Li Yuan didn't see Xu Chongguang for a long time.
I came to the Yamen at the end of April and saw no one.
When I came here this time, I was shocked when I saw someone who had lost a lot of weight.
When Xu Chongguang came to Liuyun County to take office in the first month of the year, he was still a little fat.
Not to mention the potbelly, but the double chin is still extremely obvious.
Well, it can even be said to be white, fat and white.
However, the haggard, dark and much thinner man in front of him was completely different from the one in his memory.
If it weren't for the similar facial features and the official robe still on her body, she might have thought she had recognized the wrong person.
"Master Xu!"
As the weather got hotter and hotter, Xu Chongguang began to have trouble sleeping at night after sending someone to check the upstream dam after the Dragon Boat Festival.
Seeing Li Yuan at this time, he stretched out his hand to rub his temples and cheered up: "Why are my brothers and sisters free to come here today?"
"The common woman came here for the watermelon. Do you want it, sir?"
When Xu Chongguang heard that it was watermelon, he looked at Li Yuan with burning eyes.
"Yes, of course I want it. Brothers and sisters, we are all our own people, you don't have to be so reserved. How many watermelons do you have over there? What is the price now? I have limited money on hand now. If there are too many, I may not be able to eat them. Can I borrow part of it on credit?”
"I think you also know that I have a good relationship with the Su family in Fucheng. Previously, the eldest lady of the Su family came to buy watermelons from my Li family. She sold them by the piece, two taels a piece."
As soon as Li Yuan said this, Xu Chongguang frowned, and Master Bai, who had just come in from outside, also frowned.
Their money was limited, and as the number of businessmen reduced and the wealthy merchants and peasants left, they had no additional income.
If one wanted two taels, then they could only ask for three hundred, which was quite different from what they expected.
These six hundred taels were obtained from the wealthy businessmen and rich peasants who left with their families starting in April.
Now that the people have left, they don't want a penny when it comes to handling road guidance.
There was no money in the county government treasury, and Xia Shou couldn't get it. He stole the money from Yamen Li Xu and others and paid it in advance.
Even if he wanted to move the money from the county government treasury first, he couldn't!
Seeing them like this, Li Yuan said: "But based on your relationship with our brother Xie, the money cannot be calculated like this. I will give it to you as I gave it to Brother Cao before, one hundred cents per catty. I don't know how much you want." , I have a lot of it, if you can't eat it, I will give the rest to Brother Cao. He, shopkeeper Guo and the head of the Min family have not left yet, but they are still waiting for my watermelon."
Xu Chongguang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that one pound was given to him.
"Six thousand catties? No, five thousand catties. I want five thousand catties here."
He also had to leave some money to be transported back to the capital by water.
"Yes, they are all at Xie's house. Do you want to transport them away today?"
"Today! Lao Bai, you go with your siblings, and I'll go to the escort agency. I talked to Min Weizhong before, and he helped me transport this batch of watermelons to the dock in Liufeng County."
"yes!"
After Li Yuan left the Yamen, she said to Master Bai: "Master Bai, I have to go to Cao's house. Are you going to come with me or not?"
"We're all acquaintances, let's come together! My brothers and sisters, I'll catch the bus, and you can get into the car to hide from the sun."
Li Yuan was not polite to him, she immediately got on the carriage and sat in the carriage.
When the two of them arrived at Cao's house, Li Yuan found that the female family members of Cao's family were also gone.
Nowadays, there are not many people left in such a big Cao family.
As soon as Cao Zhi saw Li Yuan, he knew that the watermelon he had been waiting for was coming, and he immediately narrowed his eyes with a smile.
"My younger siblings are here. I wonder if it's because of the watermelon?"
"Yes! Is it convenient for Brother Cao to come with me now?"
"Convenient, convenient, I've already prepared it here and can leave at any time."
"That's enough. The watermelons this time are all at Xie's house in the east of the city."
"Okay then, let's go! My brothers and sisters will go back first. I'll take someone over there later."
"good!"
Li Yuan brought out more watermelons this time, but she did not take the opportunity to raise the price.
Regardless of whether it is Cao Zhi or Xu Chongguang, one pound is sold for one hundred cents.
After all the watermelons in the house were shipped away, she had more than a thousand taels in her space.
Wang Can closed the door, sat on the threshold of the hall with Li Yuan, and beat his shoulders.
After a while, he recovered and then said: "Sister, they don't want strawberries now, what should we do with them? Wait until winter to sell them in the capital?"
"Well, the space won't hurt anyway. When there are less fresh fruits and vegetables in winter, we can definitely sell the strawberries and watermelons at a high price if we take them out."
Wang Can hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Sister, are the watermelons in your space growing very fast now? When winter comes, won't the space be full of them? Also, sister, how much food have you saved?"
"I don't know the exact amount of food. Anyway, it's a lot. I estimate that it won't be a problem to feed the entire Lijia'ao people for two or three years. But you should know that my food is mixed together. Also, Since the last time the children under the age of seven left with those who were pregnant with Liujia, my growth rate has slowed down. After the three uncles and three aunts left, the growth rate slowed down again. "
Wang Can thought for a moment and asked, "Sister, have you not visited Liu Dongsheng in prison for a long time?"
"He was destined to be exiled at the end of March."
There was a look of pity in Wang Can's eyes, and he sighed: "My life is better, I thought I could get a beating from time to time. But in this case, what about the changes in your space, sister?"
"The space is quite good as it is. There is so much land, streams, chickens, ducks, pigs and fish. Before, Brother Xie did an experiment and bought eggs and hatched them. Now that they are hatched, the speed is not much different from those outside. , but at least it can be kept inside.”
"What about the fish and pigs you mentioned?"
"I originally wanted to buy fish fry and raise them, but they may be live animals and I can't bring them in. As for pigs, it's the same. It doesn't matter, anyway, the speed inside is faster than the outside. We people in Lijia'ao raise pigs, and a pig can't be brought in." The piglets are caught at the beginning of the year and raised until the end of the year before they are killed and sold. The same goes for fish, which take several months to raise, and some even take one or two years. But in the space, the time for these two things can be shortened by half."
"I don't even need half of the chickens and ducks that are brought inside. They can also lay eggs by themselves. Unless I want to kill them, I will keep those few. But fortunately, the chickens and ducks that are brought in and hatched from outside can also be raised. It can be raised, but the speed is a bit slow.”
Wang Can listened and said with a satisfied smile: "Sister, we are all loved by God. I have spiritual spring water, which can keep myself and the people around me healthy, and can even shorten the planting time of many things. And you don’t have to do anything, you can have rice, noodles, meat and vegetables that you can’t finish in your lifetime.”
