Jiang Wanwan took the bags from Aunt Li and Gou'er, and as always, a mechanical voice appeared in her mind.
[Ding! Top-grade wild, unpolluted locusts detected. Price: 198 yuan per jin (500g). Weight: 20 jin (10kg). Total price: 3,960 yuan. Want to sell?]
The voice was like heavenly music, and Jiang Wanwan had to exert a lot of effort to barely keep herself from showing a perverted smile.
If things continue like this, I'll soon become a rich woman.
Opening up various categories in the online store will be a piece of cake!
With an excited heart and trembling hands, Jiang Wanwan still clicked "no".
She weighed the locusts at Aunt Li's house with great seriousness, and Aunt Li and Gou'er leaned over to look with slight nervousness. "Wanwan, how many pounds did we catch?"
"The locusts weigh a total of twenty jin, which can be exchanged for ten jin of rice," Jiang Wanwan said with a smile.
"Ah! Ten, ten catties of rice! I can actually exchange it for so much rice!" Aunt Li was so excited she didn't know what to do. Her body trembled slightly, but her mind was racing.
One jin of rice costs twenty wen (copper coins), and a family can exchange ten jin of rice for that amount, which would be two hundred wen in silver.
Good heavens, two hundred coins!
The whole family earned a full two hundred coins in just a few hours!
Aunt Li was so shocked she couldn't close her mouth, her heart pounding in her chest.
No wonder she was excited; this money was just too easy to make!
What if you spent a day catching locusts in the fields? Wouldn't you be able to exchange them for more rice?
After we exchanged the rice for regular rice, we can go to town to exchange it for brown rice. That way, our family can make ends meet for a while, and we won't have to worry about going hungry anymore!
Thinking of this, Aunt Li wished she could rush home immediately and get her son, daughter-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, and even her old man to the fields to catch locusts.
Aunt Li quickly suppressed her excitement and grinned, "Wanwan, hurry, give the cloth bag back to me."
His voice sounded unsteady.
Jiang Wanwan could understand Li Da Niang's excitement at this moment, because she felt the same way as Li Da Niang.
It all feels like picking up silver.
She squinted and quickly replied, "Okay, okay, I'll return the bag to Auntie right away."
As she spoke, Jiang Wanwan deftly dumped all the locusts that Aunt Li had handed over into the bamboo basket. "Aunt Li, Gou'er, your bag."
Quick, grab the bag and go catch more locusts!
Aunt Li and her grandson Gou'er left in a hurry, while Jiang Wanwan continued to weigh the locusts for the village chief's family.
The village chief is indeed the village chief; his family caught 26 jin of locusts in one night and this morning, which can be exchanged for 13 jin of rice.
This delighted Zhang Guilan and Jiang Feifei. After watching Jiang Liu register the quantities for their family, the mother and daughter said goodbye to Jiang Wanwan and left.
No sooner had Zhang Guilan and her daughter left than Aunt Wang and her eldest daughter, Jiang Simiao, came from the direction of the fields. Both women were covered in dew and carrying several cloth bags.
Upon closer inspection, Jiang Wanwan noticed that Aunt Wang and her daughter had heavy dark circles under their eyes, and concluded that Aunt Wang's family must have stayed up almost all night in order to catch more locusts.
"Aunt Wang, Sister Si Miao, let me weigh you." Jiang Wanwan greeted the two warmly.
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Wanwan." Aunt Wang smiled and handed the bag in her hand to Jiang Wanwan.
After Jiang Wanwan took it, she ignored the mechanical voice that rang in her ears and said crisply, "Sixteen catties in total, which can be exchanged for eight catties of rice."
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