The Jia family is doing well just burying vegetables in the ground.

There is also the Xungui family who lights a charcoal fire in the house at twelve o'clock in the winter and grows leeks, cabbages and radishes.

And even though Jia Lian didn't know much about farming, he understood that because green vegetables had to be planted, he could roughly control the maturity time.

But when the hot spring peach trees bloom and bear fruit in winter, it really depends on God's will.

If during the Chinese New Year, we would put out a few plates of neatly arranged large red peaches to worship our ancestors and entertain relatives and friends, maybe fifty taels or one hundred taels is really not expensive.

Then Jia Lian looked embarrassed.

No money.

Also reluctant to part with it.

But he probably felt that his relationship with Shi Zhongkui was enough, and he was Yingchun's elder brother.

He smiled and said, "Brother Xian, do you want to make your second sister-in-law blush because your second sister-in-law has to take care of the internal affairs of the Rongguo Mansion and also take care of the restaurant's errands?"

Fortunately, Jia Lian didn't say that he would reward a few and go back to try them, otherwise it would be difficult for Shi Zhongkui to cook.

Pretending to be hesitant, he thought about it and sighed in a low voice, "Second brother has already said so. It will seem too stingy for me to be nagging anymore."

After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the study with Jia Lian's embarrassed and expectant eyes.

After waiting for an hour, Shi Zhongkui walked in carrying a food box.

"Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. I went to another house to catch the autumn wind and finally collected 24 of them. It's just that this time there are some big and some small."

Jia Lian was stunned for a moment, and soon felt that this was right. At the same time, he felt that Jia Mu's eight peaches must have been carefully selected before being sent over.

Shi Zhongkui opened the food box, pointed at the peaches and said, "Second brother and second sister-in-law take four, my father-in-law and Mr. Zheng both have four.

Two for Brother Zhen, one each for Baoyu, Brother Huan, Brother Rong and Brother Lan.

The remaining six must be sent to Xue's house to prevent Brother Pan from coming to trouble me tomorrow."

"It should, it should."

Jia Lian nodded hurriedly, "There are only 6 members of the Xue family, but there are 18 of them here. No matter how you calculate it, you are taking advantage of it."

After a few seconds, he asked hesitantly, "What about the second sister?"

"Hey," Shi Zhongkui held his breath, his face slowly turned red, and then he sighed, "I can't help it. The third and fourth sisters are bound to be sent to welcome the spring.

I can only wait until Yingchun gets married and give her a few more every year from now on."

"This is easy to handle," Jia Lian immediately said with a smile, "I will divide two of them, one for Yingchun, and half for each of the third and fourth sisters.

Moreover, Baoyu and other men only have one, so no one will have any objections to the division."

This is indeed true, but Shi Zhongkui also thought that although peaches would appear to be extremely rare, with only half of Miss Jia's family, there would be 100% chance of people gossiping or even deliberately spreading rumors.

When outsiders hear this, they won’t care whether peaches are rare or not.

I will only think that his brother-in-law is so stingy that he has to share half of a peach with each other.

When Jia Lian mentioned this concern, he immediately became embarrassed.

And he knew Shi Zhongkui's concerns, so it was really possible.

But he did not dare to subtract from Jia She and Jia Zheng's divisions.

"Wait."

After saying that, Shi Zhongkui turned around and left with a smile.

Jia Lian didn't have to wait any longer this time and came back half an hour later.

"Eight for the old lady, four for Mr. Jing from the Ning Mansion, plus Jia Cong, sister-in-law, three sisters and cousin Lin, there are exactly 18."

"Brother Xian, why are you so happy this time?"

Shi Zhongkui sat down on the chair, "That bastard got my scientific examination experience, of course he will be happy."

Jia Lian instantly mistakenly thought that Tao Zi was the so-called Chang'an scholar.

Unexpectedly, Bo Qian was in the spice business with that man before, and now he got hot spring peaches from that man.

When he thought about the Lishan Hot Spring in Chang'an, which had royal palaces and even gardens during the Qin and Han Dynasties, Jia Lian suddenly became less suspicious.

Afterwards, Shi Zhongkui said what he wanted to say most, "Fortunately, I won't suffer either.

Every year, I exchanged letters to help that wise brother and the children in their family check their studies, and in exchange, they obtained the ownership of 10 peach trees in the Hot Spring Valley.

From now on, I will only eat it at home every year, which should be enough."

Jia Lian's eyes lit up. If a peach tree bears 100 kilograms of fruit per year, wouldn't that be five thousand taels of silver?

