Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 122 122 Trading Materials
So a group of people drove the bullock cart and followed the old sun to the mayor's house.

There are people in the mayor's house, and the old and dim-eyed doorman asked Lao Sun what he was doing here, and Lao Sun listened to him with eyes full of eyes.
"I have brought great business. These strangers have a lot of food to exchange for things!"

The doorman asked them to wait a while, and after going in to make an announcement, he came back and warmly invited them in.

Mu Yu soon saw the old mayor with a white goatee in the yard.

The old mayor sized up the few people who followed the yard, and finally looked at Mu Yu standing in front of them, and asked,
"What do you want to exchange for food?"

Mu Yu said bluntly, "I want to exchange salt and sugar cloth."

The mayor knew that those small villages and small places would lack these, and most of the people who came here before changed for these.

So he immediately ordered someone to go to the warehouse to see how much was still available for trading.

Then he turned to Mu Yu and the others and said,

"The towns you mentioned all have them, and there haven't been many people to exchange them recently, but there are quite a few.

It's just that we have to look at the grain first, bran and moldy old grain can't be replaced much. "

Mu Yu keenly noticed a point,

"That is to say, if the food quality is not good, there will be less things in exchange, right?"

The mayor nodded, "Yes."

"The quality of the food is very good. Can I exchange for more things? What is the criterion for judging?"

The mayor stroked his beard and looked at her, thought for a while, then smiled,

"Of course good food can be exchanged for more things. As for this standard, come and get a bucket of food and show them."

After a while, Mu Yu and the other gates saw the bucket of grain.

It happened to be millet too, and it looked that the old grain was not very fresh, but there was no sign of mold.

The mayor watched them turn the millet and said with a smile,
"Those who are like this are considered qualified, and those who are slightly better or worse than this are subject to this standard.

One catty of salt and five catties of grain, one catty of sugar and three catties of grain, and cloth, depending on what you want, from five catties to twenty catties per horse.

If it is really better than this, it is natural to change more things.

Now bring your food, let me see how good it is. "

There was a hint of the elder's teasing and doting on the back in his tone.

Mu Yu had already evaluated the price in his mind, and it was not too different from what they had originally imagined, so it was acceptable.

So she nodded and asked others to bring a few bags of millet to the ox cart.

The old mayor looked reasonable, as if he would keep his promise.

She has confidence in the millet she brought, as long as people are not stupid or blind, they can see that it is much better than this so-called standard.

Just as she thought, when the sack was opened, the people around to check it all let out exclamations of excitement.

"This, this millet is really good! This color, this smell, this... this is the top grade!"

"Yeah yeah!"

Old Sun was even more surprised, grabbed a handful of millet, smelled it carefully, and said in disbelief,
"This, this is new food!"

This sentence is no less than a blockbuster, which blinded everyone present.

Where else can food be grown at this time?Still such a good food?
All of a sudden, everyone's expressions became complicated.

Some people think that they belong to a certain big family, and only those big families with strong financial and material resources occupying the best land and water sources can grow such good food at this time.

Some people think they are bandits, because they really don't behave like servants of big families.

Mu Yu frowned slightly, the reaction of these people was a little too big, different from what she expected, she began to think about how to deal with it.

In the end, the old mayor broke the slightly weird atmosphere.

"This is indeed a rare good food, very good.

How about this, based on the original transaction price, I will give you [-]% more for each item after the transaction, how about it? "

In other words, originally five catties of grain could be exchanged for one catty of salt, but now half a catty more is given.

Mu Yu thinks it's okay, although it's not too much, but in this famine year, it is enough to have a stutter, most people don't care whether it is better or not, the price of good food is not as high as before.

Moreover, the old mayor had just helped them out, so she was too embarrassed to mention the price. Anyway, the price had exceeded expectations, and it could complete the transaction goal when they came.

Mu Yu nodded and said yes, then Yang Erlang took people to move the millet.

Sack after sack of millet was moved and placed in the yard, and the people present couldn't look away, there were so many!
"These millet, two hundred catties are exchanged for salt, one hundred catties are exchanged for sugar, and one hundred catties are exchanged for cloth."

The people present gasped, only the old mayor's face remained unchanged, he stroked his beard and said,

"According to the agreement, these can be exchanged for [-] catties of salt and [-] catties of sugar. Although this amount is not small, the warehouse can still afford it.

As for the cloth, it must be said in detail that during the calamity year, such valuables as silk and satin can no longer be sold at high prices, but they are still much more expensive than coarse linen.

What do you want?
During the disaster year, life was hard to survive, and many people exchanged goods for food, and now there are quite a lot of silk and satin in the warehouse. "

"No, coarse cotton will do."

The old mayor didn't look disappointed either, and said,
"A piece of coarse cotton cloth is five catties or eight catties, and if you count it as five catties, it will be thirty bolts of cloth.

Lao Li, let someone go to the warehouse and move all the salt and sugar cloth I mentioned to the yard for them to see. "

Mu Yu was a little surprised to get so much cloth in exchange. One bolt of cloth can make three or four summer single clothes, and these thirty bolts of cloth are enough to make two sets of single clothes for each person in the village.

Originally, I found a dozen bolts of cloth from the ground of the manor, but they were all silk cloth, gorgeous and expensive, but not practical. They are fine for daily wear, but not for working in the field, so I thought about buying cloth .

But think about it, it’s hard to eat in a disaster year, as long as there are clothes to wear, who would exchange food for cloth?If no one changes it, isn't the cloth worthless?

At this time, the mayor's people delivered all the goods, and the two sides exchanged and checked to make sure there was no problem.

Mu Yu came back to his senses and said,
"We also brought [-] rabbits this time, and we want to exchange some chickens, ducks and geese to go back. I don't know if it's okay?"

"Of course, it's just that there aren't that many poultry here. I'll ask Lao Li to take you to someone's house to exchange."

Song Gao and three or four men took the rabbit and left with Lao Li, while the others stayed behind and began to move the exchanged goods to the ox cart.

Before they left, the mayor stood at the door with a smile and said,
"I will definitely come back again if I want to change anything in the future. Although Yuanshan Town is small, it still has some heritage."

Mu Yu and Yang Erlang agreed and said they would.

The transaction went quite smoothly. They exchanged less food than expected for more supplies than expected, and the process was very pleasant.

However, it was not so smooth for Wang to find his family.

Until noon the next day, I didn't get even a little bit of useful news.

(End of this chapter)