Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 46 Does your family have new food?
A shrewd businessman like Old Wangtou would never let go of any opportunity to make money.

This also shows that the old Wangtou can also earn money like this, so didn't he earn more before?
Sure enough, there is no profiteering or businessman. Compared with Lao Wangtou, she is still far behind.

After sighing, Mu Yu immediately entered the state, and said timidly,
"This time I brought fifty weeds."

The smile on Old Wang's face faded a lot with the naked eye, and he narrowed his eyes.
"Only these? I haven't come here for more than half a month. The weeds pulled out last time should have almost grown.

Are you still exchanging weeds with others? "

Who offered a higher price than him?
"We didn't exchange it with others. We ate part of it ourselves. My father said that a catty of grain can last for a few days and a hundred weeds can also eat for a few days. Don't worry too much about changing it."

Old Wangtou: ...

Although this is true, if this is the case, how can he make money from weeds.

The amount of weeds and grains exchanged is about the same, so there is no strong desire to exchange them. If you want them to exchange more weeds, you can only increase the amount of grains that weeds can exchange, so that they can exchange more grains and eat more. After a while, they will naturally exchange weeds for food.

Although it would damage his interests a little, it was better than nothing, because if he didn't change the weeds, he wouldn't be able to do this business with Zhang Xiucai again, which would be a big loss.

"Girl, this can all be discussed.

Let me tell you, food prices have risen a lot recently, and there are a large group of disaster victims outside Huangsha City. The situation is not optimistic.

If you don't change the food as soon as possible, it will be even more difficult in the future.

In this way, I can exchange a little more food for you, and you must persuade your family to exchange all the weeds for food..."

Mu Yu keenly captured the key points,
"How much more food can I exchange?"

The old Wang looked at Mu Yu's face, and tentatively said,

"Ninety trees for a catty of old grain...Eighty trees! Eighty trees for a catty! There can't be any more, and I'm going to lose money!"

It is impossible to lose money, but you will only earn a little less.

Mu Yu thought, this is equivalent to getting a [-]% discount for "buying grain" with weeds, and she can buy it cheaply, which is very rare in this environment when grain prices have doubled.

She didn't make further progress, and the old Wangtou took the initiative to give in, so she should show something.

"Well, I will tell my family when I go back. Now that we can get so much food in exchange, they must be willing to exchange all the weeds for food.

Here, here are the fifty weeds I brought this time. "

Old Wang's expression became more relaxed when he heard this, and he looked happy when he looked at the weeds.

Then she keenly noticed that there was still a big bulging lump on her waist. At first, she thought it was filled with weeds, but now that the weeds were all taken out, it was obviously something else.

"What's in there?"

Mu Yu pretended to have just regained consciousness,
"Oh, this is some new food, sent by relatives..."

The family is reluctant to eat it, so let me ask if it can be replaced with old grain.

Before Mu Yu finished his prepared excuse, he was interrupted by the old Wangtou in surprise.

"Your family has new food???"

Old Wang's expression was shocked, this kind of severe drought for several years, old grain is very rare and very precious, and new grain is even rarer.

There are only a few types of people who can still have new food.

Either a lucky farmer who is lucky enough to own a good piece of land, luckily the surrounding drought is not so severe, and can still have some harvests; or a powerful nobleman who has his own large farm, enough servants, and consumes a lot of manpower and resources Try to keep a little harvest; either officials, ruffians, bandits...

In the old Wangtou's judgment, Mu Yu does not belong to any of these people.

"Your relatives can still grow food?"

"I don't know, he just came to give us some food and left."

The old Wang continued to think, maybe the relative she was talking about was a farmer who was lucky enough to grow some food, and such a person was exactly what he needed to win over.

In good times, he could get grain from many places, but when the drought came, many farmers did not sell or had no grain to sell, and almost none of them can still sell grain until now.

He is also very short of grain, especially new grain, which has not been seen for several months. The last time Zhang Xiucai came to buy it, he still sold old grain.

The new grain is not the same as the weeds. The weeds can only be sold to Zhang Xiucai at a better price. The prices of other people are not too high, and they can’t be stored for a long time, and they will wilt. Yes, it can be sold to many people, and it won't break after a long time.

If the quality of the new grain is good enough, there is still room for a higher price increase.

"Show me these new foods!"

Mu Yu untied the grain bag and held it in his hand for him to see.

Old Wang leaned closer to smell it, his eyes lit up, then he grabbed a handful and walked out of the warehouse, scrutinized by the dazzling sunshine in June.

After a long time, he woke up suddenly and said,

"Good food! Good food!"

Mu Yu frowned slightly, this didn't sound like the words of a shrewd small businessman, shouldn't it be pretending not to care at this time, saying that the food is mediocre, and willing to reluctantly accept it, so as to lower the price?

What is the old man thinking about?
Old Wangtou didn't make any more plans, but was really surprised. He has never lost to his peers in the ability to distinguish good or bad food, so he has never been able to make more money than his peers, and he can steadily beat them.

He knew that these grains were really good, better than the new grains he had harvested before, and even during the harvest years, he rarely received such good grains here.

It is not a problem at all to sell these grains to some big families.

He is bound to get the food, and he is very clear about it, and he is willing to give up some trivial benefits in the face of huge benefits.

Anyway, a small peasant girl fleeing famine can see the benefits of the three or two catties at present.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Mu Yu who was lowering his head not knowing what he was thinking, with a hint of contempt on his expression.

But soon, he regained that kind face,
"Girl, you brought new food here to exchange for more old food?"

"……Yes."

"It's easy to talk, tell me, how much does your family want to change?"

Mu Yu felt a little too smooth, especially the old Wangtou's attitude was too kind, which made her suspicious. She tentatively said,
"My family means, can one catty of new grain be exchanged for two or three catties of old grain?"

Old Wang frowned for a moment, but he soon calmed down and said,

"That's right, girl, we change new grain for old grain here to see the quality, and the general quality is to exchange one catty of new grain for two catties of old grain.

But, the quality of the new grain you brought is very good, I am willing to meet your request and make an exception and exchange one catty of new grain for three catties of old grain!

You go back and tell your family, let them bring all the rest of the new grain to me and replace it with old grain! "

Mu Yu raised his eyebrows, the old Wangtou is so generous, it seems that the market of Xinliang should be good, or he has some other connections.

She didn't worry about these things. Doing business is not that simple. This has exceeded her expectations, and the progress has been very smooth. She didn't want to make any troubles, so she agreed.

Old Wangtou weighed the new grain, and it was twelve and a half catties in total.

Mu Yu got 37 and a half catties of stale grain and two eggs, and was sent out of the grocery store by Lao Zhang with a red face.

(End of this chapter)