Chapter 204 Yunyue Wants to Build a Road
"Yunyue. I'll be in charge of arranging the defenses for Baijia Village. Yingfeng is good at this."
Fu Xuanheng glanced at the passers-by who were in a hurry.
"Let's buy some food and take it back."
"Um."
Shen Yunyue responded. The Shen family had a lot to do, so naturally they had to buy a lot of food.
Plus there are quite a few people.
After buying the food, she could secretly put more food in.
Shen Yunyue wanted to use the wealth and property looted from Nanli Kingdom in Xiaotianzhuang on the mountain people in Baijia Village and several villages around Xiaotianzhuang.
The people of Nanli have robbed the people of Dazhou of a lot of money and food. I'll definitely go to Nanli and start buying for free when I get the chance.
As they were talking, they arrived at the grain shop.
Shen Yunyue started shopping mode.
"Shopkeeper, how much is this polished rice?"
"Japonica rice is 35 cents per catty. Coarse rice is 8 cents per catty." The fat shopkeeper had two mustaches that shook as he spoke.
"What about fine noodles and coarse noodles?"
Shen Yunyue asked several questions in a row, even about vegetable seeds.
The shopkeeper was not impatient.
He told her the corresponding prices one by one, "Girl, what do you want to buy?"
"I'll buy everything I just said."
The shopkeeper scratched his ears, thinking he had misheard.
"What did the girl say?"
"I want both. Two hundred catties of polished rice, and four hundred catties of coarse rice. Two hundred catties of fine flour, and four hundred catties of coarse flour..."
The shopkeeper quickly took a note.
Looking at the numbers above, his forehead was throbbing.
A big business fell from the sky.
"Miss, is there something serious going on?" The shopkeeper rarely stockpiled food during this season. After all, the new grain would arrive in less than two months.
"Why buy so much food at once?"
Shen Yunyue sighed:
"That's a lot. Rich families buy more than this. I'm hiring workers to build a house."
"If we really want to stockpile food, we should stockpile rice and wheat."
The owner of the grain shop suddenly realized.
"Boss, you have to deliver the goods to the door."
"Send it, we will definitely deliver it to your door." The shopkeeper said with a flattering smile.
"Baijia Village."
The shopkeeper's smile froze, and he looked a little confused. "Miss, are you talking about the Baijia Village at the foot of Taiping Mountain?"
"Well, yes."
The shopkeeper had a worried look on his face.
"Well, to be honest, that section of the mountain road is not easy to walk on. Halfway up, even the carriage couldn't go up."
The shopkeeper knew that it would be difficult even for an experienced driver to get up there with an empty carriage.
What's more, this is a horse-drawn carriage carrying goods.
Shen Yunyue pondered for a moment.
He took out three taels of silver from his purse and said, "How about this. Find someone to help carry the goods."
The shopkeeper took a look and was afraid of losing Shen Yunyue, a big customer.
"Forget it. I'll call someone myself. Miss, remember to come to my Laiwang Grain Shop to buy food from now on."
Shen Yunyue smiled faintly and thought to herself: I'm afraid I will have to sell food to you in the future.
"Boss, use this money to subsidize the employees. In the future, when there is business, they will naturally think of you."
The shopkeeper didn't take all of it, only one or two taels of silver. "This subsidy is enough. Prices and labor costs are low in Shihan Prefecture."
After settling the bill for buying grain, Shen Yunyue paid 80%.
The rest is payable on delivery.
After buying food.
The two of them went outside and bought a whole pig.
After asking, I found out that the person selling pork was from Baijia Village, named Jiang the Butcher.
"Butcher Jiang, please take us home. The Fu family is at the foot of the back mountain." Shen Yunyue didn't mention the Shen family anymore. After all, they had started to split up.
Butcher Jiang grinned. "Alright. Miss Fu, if you need anything from now on, just let me know. I'll deliver it every day."
Butcher Jiang was thinking that after selling the pork on the street, he would go home and kill a pig and bring it to the Fu family.
"Yeah. That's fine."
Shen Yunyue took out the silver but was stopped by Butcher Jiang.
"We're from the same village, so wait until I send you home before paying."
Butcher Jiang threw the white towel over his shoulders, which made the butchers next to him look envious.
When did this mountain man start talking about his fellow villagers?
Could it be that the people who were exiled this time have silver?
It's a pity that the escorts they sent were really unqualified. They should have squeezed these people dry.
Shen Yunyue asked Butcher Jiang where the fish was sold. Butcher Jiang smiled and said, "You can leave the fish here with me and I'll bring it back to you."
"That road is not easy to walk on. I'm afraid you two young couples won't be able to make it."
Shen Yunyue thought for a moment, "Then how did you get there?"
Butcher Jiang patted his legs and said, "Ever since I was little, I've always done everything myself when traveling through the mountains and forests."
It turned out that Butcher Jiang's sister was married at the foot of the mountain, and all his ox carts were left at her house. He would slaughter the pigs and transport them down the mountain by hand, then use the ox cart to bring them to the town.
Shen Yunyue couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that road construction was imminent.
"Okay. Then we'll buy some fish and send them over." Shen Yunyue and Fu Xuanheng walked on the street, one in front and the other behind.
Fu Xuanheng walked behind Shen Yunyue the whole time, looking at her hair, which still had the peach wood hairpin and a pale yellow wildflower she had picked that morning.
"Xuan Heng. What do you want to eat?"
Shen Yunyue turned her head to look at him, her eyes sparkling with intelligence.
"Just teach Mu Ya how to cook, but you are not allowed to cook by yourself in the future." Fu Xuanheng said in a low voice.
"Um."
"Yunyue, shall we go shopping at the Silver Shop?"
