Traveling through the farmhouse: farming and making a fortune and raising cubs

Chapter 88 88 This news is like a gust of wind
"Brother Li, it's time to arrive. Are these taro?"

As soon as the ox cart stopped, Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly jumped down. He didn't come by a horse-drawn cart, but hired two ox carts directly.

"We saved some food for ourselves, and the rest are here."

Six full bamboo baskets, each about two hundred catties, add up to a thousand and two, or thirteen hundred catties.

Shopkeeper Liu waved to Xiao Ding, and Xiao Ding came over carrying a scale taller than a person, and shopkeeper Liu looked at Li Changhui again.

"Brother Li, didn't you say you have two or three thousand catties at home? Doesn't that look like enough?"

Li Changhui's expression remained unchanged: "I saw a lot of them on the ground before, but I didn't expect to pretend that there were only these."

Li Changhui was already upright and upright, but now that he lied, even Lin He almost believed it.

Fortunately, Li Yu and Li Hao were instructed in advance not to interrupt no matter what their parents said.

And what he said is also true. It was spread on the ground before, and it seemed that there were quite a lot.

The two drivers took the rope and tied the two sides of the bamboo basket, and then passed a thick stick through the hemp rope above the scale beam, and put it on their shoulders.

Xiao Ding moved the weight beside him.

"The shopkeeper, 240 pounds."

This was weighed together with the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket will be weighed again later to reduce the weight of the bamboo basket.

Shopkeeper Liu quickly took out a small notebook from his pocket, with a small cloth bag inside.

It turned out to be a charcoal pencil.

Shopkeeper Liu recorded the account, and the two men driving the ox cart carried bamboo baskets together and poured the taro directly into the ox cart.

After Li Changhui waited for shopkeeper Liu to remember it, he specially led him to the utility room where the taro was stored.

There was really only half a basket left, which they kept for themselves.

Lin He clearly saw that shopkeeper Liu kept turning his head when he came out of the utility room, with a troubled expression on his face.

Lin He guessed that shopkeeper Liu was probably thinking whether to persuade them to sell that point together.

Fortunately, she put the other two baskets in the bedroom.

"Changhui, can this taro be sold?"

The bullock cart moved faster, and those who followed had just arrived at Li's house. The person who spoke was none other than Li Changhui's uncle and the head of Xiang'an Village, Li Yongkang.

"Taro? Village chief, do you know this? Haven't you seen it before? It's a pitch-black lump, how much is it for a catty?"

A villager asked curiously.

Before that, Li Changhui and Li Changsheng ran up the mountain every day. Many people knew about it, and they also knew that they brought back a lot of things.

But who made Li Changhui's prestige too strong before, even if everyone was curious, they didn't dare to come to ask more questions.

Someone had inquired about it with the village chief's family, but it wasn't that Lin He only sent two baskets to the uncle's family at that time, and Li Changsheng was still working for Li Changhui to earn taro, so he didn't tell others.

"Brother Changhui, I'm on the mountain...Huh? Why are there so many people?"

Li Changsheng suddenly appeared from behind their house, with leaves still stained on his head, and he was looking at everyone in the yard with a dumbfounded expression.

"How old are you, and you're still in such a panic, Xiuling is still waiting for you to go back to eat at home, why don't you go back soon!"

Li Yongkang was the first to react, with a stern face, he directly scolded.

Li Changsheng came back to his senses, and nodded obediently: "Oh, father, brother Changhui, sister-in-law, I'll go back to eat first, and I'll see you later."

Li Changhui nodded slightly: "I have something to say to Uncle later, you can come here anytime."

Lin He was sitting on the eaves, holding a bowl of hot water and drinking slowly.

The food in the restaurant was delicious, and shopkeeper Liu specially served them two dishes of meat dishes, one of roasted pork with taro and one of braised pork ribs.

Delicious is delicious, but I eat too much, and now my mouth is dry.

She had actually been sitting here the whole time, but everyone habitually ignored her, so Li Changsheng greeted her before leaving.

But Lin He is not surprised. Don't look at many people, it seems that the daughter-in-law will let it go, but in fact, most of the time, women are actually the ones who are ignored.

The real master of the family is the man.

In the eyes of others, Lin He is just a little daughter-in-law who is loved by Li Changhui and doesn't have to work in the fields, that's all.

She doesn't care about everyone's inherent thinking, there is no need to take the risk of everything.

However, Li Changsheng's behavior just now was indeed a bit abnormal. When they were planting cotton and taro two days ago, Li Changsheng also went up the mountain every day when he had nothing to do.

It's just that they were busy in the field at that time, so Lin He didn't ask any more questions.

Why did Li Changsheng go up the mountain?
He doesn't know how to hunt, and if he digs bamboo shoots, he goes there empty-handed and comes back empty-handed.

Lin He touched his chin with one hand and pondered, could it be that...

But at this time, Li Changsheng had already run away quickly, and others laughed at him for thinking about his wife, and the uncle just smiled, and then talked about the taro.

"Changhui and Xiaohe found this on the mountain. Didn't they have been digging on the mountain for the past few days? Xiuling likes to eat this, and Xiaohe even specially gave some."

He nodded while talking: "Don't say it, this taro looks ugly, but it's quite delicious. I burned a pot at noon and ate it all."

Originally, he was just explaining to the villagers, but shopkeeper Liu became excited when he heard it, and hurried to Li Yongkang.

"You are the village chief, village chief, how much taro does your family have, do you want to sell it? Ten cents a catty, I will take as much as you have!"

"What? Ten cents a catty!"

"Are you right? This? Ten Wen? As expensive as meat?"

Fat meat is only ten cents a catty.

Li Yongkang shook his body directly and supported the bullock cart: "Ten, ten Wen?"

Shopkeeper Liu nodded and smiled, "That's right, but now it's ten Wen. It won't work until next time. Brother Li said he found it on the mountain. You can also go to the mountain to look for it."

Then he looked at Li Yongkang: "Village chief, your family?"

"No." Li Yongkang shook his head: "My family only has two baskets, which are reserved for pregnant women."

What I think in my heart is, how much is ten Wen a catty, and five hundred catties?
Five taels of silver!

The bit of taro that Xiaohe asked Changsheng to carry back was worth at least five taels of silver!
They are a big family, exhausted, and it will take at least two or three years to save enough five taels of silver!

It only cost him five taels of silver for his three sons to ask for a wife!

If it wasn't for Changhui and Xiaohe who were nearby, he wished he could sell the taro at home immediately!
But thinking of his youngest son's expression just now, Li Yongkang quickly stabilized his mind.

"Why is this taro so expensive?"

Shopkeeper Liu signaled the others to continue weighing: "Of course it's because of rare goods. Now only the Li family has taro. If there are more taro in the future, the price will naturally come down."

Shopkeeper Liu also told Li Changhui and the others about this, they are all people who understand, even if they don't say it, they can understand this truth.

Several large baskets of taro were quickly weighed, and they were all poured into two bullock carts, which were not yet full.

Shopkeeper Liu didn't forget to take notes when he was talking to the village chief and the others, and finally weighed the six bamboo baskets.

And all the taro, a total of 440 six catties, which is 14 taels of silver, plus the previous four and a half.

A total of 19 taels were sold!
When Shopkeeper Liu directly took out the silver ingot, the crowd was already bustling.

As Lin He said before, the news, like a gust of wind, quickly spread throughout Xiang'an Village.

(End of this chapter)