The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

"We are both the head of the family, why are you being polite to me?

By the way, you have also seen this land. Look at the price of nine taels of silver. What do you think of this land?

I have made it clear that if you use official silver, it will be nine taels. If you use copper coins, it will be nine thousand five hundred strings of cash."

Zhou Yue silently calculated in his mind that this was based on one tael of official silver being exchanged for one thousand and fifty copper coins, which was quite reasonable.

If you have official silver at home, you can pay it.

"Okay, I'll pay with the official silver. We'll go back and tell Grandpa, and then we'll go to your house to sign the deed in the evening."

“Tomorrow, I will gather other people in the village and the elders of the tribe to be witnesses.

After signing tomorrow, I can go to the town to report it as soon as possible and let them report it to the county government as soon as possible.

If you pass the government's approval one day earlier and get the official seal, can't you rest assured sooner?

By the way, we have agreed that the ninety cents of the deed tax will be borne by your family."

"Okay, thank you Uncle Seven."

“Don’t be polite, this is my duty.

Come on, let's go down the mountain. If we don't leave now, we will miss dinner."

It is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down, especially for the elderly.

On the way down the mountain, the village chief's knees couldn't bear the impact of going down the mountain, so he walked very slowly.

But he didn't let Yuan Mo carry him, because he felt he was not that old yet.

It is just convenient for Zhou Yue to walk slowly and look around slowly.

Look at the various plants growing on the hillside by the road.

She recognized most of them.

Especially some Chinese medicinal materials: Bupleurum, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Polygala tenuifolia, Anemarrhena asphodeloides…

There are also some common but worthless ones: dandelion, motherwort, toad grass, geranium, plantain, etc.

I don’t know if anyone collects it. If you have time, pick some, prepare it simply, and ask Doctor Yang.

Zhou Yue has been here for a long time, but he has never seen anyone picking herbs to sell.

I don’t know if they don’t know me or if no one accepted it.

The village chief was right. We got home just in time for dinner.

Seeing that dinner had just been prepared and everyone had not yet eaten, Zhou Yue hurried to the kitchen to fry some small fish. He wanted everyone to have a taste today and also took the opportunity to calculate the current cost of frying fish.

Fish seems to taste better when fried with a mixture of mutton fat, lard and peanut oil.

Even Qian, who didn't eat mutton on weekdays, couldn't taste the mutton fat.

Everyone nodded and said that the fried fish would definitely be a big hit.

After the meal, everyone finished eating all the fried fish.

Jun Mo would hold his little bow and arrow even when eating and sleeping, and Xuan Mo also couldn't let go of his bow and arrow.

Seeing them bringing bows and arrows to the dinner table, Zhou Yue and Qian wanted to say something.

But seeing the smug look on Mr. Ning's face, no one said a word.

After dinner, before it got completely dark, Qingmo and Chunniang calculated the cost of this trip.

You can only visually estimate how much oil is missing.

They soon figured out that the profit from frying the fish was almost the same as the cost of making the fried fish.

In other words, it will make money.

And you can probably earn twice as much.

Qingmo and Chunniang were both very excited, and imagined that they would be able to help their family make money soon.

However, Zhou Yue knew that this kind of snack cannot be made without more than double the profit.

Making food is dirty and tiring, the threshold is low, and if it doesn’t make money, who would be willing to do the hard work?

The fields are not busy now, so it's a good opportunity for everyone to go fishing in the river tomorrow.

If we fish the entire section of the creek that passes through the village, we'll probably get a lot.

However, Zhou Yue knew that this deal was not a long-term solution.

Although there are many small fish in the river, this kind of wild fish grows slowly and the output is limited.

There will always be a day when the fish in the river are exhausted.

Even if we mobilize the children in the village to go to other villages to catch fish and spend money to buy them, the supply will probably not last more than a month.

Qing Mo still has to find another business.

However, since this is her first time, encouragement should be the main focus.

During this period, she was very hard-working and tormented, and lost a lot of weight.

The next morning, the family went out to fish.

With effective methods, plenty of fish, and more people, they quickly caught more crucian carp than the first time.

After getting home, I cleaned up again and started pickling fish in the afternoon.

The crispy fish must be put in the pot in advance and cooked early tomorrow morning.

The fried fish is marinated in advance and tastes better when fried at the market.

It was much later than usual before we finally cleaned up and went to bed.

Qing Mo walked back to the west wing and saw that Yang Mo had not slept either. He was tidying up the hair ornaments that she and her sister had made recently.

There are also various wooden toys and wicker utensils that I made with my grandfather.

There are so many things to clean up.

Chunniang also took some handkerchiefs and sachets that she had embroidered in her spare time and took them with her.

I put the small and delicate ones in a wooden box and the big ones in a backpack, and finally everything was ready.

At the same time, Zhou Yue went to Xuan Mo's room and checked the thank-you gift for Old Man Cui.

Most of them are food, but there are also study supplies.

There was a large piece of smoked wild boar meat, braised chicken wings made by Zhou Yue, some dried wild vegetables, fried mushroom sauce made by Qian, and even pickled vegetables.

Of course there are also some seasonal fresh vegetables.

We still need fish, so it won’t be too late to load them tomorrow morning.

The most sincere gifts were a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles made by Qian and several pairs of socks made by Qing Mo and Yang Mo.

There was a pen holder that Old Man Ning had woven with thin white willow branches, and there was also a large bookcase that Old Man Ning and Yang Mo had made together.

Xuan Mo really didn't know what he could do with his own hands, so he racked his brains and wrote an article "Thank You to the Teacher", which he carefully copied on the rice paper that Old Man Cui had given him.

Zhou Yue read it and thought it was good and sincere, and thought that old man Cui would like it.

After counting again, they felt relieved and went back to their rooms.

At first, they were so excited that they couldn’t sleep and were talking to each other, but they were too tired and soon fell asleep.

On the second day, just after daybreak, the Ning family compound began to get busy.

Everyone got up, including Old Man Ning.

He couldn't go to town yet, so he stayed at home and Qian accompanied him.

Soon the whole house was filled with heat and a lively atmosphere.

When the first rays of morning sunlight shone into the village, the Ning family had already set off, pushing carts and carrying large backpacks.

We chatted and laughed all the way and soon arrived in town.

Qing Mo and the others hurried to the most prosperous part of the market to reserve a place, while Zhou Yue took Jun Mo to see Doctor Yang.

Zhou Yue asked Brother Dao, who was inseparable from Jun Mo, to wait at the door while he went to see Doctor Yang.

Doctor Yang was busy seeing patients. When he saw Zhou Yue come in, he nodded at her and pointed to the seat next to him.

Zhou Yue waited for a while. After Doctor Yang finished his consultation, he went to the backyard to wash his hands, then came back, sat down, picked up the tea and took a sip.

Looking at the familiar process, Zhou Yue smiled.

The first time I saw Dr. Yang acting like this, I thought he was arrogant and looked down on others.

As a result, he behaved like this no matter what time it was or who was waiting for him.

I couldn't help but praise him for his calmness.

"How is your old man these past two days?"

It was originally agreed that he would visit Mr. Ning every other day, but Doctor Yang was really busy recently, and he only visited him once in the five days of this episode.

He hadn't been there for three days and had been planning to go tomorrow after the busy market day.

"It's much better now. He can stand for a while now. He even tried to move a little this morning. He was very happy."

"That's great. I didn't expect the effect to be so good and so fast."