When you go out, put on your gloves, a rabbit fur hat, and a rabbit fur scarf. Even on such a windy day, you won't be afraid of getting cold.
As soon as Tao Zhu changed his clothes, Li Qiao also entered the room. Seeing that Tao Zhu was already dressed, Li Qiao said: "Take more money, I will buy a lot of books today."
"Okay." Tao Zhu agreed, turned around and opened the money box.
Now his family's money bag has also been upgraded, from the original cloth bag to a rabbit skin bag. He put twenty small silver ingots of fifty taels into the rabbit skin bag, and took ten copper coins. Then he put the money Close the box lid.
At this time, Li Qiao also changed his clothes, and the couple held hands and went to the front yard.
Set off.
The two people were sitting next to each other on the bullock cart. As soon as they left the village entrance, they met Xiao Wu.
The weather has been getting cold recently, so Li Qiao specifically told Shopkeeper Wang to ask Xiao Wu not to come so early.
Anyway, I don’t have to worry about selling the dim sum and grilled sausages, and it’s okay to take them back to Wangyue Tower later.
After saying hello to Xiao Wu, the couple continued to walk forward. After walking a few steps, they were met by a motorcade.
This is a real team.
At a rough count, there were more than thirty carts, with a few bullock carts mixed in among them.
Whether it is a cart or an ox cart, it is filled with sweet potatoes.
This is people from other villages coming to the sweet potato workshop to sell sweet potatoes.
The first batch of vermicelli from Sweet Potato Workshop became famous within a day after entering Wangyue Tower.
Five hundred kilograms of vermicelli were sold out before evening.
The vermicelli sold so well that the people in the sweet potato workshop became more confident and worked more energetically. Sweet potatoes are needed to make vermicelli. Zhuang Fengshou asked every household in Sanliu Village to draw lots like corn. In this way, the villagers bought the noodles one by one. sweet potato.
Sweet potatoes are more productive than corn and wheat. Although the yield per mu is not comparable to Li Qiao's six or seven thousand catties in his previous life, it is still fourteen to five hundred catties.
There has been enough rain this year, and one acre of land weighs two thousand kilograms.
Almost every household in Sanliu Village has planted sweet potatoes, with some planting five or six acres, and some planting as few as two acres.
The villagers seem to have a lot of sweet potatoes, but it takes six kilograms of sweet potatoes to make one kilogram of sweet potato starch. In other words, if the sweet potato workshop makes 500 kilograms of vermicelli a day, it will take about three thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes.
This speed is definitely high, so in the first ten days of last month, all the sweet potatoes in Sanliu Village were consumed.
Sanliu Village is out of sweet potatoes, and Zhujia Village is following suit.
There are only about 20 households in Zhujia Village. After their sweet potatoes are used up, they will move to Dahe Village where Uncle Li Dashan lives.
Giving this third spot to Dahe Village was entirely for Wang Guihua's sake.
The people in Dahe Village were very happy and grateful to Wang Guihua and Li Qiao.
Although the price for sweet potatoes purchased by the sweet potato workshop is only two cents per catty, which is the same as the market price, they have finally found a way out for their sweet potatoes.
Before the sweet potato workshop appeared, their sweet potatoes could not be sold at all. They had to eat them themselves or feed them to pigs.
Now that I can exchange money, I need a bicycle.
Besides, sweet potatoes can actually be sold for a lot of money.
If they plant a lot of sweet potatoes, say six or seven acres - the reason these people plant so many sweet potatoes is because they originally planned to feed pigs.
But now that they can be sold for money, no one wants to feed pigs. One acre of land can harvest two thousand catties of sweet potatoes, and seven acres of land is equivalent to fourteen thousand catties.
Two cents per catty, then this is twenty-eight thousand cents, which is twenty-eight taels of silver!
Hey, sweet potatoes that could only be fed to pigs in the past can now be turned into twenty-eight taels of silver. Who is unhappy about this?
Who wouldn't be grateful for this?
Even if you plant a small amount of land, for example, you only plant two acres of land, you still have 4,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, which can be sold for 8,000 yuan.
That’s eight taels of silver!
Therefore, after the sweet potatoes were sold in Dahe Village, the village chief, together with Li Dashan's uncle, specially came to Li Qiao's house to thank Li Qiao with the thank-you gifts from all the villagers in Dahe Village.
The thank-you gifts given by the people in Dahe Village are quite simple. Each family provides a few eggs, a few kilograms of grains, a few kilograms of dried vegetables or other food, which are not expensive anyway.
But there are quite a lot of people getting together.
Li Qiao didn't want to collect them at first, but the village chief of Dahe Village insisted on giving them away, so he sent these things to the sweet potato workshop for the workers in the sweet potato workshop to consume.
Because the workers in the sweet potato workshop are not allowed to have contact with the outside world, there is a special person to cook. The food he sends there can be worth the workers' rations for several days.
Because the sweet potato workshop is in the village, the workers usually eat food they bring with them. Now someone has sent them several days of rations, and they are very happy.
So everyone was happy, everyone was happy.
