The space farmer comes to farm

Chapter 32 Expensive or Not Expensive

Su Yu, who was hit again, became more determined to learn to read.

Let the little guy take the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and wrap them up together. After paying the money, several people came out together.

Su Yu touched his obviously deflated purse, feeling sad.

Sure enough, it is not easy for people nowadays to go to school, and it is even more difficult to provide a scholar.

He only bought three books, as well as the most common pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and it cost six taels of silver. Su Yu felt his heart was bleeding.

However, no matter how expensive it is, it can't dissuade her from wanting to read and write, and she must not be illiterate.

Lu Youqi took Su Yu and the three of them to stroll around the town for a while, invited the three of them to lunch, and then the three of them walked home.

On the way back, Jiang Qi told Su Yu how he met Lu Youqi.

It turned out that a few years ago, when Jiang Qi went into the mountains, he accidentally ran into Lu Youqi who was hunting with his family. For some reason, he lost his way alone.

When Jiang Qi met him, he was wounded, tired and hungry, and he was dying.

Next, Jiang Qi fed him water and food, and then brought him out. Just as he walked to the outskirts of Yunwu Mountain, he met someone who was looking for Lu Youqi, and handed Lu Youqi to his family.

After Lu Youqi recovered, he came to thank Jiang Qi in person, and then the two got to know each other gradually.Lu Youqi even regarded Jiang Qi as his elder brother.

After hearing this, Su Yu could understand why Jiang Qi was such a bad-tempered person, yet someone would stick to him with a smile on his face.

After returning home, Su Yu made a new plan, taking time every day to read and endorse.

Fortunately, they didn't grow food and other crops, they only had two kinds of fruits and some vegetables, so they didn't have a lot of time every day.

Su Yu only wanted to be illiterate, so she didn't have high demands on herself.

As for Su Yan, Su Yu struggled for a long time, hoping that he would be successful, but he didn't want to push him too much.

Fortunately, Su Yan likes reading. When he was in the Su family, he envied twins who could go to school, and always thought that it would be great if he could study.

Now that my sister bought the books and her brother-in-law taught him seriously every day, Su Yan studied more seriously.

After getting busy, time flies quickly.

In a blink of an eye, half a month passed, and the strawberries planted in the yard also changed from small to large, from green to red, and the first batch of strawberries had already matured.

As early as two days ago, Su Yu had already picked red strawberries and let Su Yan and Jiang Qi taste them, both of them said it was delicious.

Jiang Qi was fine, as a man, especially a sullen man in Su Yu's eyes, he didn't show any particular preference for strawberries.

On the other hand, Su Yan, after all, is a child, and has never eaten any fruit. The strawberry looks delicate and cute, and it tastes sweet and fragrant. Su Yan can't wait to sit in the strawberry field and eat his fill.

But he also knew that strawberries were sold for money, and only with money could he continue to read and write, so he didn't let himself eat more.

Seeing Su Yan like this, Su Yu felt comforted and distressed.

At a young age, he knows how to restrain himself, and it turns out that the children of the poor are already in charge of the family.

Early this morning, when the sky was still light, Su Yu and the three of them had already woken up.

The three of them did not sit in the yard reading and writing as usual, but each of them walked carefully in the strawberry field with a delicate bamboo basket.

Pick off the red strawberries and put them in the bamboo basket on your arm.

At the time of planting, because there were not many seeds, Su Yu was afraid that Jiang Qi would find something was wrong, so he only dared to add a little bit of seeds, so at that time, he only planted about one mu of strawberries.

Even so, the three of them picked all the ripe strawberries, and there were as many as seven or eight baskets.

Cover each basket with banana leaves, put the baskets neatly on the flatbed, and the three of them are ready to go.

Su Yu had thought about it before. There were no plastic bags in ancient times, so what to use when selling strawberries.

In Gushui Town, Su Yu also paid attention to this problem.

In this day and age, people who go out to buy vegetables always carry a basket with them to hold all kinds of items they buy.

But strawberries are different from ordinary items. They can't stand being squeezed, and they will rot if they are squeezed a little.

Su Yu remembered what he had seen on the street in his previous life. Those selling strawberries with their carts would always get a small delicate basket to hold the strawberries, which looked nice.

I asked Jiang Qi, and got an answer that surprised Su Yu, he could weave bamboo baskets.

Bamboo is the most indispensable thing on this mountain. Su Yu and Jiang Qi chopped down a few bamboo trees, and then chopped them into bamboo strips, and weaved them into delicate bamboo baskets.

This is not difficult at all, Su Yu watched Jiang Qi make up two, and she learned it by herself.

Because the bamboo basket weaved was about the size of Jiang Qi's two palms, it didn't take a lot of time.

Su Yu and Jiang Qi have woven hundreds of small bamboo baskets in the past half a month.

These bamboo baskets were not worth much, Su Yu planned to give these bamboo baskets to strawberry buyers when selling strawberries.

Of course, Su Yu is not someone who will suffer, and she also set the price of strawberries very cheaply.

When the three of them came to the town, it was still early, and not half of the people who set up stalls in the market had come.

After finding a place and setting it up, the three of Su Yu sat behind the flatbed cart, took banana leaves from a bamboo basket, and waited for the first customer to come.

Not long after, the number of people in the market gradually increased. Some people showed curiosity when they saw the strawberries on the flatbed cart. No one had seen such a thing before, and they all came forward to ask what it was.

"Sister, what is this? It looks so pretty." The aunt who thought she was about forty walked to the flatbed and asked Su Yu, pointing at the strawberry.

Su Yu smiled sweetly, "Ma'am, this is a strawberry, a kind of fruit."

"Yo, the name sounds really nice, how do you eat it?" the aunt continued to ask.

"It's ready to eat after washing. Do you want to buy some?"

"How did you sell it?" The aunt hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Twenty Wen a catty." Su Yu said with a smile.

When the aunt heard the price, she was speechless immediately. It was too expensive. She shook her head and left immediately.

Su Yu looked at the back of the aunt leaving, feeling a little sorry, but she had no plans to lower the price.

In this era, one tael of silver is equal to ten qian and silver is equal to one thousand Wen, and one penny can buy a steamed bun.

In terms of conversion, one penny is equivalent to fifty cents in modern times, and the Su language asks for twenty cents a catty of strawberries, which is ten yuan per catty, which is really not expensive.

This is not expensive, but Su Yu himself thinks that if you look at the comings and goings, people who only ask the price but don't buy it will know that they all think it is expensive.

(End of this chapter)