Jiang Yue looked into the pigpen. This pig was not as big as the fat pig in Jiang Yue's space. It weighed at most about 140 to 150 kilograms. This was already considered the best pig farmer.
Many people only raise a pig weighing 130 kilograms in a year, which is far from being considered a fat pig. This is because people are short of food and are reluctant to feed the pigs with grain.
The price of live pigs was 7 wen per jin, and other butchers would charge the same price, except that they would slaughter the pigs themselves. If Jiang Nian learned it, it wouldn't be difficult, but she thought it was too much work and she didn't want to make the yard smell fishy.
I made an agreement with the pig farmer that he would give him 50 coins for each pig he killed.
She said that she had a dog (wolf) at home, so all the internal organs and pig blood were kept and only the pig hair needed to be cleaned.
The pig farmer was indeed not dishonest. When Jiang Yue came over early the next morning, the five big pigs had been slaughtered neatly and their fur had been shaved clean.
Jiang Yue was very satisfied and immediately paid him five taels of silver. He then exchanged the remaining few hundred coins for cloth. They didn't exchange for grain, and Jiang Yue didn't force them to do so. It was their personal choice.
When they left Yamato Village, many people nodded to them, looking forward to coming back.
But Jiang Yue had already planned to go to another village next time. No one was rich, and there were only so many things they could exchange. It wasn't worth wasting time. Besides, it wouldn't be appropriate to come a few more times and exchange everyone else's belongings.
Beside the pond, there was a courtyard gate that was open. Jiang Yue looked inside casually and saw a young woman, who looked a little haggard. She had a large bucket of clothes to wash in front of her, and from time to time she would pull a naughty child of four or five years old by her hand.
"Daughter-in-law Xiaolin, you have to take care of yourself. You are not even three months old yet, so don't touch cold water." A mother-in-law stood at the door and warned her.
Before the person called Xiaolin's wife could say anything, a strong woman came out of the house and said with a smile, "My daughter-in-law is in good health and nothing will happen. Xiaoshu, stop bothering your sister-in-law and come and sleep with your mother."
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The car drove away, and Jiang Yue didn't hear the rest of the words. But, it wasn't a good thing after all.
The first man Yan Gu introduced to her was named Xiaolin, who had a 10-year-old and a 4-year-old brother. She shook her head, feeling lucky to have avoided such a difficult situation.
The two then went to another village, where they exchanged goods quickly, and the news had already been passed back to Jiangjia Village.
Everyone around here is related, and everyone knows about any little movement.
Someone went to the village chief to complain, "Isn't she from Jiangjia Village? Why does she accept goods from other villages but not ours?"
The village chief rubbed the rice in his hands. Seeing the angry look on his face, he said slowly, "How should I know what she is doing? The money in her pocket is not my responsibility. You want to change it? Go to the yard at the foot of the mountain to change it. She didn't say she won't give it to you."
The man was scolded and came angrily and left angrily.
Why not change it in the village? Only a fool would ask such a question.
If he changed in the village, the shameless one would definitely try to take advantage of him by claiming seniority and affection. If he regretted it after the change, it would cause a lot of trouble.
The village chief's wife smiled, glanced at him, and said to her son, "Your father is an old sly man now." He would not take the blame for the trouble.
The village chief snorted. What an old sly guy! He had seen clearly that doing good deeds would not bring good rewards. It would be better for him to just take care of his own family and raise his grandchildren well. That was the right thing to do.
However, regardless of whether Jiang Yue and his wife were exchanging so much meat for business, they should just accept the goods. If they made this matter known to everyone, wouldn't it easily lead to envy?
Jiang Yue didn't care about these things. She was afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, so she couldn't accomplish anything. Could it be that she didn't store food because of fear, and then starved herself?
Perhaps someone will regret the trade someday, but by then, the status of meat and grain will have reversed. Grain is more expensive than meat. You won't die without meat, but you will die without grain. The same meat can't be exchanged for much. Even regretting it will be useless.
Jiang Yue carefully calculated the inventory and harvest of the past two days.
The cloth was still too expensive at the time. A piece of red cloth was used up through both exchanges and purchases. Now there was only one piece of black and one piece of cyan cloth left, and about half a piece of blue and purple cloth. All the scraps of cloth and insoles had been exchanged. Dozens of buckets of grain were exchanged for 1,200 coins, and in return were 40 chickens, 10 ducks, 5 geese, 510 eggs, and 7 pigs.
We killed them all, so it was a good harvest.
Before she could set off for the next village, a rainstorm came.
Eugene twisted Jiang Dajin's ear, yelled at him to get up from the bed, and put on a straw raincoat to harvest the remaining rice.
The day before yesterday, they saw that the rice was about to be soaked, so they also started to harvest it, which was a step slower than others. Since they didn't have much land at first, it could still be saved.
But Jiang Dagui was still sick, You Jinhua had back pain, Jiang Erfu was only half an adult, and Jiang Xiaohua was locked in the room to sleep.
Jiang Dajin, the only healthy adult who was intact, kept complaining of being tired. He had to come back and rest for half a day after cutting for half a day. He kept procrastinating and could not finish harvesting the rice.
He was still impatient with Eugene Hua's urging. The rain was so soft that it couldn't even soak his hair. What was there to be afraid of?
The next day, a torrential downpour descended upon them. Feeling terribly for the crops growing on the two mu of land, Eugene worked tirelessly to harvest them, despite the pain in his back.
The heavy rain rushed down, like cutting a knife, making their faces painful and their eyes unable to open. The two men were cutting rice in the dark. One of them cut his hand and the other cut his leg. The blood dyed the fields red. They were dragged by their son to find Jiang Sanhe for help.
The shrill cries echoed throughout the village.
Someone looked out the window, wondering, "Was that piece of land bought by Jiang Er before?"
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