In the past 21 years of Guangzheng, the gray yuan town and even the entire Danling County are still smooth, there is no war and banditry, the villagers of the various villages who come to the market have smiles on their faces, most of the families are the whole family, the flow of people in the market is very large, it can be regarded as a sea of people.

But the bazaar is not all smiling faces, there is a middle-aged man about forty years old and a girl about thirteen years old near Yahang with sad faces, they fled all the way west from Jiangzhou, where the Southern Tang Dynasty is located, to Danling, because of the war between the Later Zhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Tao Pu family, which was originally a small rich family, suddenly became refugees.

Following the large army to escape the war, I traveled hundreds of kilometers all the way, and later I heard that Shu was quite stable, and the family was displaced to Shu, and many people were separated along the way.

"Dad, do we really want to sell ourselves to survive?" Tao Pu's daughter Tao Yingchun asked Tao Pu Dao, who was in distress because of the long journey.

"We have no choice, the food and money brought out by the family were all spent two months ago, I originally thought that in such a small town, I could find some work to do, and I could survive, but your mother and brother are sick now, what else can you do if you don't sell yourself?" Tao Pu said with tears in his eyes.

Because of this heavy snowfall, Tao Pu's family is walking from Danling County to Gray Yuan Town, Tao Yingchun's mother and younger brother were infected with the wind chill on the road, and fell ill all of a sudden, Tao Pu had no choice but to place his wife and son in the market not far away, in the shed outside a newly renovated house, and he and his daughter came to the market to find a way.

After inquiring about the location of the tooth shop in Gray Plains Town, Tao Pu took his daughter to the tooth shop. Standing outside the dental store, the two didn't know how to let people buy their own family. I thought that when I was in Jiangzhou, I was also thin and wealthy, but I didn't expect that it was forced to this step now.

Zhao Yuan's family followed Meng's father and his family to the bazaar, because there were too many people in the bazaar, so they acted separately. Zhao Yuan took Meng Ying, Luoluo, and Meng Xiaobao to lead the little donkey and black tiger to the outside of the Funing Building for storage, said hello to the shopkeeper Wan Fu and the guys, and Meng Ying led a little guy and walked around the market.

"Luoluo, Xiaobao, today you each have a hundred copper coins, and you want to buy things by yourself." Zhao Yuan smiled and handed two strings of money with one hundred copper coins to Luoluo and Xiaobao.

"That's a lot of money, Uncle Xiaobao, what do you want to buy?" Luoluo happily took the copper coin handed over by Zhao Yuan, put it in his backpack, and asked.

"I don't know, buy something delicious." Xiaobao's eyes looked into the surrounding stalls.

The last time Meng Xiaobao went to Zhao Yuan's house, Meng Ying used the fur and fabric sent by Wan Yunjun to sew a backpack for Xiaobao. However, compared with Luoluo's backpack, Xiaobao's backpack is larger, Luoluo's is smaller, and Luoluo's bag is also embroidered with a mouse pattern, which is of course painted by Zhao Yuan and embroidered by Meng Ying.

Luoluo and Xiaobao carried their bags in front of them, followed by Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying, walking with the flow of people, in front of the stalls on both sides of the street, there were always a few people around to bargain with the boss, plus the sound of pedestrians chatting with each other, the sound of various stalls selling, the whole market seemed very noisy.

"Xiaoying, do you have anything you want to buy?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"I have everything in the house, and I don't seem to have anything to buy." Meng Ying shook her head and said.

Zhao Yuan rushed to the New Year's fair, on the one hand, because he was going to his father-in-law's house to eat shaved soup, and on the other hand, he liked this lively atmosphere, in fact, it didn't matter whether he bought anything or not.

"Hey, there are actually pears for sale, how did you save them in this winter?" Suddenly, Zhao Yuan saw someone on the side of the street with two boxes of pears for sale.

"Uncle, shall we buy some pears?" When Luoluo heard Zhao Yuan's words, he immediately said.

Pears usually ripen in the fall, so it should not be easy to preserve them until now, and there is no such thing as cold storage or preservatives in this era.

Pears are common sand pears with brown skin, which may be due to the lack of pesticides in this era, and the shape of pears is irregular, and there are pimples formed after being bitten by insects such as bees, but it does not affect consumption.

"Okay, let's buy pears." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, the food in this era is very good, but there is a shortage of fruits, and I haven't seen how many fruits are sold in the market several times.

"Boss, how do you sell these pears?" Walking up to the old farmer who bought pears, Zhao Yuan asked.

"Forty wen." The old farmer said with two fingers closed.

"It's so expensive, can it be cheaper?" Meng Ying accosted.

"It's not expensive, it's still a few days before the New Year, you see who else has such fresh pears to sell in the whole market." The old farmer who sells pears said.

"That's it, uncle, we bought these two boxes of pears for you, and it's thirty wen a catty." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"This is too little, it is not easy for pears to be preserved until now, only thirty iron dollars, too little." The old man shook his head and said.

"Wait, uncle, what you said about forty wen is forty iron money?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"That's right, is it still forty copper coins?" The old man said with wide eyes.

"Okay, we made a mistake, just forty iron money, we all want it, can you help us send it to Funing Building." Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying glanced at each other and said with a smile.

"Got it?" The old man confirmed again.

"Yes, I want it, where is the old man, this pear is not easy to preserve." After weighing, Zhao Yuan took a few pears and handed one to Meng Ying and the two little guys.

"I am from Yakou Village in the south of the town, and my family has a pear mountain, and there is a cave there, and my pears are all kept in the cave, otherwise I wouldn't be able to put them now." The old man said with a smile.

"Well, it's quite sweet, uncle, do you have any pear saplings for sale, I want to buy some pear trees to plant in my field." Zhao Yuan asked again.

"Yes, there are many on Lishan, how much do you want, little brother, in the past, others used to dig a few trees and give them to others." The old man said.

"My house is not far from the market, at Xiaheba, and the old man of the mountain next to the Xiaheba knows that I am going to plant some fruit trees on that mountain." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"I know there, the piece of land that was just opened up some time ago, it turned out to be you, little brother, it's not simple, the mountain is not small, and there are a lot of saplings needed to plant pear trees, what price do you think you can give?" The old man asked.

"How big are those pear tree seedlings in my uncle's house?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"The big ones are about four years old, and the small ones are about a year." The old man thought for a while and said.

"Are the big ones going to start bearing fruit?"

"Yes, it's already starting to bear fruit." The old man nodded and said, I didn't expect this young brother to know some fruit trees.