It seems that Wangyue Tower will definitely consume all the corn in Sanliu Village before the corn matures next year.
He talked about dried sweet potatoes again.
Shopkeeper Wang tasted the dried sweet potatoes and was very satisfied. It tasted good and could enrich his menu at Wangyuelou.
The more fresh food he has in Wangyue Tower, the more people he will attract.
Li Qiao came out of Wangyue Tower and went to the bookstore again.
Today's Holy Master wants candidates to solve various natural and man-made disasters based on the actual situation of a certain place. According to Li Qiao's thinking, as long as there is money and materials, many things are not a problem.
But what if the local finance runs out of money?
Just like Pingcheng.
Therefore, he wanted to understand the situation in various places in Dasheng so that he could think of countermeasures in advance.
In ancient times, ordinary people did not have access to detailed territorial maps. If they wanted to understand the situation in various places, they could only read local chronicles and various travel notes. From these books, they could get a glimpse of the vast world outside.
There are no handwritten copies of such books, only printed copies.
So, when he came out of the bookstore, he had three more books in his hand and a full ten taels of silver in his wallet.
well.
Studying is too expensive!
After buying the book, he went to the blacksmith shop. The iron pipe had been laid. He loaded the iron pipe onto the ox cart and returned to the village.
It was still noon when I got home.
At the dinner table, Li Qiao talked about his trip to the county seat as usual, and Tao Zhu also talked about things at home.
"When Aunt Xiuying came to fetch water today, she asked us if we would harvest sweet potatoes. There was a lot of rain this year, and the sweet potato harvest was bumper. Aunt Xiuying's family planted a lot of sweet potatoes, and there was still a lot left over even after paying the autumn tax. "
"There were only a few people in her family, so she was worried that she wouldn't be able to finish the food and it would go bad. She also saw us making dried sweet potatoes, so she asked me."
"However, she emphasized that it doesn't matter if you don't accept it. She just asked casually, but her garrulous words shouldn't affect your study."
After hearing this, Li Qiao nodded and said: "How could this affect my study? You can make the decision on such a small matter."
"Okay, when the sweet potatoes at home run out, I'll buy those from Aunt Xiuying's house."
Tao Zhu nodded.
As he said this, he gave Li Qiao some fried eggplant pieces. Now that the weather is cold, the eggplant seedlings no longer produce eggplants. If you want to eat eggplants again, you have to wait until next year.
Li Qiao picked up the eggplant pieces, dipped them in chili oil, and was about to put them into his mouth. From the corner of his eye, he saw Li Dashan staring at the bowl of braised noodles in his hand with a bitter look on his face. He couldn't help but be curious: " Dashan, why don’t you eat?”
Before, Li Dashan could finish a bowl of braised noodles in two or three mouthfuls, but now he just stares at it?
"Forehead……"
When Li Dashan heard what he said, he put down the bowl in his hand, scratched his head and said, "Uncle, there is something I don't know whether I should say."
"You're already like this, so just say it directly." Li Qiao said while chewing the eggplant.
"...It's just about sweet potatoes."
"What can happen to sweet potatoes?"
"It's something big." Having said it anyway, Li Dashan stopped worrying and said directly: "Yesterday was my grandma's birthday, and my mother went back to visit relatives. My uncle wants my mother to come to see you, uncle. Can you please consume more sweet potatoes? His sweet potatoes have also had a bumper harvest. If you can’t eat them all, they will be spoiled.”
"...your uncle?"
Li Qiao was a little surprised.
"Yes, my uncle. Brother-in-law, you don't know, but you are famous now."
In fact, his brother-in-law was also very famous before. There was not much big news in the countryside. It was rare for the thugs from the gambling house to chop off his legs. People in Sanliu Village used this as a topic of conversation at the dinner table when visiting relatives. In this conversation, he My brother-in-law became famous in Shiliba Village.
But you can't say that, after all, it's all in the past.
So, Li Dashan continued: "You talked about the corn business in our village. The villagers in our village couldn't help but spread it when visiting relatives, but it made people in other villages envious."
"People in other villages remember you because of this. Now that there is a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes, my uncle is afraid that the sweet potatoes will spoil in vain. After all, they were grown with great difficulty, so he asked about my mother when she went back to visit relatives."
"That's it." Li Qiao nodded.
The weather has been good this year, and not only the sweet potatoes in Sanliu Village have a bumper harvest, but also the sweet potatoes in surrounding villages.
But sweet potatoes are not like corn. Sweet potatoes have a shelf life, so many people are anxious, fearing that the food they have worked so hard to grow will spoil, so they want to find him?
"Can't we just cut it into slices and dry it into dried sweet potatoes?" Li Qiao asked.
This kind of dried sweet potato is different from the soft and glutinous dried sweet potato that his family currently makes. This kind of dried sweet potato only needs to be cut into thin slices of fresh sweet potatoes and then dried in the sun, which can be stored for one or two years.
