That's right, owed.

And life is precious, and the price of food is even higher.

Xu Tianxin and Yu Qinniang lit up with fish oil torches on the left and right.

Mrs. Xu patted the vat in front of her and told her sons that it was full of rice.

A grain of rice, a thousand drops of sweat, and a grain of grain sweat beads are exchanged, so rice is expensive, and Liu Laozhu sells her family for 22 wen a catty.

At that time, I thought that the old thing was not sentimental at all, and it was sold at a price that was the same as the town.

Later, after listening to pepper's chatter, I realized that I had wronged Liu Laozhu.

22 Wen was the price of more than a month ago, and the price of pepper rose to 23 Wen when it came back from the county. It's raining heavily these days, and it's going to be 24 if the cat freezes in winter after a month.

Don't underestimate the difference between the price of these two copper plates, a thousand catties is a difference of one or two silver coins.

If it weren't for the fact that both sides wanted not to use transportation, the old Liu family would not be able to bear this kind of loss, half a tael of silver is not a small amount of money, and her family will pay it on credit first.

At present, I bought 500 catties of rice from Lao Liu's family, and I owe eleven taels of rice alone.

But everyone who lives at home knows that 500 catties of rice is enough to do something in business?

Not to mention the distance, take your own family as an example, a young man and a family of six, do you want to eat 180 catties a month. Think about it again, the caravan is coming, is 500 catties enough for two months?

You can't think so far, you can only wait until you make money, even if the price of rice rises to 26 Wen is not cost-effective, you have to buy it, and then talk about it.

After Mrs. Xu showed her sons the rice, she pointed to the ten bags of white noodles stacked on the wooden planks on the kang.

If you want to do business, white noodles are indispensable, flower rolls, steamed hair cakes, steamed dumplings, which can lack noodles?

Lao Liu's family can only give a thousand catties: "Twenty dollars and one pound of white noodles, this is twenty taels owed." ”

The three brothers of the Xu family were dizzy, and they owed thirty-one taels of silver.

Their brother sleeps in the night, so if he can't go, go back to the county and continue to work to earn money. If you leave late, you won't be able to find a job when the rain stops and you want to eat that hard work.

Mrs. Xu turned to look at her sons, "Don't worry, this is where to go." ”

There are also 100 catties of rhubarb rice, two and a half silver coins.

Glutinous rice noodles are also what their locals say is a hundred catties of Jiang rice noodles and three taels of silver.

If you want to say that our people have to live a life of coarse tea and light rice, and the water flows for a long time.

Coarse grains are the big ones.

Therefore, Mrs. Xu asked Liu Laozhu, including going to the main family in the village in the name of Liu Laozhu, and also gave 1,000 catties of sorghum flour, 200 catties of black beans, plus 3 taels of silver, as well as 2,000 catties of corn and 20 taels of silver. Three thousand catties of sweet potatoes and nine taels of silver.

Change the venue, this house can't be piled up.

in the barn.

Yu Qinniang and Xu Tianxin acted separately when they entered the warehouse, one lifted the tarpaulin covering the corn cob, and the other lifted the tarpaulin covering the sweet potato.

It has been raining outside since I bought it, and the buds and sweet potatoes have not yet been put in the cellar. If you can hang it high with a basket, you can hang it high, but if you can't put it down, you can only pile it up like this.

The three brothers held on to the door frame of the barn and looked at the buds and sweet potatoes all over the ground.

The third asked the second: "Second brother, how much money does this owe?" ”

"Sixty-eight halves."

This thing is strange, when they just owe thirty-one taels, their brothers are still worried about the money they owe to people, and they want to repay the debt.

Listening to the mother to mention a mouthful to do business, although their brothers have not yet figured out where to do business, why do they suddenly want to eat, the mother's craft is really not as good as the core fish stew, this can not be told to the mother.

But whatever, you can't borrow money to do business?

Pinch your fingers to work for a long time to make up for the rest of the debt, and the three brothers still want to struggle and hurry up to earn it back to make up for it, isn't it just thirty-one taels? Remove the money from the family, and risk your life to go outside to earn some. If you have to do a business and pay off the debts, it will be bad to say when the time comes, and you don't have to sell your house and land to ask for food even if you lose your money.

