After dinner, Yunfei returned to his room and sorted out all his belongings.
The money gained from the division of the family had long been used up. Even to bury my parents, I had to sell an acre of land in exchange for it.
In total, there are three acres of good farmland and five acres of inferior farmland.
One acre is sold for burial, and one acre is sold for taking a wife.
Now there are only three acres of good farmland and three acres of low-grade farmland. There is no time to sell the farmland to go to school.
Therefore, the original man's money was very pitiful. After the wedding, all that was left of the few taels of silver was this pile of copper coins in his hand.
After counting, there were only one hundred and sixty articles in total.
These days, there is not only a head tax, but also a farmland tax.
The price of food has remained high.
So many things happened to the Bai family last year, and the strong labor force was divided, so they had no intention of planting.
This year I didn't plant any either.
I only relied on the white osmanthus, and except for some vegetables, I didn’t grow anything else.
But if you don’t have the seed, you still have to pay taxes, and you have to pay them recently. In the plot, this time the taxes were paid by Zhao Baozhu with his dowry.
After thinking about it, he took the more than one hundred Wen and went out. Du Qingliu, who was sweeping the yard, didn't even dare to ask.
At this time, Zhang Dujuan had already gone to collect firewood, and then Zhao Baozhu was probably digging wild vegetables.
And White Osmanthus is either working on the vegetable field or embroidering purses in the room.
When passing by the kitchen, he saw that the water tank seemed to be empty of water, and Yunfei stopped in his tracks.
There is not much water in the well in the courtyard, so you need to use a bucket to fetch water. Usually several women take turns to do it.
but now……
In the eyes of the original body, they are working labor force.
In Yunfei's eyes, they were three pregnant women and an underage girl T_T.
So he could only walk to the wellhead by himself, pick up the wooden bucket next to him, and start drawing water.
They didn't leave until the water tank was full. After all, dinner might be ready when he comes back, and of course they would have to get the water for dinner themselves.
He felt guilty about letting pregnant women do heavy work.
Du Qingliu, who had witnessed the whole healing process, was confused.
Others thought that her pregnancy had changed the man, but she didn't think so.
What made him look at her differently was just because she could make a few arty words and was good at ink.
After all, at home, she also needs to please her father in order to live a good life.
So I have already mastered the art of grinding ink.
Seeing Yun Fei walk out the door, Du Qingliu bit his lip and wanted to ask where he was going, but he didn't dare to come back for dinner.
Because she asked this question last time, which made her husband unhappy with her and asked her to stop interfering in his affairs.
…………
Yunfei took the copper coins and walked towards the town.
In a remote mountain village in a small country like this, ox carts or donkey carts are only available on market days.
So there was no one on the road at the moment.
Seeing no one, he simply used the skill of climbing over walls and covering a large distance in an instant.
The journey that originally took an hour took only forty minutes due to his shortening.
When we got close to the town gate, we stopped and walked in slowly.
Sanshui Town.
There isn't even a decent plaque, it's in a dilapidated state, and even the officers and soldiers guarding the gate are lazy.
Everyone can come and go as they please.
Except for stopping the ox cart to collect the fee for entering the town, he doesn't care about anything else.
The walls are also very low and have many cracks.
With Yunfei's skills, there would be no problem at all in leaping over this wall.
He walked honestly into the town.
There are a few small vendors setting up stalls on both sides of the street.
"Young Master, take a look at Rouge and buy some to take home as gifts for your elders or sisters. My wives are all good."
"Master, look at this handkerchief. The flowers and plants on it are embroidered extremely elegantly. They were specially designed to be embroidered by the embroiderer."
"Tanghulu, sell candied haws."
At this time, it was about ten o'clock in the morning, and everyone who bought food in the town had already gone home to cook.
So there are very few pedestrians.
While Yunfei was wandering around, many people sold their products.
But he didn't buy anything.
Eggs cost three cents a pound, lean meat cost eighteen cents a pound, and fat meat cost twenty-five cents.
A small handful of green vegetables costs five cents.
Regarding food prices, they are basically quite high, especially in the markets in town.
It might be better in the village.
Green vegetables used to cost three cents, but now the weather is getting colder, so the price has increased by two cents.
A small handful can fry a plate, enough for a family meal.
There is only one drugstore and one pawnshop in the town, and only one restaurant, as well as a teahouse.
In such a big town, there really aren't many shops. After all, not everyone can afford the expensive shop rents and merchant taxes.
In the small market, several butchers were still selling pork, and there was a lot left in front of the stalls.
There are three pig butchers in the town, and Zhao Baozhu's father is one of them.
Thinking that her father would beat her so cruelly that she would miscarry, Yunfei skipped his stall.
Butcher Zhao also didn't recognize him. After all, he had never been to the house since his marriage.
That's why this dynasty hates daughters so much, because it's obvious that they are losing money.
If a son-in-law is taken away to get married, there is no betrothal gift, he rarely even returns to his parents' home, and he may even be looked down upon by his husband's family.
And because she is a woman, her mother's family dare not come to ask for anything. Otherwise, if she divorces her, the woman's family's reputation will spread for hundreds of miles.
"Sir, what do you want? There is still a lot of fat, do you want some?"
"Weigh two pounds of lean meat and three pounds of fat."
The butcher responded, raised his knife and cut the meat into pieces before weighing it.
"Look, sir, it's exactly two kilograms."
"Um."
Then there is the fatty meat, and a small piece of pork liver is added as a discount.
"A total of 1 money and 11 wen."
Yunfei took out the hundred coins strung together, counted eleven more coins and handed them to him.
"Thank you, sir. Come back next time after you have eaten. These are big fat pigs raised by us. They are delicious."
"OK."
After carrying the meat and leaving, he only had fifty coins left with him.
I want to go to the grocery store to buy some seasonings or something, but I'm afraid I don't have enough money.
He could only walk into a pawn shop in town.
This was decided from the beginning. The original person was the original person, and he had money in his pocket, so he would not ask others to give him a dowry to help his family pay taxes.
Entering the shop, he took out a pair of flower-wrapped silver bracelets and handed them to the shopkeeper.
It's a decent silver bracelet with a more refined pattern, but nothing else surprising.
So it's not very outstanding.
The shopkeeper took a few glances and said: "A dead one is worth eight taels, a living one is worth five taels."
"Death is worth ten liang."
The pawn shop owner didn't say anything, he just picked up a pen and paper and started writing the contract.
After writing, he handed it over and asked Yunfei to press his thumbprint to get one ticket for each person.
Then he gave him ten taels of silver.
When I set the price, everyone thought the price was ten taels, because the silver of the bracelet itself is worth only ten taels, but the pattern and workmanship are exquisite enough and can be sold for more than ten taels.
Since it's a pawn, it's natural to lose some money. After all, it's a second-hand bracelet.
The shopkeeper didn't play tricks with Yun Fei, because the person coming was obviously not the kind of person who could be fooled, so there was no need to argue.
