"Let's go!" Uncle Wang patted Chen Mo's shoulder and smiled: "It's just an earthen city, if you see the brick and stone wall of the county town, you can't be scared to death?" ”

"Isn't it different?" Chen Mo didn't quite understand the meaning of the masonry city wall, in his worldview, the city wall of Xiaqiu County was already the most magnificent building in the world.

"Of course it's different, I heard that the walls of the county town are five zhang high, twice as high as here." Uncle Cai on the side said calmly.

"Uncle Cai hasn't seen it either?" Chen Mo keenly captured the key words in his words, and he was more willing to talk to Uncle Cai than the fierce and vicious Uncle Wang.

Uncle Cai's face darkened, slapped Chen Mo and said impatiently: "Hurry up, go quickly, if you want to go back before sunset, you have to leave in the afternoon." ”

"Oh~" Chen Mo was slapped in the face, and he didn't dare to ask again, so he could only walk in sullenly.

In these years, for most people, the farthest place they have been to in their lives may be the local county seat.

Li Zheng handed over the pass to the guards guarding the city at the gate of the city before entering the city.

"What's that?" Chen Mo looked at Li Zheng with some curiosity, he had also come to the county seat back then, but he didn't remember that someone asked him for this at the time.

"Biography, it seems that there are many levels, like us, if you want to go to other cities, when you enter the city, you will not be allowed to enter without this family, if you want to go to other cities, you have to do it in the county, and it is useless to open it, anyway, it is very troublesome." Uncle Cai explained while driving the donkey cart.

Chen Mo nodded, but saw that Li Zheng secretly stuffed two five-baht coins to the guard guarding the door, and looked at Uncle Cai suspiciously, the others didn't stuff this when they entered the city.

"Don't look around, and don't ask." Uncle Cai didn't wait for him to speak, he already glared at him and said, "You will understand later." ”

"Oh~" Chen Mo nodded obediently, didn't ask any more, and followed everyone into the city with the donkey cart, the soldiers guarding the city gate did not search for the donkey cart like everyone else, this is probably the effect of the two five-baht coins, right?

"Ergou~" After entering the city, Li Zheng called Chen Mo over.

"What do you command?" Chen Mo hurriedly ran over.

"You want to sell grain, and the place we go to is different, so separate, it is now the time (between 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock), we gather here at the beginning of the Shen Shi, corn should be about 200 yuan a stone, but this year there is a big drought in various places, the price of grain should rise, or it can be sold higher, but although the price of the grain merchants in the market is low, but it is safe there, it is better to go to the market to sell, the price of the embroidery in the splendid workshop is not bad, your mother's craftsmanship is good, if you sell it yourself, these are about 500 yuan." Li Zheng looked at Chen Mo and said.

"So expensive?" Chen Mo said in surprise.

He remembered that every year, his mother's embroidery would be about 100 yuan at most.

Li Zheng nodded, and didn't say much, in fact, Chen's mother usually sells it right, and people go to them to collect it, and it's this price.

"Go, remember to see us here at the beginning of the year." Li Zheng waved his hand.

"Oh." Chen Mo nodded, put the grain bag on his back, and walked away with a heavy heart.

"Isn't it too ...... to let him go like this with a child" Uncle Wang looked at Chen Mo's small back and said with some worry.

"Although he is still young, he is also the only man in the Chen family now, and there are some things that he has to experience by himself." Li Zheng shook his head and said, "You go and watch him, and the others will follow me." ”

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Chen Mo walked on the street, a little worried, in previous years, people from the county town went to various townships and miles to buy all kinds of materials, such as grain, embroidery, etc., there was no comparison, naturally I didn't know the price, but now I suddenly knew that the value of these things was much higher than the price given by those who came to the consignee every year, which made him feel a little uncomfortable when he was young.

The price of food is not too much different, but the price of embroidery is too much worse, thinking that my mother is dragging her weak body by the window every day to embroider there, and she may not be able to embroider a horse in a month, and in the end she will be exploited by those people, and her heart is unspeakably uncomfortable.

Asking all the way, Chen Mo wanted to find a place to collect grain.

"Little boy, if you want to sell food, why don't you send it directly to the inn? It doesn't cost much to sell to the grain market. An old man looked at Chen Mo with a pleasant and polite look, and took the initiative to call him over and said with a smile.

"How bad?" Chen Mo said in surprise.

"In the past, there was not much difference, but this year, there is a shortage of grain in various places, and the price of grain has risen sharply, and if they sell it, it will cost 400 yuan for a stone of corn, but if they collect it, it will probably be the same as in previous years." The old man laughed.

If the grain trade is in a normal year, it is actually not very profitable, that is, it is a small profit but quick turnover, but if there is a famine year, for the grain merchant, it will be able to make a lot of money.

"Thank you, Awen." Chen Mo hurriedly thanked the old man, and after asking the way to the post house, he was about to walk in the direction of the post house.

"Wait~" The old man beckoned to Chen Mo and said, "If you go like this, the post house will ignore you, they generally collect dozens of stones and dozens of stones, and you don't accept them alone." ”

"So what?" Chen Mo said curiously.

"Stupid, you just said it was sent from the grain market." The old man laughed.

"Liar?" Chen Mo frowned.

"How can it be called a deception? It's called flexibility! Otherwise, how can you sell them grain? The old man knocked on Chen Mo's head and said with a smile: "When the time comes, you will say that it was introduced by Liu Lao from Chengxi Street, and they will believe it." ”

"Oh." Chen Mo nodded as if he didn't understand, and walked to the post house with the grain bag on his back and according to the old man's instructions.

"The grain market didn't say that they were going to deliver grain today?" A quarter of an hour later, in the Chengxi Post House, the guy who watched the store looked at Chen Mo and frowned.

"But Liu Lao from Chengxi Street said yes." Chen Mo was a little flustered, a pair of eyes couldn't help but roll, thinking of what Liu Lao said, he hurriedly said.

"Oh......" The man's voice was a little strange, and he squinted at Chen Mo and said, "It's that old man, okay, put down the food." ”

"Where's the money?" Chen Mo put down the food and looked at the guy, always feeling that the other party's expression was a little weird, but he couldn't tell where it was weird.

"Money?" The guy wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he was slapped on the head.

"The owner?" The guy instinctively bowed his head and said to the man who appeared behind him.

"Go get the money." The man was quite decent, giving people a sense of reassurance, and at this moment he glanced at Chen Mo and said with a smile: "Little boy, drink some water, this stone corn is not light, what about your parents?" ”

"I'm selling goods over there, and I'll ...... in a while" Chen Mo said instinctively, but halfway through speaking, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, shouldn't he come from the grain market now? Shut up and don't say anything right now.

The man just smiled, which made Chen Mo relax his guard a little, touched Chen Mo's head and smiled: "It's okay, now I have accepted it, according to the market price, now it is three hundred and eighty yuan for one stone of corn, but we can only give you three hundred yuan here, after all, we also have to make money." ”

Chen Mo was a little reluctant in his heart, but he also felt that what the other party said made sense, and three hundred yuan had exceeded his expectations a lot, he looked at the water bowl next to him, a little hesitant, he ran all the way, he was indeed thirsty, but he was embarrassed to drink.

The man seemed to see Chen Mo's hesitation, stood up and turned around and went to the back hall.

Chen Mo hesitated, but finally couldn't hold back, and reached out to pick up the water bowl and drank a few sips.

"Host, please note, if the host is detected drinking a sleeping drug, does it take a little luck to clear it?" At the moment when Chen Mo drank the water, the silence was startled by a voice that suddenly sounded in his head......