Chapter 32 The Floating Grain Walk, a Day of Wool

After Zhao Donglai told me about this Liang Duoqian matter, he seemed to have something on his mind, and he twisted and pinched for a long time before he spoke:

"God, fairy lord...... Also, there is one more thing that I haven't said yet. โ€

"What's the matter?"

Zhao Donglai was very restrained, and when I sat at the table and looked at the paper he gave me, thinking about these things, he always stood respectfully beside me.

"It's just this morning, when I went out after breakfast, I found a big, big big bag of green onion cakes at the door of my room, a total of 100 sheets, similar to the one you gave me that day, but smaller than that."

"Huh? I didn't send it. โ€

The only one I know that sells scallion pancakes is that, and if I gave it to me, I wouldn't have bought it from another place, so it shouldn't be my future gift.

"I took the cake into the house and it was so fragrant that I couldn't help it, and the whole family ate a total of 30 pieces."

He said and looked at me as if he was sorry for me without my consent.

"If you give it to you, you'll eat it, what's this?"

I couldn't help but laugh and said, but if you can bring food to Zhao Donglai, you can't think you will be a bad person, right?

There are too many secrets in this mountain and river village, and the demons and monsters come and go lively, is it another person who wants to find Zhao Dong to hear the news? It's just that there are so many people in this mountain and river village, why do you have to grab one from me?

"By the way, Zhao Donglai, I want to live here permanently in the future, is there a better house for sale in this Shanhe Village?"

"Really?!"

Hearing me say this, Zhao Donglai seemed to be extremely excited.

"Well, has anyone sold the house?"

"There is no good house, but there is a grain shop, and this silver is enough to be put down, shall I take it down?"

Zhao Donglai pointed to the silverware I brought and said. It turns out that these worthless things have such strong purchasing power in this era.

The grain shop, I thought about the grain shop is also quite good, the war is about to start, stock up on more grain, and the people in this mountain and river village will starve to death less in the future, so I explained a few words, let Zhao Dong come and contact the food shop, and I will also take the time to go back to prepare something.

After returning home, I looked at the paintings left by Guo Mingyue again, and I didn't sleep for a few days, but the strange thing is that I was not tired or sleepy at all, and there have been some obvious changes in my body in the past few days, I can feel that this has a lot to do with my crossing back to Shanhe Village, but the specific reason is not clear.

It took me a whole week to study the paintings left by Guo Mingyue again, and then I began to prepare for the grain shop in Shanhe Village. I considered that this grain store would inevitably not make money, so it was necessary to save money as much as possible, so that the food could not be bought directly from the supermarket.

I first went to some villages in the suburbs of the city, and asked the villagers to buy a large amount of grain stockpiles, and according to the living standards of the people in Shanhe Village at that time, I selected some suitable grains, mainly corn, sorghum, and millet, supplemented by rice, flour, and some miscellaneous grains, and collected 10,000 catties one after another.

In fact, there is no need to prepare so much grain for a small grain shop in Shanhe Village, but I finally decided to open this grain shop, not to do business, but to prepare for the war that will start in July.

In the middle of this, I bought some silver bars, and took the time to go back to Shanhe Village, Zhao Donglai pulled me to see the grain shop, located in an inconspicuous position at the corner of Daxiang Street, the front is the door of the street, the area of the store is only more than 40 square meters, but there is a large courtyard behind.

There is a back door inside the shop that leads directly to the back yard. There are seven or eight houses in the courtyard, wells, cellars, etc.

Zhao Donglai led me to a main house in the backyard, which looked to have been refurbished.

"Fairy master, this is your room, are you satisfied with this? The furniture and bedding haven't been renewed, I ...... I, after I bought this grain shop, ran out of money......"

"Oh, here's for you."

I handed him a small cloth bag in my hand, which contained five silver bars, ten taels each, that is, five catties, and I was tired of carrying it. Zhao Donglai took it suspiciously, glanced at it and knelt on the ground.

"What are you doing Zhao Donglai?" I was shocked.

"God, fairy master, it's the first time I've seen so much silver, and I, my legs don't obey."

Zhao Dong came and knelt on the ground with trembling hands, opened the bag, counted it, and weighed it for a long time.

"Don't count, fifty taels. Get up quickly, and take me to see where the grain warehouse is. โ€

Anyway, the fifty taels of silver are the pure silver I bought directly in a gold store, even if the silver is not valuable, it really costs a lot of money, plus the money spent on collecting grain, it is a bit painful, but there is no way.

My savings are limited in the two years since graduation, and if I want to maintain the food security of the mountains and rivers in the war, I still have to find some way to make money.

Zhao Donglai took me into the rest of the rooms, I checked it, and one of them had some surplus food left over from the previous boss, and Zhao Donglai also bought it. With these small rooms, in addition to the 10,000 catties of grain I bought, it is no problem to collect more.

After looking at the rooms, I walked around the courtyard a few more times, and at last I stopped in front of the cellar in the corner of the courtyard and had an idea in my mind.

"Master Fairy, this shop doesn't have a name yet."

Zhao Donglai interrupted my thoughts and spoke.

"It's called the Floating Grain Line."

I remembered that the last time I went back to Shanhe Village, the village chief handed me the notebook "Strange Tales of Mountains and Rivers", saying that it was handed over to me by the person in the grain shop in the village called Fusheng Grain Shop, and that the person said that the notes were handed down by his ancestors, and that the ancestors instructed their descendants to find an opportunity to hand them over to me.

Now looking at the location of this grain store, I suddenly have a kind of sadness that fate is repeated, everything seems to have gradually become clear, and everything is still in the fog.

I couldn't help but wonder, who am I? I seem to be doing this countless times in an endless loop.