But at this time, I heard that I owed sixty-eight taels......

Let's give up that idea.

Feeling tired enough for his brother to choke.

Mrs. Xu said, "Don't worry. ”

The brother now has a shadow on the three words "don't worry".

It's not in a hurry: "What else is owed?" ”

"Ah, I still owe money for the vat, the jar, and the stone pot."

These were bought by Liu Laozhu in a group.

Mrs. Xu told her sons that she had bought six large vats, four of which were used to pickle sauerkraut.

In fact, in previous years, her family had to pickle at least a vat of sauerkraut, otherwise what would she eat in winter.

Southerners don't understand the pain of northerners, there is no fresh food for half a year in a year, and if you don't store it at this time, you won't be able to see green outside for more than a month, and you can't buy it if you want to. Sometimes it snows in April.

The vegetables are nothing more than drying them in advance in the autumn harvest season, or they are pickled and stored, and then the Chinese cabbage is thrown outside and frozen in the snow and ice, and when you want to eat it, take a frozen cabbage into the house and blanch it with boiling water. There are so many out-of-season vegetables that can be bought at any time like modern times, and they will be extremely expensive if they can be bought.

What's more, she still has to do business, remove what her family eats from winter to spring, and the rest want to wrap sauerkraut stuffed frozen dumpling buns, and wait until the merchant team comes and sell them to those leaders.

Let them leave us, along the way the guest house can eat dumplings for some firewood and boiling water, and the designated ones we sell are cheaper than the inn, can they not buy some?

Therefore, the four large tanks of sauerkraut are not enough, but a large tank is three dollars of silver, and only six flawed water tanks are owed to the small two taels.

At present, there are two surplus large tanks for rice, which must be vacated when they are returned, because there will be at least two large water tanks in the new house.

Mrs. Xu told her sons again: "There are also ten large pickle jars, ten are only one or two silver dollars cheap, right?" Your Uncle Li Zheng went to the Bai family to show his old face and borrowed it first, and he repaid the debt at the end of the year. In addition, there are six stone pots on credit from the Bai family, and a stone pot has 400 copper plates, which is two halves of the small two. This is all written to your Uncle Li Zheng. ”

What to use for stir-frying without buying a pot chiseled with stones? What to fry fish floss with.

She wanted to use a large iron pot, but a larger iron pot cost ten taels of silver.

As the old saying goes, smashing pots and selling iron also provides for you to study, and the roots are from ancient times, and iron pots are expensive.

This time, the fourth child asked the second child in a low voice: "Second brother, how much is this?" ”

"It's almost seventy-four taels."

Okay, this time it's not that he can't earn that money, but if he sells him, it's not worth that money.

As for the food that the family was supposed to eat, it was all in the house of the second child and Yu Qinniang.

Mrs. Xu took the family to inspect the warehouse, mainly to prevent rats, while holding a torch to check, she looked at her sons and asked, "What's wrong, are you worried?" Or are you complaining that I owe so much money without consulting your brothers? It's useless to complain about me, it's already on credit, and you can't go back after writing it in black and white. ”

Xu Lao Er first said: "Mother, how can I complain about you." Tell us a few times about where you're going to do business and what's going on. And I haven't figured out anything about the fish since I came back. In this way, our brothers can help the family pay off the debt as soon as possible. ”

The sons came back to be pillars.

Xu Laosan said: "Mother, I don't have to worry, isn't there such a sentence, don't you worry if there are more lice?" ”

Seventy-four taels of lice, and what do you want to do:

"Mother, don't tell us what's going on, trouble, just say, what we're going to do is over."

And although Xu Laosi's heart was abrupt when he listened, he was good at discovering the other side, and it was no wonder that it was an intimate leather jacket with a sweet mouth: "Mother, you are really capable, and we can't borrow it when we kneel." The mother dares to borrow, and the other party also dares to take credit, this is a big skill. ”