Yan Dashan sat in the main room and told everyone about going to the county town.
In fact, this trip was quite smooth. They went to the county town in the afternoon, and after arriving there, they went to look for Wangfu according to the address given by Uncle Musheng.
Wangfu had been working in the county town before and knew many shop assistants, including the one in the county pharmacy. They bought some snacks and gave them a hundred coins, and the servant told them the names and approximate addresses of several herbal medicine merchants who often delivered goods to the pharmacy.
They went to inquire and visit them one by one, but at first people ignored them, mainly because they didn't know what they were going to do with these things and were afraid of being implicated if something went wrong. Later, after their repeated assurances, they had some contact with them, learned that they had secret recipes for similar uses, and thinking about the medicinal properties of these things, they finally sold the things to them.
"This pharmacy has huge profits. Chunxiao's products cost one liang and one qian per jin, but ours only costs 600 wen, which is almost double the price."
"Such a big difference?" Chun Xiao only knew that it would be cheaper, but she didn't expect it to be so much cheaper. She couldn't help but feel happy.
"That's right. We were also surprised at the time, but we didn't dare to express it because we were afraid that the herbal medicine dealers would raise the price."
"There are eight items in total, each weighing 150 kilograms. There are too many to bring back. The goods we stored in town are sold out, and we have to go pick them up tomorrow. These are the most expensive Sichuan peppercorns."
"Then tomorrow morning Dahe and I will go deliver the goods and bring the stuff back. I'm afraid we may not be able to transport everything in one trip. Shuwen will go with us with the documents."
With so many things, I'm afraid the utility room will be filled up, and the charcoal will have to be moved to the backyard.
Yan Dashan walked up to Chunxiao with a bit of embarrassment and said, "You only have a few copper coins left from your two taels of silver. It's mainly because we have too much stuff, so it took two carts."
"I regretted it after you left. I thought I should have given you more money, but then I figured I could just take it back from the original capital if I didn't have any use for it. Brother, don't be too strict when you go out to do things, and don't be too hard on yourself."
"I know. We didn't find the worst hotel when we stayed. Don't worry. When we were leaving, Wangfu asked us why we bought the herbs. I said I was doing it for someone else. These things were bought from several people. Shuwen and I were the ones who ran the show. There shouldn't be any problem."
"Thank you for your hard work." Chunxiao patted Shuwen again, "Are you tired from going out? Do you want to go out again in the future?"
"Aunt, if there is such an opportunity in the future, please come to me. I can help and I don't feel tired." It's a pity that I went to the county town in a hurry and didn't even take a walk around.
"Don't worry, there will definitely be more opportunities like this in the future."
In the evening, Chunxiao poured all the cotton seeds into a large basin, soaked them in warm water for half an hour, and then added a lot of cold water.
"Won't these seeds get spoiled if they are soaked in hot water?" Zhou looked at him in confusion.
"Mom, don't soak them in warm water for too long, otherwise they will really spoil. Just soak them for two incense sticks, then soak them in cold water for four to five hours. This way the seeds will germinate quickly and grow well."
"Your father and I have been farming for so many years and have never heard of soaking the seeds before planting. Today I think I have learned something new. So, do we also need to soak the wheat seeds before planting?"
Chun Xiao nodded and said, "Soak it in cold water overnight so that it will sprout."
"I didn't know about this a long time ago. I said the harvest from this acre of land was not high. It turns out it was because of the wrong method. If I told your father, he would definitely not believe it. But if he knew it was you who said it, he would definitely listen. Now he can believe you. I will also talk about this with your Aunt Fang."
After soaking the seeds, they took a break.
In the morning, Chunxiao led the whole family to sow in the field. Several children were helping. They all prepared tools. A small bamboo tube as thick as a fist was used to press the holes. The ground had been turned over, so digging the holes was not difficult. The difficulty was to dig according to the depth and approximate distance she specified. Fortunately, there were many people in the family. For this kind of work, four children could do the work of four people. Together with Zhou, Tian, Zhang and Dashan, three people in each group could work together.
The family has been too busy these days, so Chunxiao stopped burning charcoal. There are still hundreds of pounds of charcoal piled up at home and she has no time to sell it. Seeing that the weather is getting warmer day by day, she decided not to burn charcoal for the time being and wait until the hundreds of pounds are sold. If they are still easy to sell, she will continue burning charcoal.
At the middle of the Si hour, Yan Bingfa returned with Shuwen in an ox cart. Shuwen's shouting could be heard from a long distance away at the back of the yard.
"Aunt, Dad, come and help us unload the things. We still have to make another trip."
A few people returned to the front and watched as the truck's full sacks began to be unloaded into the utility room. Chunxiao took the opportunity to check the contents of the bags.
"How many more?"
"There are still quite a lot. I originally wanted to pull them all back, but the oxen couldn't pull them, so I had to do it in two batches."
"This stuff weighs over a thousand pounds. We can't crush the cow." Yan Bingfa touched the cow with concern. "Dahe is waiting for us over there."
After unloading the cargo and feeding the cows some water, the two set off again.
The others continued to sow. Not long after lunch, Dahe and his friends brought back the remaining crops.
Looking at the room full of sacks, everyone felt a little emotional. These were the assets of their entire family. Chunxiao calculated that they would be enough to last for four months.
I just went to get the meat yesterday afternoon, so I don’t need to go today.
In the afternoon, everyone except Zhang joined in the farming work. The well digger stayed in the front yard to dig the well without anyone supervising him.
The next day, Zhou pulled an ox cart to bring back the bamboo craftsman's 49 large winnowing baskets. Chunxiao covered the ground with them intermittently and covered them with dry grass.
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