When you go out, put on gloves and a rabbit skin hat, and wrap a rabbit skin scarf, even on such a cold and windy day, you are not afraid of the cold.

As soon as Tao Zhu changed his clothes, Li Qiao also entered the room, and seeing that Tao Zhu was already dressed, Li Qiao said: "Take more silver, I have to buy a lot of books today." ”

"Okay." Tao Zhu should get down and turn around to open the money box.

Now his family's money bag has also been upgraded, from the original cloth bag to a rabbit skin bag, and he filled the rabbit skin bag with twenty small silver ingots of five taels, and took ten copper coins, so he closed the money box.

At this time, Li Qiao also changed her clothes, and the husband and wife held hands and went to the front yard.

Let's go.

The two of them sat next to each other on the ox cart, and as soon as they left the entrance of the village, they met Xiao Wu.

Recently, the weather has been cold, and Li Qiao deliberately said to the shopkeeper Wang, so that Xiao Wu didn't have to come so early.

Anyway, the dim sum and grilled sausages are not sold, and it will be okay to bring them back to Mochizuki Tower later.

After greeting Xiao Wu, the husband and wife continued to walk forward, and after walking a few steps, they were greeted by a convoy.

This is the real team.

A rough count shows that there are more than 30 carts, and there are a few ox carts in between.

Whether it's a cart or an ox cart, it's full of sweet potatoes.

This is a person from another village who comes to the sweet potato workshop to sell sweet potatoes.

The first batch of vermicelli from the sweet potato workshop became a huge fame less than a day after entering the Mochizuki Tower.

500 catties of vermicelli were sold out in less than evening.

The vermicelli is so popular, the confidence of the people in the sweet potato workshop has increased greatly, and the work is more energetic, and the sweet potatoes need to be used to make vermicelli.

Sweet potatoes have a higher yield than corn and wheat, and although the yield per mu is not comparable with six or seven thousand catties in Li Qiao's previous life, there are also fourteen or five hundred catties.

This year, there is enough rain, and there are 2,000 catties of one acre of land.

Almost every household in Sanliu Village has planted sweet potatoes, with five or six acres for the most and two acres for the few.

The villagers look at a lot of sweet potatoes, but only six catties of sweet potatoes can make one catty of sweet potato starch, that is to say, if the sweet potato workshop makes 500 catties of vermicelli a day, it will take about 3,000 catties of sweet potatoes.

This speed is definitely high-speed, so in the early part of last month, the sweet potatoes in Sanliu Village were consumed.

There are no sweet potatoes in Sanliu Village, and Zhujia Village is following.

There are only more than 20 households in Zhujia Village, and after their sweet potatoes are consumed, it is Dahe Village, where Li Dashan's uncle is located.

Giving this third place to Dahe Village is completely for the sake of Wang Guihua's face.

The people of Dahe Village were very happy and grateful to Wang Guihua and Li Qiao.

Although the price of sweet potatoes purchased by the sweet potato workshop is only two pennies a catty, which is the same as the market price, they finally found a way out for their sweet potatoes.

When the sweet potato workshop was not in existence, their sweet potatoes could not be sold at all, and they either ate them themselves or fed them to the pigs.

If you can exchange money now, what kind of bicycle do you need?

Besides, sweet potatoes can actually sell for a lot of money.

If there are many sweet potatoes, such as six or seven acres - the reason why these people grow so many sweet potatoes was originally intended to feed the pigs.

But now that it can be sold for money, no one wants to feed the pigs, and one acre of land collects two thousand catties of sweet potatoes, and seven acres of land is 14,000 catties.

One pound and two cents, then this is twenty-eight thousand wen, that is, twenty-eight taels of silver!

Obediently, in the past, the sweet potatoes that could only be used to feed pigs can now be turned into twenty-eight taels of silver, who is not happy about this?

Who is not grateful for this?

Even if you plant a small amount, for example, if you only plant two acres of land, you will have 4,000 catties of sweet potatoes, which can be sold for 8,000 yuan.

That's eight taels of silver!

Therefore, after selling sweet potatoes in Dahe Village, the village chief came forward, together with Li Dashan's uncle, and brought the thank you gifts of all the villagers in Dahe Village, and specially came to Li Qiao's house to thank Li Qiao.

The thank-you gifts given by the people of Dahe Village are very simple, each family produces a few eggs, a few catties of grains, a few catties of dried vegetables or other food, which are not expensive anyway.

But it's a lot to get together.

Li Qiao didn't want to accept it, but the head of Dahe Village had to send it, so he sent these things to the sweet potato workshop for the workers of the sweet potato workshop to consume.

At the sweet potato factory, because the workers could not have contact with the outside world, there was a special person to cook, and he sent these things over, which could cover the workers' rations for several days.

Because the sweet potato workshop is in the village, the workers bring their own food every day, and they are very happy that someone has sent rations for several days.

So everyone rejoiced, and everybody was happy.

After consuming the sweet potatoes in Dahe Village, Li Qiao didn't designate a village, so he asked the nearby villages to draw lots-

On the first day of the establishment of the sweet potato workshop, the nearby villages got the news and watched it.

