Eighty miles away, even if you ride an old horse, when you arrive in Zhuangzi, it is still dark after all.

At the intersection outside the village, Zhao Wan had been waiting, and when she saw Li Xiao and them coming back, she greeted her with a smile, and Li Xiao was startled.

"Why are you still here at such a late hour?"

"You've never come back, worry."

Zhao Wan's whole body trembled, and her lips turned white in thin clothes. Li Xiao held her hand, and it felt like holding two pieces of ice.

"Haven't eaten yet?"

"When the meal is ready, I'm waiting for you."

Li Xiao took off the cloak on his body and wrapped it around her, "You're so stupid, won't you sit at home and wait?" ”

"San Lang, sister-in-law cares about you." Zhang Cong said with a smile in the back, and his words were full of envy. Zhao Wan's virtuousness is really full of envy in their eyes. In this life, it would be better to be able to marry a virtuous woman like Zhao Wan to take care of the housework, and then give birth to a few more babies, if you can buy a few more acres of land.

Some savings, and then ask neighbors and relatives to help build a few thatched huts around a yard, which is enough for a lifetime.

As soon as they entered Zhuangzi, people from all over the family were already alarmed, and everyone rushed out to greet them.

Da Biao smiled and announced that the cucumbers were sold, which caused everyone to cheer, and finally landed after a day's heart.

Zhang Cong and Liu Garlic also deliberately slapped the money bag on their backs.

"It's all cash, it's about forty pounds!"

"Forty pounds? Isn't there more than six times? "Doctor Zhao came out on crutches, Datang's Kaiyuan Tongbao is one penny, which is better and heavier than the Sui Dynasty's good copper coins in the past, one penny and one penny, one thousand wen is a thousand yuan, just six catties and four taels.

More than 40 catties, isn't it more than 6 pounds.

"Well, it's going well today, at least it's sold at the price of five cents a piece, and some of the bulk sales are even higher, and they sold for more than six thousand dollars in total." Li Xiao also reported some results, giving everyone a reassurance.

Dr. Zhao sighed, "Great, you don't have to go hungry this winter." ”

More than 6,000 yuan, although the debt of 800 yuan away from the Li family is just a drop in the bucket, but for everyone in this small village, it is enough to have a warm year.

"Chang'an goes back and forth, running around for a day, you must be hungry, eat!" Doctor Zhao said with a smile.

Dinner was simple.

There are millet porridge and yellow flour cakes, and the dish is radish soup made with leftover pork bones from yesterday, and then the intestines are boiled in the old soup of braised pork face, and a little dried vegetables are added.

is still in Dr. Zhao's home, and this room is now Li Xiao's home.

Everyone is ready to set up another house for Li Xiao and Zhao Wan alone, and then Li Xiao, Zhao Wan and Li Zhen will live in the past, but now they have to squeeze first.

The men were given bread, while the women and children took the initiative to fetch porridge and drink.

The porridge was thinner than yesterday, the chopsticks couldn't stand, and there were some wild vegetables mixed in it.

There are not many cakes for men, two cakes for one person, in fact, in this era when there is no oil, water and non-staple food, two yellow flour cakes are not enough to eat at all, and the stomach must be screaming in the middle of the night.

"Is there no food at home again?" Li Xiao asked.

"There's still a mile, but save a little food." Zhao Wan replied while taking the cake for Li Xiao.

"You still have to eat enough, how can you work and do things if you don't have enough food. Today we have earned more than 6,000 yuan, and tomorrow we will go to buy some grain and come back, and then we will dry two dry and one thin a day, and dry in the morning and evening and thin at noon. Li Xiao said.

Dr. Zhao objected on the side, "Now that I have made some money, I can't spend it indiscriminately." We also have more than 40 people here, and people eat a lot of horses every day. It's winter again, so I don't do much, eat less. You see, which family has three meals a day, the landlord's family also eats two meals, and in the future, we will still eat two meals a day, one dry and one thin. You guys work, eat more, those of us who can't work, just two meals a day. ”

"Sometimes, you have to think about when you don't have it, so that you can stream."

Although he is making money selling cucumbers now, after all, he has a heavy debt on his body, and Mr. Zhao does not feel easy. Dozens of people, now in addition to selling cucumbers, have no other income, how can they be extravagant.

Zhao Wan thought that it was not easy to make money, and they had to throttle.

Li Xiao is thinking about how to open source, just selling cucumbers will definitely not work, the space and land are limited, can only grow so much, and although Chang'an is the imperial capital, but this high-end market is so big, the more cucumbers, the lower the price will be, and the increase in volume will not have more benefits.

The best way forward is to find other open source methods.

With a few dollars in his hand and these dozens of people, he should still find another source of income, but he really hasn't thought of doing something now.

Guarding the fire pit, the thatched roof and mud-walled wood gate kept the cold wind out.

A bowl of porridge, a piece of cake, everyone is also very happy.

Listening to their food, they seem to be eating delicacies from the mountains and seas.

"San Lang, today we who stayed at home have gone up the mountain to cut some thatch and come back, and dug up some soil, tomorrow we can weave the thatch, mix the mud with one, take advantage of the good weather these days, turn over these roofs, and mend the walls."

Dr. Zhao is now the head of this big family, and while eating, he reported to Li Xiao on the progress of the family.

"We plan to repair these houses first, and then build a few new ones next to them, one for you and Wan'er, and the other for these brothers who just arrived."

"Well, that's good." Li Xiao nodded.

"That's what I think, now everyone has food to eat every day, and it doesn't take much effort to repair the house and build a few thatched huts. We are here in the Qinling Mountains, there is nothing else, there are many trees and firewood, I think we dig a few charcoal kilns in the mountains, we have nothing to do and go into the mountains to cut firewood to burn charcoal, burn charcoal and pull it to Chang'an to sell, the weather is getting colder and colder, and charcoal is worth money at this time. ”

"We women can also go and help chop wood and burn charcoal." Zhao Wan said on the side.

"We can go too." A few half-grown children also followed suit, and the children of the poor were in charge of the house early, and they knew how to help at a young age.

"Chopping wood and burning charcoal?" Li Xiao thought of the story of the charcoal seller, chopping wood and burning charcoal in winter is also a livelihood for the poor, which is better than directly cutting wood and selling firewood, but charcoal burning is also a hard job, and it can't make a lot of money.

Especially for letting women and children burn charcoal, Li Xiao disagreed.

"It is the right way for a woman to run a house at home, and the work outside is done by men, and the children should not do those jobs, you are still young, my idea is that there are seven or eight children in our village, some of them are half old, and some are beginning to be sensible, you can't just let them leave it like this, you have to let them study."

"Reading?" As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, the men, women and children in the entire room were shocked.

In a poor little village, a group of bitter villagers, who would dare to think of letting their poor boy study?

I never thought about it, and I didn't dare to think about it.