At night, Xu Ling sat in the inn room, closed the doors and windows, and asked for two dishes, one meat, one vegetarian, five steamed buns and a bowl of soup as usual.

While eating, count the money earned under the candle flame.

Today he went to the money bank and exchanged the copper coins for silver, and two hundred taels of silver were placed on the table, and the white flowers and silver were dangling.

This amount of money, if it is placed in an ordinary farmer's house, is already a huge amount of money.

If it was Xu Ling in the past, he was afraid that he would sleep with money when he slept at night, and his mind was full of thoughts of going home to his wife and children to hot kang heads, and he had no intention of working hard.

But now, when he looked at the money, he thought that one day in prison, he learned that fifty taels of silver didn't even have the qualifications to cry out for injustice, and Xu Ping and Xu An were going to sell themselves.

"Fifty taels..."Xu Ling dialed out a quarter to the side, so that two hundred taels of silver was really little.

Xu Ling's heart didn't fluctuate much, and he already had a rough use for this money.

First of all, set aside fifty taels to pay off the debt.

Part of it is Wang's forty taels, and he will not give more than one copper plate, and the remaining ten taels will be kept for repayment if a creditor comes to the door.

Xu Ling dialed out another ten taels, and in order to save him, Gu Daliang's family took out six taels of silver deposits, and ran hard to worry about him, and he had to sell the land, he wanted to return the Gu family six taels, and then paste four taels to make up a whole.

and set aside thirty taels to be used as money for the construction of a new house. Xu Ling has already inquired, to build an ordinary farmhouse, at least ten taels of silver, if you want to build a brick, brick and wood structure of the house, it will definitely not work without thirty taels.

Xu Ling took a bite of the steamed bun and estimated the structure of the new house in his heart. In these years, it is difficult to transport wood, and the price is high, not to mention the green bricks and black tiles, all of which are sold for money.

After thinking about it, Xu Ling allocated another ten taels, since he wanted to build it, he would build a better house.

As a result, he was left with just over a hundred pieces of silver.

Spending money like water, and that's just a rough estimate.

Xu Ling sighed, it seems that he can't stop selling vegetables after returning home.

Wait until the winter is over, and you must continue to make money in the spring, otherwise you will sit on the mountain and eat empty sooner or later.

Xu Ling finished eating, put the silver into the space, blew out the candle and went to bed.

At night, Xu Ling was woken up by the strange sound whistling outside, the window was suddenly blown open, and a cold wind swept in, Xu Ling hurriedly wrapped the quilt to close the window, who knew that the wooden bolt blocking the door was broken.

He had no choice but to put on his clothes and go downstairs to find the shopkeeper.

"Salt grains!"

There are also others who are woken up and shouting at the strange weather outside the window.

The shopkeeper was called up from the quilt by Xu Ling, rubbed his hands and feet coldly, came up to block the doors and windows for him, and cursed: "The weather has been getting weirder and weirder every year, why did it snow so early this year?" ”

Xu Ling talked to him, "When did it snow last year?" ”

"The guest officer is not from Quanzhou, it only snowed in December last year, and it snowed heavily for three days, and the river outside was covered with a thin layer of ice!"

Xu Ling rummaged through his memory, but he really didn't have any impression, he remembered that he was cold and hungry, and he didn't seem to have gone out all winter.

However, Xu Ling took care of the shopkeeper's words, and he got up at dawn the next day, wanting to get on the boat as soon as possible, so as not to delay his return home.

When he went out, he realized that the salt grains of last night were like a dream, and they didn't turn into snow at all.

That's it, the temperature has dropped a lot, and when I breathe, there is a white mist around my mouth.

Xu Ling was strong and strong, with sufficient qi and blood, and he didn't feel very cold after changing into winter clothes. He walked along the streets of Quanzhou, wanting to go to the grain store and the fur shop to see what was going on.

Along the way, the vendors were still shouting, and there were many more people selling firewood and charcoal on the streets.

There are a lot of people around the purchase.

When he arrived at the grain store, Xu Ling realized that he was not the only one who was sensitive to this. There was a long queue outside the grain store, all of them came to buy food.

Xu Ling stepped forward to ask the price, and the price of grain had risen by two cents compared with yesterday. Originally, a bucket of rice was 80 yuan, but today it has risen to 100 yuan.

A bucket of rice is only 12 catties, and how much does it cost to save enough food for the winter in ordinary people's homes?

However, no one is willing to eat only white rice, and if you buy rice and brown rice and grains, you should be able to survive the winter.

Compared with the staple crops that can fill the stomach, the price of other beans has not changed much, a bucket of mung beans is only 30 yuan, and the price of soybeans is higher, 45 yuan a bucket.

Xu Ling bought 100 catties of mung beans and 100 catties of soybeans, and didn't buy the rest.

When I went to the fur shop, as expected, the price of fur also rose, and this year it was too difficult to get cold early, and the people began to buy things to keep out the cold and satisfy their hunger, and other things did not sell very well.

Xu Ling spent seventy taels of silver to buy sixty-one medium-quality rabbit furs, weighing about 200 catties.

Naturally, the fur shop can't only have rabbit skin, Xu Ling also saw fox skin, mink skin, and some other unknown animal skins, but fox fur mink fur is expensive, a complete fox skin, if the color is high, it is estimated that his entire net worth is not enough to buy two.

Pulling a cart of rabbit fur out of the fur shop, Xu Ling took advantage of the fact that no one put things into the space, and then rushed to get on the boat back to Lingbao Town in the afternoon.

On the last day of October, I got on the ship, set off from Quanzhou, and went back to Lingbao Town when I was headwinded, and the weather was gloomy and gloomy for several days, and the wind was strong, and the eyes of the people who blew could not be opened.

Someone set up a stove to cook wine, and asked Xu Ling to go twice, but he excused himself on the excuse that he was not feeling well.

When he called him again for the third time, Xu Ling lazily got out of the bed, put on layers of clothes, and wrapped himself like a ball to drink and chat.

Don't forget to bring some dried melon seeds or something.

Among the businessmen this time, there was a man named Niu Decai who knew Xu Ling, that is, he came to Xu Ling twice in three days.

The two of them went to Quanzhou together, Xu Ling made two trips, and all the money Niu Decai earned in Quanzhou was spent on women, so he took the boat home.

The topic of their chat, in addition to business, is women, Xu Ling loves to listen to business, and he yawns when he talks about women.

Niu Decai laughed at him and said: "He is a monk in the mountains, and he has grown his hair and mixed into us to start a business." ”

Everyone laughed, and Xu Ling laughed too.

In such a ghost weather, the snow can't fall, and it's really cold.

He wanted to sleep under the covers, and it would be better if he could have a hot meal over the fire.

But sometimes relationships have to be maintained.

Fortunately, when I went back this time, I was able to rest at home for two months, and Xu Ling looked forward to going home.

I don't know what's going on at home.

Niu Decai and his entourage chatted endlessly about women, Xu Ling was bored, holding a bowl of hot rice wine, standing up and looking at the river as white as light ink.

The mountains in the distance melted into the fog, and he couldn't see clearly, so he took a sip of rice wine and suppressed the chill on his body.

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting, "It's snowing?" ”

A goose-feather-like snowflake suddenly fell into the open collar of Xu Ling's head, Xu Ling only felt a chill in his Adam's apple, and blinked at the black and white chaotic sky.

In the inky black sky, large snowflakes fluttered down.

It did snow.