Before the two of them went out in the morning, they heard the black boy of the Aqing family shouting at the door: "Uncle Qiu, Uncle Qiu, everyone is going to dig loaches today." ”

The two followed the crowd to the field, and the village chief directly asked each family to choose a piece of land to dig, without disturbing each other, and digging their own to avoid conflicts. This method was something he had thought about for a long time in the past two days. If Geng Qiu and they can grow rice, everyone can follow suit in the future, it is better to dig out the land first, and it doesn't matter if Geng Qiu and they can't grow rice. This loach digging work, everyone can do it for as long as they want, the people in a village, this wasteland, everyone has a share, it can't just be opened by Geng Qiu's family, everyone has to order, and no one will talk nonsense afterwards. Of course, there are not necessarily people who dig here every day like Geng Qiu. It is not an easy task to dig up this piece of land. The ground is full of deep grass roots, how can you grow crops if you don't clean it.

Sure enough, everyone only dug up some loaches and eels and dispersed, and when everyone heard that Geng Qiu and they wanted to open up the field to grow rice, they just talked nonsense, in short, they were all against it. But no one cares what they do, they only understand when the rice is actually grown.

Geng Qiu and Ah Hao watched the messy crowd leave, and they were in a better mood, they left, not disturbing their work. Geng Qiu was also afraid that these people would rush up and reclaim all the land. In fact, he is worrying about this, because the deep place cannot be cultivated at all, it is a real swamp, and it will sink into it, and the place that can be reclaimed is only a small half. And now they can dig a quarter. In other words, in the future, their family will be the one with the most paddy fields.

For many days in a row, Ah Hao and Geng Qiu were repeating the work of mowing the grass, digging grass roots and turning the ground, and they were tired half to death every day. Although I can pick up several catties of loaches and eels every day, I can't eat enough loach eels at home. Sometimes Geng Qiu and Ah Hao didn't bother to pick it up and threw it directly into the swamp.

"Say, can these loaches and eels be sold at the market?" Geng Qiu asked Ah Hao.

"I don't know, but even if I can sell it, it's definitely not worth much." Ah Hao replied that in his memory, although he had eaten loaches and eels, he vaguely remembered that this thing was not expensive at all.

"I'll ask A-Qing." Geng Qiu said unrelentingly, looking at so many loach eels, he always wanted to exchange them for some silver and come back. You know, in modern times, loaches are worth a lot.

"It's worthless, everyone doesn't like to eat, even if it's a big family, it's just a wild taste, and occasionally get to eat. You can sell it, it is estimated that it is three or five pounds a catty, and you may not be able to buy much. "Ah Qing sued him. If it was really valuable, they would have dug it up and sold it a long time ago. There are all kinds of fish sold in the bazaar, but loach eel is rarely bought.

Because there was no food at home, Geng Qiu took two and a half buckets of loaches and eels and rode a mule alone to Xiangnan Town, and sure enough, the loaches were worthless, and it took a long time to sell out the loaches that he brought with him, more than ten catties, and he got twenty big bucks. The eel was a little better, but it only cost thirty dollars. But a total of almost fifty catties of loach eels only got fifty big bucks, which is still what they have saved for several days and have not eaten enough.

Geng Qiu looked at the fifty big bucks, and knew in his heart that it didn't make much sense to make money with loaches and eels at all. Even if he tells others about his method of making loaches and eels, it won't make much difference, because there are many cooks who can cook, and in terms of his cooking skills, to put it bluntly, it is just a home-cooked taste, not a chef's level.

Ah Hao once said that he had eaten loaches and eels at home before, and the taste was no worse than Geng Qiu's. But generally do very little to do this kind of dish, because in ancient times the natural environment is good, like tortoise turtle turtle is also very much, all kinds of fish are wild are a lot, the price will not be expensive, loaches and eels to make delicious, need more spices, but this year most of the people are not full, who will buy those expensive spices, would rather make some of the most ordinary things to eat. Even if it's a big family, it's just an occasional change of taste.

This time, Geng Qiu only spent two taels of silver plus these fifty big money, and bought forty-five catties of brown rice, sixty catties of thick noodles, and a bed of half-black new cotton wool. But their bed was covered with robes, not to mention uncomfortable sleeping, this clothing slept every day, and it was not warm when they had to wear it in winter, so he bought this bed of cotton wool. Cotton wool is very expensive, only dare to buy medium and low-grade, if it is good cotton wool, one or two silver is not enough to buy a quilt.

He hurried to his horse, went and returned quickly, and set out at dawn, and when he came back it was completely dark. Ah Hao and Ah Qing were three miles out of the village before they met him.

