Chapter 57 It’s raining
In the evening, it started to rain lightly.
An autumn rain and a cold.
Shui Qing, who was nestled on the wooden bed, finally realized the benefits of having a thatched house. In this lonely late autumn, having a place to shelter from the wind and rain, which was full of security.
"I wonder if Heizi found a shelter in the village or left the village?" Yan Qiu woven cushions with dried corn leaves in his hands and chatted without raising his head.
Xinghui was helping her sister, folding the corn leaves one by one into long strips of the same size for easy weaving. After hearing this, she replied: "He must have left the village. He can't be satisfied with other families in our village." "
Not to mention eating meat, the people in the village are reluctant to eat rice, and they are even more reluctant to eat eggs when they can be exchanged for salt and various other items.
Shui Qing also didn't expect that the rich boy would live in another house.
According to her estimation, he would be back after lunch.
What is the reason? Allow him to stay at someone else's house?
But no matter what, she still admired it. After all, whether she was drinking black dough paste or eating black flour steamed buns, it was hard to swallow.
I never thought that the arrogant and picky young master who disliked this and that could actually do it.
Fan Jin walked in in the rain. As soon as he entered the main room, he took off the pointed bamboo hat he was wearing, and then patted the water drops on his clothes.
The door was open. When Shui Qing saw it, he raised his voice to remind: "Come in quickly and change your clothes. Don't catch a cold. Fan Jiang, there is warm ginger soup in the casserole in the kitchen. Go get a bowl."
When Fan Jiang in the opposite room heard this, he covered his head with his hands and rushed to the kitchen; then he poured the ginger soup and ran back quickly.
Fan Jin put on another set of cheesecloth gown, drank ginger soup, and then came to the house where Shui Qing was.
Shui Qing, who was nestling on the wooden bed, moved inside to make a seat for him and asked, "How is it? Have you told me everything?"
After asking, he remembered that there were two daughters in the house, so he said to them: "When Yan Qiuxing comes back, the sky is getting darker and darker, so be careful to hurt your eyes;
You guys go to your brother's house to play for a while while mom and your dad discuss something. "
The children are not very old. In the future, they will be able to learn some skills by teaching them how to take care of the real business. We cannot let them know about the shopping mall for the time being.
Yan Qiuxing understood that her parents had something important to say, so she put her things away sensibly and closed the door after leaving the house.
The thatched hut was low, so Fan Jin took advantage of the situation and sat down at the end of the bed, and replied seriously and carefully: "Except for the few companies I mentioned last time that would never cooperate, the rest have been agreed upon.
Since the past few days, there have been fewer and fewer chicken rice crackers. Although they are more diligent than before, there is nothing they can do about it when the season comes. Now that they heard that bamboo mushrooms and skirt mushrooms can be exchanged for food, everyone was overjoyed and asked questions. I agreed without asking. "
"Chickens and rice fruit are weighed, and one pound is exchanged for two and a half pounds of rice. A hard-working and quick-handed person can earn a good daily income. However, bamboo mushrooms and skirt mushrooms are not weighed. If one pound is exchanged for two and a half pounds of rice, the daily income will not be too high. "Shui Qing thought about how Yan Qiuxing and his four children could pick up a total of twenty kilograms of mushrooms a day.
Moreover, mushrooms depend on luck. If you are lucky, you will pick up a lot of them in one day. If you are not lucky, you will get three melons and two dates.
Shanshui Village has many hills, trees, shrubs, and lush grass. There are many mushrooms, but it is difficult to pick them up one by one.
"One hundred and twenty-one catties of chicken head rice, one hundred and sixty-seven catties of bamboo mushrooms with open umbrellas, one hundred and eighty-seven catties of unopened umbrellas, one hundred and eighty-one catties of skirt mushrooms, two yuan per catty of rice;
I thought since mushrooms are more expensive than chicken head rice, why not buy more rice? "Fan Jin settled the accounts.
The rice in the shopping mall is really cheap, but the mushrooms that are everywhere in the mountains are ridiculously expensive, but they can't exchange too much rice.
Rice costs nine cents per catty, and fresh mushrooms usually cost more than ten or twenty cents. If they exchanged it for more than ten or dozens of catties of rice, that would be too eye-catching!
Shuiqing’s original intention was to replace the rice with more mushrooms. Mushrooms and chicken head rice are very seasonal foods and will be gone after that season.
Chicken head rice has been taken off the market, and chicken fungus and bamboo fungus will be gone by the end of October at the latest. By then, the villagers in Shanshui Village will not be able to make money through hard work.
Of course, she couldn't earn any more.
So now that it's raining and there are a lot of mushrooms, the more mushrooms the people in Shanshui Village pick up, the more she will earn. After replacing the rice with rice, it is also a good thing that the people in the village will become rich.
If the gap is too large, people will be jealous, but if the gap is large enough, everyone will only think about working harder and working harder to live a better life.
"Look, the bamboo mushrooms with opened umbrellas can be exchanged for three kilograms of rice, the unopened bamboo mushrooms can be exchanged for four kilograms of rice, and the skirt mushrooms are also four kilograms. How about that?"
Fan Jin thought that this was more than the ones in Fucheng, but fortunately it was only doubled, not too exaggerated.
Moreover, even children aged six or seven can pick mushrooms. A family with a large population in the village may earn more in a day than peeling chicken heads and rice.
After all, Shanshui Village is the place where he was born and grew up, and his feelings are different. Within the scope of his ability, he hopes that the people in Shanshui Village will live better and better - except for those with bad conduct.
He responded: "Okay, now that it's raining, mushrooms will appear one after another in the middle of the night. You can pick mushrooms early tomorrow."
Shui Qing looked out the window at the slanting wind and drizzle, and the darkness inside the thatched house. "When the mushroom season is over, let's start building a house."
Who says it’s not cold in the south? Although this Shanshui Village belongs to the south, she asked, and the people around it, including the people in the town, didn't know what the sea was.
It seems to be quite far from the sea, and the Hu family and the Fan family both like spicy food. She had asked the aunts and sisters in the village about the dishes they cooked, and most of them also had chili peppers.
Shuiqing speculated that Guangning Prefecture belongs to the south, but it should be the south close to Hunan and other places. It is not on the coast, the climate is rainy and humid, and it is prone to floods in summer. There is no severe cold and snowstorms in the north in winter, but it is also bone-chilling.
Brick and tile houses that are warm in winter and cool in summer are just right.
Fan Jin nodded. They have sold two batches of brushes. Now they have 70 or 80 taels of silver in their hands. After the mushroom season ends and November comes, there will be some remaining silver after the courtyard is built.
Houses are a big deal. They are the place where you spend the most time in a day. From officials to ordinary people, everyone wants to have a house of their own.
Will build their own house bigger and better within their ability.
He is a mortal in the mortal world, and naturally no exception.
After the two reached an agreement on the amount of rice to be exchanged for mushrooms and the time to build the house, the room became quiet for a while.
Fan Jin thought of what he heard in the village, frowned slightly, and said with worry: "I heard that Heizi stayed at my eldest brother's house."
Shui Qing was really shocked this time.
She knew her mother-in-law's style very well. Not to mention the food, Heizi was so mean and cunning. How could he tolerate it? !
Why could he tolerate it?