Chapter 24 Planning Space
"Silly boy, why are you so stupid? Here, one for each of us." Li Wanqing said with concern.
"I don't want to eat it. You can eat it, my wife." Gu Yan refused. He only bought two meat buns, which would not be enough for his wife to eat.
"Just eat if I tell you to. I won't eat if you don't. There's hot water in the pot. After you finish eating the buns, go wash them first. Then come and eat." Li Wanqing said.
Seeing that his wife insisted on letting him eat together, Gu Yan felt sweet in his heart: "Hey, wife, let's eat together.
Li Wanqing also took a bite of the meat bun. It turned out that the meat bun at this time was real.
The meat buns are as big as a man's fist, with lots of meat inside, and they are greasy when you bite them.
After the two finished eating the meat buns, Gu Yan went to take a shower and Li Wanqing went to heat up some food for him.
"Wife, this is braised pork? It smells so good. One time I went to my second aunt's restaurant and saw some customers eating braised pork, and it tasted exactly like this.
Wife, you are amazing. This is a delicacy that only the master chef of the restaurant can make." Gu Yan ate the braised pork piece by piece with great relish.
"Well, that's nothing. I just don't have enough seasoning at home. I can cook a lot more.
I’ll make it for you when I have the seasoning.” Li Wanqing was happy to see Gu Yan liked it.
"Hey, what seasonings do you need? I'll buy them next time I go to the city." Gu Yan agreed and ate another piece of braised pork.
"You don't know what to buy. I'll go there myself when I have time." Li Wanqing said.
Li Wanqing was not making this up. She was a senior reader of a certain novel. She had seen many spices in ancient times that could only be bought at a pharmacy.
And she was afraid that the names of the seasonings would be different from modern ones.
"That's fine. When I catch some prey in the next couple of days, I'll take you into the city.
By the way, wife, this is the money I earned from selling the prey this time. Except for the money I spent on buying things, the rest is here for you, keep it." Gu Yan said as he took out a purse from his arms.
Li Wanqing took it, opened the purse and poured out the silver and money inside.
There were six ounces of silver and thirty-two copper coins in it.
"Why are there so many? Even if we kill wild boars, there won't be so many, right?" Li Wanqing asked.
"I was lucky yesterday. Not only did I kill a wild boar, I also encountered a sika deer.
With these two things, I didn't sell them in town but went to the county town.
There were many restaurants and wealthy people in the county town, so the wild boar was sold directly to the restaurant for two and a half taels of silver.
I sold the sika deer separately. I sold the antlers to a pharmacy for two taels of silver, and the remaining venison and blood to a forest landowner for four taels of silver. This trip netted me eight and a half taels of silver per person.
But I bought some things, and the rest are here." Gu Yan explained.
Li Wanqing did not refuse. She kept the silver and put the thirty-two coins back into her purse and returned it.
"I'll put the silver away, and you can keep these copper coins for pocket money," said Li Wanqing.
"You don't have to give me money. I usually go hunting in the mountains. I don't need money." Gu Yan didn't expect his wife to give him pocket money. Although he was happy, he still refused.
"Take it. If you can't spend it normally, save it. Otherwise, you won't have no money when you want to buy me something." Li Wanqing said.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." He picked up the purse and stuffed it into his arms.
Gu Yan thought about it and realized that he was married now, so he had to buy some small gifts and snacks for her.
All these require money in your pocket.
Thinking of the gift, Gu Yan finished the rice in the bowl in a few bites, put down the bowl, and brought himself back to get the basket.
On top was a large bag of seeds: "Wife, these are the seeds I bought. Didn't you say I bought too few last time? I bought some more this time.
I also bought some corn seeds this time. I heard that corn is delicious, but I haven’t eaten it.
I also bought some vegetable seeds. We'll be living on our own from now on, so we still have to grow some vegetables."
Li Wanqing didn't look at anything else, but just looked at the corn seeds that Gu Yan mentioned.
What is corn? Li Wanqing still doesn't know.
When I opened it, I found that this is the corn that everyone is familiar with today, but it is called maize here.
Gu Yan didn't know what Li Wanqing was thinking, and continued to take things out: "These are two pieces of fine cotton cloth I bought for you, wife, you can make a set of clothes. This bag is the scraps of cloth given by the cloth store. I don't know if they are useful, so I took them all back.
This is the food I bought. I saw you weren't used to brown rice, so I bought ten pounds of flour and ten pounds of corn."
Gu Yan had long discovered that Li Wanqing never ate much brown rice.
Li Wanqing didn't expect that Gu Yan found out that she didn't like brown rice, and he even bought her flour and millet.
She just looked and found that the corn here is the modern millet.
"Husband, you are so good to me, thank you." Li Wanqing felt that she was really lucky to meet Gu Yan in this strange era.
"Well, I know that you have suffered a lot after marrying me, and I will definitely treat you better in the future." Gu Yan said.
"Well, I believe you. You've been tired for two days. Go to bed quickly." Li Wanqing said when she saw that it was too late.
"Hehehe, I'll be right there." Gu Yan smiled and blew out the oil lamp.
It was impossible to sleep. The young man, who had just tasted meat, wished he could die on his wife.
The next day, when Li Wanqing woke up, Gu Yan was still not around.
Li Wanqing didn't get anxious and first looked at the rice and wheat in the space.
After a day and a night, the wheat and rice had sprouted, and the cotton stalks were full of large flowers.
Judging from the situation, the harvest will be ready in half a month at most.
Li Wanqing took the corn seeds and planted half of them. As for why she planted only half, it was because she had to leave some outside to look like it was grown.
Li Wanqing had already planned it out. There were about three acres of land in the space, and she planned to divide it into six parts.
She planned to plant rice on one half-acre plot, wheat on one, corn on another, and millet on the other, so that the family would have enough food.
The remaining two parts are used to grow precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng and cordyceps, which are convenient for personal use and can also be sold for profit. The other part is used to grow cotton, which is needed for making quilts and cotton clothes at home.
Moreover, the price of cotton in the market is very expensive, so even if you can't use it yourself, you can still make money by selling it.
These are her preliminary decisions, and of course, there will be temporary changes in the future.
Wheat and rice have already been planted, corn has just been planted, but millet has not yet been planted. Gu Yan bought milled rice, not the rice with husks, so it cannot be planted.
There is only ginseng in the medicinal herb field, and I will have to go to the mountains to find it later.
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