Bianshanhan [farming]

Li Maoxian took Li Maoyu's family back to Yangshu Village from Nanyang County, and Qin Lin also lived in Li's house for a while.

County magistrate Zhu was promoted to the magistrate, and he will take up his post soon, so he will follow him. This will be a long way from Bingzhou. It will be more difficult for him and Li Maoxian to meet again in the future, so it is natural to take advantage of this opportunity to get together.

After reuniting after a long absence, the two brothers have endless things to talk about. Apart from reminiscing about the old days, the most they talk about is the drought.

Bingzhou has always had neither fertile soil nor abundant water. According to previous county annals records, there are often droughts, and one drought lasts for two or three years.

County Magistrate Zhu and Qin Lin are different from the county magistrates of Liushan County. They care about the people and work hard. They have long been alert to the drought in Li County this year. They visited dozens of neighboring villages and counties and found that most of them were affected by the disaster. Serious.

This year's rain is thin, the autumn harvest is reduced, and the people are miserable. In August and September, there were several thunderstorms, which is really disturbing.

"The autumnal equinox thunders, and thieves live everywhere." I am afraid that next year will be another disaster year.

Knowing that there are many people in Yangshu Village and little land, he has already started to tighten his belt this year. Qin Lin also feels that he should make plans early, otherwise it will be difficult to survive.

Li Maoxian also talked about Jiang Cong. Qin Lin lamented that good luck made people fool, and said that he would inquire about the news with the capital and let Li Qingwen and Jiang Cong get well in the border town first.

Qin Lin also had a lot of things going on, and he couldn't celebrate the New Year at Li's house. Before he left, he talked to the elders in the village for two days. After hearing his guess about the coming year, the villagers felt more and more heavy.

Before leaving, Qin Lin took two taels of silver and gave it to Li Maoxian. His salary was not much, and he lived and boarded in the yamen, and a lot of it was given to the poor people.

Li Maoxian took it away, and secretly stuffed a dozen taels into his bag with his backhand.

Last time when he came back from the border town, he got a lot of money by selling things, sent some to the capital, and kept the rest in his hands.It took some money to go to Nanyang County, and I don’t have much left.

County magistrate Zhu has a breeze in his sleeves, and Qin Lin's life has always been hard. This time he went to the capital to meet the saint and general to make a new suit. Li Maoxian knew that his big brother was always tight on money.

Cutting the harvest, paying taxes and grain, looking at the grain in the wing of the house, worrying about the rain next year, this year, every household will not live happily.

Do not go out after five days.

From the first day to the fifth day of the new year, everyone sat together to discuss going out to work and earn money. Li Maoxian was going to lead the young and strong laborers in the village to Fanyang City.

At this time, Li Maoyu said that she was going too. When she was in Nanyang County, she helped the shopkeeper's wife for several years. The owner always praised her for her quick hands and feet.Later, when the business of the shop grew, the lady's family moved to Fanyang City and wanted to take her with them, but Li Maoyu had a big family in Nanyang City, so naturally he couldn't leave.

That shop used to deal in rice and grain, and needed strong manpower, Li Maoyu thought, his brother had only been to Fanyang City a few times, and he didn't know anyone, so at least he was a little surprised.

In this way, on the sixth day of the lunar new year, Li Maoyu, Li Maoxian and dozens of people from the same clan packed their bags and left home.

A group of people arrived in Fan Yang City with high hopes, but they hit the wall one after another.

Li Maoyu found out about the lady, but his rice grain store had long been closed at a loss, and now a family of young and old guarded a half-room grocery store, and it was difficult to survive, let alone needing any manpower.

The lady told Li Maoyu that they came late, last year just after the autumn harvest, Fan Yangcheng poured in a lot of people who were doing great work, and many people in the city couldn't find a job for a month or two, and some even did one. Only half a month's wages per month.

