Chapter 95 Equipped with a Crossbow
Carpenter Guan immediately said, "I, I'll do it!"
He didn't do any work during the day and he didn't sleep much anyway, so he just took a nap during the lunch break.
"No." Shen Qing refused without hesitation. She first looked at the third brother, and then fell on Jiang Xiangzhong who was reading a book.
Yes, Jiang Xiangzhong is also a very suitable candidate!
Jiang Xiangzhong, feeling uneasy at being stared at, took the initiative to speak: "Mom, can I?"
Shen Qing nodded affirmatively: "Okay, you and Xiaoshan should cooperate. You can't read during the day anyway because you are sitting in the ox cart all day long, so this is a good time to catch up on some sleep."
As for people, they are useful if they are placed in the right position!
Jiang Xiangzhong, who was useless and a big burden in the dream, can now be of important use.
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After the scorching sun passed midday, the group packed up their things and set off again.
By the evening, even though they had walked for less than two hours, everyone except Jiang Xiangxi and the people in the car felt pain in the soles of their feet.
"In the past, I only felt tired during the rush to harvest. As long as I didn't do any physical work, I didn't feel tired. I didn't expect that today, after only walking for three or four hours, my soles hurt!" Jiang Xiangdong discussed in surprise.
"Yes, it hasn't rained yet, so the road is dry and easy to walk on. If it rains heavily later, the dirt road will be muddy, and it will be more tiring to walk with mud on your feet, right?" Jiang Xiangbei muttered.
Jiang Xiangnan yelled, "Every one of us is walking here empty-handed, without a single thing. You're pulling a cart like an animal. No, you're probably exhausted just carrying a basket!"
Jiang Xiangxi felt fine, he was not tired and his feet did not hurt. He silently untied the carriage frames from the horse and donkey, put the frames in place one by one, tied the donkey and cow to the stakes, and went to cut grass with the bamboo basket.
On the women's side, except for Huo Bing, Guan Lijiangyu and Jiangshui were all rubbing their feet.
The four of them sat in the car in pairs, and walked for only two hours in total that day, which was not much at all. Their feet only felt sore, but not painful.
"When I was at the Liu family, I worked all day and night without a break. If I took a break, my mother-in-law would see me and scold me. At the end of the day, I couldn't even straighten my back and my whole body felt like it was falling apart.
Now I'm just walking, eating well, and can rest for more than an hour at noon. It's really great." Jiang Yu sighed contentedly.
Even on the road, her life was much better than before, and even better than many other people's lives.
She also found that her energy and spirit were completely different on the road and at home.
When we are at home, we are always in the house or yard. When we are free, we will still think about the bad things in the past. But when we go out, the sky is high and the land is vast, and there are different scenery everywhere. We have no time to think about the past.
She just kept walking along the way, and in her free time she thought most about what to eat and how to cook it.
Among the three, Huo Bing could relate to Jiang Yu's words the most.
More than two months ago, her life was comparable to Jiang Yu's.
Unexpectedly, in just over two months, life has changed so much... Mother changed their destiny!
She discussed in a low voice: "I cut all the chives in the yard this morning and brought them here. I picked some fat snails at noon. Mother loves to eat snails fried with chives. I thought I would just smash them and clean them, and cook them for her tonight. How about that?"
Jiang Shui suggested, "We can also catch some small fish, coat them in batter, and fry them. Then, use the oil residue to stew some cowpeas. Mother won't be happy without meat at noon."
Jiang Yu looked as if it should be so.
Guan Li was stunned again and dared not say a word.
She thought the food she had at noon was incredibly delicious, but in the eyes of Jiang Shui and the other two, it wasn't even worthy of her aunt. So she had to rack her brains to make something her aunt would like for dinner.
But auntie is definitely worth it!
She couldn't bear to think about how difficult and arduous the Guan family's journey would have been without her aunt...
The one on duty at night was Jiang Xiangzhong, who was at Guan Xiaoshan. Shen Qing sprinkled mugwort powder on the fire and placed an outdoor mosquito coil in each of the four directions. The tools in the mall had them, 40 coils for 20 yuan, which was 50 cents each.
One stick can burn for eight or nine hours and has a very good mosquito repellent effect. It is equivalent to spending two dollars to buy everyone a good night's sleep without mosquito bites.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and accompanied by the cool night breeze, people and animals who had walked all day fell asleep quickly.
Have a good night's sleep.
After breakfast, the group continued on their journey. They had to reach Yangcheng early today. The rainstorm might come any day, so she had to sell her brush stock as soon as possible and buy back the crossbow.
Without a crossbow and only having a broadsword for close combat, she still felt uneasy.
Arriving at Yangcheng, Shen Qingchao told his family, "You guys clean up here, I'm going to the city to sell brushes."
Jiang Xiangnan and Jiang Xiangbei quickly stood up and said, "Mom, I'll go with you!"
Previously, the agreement with Manager Lin of Jiyazhai was to produce 300 pens in 6 days. At that time, they could make 50 to 60 pens a day, but later the pen holders were outsourced, and with the addition of my younger sister-in-law and second brother, the daily production was basically around 100 pens. So even if they stopped production at the end of May, they would still have more than 1,000 pens in stock.
Including semi-finished products, there are estimated to be two thousand brushes. Fortunately, brushes are small and light, so even if there are many of them, they only take up a small half of the cart.
But it would be better if you could sell it for silver.
Shen Qing's purpose of going to the city this time was not only to sell brushes, but most importantly to buy a repeating crossbow. How could he buy it secretly from the mall with two grown-up children?
She refused without hesitation: "No, we are not talking about long-term cooperation this time. I will be back after I sell it. There is a lot of work here, so you two can stay and help.
Besides, the soldiers guarding the city are more strict about checking passes when there are many people, so it’s not easy to sneak in.”
Huo Bing and others were about to persuade him again when they saw Shen Qing walking towards Yangcheng swiftly with a bamboo basket full of brushes on his back.
Seeing Shen Qing carrying a bamboo basket on her back, who looked like a country woman coming to the city to sell goods, the soldiers guarding the city waved their hands impatiently.
Shen Qing successfully entered the city and quickly inquired about the bookstores and study stores. He went door to door to sell the books. The price was not the wholesale price given to Manager Lin, but ninety cents per piece.
In the end, all the 300 guns he brought were sold out, earning him 27 taels of silver, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
With the extra share of twenty-seven silver coins, Shen Qing walked briskly to the meat stall and bought mutton this time - the fire was kept burning at night, and a large iron pot was placed on it to boil mutton soup, and a few thick cornmeal cakes were baked next to it, so that he could eat it directly when he got up in the morning.
It is delicious, nutritious, time-saving and labor-saving, killing two birds with one stone.
After leaving the city and walking to a place where there was no one around, Shen Qing used a bamboo basket to block the way and bought twenty crossbows from the mall!
Twenty repeating crossbows, each holding twenty-three arrows. Even if only ten arrows can be fired at a time, that's still two hundred arrows!
Even if the hit rate is not high, shooting two hundred arrows is enough to scare any attacking mob.
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