Some people saw that there was enough food, and the prince promised that there would be a second and third batch...... At a low price, they only bought enough food for their families to eat for two months.

The Yu family still had a lot of grain, so Yu Hai and Liu Hu drove donkey carts and carriages to help the villagers deliver grain to Dongshan Village.

Because of the king of Yangjun, the first few boats of grain were close to Tanggu Town. In the past two months, the people in these capitals and townships have tightened their belts and are now running out of most of their food. The towns and villages that are relatively close to Tanggu Town have also rushed to the wharf and Tanggu Town to queue up to buy grain.

A few days ago, there were long queues of more than 20 evaluation grain shops in Tanggu Town and the wharf. Even when the grain shops were closed at night, these teams did not disband, but slept in the open air, for fear that they would have to queue up again after coming again the next day, and even more afraid that they would not be able to supply affordable grain.

Lord Zhao of the Tanggu County Yamen led the Yamen cadres to open the shop on time at six o'clock in the morning to sell grain, and closed the shop at eight o'clock in the evening. The same goes for the rest time on the pier. In this way, it was busy for five days, and after all the state capitals and towns had paid for the cheap grain, the pressure on Tanggu Town and the wharf was greatly reduced.

When the first batch of grain was about to be sold out, the second fleet had already returned to the sea, and the first fleet also set off for Jiangnan again after unloading the grain. When people in the disaster areas saw that the food supply was relatively timely, they had no desire to rush to buy and hoard. As a result, the long queue in front of the affordable grain store has become a thing of the past.

In the past, other grain stores that wanted to make a fortune could be said to be full of doors. The low-cost grain stores run by the government are all new grain purchased from the south, but the old grain from last autumn is hoarded in these grain stores. Coupled with the fair price of the cheap grain store, the fool only buys their high-priced grain. These grain stores also made a fortune from the locust plague, and in order to prevent the old grain in the store from falling into their hands, the grain stores lowered their prices one after another, and some of them were even cheaper than the cheap grain.

In this way, the pressure on affordable grain stores has been further reduced. Soon, the number of affordable grain stores was reduced from more than 20 to one in the east of Tanggu Town, one in the west of the town, and two wharves were retained. Things are gradually returning to their pre-disaster state.

And Yu Xiaocao's vegetables were finally known by the big families in Tanggu Town. They have expressed their willingness to pay a high price for Yu's vegetables. Locust plague and drought, these so-called rich people have not eaten fresh vegetables for a long time.

On this day, a crowd of more than a dozen housekeepers and servants gathered in front of the courtyard of the Yu family, and they argued fiercely. Steward Yao has been promoted to the chief butler, and he said confidently: "Our Yao family is the first in the town to buy vegetables from the Yu family, and it has never stopped in the past two years. Our old lady said that no matter how expensive it is, we must win the right to purchase vegetables. ”

The second housekeeper of the dealer pouted and said, "Brother Yu, you said, is it the first of our dealer to arrive and the first to buy vegetables from you?" You can't choose one over the other! ”

The housekeeper of the Wang family also said without showing weakness: "Those who see it have a share, since we are here." You can't let us go back empty-handed, right? ”

The other housekeepers also expressed their desire to purchase vegetables. Yu Hai didn't know who to listen to, and his brain hurt for a while.

"Be quiet, please be quiet!" Yu Gao shouted in a high voice, and only after everyone had stopped arguing did he say, "You also know that the vegetables in our yard have been booked by the Zhenyu Building!" Only on the edge of the pond at the back of the courtyard opened some vegetable patches and planted some vegetables. Only 200 catties of vegetables can be produced every day. There are fewer dishes and more people, and it will definitely not make everyone happy. Therefore, the most important thing is that everyone agrees on a charter! ”

"What else are you discussing? The one with the highest price wins! "It was the wealthy dealer butler who spoke.

Steward Yao also showed no weakness: "Okay! The one with the highest price wins! Everyone participates in the bidding together, and whoever has the highest price will sell it to whom! We pay fifty wen a pound! ”

The second butler of the dealer pursed his lips disdainfully and shouted: "Eighty wen a catty!" ”

Who in Tang Ancient Town doesn't know that the Zhuang family and the Yao family are the two with the thickest family background except for the Zhou family. At first, there were other people shouting about the price, but as the price climbed, the housekeepers and servants who came couldn't be the masters, and could only watch the dealer and the Yao family compete in that other way. In the end, the price of vegetables rose to one tael of silver a catty.

Yu Hai felt a lot of headaches, and he only sold it to Zhenyulou for more than 30 yuan a catty, but when he went to these two houses, he shouted out the price of one or two silver a catty, and he was uneasy!

