Three hundred and sixtieth chapters fire in the middle of the night
The cold melon from Lin Mengli's family was sold to the wife of the Yu family in Yuyao for thirteen gold. The ten gold was returned to Lin Wanwan. Within a few months, their family made a net profit of three gold, which made the whole family go crazy.
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When the clan members saw it, they also wanted Lin Mengli to help sell it, but Lin Mengli didn't dare to take the business.
He has exhausted all his energy just by keeping accounts and studying every day. Selling melons to his own family is his duty, but selling melons to his brothers is not so active.
Take the kickback, because it has a bad reputation; don’t take it, after all, it is something of huge value, what if something goes wrong? There are no benefits and you have to bear the risk, so why is he doing this thankless thing?
Therefore, he always dealt with the entrustment of his brothers. That is to say, Lin Mengbo, Lin Mengjin, and Lin Mengxing were three of his direct cousins. He helped to recommend them seriously.
The cold melons of these three families were soon sold at the same price, and for a while, all of them were beaming with joy.
There were gradually some bad words in the clan. Fortunately, Lin Mengli was not at home often, so he just pretended not to hear them.
Naturally, the other three companies will not make noises everywhere and keep a low profile.
The tribesmen asked sourly how much the cold melons were sold for, and the women just said they didn't know, because men were in charge of big things. The men also said they didn't know, because women were in charge of money.
Fortunately, this sentiment did not last long, because Linjiazhuang had a monopoly on the melons, and it was only a matter of time before they sold them.
Soon, other families who planted cold melons also sold them at prices ranging from twelve to three gold. Only a few families wanted to buy rare goods and had not sold them yet.
One of these households is Lin Qingyu’s grandfather’s house.
Two brothers, Lin Mengzhong and Lin Mengyi, have been taking turns sleeping in the yard and guarding Hangua since it was the size of two fists.
Up to now, all the others have sold it, but they still have a worry about it.
This matter was mainly decided by Lin Mengyi, Lin Qingyu's former brother-in-law and the father of two sons.
According to Lin Mengzhong and his wife's ideas, if there is a chance, all the twelve pieces of gold should be sold. It is the best way to put the money in the pocket for safety. After all, Han Gua can't afford it.
It’s worth this price today, but if the nobles don’t like it tomorrow, then who will it be sold to?
However, because the eldest son Lin Mengzhong only gave birth to two daughters, he always worked hard at home and had little say.
Therefore, his brother Lin Mengyi persuaded his parents to continue hoarding the cold melons and selling them at a high price, and the couple could only listen.
Lin Mengyi came up with this idea because when he was selling fish at the dock, he accidentally heard from foreign merchants that the cold melons in Qiantang County were now sold for fifteen or six gold each, and these cold melons were also from
They escaped from Luan County!
At this time in the Tang Dynasty, except for some small but poor-quality cold melons that could be grown in the Western Regions, cold melon planting technology had not been introduced in other regions. What was circulating on the market was the batch of cold melons brought by Lin Wanwan from modern times in Luan County.
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It’s not unusual for such high-quality cold melons to sell for sky-high prices in Qiantang County.
After all, in Chang'an, the Western Regions cold melons, which are much worse in variety than the cold melons in Luan County, are not even available to anyone with money. They are only for the emperor's relatives!
From ancient times to the present, the extravagant happiness of the rich has always been unimaginable to the people at the bottom. Just like a banquet in the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions ate up the annual expenses of a middle-class family like Grandma Liu.
Ever since Lin Mengyi heard that cold melons were sold to nobles for fifteen or six gold from merchants, he was reluctant to sell his own cold melons at such a low price.
After a distant cousin who was close to him got the news, he had the same mentality as him and was unwilling to sell it at a low price.
One gold is six guan of money! That’s nearly twenty-four bolts of silk! There are three gold between twelve, three, fifteen, and six!
Don't blame them for having ideas, this is just to starve the brave to death and starve the timid to death.
In the early Tang Dynasty, an ordinary family of six people had an income of about forty-three or four shi of grain a year after tax, provided there was no disaster.
My family's annual food consumption is about 33 dan, the cost of clothes is about 2,400 dan (about 7 dan), and the daily expenses such as oil, salt, soy, vinegar, etc. are about 2,300 dan.
(about 3.5 stone), that is to say, the income and expenditure are basically the same, and it is difficult to have a balance.
If we engage in some agricultural and sideline activities, such as planting mulberry and raising silkworms to supplement our family income, our lives will be more prosperous and we can have a surplus.
But in fact, just being able to be "self-sufficient in food and clothing" is already an ideal state.
The group of people who can make a surplus belong to the rich peasant class, and the life they live is no longer what ordinary people can live.
There were many natural disasters in the early Tang Dynasty, and many real farmers were hungry. At least the young adults in Linjiazhuang had never had a full and satisfying day before Lin Wanwan came.
But now, just by planting a cold melon, in just a few months, you can get a total income comparable to the hard work of the past year. This time, how wonderful is it!
Everyone in the village who had the guts to ask Lin Wanwan to grow seedlings on credit was overjoyed, but those who didn't have the guts to take the chance felt a little jealous when they saw others getting rich.
Fortunately, Patriarch Lin has a lot of authority, and he is not willing to take advantage of Lin Wanwan, so his family does not grow cold melons.
When everyone saw that there wasn't even a clan leader's house, they felt a little more balanced.
There are eleven families in this group who have made a fortune from cold melons, and there are still two families waiting to make a fortune. Therefore, during this period, the entire Linjiazhuang attracted much attention from all over the country.
There are nearly ten families engaged in marriage engagements alone. Matchmakers come to the Lin family village every day, which almost makes the Lin family leader very happy.
His biggest mission as the leader of the clan is to let the clan thrive. Now that the situation is looking great, he can't be happy.
But everything always depends on blessings and disasters, and high income naturally brings high risks.
The craze for cold melon was so great that something big happened one dark and windy night.
Lin Guofu's family (Grandma Xiao Qingyu's family), who had already boarded a merchant ship to Qiantang and was waiting for someone to bring silk to exchange for cold melons tomorrow, caught fire that night!
The fire was very fierce. Fortunately, because they had been worried about Hangua for the past few days, the whole family did not sleep deeply and escaped before the fire became bigger.
A raging fire broke out inside and outside the house, and the entire Linjiazhuang was soon alarmed by the sound of women and children banging basins and crying.
The clansmen of Linjiazhuang, including the servants of Lin Wanwan's family, all ran out, carrying buckets of water, to put out the fire.
Lin Qingyu's former grandmother, Lin Lushi, and Lin Mengyi's wife, Lin Sunshi, slapped each other on the ground and howled. They didn't know what to do except howl.
The eldest son's wife hugged the children tightly to prevent them from running around the fire. The place was a mess, and the crying was loud.
After the fire was extinguished, everyone looked at Lin Mengyi who had been burned into a charred corpse in the night. Their eyes were red. The human tragedy was happening right in front of their eyes. How could people not feel heartbroken!