After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

The family owes too many things, ranging from needlework, pots, bowls, oil lamps, to tables, chairs, benches, beds, clothes, quilts, rice, noodles, etc. They have nothing, so they have to buy everything.

Qin Yao visited the entire Kaiyang County and bought everything she needed.

Four hundred kilograms of fine rice, one hundred kilograms of refined noodles, fifty kilograms of soybeans, and fifty kilograms of millet. A total of six hundred kilograms of food is enough for her and her four children to eat for four months, so they can survive the winter. .

These fine rice, refined flour, and millet are more than twice as expensive as brown rice and coarse flour, costing four taels and eighty cents.

Of course, the main reason is that Qin Yao eats a lot, one person can support five people. In other families, 600 kilograms of grain can be made into porridge for more than half a year.

Don't ask her why she doesn't save money and buy brown rice and thick noodles.

Because she couldn't swallow that stuff at all.

The so-called brown rice should be more appropriately called rice bran. Only 40% of it is rice, and the remaining 60% is rice bran.

The same goes for thick noodles. Almost half of them are wheat husks, and the noodles steamed with water will choke your throat.

Although there is an extreme shortage of supplies in the last days, the diet structure is different from that in ancient times. People are too poor to eat, or they really can't afford it.

Once there is something to eat, it is either instant noodles, biscuits, etc. that can be stored for a long time, or food obtained from agricultural bases.

Rice bran has long disappeared from human diet.

Therefore, let alone brown rice and coarse noodles, even if it is a miscellaneous grain that is mainly used for weight loss, modern people will find it tasteless after just a few bites.

Since she has that ability, Qin Yao doesn't intend to treat her stomach badly. Not being able to eat well is simply worse than being chased by mutated zombies.

After buying food, Qin Yao went to the cloth store and bought three quilts weighing ten kilograms, three thin quilts, and three palm mats made of palm bark.

In addition, I weighed five pounds of cotton and bought one piece of the cheapest white cotton cloth, one piece of cyan cotton cloth, and one piece of red coarse cloth.

Red is reserved for making new clothes for the New Year. The children in the family all look like their father, and their facial features are very good. If you put them away properly, they will definitely be very eye-catching.

A piece of cloth is fifteen meters long and about one and a half meters wide. This is enough for their family of five, both inside and outside, with plenty left over.

Qin Yao didn't know how to make clothes at all. She bought sewing and thread and planned to go home and find someone to help her make it.

There were ready-made clothes for sale in the store, and they were second-hand. They were probably used as collateral from a pawn shop.

Seeing that the price was good, Qin Yao looked at her linen clothes that were so dirty that she couldn't even see them anymore. She decisively picked one that she could wear, and also bought one for each of her four children.

Each person also got a pair of shoes. Qin Yao had leather boots, and the four children had coarse cloth shoes, all of which were half-worn.

Hers fit her feet, but people were used to being simple and the sizes were a little too big. None of the four pairs of children's shoes were true to size.

But children grow fast, so if they wear socks and add thick insoles, they will be able to fit their feet just fine.

Qin Yao also bought some socks, insoles, headscarves, and hair ties.

It cost ten taels of silver to get all this done.

When paying the bill, Qin Yao took a breath and thought that these cloths were too expensive. No wonder everyone bought the materials and made them at home.

After leaving Buzhuang, Qin Yao went to the grocery store to buy all the daily needs of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans.

However, I couldn't find a shop that sold finished furniture. I could only accept custom-made carpenters. The furniture could only be put away temporarily. After I returned to the village, I would ask a nearby carpenter to help me make a few pieces.

After buying all the things, Qin Yao rented an ox cart at the North City Gate for thirty cents, took the cart driver to load the purchased grain, loaded the cart full of things, and set off back to Liujia Village.

The bullock cart was full of things and there was no place to sit, so Qin Yao walked with the cart driver.

It is an official road from Kaiyang County to Jinshi Town. The weather is sunny today and the road surface is pretty good.

Qin Yao counted the remaining silver in her hand as she walked.

This cart of things cost eighteen taels of silver, and now she still had sixty-seven taels of silver left in her hand.

Qin Yao planned to save fifty taels for emergencies. The remaining seventeen taels she planned to use to make some decent furniture, repair the shabby thatched hut, reinforce the walls, build two more rooms, and Build a bathroom and kitchen, and then build walls.

The most important thing is the wall. Without a wall, there is no privacy at all. I don’t feel safe leaving anything at home. I am always worried that someone will steal it.

There are also walls, which can protect against some wild beasts that come down the mountain to look for food in winter, so you can sleep more peacefully.

The second step is to repair the main body of the existing house. The thatched roof that can be blown away by strong wind must be replaced with strong and waterproof tiles.

But if you want to build tiles, the beams and walls of the house must be reinforced.

Qin Yao knew a little about these things and decided to ask the people in the Liu family's old house when the time came.

She saw how awesome Liu and his son were when they repaired her roof.

Qin Yao could see that the people in the old house couldn't worry about this bastard Liu Ji.

I don’t know if all the children who can bark can eat sweets. Old man Liu is indeed a bit partial to Liu Ji’s son.

And this partiality may not even be noticeable to him.

Qin Yao was calculating the accounts, imagining that she could sleep in a sturdy house and a spacious and warm bed this winter. The corners of her mouth turned up unconsciously, and she felt windy when she walked.

The coachman couldn't catch up with her and shouted. Qin Yao then realized and slowed down slightly.

She ate well and slept well last night. Today she changed into clean clothes and wore sturdy leather boots. Her whole body was very different. The depression on her face was gone. She was carrying a bow on her back and holding a knife, which looked quite different. The dashing appearance of a heroic heroine.

The coachman didn't like to talk. Qin Yao wanted to know more about this place, so she kept chatting with the coachman.

Only then did I learn from the other party that there were many former rebels in Kaiyang County who turned into bandits and often ran down the mountain to rob people.

The local government was incompetent, and the wealthy merchants and gentry were miserable.

When Qin Yao heard this, she suddenly worried about the goods in her car.

The coachman saw her worry and finally said proactively: Don't panic, little lady. They don't like to come to our remote country.

The coachman said: These bandits most like to go to the neighboring town. The official road there leads directly to the city. There are many merchants along the way. They want money, so they naturally go there.

But the little lady usually goes out alone, so it's better to be more careful.

He heard that many good women were kidnapped to the mountains and tortured and humiliated to death by the bandits with extremely cruel methods, so he kindly reminded Qin Yao.

Thank you for reminding me, I understand. Qin Yao nodded gratefully to the coachman, she would be more careful.

It seems that the security situation in ancient times will not be much better than in the apocalypse.

The journey went smoothly for the two of them, except for the wheels getting stuck a few times. But because Qin Yao was there, they pushed him out immediately. In the evening, the two of them arrived at Liujia Village smoothly.

Qin Yao thought about the four little ones at home, and she felt like returning home.

Unexpectedly, she felt a strange atmosphere as soon as she entered the village.