happy fisherman

Chapter 52 Lobbying (2)

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Bai Manchuan spoke very conservatively, not wanting to scare everyone.

"Manchurian, are you sure you're not talking nonsense?" Bai Dinglang asked with wide-eyed eyes.

Others also looked suspiciously at the Baiman boat, which provided them with food and drink for several years, and also had to pay fishing tax. Isn't that tens of taels of silver?
Seeing that his sister didn't make a sound and didn't look at him, Bai Manchuan had no choice but to bite the bullet and take out the money bag from his arms.

"This...is this a banknote?" Bai Manfeng didn't care about the silver in the wallet, but picked up the few banknotes and asked sleepily.

He has seen the banknotes before, but he has never touched them!
"The last time I went to the county seat, Beibei earned a total of 330 taels. I gave Yuzhu's family 30 taels of hire money, bought jewelry, bought things, and held banquets, etc. There are more than 290 taels left." Bai Manchuan said in a low voice. Said, carefully glanced at everyone's faces, as if they really frightened everyone.

Seeing that Bai Manchuan was honest enough to tell where the money was spent, Bo Beibei was speechless to the extreme.

"How much did you say?!" Bai Dinglang lost his composure and ran to Bai Manchuan, grabbed the bank notes in Manfeng's hand and the money bag in Manchuan's hand, and counted them, but he couldn't count them all.

The eyeballs of the others almost fell out, and those few tickets were really banknotes, and the total was more than 200 taels!

Bai Dinghai gasped: "Is it really more than 200 taels?"

Did he hear it wrong?
"Uncle, Uncle, it's more than 200 taels." Bai Manchuan replied softly.

"Oh my god!" Yun Shi and Zhao Shi patted their chests, they had never seen so much money in their life.

The full boat said that it would feed and drink for a large family for several years, so that's not enough.

Bai Beibei waited for everyone to recover before saying: "Uncle, Uncle, Auntie, Auntie, you don't have to worry about money now, just promise to grow seafood with me."

She asked her brother to take out the family property, just to make everyone feel at ease to follow her to raise seafood.

Bai Dinghai looked at Bai Beibei with a complicated expression, and asked sullenly, "Beibei, tell uncle honestly, did you really earn the money?"

Forehead!
Bo Beibei blinked her eyes, she didn't expect her uncle to ask this question.

"Uncle, of course I earned the money, can I still lie to you?" Bai Beibei laughed.

"Bei Bei, your second uncle and your father and I can't make so much money after fishing for half our lives. How can you make so much money as a little kid? Tell uncle honestly, where did the money come from? "Bo Dinghai didn't want to doubt his niece, but he was afraid that the source of the money would be unknown.

Everyone who was excited just now calmed down after listening to Bai Dinghai's words, yes, how did Bei Bei get such a large sum of money?
Bo Dinghai's skeptical tone made Bai Beibei feel a little wronged, but thinking about it, the uncle also cared about himself, so he was relieved and explained: "Uncle, I really earned this money by making shell ornaments. Here, those rich people in the county town cost tens of taels of silver for a meal, and I only earn more than 300 taels of silver by selling dozens of shell ornaments, which is not much at all."

Bai Beibei didn't exaggerate, and Qiao Qiongyan also said that the meal that Tong Yihu invited her to Hongfu Restaurant cost at least a hundred taels of silver.

Feng also didn't want her daughter to be suspected by everyone, so she quickly took out the banknotes in her arms and said, "Beibei didn't lie, those young masters had a meal with me yesterday and drank a pot of tea. I left a silver note of 50 taels."

Everyone's eyes widened again, looking at the bank note in Feng's hand, and asked, "Did you pay 50 taels for a meal?"

"Actually, 50 taels is not too much. Last time I asked at the decoration shop in the county seat, they cost a few hundred taels of silver for a stool." Bai Beibei added to the fire, anyway, no one knew what she said. It was the flawed golden nanmu incense table in the decoration shop.

"No way, a stool costs several hundred taels, isn't that a scam?" Bai Dinglang asked.

"Second Uncle, what people use is high-quality goods. The stools they use are all made of high-quality wood. Those carpenters are skilled in craftsmanship, so the prices of the things they make are high. When I first went there, I was also frightened." Beibei said again.

"That doesn't cost a few hundred taels of silver." Bai Dinglang murmured sullenly, the buttocks of the people in the county are all golden butts?

"Beibei, since the shell ornaments you make are so valuable, why don't you make more and sell them in the county?" Yun asked with bright eyes.

"That's right, things in the county are so expensive, so can we sell them in the county after we catch fish?" Mrs. Zhao was also ready to move.

"I think so too. It's just that the people in the county town are too cunning. They learned how to make those shell ornaments that I made, and now they don't accept my ornaments." Bai Beibei pretended to be very depressed: "As for selling fish, there are no shops in the county, so even if our fish gets to the county, no one will buy it."

Zhao's face was disappointed when she heard that selling fish had to be paved.

"It's such a pity." Bai Dinglang also regretted for a while, and his heart was moved just now.

"There's nothing to be sorry about. It's her luck that Beibei can earn more than 300 taels of silver. You can't be too greedy." When Bai Dinghai heard that the money was earned by Bo Beibei in a fair manner, he stopped pestering her. put.

"It's true, with this money, you can go out to sea after the ship is full." Bai Dinglang said comfortingly, when the ship was full to hire Yuzhu, he was secretly worried about how to pay back the money when the ship was full.

"Second Uncle, it's not just my brother, you and Manfeng can't go out to sea anymore." Bai Beibei said seriously, and got down to business: "You just follow me to cultivate seafood, believe me, artificially cultivated seafood will definitely not Earn less than going out to sea and fishing."

"Beibei, who did you hear that seafood can be farmed?" Bai Dinghai asked suspiciously.

No wonder Bai Dinghai didn’t believe it. It’s really unbelievable to raise seafood artificially. The sea is so big and the water is flowing. How to raise it?Where to raise it?

"Uncle, I went to a study in the county last time. I saw a book that showed the process of raising seafood. I asked a literate young man to explain it to me. I think artificially raising seafood is not difficult at all. "Bo Beibei's lies became smoother and smoother the more she lied, but she couldn't convince the uncle and the others otherwise.

Bo Dinghai frowned: "It is said in the book that it can be artificially raised?"

If it is really what the book says, then it is somewhat possible.

Bo Beibei still doesn't know that the common people of this dynasty have a kind of blind respect for scholars.

"Uncle, I really read it in a book." Bai Beibei replied firmly.

With Bo Beibei's assurance, Bo Dinghai frowned and began to think.

(End of this chapter)