Our Family's Daughter Has Grown Up (8)
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She circled around the tangerine orchard and had those excess shoots and those shoots that grew too long all cut, so as to avoid the branches from growing too lush and stealing the nutrients from the fruits.
"Li girl-----"
Just when Du Xiao Li was working in the tangerine orchard, Li Ming Fu came to the foot of the mountain and called out towards her at the waist of the mountain.
"Village chief." Du Xiao Li came down the mountain and asked with a smile, "Village chief, do you need me for something?"
"It's like this, I heard you and the Li family opened a fruit wine winery." The village chief said.
Du Xiao Li thought for a moment, Li Ming Fu can also be considered the county magistrate's relative. Actually, speaking of this, he just had some connections to the Li family, thus him knowing this matter wasn't that strange either.
"Yes." Du Xiao Li didn't avoid either and batted her eyes at Li Ming Fu, saying: "Village chief needs to keep the secret for me!"
"Haha, okay okay." Li Ming Fu was amused by Du Xiao Li's appearance and said, "I definitely won't tell others. Li girl, I heard that winery specifically uses fruits as the raw ingredient, is this true?"
Du Xiao Li nodded.
"You see how behind our Du village is just a bunch of mountains. If even this tangerine of yours can be planted on the mountains, then other fruits can also be planted on the mountains, right? I plan on opening up that area for development to plant fruits." Li Ming Fu said.
Listening to here, Du Xiao Li roughly guessed Li Ming Fu's meaning. He probably wants to let her have the winery purchase these fruits.
As expected----
"Li girl, say, if that piece of mountain is opened up to plant fruit trees, can your winery make the purchase?"
Du Xiao Li considered for a moment and said, "This isn't impossible. I'll just have to tell Madam Li. However, if village chief wants to plant fruit trees, you can only plant the kinds I mentioned, else it won't work."
Not all fruits they will purchase. The fruit wine made from some fruits weren't ideal. This kind of fruit wine they will still abandon.
"Alright, that's not a problem!" Li Ming Fu slapped his thigh and said with a smile, "What kinds are good to plant?"
"En, the best is to plant grapes, however grapes, I still haven't been able to breed in mass. Additionally, you can also plant some of my tangerine trees. These two kinds both don't exist in the outside. The demand for grapes is high and furthermore, only I have the sprouts. But, if we're the only ones planting, we can still guarantee for it to be able to sell for a good price. But this sapling isn't easy to breed. If we really want to do this, it'll probably have to wait until the end of this year."
"En, end of the year is fine. This mountain has lie wasted for a long time anyways, a few more months won't make a difference. During this time, I can go ask if anyone's interested in buying a mountain to grow fruits." Li Ming Fu said.
Du Xiao Li had to say, Li Ming Fu was a good village chief and also a village chief with farsightedness, able to sense a business opportunity from Li Xue Qing's fruit wine that just hit the market. He didn't have the intentions to monopolize either, rather letting the entire village develop economically. This bit made her admire him.
But although Li Ming Fu's idea was good, not that many responded to him. Everyone has always all lived self-sufficiently. And now, suddenly saying they want to build some orchard economy made a lot of people all unable to comprehend. That's why, this news went out for a few months, yet still not many people came to respond.
Du Xiao Li went and enlightened Shi Da, Shi Er, and Du Ping in advance, letting them go to the village chief to sign up to buy a mountain. In the future, they'll definitely profit. Even if when the time comes, the winery is gone, these fruits can still be taken to the county seat to sell. Especially the grapes and tangerines that she let them plant. In the future, they'll definitely be best selling fruits.
Shi Er originally was still somewhat hesitant, but Du Xiao Li's explanation let him make up his mind. And together with Shi Da, one after the other, headed to Li Ming Fu's place and bought a mountain.
Du Ping originally didn't want to buy a mountain either. After all, he had his own fields, and fifty taels of silver isn't a small amount either. His own two sons also need to prepare to take a bride in a few years, so this money was very much tight.
After Du Xiao Li heard the news from the village chief, she went to Du Ping's house and told him about the fruit tree's profits, letting him make long-term plans for the future. In the end, Du Ping, under Du Xiao Li's persuasion, went to Li Ming Fu's place and bought a mountain.
