Splendid Farm: Niangzi loves farming

Chapter 22 Buying Rice Seeds

After the two entered the room, the boss asked the waiter to take the two of them to the guest room. Before leaving, Mo Qianqian did not forget to ask, "Boss, we have to take care of our skins. If there is one missing, you will have to pay for it. And, Our deer haven't eaten for a day, so they are fed with good grass and food."

The boss nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, don't worry." Then he whispered: "This monkey bastard is dead, no wonder your father dared to let the two of you come to the hotel..."

Although the guest rooms in this store are also heated kangs, they are not very hot. Fortunately, Mo Qianqian, who has lived on the shelf for several months, has gotten used to it and doesn't feel cold at all.

The two of them were tired and hungry after walking, and they rested after eating some food brought by the waiter.

Mo Qianqian didn't have so many feudal thoughts. In her heart, Shuan Zi was her younger brother. She didn't feel any embarrassment at all living together, so she casually fell asleep on a kang.

When I woke up the next day, there was no light, and the streets were bustling with people.

After breakfast, Mo Qianqian and Shuanzi bet a piece of raccoon fur at the boss's place, and lied that they would go to the inn to find their father to sell the fur together. After that, the two stopped the reindeer from sledging and left Wangji Inn.

The two of them inquired all the way to find a leather goods store, and after inquiring about the prices of several stores, they chose one to sell the leather goods.

The two men brought the largest number of skins, roe deer skins. Roe deer skins have poor thermal insulation properties and are the least valuable of all skins. The next largest number are fox skins and raccoon skins. There are about forty pieces together. It's just miscellaneous.

After some bargaining, all the skins were sold together for 20 taels of silver.This made Shuan Zi, who was standing by the side, happy with his little face. 20 taels of silver was quite a large sum in Shuanzi's mind.

Mo Qianqian did some calculations. In this era, one tael of silver is almost equal to 1000 yuan in modern times, so that means that he and Shuanzi got 2 yuan in exchange for the fruits of their labor this winter. It seems that the income from hunting is not bad. .

But she didn't just care about being happy. According to the plan before she came, the first thing she did after getting the money was to go straight to Mipu with Shuanzi.

The purpose of her coming to the rice shop was not to buy rice for food, but to buy rice seeds.

According to what she has learned in the past few months, she knows that no one grows rice near Yanjiangtun.

The Songhua River in this era is basically the same geographical location and climate as the Songhua River in her previous life, which is very suitable for growing rice.The riverside water source makes the land fertile, the temperature of the river water is suitable, and the nutrition is sufficient. Although the growth cycle is longer, the rice grown is of good quality, rich in rice fragrance, and tastes better than southern rice.

But all the low-lying land along the Songhua River that Mo Qianqian saw was empty. This made Mo Qianqian, who was born as a village girl and an agricultural college student in her previous life, feel that it was a waste. Wouldn't it be a waste to have such a great resource not to be used? She failed God's good intentions in sending her here.

Therefore, she has already planned that in the spring of this year, she will work as hard as she can to plant rice in the wasteland around her house, so that the Songhua River will be as fragrant as her hometown in the world.

It's just that she kept this idea hidden in her heart just like she did before hunting, and she didn't tell others about it until she came to Huining this time and started the first step of her own plan.

After all, Shuanzi was still a child, and had never even heard of rice, so naturally he didn't know whether her idea was realistic, and only knew to follow behind her.

After the two came to the rice shop, Mo Qianqian asked Shuanzi to wait outside, went inside and asked the waiter, "Do you have any rice here?"

The man was sifting rice with a fine sieve, and he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye but didn't answer.

Mo Qianqian thought he didn't hear it, so he asked again, this time the clerk spoke up, and said angrily: "Yes, one hundred coins per catty, can you afford it? The children are fine, let's go home and play! "

Mo Qianqian gasped. She thought that rice would be expensive in this era, but she didn't expect it to be so expensive. She subconsciously said, "Why is it so expensive?"

The man squinted at her again and said, "Why is it not expensive? The weather in Liao is too cold to grow rice at all. Now we have fallen out with Jin again. The two countries are not allowed to trade. This rice is from a grain merchant in Jin." It was stolen and sold here at the risk of beheading, do you think it is not expensive? Kid, if you can’t afford it, don’t ask, I’m still busy.”

Mo Qianqian understood in an instant. She also knew a little bit about the current situation. The Liao Kingdom used to be a vassal state of the Jin Kingdom and wanted to pay tribute to the Jin Kingdom. Liao, even the ability to be independent, the Jin State was under the control of several surrounding countries and could not suppress it with troops. In order to rule the Liao State, it cut off all exchanges between the two countries.However, the border of the Liao State is to the north, just outside the normal rice planting area, so rice has become a scarce commodity.

But this is great news for Mo Qianqian, because the more expensive the rice is, the higher the selling price of the rice she grows will be.

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became, but when she thought about the little money in her hand, she felt a little regretful. The high price of rice meant that the rice seeds she could sell enough to buy were much less than the original plan.

She tried her best to use the little money in her hand, thought for a while and asked again: "The price of rice is one hundred yuan per catty, what about the price of rice without husks?"

She knows that rice is much easier to store than rice. In order to ensure the quality of the rice, the rice shop will definitely not pound it all out for storage.

The guy gave her a surprise look, and said, "Paddy with husks is 98 cents a catty, what do you mean you poor boy can really buy it? If you don't buy it, don't inquire about it!"

Mo Qianqian quietly rolled his eyes, the price reduction was almost the same as no reduction.But when you think about it, rice is so expensive that it takes a little effort to pound it out.

After doing some calculations, she said, "Give me 120 catties of your new rice with husks!"

While talking about it, he has started to calculate quickly in his mind: "It is necessary to plant rice here by hand, but it will save a little. If the germination rate is satisfactory, these 120 catties of rice seeds can be planted almost a year." Hectares of paddy fields, with the current labor force of four people in the family, there is basically no problem, except for major problems, and it must be a considerable income in autumn..."

She thought about it here, but the guy over there was stunned, and said: "Boy, if you have money, you are clamoring to buy rice."

Seeing that he still didn't believe it, Mo Qianqian opened the wallet in his hand and showed him a look.

Only then did the guy know what she said was true. The 120 catties of rice was not a small deal. The guy immediately ran inside to find the boss. After the boss came out, Mo Qianqian negotiated the price again, and the boss sold it to Mo Qianqian.

(End of this chapter)