On the way back, Li Yu bought another ten pounds of meat, planning to braise it for the stall tomorrow. To Li Yu's surprise, the green pepper and egg steamed buns sold well today.
So she decided to increase the number of braised eggs to 30 when she was braising the meat today. When she got home, she sent Lin Mei to buy eggs from the Deng family next door.
That’s right, all the eggs in Uncle Lin’s house have been taken away by them, and now they are buying eggs from next door.
Everyone returned home in a good mood. Needless to say, the first thing they did was count the money. Although they had a rough idea of the amount, they still had to count it.
Who doesn’t understand the joy of counting money?
Li Yu felt that was the happiest thing in the world, no doubt about it.
When the Lin family's business was gradually getting on track, Xia received it. It was time to harvest wheat.
The Lin family had five acres of land, three of which were planted with wheat and two with corn. Three acres wasn't much, and three people could harvest almost everything in three days.
But the weather in summer is unpredictable, so everyone rushes to harvest while the weather is good, fearing that a sudden rain or hailstorm will destroy the crops.
Li Yu had a good idea before. She thought that since her family had saved a few taels of silver, she could hire someone to cut the weeds. It would only make about 20 wen a day, and there must be many people in the village who would do it.
As it turned out, she miscalculated. Every household in the village had wheat, and everyone was rushing to harvest their own crops during the harvest time.
I'm afraid it will rain one day.
If you want to work and earn money, you have to finish harvesting your own crops before going out to work. 30 cents a day can't compare with the money you earn from your own crops.
This resulted in Li Yu being unable to hire anyone, and she also thought about waiting for a few days until others had harvested their own crops before hiring someone to collect them.
But it was obviously unrealistic. Not to mention that she was also afraid of rain. Even if it didn't rain, she would be sprayed to death by the villagers.
He gained a reputation for making a little money but not even caring about his crops.
But we have to open the stall during the summer harvest. We earned nearly 600 coins a day. Not only were Lin Hai and the others reluctant to spend the money, but even Li Yu felt heartbroken.
Finally, the family agreed to let Li Yu take Yang Liu, Lin Mei and Xiaobao, and the four of them would go to set up the stall.
The three sons went to harvest wheat. Perhaps because of the good food over the past two weeks, Lin He looked much better than before. Li Yu also let him go to the summer harvest. He didn't need to do much, just some exercise and some sun.
Li Yu was not worried that he would tire himself out, because she felt relieved with Lin Hai watching him.
In the morning, they prepare breakfast while working at the stalls. After eating, they go back to the stalls and work in the fields. At noon, after they finish working at the stalls, they come back to make lunch.
In fact, this distribution is not bad. In the afternoon, the men go to the fields, while the women clean the house and prepare ingredients for the stall the next day.
Li Yu felt their writing plans would have to be postponed again. The wheat had to be harvested, dried, and then threshed. It would take at least ten days before it could be stored in the warehouse.
Alas! It is probably impossible for people in modern society to empathize with the hard work of ancient farmers. Even though many people today are from rural areas, in today's world where automation has become popular in farming, no one has ever seen real farmers rushing to harvest.
In the high temperature of over 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, they bent over with a sickle and repeated the same action without a break at noon.
Meals are delivered to the fields by family members, and when the harvest season comes, almost every household goes out together with men, women, and children.
Li Yu also grew up in the countryside. But she never knew that one day, just watching the villagers harvesting their summer harvest would make her eyes sore and she would want to cry.
She wasn't exaggerating, she really felt that way.
It's like she's watching short videos on Tik Tok in modern times and doesn't feel anything else.
But as soon as you see the clips of soldiers parading, you will definitely feel like crying.
She remembered very clearly how she felt when she first saw it, a mixture of pride and sadness.
It's really hard to comment on this feeling. A friend once said that it was because she was older, her tear point was lower, and her tear glands were more developed.
Li Yu understood that this was not the main reason.
The feeling at that time was exactly the same as Li Yu's current feeling. She believed that some people would say that she was being pretentious and pretending.
But anyone who has had similar feelings knows that it is by no means pretentious.
After watching the summer harvest process in the village, Li Yu suddenly couldn't sleep at night. She wanted to do something for these people to make their lives less miserable.
She began to wonder if she could create some value for this strange yet familiar era if she lived her life again.
So Li Yu went to the stall the next day with panda eyes.
She suffered from insomnia after traveling for a month.
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