There are many villagers who have the same idea as the old Zhou family.
From last May to now, basically everyone's nerves are tense and everyone's belly is tight.
Not only the children, but also the adults themselves couldn't help but become a little greedy after the summer and autumn harvests.
It is impossible to spend money to buy pastries or something, but you can make delicious ones at home.
So when Zhou Dalang and Zhou Lang were almost finishing grinding things in the mill, people from the village came one after another.
Seeing that Lao Zhou's family has grinded out so many things, the people who came here couldn't help but be speechless, "Your family came really early."
The two brothers smiled innocently, it was not early, they had already ground the soy milk for making tofu, and now I guess Xiao Qian has made tofu.
Xiao Qian had indeed made the tofu. At this time, he was pressing it with a wooden board specially made for pressing the tofu. Feng poured sugar water on the tender tofu curd prepared in the wooden barrel and gave it to the family for breakfast.
Manbao ate a whole bowl, put down the bowl with satisfaction, and waited to eat the pancakes.
Today's pancakes were made by Sister-in-law San. After Man Bao got them, he broke off half of them and handed them to Datou. Datou broke off a small piece and gave it to Da Ya.
Da Ya ate them all directly.
She didn't mind at all that this was done by her third aunt.
Not only the Feng family and the He family, but also the Fang family, who had only been married for more than a year, were used to the reactions of these children in the family.
When there is plenty of food and drink at home, the children in the family are a bit picky. But if the father-in-law controls the food a little and only allows everyone to eat sparingly, then no matter who is cooking, they will all eat it up with gusto.
After eating and drinking, Manbao went to put the beads and flowers presented yesterday on his head, followed closely by Da Ya and the others.
They also have their own bronze mirrors, so they no longer have to rub their mother's bronze mirrors. They can look in the mirror for as long as they want.
By the time Lao Zhou discovered the pearl flowers all the girls in the family were wearing, it was already time for everyone to gather together to eat glutinous rice balls.
After Xiao Qian made the tofu, he took his sister-in-law and sisters-in-law together to roll glutinous rice balls and make rice cakes. The children of Lao Zhou's family were so happy that they almost went crazy.
After eating a small bowl of glutinous rice balls, I ran out to show off to my friends. After waiting for a while to call my friends, I smelled the aroma and ran home to eat rice cakes.
The children in the village ran in behind them, ate several pieces of rice cakes with them, and then ran away huffing and puffing.
Of course, Datou and the others also followed those children to their homes to ask for food...
This Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone in Qili Village is immersed in the beauty of food.
Manbao also specially packed two portions of his favorite rice cake to share with his two friends, but was told that both of them had gone to Yizhou.
Man Bao felt sorry for a moment, and then decided to help them eat both portions of rice cakes.
Man Bao, who was full, touched Xiao Yuan's belly and said to himself: What a bumper harvest, dad is willing to make so many rice cakes at home.
Man Bao, who was full, did not know that not everyone was happy because of the good harvest.
At this time, County Magistrate Yang was not very happy because the autumn harvest was over and the price of food in the county had dropped. He was very happy. As a result, he had nothing to do these two days. In addition, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone had to pay taxes one after another.
So when his heart moved, he took his servants to the countryside again.
The first thing I went to was, of course, a few wealthy villages with plenty of fertile fields. Only after I went there did I realize that the price of grain in the county had dropped. The price of rice had dropped to seventeen cents per dou. As a result, grain merchants were setting prices in the countryside.
The price of grain in the village is only eight cents a dou, and in two villages it has even been reduced to seven cents a dou.
While the villagers complained, they still had to take out the excess grain from their homes and plan to sell it.
Because the family needs money, and most of them have the only way to get money.
Magistrate Yang had not yet passed the festival, so he was very angry with himself.
Then in a fit of anger, he asked the chief clerk to take the government servants to these villages and directly quoted a price of ten cents per dou to harvest the wheat. He mentioned that the price of wheat was raised from twelve cents per dou to fifteen cents per dou.
Grain merchants waiting to collect grain in various villages:...
In the countryside, there are generally only two pieces of news that will spread the fastest, one is about changes in taxes, and the other is about food prices.
Although those wealthy villages were far away from Dali Village and Qili Village, the news still spread at the speed of a hurricane.
Magistrate Yang just set up his posture to collect grain in the village. Within a moment, the news spread to the county town and the local Daji, and then spread from the county town and Daji to Daji and villages in various towns and villages.
In the afternoon, when someone came back from buying meat at the market, he said, "I heard that the county magistrate is harvesting millet, and it costs ten cents a dou."
"Hey, isn't that two cents more than the one in Dali Village?"
Qili Village is a bit remote, and there are only about 60 households here, not even one li, so they all come to Qili Village to collect grain.
The main reason is that Mr. Bai never sells his grain to them. He always buys his grain from regular grain merchants. He also has his own grain shop and rarely cooperates with local grain merchants in Luojiang County.
Therefore, if the villagers in Qili Village want to sell grain, they have to transport it to Dali Village.
Basically, several small villages near them will concentrate their food there and sell it.
The current price offered there is only eight cents. Some people went to the grain store in the county to ask, and the price they offered was also eight cents.
Therefore, the villagers always felt that since it was only eight cents, it would be better to sell it in a big market instead of transporting it to the county town in a time-consuming and laborious manner.
Many people in Qili Village plan to send it off after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some people even have an appointment with Lao Zhoutou.
Lao Zhoutou felt that his family was not very short of money, and he had just experienced a series of natural disasters, so he valued food very much, so he decided not to sell food this year and keep it for himself.
If you can’t finish it, it will be good to eat old grain next year.
In Lao Zhoutou's opinion, one year's old grain tastes better than new grain.
"I heard that Jiangding Village will also collect it in this way. Today, a government official has gone to notify it. How about we also go to Jiangding Village to have a look. If it is true, we will transport it to Jiangding Village and sell it."
"The county government charges it, so, can you give me money?"
"Don't worry, I heard that the county magistrate asked people to transport baskets of copper coins to the village." The villager's eyes lit up as he spoke, "Someone in the county has already spread the news, saying that our county magistrate is different from County Magistrate Fu."
, Their family is very rich, they are not short of money!”
The reason why I say this is naturally because after Yang Heshu moved into the county government office, he became particularly generous in his dealings.
This generosity does not mean that he spends money like water, but that he goes to restaurants every now and then.
Whether he is eating by himself or eating with others, he pays the bill; when he goes out to buy something, he pays the bill himself; even when he hails a donkey cart on the road and rides for a while, he takes out copper coins to pay the bill.
All of this, in the eyes of ignorant country people, is that the new county magistrate is not short of money!
The eyes of those who heard about it brightened up, and they all said: "Then we will go to Jiangding Village tomorrow to see if the county magistrate really collects grain there, then we will sell it to him too."