After getting enough sleep, I feel really refreshed.
I cooked rice porridge and eggs in a clay pot, and added white steamed buns to make a breakfast.
After breakfast, he put on his basket and barrel and went to the river to catch fish.
At half past eleven, the backpack and bucket were full.
He went to the entrance of the village.
There are three big willow trees at the entrance of the village, hence the name Sanliu Village.
As noon approaches, the women working in the wheat fields return home to make lunch.
Li Qiao is targeting this group.
As soon as he put the basket and barrel under the willow tree, two aunts came over pushing a cart, and he said with a smile: "Aunt Embroidery, Aunt Danni, do you want to buy fish?"
"Li Qiao?"
Zhang Xiuhua stopped, first glanced at the fish in the bucket, and then looked at Li Qiao: "Are you really good at catching fish?"
Her house is adjacent to Li Gu's house. When Li Chuntao announced the big news that Li Qiao could catch fish last night, she didn't believe it at all.
But looking at the fish in front of Li Qiao, it turned out that what Li Chuntao said was true?
"I didn't expect that I have the talent to catch fish. I did catch these. Auntie, how about you? It's cheaper."
"If you buy it with copper coins, the big one costs six cents, and the small one costs three cents."
"You can also exchange wheat. A pound of wheat can be exchanged for one big one, or two small ones."
Li Qiao said with a smile.
"Oh, it's so cheap!"
After hearing this, Zhang Xiuhua was immediately attracted.
The small river in Sanliu Village is not easy to catch fish because of its fast current. Generally, if the folks in Sanliu Village want to eat fish, they go to the market or the county town to buy it.
Grass carp usually costs eight cents a pound, and the big fish from Li Qiao seems to be at least a pound and a half, and the biggest one is probably a pound, seven or eight taels.
Under normal circumstances, a fish of this size would cost at least twelve cents a piece, but now it only costs six cents a piece?
It would be even cheaper if we exchanged it for wheat, because wheat cost five cents a pound!
"I want five."
Zhang Xiuhua put the cart aside and stepped forward to pick the fish.
Chen Dani on the side saw this and walked over: "I'll buy a few too."
It's a busy wheat day. There are no machines at this time, so harvesting wheat depends entirely on manpower.
This is heavy work, and even those from poor families will buy some meat to supplement their diet, otherwise they will not be able to bear it.
Although this fish is not as good as pork or chicken, it is still meat, and it is still fragrant when stewed into soup.
More importantly, it's cheap!
More importantly, you can exchange wheat for it!
For the folks who wish they could break a penny in half and spend it, spending money makes them feel painful, and they are more willing to use this form of barter to buy things.
Therefore, Zhang Xiuhua and Chen Dani simply couldn't resist the temptation in front of them and focused their attention on picking fish.
Each fish is different in size, so they have to pick the biggest one!
When Zhang Xiuhua and Chen Dani were picking fish, another person came over with a basket on his back, and Li Qiao shouted: "Fish for sale! One big fish for one pound of wheat, two small fish, pick whatever you want!"
This energetic shouting, attractive price, and his big change of turning back as a prodigal son immediately attracted the attention of all the returning family members.
Regardless of whether it was an eldest daughter, a daughter-in-law or an aunt, even if they didn't buy it, they all went up to take a look.
Some people were shocked that he knew how to catch fish, and some were shocked that he was actually willing to work.
For a time, his little stall was very busy.
Just like last night, Tao Zhu pulled a cart full of wheat and walked slowly and hard towards the village.
From a distance, he saw a group of people gathered under the willow tree, but he had no intention of watching the excitement and just wanted to go home quickly for lunch.
He was tired and hungry after working hard all morning.
As he got closer, the word Li Qiao floated into his ears.
He subconsciously raised his eyes and looked under the willow tree, and what caught his eye was Li Qiao's smiling eyes.
Li Qiao actually looked at him!
And his expression was as gentle as last night.
Panicking in his heart, he quickly lowered his head, and an inexplicable strength came into his body. He seemed to have endless energy, strode forward, and soon passed the willow tree.
But at this time, Li Qiao's loud voice sounded behind him.
"Aunt Embroidery, all my land has been sold. I will definitely not have money to buy land in a short time, so I want to open an acre of wasteland to grow some sweet potatoes."
