Chapter 221: Rice for Grains

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Seeing this, Du Mei and Du Shu glanced at each other, raised their feet and walked forward, the spice shop was in the middle of the street, and the food stall was at the end of the street.

The shopkeeper of the spice shop is surnamed Jiang, everyone calls him Lao Jiang Head, he runs an old family shop handed down from his ancestors, and has accumulated a lot of old customers who have known each other for many years, he knows their taste preferences well, and has cooperated with the wine shop restaurant for many years, so he neither listed nor shouted, only sent his guys to the homes and shops of regular customers to send, fifty duck eggs, just the old customers are not enough.

The middle-aged man who sells food, he came more straightforwardly, smashed a duck egg on the spot, put the egg mixture in a small bowl, and displayed it in the most conspicuous place in the store. When the people who came to buy food saw it, they were inevitably curious. In this way, he also sold some.

After comparing and screening, Du Mei finally decided to cooperate with the shopkeeper Chen of the grocery store and the old Jiang Tou of the spice shop, and signed a contract with them in the county office. The contract stipulates that duck eggs will be delivered once every five days from tomorrow, and 200 duck eggs will be sent to each family at a time.

In this way, with the addition of one hundred in five days in the Zuixian Building, Du Mei's duck eggs have basically found a market. Things are going very well today, and Du Mei is happy.

Worried that there would be nothing to hold duck eggs tomorrow, Du Mei bought two large baskets in the smith's shop. Du Shuben said that he could make it up by himself, but Ming'er waited to use it, so he had to follow her. The two of them bought some scattered things, and then went to the Song Mansion to get the ox cart and happily rushed back.

"Meizi, do you have something to hide from us?" Halfway down, Du Shu peeked at Du Mei, who was happy, rolled his throat a few times, and finally asked this sentence that had been held all the way.

"No, I have nothing to hide." Du Mei didn't care, and all she could think about was how happy she would be when she told her mother and sisters about the good news.

"I heard what you said to Lao Lin." Seeing that Du Mei didn't admit it, Du Shu blushed and said.

"What did we say?" Du Mei waved the wicker, only concerned with joy, and could not remember what was ahead.

"Who did you say about that villain? What's wrong with him? Du Shu couldn't help but raise his voice and asked two questions one after another.

"This, hehe, it's nothing, it's all over." Du Mei waved his hand, but he didn't care.

"Your heart is wild, and your courage is too big." Du Shu lowered his head and muttered.

As soon as he saw Du Mei dealing with others today, he knew that Du Mei was no longer the little plum she used to be, but in half a year, her vision was wider and her heart was bigger.

"Brother Shu, what did you say?" Du Mei continued to wave the wicker, but did not pump it on the heifer, it seemed to be in harmony with the little tune she was humming in her mouth, she was happy to herself, and did not pay much attention to Du Shu's mood changes.

"I said, you do a good job, I have me in the field." Du Shu straightened his figure and said with a serious face.

"Brother Shu, you are my own brother, the family will be handed over to you, I can rest assured!" Du Mei smiled back, smiling like a flower.

"Yes, it's my brother!" Du Shu also smiled, but his heart was bitter, more bitter than Coptis chinensis.

The two of them picked up the eldest girl and the second stunned man in Sheshan Town, and when they knew that the duck eggs had found a buyer, they were also happy, and under the fiery sunset, the four of them laughed and laughed all the way.

Before the ox cart entered the village, it was stopped by Du Huaibing: "Meizi, you come with me." ”

The four of them didn't know what was happening, they all looked at the patriarch with their eyes, and Du Mei jumped down from the ox cart, straightened her skirt, brushed her windswept hair behind her ears, waved at the three of them, and told them to go home.

"Meizi, yesterday you gave me two hangs of money to collect pumpkin and corn ballast, I asked several today, everyone obviously has it, but they don't want to sell it." Sitting in Du Huaibing's house, he took a puff of cigarette and twisted his brows into a Sichuan shape.

"I have a few old pumpkins in my field, I'll pick them later." Seeing that he was worried, Du Mei hurriedly said.

Such a situation was expected by Du May. Seeing that the rice was damaged and the autumn grain production was bound to decrease, the villagers were reluctant to eat steamed steamed buns, and most of them cooked some thin gnocchi soup and ate it with corn tortillas. At this time, the autumn grain has not yet returned to the warehouse, and no one dares to sell a little grain, even miscellaneous grains.

"Hey, how much can the two of us make up?" Du Huaibing sighed and knocked the smoke pot on the table leg.

"Why don't we go to other villages and ask?" Du Mei helped the idea, Du Huaibing is the patriarch of Dujiagou, and he is also the leader of ten miles and eight townships. If you go, it's somewhat influential.

"I tried this method in the morning, and if I don't do anything, I will receive that point." Du Huaibing looked at a basket in the courtyard.

A little far away, Du Mei couldn't see what was inside, but it was still too little.

"If I were to exchange rice for rice, would anyone be willing?" Du Mei touched his earlobe and said lightly.

In the current market, rice is sold for 12 to 15 wen a catty, and how much is a catty of miscellaneous grains? This is obviously a loss-making business, Du Huaibing listened to her words and looked at her in disbelief.

"What do you want to do?" Du Huaibing bit the cigarette holder and held back a sentence.

