The rain was dripping, and someone came to the yard, it was Mrs. Gu.

The old lady walked in, found a clean place to sit down, and asked, "I'll go to the town tomorrow to sell some food, Qing'er, do you want to go with you?" ”

Gu Qing didn't want to sell grain, but she didn't want to be too outstanding, so she asked, "How much do you sell?" ”

Mrs. Gu said: "After paying the tax, there is not much left, sell one or two hundred catties and leave some surplus money in your hand for emergency, and replace the rest with cheap old rice and millet, and it is not a big problem to survive until the spring harvest." ”

After the old lady finished talking about the food, she took out a small bib from her sleeve: "This is the bib sewn by Meng'er's girl from rags, look at this embroidery, what's going on?" ”

Gu Qing glanced at it and was a little amazed, he didn't expect Gu Meng's rough hands to be able to embroider such a delicate bib.

She smiled and said: "Aren't you going to the town tomorrow, just take it to the embroidery workshop and ask, if it is worth a few copper plates, Meng'er can specialize in this business in the future." ”

After getting Gu Qing's affirmation, the old lady relieved her heart, and she didn't know when she started, her old man began to pay special attention to the opinion of this eldest granddaughter, if the eldest granddaughter said that there was no problem, it would definitely not be much of a problem.

Before dinner is eaten.

Gu Qing asked everyone to sit down.

"The autumn harvest is over, and now, I'm here to pay everyone."

As soon as her words fell, everyone in the room was shocked.

Do you have a job for your own home, and still have a salary?

"When a store is opened in the town, everyone in the family has contributed, and this monthly salary is not counted now." Gu Qing looked at the people in front of him and said slowly, "The autumn harvest is a total of 6 days, and the autumn harvest is tiring, so if it is calculated according to two hundred wen a day, then each person is 1,200 wen!" ”

"Xiaohan!"

Gu Qing wrapped the copper plates that had been counted in the box with coarse cloth and handed them to Zhu Han.

Zhu Hanleng stayed where he was, and he didn't pick it up, wiped his hands on his clothes, and stammered: "Master of the house, I don't want this money, this is all housework that we should do, how can we ask for money?" And if you give us money at every turn, we will be bad......"

Gu Qing laughed after hearing this, this is the so-called man becomes bad when he is rich?

After everyone refused the salary, Gu Qing had to make a concluding statement: "With the joint efforts of everyone, the life of our family is getting better and better, the family is building a house, the house is very large, covering an area of ten acres, in the future, you will all have a separate yard, all the bedrooms and studyes, Aunt Tong, each of you and your family will also have a separate room......

The autumn harvest is also over, Zhu Han, the four of you will hand over the affairs of the store to Aunt Tong's family tomorrow, and then you all go to Yunshan Academy to study, and I will also go to find a private school for Gu Yu and Gu Nuo tomorrow, okay, let's eat. ”

This meal was very sweet for everyone, because the new rice was delicious, and there was a kind of hope spreading among everyone.

Early morning.

It was still overcast.

Due to a heavy rain yesterday, the road in the fields of Gujia Village is muddy, and there are many fewer people working outside.

However, the main road was trampled back and forth by human foot animals, and the road condition was slightly better, at least the ox cart could walk.

The autumn harvest at home is over, Yang Pei and the others should also go to the town to open a shop, and before dawn, Yang Pei and the ten people have already left in a carriage.

At this time, Gu Jiang's ox cart stopped at the door of Gu Qing's house, and the old lady of the Gu family sat on the ox cart, waiting for Gu Qing to carry the rice out and go to the town together.

Gu Yu and Gu Nuo stayed at home to take care of them.

Gu Qing came out with a hemp bag, put it on the ox cart, and sat on it.

Old Lady Gu frowned: "Qing'er, you won't just take a hundred catties to the town, right?" ”

It's only sold for a hundred catties, and the rest is eaten at home, and the people in the town are afraid that they won't eat big white rice at once, which is too bad for food.