Yu Xiaocao watched from the side, and hurriedly said to the housekeepers of the two families: "Don't fight!" If you can't fight for will, go back and be careful of your master! ”

Steward Yao smiled: "Miss Yu is kind-hearted!" However, our old man said that no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy the vegetables back! Silver is not a problem! ”

The dealer has grain shops in more than a dozen towns and villages in the three state capitals, and at the beginning of the disaster year, he made a lot of money, so the second housekeeper of the dealer was straight, and looked at the housekeeper Yao with disdain, and said: "Fight for the bottom of the family, our dealer has never been afraid of others!" ”

Yu Xiaocao smiled bitterly: "I know that your family is rich, but you can't go up to the pole and stuff it into our house!" We have burned our hands with this silver! ”

Zhu Junyang has been watching from the side for a long time, he listened to Yu Xiaocao's words, pouted and said: "People insist on sending more money to you, don't steal or rob, and there are those who burn their hands because they have too much silver!" It's really a little family! ”

The two stewards knew the identity of King Yangjun, and when they saw him speak, they became honest. However, Steward Yao still said very bravely: "Miss Yu, since our old lady has eaten your vegetables, other people's dishes can no longer be eaten. In the past, the old lady loved to eat meat, and vegetables were rarely touched, so she fell into dizziness. The doctor advised him to eat more vegetables, but he did not listen. Since I bought vegetables from your house last spring, the old man can't do without your vegetables for a while. Especially tomatoes, we old men eat them as fruits! After the locust plague came, for more than two months, there were no fresh vegetables, and our old lady's food consumption was declining. That is, I bought some dried vegetables from your house and went back, and I can eat some, otherwise ......"

"Yo yo! The price can't be competed, this is to play the emotional card! Steward Yao, didn't you just agree that the one with the highest price will get it? Then go ahead! The second shopkeeper of the dealer has just taken office and wants to take this opportunity to show his master his ability. Anyway, the master also said that it doesn't matter if the price is high, as long as the old lady can eat vegetables.

The old lady of the dealer had constipation, and Dr. Sun said that he should eat more coarse grains and vegetables. Coarse? It was what the poor ghosts ate, and it would be strange if the rest of the town knew that the owner of the dealer gave his mother coarse grain and would not be poked off his back. But in the year of the locust plague, where did the fresh vegetables come from?

Until one time, he went to Zhenyulou for a banquet, and the sky-high price of oyster sauce lettuce and shiitake mushroom greens on the table made everyone praise. The lettuce and greens were absolutely fresh, and they couldn't have been pre-disaster. The owner of the dealer inquired many times, but the mouth of the treasure was as tight as if the iron had been poured. Later, it was he who sent someone to secretly follow the carriage purchased by Zhenyulou, and only then did he know that the Yu family in Dongshan Village had grown fresh vegetables. I sent the second housekeeper to come to buy.

I don't know who leaked the news, and the entire Tanggu Town seems to know that the Yu family in Dongshan Village has fresh vegetables. After eating dried vegetables, pickles and meat for more than two months, who doesn't want to eat some fresh vegetables to relieve oiliness? So, the scene just now appeared at the door of Yu's house.

Yu Xiaocao saw that the two of them were on the bar again, and hurriedly stopped: "The two housekeepers, both calm down first!" You see, there are more than 200 catties of vegetables every day, and you two can just mix them evenly! In this year, vegetables are eaten fresh, and they can't be eaten as food, do you think this is the reason? ”

The two stewards glanced at each other, exchanged glances, and reluctantly reached an agreement that the family would be one hundred pounds a day. Miss Yu is still telling the truth, although the two of them have more than a dozen masters, a hundred catties of vegetables is enough, maybe there will be some left, and reward them with these decent subordinates.

Price, before the locust plague is completely eradicated, according to the price they just shouted, one tael of silver and one catty. What the little county king said is that the silver sent to the door should not be in vain, and it should not be stolen or robbed. In this way, the Yu family has an additional 200 taels of silver every day.

Yu Xiaocao said to the other dozen or so families who returned disappointed: "Our family has few hands, so we can't serve too many vegetable fields." However, I have a potion that can repel locusts, you can buy the potion back, whether you can grow vegetables or grow food, spray the potion every morning and evening, and you will prevent your crops and vegetables from being spoiled by locusts! ”

When other families heard this, they thought that leafy vegetables such as green cabbage and lettuce would mature in more than a month at most, and if they went back to plant them now, they would be able to eat fresh vegetables before autumn came. At this time, it is not too late to plant autumn vegetables. They inquired about the price of the potion.

The potion is a catty jar of wine, and a jar of capital alone costs more than one or two silver, plus the elixir liquid that is hard to find, so naturally the price will not be too low. Yu Xiaocao set a price of five taels of silver for a can, and a can of potion is enough to spray an acre of land for a month, which is more cost-effective than ordering vegetables. It's just that eating fresh vegetables has to be postponed a bit. Most of the other dozen or so families who did not compete for vegetables bought potions and went back to pay for the business. After all, the sale of the potion alone sold for eighty-five taels of silver.

Liu Hu said with his daughter-in-law in private: "Daughter-in-law, your brother's ability to make money is really amazing, first watermelon, then vegetables, this silver is drilling into his pocket!" ”

Yu Caifeng said with a smile: "Actually, it can't be said that Xiaohai has the ability to make money. Have you noticed it in the past six months? Most of the profitable transactions are related to Xiaocao. Xiaohai said that planting watermelons was Xiaocao's idea at the beginning, and how to plant and sell it was also Xiaocao's implementation that he said. And this vegetable, if it weren't for the small grass to make a potion, how could it make so much money? ”