Knowing that Qiaoyun had arrived, the two brothers who had been sleeping soundly at Zhang Juntou's place soon came over.
Xu Errui hugged Caixia and played around, saying, "Daddy bought you a rattle drum. You can play with it when we get back to the mountain!"
Xiao Caixia hadn't seen her father for several days, and they cuddled together for a while.
Qiaoyun took out a bundle and gave it to him: "Go change your clothes quickly. Look how smelly you are. I'll take the clothes back and wash them."
Xu Errui pinched Caixia's nose: "Don't smell Daddy! Qiaoyun, I'll wash the clothes myself. I definitely won't be able to go back for the next few days."
He has other things to do and can't go home.
One cannot become a useful person without experience. Now Xu Errui feels like an adult, with much to manage and do.
He was thinking of staying in the village, but then he heard his mother say, "Errui, when you take Qiaoyun back now, remember to bring all the mosquito coils from home."
Qiaoyun only brought three coils of mosquito coils, which was far too few to give to the Huo family.
Xu Errui nodded, telling his wife to take the children and go with the wild boar. He was still worried and felt more at ease sending them back himself.
So, taking advantage of the fact that they had less to do, the young couple went up the mountain to pick up the goods again.
In the afternoon, a car from the Huo family arrived. The men who came with them looked at the cornfield and were full of praise for the fresh food available.
They didn't specify how many ears of corn to buy; they just selected a few plots and decided on the quantity.
Then they went to Lihua Town, saying they would come back to pick up the goods early the next morning.
Jiang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, finally relieved that she didn't have to stay up all night anymore.
Working like this continuously is exhausting for everyone. Let's get a good night's rest, and we can prepare the corn at dawn.
That night, Jiang Zhi shared a bed with Liu, which made Liu extremely nervous, and she was still sleepy when she woke up in the morning.
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, people from every household in the village went to work.
Having gone through this experience once, everyone now has the experience of picking and distributing corn, and they each find something to do according to the previous plan.
Li Laoshi was particularly adept at preventing people from slacking off; with a few shouts, he could get everyone on their toes.
When the Huo family's mule cart arrived from Lihua Town, the corn, still wet with dew, had already been packed into baskets and piled up in a neat row along the roadside.
Counting the quantity, loading the truck, paying the money... that's how the corn was sold!
Jiang Zhi, without even wiping her sweat, took out ten small wicker baskets, no bigger than the palm of her hand, which Xu Errui had brought down the mountain before dawn.
This is a small basket woven from soft kudzu vines by Grandpa Xiaoman to prevent the brittle mosquito coils from breaking.
Jiang Zhi said to Huo, the shop assistant, "Young man, remember to give this to the Second Miss when you get back. It's for repelling mosquitoes at night, and the scents vary. Please let us know how it goes if you put it in the shop to sell!"
The bamboo basket contained mosquito coil trays wrapped in oiled paper. There weren't many; there were fifty trays each of wild chrysanthemum, mugwort, mint, and camphor. Jiang Zhi had also written an instruction manual and put it inside.
I have an agreement with the Huo family that mosquito coils can be classified as medicinal, and the Huo family is obligated to sell them on my behalf.
The shop assistant had obviously been instructed by the second young lady; he didn't examine the contents of the wicker basket closely, simply took it, and headed back to the city.
The arrival of the Huo family seemed to have opened the door to good fortune for Xu Family Village.
Just as the Huo family's mule cart left, Zhang Juntou came over with a group of people: "Sister Jiang, they also want to buy some green grains."
Before the men could say anything, their eyes lit up as they looked at the pile of defective products outside the warehouse. They exclaimed, "We thought Inspector Zhang was joking, but we didn't expect he actually had them! Sister-in-law, we want to buy them!"
This person actually asked for everything right off the bat, and wanted to take it all away in the shortest possible time.
all?
Jiang Zhi was completely dumbfounded.
There's no reason to turn away business that comes knocking on your door.
Even if the price is the same as the price at the place of origin, it's still worth selling even if it's lower than the retail price in the county town.
All personnel were mobilized again.
By nightfall, the five large mule carts that those people had brought were all loaded with tender corn from Xujia Village, regardless of its quality.
Besides Jiang Zhi's family, there are also Tian Gui's and Xu Genyou's families among them.
When Xu Errui was cultivating sweet potato seedlings and making sweet potato furrows in Xujia Village, several other households followed suit, so the timing of their corn sprouting was not significantly different.
These families were reluctant to eat it and were hoping to grow it into mature corn. But seeing that the village chief's family could easily sell it for grain and not worry about food at home, they gritted their teeth and sold their corn as well.
It's a pity I was too timid to plant many, but I still managed to sell them for half a penny.
Xu Gensheng's wife, Pi, held the money bag in her hand, listening to the clinking of the coins inside, and couldn't help but mutter, "Why didn't we plant more back then? This money would have grown much faster than raising pigs!"
Xu Gensheng glanced at her: "Why? Why do you think I should say that? Didn't you say bad things about Aunt Jiang all the time back then?"
I need to have a serious discussion with you about who's right and who's wrong here. You can't just dismiss it with a simple statement like, "Without Errui's fattening seedlings, you expect them to grow?"
Pi raised his hand and stuffed the money bag into his mouth: "Fine, fine, you've got guts, you won, okay?"
This man is a chatterbox; once he starts talking, he never stops.
Xu Gensheng opened the money bag and persisted, "That's how it is. Without making manure balls, there will be no seedlings..."
Their happiness is naturally built on the sorrow of a group of people.
Xu Genqing and his group suffered another blow; they didn't get a single penny and could only watch others count their money.
Even Xu Changming, who was dissatisfied with Jiang Zhi becoming the village chief, was envious, but he couldn't deny it. He could only say sourly, "They're just lucky. They'll go hungry when there's no food to eat in the future."
Only he himself believes that. People just bought rice and put it at home, how could there be a food shortage?
But I drink that thin vegetable porridge that reflects your image every day, and my face turns green.
On the other side, Jiang Zhi also figured out how these people knew she was selling green grains.
The patrol battalion where Zhang Juntou works is responsible not only for road collapses and public security management, but also for checking pedestrians and vehicles passing by.
Because Jiang Zhi had previously sent tender corn to the patrol battalion, the soldiers on patrol carried it with them and ate it as a snack along the way.
And so it was spotted by this group of merchants who came all the way from Yuzhou Prefecture to Jincheng.
What season is it now? How come there's this thing?
With a businessman's keen intuition, seizing the initiative means making money.
They immediately turned their convoy back to Xujia Village, grabbed the first batch of fresh goods as quickly as possible, and delivered them to the wealthy families in Jincheng, making a fortune in the process.
To get rich, build roads first!
After the official road brought utter disaster to the people of Xujia Village, Jiang Zhi finally enjoyed the commercial value brought by convenient transportation.
After selling the green grains, the next step is to make silage.
Jiang Zhi had already asked those merchants about the prices of cattle and mules, and had also asked them to bring some livestock, including chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep. The merchants naturally agreed to find familiar cattle and horse dealers to come over.
Although Magistrate Zhang had said she would distribute livestock, after seeing the seeds distributed in the spring, she didn't have much hope.
Just because Zhang Zheng can think of something doesn't mean he can do it.
Several towns and villages surrounding Pingchuan County have suffered significant damage, and with the ongoing conflict, self-rescue is proving difficult.
AI can draw whatever it wants: the rebuilt Xujia Village
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