There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 184

After paying off the debt, she still has eight hundred coins in her hand.

The days to come will be long, and with this little money alone, I won't be able to eat for a lifetime.

Everything has to be calculated carefully.

Those who can exchange money, hurry to exchange money.

For those who live a life, who doesn't want to save a thousand children and eight hundred coins in case of emergencies?

Yesterday afternoon, Luo Cheng shot another wild boar. This wild boar, together with her fat gray rabbit, brought in a lot of money.

The seedlings have not yet divided ears, and there is still half a month before the transplanting time, and this half month is free.

Li Jiaoniang plans to focus on taking care of her gutters.

The wild ducks have been raised in the water, it's time to buy some domestic ducks.

The weather is hot now, so it is not the season to hatch chickens and ducks, but it is not absolute. Go to the village market tomorrow and try your luck.

Chickens and ducks can be raised and can be exchanged for money and eaten by themselves.

Every penny of money is slowly being saved, and the speed is very slow.

It's not that Li Jiaoniang never thought about making a fortune by relying on her supernatural powers.

For example, open a medical clinic and be a witch.

But that would definitely alarm the Li family.

What she wanted was to live a peaceful life, not to fight with the Li family all day long.

Li Jiaoniang shook her head, she should make money down-to-earth.

The Li family, she never wants to see them again in her life!

Then, Li Jiaoniang wrote down the items to be bought tomorrow: needles and threads, lamp oil, salt, soap locust mud for washing and bathing.

Coarse mud is used for laundry, and the mud used for bathing has some flowery spices added in, and the price is more expensive.

It's hot and I use it a lot, so Li Jiaoniang plans to buy more.

After writing, Li Jiaoniang folded the paper and put it in a cloth bag that she carried when she went out.

In the backyard, Luo Cheng was calling the three chickens into the coop.

Li Jiaoniang pursed her lips and smiled, what a harmonious farm life, the only thing that is not beautiful is that it lacks a few buns.

But Luo Cheng was not in a hurry, and it was useless for her to be in a hurry alone.

Li Jiaoniang sighed with a smile, and went to tidy up her and Luo Cheng's bathing clothes.

It was Luo Cheng who bathed her again tonight.

One is born, the second is cooked.

Luo Cheng is not as stiff as yesterday.

Li Jiaoniang deliberately teased him, "Hey, have you heard of the mandarin duck bath?"

With a dark face, Luo Cheng stretched out his hand and touched her forehead.

"Don't make trouble, wash up early, go to bed early, and get up early tomorrow morning."

"You're the one making trouble, I'm asking you something." Li Jiaoniang rubbed her forehead, "It hurts, rub it."

Luo Cheng took a cloth towel that Li Jiaoniang used to wash her face, and rubbed it for her.

Li Jiaoniang, "..."

Fall, straight man, straight man!
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Blink to the second day.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng woke up at the same time, Luo Cheng made breakfast, and Li Jiaoniang fed the chickens.

She sprinkled some leftover rice grains from the night before in the chicken coop in the corner of the backyard.

Two hens and a young rooster rushed to eat immediately.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and Li Jiaoniang held a small lantern to light it up.

A hen hopped away, and Li Jiaoniang saw an egg roll out.

Hey, there is a catch early in the morning.

Li Jiaoniang immediately picked it out and put it in an old jar filled with chaff for storage.

Save enough three eggs, it is a bowl of vegetables.

The eggs at this time are pure local eggs. The scrambled eggs smell delicious, let alone eat them.

Luo Cheng was chopping and chopping in the kitchen, while Li Jiaoniang walked towards the small ditch with a small lantern in one hand and a small bucket in the other.

She put the little lantern on the tree fork by the ditch, rolled up her sleeves, and carried the fishing net bags in the ditch.

In the past, as long as she collected the net, she would gain more or less.

When you are lucky, a few fish and shrimp in the fishing net can have a small half bucket.

At the least, there is also a bowl.

But today, I didn't see a single fish or shrimp, and I didn't even catch a toad.

Li Jiaoniang narrowed her eyes, something is wrong!

Probably someone stole it overnight while she was sleeping with Luo Cheng.

She lifted the lantern and looked for clues by the ditch.

Soon, she found a footprint.

Not a small footprint, a man's.

Li Jiaoniang blew a whistle and called for Xiao Huimao.

The little thing squeaked, saying that he didn't find who came, it was guarding the donkey and the horse in the front yard.

The donkey was stolen once, and the little guy was worried that someone would steal the donkey again, so he stared at the donkey very seriously instead of the backyard.

Li Jiaoniang patted its head, "Good boy, now we have to keep an eye on the fields and ditches in the backyard."

Little Gray Mao hummed, "It's hard work, I need to eat something delicious."

This little thing, you want to eat it if you act like a baby.

