Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 197

Xiuqin was so busy that she fainted. Although she had her mother and Xiurong to help her, she still had to do a lot of sewing by herself.The clothes, shoes and socks given to Bai Xun'an, as well as the shoes for her in-laws, had to be made by herself.Especially for shoes, people say that whether the needlework is good or not depends on how well the shoes are made. If the shoes are well made, they fit comfortably, and the feet are fine and beautiful, that is good needlework.Xiuqin is a girl who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, so she naturally doesn't want her in-laws to look down on her.Although Anshi was very satisfied with her and told her not to be too tired, she didn't dare to relax at all.The soles of the shoes are made of starched white cloth, the uppers are made of black dyed cloth, and the soles of the shoes are made of hard-beaten cloth shells, stitched one by one.She still needs to consider what kind of soles to use, jujube flower, crabapple or other. In short, it must be good-looking and practical, and it must not be too fancy, which makes people say frivolous, which really wastes her thoughts. Do three shifts at night.

Qin Dafu was so distressed that he discussed with Liu Shi, "It's really not possible, I think it's not bad to let the eldest daughter-in-law in, at least help Xiuqin with her needlework."

Liu Shi laughed at him: "She wants to be strong herself, but she insists on doing it by herself. I will help her, but she doesn't even need it."

Qin Dafu sighed, "All of us girls seem to be docile, but in fact one is more stubborn than the other, it's all up to you."

Mrs. Liu snorted: "What's the matter with me? If you don't follow me, can you have a good life? If you just follow you, you will be finished. I will never have a bright future in my life."

Qin Dafu smiled: "That day, Yaoyao told me about the leek box, what's going on?"

Mrs. Liu pretended to be puzzled, "What's the matter? I have meat at home. I thought about my parents, so I sent it to them. Why, did I send it by mistake? Okay, I won't send it in the future."

Qin Dafu hurriedly made amends: "Give it away, the daughter-in-law has the final say, and your family has the final say. I just need to obey and work."

Mrs. Liu laughed, "While the weather is still hot, quickly clear up the land in the field. The foundation was laid a year ago and the adobe was dried. Later, I will go to his grandma's house to help buy some sorghum straw. Let's tie the handles. He The third grandpa’s family can help us find and buy some wood. Let’s build the three houses as soon as possible, so that Daye and his wife can live in the next year.”

Qin Dafu even said yes, "Yaoyao asked me to sell beets and melon seeds with her these two days, and I guess we can exchange some money. Speaking of which, we are all thanks to Yaoyao, if it weren't for her, we wouldn't be begging That piece of wasteland. I didn’t expect that instead of growing food, I could grow other things, and exchange money as usual.”

Liu Shi raised her head, her satisfaction was beyond words, "That is, my daughter, can there be any difference?"

In the early morning of the second day, Xiuyao got up and put the beets in baskets with her father, and the melon seeds in sacks, and put them in a donkey cart and took them to the county to sell.The donkey cart weighed less, so Qin Dafu went to borrow a mule cart, which couldn't be pulled clean at one time, so he tried to pull a half of it first, and if it was good, let them pull the rest by themselves.

At this time, many people are carrying grain to the city to sell, and in a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they have to buy something, and the family needs money, so they have to rely on selling grain for money.However, that cart of grain costs about twenty shi, which is ten tang in exchange. Sometimes it is more and sometimes it is less, it depends on the market and the attitude of the grain merchants.

Qin Dafu accompanied several people and drove together in a car, so that there would be no robbery on the road, even if there were too many people, he would not be afraid of one or half of them.When it’s time to collect food, there will be those lazy bastards who want to get something for nothing by robbing. This is also the time when the county mobilizes guerrillas to maintain law and order. If a robber is caught, the county government has an order to reward him with five taels of silver. .

Everyone was talking and laughing, hoping to meet a few robbers and let them turn them over to the government to get some rewards, but they didn't meet any along the way.

