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

Zhou Guo said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, brother, take it out and see how much money the master has sealed for you."

"This..." Wu Ya was still hesitating, but Zhou Gu had already opened the red envelope.

When he opened it, there was a silver note worth fifty taels inside!

The one that Wu Ya opened was also a silver note worth fifty taels!

Everyone was stunned.

Zhou Gu moved his mouth, a little hesitant.

Zhou Guo said hurriedly, "Oh, Master is really rich. He gave me 100 taels of silver at once. There are so many people in our family, and many of them are still unmarried. You have to prepare at least 1,000 taels. You are so old, and you still have to go out and earn money for the children's wedding gifts."

But we can’t let Zhou Gu say no, because the old man will be unhappy and will think that he is not considered a family member.

The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "You ordered me to do less than you should. All these were earned from you."

The atmosphere suddenly became relaxed after she interrupted them.

Zhou Gu said to Wu Ya, "Take it. It's a token of the master's love. You should respect him as if he were your own grandfather."

Wu Ya nodded.

Then there are the younger brothers and sisters.

Starting with Zhou Xing, everyone got a pair of shoes. When Wu Ya gave them to them, her face turned red. She said, "I, I don't have anything to show off. I made these shoes myself. If you like them, you can wear them. If you don't like them, you can keep them in the bottom of your box."

After seeing the Zhou family's generosity, a pair of shoes to them was as worthless as a stone on the roadside, and they were all cloth shoes.

Zhou Xing held the shoes lovingly and said, "How could that be? Shoes like this are the most comfortable to wear. It takes a lot of effort to make a pair of shoes, especially the soles, which are very difficult to sew. You sewed so many by yourself and made so many pairs. It must have been very hard."

Zhou Mai smiled and said, "It just so happens that I can wear them after I wash my feet at night. My pair just happened to be broken."

Everyone expressed their like.

Wu Ya finally put her mind at ease. Looking at this family, she felt that the hardships she had endured in the past ten years were nothing. She sincerely thanked her father and stepmother for marrying her into the family. In the future, she would definitely be filial to the elderly, love her younger siblings, and take care of the family.

After breakfast and gifts, the family started to clean up the yard.

After cleaning up, it was almost noon, so Li took Zhou Xing and Wu Ya to make lunch.

Zhou Guo lay on the old man's rocking chair, rocking back and forth, occasionally putting a candied fruit into his mouth. When his mouth became dry, he would drink a cup of tea, feeling extremely carefree.

The old man was playing chess with Zhou Su.

Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi are not very interested in chess, and Zhou Gu doesn't know how to play it. But Zhou Su likes it. The grandfather and grandson don't know how to play Go, so they play a game when they have nothing to do.

Seeing Zhou Guo like this, he couldn't help but say, "Everything is fine in the manor, don't you need to go check it out? You haven't been there for a few days?"

Zhou Guo shook his head, squinting at the black dots flying around in the sky, and said, "Can't you let me rest for a while? In half a month, the pine mushrooms in the mountains will come out. By then, I won't be able to rest even if you want me to. I have to work non-stop in the four prefectures, and I have to find a way to go to Huaiyang.

Besides, soon, the flower mushrooms and goat mushrooms will also start to be planted. Master, I have a lot of things to do next, please let me rest for a while, so that I can make money. Otherwise, where will you get the one thousand taels from?"

The old man had nothing to say. While others were starting to hibernate at this time, it was the busiest time for his young apprentice.

Zhou Su said, "If I don't go to school, I really want to go with you, sister, why don't you call me when you go to Huaiyang, I will go with you."

The old man glared, "You're not going to school?"

Zhou Su smiled and said, "I can ask for leave. If not, I can say I want to travel and study. The teachers in the school always advocate that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. If I say I want to travel and study, they will definitely be very happy and will be happy to let me go."

The more I thought about it, the more I thought this was a good idea.

Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi, who were reading on the side, put down their books and asked, "Can we go too?"

Zhou Guo had a headache and simply waved his hand and said, "No, there are too many people. Besides, this is my first time walking this road. I don't know what will happen on the road. There is chaos outside. How can I protect so many of you with just my hands?"

A few people were disappointed.

Zhou Mai is his elder brother after all, so he said, "It doesn't matter. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Wouldn't it be just causing trouble if we go now?"

Zhou Guo nodded, "Once you are familiar with this route, you can go there many times every year. You can go there whenever you want."

The pine mushrooms had not come out yet, so Zhou Guo went to the field to take a look and decided to eat crabs first.

I have to have a good meal before I get busy.

After raising a thousand crabs for several months, more than a hundred of them have died so far, but fortunately, those that remain have all grown fat.

She came back from the field and said to the old man in the vegetable garden, "Master, the crabs in the field are ready to eat. Let's go and ask the master to catch the crabs."

The old man was pulling out radish seedlings. When he heard this, he gave up the radish seedlings and stood up and said, "Didn't you say it would take another half a month?"

He has been visiting every few days for the past month.

Zhou Guo said embarrassedly: "I saw that he is very fat now. Isn't it because the mushrooms in the mountain are about to come out? Let's have a good meal before work."

The old man came out of the field carrying a basket. "What are you waiting for? Let's go. There's no need to call for help. Just the two of us can do it. There's no rice in the fields at this time. You and I can both go to the fields."

Zhou Guo had no choice but to follow him.

The crabs are fat, and there are people guarding the place every day, for fear that someone will steal them. Each crab costs one tael of silver.

The servant saw that only Zhou Guo and the old man came, so he volunteered, "Master, I'll go and catch it."

The old man waved his hand and said, "No need for you. I can't even catch a crab. You can just watch from the side."

As he said this, he stepped on his shoes and went down to the fields.

Zhou Guo also went down and said to the servant beside him: "You watch from the shore, and cover the crabs after throwing one in. Don't let them come out. Everyone will have a share of crabs today, one for each person."

"Really?!" The servant was so happy that his voice became several times louder.

The old man was startled. "Can't you keep your voice down? It's just a crab, why are you so excited?"

He lowered his head again before he finished speaking.

Zhou Guo almost laughed out loud and told him, "Take good care of this frame. A crab is valuable, worth one tael of silver. If you lose one, I will deduct it from your monthly salary."

After saying that, he went down, put on his shoes, took a small shovel, and dug wherever he saw a hole.

You know what, it’s really fun, just like going to the beach.

The two men dug in the field for more than an hour and dug up a basket of crabs, about eighty or ninety in total.

The old man is not satisfied yet.