Tao Zhu's family's field is close to the woods.
At this time, Tao Zhu was bending down and wielding a sickle to cut the wheat.
Sweat soaked his clothes and kept falling down his cheeks.
A sweat towel made of burlap hung around his neck, and he used it from time to time to wipe his sweat.
Behind him, the cut wheat was neatly arranged.
But there are still more than seven acres of wheat ahead of him.
Li Qiao saw Tao Zhu's figure from a distance and walked over quickly.
Tao Zhu sweated a lot and was very tired after bending for a long time. He straightened up and planned to take a drink of water and take a break.
But when he turned around, he saw Li Qiao walking towards him.
"!"
Tao Zhu's eyes widened again, why is this person here?
"Brother Zhu!"
Li Qiao quickly walked up to Tao Zhu and greeted him with a smile.
"……What are you doing here?"
Tao Zhu asked, frowning slightly.
"Looking at the wasteland, I can't afford good land. If I want to grow crops, I have to open up wasteland first."
"Then you can take a look." Tao Zhu walked toward the cart with the sickle, and the pottery pot he used to hold water was placed on the cart.
"I have something to ask you."
Li Qiao followed naturally: "How much wheat can be harvested in one acre of the fields here? How are they usually irrigated? How many weeds are there?"
"... There are trees competing for the fertility of the land here, and the yield per acre is not high. One acre of land can only produce about one hundred catties of wheat. For irrigation, we have to carry water from the river, and the river here is relatively close."
"There are a lot of weeds."
Tao Zhu answered very quickly, but he was limited to answering the questions without saying a single word.
"Thank you for clarifying my doubts. To thank you, I have a clay pot of fish soup here for you to drink."
Li Qiao put down the basket on his back and took out the fish soup.
Tao Zhu: "..."
He looked at Li Qiao with wide eyes. This was too sudden.
Why is it like giving him fish soup specially...
"Drink quickly." Li Qiao directly stuffed the clay pot into his arms: "I told you last night that I would give you fish when no one is around."
"I originally wanted to send you the fish soup I stewed myself, but my cooking skills are poor. It happened that my sister-in-law asked Xiaolan to send fish soup, so I left the fish soup made by my sister-in-law to you."
"Don't push it away or push it. If someone sees it, then we have to get married."
Tao Zhu was a little embarrassed when he heard this.
Another nonsense!
"There is no one around here. The nearest wheat field of Uncle Zhuzhu's house is also a mile away." He glared at Li Qiao and said.
"Since no one saw it, what if you drank this fish soup? You saved me, why can't you drink my bowl of fish soup?"
"Not only will I give you fish soup today, I will also give you chicken soup in the future."
"I value my little life. You saved it, so I should repay you in any way I can."
Tao Zhu: "..."
This man said one thing after another, and he couldn't say it.
But this person is trying to repay a favor...
Pursing his lips, he took the clay pot. Even if he was repaying his kindness, drinking the fish soup would not cause any harm to him!
Also, for an older and ugly guy like him, with a brother and sister-in-law like that at home, how could Li Qiao have other thoughts besides repaying his kindness.
Thinking like this, he suppressed the disappointment in his heart and opened the lid of the clay pot.
The fish soup was already cold, but there was sesame and sesame oil floating on it, and most of the clay pot was filled with fish. It was much more attractive than the wild vegetable nest he had for lunch.
"Chopsticks." Li Qiao took out a pair of chopsticks from the basket on his back.
Tao Zhu took the chopsticks, sat on the trolley, and ate slowly, no longer as awkward as before.
Seeing this, Li Qiao smiled with satisfaction, then picked up the sickle: "You eat, I will cut the wheat."
"Ah?" Tao Zhu was startled and wanted to get up.
"I've given you the fish soup, so I should do some work." Li Qiao explained.
Tao Zhu: "..."
Forget it, if this person wants to repay his kindness, just repay him.
So Li Qiao picked up the sickle and went to cut the wheat.
Tao Zhu looked at him and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that he was swinging the sickle much faster than himself.
This man is a scholar, where does he get such strength?
