The Rise of a Farm Girl

The merchants from Liuli Country wanted to see the pearl rice. Wang Jingru grabbed a handful of rice from the space and put it in the hands of two Liuli Country merchants.

When they saw the rice in their hands, they were stunned. The rice grains were plump, crystal clear, and shining like pearls.

It has a white and round appearance, and tastes soft, tender and elastic.

If such rice is sold to royal nobles, the price will definitely be very high, and they will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

These two businessmen had looked superior and nonchalant just now.

But now they have changed their faces and turned into fawning and flattering ones.

The two merchants asked Gaoqiao, how much rice do you have? Can you exchange more? With Gaoqiao communicating with them, Gaoqiao did not know how to do business before, nor did he know the skills of buying and selling.

But this time, Wang Jingru was there to teach him how to speak and how to negotiate with the two businessmen opposite.

When the two businessmen saw Wang Jingru talking and Gaoqiao translating, they knew it would be difficult to cheat Gaoqiao this time, so they behaved more honestly. The main reason was that they were afraid of Wang Jingru and would not trade rice with them.

The two knew that Wang Jingru wanted to exchange for some craft supplies or some very exquisite things, because he was also a businessman and wanted to exchange rice for some things that they didn't have locally and sell them at a high price.

These people immediately went back to collect things. Wang Jingru and Takahashi strolled around Liuli Country to see if there was anything she needed there.

Liuli Country is not big, but it is not small either. It is impossible to visit the entire Liuli Country in one day, after all, it is also a country.

If you want to travel around the entire Liuli Kingdom, it will take at least a month. The Liuli Kingdom is as big as a state in their Dayu Dynasty.

So Wang Jingru didn't plan to visit the entire Liuli Kingdom. She just wanted to stroll around this county town. Wang Jingru didn't expect that the place where Liuli Kingdom made glass was actually in this small county town.

But there were guards outside who didn't allow anyone to get close, for fear that someone would learn the methods and techniques of making glass.

Wang Jingru did not stay here, for fear of attracting the attention of these people, so she walked towards another street.

Wang Jingru walked around the entire county town and was very tired as she walked around for a whole day.

Wang Jingru and the others just returned to the boat, and Wu Tianyang said, "I also walked around this street during the day and found that most of the crafts here are glass products."

These things are very exquisite. Wu Tianyang said, “I also found a box that can make very nice music.”

I saw the merchant from Liuli Country open the box. The music started playing, and there were two little people dancing back and forth. When the box was closed, the music stopped.

And I also saw that their clothes were very strange, or to be exact, very ugly, simply too ugly.

I saw a few women shopping on the street. They put on the same makeup as that ghost, with two round spots of blush on their faces.

Their lips were painted red, their foreheads were painted black, and their faces were painted white like ghosts, which was very scary. I don't know what their real faces look like.

Wang Jingru had already seen that the attire and the local language were similar to those of the modern Xiaori Country, right?

Wang Jingru said that every place has its own customs and habits, but try not to go out at night. After all, if you see someone dressed like that at night, you will be scared, and people with little courage will easily be frightened.

Wu Tianyang asked if he had made any new discoveries after going out with Gaoqiao today.

Wang Jingru said, "I discovered a glass factory. The colored glass made there is installed on doors and windows, which is much better than the cloth and paper used to cover windows in our country."

This kind of colored glaze is installed on doors and windows, so you can see everything outside clearly, and it has good light transmittance. It also keeps you warm in winter.

Wu Tianyang was excited when he heard this. If we can learn their production methods and techniques, then we can make colored glaze by ourselves when we return to the Dayu Dynasty.

Wang Jingru rolled her eyes and said, “You’re so bold! We don’t even have the machines to make them. What’s the use of just having the technology?”

Wu Tianyang hugged Wang Jingru and said, "How can my wife say there is no machine? When we left Liuli Country, we sneaked in and put the things into your space. Then, can't we make as many Liuli as we want?"

Wang Jingru said, we have to learn the technology first! We can't just have machines. Wu Tianyang said nonchalantly, then we can capture all the people who make colored glass in the country of colored glass and put them in the space. Let them make colored glass, isn't that enough?

