"Not grown well? What about the ones you planted before?" Lin Lu asked in a controlled manner.
Jiang Dalang: "The ones we planted before have been sold out a long time ago."
"Sold out long ago? Do you know the rules? You actually sold the things that the Wen family wanted so casually." Lin Lu couldn't help but scold.
Old man Jiang narrowed his eyes and looked at the man. He felt that there was no need to be polite to him. "My dear, our family has not taken the deposit from the Wen family, and we are not the tenants of the Wen family. We can sell our things to whoever we want. It's none of your business!"
After saying that, he took his eldest son back home and ignored these people.
Aqiu and another attendant looked at each other.
Lin Lu was furious, but he had no way to deal with these unruly people.
"Go! Go back!" He got on the carriage angrily and asked the coachman to drive.
Aqiu had no choice but to mount his horse and catch up.
A few people went down the south slope and returned the same way. When they passed the old house of the clan leader, they met the clan leader's second daughter-in-law, Han Miaoniang.
Han Miaoniang knew Aqiu and nodded at him, thinking that it was Madam Wen San in the carriage. "Oh, Madam Wen San is back again?"
Ah Qiu clasped his fists towards her and said, "Madam Han, my Third Madam is not here. The person in the car is my Madam's brother, our eldest son."
At that time, Mrs. Wen San lived in the clan leader's house for a long time and got along well with the clan leader's eldest and second daughters-in-law. Naturally, A Qiu was very polite to them.
Han glanced at the carriage and asked with a smile, "I saw you guys going to Nanpo just now, why are you leaving in such a hurry again?"
Ah Qiu turned his head to look at the carriage and saw his master leaning against the carriage shed, looking down in thought.
However, he neither urged her to leave nor asked himself to drive Han Miaoniang away. It was obvious that he was distracted because he had not completed his task well.
Ah Qiu turned to Han and said, "To be honest, my husband came here to collect mushrooms from the Jiang family. I didn't expect the Jiang family to go back on their word and secretly sell the mushrooms to others. Alas, we ran over a thousand miles in vain."
When Han Miaoniang heard that they were here to collect mushrooms, her eyes lit up instantly, and she quickly said, "Brother Qiu, I actually have a lot of golden ears at home, do you want to take a look?"
"Really?" Qiu was very happy when he heard it: "Do you really have golden ears at home?"
He had lived in Dongchen Village for more than half a year, so he naturally knew that all the people in Dongchen Village grew mushrooms. But for some reason, the old man of the Wen family asked them to only collect mushrooms from the Jiang family.
Han Miaoniang: "Of course it's true. Why don't you wait a minute and I'll show it to you when I get back."
Without waiting for Qiu to answer, Lin Lu lifted the curtain, stuck his head out and said, "Go get it."
"Hey!" Han Miaoniang ran home happily and brought back all the golden ears that she had not sold last time.
She has cleaned and dried these moldy golden ears again, and the mold stains have been removed, so people who don't know the business can't see them at all.
She originally wanted to take it to the county town for a look, but she didn't make it.
Soon, Han Miaoniang ran back with a large bamboo basket of golden ears, followed by her sister-in-law Chen Dasao.
"Look, Brother Qiu, my golden ears are the brightest. If I hadn't kept them for my own consumption, I would have sold them long ago."
As Han Miaoniang explained, she looked at the expressions of Xiaoqiu and the people in the carriage.
Lin Lu leaned forward, picked up a flower, looked at it, put it under his nose and smelled it, and asked, "How much do you sell it for?"
As for the golden ear, Lin Lu had only seen it once at his sister Lin's house. He had a general idea of what it looked like, but he had no idea about its performance.
But what does it matter? As long as I bring the things back, I will have completed the mission successfully.
Han knew that this person didn't know the value of the goods, and was overjoyed. She smiled and said, "Last time, Madam Wen bought them from us at ten taels per catty."
Lin Lu didn't bargain with her, and said to the servant Aqiu: "Go and weigh it."
Before coming, Madam Wen San had someone bring him a scale and asked him to weigh the golden ears carefully when collecting them so as to avoid being cheated by the unruly people.
A Qiu agreed, took out a scale from a box on the carriage, and weighed Jin Er.
Mrs. Chen was jealous and said quickly, "Sir, I have several kilograms of golden ears at home, would you like to take some?"
Lin Lu glanced at the golden ears that were being weighed, and seeing that there were not many, he nodded: "Bring them here for me to see."
Mrs. Chen was overjoyed and ran back home to get her golden ears.
Lin Lu just took a quick look and asked A Qiu to weigh it.
Two portions of gold ears weigh a total of 15.5 jin, which is 10 liang per jin, so the total weight is 155 liang.
Lin Lu took out the cash from the carriage box and handed it to them. He ordered the servants to carry Jin Er onto the carriage and then drove away.
Han Miaoniang was so happy that she watched the carriage go away and immediately ran home with the silver.
"Haha, I'm rich."
Han Miaoniang was so happy that she said to Chen Dasao, "It's really a blessing in disguise. Steward Zhou refused to buy our golden ears at three taels per pound, but after the New Year, our golden ears were sold at ten taels per pound."
Humph! I really want to throw the silver ingot on the face of the black-hearted manager Zhou, so that he can see clearly that it is fortunate that I did not sell my golden ears to him, otherwise I would not have earned so much silver.
"That's right." Mrs. Chen held up several dozen taels of silver and said to Han Miaoniang with gratitude, "Thank you for your reminder this time, sister-in-law. I'll go to the town and buy a piece of meat for us to make dumplings."
Han Miaoniang smiled proudly: "We are all family, no matter who we are."
Han didn't know that her Golden Ear almost caused the extermination of Chen's entire family.
After March, it was quickly the end of April.
The weather has been particularly dreary these days.
The two thousand golden ear and snow fungus planted by Yingbao have matured, and she and her mother are busy harvesting them in the bamboo shed.
Jiang Sanlang puts the harvested mushroom ears into the drying oven for drying.
The family was busy for several days and finally collected all the mushroom ears, harvesting a total of 28 kilograms of golden ears and the same amount of snow ears.
If all these were sold, it would be another huge sum of money.
As it hasn't rained yet, Jiang Sanlang decided to send this batch of mushrooms to the county town first and give them to his nephew Jiang Cheng to sell.
"Don't worry."
Yingbao looked at the sky outside and said to her father, "The weather has been bad recently. It's expected to rain heavily. Dad, you'd better not go far away."
She has been feeling anxious lately, as if something bad is about to happen.
Jiang Sanlang obeyed his daughter's words and said, "Okay, I'll go inform the villagers and tell them to be careful."
We must especially remind the family of Patriarch Chen, because his two sons still live in the old house at the foot of the mountain.
Snap!
There was a loud thunder, accompanied by bright lightning, which was very scary.
Yingbao jumped up from the kang in shock and looked out through the window.
It was clearly afternoon, but it was as dark outside as if night had fallen.
She jumped off the kang, put on her shoes and ran out.
"Yingbao! Where are you going?" Chunniang chased out and shouted, "Your brother is at home."
Yingbao turned back and said to Chunniang as she ran, "I'm going to find my dad."
"Your father has gone to the clan leader's house! Come back! Mother will go to find him!" Chunniang picked up an oil-paper umbrella and chased after him.
Yingbao ran very fast and soon arrived at where the clan leader lived.
When I rushed into Chen Zhu's yard, I saw Grandma Tang holding her little grandson, standing under the eaves and looking at me.
"Yingbao? It's about to rain, why are you running out?" Tang scolded, "What if you get wet? Go home quickly!"