Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

The old man said slowly, "What's the big deal if it's for nothing? I don't have to carry it anyway. I can just put it in the car. Now I need it. Don't talk anymore. You scared my fish away."

Zhou Guo had no choice but to shut up. After a while, he couldn't sit still anymore, so he picked up the food box and went upstream. When he saw a shallow part of the river, he rolled up his trousers and went into the river. After searching for about an incense stick of time, he caught a grass carp weighing more than four kilograms.

I went ashore happily, as I had fish to eat again tonight. I pierced the fish with a vine and tied it to a big rock on the shore. I let it slide in the water, so it wouldn't die for a while.

I went down to search again. One fish might not be enough for their family.

During the time it took to eat a meal, another one weighing about three pounds was caught.

She stood in the water, the fish in her hand swinging its tail left and right, almost hitting her in the face with the tail.

He happily carried the fish ashore, wiped the water off his feet, put on his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked towards the old man with the food box in one hand and the two fish in the other.

"Master, look, we have fish to eat tonight, let's go and stop fishing."

The old man turned his head and saw her two big fish, then looked into his bucket and didn't want to talk.

"How many have you caught?" Zhou Guo walked over and looked into the bucket, and saw a small fish the size of half a palm in the huge bucket.

"Um, shall we go?" She looked at the old man. What else was there to fish for if she couldn't catch any fish?

The old man decisively put away the club and sighed silently, "Let's go."

Zhou Guo smiled, put the small fish in the bucket, filled another half bucket with water, put the two fish in, and filled the bucket with water. "Let's go back quickly. If they stay here for too long, they will die. If they die, they will no longer be fresh."

Dead fish is not as fresh as live fish.

It was already past noon. Zhou Guo opened the food boxes and took out the dishes inside. The master and his disciple ate heartily, taking bites of steamed buns, meat and vegetables.

There was still one chicken left at the end of the meal.

Zhou Guo said: "We will share this chicken in half."

As he said this, he planned to split it into two.

"No need." The old man quickly stopped her, "Just give me a chicken neck. I can't eat that much."

He ate too much without realizing it, mainly because Zhou Guo ate so deliciously that he couldn't help but eat more too.

"Okay." Zhou Guo decisively cut off the chicken's neck and gave it to him together with the chicken head. He couldn't help laughing while holding the remaining chicken. He took a big bite and it was really delicious.

The old man is so envious. With such a good appetite, why can’t he eat anymore?

The two walked and ate all the way back to the village. They didn't meet anyone on the way, and they didn't know whether the people who went to the village had not returned or had already returned.

Zhou Guo drove the car to the farm and heard voices from a distance. It was very lively.

When I got closer and took a look, I was stunned. There were so many people. At first glance, it was just a sea of ​​heads. The outside of the village was surrounded by layers of flesh walls. It was so big that even a needle could not be inserted.

The old man said, "You go and see what's going on. I'll send the fish back first and come back later."

Zhou Guo jumped off the car, walked over and tried to squeeze in, but found it was useless. These people were taller than her, and if she squeezed through the gaps between them, she would be surrounded and unable to breathe. The key point was that there were some lazy guys among them. Who knows how long it has been since they took a shower, and the smell could be smelled from half a mile away.

He retreated, found a place with few people, stepped forward, jumped up, and climbed over the wall.

After all, there were many people and things on the farm, so she still built a wall, but the wall was not high.

Wu Jiang saw her coming back, as if he had seen a savior, "Boss, you're back. These people seemed to have made an agreement, all wanting to take home ten stones of land. We sold ten stones to the first ones who came, but who knew that more and more people came later, no matter how much land they had, they wanted ten stones. I told them that with so many people, each of them would buy so much, and the people behind would be gone. Moreover, those who bought too much have to pay back, but these people didn't listen, and they refused to leave until they could buy ten stones, like they were possessed."

Zhou Guo asked, "Where are the madam and the others?"

"I saw more and more people coming, so I asked my wife and the others to go back and asked Huzi to bring everyone here, for fear that they would break in."

Zhou Guo nodded, straightened his clothes, walked over, and looked at everyone with a smile.

The noisy crowd gradually quieted down.

A woman said, "Boy, you are finally back. Tell your family, I want to pull ten dan, but they won't let me. Didn't you say that we can pull as much as we want, right? But they refused to give us anything, saying that they didn't have that much and that they had to leave it for the people behind. How could that be? We were the first to come, first come first served, right? We just want to pull ten dan."

"Yes, we also want to pull ten stones. We have a lot of land, and we don't know if ten stones is enough."

The people behind were not happy. "You are the only one with the most land. Who doesn't have three or five acres of land? Why are you trying to be so big? We are all from the same village. Why are you bringing so much back? Are you hoarding it for food? Why don't you leave some for us?"

After saying this, the people in front and behind started arguing again.

Everyone wants to pull more back. After all, it doesn’t cost money now. With more fertilizer, more grain can be produced. Then the grain can be used directly to pay for it. What a profitable deal!

Seeing their attitude, Zhou Guo didn't know when they would stop. Dapang brought her a chair just in time. Zhou Guo smiled at him and sat on the chair.

Erpang brought over a small table, and Huzi and a few others brought over teapots, teacups, and melon seeds and snacks.

Zhou Guo was stunned.

Hu Zi smiled at her and whispered, "Master, you are tired after a day's work. Sit down for a while, eat some melon seeds, drink some tea, and have some snacks. Just treat it as watching a show."

You know what, I'm actually a little thirsty.

I ate a lot along the way, including dried meat and snacks, but I didn't drink much water.

Hu Zi had already poured the tea. Zhou Guo looked at him with amusement, thinking that he wanted her to be very pretentious.

He picked up the teacup and drank it in two gulps without showing any emotion.

Hu Zi was holding the teapot and was busy adding tea when he saw this.

Zhou Guo drank three cups of tea in one breath.

The crowd also gradually quieted down.

Looking at Zhou Guo like this, they felt he was a stranger. He was totally different from the young man they had met in the past two days. He was not a farm boy at all, but a young master from some wealthy family.

Seeing that they stopped talking, Zhou Guo smiled slightly, stood up and poured himself two cups of tea, gulped down the tea, tilted his head back and drank it in two gulps, then wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

Facing everyone, he smiled and said, "Stop arguing? If you don't want to argue, let's talk it out."

Everyone seemed shocked and no one spoke.

Zhou Guo said, "I know you all value fertilizer and want to take it all back to your homes, but guys, I'm not giving you this fertilizer for free, I'm selling it to you! Even if you don't have money, I will go to your homes to get food. The more fertilizer you bring back now, the more you will have to pay back after the autumn harvest."