After a good night's sleep, it was really refreshing.

Rice porridge and eggs were cooked in clay pots, plus white steamed buns, and a breakfast was done.

After breakfast, he put on his basket, picked up the barrel, and went to the river to catch fish.

At half-past eleven, the basket and bucket were full.

He went to the entrance of the village.

There are three large willow trees at the entrance of the village, hence the name of Sanliu Village.

As noon approached, the women who were working in the wheat fields went home to make lunch.

Li Qiao is targeting this group.

As soon as he put the basket and the barrel under the willow tree, two aunts came over with carts, and he opened his mouth with a smile: "Aunt Embroidery, Aunt Dani, do you want to buy fish?" ”

"Li Qiao?"

Zhang Xiuhua stopped, first glanced at the fish in the bucket, and then looked at Li Qiao: "You really know how to catch fish?" ”

Her house is adjacent to Li Gu's family, and when Li Chuntao announced the big news that Li Qiao would catch fish last night, she didn't believe it at all.

But at this time, looking at the fish in front of Li Qiao, it turns out that what Li Chuntao said is true?

"I didn't expect that I had a talent for catching fish, which I did. Auntie, do you want to? It's cheaper. ”

"If you buy it with copper plates, the big ones cost six cents a piece, and the small ones cost three cents a piece."

"You can also exchange wheat for wheat. One pound of wheat for one large one, or two small ones. ”

Li Qiao said with a grin.

"Ouch, so cheap!"

When Zhang Xiuhua heard this, her mind was immediately attracted.

This small river in Sanliu Village, because of the turbulent current, so the fish in it is not easy to catch, under normal circumstances, the villagers of Sanliu Village want to eat fish, they all go to the market or the county seat to buy.

Grass carp is generally eight cents a catty, Li buckwheat fish, the big fish looks at least one and a half catties, the biggest fear is one catty seven or eight taels.

Under normal circumstances, such a big fish would cost at least 12 yuan a piece, but now it only costs 6 yuan a piece?

If you exchange it for wheat, it will be cheaper, because wheat is five cents a pound!

"I want five."

Zhang Xiuhua put the cart aside and stepped forward to pick the fish.

Seeing this, Chen Dani on the side also walked over: "I'll buy a few too." ”

It's a busy day, and there are no machines at this time, so the wheat harvest depends on manpower.

This is heavy work, even if it is a family with a bad background, they will buy some meat to come back to make up for it, otherwise the body will not be able to bear it.

Although this fish is not as good as pork and chicken, it is still meat, and it is still fragrant when stewed into soup.

What's more, it's cheap!

What's more, you can exchange wheat for it!

For the villagers who hate to break a penny in half and spend it, spending money will make them feel painful, and they are more willing to buy things in this form of barter.

Therefore, Zhang Xiuhua and Chen Dani couldn't resist the temptation in front of them at all, and put their minds on picking fish.

Each fish is different in size, so they have to pick the biggest!

When Zhang Xiuhua and Chen Dani were picking fish, someone came over with a basket on their backs, and Li Qiao shouted: "Sell fish!" One pound of wheat, one big fish, two small fish, pick and choose! ”

This hearty shouting, the attractive price, and the great change in his prodigal son's return immediately attracted the attention of all the returning families.

It doesn't matter if it's a big girl, a little daughter-in-law or an aunt, even if you don't buy it, you all go forward and take a few looks.

Some were shocked that he could catch fish, and some were shocked that he was willing to work.

For a while, his small stall was very lively.

Tao Zhu walked slowly and hard to the village, pulling a cart full of wheat, just like last night.

From a distance, he saw a bunch of people gathered under the willow tree, but he didn't have the heart to see the excitement, he just wanted to go home quickly for lunch.

After a morning of heavy work, he was tired and hungry.

When he got closer, the word Li Qiao floated into his ears.

He subconsciously raised his eyes to look under the willow tree, and what caught him was Li Qiao's smiling eyes.

Li Qiao actually looked at him!

And he looked as gentle as last night.

In a panic, he quickly lowered his head, and there was an inexplicable strength in his body, he seemed to have endless strength, strode forward, and soon crossed the willow tree.

But at this time, Li Qiao's somewhat loud voice sounded behind him.

