"A cucumber for two pennies is not cheap." Zhao Wan spoke up on the side, and she told Li Xiao that although there were floods in many places in Jiangnan last year, many places still had bumper harvests this year, so grain prices, especially those in Guanzhong, Henan, Shannan and other places, are still very stable.

"Luoyang corn is two and a half dollars a bucket, and rice is eleven dollars a bucket, and the price of grain in Chang'an is slightly higher, but it is just a little higher."

Old man Zhao said that a cucumber sells for two cents, but in fact, it is already selling at a high price, and a bucket of corn in Luoyang is only two dollars, and a cucumber is equivalent to a bucket of corn. Rice is more expensive, that is, a bucket of rice and japonica rice is only 11 yuan.

And this rice is sold by bucket, a bucket is several catties, and cucumbers are sold by the root, one at most a catty.

A cucumber is equivalent to a bucket of corn, and the price is really unreasonable. Zhao Laohan still sets the price according to the high-end customer group, otherwise, which people are willing to buy a cucumber for two pennies.

No matter how much they have experienced the rule of Zhenguan, no matter how peaceful the world is, there are still many people struggling with food and clothing.

No matter how delicious a cucumber is, it is just to satisfy the appetite, but a bucket of rice can be eaten by a few people for several days.

As soon as Zhao Wan explained this, Li Xiao also had a deeper understanding of the prices in this era. After the rule of Zhenguan, today's grain prices are still relatively low, and low grain prices have also driven other prices to remain at a relatively low level.

This is not only the credit of Zhenguan's rule, but also the reason why there is a shortage of copper coins in the Tang Dynasty, but in any case, two cents are very valuable in this era.

In his heart, he compared the price of goods today with that of later generations, and probably a penny now is worth about five or six yuan, so that a cucumber is sold for ten yuan, which is indeed not cheap.

1,000 catties of cucumbers, if sold for two cents a piece, can be sold for at least 2,000 cents. If it is replaced with corn, it can cost more than 60 stones, which is enough for the people on this Zhuangzi, plus Li Xiao and others, to eat for a whole winter, and even eat until next summer's harvest.

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Two thousand dollars, but two dollars, Li Xiao really didn't pay much attention to it.

But in the eyes of Zhao Laohan, in the eyes of those villagers, this is a lot of money, and even in the eyes of Li Zhen, who used to be the daughter of the landlord's family, this is also not a small amount of money.

It is said that when there is no money, a penny is difficult for heroes, and they now have a deep understanding. On Lanxi Street, a bucket of corn costs only three cents, but they can't come up with these three cents, as evidenced by the wild grass bran paste porridge stewed in the pot.

Two thousand dollars, that can buy back thousands of catties of corn, piled up can become a small mountain, who is not impressed.

In normal times, in good years, it is already difficult to accumulate dozens of copper coins after a bumper harvest, not to mention two thousand copper coins.

Some farmers are even imagining that these copper coins have already arrived, and they are going to which grain store they are going to buy grain. Some people say that they want to buy corn, some people say that it is more cost-effective to buy millet directly, and some people say that they can save more money by buying some millet and then buying some beans and sorghum.

"A thousand cucumbers, Lanxi Town will definitely not be able to sell them. Although there are post stations and inns and restaurants on the street, this cucumber has to be eaten fresh, and the price of two cents a piece is not cheap, and it is good that Lanxi can sell a hundred. ”

A cucumber with two pennies is a high consumption, even if Lanxi travels from the south to the north, and there are many people from the east to the west, but not everyone is willing to eat cucumbers for two pennies.

"Send it to Chang'an, a thousand cucumbers, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, and countless powerful nobles will definitely be sold out at once."

"But there are many powerful families in Chang'an who also have their own greenhouses, and they also grow green vegetables and fruits." Zhao Laohan said.

Li Xiao is full of confidence.

"Even if they have greenhouses, I dare say that their home-grown cucumbers are certainly not as good as mine, and they are not as delicious as mine. As soon as we take out this jasper cucumber, it must be amazing. ”

Li Xiao's words made Zhao Wan and the others nod their heads, such a good cucumber, not to mention that it is rare to see in winter, even in summer, you can't see such a beautiful and delicious one.

"Without further ado, I'll take some cucumbers to Lanxi now, sell some first, and come back in exchange for some grain, fish, and meat, you probably haven't eaten enough for many days, let's have a good meal tonight." Li Xiao patted Li Zhen's hand and said.

After explaining a few words to them, Li Xiao went out.

Guo Biao and Yang Dayan followed, when they were in the Jiangnan Righteous Army, these two were Li Xiao's right and left hands, Guo Biao was his deputy general, and Yang Dayan was his military advisor. Guo Biao used to be a butcher who slaughtered pigs and sheep, five big and three thick, and was good at using two knives in the rebel army, a large butcher knife and a sharp knife.

And Yang Dayan used to be a private school teacher, familiar with several Confucian classics, but the level was average, and when he was next to Li Xiao, he was also a dog-headed military teacher.

"San Lang, why don't we know when and where we bought cucumbers?"

They traveled all the way from Jiangnan to Guannai, day and night, in a hurry, and even had to carefully avoid the government's interrogation. Even if it is in the name of business travel, in fact, there are some transactions along the way. Besides, they hadn't heard of any merchant selling this cucumber along the way.

