Xu Errui scratched his head: "This is what Li Laoshi said. He said that now we have 30 acres of land, and we can do it ourselves. We have to get up early and work late every day, which is too tiring.
It's better to hire all the people. We can owe the wages now, and then we can exchange the herbs ourselves for money, and then we can pay enough wages! "
Mr. Li now tastes the sweetness of selling medicine.
Selling herbal medicine was easier than doing farm work. Seeing that there was so much land, Xu Errui kept telling Xu Errui that it was a good deal to hire someone.
Xu Errui grew up doing farm work. If someone had asked for someone to do the work a year ago, he would not have agreed, and neither would his mother.
But when he saw three big bags of medicine sold for twenty taels of silver in the county town, he was tempted.
Indeed, when others do the work, you can have more time to do other things and earn more money.
Hearing what Xu Errui said, Jiang Zhi felt relieved.
Rather than spending money, it's good for Xu Errui to have these ideas, even if they are honestly lazy words from Li.
It would be a waste if the people on my side put all their time and energy into digging the ground and working hard to grow crops.
It's just that I'm still thinking about how to say it more conveniently.
After all, it was very unexpected for an old lady who had been doing farm work all her life to suddenly turn to asking for help.
Now that Xu Errui said this, it was more reasonable than his own mother said it.
So, she deliberately remained silent for a moment before nodding: "Then we must be more diligent and pull more herbs from now on!"
When Xu Errui saw that all his words were passed, he immediately became happy and said, "Mom, I will also be able to find medicine in the future. I will know everything you taught me."
Jiang Zhi is tired enough from building roads. Thinking about repairing ditches for another two months makes his scalp numb. He can't waste his time on this. Selling medicinal materials is his real job!
The matter was decided in this way, and Xu Errui supervised the work and land preparation in the village.
He had food and accommodation in the medical shed. In order to record the construction period, he asked the clerk in the medical shed to help him make account books. He became a decent boss and became more experienced as he worked. Every time he returned to the mountain, the changes were astonishing.
If you are held in your armpit for the rest of your life, you will never achieve anything, so it is better to go solo and grow.
On the mountain, Jiang Zhi repaired the road and began to raise money. There was no need to worry about the county seat sixty miles away.
To carry more things, you need to take a mule or horse, and you need to stay overnight, so you won’t earn much from eating and drinking.
There is a pharmacy in Lihua Town, where you can sell medicine and see what this town is like.
It's just that the first month has not yet come out, and no annual herbs have grown on the mountain. Almost all the perennial herbs have been harvested last year, so we can no longer dig out the roots.
There are not many medicinal materials at home, and the only ones that can be sold are rushes peeled in advance. This is the safest. If the drug store does not accept it, I will sell it to the grocery store as a wick.
There was also a large bag of dried red thorn fruits, which was originally prepared for Peppa Pig, but there were green cabbage seeds and sweet potatoes. The little wild boar had enough rations, so these red thorn fruits were not moved.
But it can also be used as food for people. Now that the spring is famine, there may be people who need it.
Knowing that Jiang Zhi was going to Lihua Town, Xiao Manye also wanted to sell some straw sandals knitted by Xu Dazhu, some Gesi and twine, and fungus.
You have to keep food for yourself. If you don’t use up the straw sandals and Gesi twine, you can exchange them for other items.
So, the two families agreed to go to the market together.
Going to the market in Lihua Town is regular, on the third, seventh and ninth day of every month, only on odd days but not on even days.
In fact, Pingchuan County also has time limits for going to the market, which are Tuesday, Thursday and August. Evenings are not allowed.
The last time Jiang Zhi and others went there, they felt that there were few people in the city and it was desolate because they missed the market day.
On the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month, when the sky was still dark, Jiang Zhi and Xiaoman went down the mountain to go to the market, carrying large and small bags.
The little wild boar chased him again and again, and only went back halfway.
It was already dawn when we arrived at the village. We met up with Li Laoshi and Xu Errui, and the four of them headed to Lihua Town.
It is more than ten miles from Xujia Village to Lihua Town. There is no means of transportation and we can only walk on two legs.
Jiang Zhi had been walking since dawn, and now she started walking towards the town again. Thinking of having to walk back after going to the market, she only felt pain in her legs.
There's nothing you can do about it, that's how people get through it.
In modern times, people of my grandfather's and parents' generation walk on two legs wherever they go.
Cars have only been around for a little over 20 years, and there are no mules, horses or oxcarts here all the time.
Jiang Zhi didn't have to carry anything. With Xu Errui here, he had already been responsible for carrying the basket.
I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for those who fled. Not only were they unable to eat, but they also had to carry large and small bags for hundreds of miles on their own legs.
The official road was not only filled with people like them going to the market, but also pedestrians walking by from time to time. It was much better than the refugees before.
However, everyone is like a frightened bird, and they dare not approach each other from a distance.
Lihua Town is not far from the official road. From the fork in the road, you can get off the official road to the entrance of the town. The first thing you see is a two-meter-high earthen low wall.
In fact, with these low walls, Ewha Town should be relatively safe.
But the rebels took the villagers kidnapped along the way and forced open the town wall and tricked them into opening the shops. This brought disaster to Lihua Town.
A year has passed and this low wall has been newly built. The new soil has been built on the old wall that was demolished, making it higher than before.
It was a bit troublesome to enter the town. There were a lot of people surrounding the low wall, and everyone stretched their necks to look in. From time to time, someone would leave dejectedly or angrily.
Jiang Zhi and four others also squeezed over to see what was going on.
"Which village are you from? If you are not a local, you are not allowed to enter!" Several men near the low wall stopped people who wanted to enter the town and asked. When they heard that they were not locals, they immediately pushed out the crowd.
"I have established a household in Dayan Village and am a local!"
"no!"
"I am from Xujiacun!"
"no!"
The person who claimed to be Xujiacun was dissatisfied: "Why don't you want Xujiacun to come in?"
The man blocking the road snorted coldly: "The accent hasn't changed yet, who do you want to deceive!"
People in Bajun speak much the same way, but when they hear it, they have "different pronunciation." It's not easy to pass them off as a local.
Pear Blossom Town was deceived and destroyed in the middle of the night by people who used different accents. Now they are very guarded against outsiders and are not even allowed to enter the town.
When his accent was exposed, the man was immediately pushed out with a mute voice!
Jiang Zhi looked and saw that they were indeed immigrants from Xujia Village.
Xu Errui shouted: "Second uncle of the Tian family!"
The man was angry and anxious when he heard someone calling him. He looked up and looked around and saw Xu Errui. He immediately came over with surprise: "It's Errui! Li Laoshi, you guys are also coming to the market!"
When he came over, he saw Jiang Zhi and hurriedly bent down and nodded: "Sister-in-law Jiang!"
Jiang Zhi had already heard from Xu Errui that this Tian Gui was in his early thirties. The couple came from out of town with their three and a half-year-old children.
Because there are many brothers in the family, Tian Gui and his wife are not favored by their parents. They usually work at home.
Moreover, the parents also said that they wanted their eldest daughter Tian Tao, who was only eleven years old, to get married early so that she would not have to live alone at home.
After they encountered military turmoil and fled to Xujiacun, the couple decided to live here. After all, they would have to work for the rest of their lives when they returned.
Jiang Zhi feels that being able to find another way out for their children is considered a pair of competent parents, and they are not pedantic in their thinking.
