Chapter 338 Li Changlin is injured
"Nonsense, the fern root powder is black, and the kudzu root is white. The kudzu root must be much more delicious than the fern root." Wang Qiuyue retorted.
"That's right! After all, the dried kudzu root is also 18 wen per catty."
Speaking of the price, I felt a little distressed. It would be a waste to let them eat like this.
Wang Qiuyue thought for a long time and couldn't help but said: "Madam, let's dry these and sell them in the medicine shop. One catty can also sell for 18 wen. Not to mention black flour, even coarse grains can buy several catties. Isn't it more cost-effective?"
The families who planted kudzu root in the village are selling it. Everyone is a farmer. Who doesn't know that this is cost-effective? It's more cost-effective than selling grain!
In fact, the owner planted the most. These kudzu root powders have already reached hundreds of catties. If you buy dried kudzu root, the weight will be several times more. After all, making kudzu powder consumes a lot of energy. Madam must know that why not do such a cost-effective business.
Wang Qiuyue expressed the thoughts of the people present.
Especially the four people, Feng Da, Feng Er, Man Ku and Man Cang, who went with the villagers to sell medicinal materials in the last batch. They knew the price of Pueraria root clearly. Brother Li Wen's family sold the most in the village and earned more than one or two taels of silver!
With servants like them, the boss can sell three or five taels of silver at a time as long as the boss wants.
They were confused, but they were servants after all, and they couldn't interfere in the boss's affairs. This time, when they heard Wang Qiuyue ask, they nodded hurriedly: "Yes, we don't have much work during the slack season, so we won't delay things."
After saying that, they thought it was wrong. Aren't they also making Pueraria root powder now? Pueraria root powder is easy to store and convenient to eat, but it is much more troublesome than Pueraria root, and it doesn't delay things.
It must not be this reason!
Shui Qing knew that these people were more eager to make money than her. When they lived separately before, they gave them supplies, even if most of them were just coarse grains such as cornmeal, they were still overjoyed and moved, and they were also afraid that they would make less and let the master suffer.
No matter what happens, the interests of the host family are the priority.
That’s why I thought of selling dried kudzu root. However, “I originally thought about selling it, but then I thought that our family has the big head of the herbal medicine shop, and the weight of kudzu root purchased by the herbal medicine shop is limited, which is fixed.
You also know how much kudzu root there is in our mountain, and we have a lot of people. If we want to sell dried kudzu root to make money, we can dig, wash, cut, dry and sell it in minutes. If we sell it, people in the village may sell less or not sell it at all. After discussing it later, it tastes good and is good for the body. Let’s just use our kudzu root as food.
Anyway, the price of coarse grains has increased now. It costs nine cents per pound, right? It has to be transported back from the city. It is convenient for us to store what we make. If the world is in chaos later, we are not afraid of having nothing to eat.
And the villagers can earn some money from selling kudzu root and store more things, which is good for everyone. "
Shui Qing knew that she was not a very noble person. If she had come here at the beginning, she would not have enough food and clothing, and she had nothing to do, and there was no mall. She would not sleep all night to make it and sell it to the pharmacy before everyone else, let alone eighteen cents per pound!
It is the most important thing for me and my family to have enough food and clothing!
But now I have enough food and clothing, live in a big house and have a lot of savings. The monthly income of the herbal medicine shop is more than nine hundred taels. It is very, very boring to compete with the villagers for the business of eighteen cents per pound.
The family of ice cutters does not raise cattle and sheep.
The noble families who can use ice cubes should not participate in the small businesses of ordinary people. Although she is not a noble family, she has a business of one or two hundred coins, so she should not monopolize the business of eighteen coins per pound.
She used to be a businessman, but not a penny-pinching businessman, and she will remain so in the future.
Wang Qiuyue and others listened and didn't know what they thought of, and their eyes gradually moistened.
She sniffed and held back her tears, and hummed with a strong nasal sound.
She was a servant, and the boss treated them very well, so she would think about making a lot of money for the boss, but when she thought about the villagers of Shanshui Village, they were only freer than they used to live on the farm, and their food, clothing, housing and transportation were almost the same. If it wasn't the boss, but someone like her boss, the villagers of Shanshui Village would probably live as miserable as they used to.
The villagers of Shanshui Village are very lucky, and they are even more lucky to come here, otherwise, otherwise...
The men were silent. It turned out that the boss had considered so much, and the boss was indeed the boss! Always think ahead of them!
"Madam is right, the villagers are having a good life, and everyone is indeed doing well." Feng Da was deeply touched.
Not to mention the big things, just the last time they went out, if it weren't for the villagers eating well and growing strong and working together, their lives would have been lost.
Don't even think about bringing back the money from selling medicinal herbs.
Hong Mancang was thinking about the future, "People in the village can sell kudzu root, and kudzu root is used to pull carts. If they earn money, they will stock up things and bring them back. If they pull carts, they will need more people. In the future, we will be safer when we go out to sell medicinal herbs."
Shui Qing nodded and agreed with the ideas extended by several people.
Hong Daniu was the oldest, and he was obviously uneasy when he heard "the world is in chaos", and asked nervously: "Will the world be more chaotic than it is now?"
It has been almost half a year since the flood, and it is very chaotic now, but I heard from Manku and Mancang that the last batch of bandits have been caught and led by the yamen runners to take them away. If they are caught in batches, even if there is chaos in the future, it should not be worse than it is now, right?
Shui Qing knew that things would only get more chaotic, and would even last for many years, but she couldn't say it.
Then she smiled faintly and said, "I hope the world will be peaceful."
"It will definitely happen!" said the people present confidently.
The country was founded only more than 30 years ago, and the new emperor has been on the throne for more than a year. The flood only happened in their area. How could it affect the whole world?
However, why did the new emperor fail to properly resettle the victims of the flood in their small area... Even if it was not proper, there should be some measures. If the victims were properly resettled, there would not be the current chaos...
Everyone did not know what the emperor above was thinking and what he was doing, nor did they know whether the officials below were lip-service, but no matter what, the people affected by the disaster did not get any benefit at all!
Wait a little longer, maybe it was really the parents and officials below who were not good.
The emperor was far away, so it was normal not to know.
"Mother! It's not good!"
"Brother Changlin is back! And he was injured!"
Fan Jiang rushed in all the way, not caring to wipe the sweat off his head, and hurriedly pulled Shuiqing to the old village chief's house.
Shui Qing asked immediately after hearing this: "Has anyone gone to invite Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding?"
She is not a doctor, and she doesn't know how to clean wounds, bandage them, or apply medicine. Notifying the Ding family is the real job!
"Uncle Wu went to invite them, mother, Brother Changlin said that King Yan rebelled a few days ago, and the world is in chaos!"