"You know how much jewelry I have. Uncle Yunhe gave me that much last time, but we are still in the mourning period.
In order to survive, we don't care about those who eat vegetarian food.
Filial piety still needs to be fulfilled. "Shen Yunyue has never met Shen Cixuan, but she respects this pillar of the Shen family in her heart.
"The silver hairpin should also be there." Fu Xuanheng's eyes darkened.
"Yes, yes. I didn't wear it because I didn't want to stand out." Shen Yunyue smiled. "That fish looks good. Let's buy it and steam it."
Fu Xuanheng was pulled over and the two bought fish and eggs.
Shen Yunyue also bought a cage of chicks and ducklings.
When they delivered the things to Butcher Jiang, Butcher Jiang couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw the man carrying the cage behind Shen Yunyue and Fu Xuanheng.
"Is it difficult to carry?"
"No, no. It's just that you guys are really good at shopping." Butcher Jiang thought to himself that he would have to ask the boys from his brother-in-law's family for help when he got home.
Shen Yunyue smiled faintly and said:
"Please ask two people to take you there when you get to the foot of the mountain."
She took out twenty copper coins and gave them to Butcher Jiang, then left with Fu Xuanheng.
On the way back, the red horse was waiting for them by the roadside.
Someone tried to get close to the red horse, but the horse kicked up its hooves and ran away very fast.
Seeing Shen Yunyue and the other two coming, he ran over happily. He rubbed his head vigorously in Shen Yunyue's hands, as if to say, "Do you still remember to come back?"
Two people rode one horse.
Looking at the passers-by on the road, Shen Yunyue whispered:
"Xuan Heng, we've collected a lot of silver and grain from those people in the Southern Li Kingdom. Why don't we use this money to hire villagers to build a road?"
"Okay. I was thinking about that, too. It's always inconvenient to go in and out."
"Why not just repair the roads in the surrounding villages? But who should be responsible for this task?" Shen Yunyue knew that neither she nor Fu Xuanheng would have the time.
Fu Xuanheng pondered for a moment, "How are Uncle and Mr. Lu?"
Shen Citong is rigorous in his work, but cautious in his character.
Mr. Lu is an open-minded person, and they want to maintain good relations with the Lu family.
Some benefits must also be distributed.
Hiring someone to build a road requires wages, and Grandpa Lu and Shen Citong will not give less.
Shen Yunyue nodded and said:
"Okay. Let's discuss it with them when we get back."
We are almost at Baijia Village.
Shen Yunyue took out water chestnut cakes, mung bean cakes, plum cakes, and dried plums from the space.
"Give me a cup of milk tea, a sweeter one." Fu Xuanheng said close to Shen Yunyue's ear.
Shen Yunyue sighed. If modern exchange channels were opened, she would have reason to suspect that Fu Xuanheng was eating those junk foods as meals.
This guy has a real sweet tooth.
The key point is that her figure doesn’t look like it has been corrupted by sweets at all.
"Eating too much sweets is not good." Shen Yunyue still gave him a cup of milk tea with a lot of ingredients, "Be careful not to become fat."
"I practice martial arts for an hour every day."
The horse was also carrying cloth, needles and thread. These were what Shen Yunyue took out from the space to help the women of the Shen family do needlework.
Just entered Baijia Village.
Shen Yunzheng and a group of children rushed over.
"Listen to me, young men. We must take control of Baijia Village and then take control of Xiaotianzhuang."
"Listen to the boss." Those guys were taller than Shen Yunzheng, and they raised their arms and shouted.
Seeing this, Shen Yunyue really wanted to beat up Shen Yunzheng. Why is this kid so nice to these kids?
Shen Yunzheng turned his head and saw Fu Xuanheng and Shen Yunyue, and immediately put on a servile smile.
"Sister, brother-in-law, where are the sweets and cakes you brought me?"
Fu Xuanheng looked at the Monkey King and tore off an oil-paper bag from behind. "Here."
Various cakes are wrapped in oil paper.
Fu Xuansheng came over with the cakes and was glared at by Fu Xuanheng. "How much of the Four Books have you read? How's your handwriting going?"
Fu Xuansheng silently handed the cake to Shen Yunzheng, "Brother, I'll go back and write now."
"Go back."
Fu Xuansheng ran back in a flash.
Shen Yun was left in a daze, "Brother-in-law, you are so mean."
"Hmph, just enjoy your happiness this year. Next year, you will have to be the same as them." Fu Xuanheng rode away.
Shen Yunyue doesn't care how strictly he treats the little ones' studies.
The ancients matured early and society was more cruel.
Unlike modern times, they couldn’t continue their studies. They had to grow up earlier and shoulder the burden of a family.
Seeing that Shen Yunyue didn't speak up for him, Shen Yunzheng felt depressed.
He was only depressed for a while, and his friend drooled as he stared at the oil-paper bag in his hand.
The little guy straightened his back and said, "Stand in line. I'll give some to everyone."
Shen Yunyue and Fu Xuanheng arrived home and asked Yingfeng to lead the horse over. "Take everything off the horse and let Mu Ya divide it up."
Mu Ya knew how to divide these things.
Which ones stayed in the Fu family?
Which ones were distributed to the first and second wives of the Shen family.
Yingfeng led the horse over and whispered, "Master. The monkey is vomiting blood again."
"It's okay, let him spit out more blood." Shen Yunyue said nonchalantly: "The more he spit out, the more he will say."
"Yingfeng, increase the dosage of the herbs today. It won't kill him."
Shen Yunyue just didn't want Monkey to get well soon. Saving him was a must. No one knew who that man in white was.
Shen Yunyue was wary of the intentions of the man in white.
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