In the last days, this kind of dried sweet potato was the staple food for many people, and he had eaten a lot of it.
Not tasty, but filling.
"Ahem, this is how the folks used to deal with the endless sweet potatoes, but corn came first, so my uncle wants you to turn waste into treasure. After all, many people don't want to eat those dried sweet potatoes. , can only be used to feed pigs.”
"But if the sweet potatoes pass through your hands, you might be able to make a lot of money."
Li Dashan scratched his head, feeling very embarrassed.
This request was too much, so his mother was not going to tell her brother-in-law.
But now that some villagers have approached his uncle about sweet potatoes, of course, Wang Xiuying is very restrained and just wants to sell her sweet potatoes.
But he couldn't help but there were so many people staring at his uncle, and he felt that sooner or later someone would come looking for his uncle, so he might as well tell his uncle so that he could know the current situation.
Not only the folks in Sanliu Village are hoping that he can give Sweet Potato a way out, but people in other villages are also looking forward to it.
Li Qiao: "..."
I see.
No wonder Li Dashan was hesitant.
"This request is too much. Li Qiao doesn't owe anyone else anything." Tao Zhu became angry and frowned tightly.
Isn't this trying to force others to do something difficult?
There are so many sweet potatoes, not only in Sanliu Village, but also in Zhujia Village. How can Li Qiao consume them?
Although the soft and glutinous dried sweet potatoes he makes now are good, Wangyue Tower cannot eat so many dried sweet potatoes.
You can obviously dry sweet potatoes into white dried sweet potatoes, so why bother Li Qiao?
It is already difficult for him to carry this small family, but he cannot afford to carry these eight villages ten miles apart!
"Li Qiao, just pretend you didn't hear anything. Don't take this matter on you." He grabbed Li Qiao's hand, his tone not only angry but also distressed.
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Chapter 60: Follow in his footsteps and do corvee service
"Uncle Zhu, don't be angry!"
Seeing this, Li Dashan quickly explained: "My uncle didn't mean to force him. He wanted him to think about it while he was studying. He knew that studying was the most important thing and he didn't dare to let this matter affect him. Uncle studies!"
"But since he brought it up, he is making things difficult for Li Qiao. Li Qiao is a soft-hearted person, easy to talk to, and knows how to be grateful. If the villagers ask for something, he will definitely do his best to handle it as his own business."
Tao Zhu was still very angry.
"Forehead……"
Li Dashan shrank his head and did not dare to say anything.
Li Chuntao also put down his chopsticks and wanted to persuade, but felt that what Tao Zhu said was reasonable.
It's indeed too much.
"Brother Zhu is right to be angry. Although I think Brother Qiao is very powerful now, in the end, Brother Qiao is a human being, not a god. The sweet potatoes from several villages can be piled up into a mountain. How can Brother Qiao possibly consume them all?"
"Uncle Zhu, don't be angry. I also thought that some villagers would look for my uncle in the future, so I didn't keep my mouth shut..."
Li Dashan looked at Tao Zhu pitifully and regretted it very much.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have said anything.
"I'm angry with other people, not you. You continue to eat."
Tao Zhu's face softened a little when he saw such a big man huddled up on the small bench.
"Dashan, it's none of your business, you just have to eat."
Li Qiao finally spoke. He held Tao Zhu's hand and shook it hard twice: "Brother Zhu, I know you are doing it for my own good, but don't be angry. Since Uncle Dashan asked casually, then let's Just listen and don’t take it to heart.”
"I'm afraid you'll take it to heart. Reading is so tiring, and if you have to think about what to do with the sweet potatoes, wouldn't it be even more tiring?"
Tao Zhu frowned and looked at him.
"I won't take it to heart. I just think about it casually. It won't affect my study, let alone make me tired. Don't worry."
"Look, you really took this matter on yourself."
Tao Zhu sighed.
His man is too soft-hearted and too nice.
Li Qiao smiled: "Since you asked me, I must think about it."
But don't think too fast, lest the villagers think he is omnipotent and come to him whenever anything happens in the future.
In this way, it is easy to cause a tragedy of favor and enmity.
However, seeing how angry Tao Zhu was, after lunch, he took Tao Zhu and Li Dashan to the new yard to install sewer pipes.
This is an easy job that the three of them can handle, and there is no need to hire additional manpower.
After installing the iron pipes in the reserved place, Li Qiao asked Li Dashan to go back and make snacks. He and Tao Zhu stayed behind to bury the iron pipes with shovels.
"The more I look at this shower room, the more wonderful it becomes. How about we use it tonight?" Li Qiao asked Tao Zhu with a smile.
Tao Zhu glanced at the incompletely renovated shower room and shook his head: "It's better to wait until we actually move in before using it."