After consuming all the sweet potatoes in Dahe Village, Li Qiao no longer designated a village. He asked nearby villages to draw lots——
On the first day the sweet potato workshop was established, nearby villages got the news and all watched.
Since there is no way to prioritize, let's draw lots.
This method is not the fairest, but it can save a lot of trouble. When it is a certain village's turn, the whole village will mobilize to transport the sweet potatoes to Sanliu Village. There are more people and more strength, and it can also avoid disputes.
Otherwise, there will definitely be a quarrel over who comes first and who comes last.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu discovered the convoy. The couple looked at each other and at the same time pulled up the rabbit fur scarves around their necks to cover half of their faces.
They don't want to be recognized.
These people from other villages are so enthusiastic that if they are recognized, they will be delayed for at least a quarter of an hour before they can continue on their way.
The ordinary villagers in the surrounding villages did not know Li Qiao and Tao Zhu. Seeing that they were approaching Sanliu Village, they were chatting and laughing, immersed in the joy that the sweet potatoes were about to be converted into money, and they did not even notice that they were lowering their heads and trying to reduce their presence. Li buckwheat and pottery bamboo.
"Hey, if you sell sweet potatoes today, you can have a good year. My family has 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes this year, which can be sold for twenty taels of silver!"
A man with a loud voice said with a smile.
"Well, my family only grows one acre of sweet potatoes. If I had known that Li Qiao could create a new way out for sweet potatoes, then I would have planted ten acres of them!"
Some people laugh, and some people are sad.
"Don't worry, there's still next year. You can plant more crops next year. If you make less this year, try to make up for it next year."
Others comforted.
"Actually, even if my sweet potatoes can be sold for twenty taels of silver, it's nothing compared to the people in Sanliu Village."
The man with a loud voice spoke again: "My husband's aunt's family is from Sanliu Village. I heard that people who work in sweet potato workshops can get fifty cents a day!"
"Fifty coins?! Is it true?"
This sentence immediately triggered exclamations from both sides.
"It must be true. They can make five to six hundred kilograms of vermicelli every day. So much vermicelli can be sold out every day."
The man said again.
"Vermicelli is so profitable, isn't it? Fifty taels of silver a day for a family of two, that's 100 taels of silver a day! Plus their own sweet potatoes, the people in Sanliu Village can earn at least a dozen taels of silver this winter. , if it’s too much, I’m afraid I can earn more than thirty taels of silver!”
Thirty taels of silver.
People on several nearby carts were so envious that their eyes turned red with envy.
Thirty taels can build a brand-new brick house and marry two wives. No matter how many people save for ten years, they may not be able to save this kind of wealth!
"Why isn't Li Qiao from our village? All the benefits have been taken by Sanliu Village!"
"Oh, that's right. The husband Li Qiao married is also from Sanliu Village. Do you think this is irritating or not?"
"Li Qiao is already married, and now we can only think about his children. I hope his husband will get pregnant and have children as soon as possible, so that I can marry my girl and brother!"
…
Li Qiao, who was listening to the compliments with a happy face, couldn't be more beautiful.
Fortunately, their ox cart was far away from those sounds and Tao Zhu couldn't hear them. Otherwise, wouldn't this be causing trouble for Tao Zhu.
He coughed softly and leaned against Tao Zhu: "Brother Zhu, are you cold?"
"It's not cold. Are you cold?"
Tao Zhu said and changed his position so that he could lean more comfortably.
"I'm not cold either. The clothes you made are so good. They keep you warm from head to toe. I'm warm all over now."
Tao Zhu couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "You have to study every day. It's too cold sitting at the desk, so you have to wear thicker clothes."
In fact, considering the current weather, he hopes that Li Qiao can stay on the kang and study. Anyway, his family is richer now than before and he is not afraid of burning dry wood.
However, Li Qiao said that he could not stretch his long legs when he was studying on the kang and would easily fall asleep. He had no choice but to make thicker clothes for Li Qiao.
"Brother Zhu is the best. I'm lucky to have Brother Zhu as my husband. When we get to the county town later, let's go to a restaurant."
"Ah?" Tao Zhu was stunned when he heard this.
Is there any necessary connection between praising him and going to a restaurant?
"Today is your birthday. From today on, you are truly twenty years old." Li Qiao said with a smile.
Tao Zhu: "..."
His eyes widened instantly.
After a moment, his heart suddenly felt warm.
Yes, today is his birthday.
But there has never been a birthday in these years, so he forgot about it, but he didn't expect Li Qiao to remember it!
"How did you know?" He couldn't help but ask, his watery eyes already curled up, and the corners of his mouth covered by the rabbit skin scarf also turned up.
"I asked your mother specifically."
As a modern person, special days such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and Chinese Valentine's Day have long been engraved in Li Qiao's bones.
These are all big festivals and must be celebrated.
That's why he had to go to the county seat today.
Even if it's snowing, let alone cloudy, that won't stop him from taking Tao Zhu to a restaurant to celebrate!
"Okay, let's go to Wangyue Tower for lunch at noon." Tao Zhu couldn't help but stretched out his gloved hand to grab Li Qiao's hand.
If we talk about blessing, he is the blessed one.