But at this point, we can only move on.

I strolled to the front shop again, Zhao Donglai held the silver in his hand, and he was confident, so he immediately ran to the street and hired two people to start repairing the front shop.

I also found an opportunity to tell Zhao Donglai that if someone sells or buys grain, he must make a big fight and a small fight, don't think about losing money, and I will make up for the difference in the middle.

Zhao Donglai heard me say this, and agreed again and again.

I suddenly remembered what happened before, and asked Zhao Donglai again:

"You have no enemies in this mountain and river village, right?"

I don't know why I suddenly thought of this, I felt that in case natural disasters and man-made disasters came in the future, many things would need Zhao Dong to help me, in case he also had an enmity with someone like Jiang Lianyang, it would not be good to delay people's lives.

In fact, the chances of this kind of thing happening are really rare, but for the sake of insurance, I think it's better to be sure.

"Huh? I...... I used to have conflicts with Jiang Lianyang because of farming, but then I thought about it, and I talked to him a few times, but he didn't want to deal with me anymore. โ€

"What kind of contradiction? Tell me more about it. โ€

"The year before last, the two of us rented the land of the landlord Lu Yunshan's family together, and each rented two acres. The four acres of land in Lu Yunshan's house are connected together, and one of my half has a ridge that is very long, and Jiang Lianyang's half has a ridge that is a lot shorter, and it is disconnected by the small hill and the cemetery, Jiang Lianyang disagrees, and asks me to divide my ridge in half to him. Later, Lu Yunshan asked me to pay him an extra half of the ridge of land rent, saying that his land was more than four acres, and a little more was on my extra half of the ridge, so I agreed. But when I was farming, Jiang Lianyang still wanted to plant my half-ridge land, and I said that I paid more rent for this half-ridge, but he didn't believe it, saying that I had secretly discussed with Lu Yunshan to manipulate him, and he wanted to plant my half-ridge land. Later, it became a big fuss, and they found Lu Yunshan together, Li Zheng He Wencai, and went to several acquaintances in the village, and the big guy went to measure the land together. A measure is really more than four acres of land, the extra on my ridge, his side is enough for two acres, at that time there were many people in the village to watch the lively people, saying that he had everything, he had no face at that time, and he didn't talk to me after this incident. I later thought that I was not right, the matter was too big, and half of the village people watched and lost his face, so after the autumn harvest that year, I took a pound of millet to his house, wanting to make peace with him, but he didn't let me in, and until now, we don't talk when we meet. โ€

How could it be? If what Zhao Dong said is true, it seems that Jiang Lianyang is not very good.

"Oh, are there any other enemies besides him?"

"That's gone, how dare we poor people offend people."

"Well, that's good, then you go and get busy."

I want to quickly get rid of Zhao Donglai and implement my plan in this backyard.

"Master Immortal, it opens today, do you want to go to the front to take a look?" Zhao Donglai said with a smile.

"Oh? Do you still need me to see it? โ€

"Definitely yes, you're the shopkeeper."

"Okay, let's take a look."

I got up and came to the front store, at this time there were already many people in the store, all looking at the grain, and Zhao Donglai's daughter-in-law was greeting.

"There are a lot of people!"

"yes, I'm afraid that it won't look good when no one comes when it opens, so I went door-to-door yesterday to find some people who are close, so that I can come to cheer for me today. I've also listened to you, and I've released the news that the big bucket is out and the small bucket is in, so there are so many people today. โ€

After Zhao Donglai whispered to me, he said a few words to everyone:

"Fathers and fellow villagers, today we are floating grain line opened, the shopkeeper's heart is kind, in the future, the same village to buy and sell grain, are big buckets, small buckets, and when the green and yellow are not connected, when there is no grain in the cold winter, our shopkeeper also promised to lend grain to the tenants who have no land at home for free interest, we are all villagers, and in the future, we will go through the difficulties with everyone, run a good life, everyone can pick and look!"

After Zhao Donglai finished speaking, he waved his hand outside the door, and firecrackers were lit outside the door, which crackled and tasted very inside.

Ay! This person who has read the book is different, this Zhao Donglai can say and do, he is really a good hand.

I stood at the innermost part of the store, at the door of the back door, looking at these villagers who came into the store to select food, looking at their clothes, looking at the hair ornaments on the women's heads, and I felt strange and interesting for a while, especially the plackets worn by the women, and the strangely made wooden hairpins on their heads.

When Zhao Donglai was busy, he also took the time to move a chair and send me a bowl of tea, and I really felt the treatment of being a shopkeeper in this era.

The people who came began to buy and sell rice, and it became lively for a while, Zhao Donglai and his daughter-in-law were busy, but Zhao Donglai's face became more and more gloomy, as if he could drip water.

What the hell is going on?

After being busy for a while, Zhao Donglai quietly moved to my side and whispered:

"Immortal master, our big bucket and small bucket have to stop."

"Why?"

"Look at these people, they are all buying small buckets in this big bucket to earn the difference between us, you look at the third Xu Laosan, people stood there and didn't move the nest, and they earned us almost a pound of rice, and ah, the first bucket of rice he was still with us......"

"Poofโ€”"

I just took a sip of water and almost squirted.

"Immortal master, let's not sell it like this."

"No, let them earn it, and go back to have a full meal."

"If we do this every day from now on, we won't do this business." Zhao Donglai was still unhappy.

"It's okay, I have a way, let's talk about it after today."

Zhao Donglai heard me say this, and went to weigh the grain again with a straight face.

I stared at the ornaments on the woman's head again: I wonder how much I can sell these things for?

It wasn't interesting to watch it for a while, so I simply went back to the backyard and stood in front of the vegetable cellar in the corner of the yard thinking about my plan.