Farming is very particular about farming time. In order to compete for a few days for summer harvest, many farmers have to process day and night, and some even live in the field.
In the past two years, Qili Village had a good harvest. Zhou Dalang, Zhou Zhoulang, and Zhou Zhoulang lived in the fields in order to seize the farming season. Sometimes even if they were too tired to stand up straight, they still had to harvest by moonlight and fire.
Otherwise, a year of hard work may be in vain when it rains.
Generally, after the rain, the summer harvest will come to an end. Everyone has to collect the hemp, peel it, soak it, beat it, comb it, then weave the hemp, and then take it to the river to wash and beat it...
The process is cumbersome and labor-intensive. What the children of the old Zhou family dislike most is collecting hemp, and the adults are the same.
Because most of the linen that is spun has to be handed over to the county government. In addition to the linen that has been spun, each person has to hand in another three catties of linen.
For this reason, Lao Zhoutou planted rows of hemp on the ridges and field ridges at home, and also planted two or three circles of hemp at the foot of the mountain where he and Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang were.
This thing is drought-resistant and good at work, but the craftsmanship is a bit heavy, but their family can still have some linen left over to make clothes every year, while other families with a small population may not have extra linen to make clothes.
Moreover, the sackcloth made by the old Zhou's family was indeed not good, and Man Bao didn't like it very much. She remembered that she only had a new sackcloth, and it turned red not long after she put it on.
Later, her mother took it back, and then dismantled it to make clothes for herself.
After wearing it for more than half a year, I dismantled the worn-out sackcloth to make clothes for her.
Now, most of the clothes Manbao wears in summer are linen clothes made of old clothes worn by her mother and sister-in-law. Only in winter will she wear clothes made of cotton cloth bought from the county.
So Man Bao didn't like hemp either. She blew her hand to a few nephews, and then put a candy on their palms.
A group of children were instantly comforted, and immediately cheered up. They peeled the candy and ate it, and went home with Man Bao.
Man Bao took out a pen, wrote out all the things and quantities needed, and handed them to Da Tou, "My friend still wants to buy these things, you take Er Tou and they will find them for me. Remember, cabbage worms need to live .Just in case, you bring back a little more, and pick some big leaves and pack them for me.”
Most of the characters on the paper are familiar, and it is not difficult to understand, but what he doesn't understand is that who will buy worms is an argument.
Shouldn't this kind of thing be on the catty
Or debate.
But it seems a good thing that sister-in-law's guest is stupid, right
The big head only glanced at the paper, then patted his chest and Man Bao to ensure that there was no problem, and then asked with a playful smile: "Sister-in-law, the beans at home are all harvested, can you tell the second uncle to take us to the county town in a few days to play?" Son?"
Man Baole, "I know, you want to sell the candy in your hands, don't you?"
A group of children looked at Man Bao and laughed.
Man Bao said: "The second brother will definitely not take you there, but the fourth brother should be fine."
Erya's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Fourth Uncle is going to the county too?"
"Of course, when the crops of Master Bai's family are finished, I will go up the mountain with my fourth brother to find Fu Ling, and then I will ask my fourth brother to help my second brother."
If they could still find Poria cocos, Man Bao secretly kept a small piece, and then cut into several parts to sell.
The reward points given to her by the Encyclopedia were 200,000, so she would sell it for 150,000, as long as she sold two copies, it would be about the same.
This is Man Bao's conclusion after looking at his series of lists last night.
She found that the higher the points in the encyclopedia, the higher the value here.
For example, Poria cocos and tree sparrow with the highest points now, not to mention tree sparrow, Poria cocos is currently the most expensive item sold by their family.
Tuesday Lang asked shopkeeper Zheng, and shopkeeper Zheng said that all these things are wild and cannot be grown, so they are very precious.
It is precious and has many medicinal effects, so it becomes more precious.
However, what they sell is raw poria cocos. Zhou Zhoulang secretly inquired about it. The processed poria cocos is of good quality, and the price has more than doubled.
No wonder medicines in pharmacies are so expensive.
However, Manbao feels that no matter how expensive it is, it will not be as expensive as it will be in the future.
She knows that points are more expensive than copper coins, and a small piece of poria cocos is worth 200,000 points.
Man Bao smiled like a little mouse, making Bai Shanbao look at her again and again.
In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he reached out and knocked her on the head, and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
Man Bao looked left and right, and finally stared at Daji who was sitting in the corner.
Daji: …
Bai Shanbao also stared at Daji with staring eyes.
Daji got up silently, opened the door, and walked out of the study.
He looked around in the yard, and finally found a tree to squat down. From here, he could see the two children in the study through the window, but he couldn't hear what they were talking about.
Seeing Daji going out, Manbao immediately leaned into Bai Shanbao's ear and whispered: "If I have a lot of things that some people are scarce, do you think it's better for me to exchange them all for money, or barter?"
"Are those scarce things valuable to you?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said: "Some are tall, some are not; some are rare, and some can be seen everywhere."
"Then what do you want to exchange for theirs?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said, "Wheat seeds? Or other interesting seeds."
Today, Datou and the others proposed to go to the county seat, obviously wanting to exchange the candy in their hands for money, but Man Bao knew that the candy business in the county seat might not be easy to do now.
And there are currencies in this world that are harder than candy, and only a few points can create a lot of value, such as ginger.
The five catties of ginger seeds she bought back then looked much more expensive than candy, but last year alone, it earned the Zhou family a lot of money.
Its value has long exceeded the seed money she paid.
In addition, the situation of the old Zhou's wheat this year is much better than that of other families.
When she went out to Bai's house just now, many old people in the village came to Zhou's house and were discussing wheat seeds with old Zhou.
Although this year's wheat hasn't been harvested yet, everyone saw it when it was harvested, and now the whole village knows that the wheat from Lao Zhou's family is the best, even better than Master Bai's.
Some of the ears of wheat were long and full, so the old people in the village wanted to exchange some seeds with the old Zhou's family.
Good ears of wheat are good seeds, and good seeds can always grow better ears of wheat. Farmers who have worked for a lifetime don’t know anything else, so they still know the most basic common sense of seed retention.
Others may not know why Lao Zhou's wheat is better than other people's during the flood, but Man Bao knows.
Because she secretly changed some wheat seeds at the beginning of spring.
Manbao is considering whether to buy another batch of wheat seeds in exchange for some wheat.