Chapter 21 The Harvest of a Year of Labor

Author: Maple Tree

Chapter 21 The Harvest of a Year of Labor

The next day, Liu Yue rarely stayed in bed and got dressed before Shen Ling'an knocked on the door.

Shen Ling'an was rubbing her sleepy eyes and knocking on the door to tell her sister-in-law to get up. She was a little surprised when Liu Yue came out: "Ah, sister-in-law, you are already up."

In order to feed the cubs breakfast, Liu Yue insists on the same schedule as the Shen family every day, getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning (that is, five o'clock in the morning). But due to laziness, it is always the Shen brothers and sisters who have washed themselves before she can do it. Good enough to get up.

Shen Ling'an is used to waking up her sister-in-law every day.

Therefore, Shen Ling'an expressed surprise when she suddenly saw her sister-in-law who was not staying in bed.

Liu Yue was rarely in high spirits early in the morning: "Because I have to go to the city today!"

Little girls will not wait for women to show their love for shopping, especially when they want to go shopping in a brand new place that they have never been to! The soul of shopping is burning!

Liu Yue was in a good mood, pinched Shen Ling'an's rounder face, and took her hand to brush her teeth by the well in the backyard. On the second night she came here, she provided toothbrushes and toothpaste to the three of them, and Everyone is strongly encouraged to brush their teeth twice a day to keep their teeth healthy and clean.

Although she should follow the local customs when she comes to the countryside, since she has the conditions, she should let her children develop better living habits. Besides, she now makes her children consume a lot of oil and water every day, which increases the burden on their teeth. If If you don't take good care of your teeth, they will easily get rotten teeth. It would be very ugly if such a beautiful and adorable pup had a mouth full of cavities.

Shen Qingyan and Shen Yixiu got up earlier and had already gone out to find Lao Li Tou to rent an oxcart.

Shen Qingyan made an agreement with Lao Litou last night about the car and gave him a hundred yuan for the rental fee.

Liu Yuekong had supplies for a bracelet but didn't have a single copper, so she had to ask Shen Qingyan to advance the payment. When she went to the city and pawned the gold bracelet she had bought in Modern Times, she would have an initial start-up fund.

It would be best if they could cash out thirty or forty taels of silver, so that they could buy a bullock cart, which would make it easier to go to the city later. Renting a car every time would cost both favors and money, and Liu Yue was afraid that her legs would wear out if she walked. .

Therefore, solving the problem of transportation is the top priority of her business!

After Liu Yue and Shen Lingan washed up, they went out to look for Shen Qingyan.

Originally, Shen Qingyan only planned to bring his third brother into the city, but now that Liu Yue and the oxcart were rented, Shen Qingyan simply brought Shen Ling'an with him.

The whole family goes to town together!

Shen Qingyan happened to organize the rice bags. They had so much rice to sell that the entire oxcart was filled with rice bags, leaving only four small corners for them to sit on.

Liu Yue didn't mind it either. She chose the small corner on the right rear at a glance. Shen Lingan sat on her left side. The other two were in charge of driving in the front.

In order to rush for time, they changed their breakfast time today on the road, so Liu Yue prepared four large meat buns, a sandwich and a glass of milk for everyone. It was delicious, full and easy to eat.

After Liu Yue finished her breakfast and got tired of looking at the scenery along the way, she leaned on the rice bag and fell asleep again. The old and leisurely cow of Old Li Tou's family finally wandered to the gate of the city.

A city wall more than ten meters high stood in front of Liu Yue, and the simple and rich atmosphere came from the pavement, which shocked Liu Yue and left her speechless. Liu Yue had also visited the ancient city before, but the city that had been commercially repaired did not have such a sense of wind and frost. .

There are two rows of uniformed soldiers standing on both sides of the city gate, responsible for protecting the safety of the city.

After waiting in line for about one stick of incense, each person paid the entry fee of five cents, and they entered the city smoothly.

