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

"Mother, Master, Brother, Sister, how is this dish?"

Li said, "It has vegetables, meat, and steamed buns. Of course it's good. It's better than what most people in the village eat."

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "It tastes good too. The women in the farm are really good at cooking. It tastes better than what I cook."

Zhou Gu shook his head, "No, you can cook any dish. As you cook more, your cooking skills will improve. They can't compare with you."

The old man agreed, "Yes, no matter how delicious it is, it's not as good as the food at home."

Zhou Guo said while eating steamed buns: "Food outside is not as delicious as the food at home. Even if it is a big restaurant, you will get tired of eating it every day. After a few meals, you will miss the taste of home."

Well, the Li family hasn’t eaten out much, so they don’t have a say in this.

The old man, who had been wandering all his life, could understand it best. "You're right. Even the food in the palace is not as delicious as the food at home."

Li and the others were curious, "Sir, you have eaten the food in the palace, how do you know that the food at home is better than the food in the palace?"

Zhou Gu said with longing: "It seems that escorting is quite good. You can see and eat everything, and you can even eat in the palace."

Zhou Guo laughed so hard that he almost choked on the food in his mouth.

The old man said unhappily, “If I could eat the food in the palace, would I still be sitting here?”

Zhou Guo said: "Master, what do you think the food in the palace is like? I wonder how delicious it is. I guess all the delicious food in the world is in there."

Li said, "Rich families always talk about delicacies from the mountains and the sea. We have eaten all of these things. I think the palace also has these things. They taste almost the same. At most, the chefs will cook them better and they taste better."

Zhou Xing and Zhou Gu nodded, "That's right, I guess there's nothing in this world that we haven't eaten."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Maybe one day we can really eat things brought out from the palace, such as snacks, candies, etc."

The old man snorted and said with a smile: "You are dreaming too big. You can eat whatever you want? That's the imperial palace!"

Zhou Guo said: "I just said that, can't it make people have some fantasies?"

After finishing the two steamed buns in her hand, she went to get two more.

Six steamed buns with a bowl of vegetables, she ate twelve steamed buns in one go.

There were many people in the village who had never eaten with her, and those who had eaten with her would not gossip about her, so naturally they did not know how much she could eat.

Seeing Zhou Guo going to get steamed buns again and again, taking two each time, after taking five or six times, everyone opened their mouths wide.

He whispered, "Master has a really big appetite. One meal is enough for me to eat five or six meals. How could an ordinary family afford to feed him?"

"Hey, do you think the master is someone like us? She is so capable and strong, she must eat more. If you ask me, the master is different, she is amazing, and she eats more than any of us!"

Zhou Guo ate generously and did not stop until he was full. He enjoyed the meal very much. Eating in the field with so many people seemed more delicious than eating at home.

More than 20 people harvested more than 600 kilograms in one day.

Zhou Guo divided the batch of mushrooms into two parts, and asked Zhou Gu and Hu Zi to lead a team each and head towards the two farthest cities.

There are 400 kilograms of dried flower mushrooms in one place, and it’s too much and I’m afraid they may not be able to take it all.

"Go to sleep after you eat, and set off in the second half of the night."

Wu Jiang said, "Master, the price has not been decided yet. How much is a pound?"

Zhou Guo said, "When the mountain goat mushrooms came out this spring, they were initially sold at thirty coins per pound. Later, the lowest price never dropped below twenty coins. However, the mountain goat mushrooms are out of season. Fresh goat mushrooms don't last long and are hard to come by. Those two places are the farthest away, so the lowest price must not be less than one hundred coins. You can negotiate the price yourself."

"Yes!"

"As for flower mushrooms, it takes eight or nine kilograms of fresh mushrooms to dry one kilogram of dried mushrooms. Although flower mushrooms can't be compared with goat mushrooms, we are the only one! Well, one kilogram can't be less than 280 wen. If they don't want it, we can just take it back and sell it in the store. So hold your chest high and be tough. Don't give in."

"Yes!"

After dinner, Zhou Gu went to bed.

Zhou Guo took Wu Jiang to check the convoy, the baskets, and the things they needed to bring, and ordered the people on the farm to prepare dry food for them to eat on the road.

In the second half of the night, after Zhou Gu had eaten the meal prepared by his family, he went to the farm.

The convoy set off from the village, and everyone was ready and standing waiting to set off.

Four cars weighing more than 1,400 kilograms are enough.

Most of Zhuangzi's best fighters followed him. They learned a few martial arts moves from the old man, which were more than enough to deal with a few petty thieves.

She said, "The world is in chaos now. If you run into a few petty thieves, just get rid of them. But if you really run into a bandit who kills people without blinking an eye, if you can't beat them, just run away. If you can't run away, give them all the money and cattle. If you lose money, you can earn it again. If you lose people, you lose them. The most valuable thing in our village is not the ox cart or the fungi on the cart, but you. Remember?"

"Yes, we remember!" Everyone answered in unison, their voices rising and their tones trembling slightly with excitement.

Looking at Zhou Guo at this moment, he wanted to give his heart to her.

When the hour of ugliness was over, she waved her hand and said, "Let's go. Be careful on the road."

The convoy drove into the misty night.

After a while, it disappeared without a trace, and only the faint glow of fire could be seen.

Li asked, "Are you going to Shopkeeper Yang's place by yourself? Or are you going to Shopkeeper Qin's place?"

Zhou Guo said, "I'm going to Yunzhou. I have so many preserved eggs at home. I can't give them all to Shopkeeper Qin. He doesn't need so many at once. I have to sell the preserved eggs to each household."

The old man smiled and said, "Didn't Shopkeeper Qin ask for preserved eggs first? You even said you wanted to give him a few recipes."

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Let him wait a few more days. He can go there after he goes to Manager Yang's place. I don't have a clone, so I have to go to each place one by one."

In the next two days, more than ten people collected more than 600 kilograms.

Zhou Guo thought about it and realized that there were few people on the farm now, so she could probably go back and forth to Yunzhou in two days.

She might as well take these 600 kilograms of sheep mushrooms and 400 kilograms of flower mushrooms to Yunzhou. She still had to visit Manager Qin, after all, he was the first person to support her preserved egg business.

In the afternoon, all the mushrooms were loaded onto the truck, along with four hundred preserved eggs.

Li said, "Even if we can sell them for three cents each, four hundred preserved eggs are only a little more than one tael. This thing is more precious than sheep mushrooms. I think it would be better to bring a few more kilograms of flower mushrooms."

There are still a lot of shiitake mushrooms at home.

Zhou Guo said, "Mom, don't underestimate these preserved eggs. Although it's a small business and you can only make a few cents at a time, it will be quite worthwhile if the business becomes bigger."

The old man said, "To earn two cents at a time, you need a thousand duck eggs to earn one tael. How many ducks are needed to lay that much?"