That's right, I owe it.
Moreover, life is precious, and food prices are even higher.
Xu Tianxin and Yu Qiniang used fish oil torches to illuminate the scene, one on the left and the other on the right.
Mrs. Xu patted the big vat in front of her and told her sons that it was all filled with rice.
A grain of rice is worth a thousand drops of sweat, so rice is expensive. Liu Laozhu sells it to her family for 22 cents per pound.
At that time, I felt that the old thing was not merciful at all, but he actually sold it for the same price as the town.
Later, after listening to Pepper's chatter, I realized that Liu Laozhu had been wronged.
22 cents was the price more than a month ago, and the price of pepper rose to 23 cents when it came back from the county. It’s been raining heavily these days, and in another month or so there will be a severe freeze in winter, and I might be 24.
Don't underestimate the price difference between one and two copper plates. The price difference between a thousand pounds is one or two silver coins.
If both parties hadn't thought about not having to transport it, Lao Liu's family wouldn't have been able to bear this kind of loss. Half a tael and one tael of silver was not a small amount of money, so her family had to pay the loss on credit first.
At present, I bought 500 kilograms of rice from Lao Liu's family, and I owe eleven taels for the rice alone.
But everyone who lives in the family knows that five hundred kilograms of rice is enough to do business?
Without going too far, let’s take my own family as an example. A family of three young men and a family of six would have to eat 180 kilograms a month. Think again about the caravan coming over. Will five hundred kilograms be enough for two months?
We can't think that far ahead. We can only wait until we make money. Even if the price of rice rises to 26 cents and it is no longer worthwhile, we will still buy it. Let's talk about it then.
After Mrs. Xu showed the rice to her sons, she pointed to ten bags of white noodles stacked on wooden boards on the kang.
If you want to do business, you need white flour. Hanamaki steamed buns and steamed cakes, fat steamed cakes and steamed dumplings. Which one can be short of noodles?
The old Liu family could only give out one thousand catties: "Twenty cents per catty of white flour, this is twenty taels owed."
The three brothers of the Xu family were dizzy. They owed thirty-one taels of silver.
The three of them slept together, but if that didn't work, they could just leave and go back to the county to continue working to make money. If you leave late, you won’t be able to find a job if you want to take the hard work when the rain stops.
Mrs. Xu turned around and looked at her sons, "Don't worry, this is where we are going."
There is also a hundred pounds of yellow rice and two and a half silver coins.
The glutinous rice noodles are also what the locals call glutinous rice noodles. One hundred catties of glutinous rice noodles cost three taels of silver.
To say that we ordinary people have to live a simple life with a steady flow of water.
Whole grains are the bulk.
So Mrs. Xu issued an IOU to Liu Laozhu, including going to the principal's house in the outer village in Liu Laozhu's name, and also borrowed a thousand kilograms of sorghum noodles, two hundred kilograms of black beans, three taels of silver, and two thousand kilograms of corn on credit. Twenty taels of silver. Three thousand catties of sweet potatoes cost nine taels of silver.
If the venue were changed, the pile would not fit in this room.
In the warehouse.
When Yu Qiniang and Xu Tianxin entered the warehouse, they acted separately. One person opened the tarpaulin covering the corn cobs, and the other opened the tarpaulin covering the sweet potatoes.
It's been raining outside since I bought them, and the corns and sweet potatoes haven't been put into the cellar yet. Those that can be hung in baskets can be hung high, but those that cannot be placed can only be piled like this.
The three brothers held on to the door frame of the barn and looked at the corn and sweet potatoes on the ground.
The third child asked the second child: "Second brother, how much money do you owe?"
"Sixty-eight and a half."
What's strange about this is that when they owed thirty-one or two hours just now, the three brothers were still worried about the bad debt and wanted to pay off the debt.
I heard my mother mentioned that she wanted to do business. Although the three brothers didn't understand where they were going to do business, why did they suddenly want to eat? To be honest, my mother's skills are not as good as Tian Xin's stewed fish. This can't be said. Tell mother.
But no matter what, you can't borrow money to do business?