The buildings in the city are not like thatched houses, mud houses, and blue-brick houses mixed together like in the village. Instead, they are all brick and stone houses. The roads are also neat and smooth. The street facing the city gate is full of shops, which are full of things to see.

Liu Yue's eyes were dazzled.

Shen Qingyan first drove the ox cart to the rice shop and sold all the grain in the cart.

The clerk at the rice shop knew them and asked them to move the rice bags to the backyard for weighing. Liu Yue stayed in the hall because her legs were inconvenient. She took the opportunity to observe the prices at the rice shop.

There are many types of grain in Mipu, ranging from 23 cents per catty of polished rice, 20 cents per catty of white flour, 16 cents per catty of yellow noodles, 12 cents per catty of old rice, and 10 cents per catty of brown rice.

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If one penny is equal to fifty cents in modern times, the price of food in ancient times was ten times higher than in modern times. If they could travel through time and space at will, she could make a lot of money as a food middleman.

Liu Yue also saw some special grains from Dushu ancient times: bran, which costs five cents per catty.

Liu Yue clicked her tongue. In modern times, bran is something that even pigs are reluctant to eat. What kind of person would buy bran?

The shopkeeper of the rice shop was a broad and fat man with narrow eyes. He sat lazily on the Taishi chair and watched Shen Qingyan and Shen Jingcheng put the rice on the scale and weigh it, and moved the beads on the abacus with their fingers.

"Your rice is pretty good. I calculated it based on eighteen cents per catty, so the total is fifteen taels, six hundred and sixty cents."

This was too little, and Liu Yue was a little stunned. This was not a modern era with abundant production. One hundred and eighty kilograms of grain grown on one acre of land was already considered a high yield. The Shen family's five acres of land harvested a total of eight hundred and seventy kilograms.

Jin of rice can be said to be a bumper harvest.

But such a bumper harvest can only be exchanged for a dozen taels of silver.

This is the harvest of the Shen family's hard work for a whole year, and they only sold it for such a small amount of money. And this money will be the Shen family's expenses for the next year.

You must know that in costume dramas and ancient novels, it costs thousands of taels for the male protagonist to give a hairpin to the female protagonist. How many kilograms of rice do you have to plant? It takes hundreds of farmers to work for a year to get one hairpin.

This gap between rich and poor is real.

Furthermore, the Shen family earned fifteen taels of silver. This was based on the fact that Shen Qingyan was a scholar and was exempted from taxes. In addition, because Liu Yueli had supplies, the Shen family had no surplus food. Those ordinary working families worked hard.

After a year, you can only get ten taels of silver?

No wonder the Shen family was reluctant to eat white rice before, but now no one is willing to bear such luxury!

The life of the lower-class farmers in ancient times was really hard.

Liu Yue became more and more determined to make money.

Shen Qingyan was quite satisfied with the money. He put the money into his purse and handed it over to say goodbye.

Shopkeeper Xu from Mipu asked again: "Don't you want to buy something?"

Usually, farmers who come to sell rice will spend money to buy some old rice and brown rice after buying home-grown polished rice. Shopkeeper Xu is used to doing two transactions, and suddenly he encounters a single transaction, which is a bit strange.

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Liu Yue was someone who had dozens of tons of rice in the space, so she naturally didn't want Shen Qingyan to spend his hard-earned money. She said vaguely that there was still some food left at home and pulled Shen Qingyan out.

After selling the rice, Shen Qingyan went to the government to apply for household registration for Liu Yue. Because he didn't know how long it would take, he didn't let Liu Yue and the others follow him. Instead, Shen Jingcheng drove Liu Yue to the academy to find Shen Jingcheng and let him have a day off from the academy the day after tomorrow.

Time to go home.

As for why you want to go home?

Naturally, it was because Shen Qingyan and Liu Yue were planning to hold a wedding banquet the day after tomorrow.

After the two parties agreed to meet in front of the willow tree at the city gate, they parted ways.
Chapter completed!