If you are lucky, if you get the results before the year, it will be ten thousand taels.

"Isn't that worthy brother able to earn fifty thousand or one hundred thousand taels of silver every year?"

After hearing what Jia Lian said, Shi Zhongkui hurriedly shook his head and said, "What are you thinking, second brother? Even if the peach trees grow in the hot spring valley, the temperature in winter is still not as good as in summer and autumn.

If a tree bears 100 fruits, only 6 or 70 of them will mature.

In addition to transporting them all the way in winter, in addition to preventing bumps, we also need to think about how to keep them warm. It would be a blessing to have 50 of them well preserved.

If there is a snowstorm and the peaches are frozen, not a single one will be left after they thaw.

Otherwise, do you really think that other people have so much money that they are rushing to buy even 50 taels of silver?"

Jia Lian nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

Then I calculated in my mind and compared the size of the peaches on the table, 50 of them were almost 25 jins, which is 1,250 taels of silver.

If it were years ago, wouldn't that be 2,500 taels of silver per tree?

After deducting freight and other expenses, ten trees can earn 12,000 taels of silver a year?

This is greater than the annual income of Rongguo Mansion from the farm.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that Shi Boqian really didn't suffer.

But the wealthy man in Changan will definitely not suffer even more.

Who is Shi Boqian?

He is the first in ancient and modern times to win five yuan in a row, and even has a chance to win six yuan in a row.

Asking this kind of person to teach his own children every year is a person who is willing to have not only one to twenty thousand taels of silver, but even three to fifty thousand taels of silver.

Not to mention that if Shi Boqian has a successful official career in the future, the rewards will be even greater.

Thinking of this, Jia Lian hurriedly bowed to Shi Zhongkui, carried two food boxes containing 21 kilograms of peaches, and hurried home.

Fortunately, he still remembered to send 6 of them to Lixiangyuan.

Then they were all sent to Jia Mu's house.

At this time, Jia Mu had just finished her dinner. She looked at the 18 kilograms of peaches placed on the dining table, and then heard Jia Lian say that these peaches were worth at least 900 taels of silver.

Even Jia Mu felt the pain in her flesh and even said that these were not peaches, but gold.

But after telling her not to eat, Jia Mu couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Even though I know that eating fruits that are out of season is likely to cause stomach upset, I still can’t help but want to try them when I think of 25 taels of silver each.

Fortunately, although Shi Zhongkui had never thought about these taboos, the things grown on the space farm, even if they were ordinary things, were definitely better than those grown outside.

After all, there is still a lot of spiritual energy in the space farm.

Although ordinary peaches cannot prolong life, eating them will definitely not cause stomach upset.

Otherwise, if he wants to take over Tao Zi and make money from the Jia family, it will definitely be in vain.

Mrs. Wang and other female relatives also nodded.

After hearing Shi Zhongkui's distribution plan relayed by Jia Lian, everyone looked happy.

But after Mrs. Wang laughed, she felt nervous. Baoyu only got one, and it was the same as Jia Huan and Jia Lan.

My heart suddenly became dissatisfied.

But no one cares about her at this time, and Shi Zhongkui doesn't even care what she thinks.

There is even a vague feeling that the more unhappy Mrs. Wang is, the happier she will be.

In fact, this woman is fasting and chanting Buddha's name on the surface, and has a bodhisattva heart, but secretly she is very vicious.

Jia Mu smiled happily and said, "It seems that the old lady took the decision to marry the second girl, and she has indeed married into a good family.

My grandson-in-law is very talented, and he is also a man who understands etiquette. It’s just that these twenty or thirty taels of silver for a fresh peach are so hard to bear even one bite."

It's a pity that Wang Xifeng was not here at this time. Even if others agreed with Jia Mu, their words were not as witty as Wang Xifeng.

Then I heard that the Xue family only got 6. Everyone in the Jia family laughed secretly, thinking that even though Baochai was the principal wife, Yingchun was no worse than Baochai in Shi Zhongkui's heart.

Just waiting to hear Jia Lian say that for these peaches, Shi Zhongkui also wrote down his many years of accumulated reading experience and imperial examination experience in a book and sent it out.

Jia Mu suddenly smiled, Yingchun and others frowned, and Li Wan was so heartbroken that he almost stopped breathing.

I also heard from Jia Lian that Shi Zhongkui had taught him how to read in exchange for the ownership of 10 peach trees, which would earn him at least 12,000 taels of silver a year.
To be continued...