Chapter 820 "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" is open!

A few days later, after everyone's concerted efforts, all the rice was finally harvested.

Looking at the golden and plump rice grains on the threshing floor, everyone felt a great sense of satisfaction.

At this time last year, they were still unkempt, hungry, and skinny, living one day at a time on the road to escape famine.

Today, we have a paradise for recuperation and rest, large brick and tile houses that only wealthy gentry can afford, endless food and fruits, and endless expectations for the future!

Qiao Ran had already drawn up the blueprints and had the craftsmen build a handy rice winnowing cart. With just a shake, the unfilled rice grains and empty husks could be winnowed out. There was no need to laboriously winnow the grains one by one with a shovel.

The winnowed rice grains and empty shells can also be used to feed chickens, ducks and pigs. Since moving to the new house, every household has started raising chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and rabbits, so they can always have meat and eggs to eat without having to go up the mountain to hunt.

Everyone followed what Qiao Ran said, keeping only one rooster for breeding and castrating the others. Such castrated chickens can grow faster and bigger, and their meat is more tender than that of roosters.

The piglets were castrated from a young age as Qiao Ran said. Not only do these pigs grow fast and fat, but their pork also has no fishy smell.

The wealthy people of Dai Viet actually didn’t like to eat pork because pork smelled even more fishy than mutton, so they preferred to eat beef and mutton (although oxen were not allowed to be slaughtered casually, there were always “sick oxen”, “old oxen”, and “oxen that died accidentally” available for the wealthy to eat.)

Ordinary people rarely had access to meat, so no one disliked it even if it smelled like pork.

However, when they heard Qiao Ran say that the meat of castrated pigs does not have a fishy smell when they grow up, and that they can grow four or five months earlier than non-castrated pigs and can grow fatter, they were naturally very happy.

Who wouldn’t be happy to think that we can eat the New Year pigs raised at home during the Spring Festival this year?

Every family raises pigs, some have one or two, some have three or four or even more. During the Chinese New Year, they kill one or two pigs to make bacon and sausages, and the rest can be taken to the "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" to sell, which is another source of income.

After the rice is harvested, the "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" will open.

Every household goes up the mountains and down the fields to pick fruits and vegetables. After the harvested rice is dried, enough is left for the family to eat and also sold to supermarkets.

The supermarket also sells dried goods such as mushrooms, bamboo fungus, bamboo shoots, yam, mulberries, etc. The price is not cheap and you can settle the payment on the spot after weighing.

The three brothers Qiao Dajiang, along with a few other smart and capable men including Li Daqiang, collected grain, fruits and vegetables on the large flat ground at the entrance of the village. After simple processing, they were transported to the supermarket by horse-drawn carriage.

Zheng Hui Niang and Lin Guizhen took Qin Niang, Daqiang's wife, Wu Qianqian and other young girls and wives to the supermarket and placed the items in the planned locations according to Qiao Ran's instructions. The rows of shelves were filled to the brim.

Everything is ready, "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" is open!

Early in the morning of that day, four horse-drawn carriages from Qingshui Village drove into the city against the backdrop of the morning glow.

When the auspicious time arrived, firecrackers exploded, attracting the attention of most pedestrians on the street.

Stepping on the firecrackers and red paper all over the ground, Qiao Ran, together with Old Lady Qiao and the old village chief, picked up long bamboo poles and lifted up the red silk cloth covering the plaque, revealing a few dazzling gold-plated characters "Shenxian Valley Supermarket"!

In order to leave a deep impression of the Fairy Valley Supermarket on all the people in Beijing, Qiao Ran spent a few taels of silver to hire a lion dance team, who stood in front of the store door beating gongs and drums to cheer for the lion to pick the green.

In addition, she also asked Qiao Dong and Qiao Nan, who were on leave, to bring the children in the village to distribute colorful leaflets to the onlookers.

She printed out the flyers using a color printer in the space, a total of one thousand copies.

The thick and tough paper was covered with pictures and texts. The colorful pictures were so lifelike that people who received the flyers were stunned. They wondered how skilled the artist had to be to draw such realistic pictures.

The fruits and vegetables in the painting are so juicy and tender that just looking at them makes people want to taste them.

The fish in the painting look like living creatures, as if they could jump out of the painting in the next moment.

The chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, rabbits and pigs in the paintings are also vivid and lively, looking just like the real ones, with each strand of shiny fur clearly visible. Each one is fat and big, and looks delicious.

Such a novel and lifelike flyer made everyone who got it reluctant to throw it away. They carefully collected it as if it were a precious painting by a famous artist, intending to take it home and appreciate it slowly.

But right now, they wanted to go into the shop and see whether the things sold in this so-called "Shenxian Valley Supermarket" were really as tempting as in the flyers.