Chapter 287: Pouring Out of the Nest
Xu has just finished the college examination, and because there are many students left, the street is particularly lively.
Since coming to Zhending Mansion, Gu Wenxuan has been preparing for the exam every day, except for going to Lin Mansion, going to Gongyuan, and sending people out of the city that day, he has never stepped out of the gate half a step.
In fact, not to mention Dajiang, who is not detached from him, Gu Wenyu and others are not much worse than the two of them, and rarely go on the street.
Now that the college exam is over, no matter what the results are, everyone's tense mood is really much easier, and they all want to take advantage of the morning street.
Including Zhou Changping, who will be the first to leave tomorrow morning, they and others also want to go out for a walk, if there is a suitable gift ready to bring to parents and children.
There are a lot of people, and the purpose of shopping is different, so it is impossible to go to one place all of them.
There are Uncle Gu and others who want to go to the South Market Market, there are Xiaobai who want to go to the East Market for a family of three, and there are people who want to go to the bookstore.
Zhou Banxia still asked Gu Youhua to send a few people to accompany them to the street, and Da Jiang Xiaohe even brought all the scholars around him, and let Gu Jiaxing follow closely.
Dajiang Xiaohe knew that the third sister was nervous about the personal safety of the two brothers, but he didn't dislike the crowd.
In the middle of the summer, let them remember what time and where to meet in the afternoon, Da Jiang hurriedly took Xiao He's little hand and went out, got into the carriage and went to the calligraphy and painting street.
If his two brothers don't go out again, the third sister will definitely be able to change their plans temporarily, and together with the third brother-in-law, they will accompany the two brothers to the bookstore to stay.
has been here for so many days, it is rare for the third brother-in-law to accompany her on the street, there is really no need to bring his two brothers, how good it is for the two of them to take care of themselves.
Sending away his intimate brother-in-law, Gu Wenxuan didn't waste time, and while the sun was not yet fierce, he hurriedly went to the livestock market with Zhou Banxia to buy horses first.
Pass through the Shunyi Dart Bureau in the south of the city, and pick up Uncle Qi, the martial artist of the Dart Bureau.
When he went to the livestock market, Gu Wenxuan fell in love with one of the brown horses and a dark horse from the three good horses that Uncle Qi helped to select.
Before, because he was going to take the entrance examination, Zhou Banxia was afraid that he and Dajiang would hurt his arm and break his leg by riding a horse and archery, so he didn't even let him ride a horse on the road.
At this time, seeing Gu Wenxuan, she tried to run a lap happily, although she didn't know how to take a horse, but with the appearance of a person and a horse, she decisively paid for the silver ticket.
Seventy-five pieces of silver for two horses, with two pairs of saddle horses and other auxiliary utensils for driving horses, just made up a silver ticket with a denomination of one hundred taels of silver.
Among them, the cost of paying for the paperwork is not much, a horse only needs 50 wen to change the paperwork, pay 100 wen, and the two horses are completely surnamed Gu and Zhou.
paid a deposit for two more carriages, and left Zhiming and the two of them to wait for the carriages to be changed in this shop that specializes in carriages, pay the balance and rush back.
rented a carriage to send Uncle Qi back to the Shunyi Dart Bureau, and there were no outsiders around, and the two of them began to wave.
There was a river near the cattle market, so I turned to the upper reaches of the river and found a hidden place.
One person listens to the four directions, sees all directions, and the other begins to "change the water".
Although it was an ordinary small river, when I was "changing the water", I saw fish and shrimp running into the puddle "inside" with the river water in droves.
Zhou Banxia didn't know if it was related to the small action she had just made - sprinkling the stirred bait in the river nearby.
Seeing the big and small fish and shrimp, even the river grass "ran" into the pit, she didn't dare to stay longer, and when the water in the puddle was about to be full, she quickly made a code.
A birdsong.
Come on.
Gu Wenxuan kept staring around, occasionally glancing at Zhou Banxia and falling into the river, and he didn't know what happened in the river.
Hearing the sound of the bird's call, he was happy, and he reached out to take Zhou Banxia's hand and left the river.
It's just that someone is passing by, and he is also a serious couple with his marriage book, and he still takes his daughter-in-law to pick wild vegetables around?
"The piece where I used to buy horses used to be donkeys and mules, then cattle and sheep, and then pigs, do you want to buy two pigs?"
“…… Okay, my brain got into the water anyway. ”
Gu Wenxuan tried his best to hold back a smile.
It's not what he says.
Leaving from the river, I returned to the road and found a carriage.
I went to a street adjacent to the Shunyi Dart Bureau, and bought seeds from a grain store I saw when I passed by before, and at the same time inquired about the wheat that is now clear.
In these years, the wind and rain were smooth, and the acres of Ueda fields in the north were between one stone and five to two stones of wheat, Nakata was between one stone and one stone and five stones, and Shimota was under one stone.
One stone is one hundred and twenty catties, and the mu of Shangtian is two or three hundred catties, and this yield still does not put aside the number of seeds per mu and the field tax to be paid.
This year, like last year, the weather is good, but because the wheat has just been harvested, the fine semolina flour made from the new wheat is much cheaper than last November.
Last year, the fine noodles cost two taels of silver and one stone, and at this time it was one tael or seven dollars.
If the amount of purchases is considerable, it is not impossible to bargain for a penny less.
But this is still the selling price of the grain store, and the price of wheat sold by farmers today is certainly not much more than last year, and it is gratifying that it is not lower than last year's market.
Cheap hurts farmers, and Gu Feng also hurts farmers.
The farmers were reluctant to eat it, and even most of the wealthy families did not dare to eat polished rice and noodles.
Daliang has gone for nearly two hundred years, according to the historical law of the feudal dynasty, it is indispensable to accumulate disadvantages, and it is difficult to return, and it is not the end of the road, but it is really thanks to the corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After all, for the common people, even if they eat bran and drink thin every day, rely on sweet potatoes to continue their lives, and starve to death less, it is already a prosperous era of peace in the four seas, who wants to rebel.
After buying seeds in this grain store, there was no need for Gu Wenxuan to remind him, Zhou Banxia had already informed the three Zhuangzi Zhuangtou that the wheat handed in by the tenants under his name not only could not be sold, but also bought.
First of all, we should try to collect wheat from the tenants, so that the tenants under their names will not be stripped of their skin and sold at a low price by the grain merchants, and they can also pay the field tax and poll tax in time.
Then take advantage of this wheat harvest season to buy more farmer's wheat and hoard it in various granaries, and wait for the autumn corn harvest in the second half of the year to do the same, try to stock up as much as possible, and wait for next year's new grain to come in and then notify separately.
In fact, the most suitable grain for storage is corn, which is cheaper than rice and wheat, and can be stored for a long time without damaging the quality of corn.
After buying seeds from the grain store, he went to the cloth shop, the dim sum shop, the blacksmith shop, and went to the rouge shop to buy and inquire, and then went to the market in the south of the city.
The two of them didn't dare to stay here for fear of meeting Uncle Gu and others, so they bought chickens and ducks while purchasing seasonal fresh melons and fruits, and left quickly.
At this time, the sun has risen high, there is no need to "aim" the alarm clock, and the sky is almost noon, so the two of them simply walked back and walked all the way back.
The weather is really hot, and then you should go back for half a day to see if anyone runs back to report or something, lest anyone have an accident on the street today, and you can't find him.