The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 1 This family has no money

"Quier, go get four eggs from the kiln!"

Under the big willow tree on the side of the road, several peasant women and children surrounded the shopkeeper.The speaker was a peasant woman wearing a green cloth mending gown.

Standing not far away, Song Yingkui, who was leading a pair of younger siblings to watch the excitement, saw his mother talking to him, and hurriedly responded, leaving his younger brother and younger sister, turned around and walked towards the house, walking quickly.

As a time traveler, Song Yingkui clearly felt that the mother standing next to the salesman was quite embarrassed and uncomfortable, and her face was blushing.

The family was so poor that they couldn't afford to buy a needle from the peddler.Although the needles in this time and space are not cheap, no matter how expensive they are, they are only one needle, and you can buy two for a penny.But the problem is that the family doesn't even have a penny, so the mother has no choice but to beg the shopkeeper to exchange it with eggs.

The salesman was not very willing to exchange needles with eggs, but in the end he was pestered by his mother Jiang and had no choice but to agree to exchange two needles with four eggs.

Are eggs so cheap?Yes and no!In the village where Song Yingkui lives, eggs are really worthless because they have no exchange value.Every household in the village raises chickens. Under the ecology of self-production and self-marketing, eggs have no commercial value.Eggs not only have no commercial value in the village, but it is also difficult for anyone to buy eggs in the town, unless they are sold in the county town.I heard people say that the eggs in the county are not easy to sell, and the eggs are only valuable when they are brought to the provincial capital of Wazhou. Four eggs can be worth three pennies.And the provincial capital is two days away from my own village!

A peddler who travels from village to village relies on his shoulders to transport goods. Naturally, he doesn't like eggs, which are hard to handle and hard to cash in. If it wasn't for being worn out, he wouldn't agree to exchange eggs for needles.In fact, shopkeepers don't like the trading mode of bartering. They would rather earn less money, and hope to sell their goods for cash, so that it will be easier to do business.

He rushed home in a hurry, took four eggs and ran to the big willow tree, handed them to the shopkeeper, and rescued his mother from the embarrassing situation.Song Yingkui wandered aimlessly in the village road.

Today's mother's embarrassment made him feel very uncomfortable. To buy a needle, he had to beg for help. The other women who surrounded the shopkeeper could at least come up with money, but the poor ones had no money at all.This is an insult to a traveler, but now he has nothing to do.

Thinking about traveling to this time and space, it has been about two months, but he has no way to change the status quo of himself and his family.Now that I think about it, the books I read about getting rich by relying on the knowledge in my mind after traveling through ancient times are pure nonsense.In the ancient times when the transportation was inconvenient and the commodity economy was not prosperous, it was really difficult to make money. It was so difficult that Song Yingkui didn't even earn a penny after traveling for two months.There are no conditions for making things with trading value. If there is no trading market for all the products that can be seen in the village, or can others see them, what do you use to make money?
When it comes to time travel, Song Yingkui is full of lawsuits.As a university graduate majoring in tiankeng and mechanical manufacturing, he entered another tiankeng industrial fertilizer factory as an equipment maintenance technician after graduation.Although this job doesn’t make much money, at least there are five social insurances and one housing fund. I survived a drink with a few workshop workers, and then passed a construction site on the way home, fell into a pit, and my soul traveled to this person with the same name and surname as me.

The body that passed through was an ordinary farmer who couldn't be more ordinary.It was because when the family was separated, he fought with his great-grandfather, and was slapped on the forehead by his great-grandfather with a pole.Fortunately, when I hung up, the memory of my life remained.

As far as the families after time travel are concerned, they are not considered extremely poor families. At least the family has more than 30 mu of land, and the net worth of a cow and a mule!The members of the family are still very prosperous. I have a grandfather, a grandmother, and three brothers in my family. Counting my mother, two younger brothers and a younger sister, there are ten members in the whole family. It is not a small family.

Now the family of ten is crowded in the backyard of an old house with only three rooms and two kilns. Because they live in the backyard, the villagers also call them the Song family in the backyard at the foot of the mountain.

The old house of the Song family lived in the family of the eldest grandfather and the second grandfather, also known as the Song family in the front yard at the foot of the mountain.Hearing this, many people would think that the Song family is a big family, but it is not.Regardless of whether it is the front yard or the back yard, the Song family is poor.The so-called courtyards are all adobe houses without bricks and tiles.It sounds like a lot of land, the two families add up to nearly [-] mu, but they are all unproductive hillside land.Located in the valley in the northwest, the mountains are worthless at all.

The biggest value of the two combined is a few livestock, three cows, two mules, and a female donkey.When the family was separated, disputes arose because of these animals.

Originally, the family had no plan to separate the family. Unfortunately, three months ago, the Song family was attacked by bandits.

It was noon when the bandits entered the village. Seeing the bandits entering the village, the entire Song family ran up the mountain.After running up the mountain, the whole family looked down the mountain and found that the bandits had disappeared, only a few cattle of their own were eating grain in the courtyard at the foot of the mountain (the bandits saw that there was no one in the house after entering the house, so they scattered the grain from the kiln into the yard and drove the cattle to the yard to eat).

Watching the cow eat the grain, the grandfather said that if he continued to eat, the cow would swell and die. The bandit probably left and sent someone to look at the cow.Who to send where?As the boss of the family, he is still easily recognized as a bandit, and he must not go. The second child is not at home, so the third child, Song Yingkui's grandfather, can only go to see it.

Song Yingkui's grandfather, Song Tianshun, was also stupid. He went back to his yard to drive cattle in a daze, but was blocked by bandits guarding the house as soon as he arrived.Song Tianshun also lied that the family members were not the master, but the bandits didn't admit it at all. They tied it to the door panel and threw it up with a red-hot iron to frighten them.

The bandits in this place are not vicious people. Most of them are farmers in the nearby valleys, and being a bandit is a part-time job.So under normal circumstances, if they don't kill people or grab food and cattle (it's not a disaster year, it's not convenient to grab food and cattle transportation), what they want is softness.

The Song family's goods are nothing, just some good quilts and clothes, and money. The bandits broke the cellar, and naturally they ran away in nothing.

Just in this way, Song Yingkui's grandfather, Song Tian, ​​became a sinner in the family by the way.Grandpa was upset, and seeing that Song Yingkui's family had a large population and a lot to eat, he yelled to separate the family!
Because my grandfather was a sinner, and the family's money was robbed by bandits, so when the family was separated, their family did not give any cash.He was also divided into an old cow and an old mule! 15-year-old Song Yingkui felt that the division of the family was unfair, so he quarreled with his grandpa, and then he was picked up by the powerful grandpa!

This burden was not in vain, the third grandfather of the Song family in Yangxili, who came to preside over the branch family, was invited to make the decision and make up a stone of millet as compensation.

Logically speaking, if the Song family at the foot of the mountain were to be separated, they should be divided into three households.But the grandfather’s family has no son, so the first house and the second house are nominally divided into two households, but the division does not divide the house, and the family is still together, but Song Tianshun’s family, the head of the third house, was moved to the backyard. (This is the plot of Song Yingkui's family separation!)
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