"It's all from the villagers, and I don't care so much, one pumpkin for a pound of rice, two pounds of corn ballast for a pound of rice. Do you think it's okay? Du Mei raised his eyes to look at Du Huaibing.

"Girl, if you buy rice with these two dollars, you can't buy two thousand catties." Although Du Huaibing knew that she had a grain shop in the town, he still kindly reminded her.

"Master, do you still remember that I had to lend out the duck food in the spring, rather than to the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted and everyone turns against each other for a full stomach, it is better for me to suffer a little loss now, and everyone will have a better life in the future." Although Du Mei's family has built a high-rise compound, she is not afraid of thieves stealing and afraid of thieves, so she has to plan for the long term and plan early.

"Hey, you're right, they're all from the clan, and the fertilizer doesn't flow into the fields of outsiders. It's just that you've suffered inside and out. Du Huaibing felt a little guilty, if he couldn't do this, he would go to the county office, and his face would not look good. If he did what Du Mei said, he really didn't want to go.

"It's a blessing to suffer, my mother often said." Du Mei smiled, she was a person with a clear mind.

"It's hard for the Erjin family to think so." Du Huaibing smoked a cigarette and nodded approvingly.

"Master, there is only one thing, you have to preside over this grain exchange, and I will immediately pull two stones of rice to your courtyard." Du Mei thought for a moment.

"That's fine, your family is full of women and children, and it's inconvenient. Besides, there are always people who are not satisfied, and it is easy to change corn ballast by catty, but this pumpkin is of different sizes, and I am afraid that someone will take the opportunity to cheat, and your mother will be thin-skinned, and she will not be able to say. Du Huaibing's heart is like a mirror, and he knows the temperament of the people in the clan well.

At the moment, it was decided, Du Huaibing gave the remaining more than a dozen dollars to Du Mei, and Du Mei stepped on the night and went home.

Du Shu and the three of them didn't know what Du Huaibing was looking for Du Mei, so they all gathered in Du Mei's house to wait for news, and when they saw her come back, they surrounded her.

"You two are here, just in time, after dinner, help me move the rice." Du Mei was about to go to the helpers after dinner, and when he saw them, he happened to sracha.

"Where is the rice going to be moved by this black light?" Du Shu frowned.

"It's good to be blind in the dark, the county lord wants to buy some miscellaneous grains, the patriarch ran for a day, and only received a little, so I helped think about it and exchanged it for rice." Du Mei told the truth what happened.

"Are you stupid to exchange rice for grains!" The second stunned man couldn't help shouting, he was cooking rice in the grain store, and he knew the market.

"That's right, Sister Meizi, this can't be done." The big girl is the account room, and she knows the market price.

"I don't think it's a good thing to kill three birds with one stone." Du Mei looked at them with a smile, her heart was warm, knowing that they were really good for herself.

"What's the three? I think it's stupid! The second stunned man frowned and looked at Du Mei, as if looking at an incorrigible person.

"If we change the grain, first, the victims in the county can have enough to eat, second, we helped the county lord solve the problem of disaster relief food, and third, some people in our village have no food, and only eat pumpkin and corn paste every meal, wouldn't it be better if we could exchange some rice?" Du Mei said three points in one breath.

"One, two, three, what's in it for you? Call you stupid, don't believe it! The two were stunned and pouted.

"I think Du Mei is right, you are good at scarring and forgetting the pain, now you are working in the grain store, and the family has a full meal, this time last year, I don't know who is fighting the autumn wind everywhere!" Du Shu was born to defend Du Mei, so he didn't care if what she said was right or not. When he saw that the second stunned person said that Du Mei was stupid, he felt very harsh when he heard it, so he was not happy.

"You...... Don't hit people in the face, and don't expose their shortcomings when scolding. I...... I don't care about you! The second stunned man was told by Du Shu, his face turned the color of pig liver, and he couldn't speak well.

"Won't tomorrow be busy?" The eldest girl saw that the two of them were coldly opposed, and hurriedly diverted the topic.

"Well, the patriarch is busy, and the grain is placed in his house, so he naturally handles the grain exchange." Du Mei nodded and said.

"Huh? You...... You ......, forget it, I won't talk about it. The second stunned looked at Du Shu's cold eyes, and choked back the words that followed.

Needless to say, everyone here knew what he wanted to say, but he said that in this matter, the only opportunity to accept the gratitude of the villagers was gone.

"Let's eat." Xu wiped his hands on his apron. Because Du Shu and the three of them came temporarily, Xu took the three small ones to cook cakes and stir-fry vegetables in the kitchen, and worked hard for a long time to cook more meals.

Japonica rice porridge with white flour cakes, there are a few dishes of side dishes on the table, the second stunned is sweet, he unceremoniously dug a spoonful of white sugar in the sugar jar and mixed it in the porridge, and ate it hula la, at this time, the food finally blocked his nagging mouth.

"If you have osmanthus candy at home, do you want to have some?" Seeing that he was eating happily, Xu wanted to stand up and get it.

"No...... No, auntie, that's good, I like sugar. The second stunned man shook his head busily, he naturally felt Du Shu's eye knife, although Du Shu was much younger than him, but he was inexplicably scared of him.

After several people ate, they pulled two stones of rice from the granary and sent it to Du Huaibing's courtyard, Du Huaibing wrote a note to Du Mei seriously, Du Mei didn't want it, but he was taken away by the two stunned people, and turned back to Du Ying to put it away.