The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 142 Hoarding

The grain on the farm was stored in the warehouse, the pepper seedlings were successfully transplanted and survived, and the canning workshop was also operating in an orderly manner.

Although things around her were going smoothly, Chen Cui couldn't help but feel a little worried. She didn't know what the higher-ups thought about the corn matter, and why there was still no response after half a year.

Chen Cui was not the only one who had the same idea. Wang Hengzhi was more worried about this matter than her because it concerned his future and destiny.

However, he was just a small county magistrate, and after handing over the things, the rest of the matters were completely out of his control.

Even though he was anxious, he could only wait patiently and do every task at hand with all his heart.

Fortunately, his wife finally became pregnant, which made Wang Hengzhi very relieved.

His heart was only on politics and his official career. He felt that matters in the harem would only take up his time and energy, so he never thought of taking a concubine.

His wife was a good match for him in terms of family background and appearance. She also managed all chores in an orderly manner, and he never had to worry about household affairs. He felt that this kind of life was pretty good.

If he had not had an eldest daughter by accident, all his children would have been born only to his wife, thus avoiding unrest in the harem and the disaster of the family being divided between legitimate and illegitimate children.

However, after being married for several years, his wife still hadn't given him any good news, which made him worried from time to time.

Therefore, when he learned that his wife was pregnant, Wang Hengzhi expressed great joy and showed rare consideration.

In order to follow the doctor's advice and let his wife exercise more, he even took time to practice the Five Animal Exercises with his wife, and tried to eat together with his wife every day.

With the thoughtfulness of her husband and the careful care of Mother Zhou and the servants, Zhang Ruomei did not feel any discomfort after her pregnancy. Instead, she looked more radiant than before.

When Chen Cui came to visit, she saw Zhang Ruomei like this. Her skin was fair and rosy, and her belly was slightly bulging. Apart from that, her figure had not changed much.

A person's overall state comes from the inside out, and his or her mood, whether good or bad, will be reflected in the body.

Chen Cui has also changed a lot now. Although her skin color is still not very fair, it is much more delicate and smooth. Her hair has also been carefully maintained and is black, shiny and bright. Even her hands, which were originally rough and cracked, have now become soft and delicate.

All these changes are inseparable from money. Now all the toiletries in the house are carefully selected by her in the cosmetics store.

From bath beans and soap to facial cream and hair oil, she chooses all of them with fresh and elegant scents without any overpowering fragrance. Even her three sons have begun to pay attention to body care under her influence.

Not to mention the little girl Suisui, who knows how to love beauty at a young age and is very active in washing her face and applying perfume every day.

She obviously didn't like eating sesame balls, but because Chen Cui said that they could make her hair darker and more beautiful, she would eat a lot of them and then drink water to wash away the black residue in her mouth.

I don’t know if it’s due to the sesame balls or the adequate nutrition, but the little girl’s hair is not so yellow anymore and has a lot more hair. She has finally gotten out of the category of a yellow-haired girl.

This year is the opposite of last year. There is more rain. In the summer, it rains every few days.

Both beans and peppers are afraid of waterlogging, so Chen Cui had people dig drainage ditches in the fields in advance, and drain the water as soon as the rain stopped.

Because of the heavy rain, the quality of the fruits harvested this year has been affected. Fortunately, they are processed into canned fruits. No matter what kind of fruit it is, as long as it is peeled and boiled in sugar water, the taste is guaranteed to be good.

Except for the canned lychees that will be shipped to the capital now, the other canned fruits are stored in cool cellars and will be shipped to the capital and Jiangnan after the fruit season is over.

When Chen Cui was renovating the house, she built a cellar in the backyard, saying that it was used to store food in the winter.

The cellar was as big as two houses, with blue bricks on the floor and walls, and several rows of shelves filled with daily necessities and food, enough for the family to eat for several months.

This was a little selfish of hers. Although this place was located in the northwest and had been peaceful for a long time, she was always worried that there would be a war or famine someday, and this cellar could then become a temporary safe house.

Although her space can hold a lot of things in case of emergency, she can't just create them out of thin air, so the cellar is just a cover.

Now, there are a lot of harvested corn kernels piled up in her space, and the corn on the land is still growing. She plans to plant wheat after harvesting this crop, just to change the taste.

She had pulled out the pepper trees, but she still had a lot of dried peppers stored up. She also had a lot of other things in stock in the space, such as grain, flour, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc.

These were all transferred in by her usual means of buying things for the family, a little at a time, and now she has quite a large amount.

There are also clothes, bedding, cloth and other things. There are quite a few of them in the house. These are all made by an old man who is used to living alone.

In her previous life, she had been alone for too long. Although she had a lot of money, she often felt insecure, one manifestation of which was hoarding.

The refrigerator in her home is almost never empty. As soon as the food is slightly consumed, she will find a way to fill it again.

Every time Chen Cui looked at these things, her heart was filled with satisfaction.

Of course, since she put so much in the space, there would be no shortage of things in the house.

She did not sell a single grain of the grain harvested from the farm this year. Part of it was kept in the granary on the farm, part of it was transported home for daily consumption, and part of it was transferred to the cellar as reserve grain.

She told all this to the three brothers. At first they thought their mother was worrying too much, but after listening to Chen Cui's explanation, they felt that it made sense.

However, every time Chen Cui put things in, she would do it when these people were at school and not at home, so as to prevent them from knowing how much she had put in and to prevent them from knowing the truth.

This summer, because of the heavy rain, it is not too hot overall, but there are a lot of mosquitoes, so I have to light mugwort and fumigate for a long time every day.

The peppers in the field will be harvested soon. Uncle Li and his colleagues followed Chen Cui's instructions and waited until the green peppers turned completely red before picking them. Then they set up racks in the threshing floor to dry them in the sun for easy subsequent storage.

The summer heat gradually fades away, and the golden autumn of August arrives. Many fruits have entered the harvest season, and the canning workshops are busy every day.

Chen Cui had to stay there at least half a day every day, keeping an eye on the production and supervising the process. The beans on her farm were about to be harvested, requiring her constant worry and attention. In the midst of this busyness, she suddenly received an imperial edict from the capital.