That lady was right. Li Maoxian and the others asked many shops in the city. Those who recruited workers knew that they came out to earn money to supplement their families during the slack season. The wages were extremely low, and they were impatient to bargain. Some are done by people.

In Fanyang City, many people dressed in the same clothes as Li Maoxian and the others had come from a long distance. It makes people gnash their teeth, but also extremely sad.

After a few days in Fanyang City, the people in Yangshu Village became even more panicked, and told Li Maoxian one after another that the lower the salary, the lower it was, and it was better than nothing.

Li Maoxian shook his head, he was so exhausted that his body couldn't stand it, and the money he earned was just hard work.

At that time, he thought, instead of being ordered here, he might as well take his nephews to the border town to fight.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Li Qingfeng's lion roar on the street...

Li Qingwen never expected to meet his father and the villagers here, and Li Maoxian and the villagers did not expect them to come back at this time.

After seeing off Chen Wen, the hatchback people sat in the inn and talked about the village and the border town respectively.

Seeing Li Qingwen and Li Qingfeng, the people in the village were more happy than Li Maoxian, and they shook their shoulders with a big palm fan, telling them to take themselves with them when they went back.

"Come on, come on!" Li Qingfeng also couldn't wait to say: "We were almost exhausted from farming last year, with thousands of acres of land, if not for the many people helping us, grass will grow on our graves at this time."

Hearing his nonsense, Li Maoyu patted Li Qingfeng on the back, "You are all short-tempered."

Li Qingfeng said: "Gu, if you were there, you might be more anxious than me."

Hearing that the yield of sorghum per mu in the border town is so high, the land is reclaimed at will, and there is so much food that there is no place to store it, Li Qingshun's eyes are red, "Uncle, let's go to the border town with Zai'er and the others!"

"Uncle, we know the road is dangerous, but right now we really have no choice!"

"The three of us go together, as long as one of us can reach the border town alive, we will have nothing to worry about in the future..."

Knowing that the village was affected by the disaster, Li Qingwen was also anxious. He couldn't help but said, "Father, Big Brother Jiang and the others are still waiting at the inn outside Yuanbei City. Let's sell the things first and go back to the village to discuss it."

Li Maoxian nodded, all these people had to go to the border town, and they had to go back to the village to make a decision.

Just like that, Li Qingwen and his brothers were at the front, and Li Maoxian and the others drove to the medicine shop.

The shopkeeper of the medicine store was sitting behind the counter with his chin propped up. When he saw Li Qingwen, he quickly got up, "Little brother, what good things are there this time?"

That time when he received good medicinal materials from the brothers of the Li family, the shopkeeper was thinking about it. Just now a group of vicious officers and soldiers came over, and he was quite frightened. Later, he realized that it was just for the sake of showing off, so he immediately put his heart into his stomach.

The prices he gives are always fair and don't entrap people.

Li Qingshun and the others lifted the sack from the car and put it on the ground, and the shopkeeper immediately called for someone to come and see the medicine.

Untie the mouth of the sack and pour out all kinds of Ganoderma lucidum, white, purple, red, yellow, black, brown...

There are only a few colors, but there are more than [-] or [-] types of Ganoderma lucidum.

Not to mention buddy, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, squatted on the ground, picked up the Ganoderma lucidum that had rolled to the side, and smacked his lips: "Oh, these Ganoderma lucidums can't be dressed like this, the sides are all squeezed... they are mixed together, why don't we separate them?" ..."

After pouring three or five sacks, the ground was full, and everyone in the pharmacy was sorting the ganoderma,

Li Qingshun and the others stared blankly at the things on the ground, and asked, "This, what is this?"

"Ganoderma lucidum." Li Qingfeng glanced at it, quite disgusted, "Because of picking these things, both of my trousers were worn out, so I sewed them up and mended the seams."

"Ling, Ganoderma lucidum... Is this thing worth money?" Someone asked, swallowing saliva prodigiously.

