Transformed into a mother of four children: Eating meat every meal during a famine

"Mom, this is amazing. What is this thing?" Wang Jinbao ran up, hugged Su Yunluo's hand and smelled it.

Hmm, it seems to be a light herbal scent, quite pleasant.

He suspected that there was something wrong with his sense of smell, so he pulled his sister over and said, "Mengmeng, smell it."

Wang Mengmeng lay on the back of Su Yunluo's hand and sniffed hard.

"Mom, your hands smell so good."

Su Yunluo smiled at her and wanted to test her: "Can you tell me how many herbs are used in it?"

Wang Mengmeng tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with certainty: "There should be a total of twenty-three herbs."

After saying that, he also listed the names of the twenty-three medicines one by one.

"Mother, am I right?"

Su Yunluo happily touched the little girl's head and said, "You are absolutely right."

"Wow, sister, how come you are so awesome!" Wang Jinbao praised.

"Maybe it's because I have a very powerful mother and very powerful brothers. Each of you is so powerful, so I naturally have to work hard to become as powerful as you!" Wang Mengmeng is really good at talking.

In the following days, Su Yunluo would spend some time every day taking care of the pair of centipedes personally.

I hope that one day centipedes can give birth to baby centipedes!

March is the busiest season in Daliushuxia Village.

After a spring rain, new buds sprouted from the tea trees.

Start picking when one or two small leaves appear.

At this time, the tea leaves are the smallest, the yield is extremely low, and they are also the most expensive.

The most expensive finished product sells for fifty taels of silver per pound.

The tea at this time is a bit expensive.

However, because the picking period is extremely short, only a few days, the output is relatively small and is always in short supply.

Soon, the tea leaves will grow.

For older tea leaves, the finished product can only be sold at around ten taels per pound.

Of course, this kind of tea also has special sales channels, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

Later on, it became a few taels of silver for one catty, and then one tael of silver for several catties.

Daliushuxia Village takes the middle and low-end route.

The main source of income comes from tea, which costs ten taels per pound.

Several thousand kilograms are sold every year.

During this period, the villagers of Daliushuxia Village spent all their time in the tea mountains except for eating and sleeping.

This year, everyone is busy picking, collecting and making tea, just like in previous years.

Su Yunluo personally went to the site to supervise and also added some modern techniques to make the tea brewed from the leaves more fragrant.

After a year of hard work, we are looking forward to the harvest.

However, when the time came, the merchants who came to collect the tea had not shown up.

It is normal to be late for one or two days.

And since those tea merchants collectively did not show up, there must be a problem.

Su Yunluo immediately sent people to investigate.

Soon, Eighteen found out everything and came back to report to her: "Madam, in previous years, the merchants who bought tea were all contacted through a distant relative of the former county magistrate Xu Yongnian. Xu Yongnian was beheaded, and the distant relative was also exiled to the border. Now, without him as a middleman, we can't contact the previous tea merchants at all."

"What should we do? Are we going to have so much tea stuck in our hands?" Lin Guozhong, the village chief of Daliushuxia Village, happened to be at the scene.

After hearing what Eighteen said, I couldn't help but sigh.

"That may not be the case. We have the goods, so we can definitely sell them. You don't have to worry about that. I'll figure it out. You just go back and make tea."

"Yes, then we'll go back first. The village still needs people right now." Lin Guozhong said goodbye and left.

These days, he was both happy and worried.

The good news is that the tea leaves are growing very well this year and the yield is extremely high.

What worries me is that there is so much output every day, but no tea merchant comes to buy it. The tea leaves are piling up. What if I can’t sell them?

Tea is not like other things and can be stored for a few years without any problem.

If tea is stored for a year or two, once the new tea becomes old tea, the price difference will be huge.

This year's tea can be sold for ten taels of silver per pound.

By the second year, it might not even be sold for one tael of silver per pound!

So these days, Lin Guozhong couldn't eat or sleep well because he couldn't see the tea merchants.

I always get distracted while working.

There is no other choice but to visit Mrs. Su more often.

Today, he learned that the original tea merchants might not be contacted. He really felt as if all the strength in his body was drained away in an instant, and the back of his head was cold.

Fortunately, Mrs. Su gave him assurance, which made him feel a little more at ease.

But Lin Guozhong was still a little worried.

Because the whole village has been looking forward to this dividend for a long time.

Based on the purchase price of tea merchants in previous years and Mrs. Su's promise to everyone, everyone privately calculated that after the tea was sold out this year, each person could get a dividend of at least ten taels of silver.

Ten taels per person is actually not much.

But this is the first time in so many years that everyone has received dividends.

During the years when Li Ermei was in control, not to mention dividends, they could not even get enough food to eat.

This is the first year of dividends, so everyone’s expectations are particularly strong.

Now we need to find new tea merchants to purchase tea, but there is a high possibility that they will lower the price.

As for how low it will go, no one can say.

As soon as Lin Guozhong returned to the village, he was surrounded by villagers.

They all asked him about his situation.

"Village Chief, have you found the tea merchant?"

"When will you come to collect the tea?"

"Maybe they know that the tea production this year is higher than in previous years, so they are late on purpose to lower the price? If the price is not too low, we can sell it if we can. It's better than keeping all the tea in our hands!"

Lin Guozhong sighed: "It's not about the price, it's that the previous tea merchants can't be contacted at all."

He explained the whole story to the villagers.

After hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded...

"So, it really can't be sold?"

"Then why are we picking tea?"

Some villagers were so anxious that they sat down on the ground and cried loudly...

Although, many people outside envy the life of not having to worry about food and drink.

But once people have hope, there will be disappointment.

After looking forward to dividends for several years, the time has finally come to cash them out, but I was told that the tea cannot be sold!

This!

How is this any different from simply taking the money from them?

"Don't worry! Madam Su said that we only need to produce tea. Leave the sales of tea to her. She will definitely find merchants to buy the tea!"

"What if I can't find it?"

"If something happens, don't say anything." Lin Guozhong didn't know what to do if he couldn't find a buyer: "If we can't find one this year, there's still next year. If we can't find one next year, there's still many years. We have to believe in Madam Su, she will definitely try her best! What we have to do now is to do our part well!"

Some people took their tools and continued to work.

Some villagers still stood there motionless.