The young man who came with him said with a smile: "Oh, didn't you say that there might be robbers on the road, and I didn't see a single shadow."

Everyone laughed, "Five taels of silver apiece, those who rob the road will not dare to come out."

Someone said: "I heard that a businessman who was going to the market was stopped by thieves on the way and stabbed to death for two slings of money. The government didn't find the murderer."

When everyone heard it, they asked where it was from, but that person only heard it, and didn't know where it was.

There are many people and vehicles are heavy, and the road is slow, and it took a while to arrive at the county seat.Xiuyao found out that it was really not the right time to sell grain, because now almost everywhere there are people who come to sell grain for money.

Such a situation will cause grain merchants to lower prices and sell grain at a low price, but if they don’t sell it at this time, the grain merchants will still lower prices when it’s out of season, so there’s nothing I can do about it. I just hope that it’s my turn to sell better .

When they arrived at the county seat, Xiuyao asked her father to drive the mule cart, first went to Boss Wang's place for a while, and when the car stopped, she jumped down to greet them.Seeing her coming, Boss Wang and the others greeted her with smiles, asked her to sit down with Qin Dafu for dinner, and said that Liu Sheng would come over the day after tomorrow.

Qin Dafu was reluctant to spend money on noodles and said, "Thank you, we brought dry food."

Boss Wang laughed and said: "You are Yaoyao's father, you are welcome, I invite you to eat noodles, Brother Qin, please sit down." He rolled out the noodles and cut the noodles, as usual, there are pork rib noodles and pork chop noodles.

After eating the noodles beautifully, Xiuyao put down thirty Wen, and Uncle Wang gave enough food, so she also wanted to give a few more.She is a bit like Liu's in this respect, she is not stingy when she should be generous.

Boss Wang declined, "How can I ask for your money, this is for you to eat."

Xiuyao smiled and said, "Uncle Wang, if you don't want it, will we dare to come in the future?"

The people around also said yes, let Boss Wang accept it, and someone sent some buns and cakes, but this one refused to accept the money.

Xiuyao had no choice but to accept it, said thank you, and took it back for the family to eat. Although Qin Dafu felt sorry for the noodles, he was also happy for Xiuyao's good popularity, but he felt that he didn't need to eat noodles, so he just ate the noodle soup with a roll that he brought. Enough.

Xiuyao talked with Boss Wang for a few words, and said that she came to sell beets and melon seeds. Boss Wang said in surprise: "Yaoyao, everyone comes to sell food, why do you still plant that?" , even if there are species, they are basically for their own use. After all, there are regular contracted growers in Tangfang Youfang, and it is not worthwhile for other people to grow them, so everyone grows less.

Xiuyao said with a smile: "I can't get enough of food, so I can exchange money to buy food." A family of nine can eat seventeen or eight shi of grain a year, even if there are all kinds of vegetables and melons as supplementary food, But there are only ten acres of wheat in the house, and rent has to be paid, which is not enough to eat.

When she sells beet melon seeds, she can ask grandpa to buy rice and noodles for them, which is more cost-effective.

Everyone said that she planned so much at such a young age, and envied Qin Dafu for having a good daughter. Qin Dafu was cheerful and very happy in his heart.

Xiuyao and Qin Dafu went to the sugar shop first, she was looking for the one with a sugar making workshop at home, she was here last time.She saw that the business in the store was good, so she waited until it was a little deserted before dragging her in.

A clerk was busy nearby, and a shopkeeper stood behind the counter to read the accounts.

Xiuyao walked over, "Boss, do you accept beets?"

The shopkeeper didn't raise his eyes, and said: "Take it, how much do you have?"

Xiuyao asked: "Then how much do you pay for a catty?"

Only then did the shopkeeper look up at her, and saw that it was a little girl, juicy and fresh, like a fresh onion, which made people very happy. There was a simple and honest man standing beside her, who might be her elder.

