otherworldly happiness

From winter to spring, during this winter, Li Jian learned to know some medicinal materials. Both vegetables and food in the space have increased a lot. As long as they are mature and not picked in the space, they will slowly grow old and form seeds, which will fall to the ground and become nourishment. , and it will keep fresh after picking it and putting it on the side. Since there are people around me all day long, I haven’t dared to enter the space since I came here. To satisfy the gluttony, all the food produced for the first time was planted except for the chickens. Now the food crops are planted in nearly ten acres of land, and various vegetables are piled up into hills, and the chickens in the space are also breeding. A large group, this winter just drank chicken soup and ate a lot of chicken, and they were a little tired. They had no choice but to never leave the camp. How can they explain the origin.After several months of hard work in the space this winter, it can already be seen that the edge has expanded a bit, and it can continue to expand with continued efforts in the future. Thinking of this is even more exciting.

In the season of warm spring and flowers blooming, Li Jian ushered in his family leave. With the salary of 12 taels for these few months, he thought of going outside to buy some spring clothes, and to go to a bigger city to sell vegetables. Deal with it, and buy some fruit seedlings and the like. Thinking of this, I took a carriage to the nearest town, and then transferred to Jingzhou City, which is separated by a city. When I got there, I saw that it was indeed the second largest city in the north. It is three times bigger than Dacheng, and there is a lot of people. When I was looking for a suitable place to sell, I saw a lot of people in the market by the riverside pier. Although the ice in the river has not completely melted and is not open to navigation, it does not affect people at all. shopping, after all, people here are used to shopping here,

After inquiring about the rental of the booth, Li Jian found a chariot dealer with insufficient deposit, so he rented a donkey cart. Fortunately, he had nothing to do in the barracks and learned how to ride a horse and drive a cart from the veterans. Otherwise, today would be troublesome. The good car drove and went to buy some necessary things such as baskets, tarpaulins and ropes. After buying, I found an inn, rented a single room, went back to the room and had a good rest. Today I can finally go in, and I worked there until midnight. Classify and pack all kinds of vegetables. Be careful this time, after all, the vegetables in the field haven't been planted yet.

The next morning, Li Jian pulled the car out of the city, put the vegetables in the car in a place where there was no one outside the city, covered them with tarpaulins, went to another city gate, found the market that he was looking forward to yesterday, found a good stall and paid the money. So he waited, he was a little different yesterday and today, he specially put on a sheepskin robe, and wore it inside out, his face, hands and neck were all darkened by the powder cake and pot ashes he bought, look He looks a lot older, and with a little eyebrow trimming, he now looks like a young man in his 20s. It seems that modern makeup techniques to please girlfriends are not useless.

In the morning, when there were more people, he lifted the oilcloth and started yelling,

"Come and take a look, the first season of fresh vegetables in the Chinese New Year this year"

"The quantity is limited, it's too late, I regret not buying it"

"Fresh vegetables are planted in the greenhouse. They have just been released on the market. If you want fresh vegetables, come quickly."

After shouting a few words, a bunch of people gathered around and asked about the price

"How much is a catty?"

"How did you plant it so early?"

"Let me see if it's fresh,"

Everyone asked in a hurry, after all, now is the time when there is no harvest, and the Luobu woad vegetables are almost eaten in winter, and I am tired of eating them all winter, but there are no vegetables grown in the field, and even wild vegetables are bought. When it grows up, isn't it a rare commodity to live in?

"50 Wen a catty, no counter-offering!" Li Jian yelled

"It's too expensive, you can't even sell five coins in Xia Tian," said the person next to him

"Hey, don't you look at what time it is now. You can see if my dish is fresh. I just picked it, but it's not easy to serve and order. The firewood burned all winter has piled up into a hill. You say it's cost No, besides, you have to look at the black and white and don't freeze, our family has been busy all winter, is it easy for you to gain these things?" Li Jian said to the people next to him

"It's not easy, give me two catties, and go back and give the old men a taste of something new," said a well-dressed Memo

"I want to order too" "And I don't squeeze"

Only then did I realize that I forgot to buy a scale. I saw a boy selling dried vegetables next to me with a scale, so I discussed with him until he asked him to help weigh the weight. In this way, the two of them were busy all morning and sold the whole cart of vegetables. Clean, of course, I secretly put in a lot of them while others were not paying attention, otherwise this way of selling would have been sold out long ago, and when they are sold out, there are still some that haven’t been bought. Ask if you will come back tomorrow, and there are two restaurants that have reservations Hundreds of catties of vegetables, after giving the boy 100 Wen for his help, I went to buy scales for weighing vegetables and silver, and then I pulled the donkey cart and walked out of the city. In the deserted alley, I put the donkey cart into the space together, rested in the space for a while, ate the lunch I had reserved earlier, packed the vegetables that will be sold tomorrow, and took out the special box for storing money. Budou counted it, and today it sold a total of more than 1000 catties, 50 Wen per catty, a total of more than 60 taels of silver, and there are some copper plates that I can't count.

In the next few days, I went to the market every morning to sell vegetables, and in the afternoon I went to some restaurants to deliver vegetables. After 67 days of busy work, I sold almost all the vegetables. I sold a total of more than 500 taels of silver. After selling the vegetables, I returned the donkey cart. After returning home, in the afternoon, he took a carriage to Changcheng, which was the closest to the camp. If it wasn't for the fear of being recognized as troublesome, he wouldn't want to spend a day traveling to Jingzhou.

I started a big purchase in Changcheng. I bought two jars of wine for an old military doctor who likes to drink a few sips. This wine is said to be good. Buy four more jars to store in the space. It may not be used any time. I need to buy spring clothes, shoes, etc. I went to the bookstore and bought a few pens, a few pieces of ink, inkstones, rice paper and so on. I have to practice this dog crawling calligraphy when I have time , when wandering around to see what books to buy, books are not cheap, a thin "San Zi Jing" costs one tael of silver, no wonder they say they can't afford books, can't read books, I don't have the patience to study subjects After the exam, let’s find a way to see how to make money. I found an inconspicuous "Qi Min Yao Shu" in a pile of old books. (Borrow it here) It’s a thick book. It’s very useful after reading it. That is to say, I bought it and spent 3 taels of silver. I was going to study it carefully, and bought some food such as roast chicken for my comrades in arms, and replenished the meat and clay pots in the space.

The most important thing is to go to several grain stores here to see if there are any good seeds. I found two kinds of melon seeds. The store said it is a kind of thin-skinned crispy melon, which is not easy to store and transport, but the result is high yield. A kind of thick-skinned green melon, the single fruit is relatively heavy, but the fruit is few. The advantage is that it is not easy to be damaged during transportation. There are also watermelon seeds, but they are not many. I spent 5 taels of silver to buy all three kinds of seeds, because the price of seeds is relatively high. High, although the selling price is quite high, but generally they don’t know how to grow them, for fear of waste, there are not many. I also bought some fruit seedlings in vegetable markets and other places, all of which are common grapes, peaches, apricots, pears, apples, jujubes, plums, etc. Yes, I don’t know if it’s a good variety, but I hope the fruit will taste better, don’t let it be that the fruit of the wild variety is too small and sour to eat. The vegetables in the space grow very well, and the food is better than buying seeds. The store said The yield should be high, so it should have a certain role in improving varieties. After planting the fruit trees of various varieties, there are not many seedlings for sale. A total of 2 mu of land has been planted. Let’s reproduce slowly by yourself in the future. Back home and back to the camp, the ten-day back-and-forth holiday has arrived.