"Brother Li, can it be regarded as here, are all these taro?"

As soon as the ox cart stopped, Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly jumped down, and actually did not come by horse-drawn cart, but directly hired two ox carts.

"We kept some for ourselves to eat, and the rest is here."

Six full bamboo baskets, one of which is about 200 catties, add up to 1,200 catties, to 1,300 catties.

Shopkeeper Liu beckoned to Xiao Ding, Xiao Ding came over with a scale taller than a person, and Shopkeeper Liu looked at Li Changhui again.

"Brother Li, didn't you say that there are two or three thousand catties at home? Doesn't that look like enough? ”

Li Changhui's expression remained unchanged: "I looked at a lot on the ground before, but I didn't expect to pretend to be only these." ”

Li Changhui was already upright and upright, but when he lied at this time, even Lin He almost believed it.

Fortunately, Li Yu and Li Hao were instructed in advance, so that no matter what their father and mother said, they were not allowed to interject.

And what he said is also true, it was spread on the ground before, and it looked really a lot.

The two men who were driving the car took ropes, tied them to both sides of the bamboo basket, and then used a thick stick to pass through the hemp rope on the top of the weighing rod and put it on their shoulders.

Xiao Ding moved the scale next to him.

"The shopkeeper, two hundred and forty-two pounds."

This is weighed with the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket will have to be weighed again later, and then the weight of the bamboo basket will be reduced.

Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly took out a small notebook from his arms, and there was also a small cloth bag in it.

It's actually a charcoal pen.

Shopkeeper Liu kept the account, and the two men who drove the ox cart carried the bamboo basket together and poured the taro directly into the ox cart.

And Li Changhui waited for Shopkeeper Liu to remember it, and specially led him to the utility room where the taro was put to see.

There was really only half a basket left, which they kept to eat.

Lin He clearly saw that when Shopkeeper Liu came out of the utility room, he kept turning around, looking confused.

Lin He guessed that Shopkeeper Liu should be thinking about whether to persuade them to sell that little together.

Luckily, she put the other two baskets in the bedroom.

"Changhui, can this taro be sold?"

The ox cart went faster, and those who came with him had only arrived at Li's house now, and it was none other than Li Changhui's uncle and the village head of Xiang'an Village, Li Yongkang.

"Taro? Village Chief, do you know this? Haven't seen it before? How much is this black pimple? ”

A villager asked curiously.

Before Li Changhui and Li Changsheng ran up the mountain every day, many people knew about it, and they also knew that they got a lot of things back.

But who made Li Changhui's previous aftermath too heavy, even if everyone was curious, they didn't dare to come to the door to ask more.

Someone inquired with the village chief's family, but at that time, it wasn't that Lin He only sent two baskets to the uncle's family, and Li Changsheng was still working for Li Changhui to earn taro, so he didn't tell others more.

"Brother Changhui, I'm on the mountain...... Hey? Why are there so many people? ”

Li Changsheng suddenly came out from behind their house, with leaves on his head, and was looking at everyone in the courtyard with a stupid face.

"How old are you, you're still so flustered, Xiuling is still waiting for you to go back to dinner at home, why don't you go back soon!"

Li Yongkang was the first to react, his face was blank, and he scolded directly.

Li Changsheng came back to his senses and nodded obediently: "Oh, Dad, Brother Changhui, sister-in-law, I'll go back to eat first, and I'll come to you later." ”

Li Changhui bowed slightly: "I have to talk to my uncle for a while, you can come over at any time." ”

Lin He sat on the eaves, holding a bowl of hot water in his hand and drinking it slowly.

The food in the restaurant was delicious, and the shopkeeper Liu specially served them two plates of meat dishes, one taro roast pork and one braised pork ribs.

It's delicious, it's just that I ate too much and now my mouth is dry.

She actually sat here all the time, but everyone habitually ignored her, and they greeted her before Li Changsheng left.

But Lin He is not surprised, don't look at many people, it seems that the daughter-in-law says it, but in fact, most of the time, women are actually the ones who are ignored.

It is the man who is really in charge of the family.

In the eyes of others, Lin He is just a little daughter-in-law who is hurt by Li Changhui and doesn't have to work in the field, that's all.

She doesn't care about everyone's inherent thinking, there is no need to take the lead in everything.

However, Li Changsheng's behavior just now was indeed a bit abnormal, two days ago when they were planting cotton and taro, Li Changsheng also went up the mountain every day when he had nothing to do.

It's just that they were busy in the field at that time, so Lin He didn't ask much.

What did Li Changsheng do on the mountain?

He doesn't know how to hunt, and if he digs bamboo shoots, he goes empty-handed and comes back empty-handed.

Lin He touched his chin with one hand and pondered, could it be ......

At this time, Li Changsheng had already run quickly, and everyone laughed at him for thinking about his daughter-in-law, and the uncle just smiled and talked about taro instead.

"This was found by Changhui and Xiao He on the mountain, didn't they have been digging in the mountain a few days ago, Xiuling likes to eat this, and Xiao He also specially sent some."

He nodded as he spoke: "Don't say it, this taro looks ugly, it's quite delicious, I burned a pot directly at noon and ate it all." ”

Originally, he was just explaining to the villagers, but who knew that Shopkeeper Liu was excited when he heard it, and hurriedly came to Li Yongkang.

"You are the village chief, village chief, how many taro do you have in your house, do you sell it or not? Ten pennies a pound, I charge as much as I want! ”

"What? Ten pennies a pound! ”

"That's right, right? This one? Ten Wen? As expensive as meat? ”

The fat is only ten cents a pound.

Li Yongkang shook his body directly and supported the ox cart: "Ten, ten? ”

Shopkeeper Liu nodded and smiled: "Yes, but now Shiwen, it won't work next time, Brother Li said that he found it on the mountain, you can also go to the mountain to find it." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Li Yongkang again: "Village chief, your family?" ”

"Nope." Li Yongkang shook his head: "My family has two baskets for pregnant women to eat." ”

What I thought in my heart was, how much is ten cents a catty, five hundred catties?

Five taels of silver!

As for the little taro that Xiao He asked Changsheng to carry back, it was worth at least five taels of silver!

They have a big family, they are tired and tired, and it will take at least two or three years to save up enough five taels of silver!

His three sons begged for a daughter-in-law, and it only cost five taels of silver in total!

If it weren't for Changhui and Xiao He next to him, he would have been eager to move the taro out of the house and sell it immediately!

But thinking of his youngest son's expression when he came back just now, Li Yongkang hurriedly stabilized his mind.

"Why is this taro so expensive?"

Shopkeeper Liu motioned to the others to continue weighing: "Of course, it's because of the strange goods, only the Li family has taro now, and if there are more in the future, the price will naturally drop." ”

Shopkeeper Liu also told Li Changhui that they are all people who understand, even if they don't say it, they can understand this truth.

Several large baskets of taro were quickly weighed, and they were all poured into two ox carts, but they were not yet full.

When Shopkeeper Liu talked to the village chief, he didn't forget to record it, and finally weighed the weight of six bamboo baskets.

And all the taro, a total of 1,446 catties, that is, fourteen taels of silver, plus the previous four taels and halves.

Sold for a total of nineteen taels!

When Shopkeeper Liu directly took out the silver ingot, the crowd was already lively.

Just like Lin He said before, this news, like a gust of wind, quickly spread throughout the entire Xiang'an Village.

(End of chapter)