Thinking like this, Tao Zhu slowly approached Li Qiao while holding the pot in his arms.
Li Qiao noticed his approach, and while continuing to cut wheat, he said: "I sold fish quite smoothly today. As soon as I arrived under the willow tree, Auntie Embroidery and Auntie Dani..."
Li Qiao tells the story of selling fish.
Tao Zhu stood aside holding a clay pot, eating fish and listening to it.
It wasn't until Li Qiao finished speaking that he said, "Why are you telling me this?"
"I'll talk whatever I want, and you can listen whatever you want. Otherwise, how embarrassing would it be to just stand there?"
Li Qiao replied with a smile.
Seeing that Tao Zhu was silent, he added: "Everyone sold fish in exchange for wheat today, so we didn't earn any copper coins. I plan to go to the county town tomorrow to sell fish."
"Every time I come, it's getting dark. I can't come to you tomorrow."
"……oh."
Tao Zhu clenched her chopsticks.
Li Qiao caught a glimpse of his movements with his peripheral vision, and swung his sickle faster.
He could actually see a slight change in Tao Zhu's mood. He was born to like men. In his previous life, he was an orphan. He was busy working and studying during school and had no intention of falling in love.
I finally graduated, but the end of the world has come.
In the apocalypse, the bottom line of human nature and morality has been infinitely lowered, and it is a bit difficult to find someone you like.
Therefore, he remained single until his death.
But he fell in love with Tao Zhu at first sight, and through these three contacts, he also quite liked Tao Zhu's character.
But now he not only has no money, but also owes dozens of taels of gambling debt. As a man, how can he let the person he loves enter his house like this?
Even if he wanted to express his love, he couldn't express his love with just a few fish. With his current situation of poverty and nothing, he didn't want to overwhelm Tao Zhu.
He wanted to express his love to Tao Zhu with a real piece of cake.
Besides, even if Tao Zhu doesn't care, there is still the Tao family.
As Tao Zhu is the only laborer of the Tao family, the Tao family will not marry Tao Zhu to him easily.
So, he had to make money quickly.
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Li Qiao: Roll up your sleeves and make money!
Chapter 06: I’m making money but also very tired
Li Qiao helped Tao Zhu cut an acre of wheat, but Tao Zhu refused to let him continue cutting.
Thinking that there was not much dry firewood left at home, he said goodbye to Tao Zhu and went up the mountain to collect firewood.
The mountain next to Sanliu Village, from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, is the activity area of the villagers, and there are very few prey.
If you want to hunt, you have to go deep into the mountains. But if you go deep into the mountains, you won’t be able to get back in one day, so you have to spend the night in the mountains.
Li Qiao was not interested in eating and sleeping in the open air for the time being. Instead of spending time going into the mountains, it would be better to sell fish in a down-to-earth manner.
After collecting firewood on the mountain and returning home, the sun had already set. He carried a few fish to Li Liang's house.
Li Liang's family has two carts, and he wants to rent one so that he can go to the county town tomorrow to sell fish.
He was so motivated, and he was still renting. Wang Guihua couldn't fault him. Li Liang also lent him two large buckets and scales, and was very supportive of his fish selling business.
With these two big buckets, Li Qiao was so motivated that he got up at 11:30 in the middle of the night and went to the river to catch fish.
In order to rush for time, he directly used his superpower this time and filled four buckets and a backpack in less than half an hour.
He tied the bucket and basket tightly to the cart with hemp rope. He pushed the cart toward the county seat against the cool night breeze.
After walking for two hours, eating two big steamed buns, he finally arrived at the county seat at dawn.
The county seat is called Pingcheng. To sell things in the city, you need to pay a penny of commercial tax.
Most of the country people were reluctant to pay this penny, so they set up stalls in the open space next to the entrance of the county town. What they brought over were the freshest vegetables, and the prices were sometimes lower than those in the county town. Therefore, some businesses in the county town and People love to come here to shop.
The county magistrate turned a blind eye to this, so the gate of the county town was very lively every morning, like a market.
Li Qiao was penniless and could only set up a stall here. He came a little late and all the good spots were already occupied.
He could only park the cart in the corner.
