Chapter 60: Buy, buy, buy!
"Dad, let's split up. I'll buy the seasonings, and you go buy the seeds!"
"No, it's too dangerous!"
Mr. Chen refused without hesitation. What a joke! His daughter is so cute and beautiful. How can he feel at ease letting her go shopping alone?
There are so many bad people out there. What should I do if my daughter is bullied?
There are so many scammers out there. My daughter is so innocent. What should I do if she gets cheated?
The road is uneven and what should I do if my daughter gets bumped into?
Seeing her father so determined, Chen Xue didn't say anything more. She knew that she was doing it for her own good. And to be honest, although she inherited the memories of her previous life, she still didn't know much about this world.
The two went to buy grain seeds first. Fortunately, it was autumn and winter and the harvest had just ended, so grain seeds were easy to buy.
Moreover, in order to prevent the grain varieties from being unsuitable for growing in Nanman, they planned to buy several varieties and try them one by one to see which one was more suitable for growing in Nanman.
However, Mr. Chen had no experience in farming and didn't know how much seeds to buy. Fortunately, Chen Xue was from the countryside in her previous life and was more familiar with this.
Lord Chen was a little confused. If he hadn't been the one who had watched his daughter grow up, he would have thought that she had been switched.
She is obviously a lady from a wealthy family, how come she knows so much about farming?
He even discussed various things with the store owner, such as fertilizers and composting, and he spoke so clearly that the store owner almost wanted to become his apprentice.
In the end, Chen Xue bought 60 kilograms, 20 kilograms of each kind, which was neither too much nor too little. Anyway, it was still far away from Nanman and she would pass many cities on the way, so she could buy more then. There were too few kinds of grain here, so she planned to buy more so that she could confirm which kind of grain was more suitable for Nanman and had a higher yield per mu.
In addition, she also plans to plant some food in the space so that she doesn't have to worry about food shortages. In fact, she still has several thousand kilograms of food in her space, but she is a hamster, so the more things she stores, the better.
In addition, they also bought a lot of vegetable seeds, which was what they lacked most. Although Chen Xue had planted some vegetables in her space, the variety was too limited.
Most importantly, chili peppers.
Chen Xue was from Qianzhou in her previous life. She liked spicy food very much and could not live without it. Food without chili peppers would have no soul.
Although the people here have peppercorns, onions, ginger and garlic, they don't use chili peppers, which makes Chen Xue, who is used to spicy food, suddenly lose her appetite.
At first, she thought there were no peppers in this world, but now she knows that this world, like her previous life, has many kinds of peppers.
However, people here basically don’t use chili peppers to cook, but instead treat them as a kind of fruit.
Chen Xue was speechless. She didn't know how strong their taste was to regard peppers as fruit.
However, it seems that not all peppers can be considered fruits. Chen Xue only saw big, round red bell peppers, and long, strip-shaped ones that looked a bit like green peppers, but were not called green peppers.
For Chen Xue, cooking must include at least three kinds of peppers to make the dish delicious.
So, she took her father to travel all over the county and finally gathered several kinds of peppers.
After that, I started looking for ingredients to make hot pot base. In my previous life, it was mostly butter base, but here, beef is very rare, let alone buying it to make butter.
Therefore, Chen Xue planned to make red oil hot pot base, which does not require butter, and any other oil can be used.
However, Chen Xue still missed beef a little. In her previous life, she ate pork the most because it was cheap.
Lamb is also good, but it depends on the cooking skills. If it is cooked well and has no fishy smell, it is delicious. I don’t like duck at all, but chicken is barely acceptable. It depends on how it is cooked.
My favorite food is beef, and there was a time in my previous life when beef was cheaper than pork.
It’s a pity that she hasn’t tasted beef since she came here.
Whether it was just for making beef butter or to eat beef, Chen Xue decided to try and see if she could buy some.
"Dad, do you think we can buy some cows?"
One cow is enough for them to eat for half a month or even a month. Anyway, the space has a fresh-keeping function, so she is not worried about it going bad.
At worst, you can exchange a refrigerator and a generator from the system.
Buying a Cow
Mr. Chen was stunned for a moment, then he realized that his daughter wanted to eat beef. The family had bought it several times before, and his daughter really liked it.
However, the imperial court prohibited the slaughter and sale of cattle.
Of course, if the cows died of illness, old age, or accidents, they can be eaten and bought and sold.
Therefore, it is impossible to buy live cattle unless they are about to die of old age or are sick.
But the problem is that things are valuable because they are rare.
Beef is also loved by the wealthy and powerful families. All the beef that appears on the market is bought up by the wealthy and powerful families, and no one else gets a chance to buy it.
Moreover, it is expensive and not everyone can afford it.
However, since his daughter wanted to eat it, how could he not satisfy her?
"Follow Dad!"
Mr. Chen stopped a passerby, asked for directions, and then took Chen Xue out of the county town and came to a small village a few miles outside the county town.
The meat brought to the city was quickly snatched away, so you could still get some by coming directly to the village. Some greedy people would even sell their own cattle for money.
However, Lord Chen did not immediately knock on the door to ask if you want to sell your cow. This would be fine if he meets someone with a good temper, but if he meets someone with a bad temper, he might hit you with a hoe.
Mr. Chen first took Chen Xue for a walk around the village, as a scouting trip, to confirm which family had cows, which family had more cows, and which family had fewer cows...
Fortunately, it is a village and the villagers' courtyards are not high, so I can see part of the situation in the courtyard and even hear the cows mooing.
After a while, Lord Chen found a target, a dilapidated courtyard with half of the wall collapsed, and the sheep pen inside could be seen.
Several sheep were huddled together in the sheep pen, seemingly sleeping, and an old yellow cow was tied next to it, and behind it a young yellow cow was happily eating grass with its head down.
The two men's target was the little yellow cow. Anyway, the family already had a yellow cow, so it wouldn't matter even if the little yellow cow was sold. Moreover, their house was dilapidated and they were obviously very short of money. As long as they were willing to pay, they could buy it.
Moreover, even if they did not eat the cow, they could use it to plow the fields when they arrived in Nanman. They knew very well that Nanman would not give them oxen for plowing.
Moreover, there was nowhere for them to buy crops, and if they wanted to farm, they had to hoe the land themselves. The land there had never been cultivated, and it was very difficult to cultivate it with manpower alone.
Moreover, there are requirements for sowing. The land must be cultivated within a certain number of days, and then sown within a certain number of days. If it is not completed, there will be penalties.
If the punishment is light, it is just a beating, or the grain is confiscated, or the amount to be handed in during the next year's harvest is increased.
In serious cases, they may even be driven out of the village, and may starve to death in the wilderness or be captured by the southern barbarians.
In short, having an ox is definitely a great help when it comes to farming.
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