Counting their fingers, they calculated how long they would have to work to make up for the remaining debt. The three brothers still wanted to struggle and earn back as soon as possible to make up for it. Isn't it just thirty-one taels? Get rid of the money you brought to your family, and risk your life to earn some money outside. If you have to do business, you have to pay off the debt before doing it. Then it won't sound good, no matter whether you lose money or make money, you don't have to sell your house or land to beg for food.
But now I heard that I owed sixty-eight taels...
Give up on that idea.
It felt so exhausting for his three brothers.
Mrs. Xu said: "Don't worry."
The three brothers now have a shadow of the words "don't worry".
He was still in no hurry: "Is there anything else I owe?"
"Ah, I still owe money for the vats, jars, and stone pots."
These were purchased by Liu Laozhu in a group.
Mrs. Xu told her sons that she bought six large vats, four of which were used to pickle sauerkraut.
In fact, in previous years, her family would at least pickle a jar of sauerkraut, otherwise they would eat nothing in the winter.
Southerners don’t understand the pain of northerners. There is no fresh vegetables for half a year. There is no storage at this time. In more than a month, there will be no green outside and you will not be able to buy anything. Sometimes it snows in April.
The vegetables are simply dried in the sun or pickled and stored in advance during the autumn harvest season. Then the Chinese cabbage is thrown outside to freeze in the snow and ice. When you want to eat it, you take a piece of frozen cabbage into the house and blanch it in boiling water. There are so many out-of-season vegetables that can be purchased here at any time like in modern times, and they are extremely expensive when they are available.
What's more, she still has to do business. She will get rid of what her family eats from winter to spring, and the rest she wants to make into frozen dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage. When the merchant team comes, she will sell them to the leaders.
Let them leave us, stay in an inn along the way and eat dumplings with the cost of some firewood and boiling water. And the ones we sell are cheaper than those in the inn, can they not buy some?
Therefore, four large vats of sauerkraut are not enough, but a large vat cost three taels of silver. If you only bought six defective water vats, you would owe the waiter two taels.
Currently, there are two extra large tanks used to hold rice, and they will be vacated later, because the new house must have at least two large water tanks.
Mrs. Xu then told her sons: "There are still ten big pickle jars. Ten of them are only one tael of silver, right? Your uncle Zheng went to Bai's house and borrowed them first. He will pay back the debt at the end of the year. In addition, he also borrowed them from Bai's house." We got six stone pots on credit, one stone pot costs 400 copper plates, and these are two and a half. I wrote an IOU for this to your Uncle Li Zheng."
What can I use for cooking without buying a stone-hewn pot? What to use to fry fish floss.
She wanted to use a big iron pot, but a larger iron pot cost ten taels of silver.
The old saying goes that even if you sell iron, you still have to pay for your studies. Basically, it comes from ancient times, and iron pots are expensive.
This time, Xu Laosi asked the second brother in a low voice: "Second brother, how much is this?"
"Almost seventy-four taels."
Okay, this time it’s not that the three of them can’t earn the money even if they’re exhausted, or it’s not worth the money even if the three of them are sold.
As for the food that the family was going to eat, it was all placed in the house of the second child and Yu Qiniang.
Mrs. Xu took her whole family to inspect the warehouse, mainly to prevent rats. While holding a torch to inspect, she looked at her sons and asked, "What's wrong, are you worried? You still blame me for not consulting with your three brothers." You owe so much money? There's no point in blaming me, I've already paid it back on credit and I can't get it back even after writing it down in black and white."
Xu Laoer first expressed his position: "Mom, how can I blame you? You tell us where you are going to do business and what is going on. And you haven't figured out the fish business since you came back. In this way, we three brothers Only when you have a clear idea can you help your family pay off the debt as soon as possible.”
The sons will be the pillars of support when they come back.
Xu Laosan said: "Mom, I'm not worried. Isn't there a saying that you don't have to worry if there are too many lice?"
I've got seventy-four taels of lice, why are you thinking so much:
"Mom, please don't tell us what's going on. Please, just tell us what we want to do."
Although Xu Laosi's heart was pounding when he heard this, he was good at discovering the other side, and no wonder he was considerate and sweet-mouthed: "Mom, you are so capable, even if we kneel down, we wouldn't be able to borrow it. If you dare to borrow it, the other party will do it." You also dare to take credit, this is a great skill."
