Jiang Yue felt that since she mostly sold agricultural products, there was no need to bother making so many plaques and avoid wasting wood.
Local specialty shop—what a down-to-earth name!
Fan Bai faced everyone and said in a loud voice, "The dried fish shop is temporarily closed. We are now selling chickens and eggs. Come every three days."
"Is it a chick?"
"No, they are large roosters and hens. They lay eggs, both regular and breeding."
When the neighbors heard this, they stopped talking and quickly closed their doors, calling out in low voices, "Quick, quick, bring me a hen and ten eggs! We haven't had any meat in our house for a long time!"
"I want twenty eggs!"
"I want a cock!"
Ever since the government started selling chicks and breeding eggs, eggs have become common in the city. Chickens are also available, but not in large quantities! With so many people in the city, there's no way to divide them up. Everyone has to rob!
For each family, they can only raise three or four chickens at most, all of which are kept for laying eggs. Who would be willing to eat them?
Previously, the Jiang family was ahead of everyone else in selling cloth and eggs, and now the Jiang family is ahead of everyone else in selling chickens. This is incredible!
Fan Bai and his partner were urged to open the business before they even had time to let the chickens out of the cages.
At first, when they said a chicken would cost one or two taels of silver, everyone thought they were being robbed. But when Manager Fan opened the chicken coop and let them see the chickens, everyone was speechless and rushed to pay the bill.
There's nothing much to say, the chickens are so fat and big! At least six or seven pounds, the fattest old hens are probably eight or nine pounds, they look so greasy!
Some families who were reluctant to spend so much money or food would discuss with their neighbors, and three or four families could pool together to raise one.
Someone was calculating in their mind: this big hen will start laying eggs right away. If it lays a few more eggs, the money can be made up, and it can also hatch chicks. Not a loss at all! After doing the math, they rushed to grab the chicken...
No matter what everyone thought, the ten chickens and three hundred eggs were sold out in just one hour. Some people heard the news late, and by the time they had gathered enough food and rushed over, not a single chicken feather was left.
——Just kidding, dried chicken feathers are warmer than straw when stuffed into clothes!
Fan Bai and his friend were surrounded and asked when they would have chickens to sell again.
Fan Bai said that when the show was broadcast every three days, the price would still be the same.
The person who lived nearby and bought the chicken first held the fat big chicken proudly and showed it off to others.
"Luckily we were quick, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to see any chicken feathers!"
"Hehe, that's right! Such a fat chicken, if you make chicken fat from it, it will be very delicious when cooking during festivals and New Year's holidays!"
"Ouch! This chicken pooped on me!"
Some people laughed out loud. You deserve it! You make it sound like chicken shit smells better than human shit!
Those who didn’t buy the chicken were both envious and regretful. Next time, there will probably be a bunch of people queuing up at the door to grab it. Who knows if they can get it.
I heard the Jiang family took all their chickens out of town. Did they set up a chicken farm outside the city? They raised chickens and sold them. Will they also have pigs after a while?
A group of people were muttering and discussing in low voices what else the Jiang family had raised. Wouldn't they just sell them to them after they raised them?
Jiang Yue: My family property is always being coveted by others!
Yuan Zhuangtou acted quickly and built the cowshed before the last heavy summer rain arrived.
When it rains, the moist wind brings a cool feeling.
Jiang Yue sat on the kang on the first floor, leaning against a soft pillow, holding cloth and cotton in her hands, making a quilt and cotton-padded clothes for the child under Aunt Yuan's guidance.
The clothes of the hired workers are not her responsibility. In about one or two months, after the frost falls in late autumn, Jiang Yue will not hire anyone to work until next spring.
This was the first year they bought someone, so they were short of everything. Jiang Yue roughly calculated that her and Jiang Nian's thick cotton coats were still new, with plenty of fur, enough to wear, and more than 30 kilograms of cotton was enough for the children.
She reluctantly gave Aunt Yuan thirty kilograms of cotton and asked her and Aunt Zhang to make two sets of cotton-padded clothes and a thick quilt for each of the servants in the house. The thin quilts they had before were used as mattresses. The remaining sheepskins were used to make a few pairs of boots for them.
Their houses all have kangs, so they don't need to make very thick quilts.
"When things are peaceful outside next year or the year after, I'll make more thick clothes for everyone."
For Jiang Yue herself, the 30 kilograms was divided into 3 kilograms per person, which was considered a small amount. It snowed in the winter here, and it was very difficult to endure without thick clothes.
"Oh, my lady is so kind. She gave us so much cotton. It's more than enough! Our family hasn't seen such a lot of snow-white cotton in all these years."
Unlike her, Aunt Yuan and Aunt Zhang were extremely excited. They had new cloth, cotton, and sheepskin. This was a good thing they had never experienced in their decades of life. In previous years, they had to stuff straw or dogtail grass into the boxes to keep warm.
The previous owner of the Yuan family was not a very wealthy family, so giving them some cotton clothes was enough.
Although their current husband and wife treat them coldly and don't seem very close to them, their kindness is better than anything else. They never treat them like animals, and they are very grateful.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue didn't say much. She thought she had done enough.
When Jiang Nian was out, she would chat with them about her past life when she was bored. Every time they talked about it, Jiang Yue fell silent. There was only one word in her mind: miserable!
Ordinary people have to pay various taxes. The fields are not fertile, so the amount of grain produced is small. For those with large families, it is difficult to fill their stomachs even after paying taxes.
If you want to do business, there are the high commercial taxes, the difficult roads, and bandits as a secondary problem. No one can predict when a wild beast will suddenly appear from somewhere and eat you, leaving your family with nowhere to look for you.
There were many families like the Yuan family. Initially, they were just tenant farmers, barely able to feed their families. When disaster struck, they could only sell their own bodies to make a living.
In order to make Aunt Yuan and Aunt Zhang feel more comfortable, Jiang Nian looked for things to do while they were embroidering in the house.
Either he would cook something for Jiang Yue in the kitchen, or he would go to the backyard to mow the lawn and water the wilted fruit trees.
The peaceful days passed one by one, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching. Jiang Yue had already planned what new dishes to make for her birthday this year to satisfy her cravings.
Unfortunately, the baby in her belly didn't give her this opportunity and suddenly started making a fuss.
That day, Jiang Yue and Jiang Nian were having breakfast when she suddenly felt her stomach tighten. She took a few breaths and picked up the bowl to eat again.
By September, she began to experience this phenomenon frequently. She was a little nervous at first, but Aunt Yuan told her that it was normal and she felt relieved.
She thought today would be the same as usual, so she continued eating. But Jiang Nian suddenly looked nervous and grabbed her hand.
Jiang Yue followed his gaze and looked down. There was a pool of water on the ground. Her water had broken!
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