know what gift Xie Ying prepared for her.

When Wei Ruo came to the front yard, many people were already standing in the front yard, including Yun Shi and Wei Qingwan.

“Miss Wei.” an old man with a simple and honest appearance walked up and said to Wei Ruo with a smiling face, “I am the butler of the Xie Mansion. On the order of my young master and young lady, I have come to send a return gift to Miss Wei.”

Wei Ruo looked at a carriage carrying the goods behind the Xie Mansion’s butler and asked: “These are all my gifts?”

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