After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 22
The family owed too many things, ranging from sewing, pots, bowls, oil lamps, to tables, chairs, benches, beds, clothes, quilts, rice noodles, etc. There was nothing, and everything had to be bought.

Qin Yao walked around the entire Kaiyang County and bought everything that was missing.

Four hundred catties of fine rice, one hundred catties of fine noodles, fifty catties of soybeans, fifty catties of millet, a total of six hundred catties of food, enough for her and four children to feed for four months, and they can live well through the winter .

These fine rice, refined flour, and millet are more than twice as expensive as brown rice and coarse flour, costing four taels and eighty cents.

Of course, the main reason is that Qin Yao eats a lot, one can eat five, but in other places, six hundred catties of grain can be eaten for more than half a year.

Don't ask her why she doesn't save some and buy brown rice thick noodles.

Because she couldn't swallow it at all.

The so-called brown rice should be more appropriately called rice bran. The rice inside is only [-]% and the remaining [-]% is rice bran.

The same is true for thick noodles, almost half of which are wheat skins, and the pasta steamed with water will choke your throat.

Although there is an extreme lack of supplies in the last days, the diet structure is different from that of ancient times. People are too poor to afford food, or really can't afford it.

Once there is something to eat, it is either instant noodles, biscuits, etc. that can be stored for a long time, or food obtained from agricultural bases.

Rice bran has long disappeared from human diet.

Therefore, let alone brown rice and rough noodles, even if it is a grain that focuses on weight loss, modern people feel that it tastes like chewing wax after a few bites.

Since she has that ability, Qin Yao doesn't plan to treat her stomach badly. Not being able to eat well is simply worse than being chased and killed by mutated zombies.

After buying food, Qin Yao went to the cloth shop to buy three quilts weighing ten catties, three thin quilts, and three brown mats made of palm bark.

In addition, I also weighed five catties of cotton, and bought a bolt of the cheapest white cotton cloth, a bolt of blue cotton cloth, and a bolt of red coarse cloth.

The red color is reserved for making new clothes for the New Year. The children in the family all look like their father, and their facial features are very good. If you put them away properly, they will definitely be very eye-catching.

A piece of cloth is 15 meters long and about 1.2 meters wide. This is enough for their family of five, both inside and outside, with plenty left over.

Qin Yao didn't know how to make clothes at all. She bought sewing and thread and planned to go home and find someone to help her make it.

There were ready-made clothes for sale in the store, and they were second-hand. They were probably used as collateral from a pawn shop.

Seeing that the price was good, Qin Yao looked at her sackcloth, which was so dirty that she could no longer see it, and decided to choose a suit that she could wear, and bought another suit for each of the four children.

Each person gets a pair of shoes, Qin Yao herself is leather boots, and the four children's are coarse cloth shoes, all of which are half-worn.

Hers fit her feet well, but the people are used to simplicity, and the sizes are all made too big, and the four pairs of children's shoes are not the right size.

But children, grow fast, wear socks and thick insoles, and they will fit just barely.

Qin Yao also bought some socks, insoles, headscarves, and hair ties.

It took ten taels of silver to get all of these.

When paying the bill, Qin Yao gasped, thinking that these cloths are too expensive, no wonder everyone bought the materials and made them at home.

After leaving Buzhuang, Qin Yao went to the grocery store to buy all the daily needs of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans.

However, I couldn't find a shop that sold finished furniture. I could only accept customized carpentry. The furniture could only be put away temporarily. After I returned to the village, I would ask a nearby carpenter to help me make a few pieces.

After buying everything, Qin Yao rented an ox cart for [-] Wen at the gate of the North City, and took the driver to drive the cart to load the bought grain, loaded a cart full of things, and set off back to Liujia Village.

The ox cart was full and there was no place to sit, so Qin Yao walked with the driver.

It is an official road from Kaiyang County to Jinshi Town. The weather is sunny today and the road surface is pretty good.

Qin Yao counted the remaining silver in her hand as she walked.

This cart cost 18 taels of silver, and now she still has 67 taels of silver in her hand.

Qin Yao plans to save 50 taels for emergencies, and the remaining 17 taels, she plans to use to make some decent furniture, then repair the dilapidated hut, strengthen the walls, build two more rooms, and build another Washroom and kitchen, and then build the wall.

The fence is the most important thing. Without a fence, there is no privacy at all. I don’t feel at ease when I put something at home, and I always worry that it will be stolen.

There are also walls, which can protect against some wild beasts that come down the mountain to look for food in winter, so you can sleep more peacefully.

The second step is to repair the main body of the existing house. The thatched roof that can be blown away by strong wind must be replaced with strong and waterproof tiles.

But if you want to build tiles, the beams and walls of the house must be reinforced.

Qin Yao knew a little about these things and decided to ask the people in the Liu family's old house when the time came.

When she saw the old man Liu and his son repairing the roof for her, they looked very powerful.

Qin Yao could tell that the people in the old house couldn't care less about Liu Ji, a bastard.

I don't know if the children who can bark have candies. Old man Liu is indeed a bit partial to Liu Ji's son.

And this eccentricity may not even be noticed by himself.

Qin Yao did the calculations, imagining that she could sleep in a solid house this winter, on a spacious and warm bed, with the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously, and her walking was windy.

The coachman couldn't catch up with her and shouted. Qin Yao then realized and slowed down slightly.

She ate well and slept well last night. Today she changed into clean clothes and wore sturdy leather boots. Her whole body was very different. The depression on her face was gone. She was carrying a bow on her back and holding a knife, which looked quite different. The dashing appearance of a heroic heroine.

The coachman didn't like to talk, Qin Yao wanted to know more about this place, so he chatted with the coachman without saying a word.

Only then did I learn from the other party that in Kaiyang County, there are still many former rebels who turned into bandits and often ran down the mountain to plunder the people.

The local government was incompetent, and the wealthy merchants and gentry were miserable.

When Qin Yao heard this, she was suddenly worried about the goods in her truck.

The coachman saw her worry, and finally took the initiative to say: "Little lady, don't panic, they don't like to come to our remote village."

The coachman said: "These bandits most like to go to the neighboring town. The official road there leads directly to the city. There are many merchants along the way. They want money, so they naturally go there."

"But the little lady usually goes out alone, it's better to be more careful."

He heard that many women from good families were kidnapped to the mountains and tortured and humiliated to death by the bandits. The methods were extremely cruel, so he kindly reminded Qin Yao.

"Thank you for reminding me, I understand." Qin Yao nodded gratefully to the coachman, she would be more careful.

It seems that the security situation in ancient times will not be much better than in the last days.

The journey between the two went smoothly, except that the wheels got stuck a few times.But because Qin Yao was there, they pushed it out as soon as they pushed it. In the evening, the two arrived in Liujia Village smoothly.

Thinking of the four little ones in her family, Qin Yao felt like returning home.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the village, she felt a strange atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)