"Oh, we're worried about coming back so late, we're afraid something will happen to you." Aqing said that because Geng Qiu was going to Xiangnan Town for the first time, when he went, he took a detour, but fortunately, he would meet farmers from time to time on the road, and there was a village called Heiya Village thirty miles away from Heiyan Village, and most of the people he met were people from Heiya Village.

These two villages are the two closest to each other, and they often intermarry, and most of them are relatives. Geng Qiu's family came back, and it had already been spread to Black Cliff Village, so when everyone saw him, they all had to show the way enthusiastically, if there was no one to guide him, he was afraid that he would come back even later.

"It's okay, it's the first time I went, I took a little detour, and it will be much better next time." Geng Qiu said with a smile. He took a cucumber handed by A-Qing and ate it. He was tired on the road, and although he was riding a mule, he had not rested for a day, and he was tired enough. This time he bought a lot of food, and he calculated that he could eat it for about three months. After the autumn harvest, you can exchange or buy some grain directly in the village. He didn't bother to go often, and it was too hard to travel. Besides, the things in the market town are just like that, there are not many good goods, in fact, even if there are good goods, he can't afford them.

"Hey, isn't there a lot of excitement in town? Is loach eel easy to sell? Ah Hao watched Geng Qiu finish eating and asked. Today's cooking is Ah Hao's cooking, which is to cook a pot of brown rice, half of which is not dry, and half of the green vegetables are mixed with a little salt, which is a little unpalatable, but Geng Qiu is hungry, and he doesn't care if it tastes good or not, but eats the remaining half of the pot.

"It's a little more lively than Xiangyang Town, but the things sold are a little worse than Xiangyang Town, and it's almost rare to see high-end goods. The loaches and eels were sold for a total of fifty dollars. Geng Qiu said. This time, he was also taken aback, and he didn't expect that Xiangnan Town would be even poorer. But think about it, Xiangnan Town is surrounded by small mountain villages, where can you afford high-end goods.

"Well, these things are worthless. I'm still thinking about playing when I have nothing to do, but I don't think there's much to do. Ah Hao was out of interest.

"It's still playing, it's the right thing to think about making money." Geng Qiu was happy. There are only ten or so taels of silver left, and they can only eat brown rice and thick noodles with half of the vegetables, and they can only eat them for a year or two. The two of them don't want to make money, this idea of saving money is really unreassuring, I'm really afraid that I won't have the next meal. He has grown so big, and he really hasn't lived a life of lack of food and clothing.

Geng Qiu is a skilled person in modern times, but there is no market for computers here, and this kind of technology is equal to nothing.

In fact, a person like Geng Qiu, who has not suffered much, did not have high living skills in ancient times, but fortunately, he picked up his wife and son for nothing as soon as he came, and this wife also brought a dowry (more than 20 taels of silver, in this dynasty, the poor family is afraid that they will not be able to earn it for a lifetime. Otherwise, he would have gone hungry.

God didn't give him any golden fingers, and he was not familiar with life here, and it was not as good as modern times in ancient times, and the population management was very strict, and he could not leave the place of residence at will. He really didn't know where to go except for following Ah Hao. But fate can be regarded as some benefits for him. After several months of physical labor, his body is much stronger than before, and now he can carry a hundred and eighty pounds of things, and it is easy to walk on mountain roads.

This was completely impossible before, although his body was good, but it was all trained in the gym, and it was comparable to now. When he first came over, he was wearing the clothes of the original owner, and the man was at least five centimeters shorter than him, but Geng Qiu could barely wear other people's clothes. Because people are much stronger than him, he can wear a jacket and a robe, except for the fact that it looks a little empty, but the pants are a little shorter. And now he looked at his tight and powerful muscles, and couldn't help but want to laugh a little, he used to dream of exercising a muscle, but now it was easy, completely inadvertently obtained by him.

"Hey, what do you want?" Ah Hao looked at Geng Qiu and asked in a low voice.

"I'm a little tired, what can I think, I want to have endless rice and meat now." Geng Qiu laughed at himself.

"Alas, it's all my fault for not making you live a good life. I'm going to hunt harder tomorrow, and I'm going to get some meat back to eat. Ah Hao said a little sadly that he is also hungry now. He is not happy to live a life where he works every day and can't eat meat. Especially when he is still the head of the household, the head of the family can't let the family have a full stomach, and he is completely incapacitated.

"Huh. Go to bed early. When Geng Qiu heard his words, he couldn't laugh when he wanted to, and he was not in a good mood when he thought that he had to rely on others to support him as a big man.

As a result, in the middle of the night, Geng Qiu was gnawing on braised pig's feet, but as soon as he took a bite, he woke up in pain, and it turned out that it was his own hand.