Wang Jingru stopped talking. As expected of a couple, she had the same idea as Wu Tianyang.

Since they were here, they had to collect more things they didn't have. They couldn't come here in vain. Wang Jingru also wanted to see if there were any rare plants here. He wanted to collect all the things that they didn't have in the Dayu Dynasty.

On the morning of the second day, Wang Jingru led Gao Qiao and Wu Tianyang to a breakfast shop in the county town and had a simple breakfast.

Wang Jingru and the other two walked towards the village outside the county. Wu Tianyang asked, "Why are we going to the village?"

Wang Jingru said that we should take a look at what crops their Liuli Kingdom has and see if there are any fresh crops that we don’t have in our Dayu Dynasty. We can bring back some seeds and grow them ourselves.

The three people came to the nearest village to the county town. The village was full of greenery, and crops were planted in the courtyards and fields.

They are growing very lushly. Wang Jingru looked at the things planted in the fields and found that Dayu Dynasty has all of them.

As they were walking, they suddenly saw a small courtyard with some tomatoes planted in it. Wang Jingru took out a bag of rice from the space. This small bag of rice weighed about ten kilograms.

After knocking on the door, the family came out, looked at the three of them very warily, and spoke to them in an unfriendly tone, "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"

Wang Jingru asked Gao Qiao to say, "We are merchants passing by here. We want to exchange some vegetables for cooking. We saw the bright red vegetable in your yard. We want to exchange some."

After Takahashi finished speaking, the family's tone softened a little, but it seemed that they didn't want to change.

So Wang Jingru took out her trump card and asked Gaoqiao to exchange it for pearl rice. Wang Jingru opened the bag of pearl rice and presented the rice to the man.

When the man saw the rice, he couldn't resist the temptation. He quickly grabbed a few grains of rice, looked at them again and again, and was very excited.

He muttered to himself, "This rice is so good, like pearls."

Takahashi said in the language of Liuli Country, "Uncle, can you exchange some of the red vegetables in your yard?"

The man no longer had any hostility towards them, and quickly opened the gate to let them in, asking as he walked in, "Have you exchanged all the rice in this bag?"

Gaoqiao translated the words to Wang Jingru, and Wang Jingru said okay, we will use this bag of rice to exchange some vegetables with you.

The man quickly found a bag, went to the garden, and picked a bag of tomatoes. The bag was not big, but it could hold more than ten kilograms.

After packing the tomatoes, Wang Jingru saw the man go to the garden to pick some broad beans. It turns out that their beans were really different from the ones she cooked.

Wang Jingru and Yang Gaoqiao said they should pick some ripe beans so that they could use them as seeds. When the man heard that they would plant their own beans, he picked some tender broad beans for them. Then he said he had seeds at home and would give them some later.

Seeing carrots in the garden again, Wang Jingru asked if there were any carrot seeds. The man nodded and said yes, but not many.

In this way, Wang Jingru used a bag of rice to exchange for three kinds of seeds and some vegetables. Both parties were very satisfied, and Wang Jingru reaped a lot.

First plant these seeds in his space, and when more seeds are multiplied, take them out and plant them for the people of the Dayu Dynasty, and they will have new vegetables.

When they returned to the county town and arrived at the seaside, before they reached their docked ship, they saw the two businessmen pacing back and forth on the shore, waiting anxiously.

Now that he had obtained the goods, he was anxious to exchange them for rice. In fact, both of them were wary of each other, fearing that if one of them got the rice first, he would get less.

They were pacing back and forth anxiously, and when they looked up, they saw Wang Jingru and the other three walking towards the boat. The two of them hurriedly went up to them and said to Gao Qiao, "We have a batch of goods. Can we exchange them for rice?"

Gaoqiao translated this to Wang Jingru, who said to check the goods first, and if they are good, she will exchange them, but if she doesn’t need them, she can’t exchange them.

Wang Jingru knew that none of the people from Liuli Country were good people, and they were all very vicious. Once they got what they wanted, they would easily snatch back what they had exchanged for before.

The two merchants also agreed to let them see the goods first, otherwise they would not exchange things with them.

First, they would look at the quality and goodness of the item, and whether other people needed it. Only if they needed it, would they exchange it with him for the rice. They really wanted to get the crystal clear rice.

