How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Chapter 19 Finally made a lot of money

Today is the tenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar.It was probably not even five o'clock in the morning when Chen Feiyan got up in the dark.

She got up early, and Chen Yixuan and others got up earlier.

Chen Yixuan asked Chen Xiao, Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao and others to have breakfast, and then he took them out with his backpack on his back.

Chen Feiyan, who has been a lawyer for several years, almost shed tears when she saw the four men, father and son, wearing thin clothes and slowly walking away.

She had previously litigated cases for free with some migrant workers who were unable to receive wages. Some of them were indeed very poor and had particularly heavy burdens on their families.

At that time, she was still thinking about how the poorer she got, the poorer she got, and the poorer she got, the poorer she got.

After coming here, Chen Feiyan suddenly understood that they could not be blamed for this matter.If the family is poor, having more children means more labor force.

There was corvee in ancient times.Every time they go out to do hard labor, they have to do it for several months.Moreover, once the imperial court went to war with people from other countries in the north, several men from each household would go out to serve in the army.

The medical level of ancient people was not high, and they didn’t even have antibiotics when they got sick.If you have a cold or a fever, you have to rely on your own body to survive.

Chen Xiaoyi's ears were burned out when he had a high fever when he was eight years old.

Chen Feiyan continues to be busy knitting straw sandals at home and teaching her daughter arithmetic.

On the other side, Chen Yixuan, with his three sons, finally reached the county seat more than 80 miles away on the mountain road at two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

Although this county town is built with loess walls, it is magnificent and has a long history.It has been more than 1000 years ago.

After entering the two gates of the outer city, Chen Yixuan and his party saw people coming and going.

There are small traders and big traders, well-dressed students, half-dressed farmers, and even beggars covered in abscesses and with chicken coops on their heads.

Chen Yixuan had no time to waste and went to a drugstore called "Tongdetang".After entering, Chen Yixuan directly asked the shopkeeper inside.

"Shopkeeper, do you want a hornet's nest at home?"

The shopkeeper looked at him in surprise, "You have one?"

Chen Yixuan nodded. "Not much, just five or six pounds? I don't know if your family will accept it?"

When the shopkeeper of Tongdetang heard this, he immediately became energetic.

"Take it, take it, but the price of this hornet's nest depends on what kind of thing you have in your hand."

Chen Yixuan dug some out and showed it to the shopkeeper. He also caught a glimpse of three children carrying baskets standing outside the pharmacy. He had an idea and quoted a good price.

"Your hornet's nest looks fine. I'll give you ten cents per catty. Do you want to sell it?"

When Chen Yixuan heard that it could be sold at this price, he immediately smiled and nodded.I even thought to myself, this big pharmacy is indeed a big pharmacy, and the money given is fair.

"Sell, sell, shopkeeper, we sell!"

As he said that, he slowly put down the backpack.

The medicine boy in the store came over and weighed the honeycomb he had carried. After the price was quoted at four pounds and eighty taels, he was ready to get the money.

However, Chen Yixuan waved to his three sons outside the pharmacy. After they came in, they also put down their backpacks.

Chen Yixuan pointed to the hornet nests in several other backpacks and asked the medicine boy to weigh them too.

When the shopkeeper saw that he could bring so much at once, he asked curiously, "Which mountain herb collector are you from?" Chen Yixuan shook his head: "Shopkeeper, you misunderstood, we are farmers in the mountains. I’m not qualified to be a herbal collector yet. However, my grandfather has been reading since he was a child, knows a few words, and has even read basic medical books.”

Chen Yixuan was talking about his grandfather, but the shopkeeper of Tongdetang thought he was talking about Chen Xiaoyi and his family, that is, Chen Yixuan's biological father.

He mistakenly thought that Chen Yixuan's father was probably an old doctor from the mountains. When the medicine boy told him that the total weight of the hornet's nest weighed eighteen kilograms and nine taels, he loudly said to the medicine boy: "Give them Twenty pounds of money!”

After hearing this, Chen Yixuan took his sons and thanked the shopkeeper again and again. The gray-haired shopkeeper was upset.

After receiving the two hundred copper coins, Chen Yixuan felt that the string of copper coins on his chest was heavy.

It was already noon. He entered the teahouse and begged for three bowls of tea for a penny. He also went to a few smart boys inside to ask about the situation of Qian Zhangxian Cheng who had been there for more than 20 years.

"Zhang County Cheng? Are you talking about Zhang Dahu? When his old man was still an official, he was really rich. Later, when the old man passed away, his sons divided their families..."

In order to learn more about his family, Chen Yixuan paid five cents and treated the two boys in front of him to a meat bun each.

Regardless of whether the meat was rat meat or not, the two boys had their lunch today.

From Chen Yixuan's mouth, I learned that he was related to Zhang Dahu's family, and the two of them told you and me everything about his family.

"About ten years ago, their family split up. Everyone in our county knows about the eldest son you want to ask about. I heard that the eldest son is the legitimate son and gets the most things in his hands. Now there are many people They all call him Mr. Zhang and Zhang Xiucai. You know, Mr. Zhang got a tavern, a restaurant, a hectare of forest, and hundreds of acres of land from the former Zhang County Magistrate. There are big houses with bricks and tiles. There are several of them, and there are even groups of wives and concubines..."

Hearing this, Chen Yixuan's heart beat wildly.

My aunt married into such a good family, but he hasn't seen her for more than 20 years, and I don't know if she will recognize him...

Thinking of how his wife had repeatedly told him in the past few days before he left home that he must marry into this family, after Chen Yixuan inquired about the general situation of Mr. Zhang's family, he went to a clothing store in the county town to take a look.

Hearing the waiter at the clothing store say that buying a cotton robe would cost more than 200 yuan, he was so frightened that he ran out of the store and went directly to the pawn shop.

In the pawn shop, after spending more than 50 yuan to buy a pair of clothes that were relatively clean and without any patches, he spent more than [-] yuan to buy a pair of brand new thick-soled black cloth shoes.

Knowing that his aunt's family would not like it if he came to the house bare-handed and bare-footed, he was heartbroken and spent 48 yuan to buy two kilograms of lean meat from a butcher shop.

Feeling that it was not appropriate to carry only two kilograms of lean meat, he rummaged through his backpack again and went to a small grocery store to sell straw sandals and straw curtains. For fifteen cents, he bought two kilograms of small apples.

After tying up his hair again and changing his clothes and shoes, he asked Chen Xiaoyi and others to wait a few hundred steps away from the back door of Master Zhang's yard, while he quickly walked to the back door and knocked on the door.

The man guarding the back door is a lame man.

Hearing a knock on the door under the bright sun, he quietly opened it a crack.

When Chen Yixuan saw him, he quickly gave him a big salute. "Hello, old man!"

The lame man saw that he was not dressed like a poor beggar, and noticed that the basket he was carrying was full. There were several kilograms of meat and several kilograms of fresh fruit on the top of the basket, so he asked him curiously.

"you are?"

Chen Yixuan smiled and replied: "I'm here to see my aunt. My aunt is Mr. Zhang's fourth wife."

After saying this, he walked over naturally and stuffed three copper coins into his hand.

Seeing his generosity, the lame man couldn't help but give him a high look.I thought to myself, is this man really the fourth wife’s nephew?

Why hasn't he heard anyone mention it?
(End of this chapter)