Aunt Mo suffered a setback at the Sun family, but the situation was different when Father Mo went to the Pei family.
Pei Shaorong never planned to sell his own grain. Even if he wanted to sell grain, he would definitely use ancient natural rice to replace the inventory in his own space.
Pei Shaorong was also someone who had experienced the end of the world. As soon as Old Man Mo said that, he reacted. Regardless of whether Old Man Mo was right or not, he had a bottom line in his heart.
The original plan to sell a large amount of land to start planting and the plan to rent out the land and become a local landlord were temporarily shelved.
I have just been here for a year, and I don’t understand many things here. Some natural environments are also different from my previous world.
After all, Old Man Mo is an old man who has lived for most of his life. Since what he said is wrong, it won’t hurt to be on guard. After all, people who come back from the end of the world will feel at ease when they have food at home!
Old Man Mo felt that something was wrong, so he didn't spread the news to anyone except to his two descendants.
This was just his own feeling. Now the fields had a bumper harvest of grain, the grain prices in the town had also soared, and everything seemed peaceful. It would be strange if others would listen to him and keep the grain. If he told others about it, he would only be called a lunatic.
Father Mo is not the kind of person who worries about the country and the world, so there is no need for him to go around looking for trouble. Telling the Pei and Sun families is just to make himself feel at ease.
The daughters-in-law and brothers-in-law of the two families are his descendants after all. When it comes to life and death, he can't really just sit there and watch. Otherwise, how will he explain to his ancestors when he passes away...
Everyone in the village has noticed that the number of wild fruits and animals outside the back mountain has decreased this year, but the situation is not serious, and except for a few people, no one takes it seriously.
However, this year, for some unknown reason, the price of grain in the town suddenly went up, which made the farmers very happy. After all, farmers rely on the crops in the fields to make a living all year round.
Pei Shaorong was also very happy. This was his first time to farm and harvest food, real, sweet white rice. It felt different from the watermelons and tomatoes he had harvested before. Staple food always makes people feel a different kind of security.
As soon as the grain from the fields was harvested, Pei Shaorong put it all into the space and began to continue making persimmon cakes with Mo Xiaobao this year. The business of a persimmon cake costing three cents could not be ignored!
Pei Shaorong was not prepared to make a big fuss about making persimmon cakes like he did vermicelli. After all, this thing was just something people bought as a rarity during the New Year and other festivals.
If too much is produced and the people in Yueyang City and its surrounding areas cannot consume it, the price will drop, and it will not be worth it to hire workers to produce in large quantities.
Moreover, although there are not many people here who can make persimmon cakes, there are some, and this business is not Pei Shaorong's exclusive business.
There were no fixed merchants in Yueyang City to transport persimmon cakes for sale, and he had no plans to go out there himself.
Therefore, Pei Shaorong felt that the amount of persimmon cakes produced from his two acres of persimmon trees every year was enough, and he would just sell them as a rarity to increase his income a little.
Just when everyone was immersed in the joy of the grain harvest, a strange thing happened in Linjiang Village: the jujube tree at the entrance of the village blossomed!
It is not uncommon for a jujube tree to bloom, but it is rare for the big jujube tree at the entrance of the village to bloom. You know, this jujube tree has existed in Linjiang Village for at least a hundred years.
In recent decades, this date tree has never produced dates, let alone flowers. If the tree had not remained green, everyone would have thought it was dead. It is really a rare thing that it is suddenly blooming now.
For a while, people in the village were talking about it. Some said it was like a iron tree blooming, and it must be a good sign. Some said it was a bad omen. In short, there were all kinds of opinions.
"Aunt Qin, why is the jujube tree at the entrance of the village blooming? I heard from my mother before that the tree did not bloom or bear fruit when it was young..."
Aunt Qin and Brother Lin were sitting in the Pei family's yard chatting. Mo Xiaobao and Brother Lin were both young, so they didn't have as much common sense and experience as Aunt Qin when they were chatting.
"I don't know about that tree either..." Aunt Qin shook her head, "But I don't think it's the auspicious omen that the villagers are talking about. This is too strange..."
"Well, my father came to our house a few days ago and asked me and Brother Pei not to sell the grain. He said the weather is not right..." Mo Xiaobao nodded in agreement.
"Abao, did your father really say that? Did he sell any grain this year?" Upon hearing what Mo Xiaobao said, Aunt Qin's face changed and became serious.
Now that the price of grain in the town has risen, everyone is eager to sell all the grain they have and exchange it for silver to make some money, and her family is no exception.
But this time, even the miser Old Man Mo doesn't care about the money at all. It's even rarer than the blooming of a jujube tree!
"Is that true?" Mo Xiaobao said, "My father probably didn't sell any grain, and he didn't even come to borrow a donkey cart..."
According to Old Man Mo's character of taking advantage, his younger brother's family has a donkey cart, so he would definitely not spend a few cents to borrow the cart from the village chief to sell grain. Mo Xiaobao understands his father very well.
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After hearing what Mo Xiaobao said, Aunt Qin fell silent, thinking to herself, considering Old Man Mo's stingy character, he would actually give up such a good opportunity to make money, which is worthy of attention.
If the blooming jujube tree at the entrance of the village is really not a good sign, and if what the stingy old man Mo said about the bad weather is true, then next year will be a tough year...
