Chapter 403 Discovering the Secret
Yang Heshu thought she was joking, so he laughed and didn't continue the topic, but just kept the entrance fee in mind.
He looked at the people coming and going below and thought to himself: If the former County Magistrate Fu knew that the one or two cents entrance fee stopped so many people, I wonder if he would regret it.
Yang Heshu thought, if it were him, he would definitely regret it.
He always felt that as long as there were people, there would be prosperity.
People are the root of everything!
Someone wanted to go into the city to buy a needle, but was not allowed in because of the one-cent entrance fee.
But did he really go into the city just to buy a needle?
If you see the thread next to the needle, would you buy some? If you see the fabric, would you also want to buy some?
Or if you stay in the city for a long time, will you spend some money on a meal? Even if it's just a bun, the bun seller will make some money.
And if he sold one more bun, the grain store and the mill would earn a little more...
Yang Heshu was lost in thought. Bai Shanbao waved his hand in front of his eyes, but when he saw that he was still distracted, he shrugged and said to Manbao, "Let's order something to eat ourselves."
Bai Erlang also held his stomach and said, "I'm hungry."
"Let's eat meat!" Manbao made his request.
Manbao can no longer make money by selling candy, so he doesn't buy meat for his family.
Old Zhou had just spent money to buy an ox cart, and he still owed a debt to the government, so he was very stingy. He could eat the eggs at home, but it was impossible for him to buy meat.
In order to make his two little grandsons cry less, he would ask his family to buy some pig's feet or crucian carp to make soup for his two daughters-in-law.
Xiao Qian would occasionally steal some food for Manbao, but not much, and Manbao didn't want to compete for food with his two sisters-in-law who were feeding their nephews.
So Manbao hasn't eaten meat for a long time.
When Yang Heshu came back to his senses, the three children had already ordered their favorite dishes. The waiter looked at him with a smile, "Sir, what else would you like to order?"
Yang Heshu asked, "What did you order?"
Hearing the names of the dishes the three children announced, Yang Heshu couldn't help but gasp and asked, "Can you finish them?"
Two dishes per person, six dishes for three people.
The three nodded and said affirmatively: "We can finish eating!"
Yang Heshu ordered a soup. Ever since he went to the countryside and ate the food of the villagers, Yang Heshu had automatically learned to be frugal.
As soon as the food came, the three children looked at Yang Heshu together, waiting for him to start eating.
Yang Heshu actually understood. He smiled slightly, picked up a dish with his chopsticks, and said with a smile, "Eat it."
The three children picked up their chopsticks and began to eat in an orderly manner.
Ever since they started attending elementary school with Mr. Zhuang, they usually had lunch with him.
Then Mr. Zhuang took charge of their dining etiquette.
In the past, no one taught Bai Erlang specifically. The Zhou family thought Manbao was good in every way, but Bai Shanbao was strictly required in this aspect since he was a child.
Once Mr. Zhuang took charge, the three children became more polite, at least they would not be rude at the dinner table.
Halfway through the meal, Yang and Shu discovered that the three of them said they could finish it, and they really could.
Yang Heshu's appetite improved a lot after they started eating. Later in the meal, he subconsciously slowed down his pace and let them eat first.
Seeing the three people eating so happily, Yang Heshu couldn't help but say, "They say that young boys can eat their parents out of money. I didn't believe it before, but now I do. Why do I feel like you guys eat more than me?"
The three of them looked up and smiled at him politely.
Yang Heshu put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked with a smile, "Have you finished harvesting the winter wheat on your farm? How was the harvest?"
"Very good," Manbao finished the rice in his bowl, then put down his chopsticks and said, "The winter wheat in our village is very good this year. The mill has been queuing up to grind flour these past two days."
Bai Shanbao asked, "I wonder what the situation is like in other villages?"
Yang Heshu smiled and said, "The situation in other villages is also good. I heard from the old farmers that it was mainly because there were several spring rains when the wheat was filling with grain this year. The weather was neither too cold nor too hot, so the harvest was good."
"Won't the price of food go down then?" Bai Shanbao asked thoughtfully.
"It hasn't fallen yet, but I estimate it will soon." Yang Heshu was happy when he mentioned this. It was precisely because of the good winter wheat harvest that he had the leisure to wander around the county town at this time. Otherwise, he would be worried about where to get food for relief so that the people in the county could survive the period of famine.
"Last year, the people in the countryside had the hardest time. Some families had run out of food a month before, so many people were reluctant to sell their winter wheat after the harvest, so grain prices are unlikely to fall for a while. However, the Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner, and after that, we'll be able to see how the summer harvest goes, and grain prices will definitely fall then."
Yang Heshu is very confident that there will be a good harvest this year.
Manbao was also very confident. Some time ago, when the wheat was drying, her father followed a group of old men and women to look at the sky under the banyan tree. Finally, they concluded that God might be kind to them this year.
At most, there will be drought after autumn, but the impact will not be very big then.
Manbao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other and decided to go to the grain store after dinner.
Bai Erlang was also full. He put down his bowl and chopsticks and found that there was no sound at the table. He looked around and asked, "Why are you no longer talking?"
Manbao pointed at the remaining rice in Yang Heshu's bowl and said, "Master Yang, you haven't finished eating."
Yang Heshu: "I, I'm full."
Manbao's eyes widened, obviously not expecting anyone to leave the white rice.
The Zhou family never leaves any food on the table. Everyone finishes the food in their bowl. How could there be anyone in this world who can't eat?
Manbao's gaze made Yang Heshu feel that he had done something extremely unethical. He silently picked up the bowl and chopsticks and finished the rice in it, then put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at each other with the three children.
Yang Heshu asked, "Do you want to come to my house and visit? Last time I agreed to invite you to see the garden in the backyard of the county government office."
Bai Erlang nodded, while Manbao and Bai Shanbao shook their heads.
Yang Heshu ignored Bai Erlang and looked at Manbao and Bai Shanbao, "Why, do you have something to do?"
"We're going to the grain store to take a look."
Yang Heshu understood after a moment's thought and asked with a smile, "Why, do you want to sell the farm's wheat?"
They both nodded.
Yang Heshu thought about it and nodded, "It's a good time to sell it now, otherwise the price will drop after a while."
Yang Heshu simply stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll go take a look with you."
For some reason, Manbao and Bai Shanbao didn't want to go to the grain shop with Yang Heshu.
But since they were so enthusiastic, the two of them had no choice but to accept it.
Bai Erlang felt sleepy after eating. He just wanted to go home and take a nap, so he pouted and followed them in a depressed mood.
(End of this chapter)
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