"Look at the quality and weight." Li Qingwen looked at the brochure Zhou Yao wrote to him, and said, "Purple sesame is more expensive, Yunzhi may be cheaper, we weighed it before we left, a sack should weigh seventy or eighty catties, these It's all dry, without weighing the scales, it should be worth 200 taels of silver."

The pharmacist thought to himself, this is the first time he saw someone selling Ganoderma lucidum in sacks.

The people in the village were stunned, such a bag of things could be worth so much money, it must be exchanged for a warehouse of sorghum rice! !

My mother!

The people waiting at the pharmacy counted the ganoderma lucidum and did the calculation again. The money they gave was [-]% higher than what Li Qingwen estimated.

The main reason is that the Ganoderma lucidum in the border town has good medicinal properties, which they knew very well before.

Li Qingwen looked at the list they made, and nodded after comparing it with the one in his own booklet. The waiter immediately took the ganoderma down.

Li Qingfeng took Old Jiao to the counter, saw them take out the scales, and said unexpectedly: "I thought this thing was for sale."

The corner of the pharmacist's mouth twitched, and he explained: "Most of these things are used to boil glue. The heavier ones boil more glue, and the lighter ones boil less glue. Naturally, they are different."

Li Qingfeng thought it made sense, and said regretfully, "I knew I would have picked some bigger ones and brought them back."

The shopkeeper looked at him and asked, "Why, you didn't pull back this trip?"

"Ten more carts can't be pulled back." Li Qingfeng shook his head, and said resolutely: "This thing is so sticky, it's not easy to pretend."

The guy holding the scale shook his hands and bit the tip of his tongue to calm himself down. Oh boy, what good place did they go to? These herbs seem to be picked up.

Li Qingfeng didn't talk big, they picked up old horns twice and piled them in front of the door, only Zhou Yao could use some, and the rest were piled there.

This thing is really heavy, they didn't pull many this time.

Li Qingyong dragged Li Qingfeng aside and threatened him with his life, this time he had to take him with him.

Li Qingfeng looked at him, "When you are so tired that you want to bump your head to death, just don't regret it."

After weighing the old horns, the antlers and ginseng, the shopkeeper asked them to wait a while before going to the bank by themselves.

Li Qingwen nodded and told him that he only wanted gold or silver and nothing else.

The shopkeeper took most of the medicinal materials, but he didn't want two bags of velvet antler and a few roots of ginseng. These things were not cheap, and he was afraid that they would be stored in his hands for a long time. If there was any damage, he would feel very distressed.

But he also pointed out two shops to Li Qingwen and asked them to go there.

Thousands of taels of silver were placed in two boxes. When carrying them to the car, several people's hands were shaking all the time, and the eyes of the people next to them were also dazed.

I have never seen so much money!

Go to the store mentioned by the shopkeeper, sell the remaining medicinal materials, and there is another silver box in the car.

Before dark, they went to find a caravan, gave each other a few hundred taels of silver and a bag of family letters, and asked them to send them to Hongzhou.

After returning to the inn, everyone sat cross-legged on the ground, their eyes stared straight, unable to regain consciousness for a long time.

It's true that Li Qingwen and the others went to the border town, isn't it a place where wild beasts run rampant, the weather changes drastically, and people can freeze to death?Why are there so many valuable things?

Not to mention them, even Li Qingfeng was very surprised. He didn't expect to sell it for so much money. Now he wants to return to the border town immediately, live in the forest, and climb trees to pick ganoderma and medicinal materials every day!

On the contrary, Li Maoyu said, "There is a lot of money, but the two children have traveled thousands of miles back and forth, and the money is hard earned."

Others thought in their hearts, if they could make so much money, it would be worth it if they broke their legs! !

"It's nothing to work hard for." Li Qingfeng said: "It's just that there is snow everywhere in this season, and there are not a few wild animals, so it's not very interesting."

Originally, I wanted to hunt some prey on the road, but I didn't expect to eat fried noodles with oil!

Although fried noodles are also very sweet, they cannot be compared with meat after all.