There are quite a few villagers who have the same idea as the old Zhou family.
From last May to now, basically everyone's nerves are tense, and everyone's belly is also tightened.
Not only the children, but also the adults themselves, after the summer and autumn harvests, they couldn't help but feel a little bit greedy.
It is impossible to spend money on pastries or something, but you can make some delicious ones at home.
So when Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang were about to grind their things in the mill, people from the village came over one after another.
Seeing that the old Zhou's family has produced so many things, the people who came couldn't help being speechless, "Your family came early enough."
The two brothers smiled foolishly, it was so early, they had already ground back the soy milk used to make tofu, and now it is estimated that Xiaoqian has already made tofu.
Xiaoqian did indeed make the tofu, and at this time he was pressing it with a wooden board specially made for pressing tofu, while Feng poured sugar water on the tender bean curd made in the wooden barrel for breakfast at home.
Man Bao ate a whole bowl, put down the bowl contentedly, and waited for pancakes.
Today's pancakes were made by sister-in-law San. After Man Bao got it, he broke half of it and handed it to Datou, who broke off a small piece and gave it to Da Ya.
Da Ya ate them all.
She didn't dislike it at all because the third aunt did it.
Not only Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Fang, but Mrs. Fang, who has only been married for more than a year, are accustomed to the reactions of these children in the family.
When there is no shortage of food and drink at home, the children in the family are a bit picky, but if the father-in-law controls the food a little bit and only lets everyone eat thin, then no matter who is cooking, they can all eat it up with relish.
After eating and drinking, Man Bao went to put the bead flowers presented yesterday on his head, followed by Da Ya and the others.
They also have their own bronze mirrors, so they don't have to rub their mother's bronze mirrors any more, and they can take photos for as long as they want.
When Lao Zhoutou found the bead flowers on the heads of all the girls in the family, it was already time for everyone to get together to eat glutinous rice balls.
After Xiaoqian made the tofu, he took his sister-in-law and sisters-in-law to roll glutinous rice balls together and made rice cakes. The children of the old Zhou family were so happy that they were going crazy.
After eating a small bowl of glutinous rice balls, I ran out to show off with my friends. After calling friends for a while, I smelled the aroma and ran home to eat rice cakes.
The children from the village ran in after them, ate several pieces of rice cakes together, and then ran away with a huff.
Of course, Datou and the others also followed those children to their house to ask for food...
This Mid-Autumn Festival, Qili Village is immersed in the beauty of food.
Man Bao also specially packed two servings of his favorite rice cake to share with two friends, but was told that both of them had gone to Yizhou.
Man Bao felt sorry for a moment, and then decided to help them eat the two rice cakes.
Full of food, Man Bao touched Xiao Yuan's belly and thought to himself: What a bumper harvest, Dad is willing to make so many rice cakes at home.
Man Bao, who was full of food, didn't know that not everyone was happy because of the good harvest.
At this time, County Magistrate Yang was not very happy, because the autumn harvest was over, and the price of food in the county had dropped. So with a thought in his heart, he took his servants and went to the countryside again.
The first thing I went to, of course, were a few rich and fertile villages with a lot of fertile land. Only after I went there did I know that the price of grain in the county town has dropped, and the price of rice has dropped to seventeen cents a bucket. The price of grain in the village is eight Wen a bucket, and even two villages have been suppressed to seven Wen a bucket.
While the villagers complained, they still had to pull out the surplus grain at home and plan to sell it.
Because the family needs money, and most of them only have this way to get money.
County Magistrate Yang's holiday hasn't passed yet, so he's full of anger for himself.
Then, in a fit of anger, he asked the master secretary to take the yamen servants to these villages, and directly offered a price of ten yuan for a bucket of grain harvest, and he mentioned that the price of wheat was changed from twelve yuan for a bucket to fifteen yuan for a bucket.
Grain merchants who are waiting to collect grain in various villages: …
In the countryside, there are generally only two news that will be spread the fastest. One is about changes in taxes; the other is about food prices.
Although those wealthy villages were far away from Dali Village and Qili Village, the news spread like a hurricane.
County magistrate Yang put up a posture in the village to collect grain, but after a while, the news spread to the county town, to the local Daji, and then spread from the county town and Daji to Daji and villages in various towns.
In the afternoon, when someone came back from buying meat at the market, he said, "I heard that the magistrate of the county is harvesting millet, and it costs ten pennies a bucket."
"Hey, isn't that two cents more than what Dali Village paid?"
Qili Village is a bit out of the way, and there are only about 60 households here, not even a mile, so they come to Qili Village to collect grain.
The main reason is that Master Bai never sells his grain to them. His grain has always been purchased by regular grain merchants, and he also has a grain shop at home, so he rarely cooperates with local grain merchants in Luojiang County.
Therefore, if the villagers of Qili Village wanted to sell their grain, they had to transport it to Dali Village.
Basically, the several small villages near them will concentrate their grain and sell it there.
Now the price over there is eight renminbi, and some people have gone to the grain shop in the county to ask, and they are also eight renminbi.
Therefore, the villagers have always felt that since they are all eight Wen coins, it is better to sell them in Daji instead of transporting them to the county seat.
Many people in Qili Village planned to send it after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and some people made an appointment with Lao Zhoutou.
Old Zhou felt that his family was not short of money, and he had just experienced a wave of natural disasters, so he valued food very much, so he decided not to sell food this year, and kept it for himself.
I can't finish it, and it will be good to eat old grain next year.
In Lao Zhoutou's opinion, one-year-old grain tastes better than new grain.
"I heard that Jiangding Village will also accept the same. Today, the government servants have notified it. Why don't we go to Jiangding Village to check it out. If it is true, we will transport it to Jiangding Village to sell."
"It was collected by the county government, so, can I give you money?"
"Don't worry, I heard that the county magistrate asked someone to transport baskets of copper coins to the village," the talking villager's eyes glowed, "someone in the county has already spread the word that our county magistrate is different from Fu county magistrate." , their family is very rich, not short of money!"
The reason for saying this is naturally because after Yang Heshu moved into the county government, he was very generous in his actions.
This kind of generosity does not mean that he spends money like water, but that he eats out of restaurants every now and then.
Whether he eats by himself or eats with others, he pays the bill; when he goes shopping, he pays the bill himself; even if he hails a donkey cart on the road, he takes out copper coins to pay the bill after a certain journey.
All of this, in the eyes of uneducated country people, is that the new county magistrate is not short of money!
The eyes of those who heard it lit up, and they all said: "Then go to Jiangding Village tomorrow to have a look. If the county magistrate really collects grain there, then we will sell it to him too."