Since there is no priority, let's draw lots.

This method is not the fairest, but it can save a lot of trouble, and when it is the turn of a certain village, a certain village will send the whole village to transport the sweet potatoes to Sanliu Village, and the number of people is powerful, and it can also avoid disputes.

Otherwise, there will definitely be a quarrel over who comes first and who comes first.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu spotted the convoy, and the husband and wife glanced at each other, and at the same time pulled the rabbit fur scarf around their necks up to cover half of their faces.

They don't want to be recognized.

These people from other villages are so enthusiastic that if they are recognized, they will have to delay at least a quarter of an hour before they can continue on their way.

The ordinary villagers in the surrounding villages really didn't know Li Qiao and Tao Zhu, and seeing that they were about to arrive in Sanliu Village, they talked and laughed, immersed in the joy of sweet potatoes about to be exchanged for money, and didn't notice Li Qiao and Tao Zhu who lowered their heads and tried to reduce their sense of existence.

"Hehe, if you sell sweet potatoes today, then you can have a good year, my family has 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes this year, and I can sell them for twenty taels of silver!"

A man with a big voice said with a grin.

"Alas, my family only planted one acre of sweet potatoes, and I knew that Li Qiao could give sweet potatoes a whole way out, so I would plant ten acres of anything!"

Some people laugh, some people are sad.

"Don't worry, there is next year, and next year we can have more. I earned less this year, and I will try to make up for it next year. ”

There are also people who comfort them.

"Actually, even if my family's sweet potatoes can be sold for twenty taels of silver, it is nothing compared to the people in Sanliu Village."

The man with a loud voice opened his mouth again: "My husband and his aunt's family are from Sanliu Village, and I heard that people who work in sweet potato workshops can get fifty wen a day!" ”

"Fifty Wen?! Really? ”

This sentence immediately provoked exclamations from the front and back.

"It must be true, they can make five or six hundred catties of vermicelli every day, so many vermicelli, they can be sold out every day."

The man said again.

"Vermicelli is too profitable, right? Fifty wen a day, a family of two, that day is one hundred wen! Coupled with their own sweet potatoes, the people of Sanliu Village can earn more than a dozen taels of silver this winter, and if they have more, I am afraid they can earn more than 30 taels of silver! ”

Thirty taels of silver.

The people in several nearby board cars were red-eyed with envy.

Thirty taels can build a brand-new blue brick house, and two daughters-in-law can be married, and how many people save for ten years may not be able to save this family foundation!

"Why is Li Qiao not from our village, and the benefits are all taken up by Sanliu Village!"

"Alas, isn't it, the husband Li Qiao married is also from Sanliu Village, you say that this is not annoying."

"Li Qiao has already married, and now he can only beat his child's idea, I hope his husband will get pregnant and give birth as soon as possible, so that I can marry my girl and little brother!"

……

Li Qiao, who was listening to the praise with a beautiful face, couldn't be beautiful anymore.

Fortunately, at this time, their ox cart was far away from those sounds, and Tao Zhu couldn't hear it, otherwise, wouldn't this be adding to Tao Zhu's blockage.

Coughing softly, he leaned against Tao Zhu: "Brother Zhu, is it cold?" ”

"It's not cold. Are you cold or not? ”

Tao Zhu said and changed his posture so that he could lean more comfortably.

"I'm not cold, the clothes you made are so good, warm from head to toe, I'm warm all over now."

Tao Zhu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "You have to read every day, it's too cold to sit at the desk, so you have to wear thicker." ”

In fact, with the current weather, he hopes that Li Qiao can stay on the kang and study, anyway, now his family is richer than before, and he is not afraid of burning dry firewood.

However, Li Qiao said that he couldn't show his long legs when he stayed on the kang to study, and he was easily drowsy, so he had no choice but to make thicker clothes for Li Qiao.

"Brother Zhu is the best, and it is my blessing to be able to marry Brother Zhu as a husband. When we get to the county seat later, let's go down to the restaurant. ”

"Huh?" Tao Zhu was stunned when he heard this.

Is there any inevitable connection between praising him and going down to the restaurant?

"Today is your birthday, and from today on, you will be truly twenty years old." Li Qiao said with a smile.

Tao Zhu: "......"

His eyes widened in an instant.

After a moment, his heart suddenly warmed.

Yes, today is his birthday.

But he has never had a birthday in so many years, so he forgot about it, but he didn't expect Li Qiao to remember!

"How do you know?" He couldn't help but ask, a pair of watery eyes had already bent, and the corners of his mouth covered by the rabbit skin scarf were also upturned.

"I specifically asked your mother."

As a modern person, special days such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and Chinese Valentine's Day have long been engraved in Li Qiao's bones.

It's a big festival and it has to be celebrated.

That's why he had to go to the county seat today.

Not to mention that it's cloudy, even if it's snowing, it can't stop him from taking Tao Zhu to the restaurant to celebrate!

"Okay, then let's go to Wangyue Tower for dinner at noon." Tao Zhu couldn't help but stretch out his gloved hand to grab Li Qiao's hand.

If he is blessed, he is the one who is blessed.