Li Xiao smiled.

"You don't know much, don't worry about it so much, I told you that when you come to the gate, you can live a peaceful life. But now something has happened, and today's dinner has not yet been settled. Fortunately, I still have these cucumbers in my hands, so let's go to the Blue Creek selling point first to exchange for some food. ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he asked the two of them to call Tiezhu, Ergou, Liu Cong, Zhang Garlic and a few others to go to the pine forest to get cucumbers.

On the way, he didn't bother to explain to them why there were so many cucumbers in the pine forest, Li Xiao didn't know how to explain this thing, he had already tried that space, and found that others couldn't see or touch it at all, and even he couldn't take others in.

Even if they did, they couldn't believe it.

Just let them guess.

When they arrived outside the pine forest, Li Xiao asked them to put down the basket and wait, and he took the willow basket into the woods.

Walking a little into the woods, and when he saw that no one was coming, he entered the space and began to pick cucumbers.

It took a long time to pick two baskets of cucumbers, about 100 cucumbers, and then they came out.

There was about half a pillar of incense in the space, but outside, it seemed that only a short time had passed.

When Li Xiao really came out with two baskets of fresh cucumbers, Biaozi and Big Eyes widened their eyes, not to mention the few young people waiting for Ergou in the back.

"There really are cucumbers, and this cucumber can't be wild in the pine forest, right?" Ergou asked.

Big eyes rolled at him, "Have you ever seen the cucumber in Nagano on the mountain?" Even if there will be wild ones, have you ever seen such a good wild cucumber grow in the cold winter wax moon, and can it grow so well? ”

Ergou didn't believe in the evil, he ran into the forest by himself, Li Xiao didn't stop him, and after a while, Ergou came out dejectedly, and he naturally couldn't find any wild cucumber seedlings inside.

"I didn't see the cucumber vines, and I didn't see anyone."

Several people looked at Li Xiao in confusion, but Li Xiao just smiled and said nothing.

"Let's go, send this cucumber to Lanxi to exchange for money first."

When going down the mountain, Zhang Cong and Liu Garlic were carrying a basket of cucumbers, weighing more than fifty catties, but they seemed to be carrying an empty basket.

These two people are also fourteen or fifteen years old, and they used to be Li Xiao's personal soldiers, because they didn't have a big name before, so Li Xiao gave them the name of Zhang Onion and Liu Garlic.

When they arrived at Zhuangkou, Zhao Laohan, Zhao Wan, Li Zhen and others were surprised to see that Li Xiao really came back with two baskets of fresh cucumbers.

"You guys are waiting for us at home, let's go to the Blue Bridge and be back soon."

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Zhuangzi is only two miles away from Lijiapo, and only five or six miles away from Lanqiao Street, so there is no need to ride a horse, and it takes a while to walk.

A few people walked on the frozen dirt road, and Li Xiao looked carefully at the place where he had decided to live for a long time.

According to the Qinling Mountains, the foot is a continuous slope, the ground is very uneven, the road is also very small, the loess slope, it can be seen that this land is not fertile.

Compared with the riverside watering in Lijiapo, it is too far behind.

"That's Li Jiapo, right? Saburo? ”

Passing by Lijiapo, Guo Biao looked at the village that was obviously much better than the Zhuangzi just now and asked.

"Hmm." Li Xiao nodded.

"San Lang, if you want me to say, why should we be polite to the surnamed Zhang and go directly to the door."

"No."

Li Xiao stopped it, although they were also considered to have rebelled, but now they are still on the run, counting on escaping into the gate to avoid trouble, how can they hit the door so directly, it will not be of any benefit to them.

Dealing with the Zhang family is certain, but it must not be so simple and rude, revenge must be taken, but you must also protect yourself first. He didn't want to take Zheng Wan and Li Zhen to wander the world in the second half of his life, or fall into the grass.

"Wouldn't that be too cheap for them?" The two dogs hate the way.

Li Xiao stopped, and he looked at Zhuangzi, where Zhang Laocai's son Xiaobawang should be living now.

Although it is said that it is necessary to take a long-term view, it is really not in his character to do nothing.

He turned his head to look at the cucumbers in the willow basket on the backs of Zhang Cong and Liu Garlic, and suddenly thought about it.

"Let's go around the village."

"San Lang has figured it out, great, let's kill him cleanly." Guo Biao said with a smile.

"Uncle Biao, don't say anything casually in the future, we are now serious and good people, and we want to talk about the justice of the king's law. Don't talk nonsense for a while, just follow me. ”

"Ah, if we don't fight, kill and kill, then what are we going to do?" Guo Biao was puzzled.

"Go to them and get some interest back first?"

"How do you receive it?"

Li Xiao smiled and said to Yang Dayan, "Uncle Dayan should understand what I want to do." ”

Yang stroked his goatee with big eyes and said with a smile, "If I expected it to be true, San Lang was planning to sell some cucumbers to the Zhang family?" ”

"Uncle Big Eyes is really worthy of being a clever man, and he is worthy of my praise for being a wise star. That's right, today I'm going to send some cucumbers to the surnamed Zhang. ”

"Cucumbers? What does that mean, why didn't I get it? "Ergou's brain is not very good, and I don't understand it now.

Li Xiaohe looked at each other and smiled, "You'll know in a while, wait to see a good show." ”