"A Bao, since your father said so, then listen to him and tell your brother not to sell the grain. Your family is in such a bad situation that you don't need that little bit of silver."
Aunt Qin said to Mo Xiaobao with a serious face, then looked at Lin Ge'er and said, "And Lin Ge'er, go home and tell your husband about it. I am worried. If something really happens, we have food at home, so we are not afraid!"
"Okay, auntie, I understand. I'll tell Brother Tieshi when I get back..." Brother Lin nodded seriously and took note.
In addition to Aunt Qin and Old Man Mo, several other families in the village also felt that something was wrong. In the end, more than 20 households out of the 180 households in the village chose to do the same thing as Old Man Mo and save this year's grain!
However, despite some strange things, Linjiang Village was peaceful until the New Year. Nothing happened, and there was no famine disaster as Father Mo worried about.
Several families who had been as careful as Old Man Mo in saving food have now regretted their decision. Now that the price of food in the town has returned to its original price, everyone has missed a good opportunity to make money.
The Sun family and Mo Lanzhu, who had been warned by Old Man Mo who sent Aunt Mo, were even more furious with Old Man Mo this time. Fortunately, they did not listen to this miser, otherwise they would have suffered a great loss!
Of course, there are some people, like Old Man Mo, who not only did not regret missing this opportunity to make money, but became more vigilant.
Pei Shaorong didn't care. He was not afraid of the famine disaster, but it would be best if it didn't come. He also paused his plan to buy more land for some unknown reason.
Putting this matter behind him, the persimmon cakes at home have been prepared, and Pei Shaorong is ready to sell them as soon as possible.
Last year, because I had just arrived and was delayed by the matter of my marriage to Abao, the persimmon cakes were made late and sold after the New Year. If it had not been for the Lantern Festival, the persimmon cakes would have been sold for less than three cents each if I had missed the festival.
This year's persimmon cakes are much better than last year's because they are all picked from the persimmon trees that the family has carefully cared for. If they are sold before the New Year, they may fetch more than three cents!
After packing up his things and asking the Qin and Xue families to help look after the fields for a few days, he also hired workers to look after the shops in the town. Then Pei Shaorong took Mo Xiaobao to Yueyang City again.
Except for the time when Pei Shaorong brought Mo Xiaobao to Yueyang City during the Lantern Festival, when he was busy making vermicelli and was afraid of being discovered, Pei Shaorong always left quietly alone.
Now that the family is not busy, the only prosperous and fun place here is Yueyang City. Of course, he has to take Abao out to relax and play, so that Abao won't have wild thoughts if he stays at home for too long.
As soon as they arrived in Yueyang City, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao found the snack shop where they had traded persimmon cakes last year. This was an agreement they had made with the owner last year, that all of his persimmon cakes would be purchased by the snack shop.
Therefore, the quality of this year's persimmon cakes is much better than last year's wild persimmons, and the purchase price of each persimmon cake is one penny higher.
Crop yields in ancient times were not as high as they are today. Two acres of land produced a total of 6,000 kilograms of persimmons, and one persimmon weighs about 120 grams. Excluding those that were spoiled during the production process, there were more than 20,000 persimmon cakes produced.
One persimmon cake costs four cents, so the total revenue from the persimmon cakes this time is about sixty taels. Pei Shaorong is very satisfied. It turns out that rare things bring huge profits!
After dealing with the persimmon cakes, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao started playing in Yueyang City again, enjoying their own world.
While playing, Pei Shaorong keenly discovered that something was wrong in Yueyang City. The prices of all food this year seemed to be a little more expensive than last year.
It was not until Pei Shaorong saw Zheng San, a traveling merchant he had met last year, at the dock and went up to say hello and have a chat that he realized that something big had really happened!
"Brother Pei, you don't know, it was thanks to the tents you sold us that we didn't have to stay in an inn and were able to save our lives. The mountain stream torrents turned over, and many houses and hillsides collapsed..."
"As a result, when we left Shanxi, Luohe was hit by drought again. There were many disaster victims along the way. Damn it! I suffered a huge loss when I went out to do business this time. I almost lost my life!"
Zheng San still felt frightened when he spoke about this. As traveling merchants, they had to travel everywhere, and this year was no exception. After staying at home for a short month, they embarked on their traveling journey again.
As a result, it was not known whether it was due to bad luck or something else, but Zheng San and his companions encountered disasters wherever they went, as if they had been possessed by evil spirits.
Earthquakes, droughts, disasters all the way from the western mountain streams, let alone doing business, it's a miracle that everyone can still save their lives...
"It's really uninhabitable in the west now..."
As he spoke, Zheng San looked around vigilantly, his voice getting lower and lower, "Brother Pei, I'm telling you the truth. This just happened, and the court just received the news. The people who came to help haven't arrived yet, but the refugees from the entire mountain stream are already coming this way..."
"In my opinion, at the speed of the refugees, they will be here in three months at most. If Brother Pei believes in me and makes preparations early, I think things may change..."
"I met some merchants coming out of the capital on the road, and they told me that it was said that the emperor of our Dali Kingdom had offended the Fairy Lady in Heaven, and that he had sent down a great disaster as a punishment for us!"
After saying that, Zheng San hurriedly left with the caravan. Pei Shaorong saw them sell some horses, hired a boat, and bought a lot of food and salt before leaving...
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