Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

Manager Qian didn't hesitate, after all, this wasn't his original profession.

This time, I was forced to come and buy grain for resale, partly to collect grain and partly to earn more money.

After all, they have so many places where they need to spend money!

Fortunately, this time the fans are a new phenomenon; they can not only serve as food but also attract more people to buy them.

Using the money from selling vermicelli to buy grain not only provides food for the Northwest but also earns a little money—why not do it!

"Then it's settled. From now on, I'll have priority for fans. I'll come every five days to collect them, and I hope to collect about 5,000 jin each time."

Zhang Xixi assured her, "You can rest assured about that."

"Manager Qian, would you like some salted duck eggs?"

Shopkeeper Qian was taken aback. "How much?"

He won't take it if it's too small, and it's not worth it to bring it over.

Zhang Xixi quickly calculated in her mind, "There are probably more than three thousand."

"Where is it? Let me take a look!"

Zhang Xixi took him to the Zhang family.

Prices for everything edible have gone up. A regular duck egg costs two coins, while salted duck eggs are probably more expensive. Jars also cost money.

Chen showed him the pickled duck eggs, and the two discussed the price. They finally settled on six coins each and took all the duck eggs away.

Then they took away the 20,000 jin of vermicelli that had just been produced. They paid a deposit, and the bill will be settled next time.

Zhang Xixi thought for a moment and realized that as long as there was a food shortage in the Northwest, their fans would have to keep supplying Manager Qian.

That's good too. With this big customer, we don't have to worry about not being able to sell them!

So Zhang Xixi stopped looking for other people to sell her fans. Anyway, she already had buyers, so she could wait and see.

The demand for sweet potatoes just needs to increase!

Zhang Xixi went to the sweet potato field alone again; the sweet potato seedlings had already grown.

She bought ten buckets of plant growth nutrient solution from the system store, took out two spray bottles, and quickly sprayed the sweet potato seedlings with one in each hand.

After a busy afternoon, my hands are so sore when I get home!

After dinner, Xiao Jin and his family returned!

Now, Zhang Xixi only sees the Jin family when they want to drink the spiritual spring water, but they always bring back prey, which makes Zhang Xixi happy.

Zhou Fu and Zhou Yujie went to deal with the pheasants and deer that Xiao Jin had brought back, while the other children played with the two tiger cubs in the yard. Zhang Xixi went to the west wing to put down four buckets of spiritual spring water.

Xiao Jin and Xiao Hua finished their own drinks and left the other two buckets.

After finishing its drink, Little Jin roared a few times, "Thank you, Master! Master is so kind!"

After Zhang Xixi came out, she went to the kitchen to get water to wash up. She was too tired today and needed to rest early!

The next day, Zhang Xixi went to the sweet potato field again. The sweet potato seedlings had grown densely, and the sweet potato vines were very long.

Wang Daniu and his colleagues continued leveling the fields by the river. It took them two days to break up the clods of soil in the paddy fields, and they still had to plow the pasture.

The grass on top has turned yellow, but the roots are still fresh. After turning the soil, it needs to be dried in the sun for a few more days.

Zhou Dashan and his team have already started purchasing raw materials and are gradually building the threshing ground.

Although the village organized the repairs, Zhou Dashan still paid them wages, thirty coins a day.

Now everyone in the village is just waiting for the land to be prepared so they can plant sweet potatoes; there's not much else to do.

Zhang Dacheng led the ox to level the land, while Chen and her two daughters-in-law followed behind, using hoes to break up large clods of earth.

Fortunately, everyone in the family has become stronger, otherwise it would have been really difficult to break this clod of earth.

In the county town, those who learned how to make vermicelli have returned to Madam Sun's estate, and they even bought a cartload of sweet potatoes to take back with them when they left.

Because they had heard that the vermicelli from Fucheng was selling very well, Madam Sun had already ordered people to collect sweet potatoes everywhere.

However, due to the poor soil, after paying the grain tax, the villages below only had enough left to feed themselves, with no surplus to sell for money.

At this point, Magistrate Sun discovered that Zhang Xixi's village had a much higher sweet potato yield than other villages.

What's the secret behind this?

Could it really be thanks to that medicine?

After two days of work in the deserted village, Zhang Xixi asked Wang Daniu to lead people to cut sweet potato seedlings and plant them on the land by the river, and also asked the Zhang family to cut sweet potato vines for planting.

Chen didn't stand on ceremony with her. She carried a basket on her back and cut a lot of meat. She trimmed and kept what she could use, and fed the rest to the chickens and ducks.

Last time, Chen and Zhou made nearly a hundred taels of silver from selling ducks and eggs, which made them very happy. Recently, they wanted to go to town to buy ducks to raise, but Chen stopped them.

"Winter is almost here, where are we going to find food for the ducks!"

Zhou was taken aback for a moment and said, "Aren't there sweet potato vines?"

"These sweet potatoes haven't even been planted yet, how do we know if they'll survive? Let's wait until next spring to start raising them!"

"All right!"

Ms. Chen and Ms. Zhou had no choice but to give up their idea of ​​making money.

The three of them planted the sweet potato vines in the ground and then watered the ground.

The villagers are busy planting sweet potatoes; whether they will survive remains to be seen.

Fortunately, it's only September, the sun is still high in the sky, and the weather is just a bit cool!

A few days later, Zhang Xixi and Chen went to town and asked Ma Yaren to find them a shop in a good location.

The man with the horse teeth smiled and introduced the shop, explaining how good it was and mentioning that the rent was two taels of silver per month, or twenty-four taels per year.

"Honey, isn't this rent a bit too expensive?"

Zhang Xixi noticed that the shopfront was a bit small, but there was a small courtyard and a well in the back, which was suitable for living and provided convenient access to water.

"It shouldn't be too expensive, and the rent can be easily earned back once the shop opens!"

Mrs. Chen laughed and said, "You're so confident!"

"Mom, I have confidence in your cooking skills!"

"Okay, this one will do!"

Seeing that they had all discussed it, Ma Youqing quickly said, "Madam Zhang, please wait a moment. I'll go find the master of the house to handle the formalities."

After completing the shop's lease procedures, Zhang Xixi handed Ma Youqing another piece of paper.

"Hey, Mr. Ma, I'd also like to ask you to help me find someone to renovate this shop. The price is negotiable!"

Ma Youqing glanced at it, looked up and asked, "Draw it according to this piece of paper."

Zhang Xixi nodded, "Yes, if the Maya people are willing, we'd like to give you the whole package. Name your price."

"This whole thing will cost at least fifteen taels."

Besides showing how to modify it, the document also specified what items were needed. If they were to buy those items themselves, it would probably cost them twenty taels. This horse-toothed man is quite honest.

"I'll pay you twenty taels; can you get everything done for me?"