Yang Heshu only thought she was joking, so he laughed and stopped continuing the topic. He just kept the entry fee in mind.
He looked at the people coming and going below and thought to himself: If the former magistrate Fu knew that the one penny or two penny entry fee stopped so many people, I wonder if he would regret it.
Yang Heshu thought, if it were him, he would definitely regret it.
He has always felt that as long as there are people, it will be prosperous.
People are the foundation of everything!
Someone wanted to go to the city to buy a needle, but he couldn't come in because of the penny entry fee.
But will he really only buy one needle when he comes to town?
When you see the thread next to the needle, do you want to buy some? When you see the fabric, do you also want to buy it?
Or if you stay in the city for a long time, will you spend some money on a meal? Even if you just buy a bun, the bun seller will make some money.
And if he sells one more bun, the grain shop and mill will make a little more money...
Yang Heshu fell into a trance as he thought about it. Bai Shanbao stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes. When he found that he had not come back to his senses, he shrugged to Manbao and said, "Let's order food ourselves."
Bai Erlang also hugged his stomach and said, "I'm hungry."
"We eat meat!" Man Bao made his request.
Manbao can no longer make money by selling candy, so he doesn't buy meat for his family.
Lao Zhou had just spent money to buy a bullock cart, and he still had a debt owed to the Yamen. He was very picky. He could eat the eggs he had at home, but it was impossible to buy meat.
In order to make his two grandsons cry less, he would ask the family to buy some pig's feet or crucian carp to stew soup for his two daughters-in-law.
Xiao Qian would occasionally steal some for Manbao to eat, but not much, and Manbao couldn't compete with his two sisters-in-law who had to feed their nephews.
So Manbao hasn't eaten meat for a long time.
By the time Yang Heshu came to his senses, the three children had already ordered their own favorite dishes. The waiter looked at him with a smile, "Sir, what else do you want to order?"
Yang Heshu asked: "What did you order?"
Hearing the name of the dish reported by the three children, Yang Heshu couldn't help but gasped and asked, "Can you finish it?"
Two dishes for one person, six dishes for three people.
The three of them nodded and said affirmatively: "Finish eating!"
Yang Heshu ordered a soup. Ever since he went to the mountains and countryside to eat the food of the villagers, Yang Heshu automatically learned to be frugal.
As soon as the food arrived, the three children looked at Yang Heshu together, waiting for him to start.
Yang Heshu actually understood. He smiled slightly, raised his chopsticks to pick up a dish and said with a smile: "Eat it."
The three children stretched out their chopsticks together and began to eat in an orderly manner.
Since they went to primary school with Mr. Zhuang, they usually eat lunch with him.
Then Mr. Zhuang took care of their dining etiquette.
In the past, no one specially taught Bai Erlang. The old Zhou family thought that Man Bao was good at everything. On the contrary, Bai Shanbao had been strictly required in this aspect since he was a child.
Once Mr. Zhuang took charge of it, the three children became more polite, at least they would not be rude at the dinner table.
Halfway through the meal, Yang and Shu discovered that the three of them said they could finish it, but they really could finish it.
Yang and Shu's appetites improved a lot as they brought them together. After eating, he subconsciously slowed down and let them eat first.
Seeing that the three of them were eating deliciously, Yang Heshu couldn't help but said: "They say that young people eat poor people. I didn't believe it before, but I do now. Why do you think you eat more than me?"
The three of them raised their heads and smiled politely at him.
Yang Heshu put down his bowl and chopsticks and asked with a smile, "Have you finished harvesting the winter wheat in your farm? How was the harvest?"
"It's pretty good," Man Bao ate up all the rice grains in the bowl, then put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "The winter wheat in our village is pretty good this year. There are people queuing up at the mill to grind flour these two days."
Bai Shanbao asked, "I wonder what the situation is like in other villages?"
Yang Heshu said with a smile: "The situation in other villages is also good. I heard from old farmers that the main reason is that there were several spring rains when the wheat was filling in the beginning of spring this year. Later, the weather was just right, neither cold nor hot, so the harvest was good."
"Then the price of food will be reduced?" Bai Shanbao asked thoughtfully.
"It hasn't fallen yet, but I guess it will be soon." Yang Heshu was happy when he mentioned this. It was precisely because the winter wheat harvest was good that he could wander around the county leisurely at this time, otherwise he would have had a headache right now.
Food relief is coming to help the people of a county tide over the drought.
"The most difficult life last year was for the people in the countryside. Some families had no food as early as a month ago, so after harvesting winter wheat, many people must be reluctant to sell it, so the price of food will not drop for a while, but after a while,
The time is the Dragon Boat Festival. After the Dragon Boat Festival, we can see how the summer harvest will be, and the price of food will definitely drop by then."
Yang Heshu is very confident that there will definitely be a bumper harvest this year.
Man Bao was also very confident. When the wheat was drying to dry some time ago, her father followed a group of old men and women to look at the sky under the banyan tree, and finally concluded that God might be very kind to him this year.
At best, there will be drought after autumn, but then the impact will not be great.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other and decided to go shopping at the grain store after dinner.
Bai Erlang was also full. He put down his bowls and chopsticks and found that there was no sound at the dinner table. He looked around and asked, "Why didn't you say anything?"
Manbao pointed at the remaining rice in Yang Heshu's bowl and said, "Master Yang, you haven't finished eating yet."
Yang Heshu: "I, I'm full."
Man Bao's eyes widened, obviously he didn't expect anyone to leave the white rice.
There is never any leftover food in Lao Zhou's family, and everyone can eat all the food in their bowl. How can there be anyone in this world who can't eat enough?
Man Bao's gaze made Yang Heshu think that he had done something treacherous. He silently picked up the bowl and chopsticks and ate all the rice inside, then put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at each other with the three children.
Yang Heshu asked, "Are you going to sit at my house? We agreed last time to invite you to see the garden in the backyard of the county government office."
Bai Erlang nodded, Man Bao and Bai Shanbao shook their heads.
Yang Heshu ignored Bai Erlang and looked at Man Bao and Bai Shanbao, "What, do you have something to do?"
"We're going to the grain store to take a look."
Yang and Shulue figured it out after thinking about it, and asked with a smile: "What, you want to sell the wheat from the farm?"
The two nodded.
Yang Heshu thought for a while, nodded and said: "It's a good time to sell now, otherwise the price will drop after a while."
Yang Heshu simply stood up and said, "Let's go, I'll go take a look with you."
For some reason, Man Bao and Bai Shanbao didn't want to go to the grain store with Yang Heshu.
However, everyone was so enthusiastic, so the two of them had no choice but to accept it.
Bai Erlang felt sleepy after eating. He just wanted to go home and take a nap, so he pouted loudly and followed them glumly.