Chapter 90 The trouble with wool carpets
Looking at the carpet, Song Liyun felt a little headache.
Today she sent some fresh vegetables to the garrison, thinking she could sell them for good money.
Captain Luo was indeed generous and offered a price of ten cents per pound.
In the grain store, the price of corn, sorghum and millet was only between one and five cents.
Suijinwei was already poor, and giving ten cents for vegetables was already the highest price they could get.
Fifty kilograms of vegetables sold for five hundred coins, which is equivalent to more than one hundred kilograms of grain.
Seeing that he could earn so much money by selling only half of the cabbages in the backyard, Song Zhenping was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. He planned to loosen the soil and plant a few more crops as soon as he got home.
As for the acorn flour, the garrison also gave a price of two coins per pound.
After all, this is not the prosperous city of Kyoto, but just a small rural town, and no one would eat vegetables that cost ten cents per pound as a meal.
I'm afraid the guards only eat it every few days.
The fresh vegetables and acorns, plus Song Liyun's previous IOU, totaled less than fifty-two taels of silver.
Ke Luo Baihu directly used a wool carpet worth one hundred taels of silver to pay off the debt.
Song Liyun felt like she had lost out!
It’s not that the wool carpet is bad or not worth the price, but it’s too good, completely exceeding Song Liyun’s expectations.
Han Ming said that this kind of wool carpet would cost 150 taels of silver even in a border county town, and it would cost even more if it was sent to the provincial capital.
What is troubling Song Liyun now is what to do with such a good wool carpet.
If the carpet is just stored away and not used, its value is obviously not reflected.
If it is sold... it will take a lot of effort to send it to the provincial capital a hundred miles away.
And she was a little reluctant to sell it.
Why can't I enjoy this kind of luxury that I can't even think about in the end times?
Song Liyun felt that something was emerging from the deepest part of her heart, and that was greed!
People really can't be satisfied.
In the past, during the apocalypse, all she dreamed of was having a safe place to live.
When she arrived in Xiaoshi Village, she wanted to eat pure natural and pollution-free food, even simple boiled chicken would be delicious.
When she arrived in Suijin Town, she wanted a big house.
Now that I have a house and land, my wish for a safe home has been fulfilled.
She wanted the right to speak again.
Even for a profit of three cents, we have to compete with others.
Then he wanted to have a certain amount of power and influence, so he captured Han Ming as a slave and took the initiative to curry favor with the guards.
People are really fickle. Just when she had solved the problem of food and clothing, she wanted to live a luxurious life again.
All of this was caused by this wool carpet.
The room is covered with beautiful high-end carpet, so it would be better to put some pear wood tables and chairs to match it.
Only fine porcelain bowls, cups, and plates from the official kiln can be placed on the pearwood table, and they must be filled with soup made from white fungus and bird's nest.
When stepping on the snow-white wool carpet, you cannot wear muddy straw sandals, but must wear soft satin boots, and the clothes must also be made of silk and satin.
In this case, rough hands cannot touch silk, so they need to be served by servants.
This is the Pandora's box that has been opened.
Song Liyun took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice, "Put the carpet away first and use it later!"
As soon as she said this, Song Zhenping and Xiao An nodded in unison. Obviously, this snow-white wool carpet also put pressure on them.
The hope of making a lot of money from the garrison was obviously shattered, and now even the monthly interest of 500 wen was no longer available.
What’s even more hateful is that Captain Luo not only took back the IOU, but also kindly sent a source of evil.
How to make money immediately became a major concern in Song Liyun's mind.
There are benefits to delivering food to the garrison.
When Song Liyun wanted to expand the greenhouse, Captain Luo directly sent dozens of people over.
The Song family's current greenhouse only uses the fire wall of the main house, and the land is still in the room of the original house foundation.
In this way, although the backyard is large, the actual usable area is only three rooms, about 100 square meters.
Song Liyun meant to build two more fire walls around the backyard, enclosing the entire half-acre of the backyard and building it into a greenhouse so that more vegetables could be grown.
Captain Luo strongly supported Song Liyun's idea.
Not only was the manpower for building the greenhouse provided by the garrison, but the required bricks, lime and mortar were also provided free of charge by the garrison.
Anyway, there is still some left over from building the wall, and the people are just sitting there doing nothing, so it would be a waste if they don't use it.
The Song family only needs to prepare a meal for these dozens of people, or send twenty pots of acorn tofu to the garrison. In addition, the vegetables grown in the future must be supplied to the garrison first.
Song Liyun once again felt that anyone who could climb to a high position was not a fool.
Even Captain Luo, who looks rough and honest, is an expert at crying poor and playing dirty.
Of course, we cannot refuse this kind of service that comes to our door. After the greenhouse is repaired, it can be used every winter.
In terms of compensation, Song Liyun decisively chose to give acorn tofu.
Her family didn't have that much food, and she didn't want to make herself and Xiao An into slaves.
Besides, she had other things to do.
To expand the greenhouse, dozens of people will come to our house, and with so many people coming and going, the backyard will become a big construction site.
It's not a good idea to keep the timid Xiao An and the hot-tempered Hei Jin locked up in the side yard. You never know when they might get into trouble.
In order to prevent too many people from going on business trips, Song Liyun left Han Ming and Song Zhenping at home to watch the construction site, and she took Xiao An and Hei Jin to hide in the mountains.
It's cold now, and the frail Xiao An has been dressed like a cloth roller.
Song Liyun wanted to hunt some wild rabbits and make some fur hats and scarves for Xiao An.
The river was covered with thin ice. Without Han Ming, Song Liyun did not touch the single-plank bridge. Instead, she took out a long ladder from the space and carried Xiao An on her back to walk across the ladder.
Heijin was now wearing a cotton jacket and cotton pants, and was afraid of getting wet, so he could only follow behind obediently.
Song Liyun found the hill where she had collected clean acorns before, and she planned to settle Xiao An there.
Without acorns, no wild animals would come here to look for food, so it is a very safe place.
First, they found a big tree sheltered from the wind, and Song Liyun took out a small camouflage, windproof and warm camping tent.
She then took out a small clay stove that burned wood, a stainless steel pot for steaming and cooking, a rubber moisture-proof mat, and a titanium folding chair. This was her mobile home in the end times.
In order to take care of Xiao An's use, she did not take out some of the too strange electrical appliances.
Even so, this is a great collection of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign works.
Xiao An was shocked by these strange things.
What are these colorful little houses made of? Why do they look so thin, yet it's so warm inside, with no wind at all?
And that shiny pot is made entirely of iron.
Song Liyun took Xiao An into the tent and explained to him how to use the various zippers and pockets in the tent.
The easiest moment in communicating with people is when they believe everything you say, don't refute it at all, and don't take it for granted.
Only after Xiao An had barely learned how to use the sleeping bag in the tent did the brother and sister walk out of the tent together.
When Song Liyun looked up and saw the scene, she was so angry that her nose almost twisted. She jumped up and yelled, "Heijin, that's a cooking pot, not your toy. Take it down quickly!"
(End of this chapter)
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