Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Chapter 99 Harvest
Early in the morning, Bai Sanxiu knocked on Yao Yiqian's door again.

"Brother Yao?"

This time, Yao Yiqian responded quickly, hardly keeping her waiting, and the door opened.

"Ah."

"Excuse me, Brother Yao. I want to ask, which donkey restaurant in the county has a cheaper asking price? I want to go out of the city."

Yao Yiqian thought about it carefully, "Xingyuansi in the south of the vegetable market has donkeys, horses and cattle, and it's not expensive. Are you alone?"

"Well, sir, I would like to ask the nearby farmers how the harvest is this year. I went to Sanmenxia that day, and I saw that there is a lot of cultivated land on the other side of the river, so I can just leave the county and go south?"

"Yes, the southern suburbs. But the beach is close to the Yellow River. If you want to see terraced fields, go north or west along the river."

"Okay, thank you Brother Yao!"

Yao Yiqian hesitated for a moment, then asked again: "Why did Daoist Li ask about the harvest?"

"He is interested in everything. He said that since he is traveling outside, he will write a travel journal to record the local customs and customs."

"He lived in Chen's house these few days?"

"Well, so I'll ask him for him!"

"You were nice to him."

Bai Sanxiu smiled: "Mr. is also very kind to me. Don't talk about it, I'll go rent a donkey first. See you later, Brother Yao!"

Looking at the back of her walking away quickly, Yao Yiqian's eyes deepened, and he seemed a little lonely, and there was something inexplicable.

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According to Yao Yiqian's instructions, Bai Sanxiu walked southwest after leaving the county seat.Her plan is to go for a walk on the beach today, and wait for her to estimate the distance to the gentle terraced fields, and then make plans tomorrow.

Although there are several grain shops in Pinglu County, Song Qiaoniang said that the Chen family basically monopolizes the grain market in Pinglu, and the other few are also related to it, so she didn't need to ask specifically, just asked a few farmers. Eighty percent of the grain was sold to the Chen family.

Nowadays, some farming families have their own several acres of Susukida. The annual harvest is not used for their own use, and not much can be sold outside, just enough to make ends meet.Some are tenant farmers who are attached to the landlord and the gentry, and pay a fixed amount of rent to the landlord every year.

If I want to know how much grain the farmers around Pinglu have sold to several grain shops, it is of course the most accurate way to ask the landlord, the housekeeper, and the accountant, but firstly, they are not as easy to talk to as the farmers; It is absolutely impossible to tell the truth about the part of scraping and kicking the dendrobium. It is better to ask the farmers directly to be truthful.

"Hello aunt! I want to ask you, how is our harvest this year? How much did your family pay rent or sell?"

The peasant woman looked over suspiciously: "You are..."

"It's like this. My husband is the clerk of Hucao in the county, and he was ordered to compile the county annals. I got an order from my husband to ask about the harvest situation in the county."

The peasant woman didn't quite understand what county annals she was talking about, but when she heard that it was an official family, she told them exactly: "My daughter wants to ask about this year, it will be very bitter! There is a lot of rain this year..."

After Bai Sanxiu asked all day, he spent most of the time listening to farmers complaining.The situation was indeed beyond her imagination.Li Guan told her that the scale of rice planting in the Guanzhong area and the Yi and Luo River basins is acceptable, but generally speaking, wheat and corn are more often grown in the Yellow River basin.Of course, the japonica rice production in Pinglu County is not much, and this year is similar to the situation in Jingzhao Prefecture, the rain has damaged the crops, and the harvest has been reduced by more than [-]%.

When inquiring, she was cautious and bought half a bucket of rice from the farmer at the market price. She didn't have to wait until she went home to cook it, and she could be sure that it was of the same variety as the ordinary japonica rice sold at the grain store in the county.

"Ma'am, do we have this kind of japonica rice here?"

"Yes!"

"Do you know which one sells the high-quality round-grained rice in the city?"

"What are you talking about? This plant is planted in ten miles and eight villages. How can it be superior or inferior?"

(End of this chapter)