After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 62

The rain was pattering down, and someone came to the yard, it was Mrs. Gu.

The old lady walked in, found a clean place to sit down, and asked, "I'm going to the town to sell some food tomorrow, Qinger, do you want to go together?"

Gu Qing didn't want to sell grain, but she did as the Romans did, and she didn't want to be too outstanding, so she asked, "How much to sell?"

The old lady Gu said: "After paying the tax, there is not much left. I sell one or two hundred catties and save some money for emergencies. The rest will be replaced with cheap old rice and millet. It is not a big problem to last until the spring harvest. "

After the old lady finished talking about the food, she took out a small bib from her sleeve: "This is the bib that Meng'er sewed out of rags. Take a look at the embroiderer, how is it?"

Gu Qing took a look and was a little amazed. She never expected that Gu Meng's rough hands could embroider such a delicate bib.

She smiled and said: "Aren't you going to the town tomorrow? Just take it to the embroidery workshop and ask. If it is worth a few copper coins, Meng'er can specialize in this business in the future."

With Gu Qing's affirmation, the old lady was relieved. She didn't know when she started to pay special attention to the opinions of the eldest granddaughter. If the eldest granddaughter said it was okay, then it must be fine.

Before dinner.

Gu Qing asked everyone to sit down.

"The autumn harvest is over, now, I'm here to pay everyone."

As soon as her words fell, everyone in the room was shocked.

Work for your own family, and wages?

"Opening a shop in the town, everyone in the family has worked hard, and the monthly salary is not counted now." Gu Qing looked at the people in front of him, and said slowly, "The autumn harvest is a total of 6 days. Calculated at two hundred Wen, then each person is 1200 Wen!"

"Xiaohan!"

Gu Qing wrapped the copper plates counted in the box with coarse cloth and handed them to Zhu Han.

Zhu Han froze on the spot and didn't pick it up. He wiped his clothes back and forth with both hands and stammered, "Patriarch, I don't want this money. This is all housework we should do. How can we ask for money?" ? And Patriarch, if you give us money at every turn, we will go bad..."

Gu Qing laughed out loud after hearing this, is this the so-called man who becomes bad when he has money?
After everyone refused their wages, Gu Qing had no choice but to make a concluding statement: "With the joint efforts of everyone, our family's life is getting better and better. We are building a house at home. The house is very big and covers an area of ​​ten acres. There is a separate yard, and there are all bedrooms and study rooms. Aunt Tong and your family also have separate rooms...

The autumn harvest is also finished, Zhu Han and you four will hand over the store affairs to Aunt Tong's family tomorrow, and then you will all go to Yunshan Academy to study, and I will also find a private school for Gu Yu and Gu Nuo tomorrow, okay, Let's have dinner. "

Everyone ate this meal very sweetly, because the new rice was delicious, and there was a kind of hope spreading among everyone.

early morning.

It was still cloudy.

Due to the heavy rain yesterday, the roads in the fields of Gujia Village were extremely muddy, and there were many fewer people working outside.

However, the main road was trampled back and forth by human feet and animals, and the road conditions were a little better, at least the bullock carts could walk.

The autumn harvest at home is over, and it's time for Yang Pei and the others to go to the town to open a shop. Yang Pei's ten people have already left in a carriage before dawn.

At this time, Gu Jiang's ox cart was parked in front of Gu Qing's house, and the old lady of the Gu family was sitting on the ox cart, waiting for Gu Qing to carry the rice and went to town together.

Gu Yu and Gu Nuo stayed at home to take care of them.

Gu Qing came out carrying a big sack, put it on the bullock cart, and took advantage of the opportunity to sit on it.

The old lady Gu frowned: "Qing'er, you can't just take a hundred catties to town?"

It was only sold for a hundred catties, and the rest should be eaten at home. I am afraid that the townspeople would not eat big white rice all at once, which is too much of a waste of food.

Gu Qing explained: "Isn't Yu'er and I not in good health? The doctor has said that we should rest and eat better. Another thing is that the tax is heavy, and there are refugees. Who knows what will happen. The food is released. Safer to hold than silver."

The old lady Gu stopped immediately.

She looked at the five hundred catties of rice she was carrying on the bullock cart, and suddenly felt that she had done something wrong.

There is a shortage of food everywhere, and the price of food will definitely increase in the future. If you go to the town to sell rice now, you may suffer a big loss.

Their family has more than 20 acres of paddy fields, and more than 2000 catties of rice have been harvested. It sounds like a lot, but they have a large family of [-] people, each with a mouth, waiting to eat every day, so she must plan carefully.

Mrs. Gu jumped off the bullock cart, picked up a sack of rice, and said, "I'll take the hundred catties of rice home first, and I'll be here soon."

The old lady ran away at a brisk pace.

Gu Qing: "..."

At the age of 60, he can still walk like flying with a hundred catties of rice on his shoulders, which is amazing.

The bullock cart wandered to Youshui Town, and a group of people got off the bullock cart and went to work separately.

Gu Qing went to the grain shop with Mrs. Gu and Gu Jiang.

When I arrived at the grain shop, I found out that the county magistrate had issued some government orders on grain during the autumn harvest. The major commercial houses were not allowed to collect grain from farmers privately. If farmers wanted to sell grain, they had to send it to the granary in Youshui Town. Rice costs ten cents a catty.

The price of grain in the grain shop was also restricted, with the maximum not allowed to exceed twelve yuan, and the sale was also restricted, and commercial firms were not allowed to hoard grain in large quantities.

In previous years, the price of rice was about six renminbi a catty. Although the price of twelve renminbi was much higher than in previous years, it was a very reasonable price in a year of food shortage. If there was no government intervention, grain merchants would hoard grain After a month, the grain will be released for sale, and the price of rice may be fifty cents.

At that time, money is worthless, and food is the hard currency.

And the resulting social consequences will be very serious. People who have money but can’t afford food will become refugees. When refugees gather, it is easy to revolt...

Gu Qing secretly praised the current imperial court. The food price limit can greatly reduce the number of refugees and prevent many future troubles.

Gu Jiang brought three hundred catties of grain to the town and exchanged all of it for money. There is a patient in his family who needs money for medical treatment. Money is the most important thing to him.

Half of the [-] catties of grain Mrs. Gu brought was exchanged for copper coins, and the other half was exchanged for staple foods such as millet, black flour, buckwheat flour, and beans.

Gu Qing followed suit, and one hundred catties of rice turned into fifty catties of millet, twenty catties of black noodles, twenty catties of buckwheat flour, twenty catties of beans, twenty catties of quinoa seeds, twenty catties of old rice...

After the food was exchanged, it was piled on the ox cart, and Gu Jiang was responsible for guarding the ox cart.

Gu Qing and Mrs. Gu went to the embroidery workshop.

The most prosperous industry in Youshui Town is probably the cloth shop. There are more than ten cloth shops, large and small, and many women from small families in the town work as embroiderers in the embroidery shop.

I randomly entered a not-so-high-end embroidery workshop. There were quite a lot of customers in this shop. Most of them were farmers in the village who got money by selling grain after the autumn harvest, and then bought cloth to make autumn shirts and winter clothes.

The old lady Gu and Gu Qing walked in and went straight to the shopkeeper standing behind the counter.

This shopkeeper is also good at watching people. There is an old lady and a woman in front of him. These two people look smart and capable, and they seem to be family members. If they come to the cloth shop this time, they must be for the whole family.

When the year is not good and everyone can't eat enough, the business of the cloth village is extremely bleak, so they rely on the seasons to earn some money.

The shopkeeper went up to meet him: "This old lady, this young lady, just ask if you need anything."

(End of this chapter)