Old man Shen stretched out his hand and patted Huo Jinxi's shoulder, "Baby, you are so smart, this is a good idea! Let's do this, Jianlin, tomorrow you will take four boys and go to the town to buy rice with me. When the public grain is delivered, he will say that our family's harvest is not good this year. If it is not enough to hand in, we can only buy grain to make up for it. There should be no doubts. After the public grain is paid, we will sell the rice and sell it to grain stores and restaurants in the town, or simply transport it to the county for sale. It’s not a problem to sell such good rice at a high price! Oh, and the corn is also sold together.”
Anyway, now that the family has spare money, it is not a problem to buy 300 catties of rice, at most a hundred yuan.
Old man Shen suddenly felt that he had become extravagant. In the past, spending dozens of yuan would make his heart ache. Now one or two hundred yuan can be spent as you like, and it doesn't take it seriously.
It seems that after the family conditions improve, this person's concept will also change.
"Okay, that's a good idea." Shen Jianlin also gave Huo Jinxi an appreciative look, this kid was really clever, and he solved the problem right away.
Huo Jinxi didn't feel their admiration, he looked at Fu Bao, only caring about her reaction.
Fu Bao raised his head to meet his deep gaze, feeling a little embarrassed. But for the sake of his good idea, she smiled at him.
Huo Jinxi was instantly satisfied, his heart was sweeter than eating that brown sugar.
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After finishing the autumn harvest, the villagers have transported grain to the public grain, which has to be transported to the grain station outside the village to hand in.
Every household has to pay hundreds of catties of grain, which is not a small amount, so early in the morning, the men and strong women in the village were dispatched.
Old man Shen took Shen Jianlin and the four children to the town to buy food before dawn. The rice I bought was very ordinary, the same as what the villagers received, so when I handed over the public grain, it really didn't arouse suspicion.
The whole group was secretly delighted, and they were waiting to sell their best rice and corn to make a fortune.
Mrs. Shen thought that they would be back by noon, so she took the freshly pounded rice and put a whole family's worth of rice into the pot.
The rice is plump and white, and the cooked rice is absolutely delicious.
Sure enough, the cooked rice is crystal clear and white, and it tastes soft and glutinous in the mouth, and there is a strong rice fragrance. The whole family feels that the rice they ate before is not rice, and it is completely incomparable with this.
The whole family ate this meal very deliciously. Even Lin Xiujuan and Fubao, who had the smallest appetites, ate a large bowl in one go. There was not even a grain of rice left in that big pot of rice.
With such good rice and corn, the Shen family naturally wanted to keep some of them for rations, so they were willing to sell them all, and besides, they are not short of money now, so it doesn't matter if they sell less.
The next day, old man Shen and Shen Jianlin packed the portions that the family decided to sell in snakeskin bags, carried them to the bullock cart and rented tractor, and sent them to the town to sell.
This trip they went for a long time, and they didn't come back until it was almost dark, which worried the whole family, but when they saw the smiles on their faces when they entered the door, as if a flower was about to bloom, they knew that something good had happened.
Old man Shen sat down on the stool, picked up his enamel cup and took a big sip of water, and said excitedly: "Today, Jianlin and I went to the town, and the grain store and restaurant saw that our rice and corn were good, so they rushed to ask for it!"
(end of this chapter)