"I'll go to the market later, and I'll definitely bring back more candies." Li Jiaoniang pinched its ears.

The little gray hair immediately shook its tail, bared its teeth and cracked its mouth in joy, jumped up and down.

This guy is like a child.

Li Jiaoniang is funny.

If the fish basket is left in the old place, it will still be stolen by that person.

Li Jiaoniang changed the place again.

Moreover, it was kept extremely secretive, leaving no trace outside.

She set the nets by the measurement of her steps, and there was no need to mark them at all.

When he returned to the kitchen, Luo Cheng had already prepared breakfast.

A bowl of millet porridge, a bowl of fried green beans, plus five boiled bird eggs in salt water.

Luo Cheng found the bird's eggs yesterday when he was clearing the weeds beside the house.

It turned out that there was a miscellaneous forest.

Trees were cut down, and some grass was not cleared in time.

Yesterday afternoon, Li Jiaoniang was going to plant fruit trees, and Luo Cheng took the opportunity to clean them up. Unexpectedly, he found a nest of bird eggs in the grass.

Li Jiaoniang picked up a bird egg, knocked on the shell, and said, "Brother Luo Cheng, don't make dry food. If you come back early, let's go home and eat. If it's too late, let's eat at the market. We don't want to eat it now." Lack of money."

After traveling back and forth, she hasn't tasted the delicacies of this period well, and the time of going to the market is also the time when there are the most delicacies.

Luo Cheng did not object, "Okay."

Jiao Niang has money in his hands, and he can sell wild boars today, and he can make money again. The family is not short of money, and he doesn't want to wrong Jiao Niang to eat dry pancakes that are as hard as cowhide.

Of the five eggs, Li Jiaoniang ate two and gave three to Luo Cheng.

"I'm small and have a small appetite." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

Luo Cheng looked at her, shook his head, and ate.

The two had a good meal, Li Jiaoniang cooked herbal tea, and Luo Cheng carried wild game in the carriage outside the front yard.

They now have two cars, one is a special car with a shed, and the other is a cart.

This kind of cart can be pushed by manpower, put on a donkey, or put on a horse.

The donkey is Li Jiaoniang's walking tool in the village, and the horse is used for long distances.

Today it is ten li to go to the village, and it is faster to use a horse-drawn cart.

At this time, Chunya came.

The little girl was wearing a bamboo hat, with a basket on her shoulders and two rabbits in her hands.

"Brother Luo Cheng."

Luo Cheng saw the two rabbits in her hand, smiled slightly and said, "These two rabbits can be sold for two or three hundred Wen."

Chunya became proud, "Really? Hehe."

Li Jiaoniang cooked herbal tea, put it in a teapot, took two bowls, put them together in a basket, and put a cloth towel to wipe her hands on. After a few words with Xiao Huimao, she closed the backyard Open the door, carry the cloth bag containing money on the back and come to the front yard.

"Sister Jiao Niang." Chun Ya called her excitedly.

This girl is in good spirits today.

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Chun Ya is really amazing."

"Sister Jiao Niang, don't laugh at me, I'm not very good." Chunya smiled shyly.

The sun was showing a little paleness in the sky, Luo Cheng closed the courtyard door, drove the carriage, and set off with Li Jiaoniang and Chun Ya.

At this time, the sky is slightly bright.

When Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang went to the market for the first time, they got up earlier than today. At that time, they walked to the village market with a cart.

Nowadays, there are fast-running horses pulling carts, and the speed is much faster, so you don’t have to get up when the rooster crows for the first time, and you can get up for the second time when the rooster crows.

This cart is wider than Xiang's car.

A wild boar and a rabbit cage were tied to the rear of the cart, Li Jiaoniang and Chun Ya were sitting at the front of the cart, and Luo Cheng was riding on horseback.

The space is very generous.

The horses were galloping along the country road, and the sun had barely risen above the surface of the earth when they reached the fair.

Chun Ya exclaimed, "The carriage is so fast."

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Come on, Chun Ya is working hard to make money, and also buy a horse."

An ordinary horse costs twenty pennies, but in Chunya's hand, there is only a hundred yuan, which is only enough to buy a chicken, which is far from the price of buying a horse.

"It's so difficult." Chun Ya looked at the horse and shook her head.

Li Jiaoniang cheered Chunya up, "It's not difficult, it's not difficult, look at Brother Luo Cheng, he had nothing a month ago, and now he's a donkey and a horse, as long as we work hard and are good at seizing opportunities, Money is not a problem."

Thinking of Luo Cheng's recent changes, the family's house has been renovated, there are carriages, donkeys, and fields, Chun Ya is encouraged, "Well, sister Jiao Niang is right."

Luo Cheng looked at the market, there were not too many vendors, and said to Li Jiaoniang, "Should I send it to Cai Ji, or wait to find a seller?"