Seeing them nod in agreement, Wang Jingru and the other two followed the two businessmen to the most prosperous and lively street in the county.

We came to a shop filled with exquisite handicrafts, each of which was very exquisite, and we also saw the music box that Wu Tianyang mentioned.

She also saw jewel necklaces and jewel rings. Wang Jingru was very satisfied with the goods here. She had also exchanged a lot of things on that island in an unknown country last time. Some of them were the same as those on display in this store in Liuli Country.

It seems that although the two countries are far apart, there are still businessmen traveling between the two places to earn the price difference.

Then I followed another merchant to a shop, which was filled with all kinds of exquisite ornaments.

The merchant then led Wang Jingru to the shop next door, which sold various farm tools and household pots, pans, and bowls, all made of wood and iron.

The businessman told Wang Jingru that the shop next door only sold wallpaper. Do you know what wallpaper is? It is used to stick on the wall.

There are also a lot of fabrics, and their fabrics are very thick, strong and wear-resistant.

Among the pots, pans, and farm tools, something was found: a peep show that could see very far away.

In short, Wang Jingru told them the quantity of the things she liked and asked them to pack them and prepare them, and exchange them tomorrow afternoon. She also agreed on the quantity of rice, as Wang Jingru believed that pearl rice was very precious and scarce.

In exchange for these things, they used too much pearl rice. They refused to exchange them, so Wang Jingru had ripped them off this time.

Gao Qiao also knew that he had been tricked by them before. Although he hated them very much, he could do nothing. The things had already been exchanged, and he couldn't argue with them.

This county also has people in charge of public security, and they call the person who manages them the county magistrate.

The county magistrate has a group of people under his command, and each of them has a gun in his hand. Those who disobey will be thrown into prison, and those who commit serious crimes will be shot.

This scene is the final say in the local area. Sometimes they will rob and rob. Not everyone in the local area can own a foreign gun. Ordinary people do not have foreign guns and they cannot afford to buy them.

Wang Jingru also discovered that there were strangers hanging around their boat. This was something they had to guard against, after all, a strong dragon could not defeat a local snake.

The man had a gun in his hand and a domineering expression. Wang Jingru guessed that he must be the local county magistrate. He found them and wanted to rip them off.

Or they would see what they can take out and what they can exchange. If the exchanged things are too precious, or the things they take out are precious, they will definitely come to snatch them for various reasons.

Wang Jingru, ask the people on the boat to be more careful. Xuanyuan Lei and his wife have not left the boat in the past few days. They do not understand the local language and dare not act rashly for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.

They also discovered that the local people, although they did not have foreign guns, liked to hold a knife in their hands. The knives were extremely sharp and came in long and short lengths.

Xuanyuan Lei has told Wang Jingru that he wants to get a knife like this. Wang Jingru said that such a large knife, no matter how long or short, is easy to buy locally.

He would use silver to buy a large quantity, after all, this knife was not made of iron but steel.

Their country does not have the technology to make steel. The broadswords in their country are also very sharp, but they are made of iron, so he wants to bring a batch of steel knives back.

It's already late today, so whatever you want to change will have to be done tomorrow. Tell the people on the boat not to let down their guard and to be on high alert.

At night, just as it was getting dark, Wang Jingru noticed that there were two more people wandering around the beach.

For their own safety, Wang Jingru docked the boat in the middle of the sea.

It is safe because they are out of the range of foreign guns. They only have one ship now and cannot afford any more trouble.

If possible, they also planned to buy another ship, but they were afraid that the Liuli Kingdom would do something to the ship, so they could only go to their shipyard and get a ship for free before they left.

This way they wouldn't be afraid of these people tampering with the ship. Anyway, it wasn't their own country's stuff, so they could just take it. If there hadn't been people patrolling the shore today, he wouldn't have planned to take it for free.

It must be the mayor of this county who is planning to get benefits from them, so he doesn't have to be a good law-abiding citizen.

Originally, she had a lot of things in her space, and she was not short of gold and silver, but these people took advantage of their local origin to bully outsiders. She had thought of a way and was waiting to implement it before leaving.