188. [4-008] Bartering for mulberry leaves

How a person lives in the world is her own business, and has nothing to do with others!

Except for the people she cares about and the people she has to care about, other people don't need to take it to heart, and there is no need to put it in their eyes.

Because these days are boring, she keeps herself busy and doesn't have time to pay attention to these boring people.

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The number of spring silkworms raised this time, in fact, is a challenge that has never been seen before for Mengfan, if there is not a space there to block it, there are mulberry silkworm species in it, and there is also Hu Yulang who can raise silkworms and weave silk, she would not have thought about spreading this stall so big.

In the early stage of the larval stage, because the silkworm baby is small, if the mind is not delicate, a negligence is a great loss, so the person she wants to find to help must be a person who has no distractions and is dedicated to this matter.

The daughter-in-law who serves the silkworm baby at home must be delicate and soft, and she must be careful and careful every time she can divide the plaque.

Picking mulberry leaves outside requires not only an ordinary peasant girl, because she raises a large number of silkworms, so she also needs a certain amount of endurance and physical strength and obedience; At the very least, in addition to supplying the silkworms for food, it can also ensure that the branches of the mulberry trees on her hillside are not damaged, leaving a healthy space for a large number of picks for the next autumn silkworm breeding.

And because the cash in the family is very compact, Daddy must be extremely concerned about anything that can come with money, so she can let go of her hands and do it without the slightest concern.

Although, Li Mingjie often questioned Xiao Mengfan with disdain, can he raise so many silkworms.

This time, in the village and the other two neighboring villages, the Qian family brought all the girls who could be picked out and a few daughters-in-law who had only entered the door within a few years, and they all brought them to Mengfan and asked her to choose, it seems that Li Zheng also helped in this matter.

Mengfan is actually not picky, and said to all the girls, the first is to keep themselves clean and hygienic, and the second is to be diligent and not lazy, there are still few people who need it these days, so I will first pick a daughter-in-law and two girls who look neat, and explain that after five days, we will increase the number of people depending on the situation.

The rest of them all took a basket back, which contained a pound of white rice, a pound of bud rice, a handful of vegetables, two turnips, and two eggs.

So that they will not return empty-handed, the next time she asks for manpower, the people who come will be spontaneously conscious, and ask them to ask the father, husband, and brother who are the top of the family to help, and take a look at the idle or wild mulberry tree locations in other villages, contact, and provide a large number of mulberry leaves when the silkworm baby grows up.

also said that when the time comes, they will exchange the mulberry leaves they send every day at a good price or grain.

At the end of work that day, she asked Qian to bring back two baskets, saying that she asked her to take one back to her own house, and the other asked her man to send it to Lizheng's house.

Naturally, the contents of these two baskets must be much richer.

In the cold of spring, Mengfan took the maid Fang'er, and the women who were short-term workers, all got up early in the morning, Qian and the Yuan who had just found stayed in her house to serve the silkworm baby, and she and the three girls went all over the mountains to find wild mulberry trees to pick usable tender mulberry leaves.

In the spare time, pick the far, ownerless, or other people's families do not raise silkworms but belong to the ridges in the mountains and forests, when the silkworm babies need to eat a large amount of food, it will be much more convenient to pick on their own slopes and ridges.

And if she made such a big move, she said it in advance, and in the future, if there are not enough mulberry leaves, take some out of the space, and it will not be easy for people to find out.

The strength of the masses is the powerful drop!

Seven or eight days later, in her courtyard, the men, except for her father and fourth uncle's room, all moved out of the house and lived in a row of bungalows that had just been built in the new house.

A few rooms were left in order to find the girls who had come to do things to rest at night, after all, she could not guarantee that everyone else would be safe when it was dark.

The fourth uncle took the two long-term workers of the family to set up rows of wooden shelves in the front yard and the backyard, and on these shelves, the newly made square bamboo plaques with edges were washed and dried, and there were more than 100 of them.

A few dogs were released, guarding day and night, even if the gate was open, no one dared to come in and make trouble.

Even if there were, the dogs she raised with space spirit creatures were not a mixed eater, catching thieves who wanted to find an empty door to break in, her father and her fourth uncle, as well as Liang Wucheng and Han Xiaolin, two long-term workers who stayed in the shop outside the gate, got up at night.

Nothing to do with her and the other girls.

The quicklime disinfection needed after the silkworm baby grows and molts, and the village chief and Li Zheng helped find it for her father.

The growth cycle of silkworms is fast, changing their body size and food volume day by day; In the first time, several girls and daughters-in-law arranged in front of her also entered her small courtyard.

Her father and fourth uncle, every time they appeared at home, they were accompanied by an entourage, her father was accompanied by Ling Yaoxuan, and the fourth uncle was a sixteen-year-old boy newly bought from the town's dental store, whose nickname was Dashan, and after he came, he changed his name and called Mantang.