"Aunt Xiuhua, my family's land has been sold, and I definitely don't have the money to buy land in a short time, so I want to open an acre of wasteland to grow some sweet potatoes."

"Where is the wasteland where we can grow crops in our village?"

“……”

Tao Zhu was even more panicked.

Sure enough, in the next second, Zhang Xiuhua said: "Wasteland? At the foot of the northwest mountain of our village, you can ask Brother Zhu, our village is a wasteland planted by his family. ”

"That's it, you can ask Brother Zhu'er. Brother Zhu walked over just now, right? ”

I don't know who's answering.

Tao Zhu "! ”

As if there was a dog chasing him, he pulled the cart and walked as fast as he could, and entered the village in a few steps.

When I entered the village, I was too far away to hear the man.

He bit his lip tightly, his cheeks burning slightly, what did the man want to do......

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The author has something to say:

Explain the prices in the article, the prices of our ancient dynasties are different, and even the prices of the same dynasty and the same emperor in different years are also different, so I refer to the grain prices in the early Northern Song Dynasty and make up the prices.

The text is overhead, everyone has fun watching it, don't take it seriously~

Chapter 05 Delivering Fish Soup He wants to confess with a real flatbread

Li Qiao's business is going well.

The villagers all chose to exchange wheat for fish, so he exchanged a palm-sized fish for a sack and used it to hold wheat.

Without a scale, there is no way to know whether the wheat handed over by the villagers is a pound, but he doesn't care, it doesn't matter if there is more or less, it is a business without capital anyway.

However, when he encounters something particularly excessive, he will definitely not get used to it.

There was a woman who felt that his fish was caught from the river and had no money, so she asked him to make it cheaper.

He was not annoyed by this kind of rhetoric, but explained that it was not easy for him to catch fish, and if it was too cheap, he would rather take it to his eldest brother Li Liang's house as food money.

As we all know, his sister-in-law Wang Guihua no longer supports him, and if he wants to go to his eldest brother's house for dinner, he has to carry his things, otherwise he won't be able to enter the door.

After he said this, the aunt was silent.

It happened that Wang Guihua came back from the wheat field with a basket on her back, and he quickly stopped Wang Guihua and stuffed more than ten fish into her basket.

Wang Guihua was not polite, accepted the fish, and rewarded Li Qiao with a few white eyes, and then under the envious gaze of everyone, he entered the village with a majestic spirit.

Now no one makes Li Qiao cheaper.

This is pure nonsense.

It's not that the fish can't be sold.

Even if it really can't be sold, it can be taken to Wang Guihua's house.

Overall, the fish sold smoothly.

When it was over, the sack was full of wheat, and it was more than a hundred pounds.

As for the copper plate, one does not.

The villagers were reluctant to spend copper plates.

After collecting the stall, Li Qiao went straight home.

Lunch was simple, he stewed fish in a clay pot and served it with a large steamed bun.

However, before the fish was cooked, seven-year-old Li Xiaolan came with a small basket with a one-foot-high clay pot with freshly stewed fish soup.

This fish soup is full of color and flavor, and it is much stronger than the Li buckwheat stew.

Pinching Li Xiaolan's red little face, Li Qian put five eggs in her small back basket.

After Li Liang paid off the gambling debts for the original owner, life has been tight, and the eggs at home are saved up to exchange for money, although Li Xiaolan is young, she can only eat an egg in half a month.

"I'll buy you candy next time." Rubbing her little head, Li Qiao promised.

Li Xiaolan raised her little head, her eyes were shining, her uncle looked calm and reliable at this time, so I was looking forward to it.

Not long after Li Xiaolan left, Li Qiao's fish soup was stewed.

Only salt was put in, and it didn't taste good, but he was not picky, so he quickly drank a clay pot of fish soup with steamed buns.

After eating and drinking, he put the fish soup stewed by Wang Guihua into the back basket, then put on the hemp rope and went out slowly.

He headed straight northwest of the village.

There are many trees growing in the northwest of Sanliu Village, the trees are not dense and sparse, but the trees will rob the fertility of the land and make the crops grow badly, so this is a wasteland, and no one grows crops here.

Because of the blind tossing of Tao Shu and his wife, the Tao family sold all their fields, and in order to survive, the Tao family can only farm here.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon, which was the hottest time, and Li Qiao was sweating a lot all the way.