Farming is very particular about farming time. In order to compete for a few days during the summer harvest, many farmers have to process day and night, and some even live in the fields.
In the past two years, Qili Village had a good harvest. Zhou Dalang, Tuesday Lang and Zhou Lang lived in the fields in order to grab the farming time. Sometimes, even if they were too tired to stand up, they had to harvest by moonlight and firelight.
Otherwise, a year of hard work may be wasted when it rains.
Generally, after the rain, the summer harvest comes to an end. Everyone has to collect the flax, peel it out, soak it, beat it, comb it, then braid it, and then take it to the river to clean and beat it...
The process is cumbersome and labor-intensive. What Lao Zhou's children dislike most is harvesting hemp, and so do the adults.
Because most of the spun linen had to be handed over to the county government as a treasury, in addition to the spun linen, each person had to hand over three kilograms of linen.
To this end, Lao Zhoutou planted rows of hemp on the ridges of the ground and fields at home, and also planted two or three circles of hemp at the foot of the mountain where he and Zhou Dalang and Zhou Dalang lived.
This thing is drought-resistant and easy to work with, but the craftsmanship is more arduous, but their family can still have some linen left over to make clothes every year, while other families with small populations may not have extra linen to make clothes.
Moreover, the linen made by Lao Zhou's family was indeed not that good, and Man Bao didn't like it very much. She remembered that she only had one new linen garment, but it didn't take long for her body to be rubbed red.
Later, her mother took it back and took it apart to make clothes for herself.
After wearing it for more than half a year, I took apart the worn linen clothes and made her clothes.
Nowadays, most of the clothes Manbao wears in summer are linen clothes made from the old clothes worn by her mother and sister-in-law. Only in winter she wears clothes made of cotton bought from the county town.
So Manbao didn't like hemp either. She blew her hands on some of her nephews and then put a candy on their palms.
A group of children were instantly comforted and immediately became happy. They peeled the candies and ate them before following Manbao home.
Manbao took out a pen, wrote down the things he needed and the quantities, and handed them to Datou, "My friend wants to buy these things. You can bring Ertou and they will help me find them. Remember, the cabbage caterpillars must live.
.Just in case, please bring some more and pick some big leaves and pack them for me."
He knew most of the words on the paper and it was not difficult to understand, but what he didn't understand was who would buy the bugs.
Shouldn't this kind of thing be measured by weight?
Or it would be okay to argue.
But it seems like a good thing that my sister-in-law’s guests are stupid, right?
Da Tou only glanced at the paper and patted his chest and Man Bao to ensure that there was no problem. Then he asked with a playful smile: "Sister-in-law, we have collected all the beans at home. Can you tell your second uncle that he will take us to the county town in a few days?"
Son?"
Man Baole, "I know, you want to sell the candy in your hands, right?"
A group of children looked at Man Bao and laughed.
Man Bao said: "Second brother will definitely not take you there, but fourth brother should be fine."
Erya's eyes lit up and asked: "Fourth uncle is also going to the county seat?"
"Of course. When Mr. Bai's crops are harvested, my fourth brother and I will go up the mountain to find Poria cocos. Then we will ask the fourth brother to help the second brother."
If they could still find Poria cocos, Manbao would secretly keep a small piece, then cut it into portions and sell them.
The bonus points given to her by the encyclopedia were 200,000, so she would sell it for 150,000. She only needed to sell two copies and that would be enough.
This is Manbao's conclusion after looking at his series of orders and thinking about it last night.
She found that the higher the points in the encyclopedia, the higher the value here.
For example, Poria cocos and tree sparrows currently have the highest points. Not to mention tree sparrows, Poria cocos is currently the most expensive item they sell.
Zhou Zhoulang asked shopkeeper Zheng, and shopkeeper Zheng said that all these things are wild and cannot be cultivated, so they are very precious.
Being rare and having many medicinal effects makes it valuable.
However, what they sell is raw Poria cocos. Zhou Zhoulang secretly inquired and found out that the price of the processed Poria cocos is of good quality and has more than doubled.
No wonder medicines in pharmacies are so expensive.
However, Manbao feels that no matter how expensive it is, it will not be as expensive as it will be in the future.
She knew that points were more expensive than copper coins, and a small piece of Poria cocos was worth 200,000 points.
Man Bao smiled like a little mouse and asked Bai Shanbao to look at her again and again.
Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he reached out and hit her on the head and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Man Bao looked around, and finally stared at Da Ji sitting in the corner.
Daji:……
Bai Shanbao also stared at Daji.
Daji stood up silently, opened the door, and walked out of the study.
He looked around the yard and finally found a tree to squat on. From here, he could see the two children in the study through the window, but he couldn't hear what they were saying.
Seeing Daji go out, Man Bao immediately whispered in Bai Shanbao's ear: "If I have a lot of things that some people are scarce, do you think it would be better for me to exchange them all for money, or barter?"
“Are those scarce things valuable to you?”
Man Bao thought for a while and then said: "Some are high, some are not high; some are rare, and some can be seen everywhere."
"Then what do you want to exchange for them?"
Manbao thought for a while and then said: "Wheat seeds? Or other interesting seeds."
Today Datou and the others proposed to go to the county town, obviously because they wanted to exchange the candies in their hands for money, but Manbao knew that the candy business in the county town might not be easy to do now.
And there are currencies in this world that are harder than candy, and you can create a lot of value with just a few points, such as ginger cubes.
The five kilograms of ginger seeds she bought at first seemed much more expensive than candy, but last year alone, it made the Zhou family a lot of money.
Its value has already far exceeded the seed money she paid.
In addition, the wheat situation of Lao Zhou's family this year is much better than that of other families.
When she came to Bai's house just now, many old people in the village came to Zhou's house and were discussing wheat seeds with Lao Zhoutou.
Although not all of this year's wheat has been harvested, everyone saw it during the harvest. Now the whole village knows that the wheat from Lao Zhou's family is the best, slightly better than that from Master Bai.
Some of the wheat ears were long and full, so the old people in the village wanted to exchange some seeds with Lao Zhou's family.
Good wheat ears are good seeds, and good seeds can always grow better wheat ears. Farmers who have worked all their lives don’t know anything else, so they still know the most basic common sense of seed saving.
Others may not know why Lao Zhou's wheat is better than other people's wheat during floods, but Man Bao knows.
Because she secretly changed some wheat seeds at the beginning of spring.
Manbao is considering whether to buy another batch of wheat seeds in exchange for some wheat.