Song Liyun was stunned and quickly took back the account book on the table. Yun Niang heard the sound from the room next to her and came out: "Zhenping, the girl is settling the accounts!"
Yun Niang felt that she was a servant in the Song family. She was originally going to call Song Zhenping the eldest son and Xiaoan the young master, but with just one sentence, Song Zhenping turned red with embarrassment and was only asked to call them by their first names.
Just now I saw Song Liyun counting money, so I took Xiao An and the injured Hei Jin to play in another room.
Now when she heard Song Zhenping calling, she quickly went out to greet him.
Song Zhenping heard Yun'er settling accounts and slowly walked into the room where he lived next door.
At this time, Heijin was wearing a red carp swimming bellyband and lying on the kang with his back stretched out.
Its wound healed, but its hair did not grow. The wound on its chest was covered by a bellyband, and only a white circle could be seen on its arms.
When Heijin heard someone entering the room, he thought it was Song Liyun and quickly sat up.
But when I looked back, I saw that I had already stood up and was lying down again, wriggling like a slug.
Not long after, Song Liyun entered the house.
"Yun'er, hurry up and follow me to the backyard!" Song Zhenping had been standing at the door. When he saw her coming in, he pulled her towards the backyard.
"What's the matter? You're so anxious!" Song Zhenping staggered, and Song Liyun was pulled a little unsteadily by him.
The originally empty backyard is now very crowded, with a vegetable greenhouse in the middle and a horse shed and rabbit house in two corners.
Ju Qingma still looked aloof, eating hay carelessly.
The rabbit house was already very lively. The three little rabbits turned into ten, and the second baby rabbit was already in the hole.
Song Zhenping pulled her into the greenhouse, stopped at a separate ridge, pointed at a few seedlings as thin as hair and said: "Look, these fairy seeds have sprouted!"
Fairy seeds?
Song Liyun tried to think back, and then she remembered that she had taken out some of the apocalyptic seeds from her suitcase and asked Song Zhenping to mix them with other seeds and sow them together.
In the beginning, Song Liyun came to visit every day. Time passed slowly and there was no reaction at all in Tuli.
A month later, Song Liyun gave up.
As long as the water and temperature are suitable, local cabbage can break through and germinate in three days. Not only do these apocalyptic varieties fail to germinate, they even quickly turn black and rot.
Even seeds that show signs of germination will eventually wither.
no way.
Song Liyun still needs his original body to get here. These foreign objects need to overcome a series of problems such as ten-year storage expiration and traveling through different spaces. Survival is more difficult than for humans.
Song Liyun had given up long ago, but Song Zhenping was the only one who still took care of her every day, giving her as much water as she should have.
The hard work paid off, and it finally sprouted.
Song Liyun lay on top of the filament and observed carefully, and finally saw two leaf embryos on the silk-like stem.
"What kind of seed is this?" Song Liyun asked. She had given Song Zhenping several seeds.
Song Zhenping affirmed: "It's rapeseed!"
He didn't know what rapeseed was, but when Yun'er said this, he remembered it.
Song Liyun's face twitched. She looked at the cabbage next to her. Could she have made a mistake?
Rapeseed and cabbage are both members of the Brassicaceae family. They are a hybrid of European cabbage and cabbage and are the main source of vegetable oil.
She suspected that all the other seeds died and only the rapeseed grew. Could it be that the seeds accidentally flew over while planting cabbage next to it?
Song Zhenping shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, I have written down each of these fairy seeds, they are rapeseed."
Okay! Song Zhenping said yes, that’s fine.
But this reminded Song Liyun that cabbage seeds should also be able to squeeze oil!
The edible oil in the Wu Dynasty, excluding animal fat, was sesame oil. Families who had no money to buy oil would find some grass seeds to fry and squeeze the oil.
There was new hope in the greenhouse, and Song Zhenping was devoted to it.
He also wanted to know what the rapeseed Yun'er mentioned looked like, and whether it could produce oil like sesame and peanuts.
The rapeseed had seedlings, and Song Liyun also gained motivation. She first went to the guard station to ask for Di tribe goods.
Luo Baihu said before that she could pay off the debt with Di items.
This time, Wang Jun took out a carpet, two pieces of cowhide, and a set of twelve horn cups for her to choose from.
The carpet was worth one hundred taels of silver, and the cowhide and horn cup were worth thirty taels in total.
Song Liyun was a little speechless. He only had more than 20 taels of silver in his account, and the Wei Institute no longer gave it away for free.
She said distressedly: "Uncle Wang, I haven't received the money yet. With this choice, wouldn't it mean that I owe money to the guards?"
Wang Zhong ignored her cry of poverty, only touched the cowhide and sighed: "The Wu Dynasty did not allow the killing of cows without reason. These two cowhides alone are worth ten taels in the market. How about I give you a total of five taels?"
Of course this is good!
But there were some things that Song Liyun really couldn't figure out.
"Since Wu Dynasty and Dilu Grassland have ports and cities that exchange goods, why don't the Zhenbei Army directly sell them in the port cities? These are trophies. Why?"
She had thought about this issue since returning from Qili County.
It is indeed easy to resell and exchange for money yourself. Why doesn't the Zhenbei Army do such an easy thing?
And the Wanchun Leather Goods Store has been in Qili County for all these years and is willing to wait. Why not just go to the grassland and the port city to purchase goods?
Is it just because there is a monopoly of imperial merchants?
Wang Zhong smiled bitterly when he heard the question. He could not give any more explanations and could only say lightly: "There are regulations in the army that do not compete with the people for profit."
Why it is not sold directly to the port city? It is really not clear to him that it is a small military supply for a guard station.
He only knew that Hecheng's port market was mainly operated and managed by three royal merchants.
These three families are the Hua family, the Liu family and the Yang family. These three families can become imperial merchants, and their backers are all people from the court.
The Zhenbei Army once exchanged fur goods for money, but the imperial merchants sued the emperor, claiming that the border troops were colluding with foreign enemies.
The Marquis of Zhenbei also wrote a letter to defend himself, saying that these Di people's goods were trophies, but then he was asked by the Ministry of Household Affairs: the trophies must be handed over to the state treasury.
Now the officers and soldiers of the Zhenbei Army gave up their work. They were fighting to death in the bitter cold land without even catching anything.
So when the war started, everyone would hide the spoils and sell them privately.
However, various government officials blocked roads and conducted random inspections, so the small caravans did not dare to buy goods from the Zhenbei Army.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there must be a force exerting pressure behind this all-round siege of the Zhenbei Army from the imperial court to local officials.
And even the Marquis of Zhenbei couldn't resist.
There is no mass market for these items, and these items are inedible and cannot be used up even for personal use. Therefore, they can be digested and processed internally, which is highly desired by various health clinics.
When Song Liyun heard Wang Zhong say that the army should not compete with the people for profit, Song Liyun was speechless. This reason was so good that no one could refute it.
This time she didn't choose a carpet, only cowhide and horn cups.
You'll have to pay the bill as soon as you get the goods, so it's better to be cautious.
After all, Wanchun Leather Shop has only dealt with him once. If the other party cannot fulfill his promise, he will lose money if he holds the carpet.
Nowadays, money is more important than enjoying life and Song Zhenping's legs.