“Where is the wasteland in our village that can grow crops?”
"..."
Tao Zhu was even more panicked.
Sure enough, the next second, Zhang Xiuhua said: "Wasteland? It's at the foot of the mountain in the northwest of our village. You can ask Brother Zhu, he is the only one in our village who grows wasteland."
"That's right, you can ask Brother Zhu. Was it Brother Zhu who walked over just now?"
I don’t know who is answering the call.
Tao Zhu "!"
As if there was a dog chasing behind him, he pulled the cart and walked quickly, entering the village in a few steps.
When we entered the village, we were too far away to hear the man's words.
He bit his lip and his cheeks were slightly hot. What did that man want to do...
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The author has something to say:
To explain the prices in the article, prices in our ancient dynasties were different, and even the same emperor in the same dynasty had different prices in different years, so I made up the prices based on the grain prices in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
Wenwen is just a fiction, please watch it for fun, don’t take it too seriously~
Chapter 05: Giving fish soup, he wants to express his love with a real flatbread
Li Qiao's business is going smoothly.
The villagers all chose to exchange wheat for fish, so he exchanged a palm-sized fish for a sack and used the sack to hold the wheat.
Without a scale, he had no way of knowing whether the wheat the villagers handed over was a pound, but he didn't care. It didn't matter if it was more or less. It was a business without capital anyway.
However, if he encounters someone who goes too far, he will definitely not tolerate it.
An aunt thought that his fish was caught from the river and had no capital, so she asked him to make it cheaper.
He was not annoyed by such remarks. He just explained that it was not easy for him to catch fish. If it was too cheap, he would rather pay for it at his eldest brother Li Liang's house.
As we all know, his sister-in-law Wang Guihua no longer supports him. If he wants to eat at his eldest brother's house, he has to carry his things, otherwise he will not be able to get in.
After what he said, the aunt fell silent.
It happened that Wang Guihua came back from the wheat field with a basket on her back. He quickly stopped Wang Guihua and stuffed more than ten fish into her basket.
Wang Guihua was not polite, collected the fish, and gave Li Qiao a few supercilious looks. Then, under the envious gaze of everyone, she entered the village with great pride.
Now no one can make Li Qiao cheaper.
This is pure bullshit.
It’s not like the fish can’t be sold.
Even if it really can't be sold, it can still be taken to Wang Guihua's house.
Overall, Li Qiao's fish sales went very smoothly.
By the time it was over, the sack was full of wheat, weighing over a hundred kilograms.
As for copper plates, there are none.
The folks are reluctant to spend copper coins.
After closing the stall, Li Qiao went straight home.
Lunch was very simple. He stewed fish in a clay pot and paired it with big steamed buns.
However, the fish was not yet cooked, and seven-year-old Li Xiaolan came carrying a small basket on her back. In the small basket was a one-foot-tall clay pot containing freshly stewed fish soup.
This fish soup is full of color, flavor and flavor, much better than buckwheat stew.
Squeezing Li Xiaolan's rosy little face, Li Qiao put five eggs into her little backpack.
After Li Liang paid off his gambling debts for his original owner, life has been tight. He saved all the eggs at home and exchanged them for money. Although Li Xiaolan was young, she could only eat one egg in half a month.
"I'll buy you some candy next time." Li Qiao promised after rubbing her little head.
Li Xiaolan raised her little head, her eyes sparkling. Her brother-in-law looked calm and reliable at this time. She was so looking forward to it.
Not long after Li Xiaolan left, Li Qiao's fish soup was ready.
It only contained salt, so it didn't taste good, but he wasn't picky about food, so he quickly finished a clay pot of fish soup with the steamed buns.
After eating and drinking enough, he put the fish soup stewed by Wang Osmanthus into his backpack, then picked up the hemp rope and walked out slowly.
He went straight to the northwest of the village.
There are many trees growing in the northwest of Sanliu Village. The trees are not dense but sparse, but the trees will take away the fertility of the land and make the crops grow poorly. Therefore, this is a wasteland and no one grows crops here.
Because of Tao Shu and his wife's mischief, the Tao family sold all their land. In order to survive, the Tao family had no choice but to farm here.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon, which was the hottest time. Li Qiao was sweating a lot from walking all the way.