She is preparing for her father's future name of the little girl around her Fugui. Ling Yaoxuan is her housekeeper, and he will be used for other purposes in the future, how can she keep being aggrieved by the side of her father, an unreasonable person, halu ha!

After the silkworm molted for the fourth time, it officially entered a busy period, and in the past ten days, everyone involved in this matter was so busy that their feet did not touch the ground.

However, because they spent the most heartfelt waiting period, everyone showed a lot of smiles on their faces.

There were more people who came in to pick mulberry leaves, and there were eight young girls, and six daughters-in-law invited from the family, all of whom worked diligently and quickly.

Daddy takes care of all the progress, and the shop earns; In addition to going to the town when he was in the market, the fourth uncle took people to take care of the 20 acres of fields on weekdays, and took people to cut bamboo, look for straw, tie plum blossom bamboo cages, and twist grass ropes at other times.

A hundred bamboo plaques are not enough, and more than 20 have been added, even in the hall and house, the front yard and the back yard are also stuffed, and at night there are 100 big chickens and 100 and a half big chickens into the cage, this is a momentum, who dares to say that her family is not a farmer but a businessman?

It's just that if these people can't be satisfied with food, they can't do anything at all.

The consumption of mulberry leaves is large, and the consumption of food eaten by people is also large enough, the shop that the fourth uncle saw in the town has been opened, a grain store, and an ox cart comes every day to send food to her family.

Although she is the real owner in this grain store, she must hide this matter from her father, otherwise, she will really be penniless at any time.

The fourth uncle worked hard to find a shop to negotiate the price, the fourth uncle paid the rent, and she paid the grain.

As for how this grain came from? There were subordinates sent by Helian Yutian, and they were transported one by one, and he had his own way to let people know where he came from, and there was one of her housekeepers, Ling Yaoxuan, in the middle.

Everything is moving.

The breeding of spring silkworms has also entered the most late stage in the tense busyness; People from all over the country spontaneously and voluntarily carry baskets on their backs every day to bring fresh mulberry leaves, early morning, morning, afternoon, and evening.

Ling Yaoxuan is busy again, he has less time to serve the master, his mood is also comfortable, he looks more comfortable, his brows are stretched, he is busy weighing mulberry leaves every day, and he is also busy settling wages.

This salary, not all money, on the other side of the door and the road out of the village adjacent to the open space, he sat at a desk to record which family and which person sent how many catties of mulberry leaves, behind him, are four young and strong men sent by Helian Yutian, behind these people, set up a row of simple shelves to block the wind and rain, inside against the mountain wall, are baskets and barrels, baskets and barrels, filled with rice, flour, buds, sweet potatoes, white radish, carrots, greens, cabbage, and various foods such as carp, crucian carp, pork, chicken, etc.

Mulberry leaves can be exchanged for money, grain, vegetables, fish, etc., and there are many kinds of mulberry leaves, depending on what everyone voluntarily wants.

Generally speaking, every penny for a pound of mulberry leaves, a basket of more than ten or twenty pounds of mulberry leaves has more than ten or twenty dollars, if it is picked up from a basket, there are about thirty pounds of mulberry leaves, if the family needs food, directly exchange for food.

Four yuan can be exchanged for one pound of bud rice, or twenty-five yuan for one pound of high-quality polished rice, 15 yuan for one pound of medium rice, four yuan for one pound of sweet potatoes, 20 yuan for a crucian carp, 25 yuan for a carp, 15 yuan for a pound of fatty pork, 13 yuan for a pound of lean meat, pork ribs, 20 yuan for a pound of chicken, etc.

The beginning of human beings was to barter, and in the last half a year of drought, I don't know how many people are anxious about what they can do with their money. Isn't it just to earn food?

Therefore, what reassures Mengfan and her father is that this cash does not need much, because his daughter's strange methods are quite useful.

As for where these grains and meat came from, Li Mingjie asked, and his fourth brother raised the eight beautiful beards on his lips and said, "Big brother, do you want to settle accounts with me?" Li Mingjie stopped talking; Two brothers, it's not intimate when talking about money, as long as you don't let him take the money out, and only collect the money into the purse, then everything is easy to say.

This is also a matter of ten days, it is said that the mulberry leaves of these three villages are almost all picked up, and the number of mulberry leaves purchased is getting smaller and smaller, and there are all sent, and from this day, everything comes to an abrupt end!

Because of her own mulberry tree, she has not picked anything at all during this time, and it has been bred very well, and the leaves are large and thick, enough for the last few days.

As a result, the big guys stepped forward one after another to stop Ling Yaoxuan: "Guidong, if you need anything else, you must take care of the villagers in these three villages in the future." Ling Yaoxuan also smiled and responded for Meng Fan one by one, saying that if he needs anything in the future, he will put up a bulletin board in this place where he has been sitting for more than ten days, whether it is what the owner needs to invite or buy in the future, everyone looks here!