Chapter 310 Secret
Farming is very particular about the timing. In order to grab a few days for the summer harvest, many farmers have to work day and night, and some even live in the fields.
In the past two years, Qili Village had a good harvest. In order to seize the farming time, Zhou Dalang, Zhou Erlang and Zhou Sanlang lived in the fields. Sometimes, even if they were so tired that they could not straighten their backs, they would still harvest under the moonlight and firelight.
Otherwise, a year's efforts may be wasted after a rain.
After the rain, the summer harvest usually comes to an end. People start collecting the hemp, peeling it, soaking it, beating it, combing it, and then braiding it. They then take it to the river to wash and beat it...
The process is both tedious and labor-intensive. The children in the Zhou family dislike collecting hemp the most, and the adults are the same.
Because most of the woven linen had to be handed over to the county government as a tax, in addition to the woven linen, each person had to hand over three pounds of linen.
To this end, Old Zhou planted rows of hemp on the ridges of his fields and fields, and also planted two or three circles of hemp at the foot of the mountain where he and Zhou Dalang and Zhou Sanlang lived.
This thing is drought-resistant and easy to work with, but the process is more laborious. However, their family can still have some linen left over every year to make clothes, while other families with smaller populations may not have enough linen to make clothes.
Moreover, the linen made by the Zhou family was indeed not of good quality, and Manbao didn't like it very much. She remembered that she only had one new linen dress, but it was rubbed red on her body not long after she put it on.
Later, her mother took it back and tore it apart to make clothes for herself.
She wore it for more than half a year, and then I took apart the worn-out linen clothes and made clothes for her.
Now, the clothes Manbao wears in summer are mostly linen clothes made from old clothes worn by her mother and sister-in-law. Only in winter will she wear clothes made of cotton cloth bought from the county town.
So Manbao didn't like hemp either. She blew on the hands of her nephews and then put a candy on their palms.
The group of children were comforted instantly and immediately became happy. They peeled the candies and ate them while going home with Manbao.
Manbao took out a pen, wrote down the items and quantities needed, and handed it to Datou. "My friend needs to buy these things too. Take Ertou and the others to help me find them. Remember, the cabbage worms need to be alive. Just in case, bring back a little extra and pick some large leaves for me to pack."
He recognized most of the words on the paper and it wasn't difficult to understand, but what puzzled him was who would buy insects by the piece.
Shouldn't this kind of thing be sold by weight?
Or we can also have a fight.
But it seems like it’s a good thing that my aunt’s guests are stupid, right?
Datou only took a glance at the paper and patted his chest to assure Manbao that everything was fine. Then he asked with a playful smile, "Aunt, we've harvested all the beans at home. Can you tell Second Uncle to take us to the county town in a few days?"
Man Baole said, "I know, you guys want to sell the candy, right?"
A group of children looked at Manbao and laughed.
Manbao said, "Second brother will definitely not take you there, but fourth brother should be fine."
Erya's eyes lit up and she asked, "Fourth Uncle is going to the county town too?"
"Of course. After Mr. Bai's crops are harvested, I will go up the mountain with my fourth brother to look for Poria cocos. Then I will ask my fourth brother to help my second brother."
If they could still find Poria cocos, Manbao would secretly keep a small piece and then cut it into several portions to sell.
The encyclopedia gave her 200,000 reward points, so she sold it for 150,000. As long as she sold two copies, it would be almost done.
This was the conclusion Manbao came to after thinking about his series of orders last night.
She found that the higher the points an item had in the encyclopedia, the higher its value here.
For example, Poria cocos and tree sparrows have the highest points now. Not to mention tree sparrows, Poria cocos is the most expensive item they currently sell.
Zhou Erlang asked the shopkeeper Zheng, and the shopkeeper Zheng said that these things are all wild and cannot be cultivated, so they are very precious.
Because it is precious and has many medicinal effects, it becomes valuable.
However, what they sold was raw Poria cocos. Zhou Erlang had secretly inquired about it and found that the price of processed Poria cocos of good quality was more than double.
No wonder medicines in pharmacies are so expensive.
However, Manbao feels that no matter how expensive it is, it will not be as expensive as it will be in the future.
She knew that points were more valuable than copper coins, and a small piece of Poria cocos was worth 200,000 points.
Manbao smiled like a little mouse, making Bai Shanbao look at her again and again.
Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he reached out and knocked her on the head and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Manbao looked around and finally stared at Daji who was sitting in the corner.
Daji: ...
Bai Shanbao also stared at Daji.
Daji stood up silently, opened the door and walked out of the study.
He looked around the yard and finally found a tree to squat under. From here he could see the two children in the study through the window, but he couldn't hear what they were saying.
When Manbao saw Daji leave, he immediately leaned over to Bai Shanbao and whispered, "If I have a lot of things that are very rare in my hands, do you think it would be better for me to exchange them all for money, or barter?"
“Do those scarce things have high value to you?”
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Some are high, some are not; some are rare, some can be found everywhere."
"So what do you want to exchange for them?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Wheat seeds? Or other interesting seeds."
Today, Datou and his friends proposed to go to the county town, obviously wanting to exchange the candies they had for money, but Manbao knew that the candy business in the county town might not be doing well right now.
But there are currencies in this world that are harder than candy, and you can create a lot of value with just a few points, such as ginger.
The five kilograms of ginger seeds she bought seemed much more expensive than candy, but last year alone, they made the Zhou family a lot of money.
Its value has long exceeded the money she paid for the seeds.
In addition, this year the Zhou family’s wheat is in much better condition than other families.
Just now when she went out to the Bai family, many elderly people in the village came to the Zhou family and were discussing the wheat seeds with Old Zhou.
Although this year's wheat has not been fully harvested, everyone saw the harvest. Now the whole village knows that Old Zhou's wheat is the best, even better than Mr. Bai's wheat.
Some of the wheat ears were long and full, so the elders in the village wanted to exchange some seeds with the Zhou family.
Good ears of wheat are good seeds, and good seeds can always produce better ears of wheat. Farmers who have worked for a lifetime may not understand anything else, but they still know this most basic common sense of seed preservation.
Others may not know why the Zhou family’s wheat is better than others’ during floods, but Manbao knows.
Because she secretly replaced some wheat seeds at the beginning of spring.
Manbao is considering whether to buy another batch of wheat seeds in exchange for some wheat.
(End of this chapter)
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