Farm Gate Business Tycoon

Chapter 12 I ate bird's nest (1)
Qin Bihua brought needlework to accompany her every day, and Wang Pingxian would come over every three days to change the medicine on her head.

Every five days in the academy, Gu Qingyang would take a bath in Gu Yunbai's donkey cart, bring back the dirty clothes, wash them, and then help the family with some work.

Then he stayed at home the next day, and the next day, he followed Gu Yunbai's donkey cart into the city before dawn, and when he returned to the academy, he was just in time for his morning reading.

Qin Bihua would give Gu Qingyang the red hijab she embroidered, and ask him to help her take it to the wedding shop to sell, and then the next time she rested, Gu Qingyang would bring her the money back.

Seeing Qin Bihua's elation when she got three taels of silver, Gu Qingmei was also happy for her. In this era, women's ignorance is virtue, and women have no way to make money at all, except for doing some embroidery, washing clothes for others, It is to go to a big family to be a slave or a handmaiden.

Gu Qingmei's headache didn't hurt so much, she was able to fall asleep at night, and had a good rest for a few days.

These days, she has inquired about many things with Qin Bihua one after another. She heard that this is a country called the Suye Dynasty, and the emperor seems to be named Xuanyuan. The capital is about 300 miles away, which is considered to be very close to the capital. It can be reached in one day on a fast horse.

Twenty miles to the west of Gujiazhuang is an imperial garden, surrounded by mountains and rivers. I heard that the emperor would bring his concubines here every summer to escape the heat.

The people in Gujiazhuang all leased the land of the Murong family, and the Murong family also has some background when talking about it.

The ancestral home of the Murong family is in Murong Villa, five miles east of Gujiazhuang. Their ancestors were merchants, and they belonged to an aristocratic family. There are tens of thousands of mu of fertile land nearby, and the villagers in dozens of surrounding villages rent the land of Murong Villa. kind.

Later, in the generation of Murong Ning's great-grandfather, he somehow got involved in the struggle for imperial power. He almost spent all his family wealth and helped a certain prince win the throne. Since then, he became an official in business and was named Jia The king of the county, and hereditary succession, the family was also given a gold medal for avoiding death.

In Murong Ning's generation, the vassal kings in the northwest rebelled. He led the army and earned a fortune by narrowly dying. After returning, he joined the Ministry of War and gradually achieved the position of Da Sima.

Later, when the old prince passed away, the title of King Jiajun was passed on to him.

He also has a young daughter from a concubine who entered the palace and became the emperor's concubine. It is said that she is very favored by the emperor and can be regarded as a relative of the emperor.

The currencies used by the Suye Dynasty are nothing more than gold, silver and copper plates. Usually, one tael of gold can be exchanged for 24 taels of silver, and one tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand copper plates.

The copper plates are divided into big money and small money. One big money is equal to ten small money.

She inquired about the prices here with Qin Bihua, and she knew that five cents could buy a catty of rice or noodles, two hundred copper coins could buy a bolt of cotton cloth, and as for silk, it cost one tael of silver, and satin was extremely expensive. Quite often, dozens of taels or even hundreds of taels of horses are not something farmers like them can afford.

However, the variety of vegetables here is much more comprehensive than she imagined. She remembered that she had accidentally read some information before, that is, the ancient vegetable varieties in China were very poor. Many vegetables later, such as sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and artichokes These vegetables are all imported from other places, so either the word "fan" or the word "foreign" is added in front.

But these vegetables are not rare here. Farmers grow them in their homes, and their names do not contain the word "fan" or "foreign". For example, sweet potatoes are called sweet potatoes, tomatoes are called June persimmons, and yams are called yam eggs. .

She thought, this place should not be ancient China, but another parallel space.

Early in the morning, her father in this life went out for a walk, and Gu Yunbai went out every morning before dawn, and only came back after dark.I can't make much money in a day. When I have a lot of money, I can earn thirty or fifty copper coins. If you want to be beaten, there will be people watching in the future, and you will not be allowed to enter the city to drag your feet.

This is a bit like a modern taxi company. Of course, if you are bullied, the car dealer will give you money.

After a month like this, I can probably earn a tael of silver, which can barely support the family.

As for the uncle’s house next door, it’s better than hers. The eldest daughter of my aunt married a good family. I heard that she runs a jewelry shop. Although it’s just a small silver shop, she can’t make much money. But I often help them.

Her uncle's name was Gu Yuntao, who had been selected as a scholar before, but now he was teaching in the free school in the village, so he didn't need to be exposed to the wind and the sun, and the clan gave him two taels of silver a month.

When it was dark, Gu Yunbai drove the donkey cart back from the city.

Today is another day for Gu Qingyang to take a rest, and he also came back together, greeted Gu Liushi who was cooking in the main room, and went to Gu Qingmei's room, "Meizi, is your head still hurting so much?"

Gu Qingyang came in with a blue cloth bag, put the bag aside, sat on the edge of the kang, looked at the little girl with concern, deep in the dark and sharp eyes, there was a strong sense of self-blame.He felt that he was useless, a dignified man, not only let his sister do needlework for him to study, but also let his sister be bullied.

Gu Shaotong was sitting cross-legged on the kang, holding an embroidery frame in his hand with a piece of white cotton cloth wrapped around it, and was learning to embroider something similar, but what he was embroidering was a completely different thing.

Seeing that Gu Qingyang came back, she hurriedly threw away the flower wrap in her hand, stood up and threw herself on Gu Qingyang's back, calling softly like a twisted bone sugar: "Fourth Uncle..."

Gu Qingyang smiled and pulled her back into his arms, pinched her little nose, and said, "Shaotong also learned how to embroider?"

Gu Shaotong giggled: "Yeah! Sister-in-law's head is hurt and I can't make money from embroidery, so I want to learn to embroider and earn money to buy delicious food for my sister-in-law!"

"Shaotong is really sensible!" Gu Qingyang praised her, and took out an oiled paper bag from his arms and handed it to her. "Here, Fourth Uncle bought you candy balls. You pack them in your purse and share them with your younger brother."

"Thank you, Uncle Four!" Gu Shaotong heard the word Tangqiu, his two big watery eyes suddenly shone with excitement, and he took the oiled paper bag over.

Gu Qingyang put her on the kang, she opened the oiled paper bag, and inside were sugar balls covered with white icing sugar, she called her brother over, took one, stuffed it into his mouth, and then put it in her own mouth I stuffed one, and then narrowed my eyes happily.

Gu Qingmei said with a smile: "Children eat too much candy and it is easy to damage their teeth. Don't keep buying candy for them."

"Anyway, the deciduous teeth will fall out, so what does it matter." Gu Qingyang handed the blue bundle to Gu Qingmei, "This is for you."

(End of this chapter)