Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 790: Chapter 790: Work Exchange for Discounts

Actually, Tong Sanlang wanted to ask about military rules and regulations, but seeing that Xiaomai could hardly keep his eyes open, he had to give it up.@@novelbin@@

Never mind, there will be more time later in the future.

Once we get through these busy days, we can bring this up.

After a good night’s sleep…

The two people who got enough sleep woke up, and there was another stack of mooncakes outside. The people from Jìwèi Jū worked all night and made more than a thousand mooncakes in total.

If villagers come over this morning, they can give things to them.

At this thought, Qiao Xiaomai feels relieved.

After breakfast, Qiao Changsun went to work the land, Qiao Zhaodi watched over Zhuang Luhe, Qiao Yindi and Qiao Dami came over to help. Plus the five people from Jìwèi Jū, everyone got busy once more.

Slowly, villagers started to come over, and Tong Tiehu also drove his ox cart. On the way, he ran into many villagers who he ferried to the manor; by the time they arrived, the ox cart was packed with people.

Tong Tiehu came to check on the situation. Once he saw Qiao Xiaomai and the others busily working non-stop, he also pitched in.

He was getting on in years, so the work he could do was similar to Qiao Dami: starting the fire.

The ovens here couldn’t run on electricity, so they had to keep burning the fire non-stop. This consumed a lot of firewood.

The firewood they had gathered before, piled up like a small hill, burned out in less than two days.

Noticing that the firewood was about to run out, Qiao Xiaomai went out to the tents to seek Fan Linong. Since these guards had nothing to do while off duty, they might as well help her gather firewood, and she was willing to cover the costs of their labor with mooncakes.

Upon hearing this, Fan Linong immediately called for men to drive the cart to Rooster Mountain.

Last night, because of the mooncakes, many people were rather excited.

However, the conversation eventually led to the topic of Qiao Xiaomai’s food prices. The taste of Qiao Xiaomai’s cooking needed no further discussion, but those prices…

Dried sweet potatoes, three hundred wen per jin.

Even if they were the wealthiest soldiers in Daqi, they couldn’t afford it…

The price for those mooncakes was genuinely a friendly bargain.

When they talked about that price, everyone’s enthusiasm cooled. Just considering their own financial status, the topic was disheartening.

In the end, Fan Linong made a suggestion.

Those who worked for the Qiao family could purchase her goods at a discount. So, from then on, they could work for Qiao Xiaomai in their off-duty hours to earn this discount.

Upon hearing this, all agreed and nodded.

But then the atmosphere became a bit heavy again.

Truth be told, when they first got this assignment, they all thought they would be stuck in this ravine for a year, and that they would certainly be able to save up their pay.

Four taels per month, that adds up to dozens of taels in a year!

But reality told them that they were too naive.

The cost of living at Qiao Xiaomai’s place was even higher than in the capital city.

Dried sweet potatoes for three hundred wen per jin, beans for six hundred wen per jin. This price… oh, forget it. They just grudgingly went to gather firewood.

If they didn’t work, they genuinely couldn’t afford it.

With the intention of earning Qiao Xiaomai’s discounts, a group of strong young men worked tirelessly and in one trip built up a hill of firewood comparable to what had been used over the last two days.

The quality and speed of their work were excellent.

Qiao Xiaomai didn’t let them down and made a special dish of pork offal for them that night.

In order to distribute meat to the villagers, she bought several pigs from the nearby villages, killed them, then bought ice from Jìwèi Jū to keep them frozen.

Now, as a token of her appreciation for these guards, she took out the offal of the pigs, added all kinds of seasonings and carefully braised them with water from the Spiritual Spring.

At dinner time, the entire guard team was savouring the delicious pork offal, their mouths full of oil.

Tasting such delicious pork offal for the first time, they truly felt that Qiao Xiaomai’s culinary skills lived up to their reputation!