Everyone took a break.
Before leaving, they bowed three times to the new grave of the old hunter's mother. The old hunter's family was in tears, touching the wooden sign, full of reluctance to leave.
Everyone traveled overnight and first went to the county town to buy food and eat something, then rested for a while, and it was better to leave the Wulong Mountains as soon as possible.
Those who were injured and unable to walk sat on ox carts.
Liu Shinan and his wife drove the carriage, and Liu Yuhan sat in the back of the carriage with a group of children. They took advantage of the night to feed them a lot of food and drink.
She had secretly put a lot of food in her backpack and gave it to her grandparents so that they and her aunt could eat together. The two old people later sat on Yang Nianhua's ox cart.
Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, and the others were exhausted and fell asleep next to each other on the ox cart. Liu Yuhan didn't enter the space tonight and fell asleep with Liu Yao leaning against each other.
Arriving at Lai County, the villagers camped outside the city. After sleeping for nearly two hours, daybreak arrived.
The village chief took four people to buy supplies, and the women started making thick clothes as soon as they woke up.
The weather is getting colder day by day, especially in the mornings and evenings.
The entrance fee to Lai County is only two cents per person.
This time, only Liu Yuhan and Liu entered the city.
Liu Yuhan’s goals are very clear: one is cotton, and the other is medicinal materials.
She first went to the clothing store to look at the cotton, which was the kapok cotton that was abundant in the south.
The white cotton is mixed with black seeds and is more affordable than the silk cotton in the north.
Liu Yuhan spent 50 taels to buy cotton and five bolts of coarse cloth. He asked the store to deliver the goods to the entrance of the alley and store them in the space when no one was around.
The mother and daughter went to several large pharmacies, and Liu Yuhan bought all the medicinal seeds that were commonly available in that era.
Liu Yuhan plans to use five acres of land to grow medicinal herbs, five acres to grow corn, two acres to grow potatoes, and two acres to grow sweet potatoes, and the remaining nearly sixteen acres will be used to grow rice.
There is a total of 8 mu of land for growing vegetables, fruits and harvesting sweet potatoes, which is enough.
After shopping, the mother and daughter ordered two bowls of noodles and some large meat buns for the family, and then prepared to leave the county.
There was a oxcart rental service at the county gate. Liu Yuhan asked her mother to find the rental and wait for her at the entrance of the alley. Liu Yuhan took out the cotton and coarse cloth, and the oxcart helped them pull the items to the villagers' camp. Liu Yuhan gave the driver 20 coins.
The village chief and his companions have already bought some food and are still about 200 kilometers away from Fu'an City, which takes about six days.
I bought 500 catties of brown rice and 500 catties of black flour. Brown rice and black flour are cheaper here, only 15 coins per catty, so I spent 15 taels.
I bought some salt for five liang, and 50 jin of pork, which cost 18 wen a jin, for 900 wen. I also gave them a few large bones.
The village chief and his companions were delighted to see Chinese cabbage for sale. They had not seen green vegetables for a long time, so they bought 100 catties of Chinese cabbage. At 3 wen per catty, they spent 300 wen.
I bought 100 eggs, each costing two coins, for a total of 200 coins. I also bought two steamed buns for each person entering the city. In total, I spent nearly 22 taels of silver.
Their previous silver was stolen. Unless it was hidden secretly, the stolen silver was probably recovered by Liu Yuhan and his men and is now in the village's public account. The village's public account still has 183 taels of silver left.
The women took the food and vegetables and started to work. There was free well water in the county town, and they had already used another ox cart to fetch water.
Liu Yuhan told the village chief uncle and asked him to distribute the cotton and coarse cloth to everyone to make cotton clothes. Now everyone is short of money, so the village chief uncle can do whatever he wants.
The village chief told the villagers that this was a donation from Liu Jia Xiaohan because he was worried that everyone would suffer from the cold. Families in need could come and receive it, but they had to write an IOU and return it when they had money in the future.
Liu Yuhan wanted to refuse, but Grandma Jiang said that this was the way to go, as her granddaughter was still young and too kind-hearted.
Greedy people are like a snake swallowing an elephant.
It hasn't reached that point yet, so it's better to calculate what needs to be calculated clearly. Otherwise, if they don't give it to you in the future, will they complain about you in return?
She has lived for most of her life, and the human heart is so complicated, what is there that she can't understand? Just let this evil person do it.
"If anyone needs cotton cloth, please come and record it here." said Village Chief Liu.
"I want to register!" Liu Laizi and Widow Sun said at the same time. Widow Sun rolled her eyes at Liu Laizi and went to register first.
She wanted to make a thick coat for her mother-in-law and two-year-old son.
Widow Sun married a hunter in the village. Less than two years after her marriage, while she was still pregnant, her husband was bitten to death by a poisonous snake.
From then on, her temper became increasingly violent, and she had to live with her mother-in-law, who had cried herself blind, and her son, who was less than two years old. Alas, she was a pitiful person, only 18 years old, which is just an adult in modern times.
Liu Laizi was very smart. He was not in a hurry to take out the money he had hidden. He kept a record of the accounts first and ordered a thicker one for his mother. He asked Aunt Liu to help make the clothes so that he could still wear the old clothes.
"I want to remember it too." Xu Fugui and Sun Xiaohua shouted at the same time.
Xu Fugui glanced at Sun Xiaohua and shyly moved aside to let her register first. Sun Xiaohua smiled generously at him and went to register.
Liu Yuhan sat on the edge of the ox cart, looking at this and that. Suddenly, a spark of gossip burned in her dull head: these boys and girls are quite cute.
After lunch, everyone went to sleep or did other things. They didn’t want to rush on their journey today. They had been exhausted in the mountains for the past two days, so they wanted to have a good rest first.
Liu Yuhan went back into the space and got busy again, soaking the herbal seeds he bought in medicine and growing seedlings.
Then she plowed the fields. Fortunately, the space was kind to her, and the land was fertile and weed-free. The rice seedlings would be ready for planting in about 10 days.
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