Li Jiaoniang said, "Let's send it to Cai Ji first. If he doesn't want it, we'll sell it ourselves. We can't sell it in the village market. Let's go to the county. With a carriage, we can go anywhere."

Kaicheng nodded, "Okay."

He raised his whip and drove the carriage to Caiji Tavern.

Unfortunately, Cai Ji closed the door today, with a big brass lock on the door.

"Hey, didn't he say that he moved to the county seat on the eighth day of the lunar new year? It's still a few days before the eighth day of the eighth day, and it's closed? Today is the market, and the business is gone?" Li Jiaoniang climbed out of the carriage and walked to By the window of the tavern, looking in.

The tables and chairs in the tavern were gone, and there was only one empty room.

"I'll go and find out." Luo Cheng led the horse to the side of the road and walked to the opposite side of the tavern.

Opposite Caiji Tavern is a shop that sells incense, candles and lamp oil.

The shopkeeper of the shop is a fat man in his thirties.

The fat shopkeeper was sorting out the goods, while his wife was sitting on a small stool in front of the shop, feeding breakfast to his youngest son.

The three-year-old boy is mischievous, doesn't cooperate with eating, and is making a fuss.

Luo Cheng stepped forward and asked the shopkeeper, "Brother, inquire about something, why did shopkeeper Cai of Caiji Tavern close the shop? Where did he go?"

Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang have come to deliver goods many times. Although the couple haven't talked to Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang, they often see them and remember Luo Cheng and Li Jiaoniang's appearance by heart.

The fat shopkeeper shook his head and said, "Brother, are you here to deliver the goods? Let's say goodbye to the family. Lao Cai has moved away, and the whole family is not here anymore."

"I heard that he bought a restaurant in the county seat, did he move to the county seat earlier?" Luo Cheng asked.

The fat shopkeeper said, "Originally, he bought a restaurant, but a few days ago, his son killed the son of a county official, and he got involved in a lawsuit. As a last resort, he sold the restaurant in the county seat to take care of his son's lawsuit." The taverns in this village have been empty for a while without a buyer."

The proprietress who coaxed her son also said, "I heard that the family that Lao Cai's son offended is not only an official in the county, but also an official in the capital. That family wants Lao Cai to pay [-] yuan. How can he have so much money to pay for his son’s jail time? Lao Cai is out of luck this year.”

The shop of the husband and wife is not in the same business as Cai Ji's tavern. If you are not in the same business, you will become friends.

We have done business with each other for many years, and we are familiar with each other's family affairs like neighbors in the village.

When the couple mentioned Lao Cai, they both shook their heads and sighed.

Luo Cheng listened and frowned.

He thanked the two of them, walked back to Caiji Tavern, and told Li Jiaoniang what he had heard.

Lu Kuan, Li Jiaoniang didn't hear what the other party said just now, but seeing the two keep shaking their heads, it was probably not a good thing.

Now, after hearing what Luo Cheng said, Li Jiaoniang thought to herself, look, she guessed right.

At the same time, she sighed in her heart, this Cai Ji is not ordinary unlucky, how could he have a son who is holding back?
Li Jiaoniang looked into the window of the tavern again, and said to Luo Cheng, "With our current money, we can't afford to buy or rent a restaurant in the county seat, why don't we buy this tavern?"

Cai Ji is waiting to redeem his son, and he will definitely sell the tavern in a hurry.

Besides, Cai Ji's tavern only has three tables downstairs and two rooms upstairs. It's a small country tavern, and it's not worth much.

Luo Cheng didn't object, and said, "I'll go find out his home address."

After speaking, he walked back to the incense candle and lamp oil shop on the opposite side, and asked the shopkeeper for the address of Cai's house.

"I don't know the exact location, but I only know that he is from Qianku Village in the same township." The shopkeeper said.

It is easy to know which village it is from. There are few people in the village, so just ask and you can find out.

Luo Cheng walked back and told Li Jiaoniang.

Li Jiaoniang nodded, "Okay, after we get rid of these wild goods, we'll look for him."

Chunya used to follow Li Jiaoniang to the market in the village and delivered the goods directly to this tavern. Now that the tavern was closed, she said worriedly, "Sister Jiaoniang, how are you selling mountain goods now?"

"Small shopping." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, and she helped Luo Cheng turn the carriage around.

Chun Ya frowned, "Small sale? What kind of small sale?"

"Cut it up and sell it for a pound or two."

"Ah? When will I sell it? I only have two rabbits, but Sister Jiao Niang still has a fat wild boar." Chunya has never done a retail business, so she is starting to worry.

"There are many people in the market today, so they will be sold." Li Jiaoniang comforted her.

Chun Ya nodded, let's see how Li Jiao Niang sells mountain goods, she will follow suit.

There were already many people in the market, the carriage was not going fast, and the three of them simply walked.

(End of this chapter)