On the second day, Yingbao and his father's younger brother, Mr. Wu, Yuanbao and others boarded a large merchant ship.

Wei Zhan also accompanied a servant.

Of course, there are also a few students who live in Jiang's house.

During the cruise, Yuan Bao and all the students talked about the past and the present together, and Mr. Wu explained, which was really eye-opening and calm.

Sakura Po stayed alone in the cabin, sorting out everything in the cave.

Her ginseng seeds have also fully sprouted, and she has grown two leaves, which are estimated to reach four or five in another two years.

And the several precious medicinal herbs that I planted next to him are also growing very well.

These herbs are also perennial, and the older they are, the better their efficacy.

The golden ear snow fungus has also been harvested, and more than 100 catties of dry goods have been stored in her cave house, and from the Chinese New Year to the present, the harvested fungus ears are all here.

However, it is summer, and there are not many fungus ears sold in her shop, so she is not going to hand them over to the shop for the time being.

Considering the possible chaos in the future, Sakura Po decided to take time out to buy grain and cotton cloth.

Anyway, I have a few thousand taels of silver, and it would be a waste to keep this money in the cave, so it is better to exchange it for grain, seeds, cotton, cloth and other physical goods.

Of course, weapons also have to be kept quietly.

However, iron weapons such as broadswords are not easy to come by, and farmers like them do not know where to buy them unless they find gangs to go the underworld.

But that's too risky, and if one is not careful, someone will be caught, and there will be endless troubles in the future.

Sakura Po thought about it, and suddenly thought of her cave.

She didn't have much trouble collecting things, or she would have saved some big rocks herself, and if she met bad people, she would stone them to death.

Thinking of that picture, Sakura smiled and took out a tuft of grapes and ate it.

Halfway down the river, the merchant ship encountered a heavy rainstorm.

The wind swayed the ship from side to side.

Jiang Saburo was afraid that his children would be afraid, so he deliberately gathered them all in a cabin.

Yuan Bao had never encountered this situation, and his face turned white with fright, but fortunately, the big ship walked without danger for two days, and finally came to the dock of Qinchuan County.

At this time, the rain was still falling, and Ying Bao took out a few raincoats made of oilcloth from the cave mansion and handed them to a few of his own people and Mr. Wu, and even Wei Zhan gave one.

Wei Zhan's servant ran off the boat first, called a few porters, and two ox carts, and carried their cages down and loaded them on the ox carts.

Jiang Saburo saw that the two students could not find the car, so he invited them to sit in the ox cart that he had hired at home.

The bullock cart had a shed made of mats, barely enough to shelter from the rain, but the rain still dripped from the inside of the cart.

Sakura and his younger brother Yuan Bao squeezed together and put a large oilcloth on the heads of the three of them.

Wei Zhan also came in, squeezed his eyes at Jiang Jie, and asked, "Jiang Jie, when are you going back to Chuanhe Town?" ”

Jiang Jie: "Master said that we will go back when the Ming Mansion summons us." ”

At the end of the examination, the county order must summon 15 students from the county who have passed the examination.

Moreover, the county order will also arrange for this year's new students to enter the county for further study.

There are a total of fifty or sixty students in the county school, which is the quota given by the imperial court, and if new students are added this year, they will inevitably be exiled from the worst annual examination.

Therefore, Jiang Jie can't enter the county school now, and only after the annual examination, he can enter the school according to the exam grade.

Wei Zhan turned to Yuan Bao again: "Aren't you going back too?" ”

Yuan Bao hesitated: "I'll talk about it then." ”

He has been studying with Mr. Wu for a while, and he has benefited a lot, and he naturally wants to continue to take classes, but Mr. Wu did not agree to accept him as an apprentice, and it seems that it is not good if he has been relying on it.

Wei Zhan showed a mouthful of big white teeth at Ying Bao again: "Ying Bao, will you go home too?" ”

Sakura nodded: "Of course." ”

"I'll also go to your house and play with Jiang Wu." Wei Zhan smiled and said, "I haven't seen Huzi and Yuanbao for a long time. ”

Sakura: "Aren't you going to school in the county seat?" ”

Wei Zhan shook his head: "There is also a school in your village, so I can go to school in the village school." ”

He didn't expect to take the exam, there were still martial arts taught in the school in Dongchen Village, and it was most suitable for him to go to school there.

The point is, it can also often be associated with... Tiger and Jiang Wu together.

An hour later, the ox cart finally entered the county seat and stopped at the gate of the Jiang family's compound.

Several people got out of the car, and Jiang Saburo asked the driver to send the two Liao Shan students home.

When he got home, Jiang Sanlang hurriedly went to the stove room to boil water for Mr. Wu to wash.

Because the old gentleman's clothes and hair were wet, he had to take a bath, wash his hair and change clothes.

Sakura and his brothers were also busy, cleaning tables, chairs and floors, and even scrubbing the kang mats.

Wei Zhan's little servant is named Wei Zhong, about fourteen or fifteen years old, he is very clever, he put the little master's suitcase and luggage, and went to help Jiang Sanlang do things.

Jiang Saburo saw a helper and decided to go out to buy some vegetables, and saw the little girl running with an umbrella.

"Dad, I'll go grocery shopping, you cook at home first." There are more than a dozen people in the family eating, and the vegetables in their cave are simply overflowing, and if you don't eat them, you will waste them.

Jiang Saburo couldn't resist his daughter, so he had to agree: "Then you should be careful when you go out." ”

"Got it." Ying Bao is nine years old, and he is very familiar with the county, so it is not a big deal to buy vegetables and go shopping alone.

And the security in the county is not bad, no one dares to kidnap a big girl in broad daylight.

Sakura walked out of the alley with an umbrella and came to an abandoned house piled up with stones and bricks.

Taking an umbrella as a cover, she collected four or five large stones, and then took out a back basket full of vegetables and fruits.

After sending the contents of the basket home first, Sakura went to the vegetable market.

Because of the rain, there were no people in the market, only fish vendors.

Sakura saw that his fish was still fresh, so he bought two.

The vendor threaded two stalks of grass through the gills and handed them to her.

Sakura took the fish and walked home slowly.

When I passed by a grain store, I went in and asked the price, and it turned out that a bucket of rice cost 60 yuan.

And the brown rice that has been shelled costs 100 yuan.

When asked about other grains, including wheat that has just been harvested this year, the price is also one or two percent higher than in previous years.

When did the grain in Qinchuan County be higher than that in Fucheng?

Sakura was puzzled and asked the guy why the price of rice grain had risen.

The guy said: "I don't know, it's all the price set by the shopkeeper, if the little lady is too expensive, you can not buy it." ”

Seeing that Yingbao was still glaring at him, the man said again: "I heard that some people in our county buy grain at a high price, and they want as much as they want, and then they will be transported away by a large merchant ship, and more than a dozen large grain stores in this county will not be able to receive grain, so it is strange if the price is not increased." ”

Tens of thousands of people in a county, one person eats half a kilogram of grain a day, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain will be consumed every month, where does this food come from?

"The price of rice and grain in other counties has also risen?" Sakura asked.

The guy gave her a blank look: "How can I know this, anyway, the shopkeeper will let it rise." ”

Sakura frowned, turned and walked back.

It is really strange that someone in the county collects grain at a high price and transports it away, but the county order of this county does not care about anything.