(T/N: In my head I won't everyone in the village to get richer than that eldest uncle's family.)
This year, for Du Xiao Li, appeared much more peaceful. Perhaps because Han Ming Yi and them left, and Luo Qi also left after her birthday.
When Luo Qi left, he left the secret books with Du Xiao Li, repeatedly warning her, before mastering, to never expose her sound wave technique. In addition, as he was leaving, he left behind several thousand taels of silver. Du Xiao Li clearly remembered that he didn't have this much money. But thinking about it afterwards, it was probably brought back when he'd left in the middle.
(T/N: I swear she's just getting rich from all these rich kids leaving behind their money.)
As soon as the fruit wine started selling, it was already selling very well. Aside from having new fruits maturing and need Du Xiao Li to go teach those people, all other times, she stayed in her little mountain village growing her grapes and tangerines.
When the grapes matured, Du Xiao Li saved some for herself to eat, afterwards took the rest to the winery to make into grape wine. Because it was similar to the red wine from the western regions, the texture was good, and moreover the amount was limited, one jar of grape wine sold for the high price of a hundred taels, hearing that in the end, the price rose to two hundred taels a jar.
When Du Xiao Li heard this, she happily laughed. The more expensive this fruit wine sells for, the more money she will get.
Later, Du Xiao Li had the grape saplings she she bred cheaply sold to Shi Da, Shi Er, and Du Ping. Originally, she didn't intend on receiving their money, but Shi Da and them insisted on giving. Thus, she finally took some for the sake of it. Afterwards, she explained to them some things they need to pay attention to. Everyone were all farmers in Du village, so when it came to planting grapes, they also understood immediately.
When the tangerines matured, Du Xiao Li had a portion sold to Li Xue Mei, and a portion sold to the winery to make fruit wine. In addition to the profit share from the winery, this year she's made quite a bit of money.
Another year passed, and by the time the grapes matured, Du Shi and the others' mountains were all filled with grapes. When Li Xue Qing saw the few mountains of grapes, she was unable to conceal her happiness. The other villagers, seeing Da Shi and them making that much money, also successively went to go find Li Ming Fu.
In this year, Du Xiao Li also opened her own restaurant in the county seat. However, that wasn't on her own either, the same as the winery, she found someone to partner up with. She provided a portion of capital and also quite a few delicious recipes, and the rest was all taken care of by the other party.
(T/N: Tbh making money through business investments is a pretty legit business model. This is almost like stocks but in ancient times.)
When it was time to split the profits at the end of the year, Li Xue Qing said this year someone had caused some trouble, and they spent quite a bit of money to have the matter settled. That's why, the profit share was a little lesser than anticipated. However, this was also many times more than last year's profit share.
When Du Xiao Li heard Li Xue Qing mention this matter, she wasn't surprised, only feeling that this was something expected. With the fruit wines selling this well, certainly there will be people that were jealous, so it wasn't strange for something to have happened. However, these were all taken care of by Li Xue Qing. This was also why Du Xiao Li was willing to work with them in the beginning.
After Li Xue Qing left, Du Xiao Li said to Silver who was in the courtyard, "Silver, let's go stroll around the mountain, see if you can still keep up with me now."
With that said, Du Xiao Li flew to the roof with the tap of her foot. Afterwards, she provocatively smiled at Silver and flew towards the mountain. Silver immediately bolted out of the courtyard and chased after Du Xiao Li's figure towards the mountains, calling out as he ran.
"Awwooo---"
Du Xiao Li thought that this kind of satisfying countryside life would continue all the way until Du Xiu Heng goes to the capital to participate in the imperial exam. Yet unexpectedly, a few years later, a sudden visit from a luxurious horse carriage shattered her peace......
T/N: This concludes the first arc of the novel! I never thought back when I first started translating this series back in January of this year, it would progress this far this fast. Thank you to all the many sponsors that fueled me with caffeine, allowing me to continue translating at the rate of my aggressive typing speed. Although I did lose a lot of sleep over this, I am still quite proud of my progress, despite also stimultaneously translating two other series, which one I haven't been able to release yet ;;v;; Anyways next chapter is the start of the second arc, thank you for reading~
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