Chapter 42
For several days in a row, apart from going to town to look at shops, Mingxiu spent time in the orchards.
Although it seems that her family's livelihood does not depend on the orchard now, Mingxiu understands that there are many difficulties in this world, and it is good to have an extra escape route. If the means of making money at hand are no longer available in the future, at least there is an orchard.
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Can they still make a living selling fruit?
What's more, she also likes these.
Xie Zhan also followed that day.
"I see that there are several good shops in the West Market that are suitable for opening restaurants. Why did you reject them all?"
"Orchard... it's not easy to open a restaurant. It's better not to take too big a step at a time, in case you lose money."
Her eyes never left the fruit trees, but she just couldn't figure out why the fruit trees didn't bloom.
Obviously the leaves have grown very luxuriantly in the past few days, and there were a few flower buds a few days ago, but they just didn't bloom. She really didn't understand the reason.
"I see that your thoughts are all on these fruit trees. It's better not to think about opening a store until the matter of these fruit trees is taken care of, lest you make a mistake and lose everything." Xie Zhan shook his head helplessly.
I really don’t understand. Mingxiu keeps saying that she only needs enough money, but the money for self-driving has obviously come from a source. If she can run the restaurant well, she will not have to worry about having money to spend. Why is she still so obsessed with planting.
Mingxiu glanced at him and was very dissatisfied with the lack of confidence in his mouth.
"I still have confidence in myself."
When it comes to opening a restaurant, as long as the location is selected, there is still a long renovation period. After all this, I think that by the time it can be officially opened, the orchard matter will also be solved.
But why doesn't this fruit bloom...
Xie Zhan shook his head slightly, dumbfounded, "Since you are so confident, why don't you take stock of those stores?"
He looked at those few shops that were already very good in the town. Just because Mingxiu didn't make up his mind, there was only one good shop in the West Market left. If he didn't make a decision, none of those shops would be there anymore.
, she is the one who truly regrets it.
"This is not a matter of confidence. How much capital does my family have? Can we turn around a restaurant?"
She had already calculated in her mind that if she wanted the restaurant to be financially stable, in addition to decoration, she must have at least a hundred taels of liquid capital on hand to deal with various possible problems.
Obviously, the seven or eighty taels that their family currently holds are simply not enough!
Therefore, Ming Xiucai did not think about opening a restaurant from the beginning, but wanted to test the waters by opening a restaurant first.
If we can make money, we will gradually turn it into a restaurant in the future.
She is not worried about missing the opportunity now. If it is true as Xie Zhan said, the border town will go to war with the Southern Dynasty in a few years, then the housing prices will definitely fall by then. It will be cost-effective to buy a shop and open a restaurant at that time.
Mingxiu's calculations in her mind have always been very shrewd, and she is not as confused as Xie Zhan thought.
Xie Zhan was speechless and could only shrug and let her go.
"You have stayed in the orchard for so many days, can you find out the reason?"
It had been almost half a month from the time of planning to the location selection, but Mingxiu was still frowning all the time. He originally thought that this girl was omnipotent, but now it seemed that she was nothing more than that.
"If I find a solution for the key, I won't be able to take action for so long." Mingxiu glanced at him, and suddenly thought that Xie Zhan's former identity may be extraordinary, and naturally his knowledge may also be extraordinary, "Have you ever seen an orchard? It's nothing like mine.
What's the difference?"
"They are all orchards, so what's the difference? Is there a different number of varieties of fruit trees?" Xie Zhan paused, then suddenly remembered something, "Your home is also smaller."
Mingxiu almost rolled his eyes and thought he had thought of something. It was as if he had not said it.
"There aren't many bees either. It would be nice to come and enjoy the cool air in summer."
Faintly hearing Xie Zhan's muttering, Mingxiu's eyes suddenly lit up.
That's right, Bee.
How could she forget this?
Ignoring Xie Zhan's thoughts, she thought of paying attention and ran to her parents without stopping.
"Why are you back so early today?" Seeing Mingxiu come back, Ming's mother didn't even raise her head, "Then, where are the fruit trees that we, the ignorant, can grow? Even professional fruit farmers may not be able to grow them well, so that's it.
Let’s just concentrate on preparing to open a store in the town. We don’t have much money for the fruit trees on the left and right, so we can just buy them as decorations for our family.”
"Mom, do you know where there are beekeepers near us?"
"What kind of beekeeper?" Ming's mother didn't understand. "What do you want to do, kid? I think you have ten thousand ideas a day."
She shook her head. Although her daughter is now sensible, she is not yet determined. Thinking about this today and thinking about that tomorrow is really the nature of a child.
"If you want to eat honey, I'll go to the town and buy some for you. Where can we get contaminated by bees?"
Apparently Ming’s mother thought that Mingxiu had heard somewhere that beekeeping could make money and wanted to do this.
But those bees will sting people if they disagree! They are inexperienced, so it’s better to just leave it alone, so as not to make themselves uncomfortable and their family members too.
"Mom, I thought about the reason why our fruit trees don't bear fruit." Mingxiu leaned into her mother's ear and said mysteriously.
"Because there are no bees?" Ming's mother nodded thoughtfully, "My mother-in-law also heard old people say that there must be some bees, butterflies and the like in the orchard, but no one went out to find bees for this purpose.
Farmers, when it blooms, the bees will naturally come."
No one would keep bees specifically for this kind of thing.
Now is the time to bloom. As for why the bees haven’t come yet...
Ming's mother thought that maybe it was because they had too few fruit trees and no bees were willing to make their home.
"In order to keep our orchard from losing money, I want to go to the beekeeper and buy some bees. Not too much, just a small box is enough."
She didn't originally want to keep bees, let alone the little honey. The idea was just to pollinate the fruit trees.
If there is no pollination, even if the flowers bloom now, it will be difficult to bear fruit.
You can't count on the wind.
Ming's mother was not willing to agree. In her opinion, beekeeping was indeed a bit dangerous.
Upon seeing this, Mingxiu immediately approached her mother and started acting coquettishly.
"Mother, please, just promise me. I promise you that I will not mess with those bees after they are bought and settled."
Chapter completed!