Looking at the carpet, Song Liyun felt a headache coming on.
Today she delivered fresh vegetables to the garrison, hoping to sell them for a good price.
Luo Baihu did indeed generously offer a price of ten coins per catty.
In the grain store, the price of corn, sorghum, and millet was only between one and five coins.
The Suijinwei garrison was already poor, and ten coins was the highest price they could pay for vegetables.
Fifty catties of vegetables sold for five hundred coins, equivalent to more than one hundred catties of grain.
Seeing that he could make so much money from only half of the cabbages sold in the backyard, Song Zhenping was overjoyed and planned to loosen the soil and plant a few more crops as soon as he got back.
As for acorn flour, the garrison also offered it for two coins per pound.
After all, this isn't the bustling metropolis of Kyoto, but just a small, remote town. Nobody would eat vegetables that cost ten coins a pound as a meal.
It's likely that the garrison also ate there every few days.
The fresh vegetables and acorns, plus Song Liyun's previous IOU, amounted to less than fifty-two taels of silver in total.
Koro, the centurion, directly paid off the debt with a wool carpet worth one hundred taels of silver.
Song Liyun felt she had been cheated!
It's not that the wool carpet is bad or not worth the price; it's just that it's too good, completely exceeding Song Liyun's expectations.
Han Ming once said that even in a border town, this kind of wool carpet would cost 150 taels of silver, and it would cost even more if it were sent to the prefectural city.
What's troubling Song Liyun now is what she can do with such a fine wool carpet.
Simply storing it without using it obviously fails to demonstrate the value of the carpet.
If we sell it... we'll have to go through the trouble of delivering it to the prefectural city, which is a hundred miles away.
Moreover, she was somewhat reluctant to sell it.
Why can't I enjoy this kind of luxury that I wouldn't even dare to dream of in the apocalypse?
Song Liyun felt something rising from the deepest part of her heart: greed!
Humans are truly never satisfied.
In the past, during the apocalypse, all she longed for was a safe place to live.
When she arrived in Xiaoshi Village, she thought about being able to eat pure, natural, and pollution-free food; even simple boiled chicken would taste delicious.
When she arrived in Broken Gold Town, she wanted a big house.
With a house and land, the desire for a safe place to live has been fulfilled.
She wanted a voice.
They'd fight tooth and nail for a mere three coins' profit.
Then, wanting to gain some power and influence, he captured Han Ming and made him his servant, actively currying favor with and relying on the garrison.
People are so fickle. She had just solved her basic needs for food and clothing, and now she wanted to live a luxurious life.
All of this was triggered by this wool rug.
The room is covered with a beautiful, high-end carpet; shouldn't it be furnished with pear wood tables and chairs to match?
Only fine porcelain bowls, cups, and plates from the imperial kiln can be placed on the pearwood wooden table, and they must be filled with a soup of white fungus and bird's nest.
The shoes worn on the snow-white wool carpet must not be muddy straw sandals, but soft silk boots, and the clothes must also be made of fine silk.
Therefore, rough hands cannot touch silk, so servants and maids are needed to serve them.
This is Pandora's box that has been opened.
Song Liyun took a deep breath and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Put the carpet away first, we can use it later!"
Upon hearing her words, Song Zhenping and Xiao An nodded in unison. Clearly, the snow-white wool carpet had also put pressure on them.
The hope of making a lot of money from the garrison has obviously been dashed, and now there is no longer even the monthly interest of five hundred coins.
What's even more despicable is that Luo Baihu not only took back the IOU, but also kindly delivered a source of evil.
Making money immediately became a major concern for Song Liyun.
Delivering vegetables to the health center wasn't entirely without its benefits.
Song Liyun wanted to expand the greenhouse, so Luo Baihu sent dozens of people over directly.
The Song family's current greenhouse only uses the old main house's fire wall; the land is still in the rooms on the original house foundation.
As a result, although the backyard is large, the actual usable area is only about three rooms, or about 100 square meters.
Song Liyun's idea was to build two more firewalls around the backyard, enclosing the entire small half-acre backyard, and turn it into a greenhouse so that more vegetables could be grown.
Luo Baihu was very supportive of Song Liyun's idea.
Not only were the manpower for building the greenhouses provided by the garrison, but the bricks and lime mortar needed were also provided by the garrison free of charge.
Anyway, there are still people left over from building the wall, and they're just sitting around doing nothing, so why not use them?
All the Song family needs to do is prepare a meal for these dozens of people, or send twenty bowls of acorn tofu to the garrison. In addition, any vegetables they grow in the future should be given priority to the garrison.
Song Liyun realized once again that everyone who climbs to a high position is not a fool.
Even Luo Baihu, who seems rough and straightforward, is an expert at feigning poverty and acting shamelessly.
This kind of door-to-door service is certainly not to be refused. Once the greenhouse is repaired, it will be useful every winter from now on.
Regarding compensation, Song Liyun decisively chose to send acorn tofu.
Her family didn't have that much food, and she didn't want to exhaust herself and Xiao An into becoming slaves.
Besides, she had other things to do.
To expand the greenhouse, dozens of people will need to come to the house. With so many people coming and going, the backyard will become a huge construction site.
It's not good to keep the timid Xiao An and the irritable Hei Jin locked up in the side courtyard all the time; they might cause trouble at any moment.
To prevent any mishaps due to too many people, Song Liyun left Han Ming and Song Zhenping at home to watch the construction site, while she took Xiao An and Hei Jin and went up the mountain to avoid trouble.
Now that it's cold, Xiao An, who is frail, is already wearing a thick layer of cloth.
Song Liyun wanted to hunt some wild rabbits and make some leather hats and scarves for Xiao An.
The river was covered with a thin layer of ice. Without Han Ming around, Song Liyun didn't touch the log bridge. Instead, she took out a long ladder from her spatial storage and carried Xiao Anta ladder across.
Black Gold is now wearing a cotton-padded jacket and trousers, and is afraid of getting it wet, so it can only obediently follow behind.
Song Liyun found the hill where she used to collect clean acorns, and she planned to settle Xiao An there.
Without acorns, no wild animals come here to hunt, making it a relatively safe place.
First, Song Liyun found a sheltered spot under a large tree and took out a small camouflage windproof and warm camping tent.
She also took out a small clay stove for burning firewood, 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 apocalypse.
To accommodate Xiao An's needs, she didn't take out some of the more outlandish electrical appliances.
Even so, this place is a grand collection of ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign cultures.
Xiao An was astonished by these strange things.
What are these colorful little houses made of? Why do they look so thin, yet feel so warm inside with no wind at all?
And those shiny pots are all made of iron.
Song Liyun pulled Xiao An into the tent and explained to him the use of the various zippers and pockets.
The most relaxed moment when communicating with someone is when they believe whatever you say, without any rebuttal, and without taking it too seriously or making wild guesses.
After Xiao An had barely learned how to use the sleeping bag in the tent, the siblings finally came out of the tent together.
When Song Liyun looked up and saw the scene, she was so angry that she almost jumped up and shouted, "Hei Jin, that's a cooking pot, not your toy! Take it down right now!"
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