Gu Qing explained: "Isn't Yu'er's health bad, the doctor said that we should recuperate, we have to eat better, and another one, the taxes are heavy, and there are displaced people, who knows if something will happen, and the food in your hands is more secure than silver." ”

Old Madam Gu immediately paused.

She looked at the 500 catties of rice she had carried onto the ox cart, and suddenly felt as if she had done something wrong.

There is a shortage of food everywhere, and the price of grain will definitely rise in the future, and if you go to the town to sell rice at this time, you may suffer a big loss.

Their family has more than 20 acres of paddy fields, and more than 2,000 catties of white rice have been harvested, which sounds like a lot, but they have a large family, twelve people, and one person is waiting to eat every day, so she must be careful in her calculations.

Mrs. Gu jumped down from the ox cart, picked up a sack of rice, and said, "I'll carry this hundred catties of rice back first, and I'll come right away." ”

The old lady ran away with a brisk walk.

Gu Qing: "......"

At the age of fifty or sixty, he can still carry a hundred catties of rice and walk like a fly, which is really amazing.

The ox cart swayed to Youshui Town, and the group got off the ox cart and went to do their own errands.

Gu Qing, Mrs. Gu and Gu Jiang went to the grain store together.

When I arrived at the grain store, I learned that the county ordered that the adults issued some decrees on grain during the autumn harvest, and the major commercial banks were not allowed to privately collect the grain of the peasants, and if the peasants wanted to sell the grain, they would send it to the granary of Youshui Town, and the rice of the entire Nanzhou would be a uniform of ten cents a catty.

The price of grain in grain shops is also restricted, and the maximum is not allowed to exceed 12 yuan, and the sale is also restricted, and commercial banks are not allowed to hoard large quantities of grain.

In previous years, the price of rice was about 6 wen a catty, and although the price of 12 wen was much higher than in previous years, this price was very fair in the year of grain shortage.

At that point, money will be worthless, and grain will be hard currency.

And the resulting social consequences will also be very serious, the people have money but cannot afford to buy food, they become homeless, and the homeless people gather and are prone to uprising and rebellion......

Gu Qing secretly praised the current imperial court, the price limit of grain can greatly reduce the generation of displaced people, and put an end to many future troubles.

Gu Jiang brought three hundred catties of grain to the town, all of which were exchanged for silver money, there were sick people in his family and needed silver money for treatment, and money was the most important thing to him.

Half of the four hundred catties of grain brought by Mrs. Gu were replaced with copper plates, and the other half were replaced with staple foods such as millet and black-flour buckwheat flour and beans.

Gu Qing did so, and one hundred catties of rice finally turned into fifty catties of millet, twenty catties of black flour, twenty catties of buckwheat flour, twenty catties of beans, twenty catties of quinoa, and twenty catties of aged rice......

After the grain was exchanged, it was piled on the ox cart, and Gu Jiang was responsible for guarding the ox cart.

Gu Qing and Mrs. Gu went to the embroidery workshop.

The most prosperous industry in Youshui Town is afraid of the cloth village, there are ten large and small embroidery workshops, and many women in the town are embroidered in the embroidery workshop.

I casually entered a not high-end embroidery workshop, and there were quite a lot of customers in this shop, most of whom were farmers in the village who sold grain after the autumn harvest to get money, and then bought cloth to go back to make autumn shirts and winter clothes.

Old Lady Gu and Gu Qing walked in and went directly to the shopkeeper standing behind the counter.

This shopkeeper is also a person who can look at people, an old lady and a woman in front of him, these two people look shrewd and capable, and they are family members at a glance.

When the year is not good and everyone can't eat enough, the business of the cloth village is extremely bleak, and it depends on the change of seasons to earn some silver.

The shopkeeper greeted him: "This old lady, this little lady, if you need anything, just ask." ”