Seeing Lin Xiaoman's confusion, Qingshu sighed and explained: "This is not because of the heavy snow. Every family in the west of the village does not have much surplus food. After opening the road to the east of the village, the adults want the east of the village to gather food. Everyone

We will get through the difficulties together, and when the road to the county is opened, we will return the food to them twice as much."

Lin Xiaoman nodded, "That's a good idea."

Qingshu spread his hands, "But I don't know who said it. A drought and a snowstorm will mean that people in the county will have no food to eat. Even if the road is opened, food will not be transported for a while, and they are afraid of their own family."

We were so hungry that one family was only willing to bring out more than a dozen kilograms of grain, and a few others took thorn cones directly. In the past half month, everyone could only cook porridge with melted snow water, and the porridge was so thin that you could see the bottom of the bowl.

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Lin Xiaoman did not expect such a result, but he could understand the thoughts of the villagers. The year before last, when the earth dragon turned over, Hedong Village was the worst hit. The county magistrate did not see anyone sending anyone to help, and even the food was not missing at all.

Receive.

There was another drought last year, and the grain harvest was seriously short. We also paid the full amount of grain. Every household could not eat the remaining grain this year even if they saved money.

If the village had not made a lot of money recently, life would have been even tighter in the future. It is no wonder that everyone takes food very seriously and would not give it back even if it was doubled.

It can only be said that Lu Jin, a small county magistrate, came at the wrong time. He took office after the villagers completely distrusted the government. There is nothing we can do about it.

Lin Xiaoman was hesitating whether to say that her family had a lot of food, but she heard Lu Jin say: "You have hidden the food I brought you. No matter who comes to borrow the food, you can't borrow it. I'll take care of you first."

and your brother."

After saying that, Lu Jin was about to leave. Lin Xiaoman, who was still hesitating whether to take it or not, was no longer hesitant now.

Although she still didn't quite believe that the two of them would get married in the end, Lu Jin's concern was not fake, and she couldn't bear to see the little county magistrate worrying about food.

Besides, you can’t just watch people starve to death, right?

Lin Xiaoman said: "Sir, I made some food before, thinking that it would be sold in the county in the first month, so I stocked up some food. Who knew that there would be a snowstorm and the food could not be delivered to the county. Why not

Take it out and share it with everyone."

Lu Jin didn't know how much food Lin Xiaoman would hoard, so he waved his hand and refused after hearing this, "How can your family have enough food? There are more than 300 people in the west of the village waiting to be full. Even if they drink porridge, they only need two or three stones a day. I don't know.

When will the road be opened? Even if it is opened, I don’t know what the situation is in the county. If your family doesn’t have dozens of stones of food, you’d better keep it for yourself.”

Lin Xiaoman smiled cutely and said, "Sir, can you count pinches? Our family really has dozens of stone grains."

This sentence made Lu Jin, who had already lifted his feet and was about to walk back, stumble and almost fall, "How much did you say?"

"It's probably a few dozen dan. I haven't weighed it yet, but it's quite a lot anyway. I can't do business in the first month, and I'm worried that the food will go bad if I don't finish it."

This time Lu Jin's gloomy face became brighter, "Okay, okay, you keep enough food for you two siblings, and sell the rest to me. Whether you want food or money later, I will

Pay it back twice as much."

Naturally, Lin Xiaoman would not have trouble with money. Anyway, the young county magistrate saw that he was a rich man, so he doubled what he said, and it was not like he was taking advantage of the situation.

Even Lin Xiaoman was still thinking about whether he should take the opportunity to go there to buy more grain and sell it to the small county magistrate.

It's just that they haven't done much business there recently, and they buy a lot of things. Why don't they see what's available here and sell it there?

Lu Jin went back to find someone to carry the grain. Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu also hurriedly went to the warehouse to move the grain back. After all, the rice bags over there couldn't be used here, and they had to put the rice into the big vat first.

Let the people here put it back again.

Fortunately, I bought a lot of large vats for pickling sauerkraut before. Except for one jar of sauerkraut that I kept for my own consumption, all the rest were sold out. The vats were all idle and were just used to hold rice.

Lin Xiaoman first made two large vats and placed them in the yard, filled with rice. Lin Erhu asked Lin Erhu to wait here for people to come and fill the rice, while she took the opportunity to go to the warehouse and carry bags of rice back for the remainder.

Put it in the big tank below.

Lu Jin did not ask anyone to come over immediately to load rice, but first cleared the snow on the last section leading to Lin Xiaoman's house.

The jars in Lin Xiaoman's home are all large. One jar contains five bags of 100 kilograms of rice. A dozen jars are filled with more than 7,000 kilograms.

When Lu Jin and his men came over with tools for weighing grain, they were all shocked by how much rice there was. There was a burst of cheers after that. With this rice, they no longer had to worry about starving to death due to blocked roads.

Just looking at Lu Jin's eyes was full of resentment. Lin Xiaoman had asked if the food was enough before, and she thought she wanted them to come to her house to get it when they ran out of food. The magistrate just wanted to make everyone look fat.

I’ve been hungry for half a month.

Lu Jin didn't expect that Lin Xiaoman's family would stock up on so much food. After the shock, he felt a little embarrassed. He thought Lin Xiaoman was telling lies.

So, I didn’t feel embarrassed to express my feelings and asked the people who came to quickly weigh the grain and put it in bags.

It took most of the day to move the grain, and in the end, only half a tank of rice was left for Lin Xiaoman's family, so Lu Jin refused to allow any more.

The total amount of food was 75 shi, and Lu Jin promised to give Lin Xiaoman and his sister double the price of food in the city after the snowstorm passed.

Afterwards, Lin Xiaoman left Lu Jin to have a meal of glutinous rice balls at home.

The siblings like to eat sesame seeds, but Lu Jin has a special liking for fruits, such as pineapple, orange, and strawberry. They eat each one with gusto. This is why Lin Xiaoman unpacks all the glutinous rice balls and puts them in

It was frozen in a pocket that allowed him to eat so many flavors at once.

After finishing the glutinous rice balls, Lu Jin drank another bowl of glutinous rice balls soup, while Qing Shu ate a bowl of pickles along with the glutinous rice balls.

"Miss Xiaoman, your pickles are really good. What's in these pickles?"

The pickles are eight-treasure pickles that Lin Xiaoman bought at the wholesale market there, costing six yuan per pound per bag.

She couldn't recognize some things, so she told them what she recognized. Seeing that both the master and the servant were very interested in the pickles, she went outside to find two jars, washed them and put five bags in each jar.

It's just ten pounds, so let the master and servant take it home and eat it slowly.

After all, it’s almost a meal break there, so there shouldn’t be much food. Even if you’re drinking porridge, you’ll have to order pickles, right?

She didn't mind that the little county magistrate came to her house every day to eat, but there were so many people there, brothers like Xu Qiuliang might not be embarrassed to come, and if they had some pickles, they wouldn't lose strength due to lack of salt.

It’s just that the pickles packed in bags like this are a bit expensive. If they like it after eating it, she can also go to the wholesale market to buy some pickled pickles and mix them herself to sell. Some pickles only cost one or two yuan a pound, and you can mix a lot.

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It is said that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. She really didn't believe that the Xu family from the west of the village really had no money. Lin Xiaoman suddenly discovered a business opportunity.
Chapter completed!