Happy peasant girl

Chapter 13 Adding Clothes and Adding Things
The shopkeeper saw that it was a little girl asking, so he didn't feel abrupt, and said kindly to her: "This is a bearded businessman who was sick and in distress and put it here for consignment two days ago. He said he wanted to go home by boat. But when I got sick and ran out of money, I only had this little bag on my body, and I traveled many places, but the seeds in the bag were not sold. My wife was kind, so I asked him to put it in the store for consignment.”

"Why can't it be sold?" Lin Qingxi asked inexplicably, isn't it that rare things are more expensive?Why did no one in Chu State grow these things?

"I don't know if this bearded man is sick and confused. These three seeds have to be 200 taels of silver, and no one in Chu State has planted the seeds sold by Hu merchants. Some people have tried it before, but they didn't." Success, so no one will buy this expensive and incompetent seed." The shopkeeper patiently explained to Lin Qingxi that ordinary farmers would not even look at Hu Shang's seeds, and he was just trying to perfect himself The kindness of the lady.

Now Lin Qingxi understood that 200 taels was not a small amount, no wonder it couldn't be sold.But she wants to buy it very much, what should I do?Thinking about the ecological farmhouses I have run in modern times, I feel even more itchy about these seeds.

"Miss Xi really want to buy it?" As if seeing through Lin Qingxi's mind, Lin Qingfei walked up to her and asked.

Lin Qingxi pursed her lips and nodded lightly, looking at Lin Qingfei with hope in her eyes, she wanted to buy them very much, and she was very confident that she could grow them all, as long as she thought of the harvest of these things when they matured, she would There was a burst of satisfaction in my heart.

Lin Qingyun also walked in front of Lin Qingfei and Lin Qingxi. He originally wanted to say something, but when he saw the longing look in Lin Qingxi's eyes, he swallowed the words.

"Then let's buy it! Girl Xi earns the money, and girl Xi can spend it as she wants!" Lin Qingfei rubbed Lin Qingxi's hair lovingly, and said with a smile.

Lin Qingxi hugged the seeds excitedly, Lin Qingyun just smiled helplessly, and said nothing more, Lin Qingfei was right, Lin Qingxi earned the money herself, and she has the right to decide what she wants to buy.

Lin Qingfei took out two 100 taels of silver bills and a tael of scattered silver from his pocket, and placed them in front of the shopkeeper.

It was the first time in his life to spend money lavishly, and Lin Qingfei was also trembling in his heart, but he also knew very well that his sister was a little different from others, maybe she could really plant these seeds.

Grandpa often said to his brothers that in life, you can only gain if you give up.He thinks what Grandpa said is right, just relying on his sister's embroidery, 200 taels can be earned back in no time, and his intuition tells him that his sister knows those seeds.

"My little brother, you have to think carefully, you can't just buy back the sky-high price of seeds just because of the child's two words." They are so thin, with patches on their bodies, and their expressions are not very good. They should be from poor families. If they take out so much silver at once, it can't be the whole family's wealth, right?

"Shopkeeper, don't worry, we'll buy this seed!" Lin Qingfei said firmly.

The shopkeeper looked at the 200 taels of silver and a tael of silver, and wanted to say a few words not to make them stupid, but he was selling things, and he had reminded them anyway, since they didn't know the severity, there was nothing he could do about it.

"Okay then, since you guys have decided, I'll bring that bearded businessman here, and you can trade face to face!" The shopkeeper's business is very serious, and he doesn't want Lin Qingfei and Lin Qingyun to misunderstand that he is talking nonsense .

A quarter of an hour later, a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard, a slightly sick and tall figure walked in. If you look carefully, his eyes are not black but dark blue, but it is difficult for ordinary people to notice the difference.

The two parties had a face-to-face transaction, and the bearded businessman was very grateful to the three brothers and sisters of the old Lin family who were willing to buy his seeds. In their country, it is not allowed to trade seeds, especially not to sell seeds overseas.

But because he was full of yearning for the outside world, he took a boat to the Chu country, but no one dared to buy the three seeds he brought out after all the hard work, and if the money was too little, he couldn't go home by boat.

Of course, Lin Qingxi doesn't know about these yet, if it wasn't because of her young age and inconvenience, she really wanted to ask this bearded businessman if he had any other novel seeds.

After buying the seeds, the three brothers and sisters went to the cloth shop again and bought one bolt of medium-grade linen and two bolts of low-grade linen for two taels of silver.

Lin Qingxi didn't have a correct understanding of the prices in Chu State, Lin Qingfei told her that the original cloth was not so expensive at all, three years ago, they bought three pieces of cloth like this, at most it cost five hundred cash, Since the three-year drought, the prices of all things have risen rapidly, some have doubled or doubled, and some places like grain have tripled.

These cloths are all requested by Linqingxi. The people of the old Lin’s family still wear thin jackets and linen trousers in winter, and there is no such thing as cotton to keep warm in Chu State. Common people use kapok in their homes.

But kapok is also unaffordable for poor people these days. Most people living in hardship will go to the mountains to cut more firewood before winter, and stay at home to burn firewood to keep warm when the winter is cold.

Yunzhou Mansion is located at the north-south junction of Chu State. Sometimes it is extremely cold in winter, and sometimes it is relatively warm. In addition, the transportation is not very convenient, so no one in the deep mountains knows how to cook on the kang.

Originally, Lin Qingxi didn't know about these things, she thought it wasn't very cold here in winter, and she could get over it after a while. When she talked about the kang, Lin Qinghe and Lin Qingmu were dumbfounded. They never She didn't know there was such a magical bed in the world, and later she asked Linyuan Mountain and Linzhongguo, but they had never heard of it.

More than half of the winter has passed, and it seems that it is too late for the pankang, Lin Qingxi thinks that next year he must make his home warm in winter.

She imagined that Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Mu, who are thrifty and thrifty, would be reluctant to buy so much cloth. Even if they had money now, according to the backward and outdated concepts of farmers in this era, and the degree to which the elders love the younger generation, they would definitely be reluctant to give it to the whole family. To make new clothes, it's better for her to "cut first and play later". Anyway, I bought everything, and I can't return it.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, Lin Qingxi tried his best to persuade the two elder brothers to buy not only a large bag of kapok, but also oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and some rough caramel.

"Big brother, third brother, let's hire an ox cart? I want to buy some vegetables, meat, and eggs later. By the way, I want to buy more rice noodles. The rice needs to be good, and the noodles need to be white!" Lin Qingxi Breaking her fingers, she thought about what else she wanted to buy.

Lao Lin's family was really short of everything, and she wished she could buy them all at once. It wasn't that she couldn't bear hardships, but that her family's life was too hard. She wanted to make their lives better, even better.

(End of this chapter)