Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Not long after we got on the official road, we met an ox cart heading to the county town.

The driver was a villager from Hewei Village and did not know Chen Lang, so after Chen Lang paid ten cents for the fare, he happily let Chen Lang get in the car.

If it were a villager from Hezhong Village, he would most likely not let Chen Lang get in the car.

There's nothing we can do about it, the reputation is too bad.

After the ox cart had been moving for a while, Chen Lang asked, "Father-in-law, what time do you go to the county town every day? Do you always go there by ox cart?"

The father-in-law responded cheerfully, "I've finished my work in the fields and go to the county town to work at this time every day."

Chen Lang was overjoyed and said, "Father-in-law, I want to discuss something with you."

"What do you want to discuss, young man?" asked the father-in-law.

"It's like this. I go to the county town around this time every day, but my walking speed is poor and it takes me a long time to walk. So I want to take a ride with you. I'll give you ten cents for each trip. How about it?" Chen Lang said.

The old man said, "Okay, but let me be clear, I won't wait for you. You can come to the official road at this time every day and wait for me. If I see you, I'll give you a ride. If I don't see you, you can just leave."

Chen Lang nodded: "No problem, I promise to be there on time every day!"

The transportation problem was temporarily solved, and Chen Lang's mood became better and better. He leaned on the ox cart and hummed a little tune again.

More than half an hour later, the ox cart drove into the county town.

Chen Lang jumped out of the car holding the bamboo basket and waved goodbye to his father-in-law.

He didn't rush to the restaurant, but went to the herbal medicine shop first.

Although mountain glutinous rice is a top-grade food ingredient, it is also a very expensive medicinal ingredient.

The profit from selling to a herbal medicine shop should be greater than selling to a restaurant.

The owner of the herbal medicine shop was very satisfied after seeing this road over the mountain, and directly gave Chen Lang a price that he could not refuse.

Three hundred and fifty coins!

Chen Lang had known about the mountain before, but he didn't expect it to be so valuable.

After the payment and goods were exchanged, Chen Lang asked curiously, "Boss, if the mountain pass is so valuable, why don't so many people seem to catch it?"

"Because everyone wants to catch them alive." The shopkeeper said, "If they're alive, they'll be worth two taels each!"

Chen Lang was greatly surprised, "So expensive?"

"Of course," the shopkeeper said, "but you're probably not a professional snake catcher, right? I advise you not to catch a live snake just for the money. These creatures are very vicious, and once bitten, even a god can't help. In the past two months, several snake catchers have been killed by them."

"Death may not be that valuable, but human life is obviously more important."

Chen Lang bowed his hands in thanks: "Thank you for your advice, boss. I will keep it in mind."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Next time, if there are any dead ones crossing the mountain, bring them to me. Three hundred and fifty coins a piece, no cheating."

Chen Lang said goodbye to the owner of the herbal medicine shop and went straight to the restaurant.

The restaurant owner greeted him warmly and even asked the waiter to serve Chen Lang a pot of tea.

Chen Lang asked the shopkeeper if he would buy loaches. The shopkeeper's eyes lit up: "You still have loaches? Let me take a look?"

Chen Lang lifted the water plants on the top of the bamboo basket, and fresh loaches were wriggling around underneath the water plants.

"This is a good thing." The shopkeeper picked up a loach and looked at it. "Thirty cents a pound, how about it?"

Chen Lang readily agreed, and in the end, the basket of crabs and loaches plus the dead duck sold for a total of about 300 coins.

Adding the three hundred and fifty coins for crossing the mountain, more than six coins of silver were in hand!

You have to know that Old Man Chen only earns a hundred or eighty cents a day working in the county town. This trip of mine is equivalent to what Old Man Chen would do in six days!

Of course, there is a high risk in catching a mountain goat. If one day you meet a mountain goat that has no moral principles and hides in the dark and bites Chen Lang suddenly, then the whole village will have a feast.

However, an older brother once said that the bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish.

If you want to make money quickly or make a lot of money, you must take certain risks.

More than six hundred coins were a bit heavy and not convenient to carry, so Chen Lang exchanged them for a few coins from the shopkeeper, leaving only a hundred or so copper coins.

This makes it much more convenient to carry.

And small change is easier to hide than copper coins.

After leaving the restaurant, Chen Lang went to the blacksmith shop again.

He wants to buy a pot.

There were several duck eggs in the backpack. If Qin were to take them home to cook, she would definitely come over and beg for them. If she didn't give them to him, she would make a fuss and even attack Li Xiuzhi and Guoguo when he was not at home.

In order to avoid these "troubles", Chen Lang decided to buy a pot and go to the river to boil the eggs before going home!

And with a pot, if you catch fish, crabs, loaches, etc. in the future, you can cook them by the river and take them home for your wife and daughter to eat.

The price of the pot is not cheap. Even the smallest one costs more than 40 cents.

Chen Lang finally understood why pots were part of dowry in ancient times.

A pot can easily become a family heirloom if you're not careful.

Chen Lang spent sixty cents to buy a medium-sized black pot, and the blacksmith was thoughtful enough to give him a wooden lid.

After the pot was ready, Chen Lang rushed to the cloth shop to buy clothes for the whole family.

Li Xiuzhi has never worn a new piece of clothing since she married Chen Erlang. Guoguo's clothes were all made by Li Xiuzhi using her own tattered clothes that she could no longer wear.

When Chen Lang thought of the happy smiles on the mother and daughter's faces when they saw the new clothes, he felt a warm current flowing through his chest.

However, Chen Lang was so busy thinking about his wife and children that he forgot to look at the sign of the cloth shop.

"Hey, you bastard, I didn't beat you into submission last time, did I?"

"Get out of here now, or don't blame us for being rude."

"Why waste your time talking to him? Take the stick and chase him out. Otherwise, the young lady will be so angry that she won't be able to eat if she sees him."

A loud noise interrupted Chen Lang's thoughts, and he realized that there were several ferocious-looking servants standing in front of him, holding weapons in their hands, as if they were ready to attack someone.

These servants look very familiar, I feel like I have seen them somewhere.

Chen Lang slapped his forehead and remembered.

These servants are from Xu’s cloth shop.

The muscle memory of my predecessor was so strong that it actually led me directly to Xu’s Cloth Shop.

"Don't be impulsive, bros. I've taken the wrong path."

Chen Lang didn't want to be beaten again, so he quickly left the cloth shop.

Looking up, I saw the four big characters "Xu's Cloth Shop" clearly written on the plaque.

Chen Lang was at a loss for words and turned around to leave.

However, at this time, a sedan chair stopped at the door of the cloth shop. After the curtain of the sedan chair was lifted, Xu Mengru walked out of the sedan chair.

When he saw Chen Lang, a deep disgust appeared in his eyes.

"you again?"

Chen Lang shrugged: "Do you believe me if I say I took the wrong road?"

Xu Mengru said indifferently: "I don't want to see you, please leave immediately!"

Chen Lang said: "Don't worry, I don't really want to see you either."

"Bye bye!"

After saying that, he left gracefully.

Xu Mengru was angry at first, then gradually became confused.

In the past, Chen Lang acted like a dog when he saw me, so why is he so tough today?

Also, bye bye...

what does it mean?