Three bowls of flour and nine copper are equal to less than a pound of rice for a bowl of flour.

After Jiang Yi came out to work in the previous life, a bowl of noodles cost at least eight yuan, which is almost three catties of rice.

When an ordinary person opens a powder shop, they will take into account the store rental fee, water and electricity costs, the original decoration cost, and labor costs, and they will make additional profits.

She still remembers that when she was in elementary school, she and her grandmother went to a market stall in the town to eat noodles, and they would have a big bowl for one dollar, and the price of rice at that time was five yuan.

So although Jiang Yi shouted blood in her heart, the boss did not lose.

After eating the powder, the three of them went back, and at this time there were still 1,521 copper in their pockets, Jiang Yi took it, and her heart was warm.

Don't panic when you have money in your hand.

On the way back, Bu Ru, a nerd, couldn't wait to pick up "University" and look at it while walking, until it was said twice, and then reluctantly closed the book.

Not far from the town, I happened to meet an old man from the same village who was also rushing back, he picked two wooden chairs and a quilt on his shoulders, and added some other miscellaneous items, and walked slowly.

Big Brother greeted him; "Uncle Liu, buy furniture? Do you want me to pick it for you? ”

"Okay, thank you." Uncle Liu was overjoyed.

"It's okay, drop by." Brother Ma enthusiastically took over Uncle Liu's burden.

Uncle Liu said with emotion; "I'm glad I met you, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to pick this thing back. When I was young, I couldn't breathe when I carried a hundred pounds back and forth, but now I'm old......"

Talking along the way, Uncle Liu is a very talkative person, he said that his son went into the mountains to burn charcoal, and there was no one at home, so he had to come out to buy something by himself to prepare for the New Year.

Everyone walked and chatted together, and in less than an hour, they arrived home.

Uncle Liu desperately stuffed eight copper plates for Brother Da Ma.

Brother Ma said no, Uncle Liu scolded him; "You kid wants to use eight copper plates to make me owe you a favor, so I won't do it."

Everyone laughed.

"Take it, if you don't give money, who will help me pick things for this old bone next time." This Uncle Liu was very sensible at that time.

When he got home, Jiang Zhen was very happy to come over to ask for credit; "Sister, I dug almost fifteen catties of loaches by myself today, hehe."

"Okay, brother, let's dig together tomorrow." Jiang Yi was also very happy.

"But there's not much low-lying land left, and it should be almost finished in three or four days."

Jiang Yi pointed to a vast dry paddy field road in front of the house; "You see that paddy field, we can all dig it."

"What if the owner of the field doesn't dig it?"

"Loaches will eat plant rhizomes, and if they are caught, the seedlings will grow better, and they will help others turn over the fields for free, even if the owner does not dig them, those ravines and ravines can be caught a lot."

"yes, I didn't think of that."

"But digging loaches is not a long-term solution after all, we want to find a way, do some other business, you are free at night, read and write with your brother-in-law, and I will teach you some arithmetic when I have time."

She wants to teach her brother simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, so that she can help herself by doing something in the future.

Jiang Zhen said unexpectedly; "Sister, how can you do arithmetic?"

Jiang Yi said with a smile; "An old Taoist taught me before, and he also taught me to use special symbols instead of capitalized Yiyi San, I will write it to you." She plans to teach Jiang Zhen to use Arabic numerals.

In the past, when I read novels, I used the old Taoist priest as an excuse to ensure that it worked.

In the next few days, the weather became colder and colder, and after digging the low-lying land, the two siblings went to dig in the ravines, because many people in the village saw that their siblings had dug so many loaches, and they followed them to dig in their paddy fields.

Digging loaches not only replenishes the family's food, but also increases the nutrition of the family, and can also turn the field over, and many people are happy to do it.

There are relatively few loaches in the ravine, so I dig for half a day, and then spend half a day for Jiang Zhen to learn.

In the past ten days, there were nearly 100 catties of dried loaches.

One morning, the winter sun came out again, it was warm, Bu Ru was reading at the door, Jiang Yi was turning the loach dry, and Jiang Zhen was digging in the low-lying ground.

He first pasted some mud into the cracks of the leaky room, so that he didn't need to pour cold air when he slept at night.

Then the whole bottom of the pond was leveled, and then the perimeter of the low-lying land, especially the embankment towards the stream, was reinforced, and some stones were moved to reinforce it, and an inlet and an outlet were left.

Although he is only 11 years old, he is not very old and thin, but he is very serious in doing things, and he has been well nourished recently, so his strength has also grown.

Jiang Yi looked at his serious work and smiled secretly in his heart; This guy looks like he wants to be the owner of the fish pond.

At this time, I suddenly saw an eleven or twelve-year-old boy on the other side of the river hurriedly walking by, and after a closer look, it was Bu Ru's own brother Bu You, who was the little guy who took Bu Ru to get a piece of ginger and two red dates when she fell ill.

"Ayo, what's wrong? Where are you going in a hurry? Bu Ru also saw it and shouted from afar.

Bu You shouted loudly from afar; "Second brother, our cow is sick, and my father told me to go to the town to ask a veterinarian."

"How could you be sick?"

Buyou said as he trotted; "I don't know, I was fine in the morning, but now my belly suddenly gets bigger, and it looks like I'm about to die."

In this era, a cow is not a valuable item, and an average farmer with a cow is a family treasure.

"I'll go take a look." Buru put the book back in the room.

"Brother Ru'er, wait for me." Jiang Yi followed.

Stepping across the creaky bamboo bridge, we reached the opposite road and ran towards the village.

At the end of the road is the center of the village, there is a big banyan tree, and under the banyan tree is surrounded by the houses of the villagers, and the Bujia is one of them.

The Bu family is also a rich peasant in the village, with three large tiled houses enclosing a courtyard, and a small one on the side is a house with miscellaneous items, pigsty, chicken coop and cowpen.

At this time, many villagers were in the courtyard, looking at a big calf in the courtyard.

At this moment the big buffalo calf was standing in a corner of the courtyard, with a belly as big as a drum, mooing in his mouth, and his voice was full of mourning.

"This calf is a year and a half old, and the cattle that are generally two years old are adults, and this is almost an adult, and it is the time to work hard, and it would be a pity if it was gone." An onlooker shook his head and sighed.

another villager; "I watched that the cow was hit by the Gu, its belly will get bigger and bigger, and it will definitely die in half an hour at most."

"I've also heard that it should be like this when you eat worms when you are grazing in the mountains."

"Lao Bu, kill it quickly, otherwise the veterinarian will die before the cow arrives." Someone kindly persuaded him.

"That's right, while you don't die, the meat is better, and this body of meat can probably buy a few taels of silver."

An adult cow is worth more than ten taels of silver, mainly depending on the robustness of the cow.

An underage cow like this will come up to the sky for eight taels of silver, not to mention that the cow is not strong enough.

If you die, it's hard to say if you sell meat, but you will definitely lose.

If you sell it well, you can almost make back the money of the live cattle, but if you don't sell it well, you will lose a lot of money, and you will waste a few days of effort.

Everyone's words made Bu Shuigui, who was squatting next to him with a sad face, a little moved.