The fat peasant girl wants to counterattack

Chapter 11 Going to the Town

Yue Mingzhu fell asleep peacefully with her heart filled with solidity and warmth.

This was the most solid sleep she had ever had in her memory. She was not full of calculations or thinking about how to deal with tomorrow.

There is only peace of mind and hope for the future.

She went to bed early and woke up the next day when she heard movement.

At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law had already prepared breakfast. The main food was multi-grain and wild vegetable porridge, with yesterday's bird eggs in it. Although there were few egg flakes, they were much more fragrant than usual.

After watching the moon, my sister-in-law hurried to the kitchen and brought out two boiled eggs.

Usually, Yue Mingzhu would sleep until midnight, with the eggs covered in the pot, and they would still be warm when she got up.

Yue Mingzhu got up early because she wanted to follow her eldest and second brothers to the town to see what business opportunities there were.

Always taking things out of the space is not a long-term solution, and it will easily arouse suspicion over time.

The most important thing is that people can't always get something for nothing. In the long run, it will damage people's character. She wants to find a livelihood for this family, a livelihood that relies on hard work with her own hands to get rich.

It's just that she really doesn't know what is going on in this era. After all, Yue Mingzhu didn't care about this in the past, so she could only go and see for herself.

Hearing that the younger sister was going to the town, the eldest brother and the second brother happily agreed. As long as it was the younger sister's request, they could not refuse.

They didn't think much about it, they just thought that the little girl was greedy and wanted to pester them to buy delicious food.

The third brother was going to study at the college in the town, so everyone went to the town together.

The second brother and the third brother usually walked to the town, and they planned to walk today, but they felt that the younger sister was a woman and walking so much would wear out her feet.

It happened that there was an ox cart going to the town every day in the village. For two cents, you could ride on the ox cart. Let the little girl ride on the ox cart. They followed behind. The ox cart didn't go very fast anyway, so they could walk a little faster. That's it.

Yue Mingzhu was originally a little worried about how to get to the town. After all, her strength really didn't allow it. Fortunately, her brothers loved her and made plans for her.

There were originally three people sitting on the ox cart, including the driver, and the entire ox cart looked quite spacious.As soon as Yue Mingzhu sat up, she felt a clang and the entire bullock cart sank. The cart was full in an instant.

The younger sister has a physique that rivals the three of them. The two pennies she spent were truly worth it. The elder brother was very happy, as if he had made a profit.

Yue Mingzhu closed her eyes and pretended not to have seen this scene. As long as she was not embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.

Yue Mingzhu sat leisurely on the bullock cart, and her three brothers took turns carrying poles and followed quickly behind.

We arrived in town in less than half an hour.

The third brother went to the college by himself, while Yue Mingzhu and the eldest and second brother went to a restaurant in the town.

The restaurant where the second brother works as a cashier is called Yuemanlou, and it is the largest restaurant in the town.

The restaurant had just opened at this time. Although it was not yet dinner time, the waiters in the restaurant were extremely diligent, cleaning the tables and sweeping the floor. The whole restaurant gave people a great feeling.

The second brother had a good relationship with the restaurant owner, so the fish was sold to Yue Manlou naturally.

The shopkeeper, whose surname was Yu, was extremely happy when he saw two buckets of lively fish.

This solved his urgent need!

There is a severe drought, there is almost no water in the river, and their place is not close to the sea. It is not easy to get fresh live fish now.

But the severe drought only affected the farmers in the fields. The rich were hardly affected. They still had money and wanted to satisfy their hunger.

The more they lack something, the more they want to eat. These days, many people come to ask if there is any fish, but restaurants also sell salted fish dried by the sea. Where can I get live fish?

This is great, even though it's just two barrels of fish, other restaurants don't have it, but if his family has it, he can greatly maintain the restaurant's business and make a small profit.

Because fish is hard to come by these days, shopkeeper Yu gave him a high price of [-] cents per catty.

This is sky-high.

Although prices have risen due to the severe drought, pork only costs [-] cents per catty. It can be said that shopkeeper Yu is very generous for offering this price.

There were 52 kilograms of fish in total, totaling 5200 silver coins. The shopkeeper gave him five taels of silver.Yue Mingzhu doesn't feel much about this, after all, she has seen no matter how much money she has.

But the eldest brother and the second brother were very excited. It was such a big sum of money. With this money, I could buy a lot of food. With food, the whole family would not have to go hungry.

Oh, if I had known better, I wouldn't have kept two fish at home. Hundreds of pennies would have been wasted in one meal.

After receiving the money and goods, shopkeeper Yu generously said that any good things in the future would be sent to him here, and he would guarantee a good price.

After a polite exchange between the two parties, the eldest brother led Yue Mingzhu away.

"Little sister, let's go. Big brother will buy you meat buns." The first thing the big brother did when he got money was to buy delicious food for her, and he didn't even think about buying it for the children at home.

"Brother, I don't want to eat meat buns. Let's go shopping. I haven't been to the town much."

She is not a child. Besides, she has never eaten anything delicious. Now she wants to lose weight, so she should keep her mouth shut.

"Okay, listen to the little sister." Whatever the little sister says is what she says.

The brother and sister went to the market.

The market in the town is in a specially designated area, and vendors can only set up stalls here. If they violate the regulations, they will be punished.

Yue Mingzhu took a look and saw that there were very few sellers of vegetables in the market now. Even if they were sold, they were radish and cabbage that had been stored in the winter. But it was almost summer, and the radish and cabbage were wilted and obviously dehydrated. Yes, this one is not cheap.

If there are green vegetables, they are sure to sell well.

But growing vegetables requires a lot of water, and the most scarce thing now is water.

Got it!

Yue Mingzhu had an idea and made up her mind, so she asked her eldest brother to take her to the food store.

The eldest brother Yue Mingqiang originally wanted to go to the food store to buy some miscellaneous grains. There was not much food at home, so my mother gave special instructions when he came.

Now that I have money, I need to buy more food.

The weather is getting drier, and food prices are getting higher day by day.

When she arrived at the food store, Yue Mingzhu looked around to see what was there.

According to the memory of my predecessor, there were soybeans in this era, but not many people grew them. Most people here still cultivated rice.

Sure enough, there were soybeans in the grain store, and to her surprise, there were also mung beans, which was really good.

Yue Mingqiang was asking the shopkeeper about the price of grains. The price of miscellaneous grains had risen to 10 cents per catty.

He couldn't help but exclaim, "Grains used to cost 5 cents a pound, but now they've doubled."

Flour is more expensive, costing 20 cents per catty, and polished rice is ridiculously expensive, costing 30 cents per catty.

He originally thought that with so much money in his pocket, he could buy a lot of grain, but now he only bought more than 500 kilograms of miscellaneous grains.

There are so many people in the family, so if we just save some food, 500 kilograms of grain will not last us for several months.

He originally wanted to buy more flour and polished rice because his little sister likes to eat them.

In this way, he was cruel and bought 10 kilograms of flour and 10 kilograms of polished rice.

No one can hurt my little sister, who has never suffered anything since she was a child.

He bought another 200 kilograms of miscellaneous grains, so he only had twenty-seven cents of silver left.

Don't spend all the money. The third brother and future brother-in-law still need money to study.

He never expected that a greater excitement was yet to come.

(End of this chapter)