He thought it was fun, so he smiled and said, "One penny is two catties."

Xiuyao knew that he deliberately lowered the price, which was too far from the psychological price, so she asked, "Is it also the same price before?"

The shopkeeper became more and more curious. He said: "We only collect in the second half of the year, and there are no fresh ones in the first half of the year. We don't want the old ones, and they tend to be damaged. If you sell them too late, we don't want them either. Basically, we have enough."

Naturally, he wouldn't tell Xiuyao the truth, they have a special household to harvest the beets, and signed a deed with the farmers in a certain place, letting them grow beets for them all the time, and rarely accept other people's beets, so that it can be better A monopoly can also control the supply of goods.Therefore, there are not many other common people who know how to grow beets, unless it is for their own home to cook some syrup, and if too many people want to sell it, they will not want it.

Xiuyao also thought about it. She tried various things. After planting a living, she can cook sugar in the future. After all, white sugar is so expensive, and it is a good way to make money.It's just that everyone is too busy this year, so she won't bother, and we'll talk about it next year.

She said: "We have more than 1 catties, will you take it?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "There are so many, we can't use them."

Xiuyao knew that he was just trying to lower the price, but two catties for a penny was too outrageous, and the price was too cheap.Originally, the price of this kind of thing was four cents a catty. If it was exchanged with someone on the market, it would be basically the same price, but it was a small amount after all. If you want to sell it all at once, you still have to find this kind of big workshop.The price of a big workshop is to lower the price, which is much lower than the normal price.

Xiuyao originally thought it would be cheaper, three pennies per catty, which was acceptable.How could I know that this shopkeeper is really ruthless, one penny and two catties!

Xiuyao refused to give up, she said: "The shopkeeper, you can only produce less than two taels of sugar per catty, why can't your family use it? I have asked, your family is the largest sugar workshop. There are other shops in other shops. All the grocery stores and sugar shops in the village buy from your house. If your house can’t even sell this little sugar, how can it be said that it is the largest sugar workshop in the county.” She had already inquired clearly, and did not fight an uncertain battle. , so the shopkeeper can't fool her, he still wants to lower her price.

The shopkeeper said happily after hearing this: "Little girl, you have inquired very carefully. If you really sell, then we will pay you a penny and a catty at most, as much as you have." Seeing Xiuyao's serious face, he said: "This is still this year. We have a problem with ourselves, otherwise we wouldn’t buy outside, a penny and a catty is good, and you can drag two catties.”

Xiuyao thinks so. After all, the crops themselves are not worth much, and they are all processed to develop added value. She smiled and said, "Then we pulled a thousand catties. You can take a look at the goods. If you think it's good, you can send a car to my house later to pull it." It’s okay.” A penny is a penny, a penny is a catty, three pennies is impossible, let alone four pennies and five pennies.

The shopkeeper said to take a look first, and Xiuyao asked her father to drive the mule cart over. The shopkeeper came out and saw that the beets had already cut off the roots and leaves.The roots of the beets were clean and neat, in good shape, hard and not softened or rotted, with smooth edges, no cracks, and no damage from black spot insect bites.

He nodded frequently, "It's a good beet."

Xiuyao said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, we have been busy for a long time. We use a big plow to get them out, and we pick out the broken ones. The rest are trimmed and cleaned up very neatly." These are all Her basic request to the children, saying that if the cut is broken, the money will be deducted, is actually just to scare them.But those children are sensible, and they hardly harm a beet.Xiuyao also asked them to check everything, and if there was something not very good, let them take it home to eat.So although she paid little wages—after all, the family didn't have much money, she gave a lot of beets, which was enough for them to eat for a long time.

Seeing that the shopkeeper took a fancy to this batch of beets, she knew that the batch at home was also available, but she had to bargain for the price. After all, she didn't want to be slaughtered so cheaply after all the hard work.

(End of this chapter)