The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The old man was a big shot, but the old man was a big shot.

In ancient times, when it comes to highly profitable industries, salt, iron, trade, banks and winemaking are naturally indispensable.

Salt and iron are the lifeblood of the court, and the government controls them, so Gu Liang naturally can't get involved at all. As for foreign trade in silk and tea and opening banks, Gu Liang's current level is not enough. The only thing left is a hidden wine.

In ancient times, private brewing was often prohibited because it would consume a lot of grain. Some dynasties even allowed only brewing and selling for tax purposes.

Most of the wine in ancient China was low-proof rice wine and yellow wine, so Li Bai wrote "cooking cattle and slaughtering sheep for fun, I must drink three hundred cups at a time"; Shi Daoji wrote "I want to lie beside the jar with Bi Zhuo, I ask you to find another thirty bowls"; Li Qingzhao wrote "Don't let the cup be too deep and the amber thick, the mood will melt before I get drunk";

If it were white wine, Li Qingzhao would have said "I like the bitter round tea more when the wine is finished, and the fragrance of Ruinao is better when the dream is over" after one cup.

Gu Liang clearly remembered that white wine belongs to distilled wine, and the technology of distilled wine was brought back from Central Asia by the Mongolian westward expedition. However, the Yuan Dynasty did not appear in this era, which means that the technology of distilled wine had not yet appeared, and white wine had not yet been born.

Gu Liang thought about it and couldn't sleep all night. Now that he has given up collecting herbs, persimmon cakes can only be made for a few months a year, but this wine can be made and sold all year round, and more importantly, this wine is drunk by people everywhere.

The next morning, Gu Liang rushed back home from Xu's house, and didn't even eat breakfast at Xu's house. You know, Xu's house has meat every meal, and breakfast is not the monotonous brown rice porridge like Gu's.

Before Gu Liang entered the house, he was startled by the sound of firecrackers coming from the next door. It's not the New Year yet, why did the next door family set off firecrackers? Gu Liang turned around and asked his second aunt Li with doubts. Old Mrs. Gu was not at home, and the only one who was most informed in the family was his second aunt.

Second aunt was cutting pig grass at this time. When she saw Gu Liang, she hurriedly asked him how he stayed at Xu's house last night, and whether his bed was bigger than ours.

Gu Liang didn't answer Second Aunt's question. Who said that the richer you are, the bigger your bed. Continue to ask what happened in the next door family, why buy firecrackers if it's not a festival.

Li told Gu Liang what happened in the next door house in the past two days. It turned out that Mrs. Wu's nephew came back from the city these two days. He said that he had made a big business in the city and was going to bring Mrs. Wu's family to the city to do business together. In the future, they will be city people and no longer have to face the loess and back to the sky.

Li continued, "Look at the situation next door. Since she knew that she was about to follow her nephew to the city, Mrs. Wu's tail was about to rise to the sky, and she even set off firecrackers for no reason. Your grandma couldn't bear to see Mrs. Wu's face of a villain, so she took a bag of persimmons and went to the village to talk nonsense early in the morning."

"Oh, second aunt, if Mrs. Wu moves to the city, what will happen to her family's fields?"

"I don't know about this. Mrs. Wu didn't say it when she was showing off. What's wrong, nephew, are you going to buy land?" As an ordinary rural woman, Mrs. Li instinctively thought that the money she made should be used to buy land.

Gu Liang shook his head, indicating that he would not buy land.

Buying land at this time is the most unprofitable. After all, it is a peaceful time now, the situation is good and the harvest is good, and the price of land has also risen accordingly. An acre of land costs at least a few taels of silver, and the key is that people are still unwilling to sell it, thinking it is a loss. It is time to buy land when there is a famine.

So Gu Liang is not interested in the land of Mrs. Wu, but her house and foundation. Because there is only Mrs. Wu next door to Gu's family, and there are no people but fields in the past. If you take over Mrs. Wu's house, you will have a place to make wine, and you can build a wall in the house to distill wine without worrying about others seeing it.

At lunch, Gu Liang told his idea and asked Mrs. Wu next door if they were going to move to the city and if they were going to sell their land.

At first, Old Man Gu thought that Gu Liang had the idea of ​​buying Mrs. Wu's land, and his mind became active all of a sudden. It happened that the family had some spare money this year, so it would be better to buy a few acres of good land so that they could have dry rice every meal next year.

When Old Lady Gu heard this question, she mentioned that the daughter-in-law of the village head said that when she was chatting with her, she said that Old Lady Wu had come to their house, and it seemed that they were talking about selling land.

After Old Lady Gu said this, Gu Changan, Gu Changping, Chen, and Li immediately urged Old Man Gu to buy land. While the family had some spare money, they could buy it early and choose a good piece of land.

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However, Gu Liang quickly said that he must not buy the land, otherwise he would lose money. If Gu Liang said that he could not buy the land half a year ago, no one would listen to him, but now his words are also very important in the Gu family.

Seeing that Gu Liang's attitude was so firm, several people hurriedly asked Gu Liang what he meant. Didn't he ask whether Old Lady Wu would sell the land?

Gu Liang had no words to say at this time. He couldn't say that there would be a disaster in two years, and the land bought now would be worthless in two years. It was too absurd to say it now. How could a child like him know what would happen in two years? No one would believe it.

So Gu Liang changed his mind and said that he wanted to buy Old Lady Wu's house instead of paddy fields.

As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly became cold, and everyone's face changed. Especially Old Man Gu, his face suddenly became gloomy. And Old Lady Gu's face was not very good, as if she had heard something infuriating.

After a long silence, Gu Liang's mother Chen finally reacted and said apologetically: "Dad, Mom, it's really not us who taught Gu Liang. He is still young and doesn't understand these. Changping and I really don't mean to split up and move out!"

Now it was Gu Liang's turn to be confused. He just wanted to buy the house of Old Lady Wu, how could it be linked to the division of the family.

At this moment, the faces of Old Man Gu and Old Lady Gu were still gloomy, because in their eyes, the division of the family was a big deal, and in the eyes of outsiders, it was the discord in the Gu family, and it had reached the point of the brothers Ni Qiang. Moreover, the two old people can still work in the fields, and the youngest son has not yet started a family. If the family is divided, it will become a joke of the entire Lanxi Village.

And the child said such words, most of which were probably said by his parents behind his back, so the old man and his wife were so angry.

Li on the side hurriedly tried to smooth things over. Her sister-in-law has always been hardworking and diligent in her work, and she doesn't care about gains and losses. Although Li was lazy and cunning in small matters, she was very clear about big things. If the family really wanted to be divided, it should be instigated by people like her. How could it be honest people like my brother and sister-in-law?

Li comforted the old man Gu and said, "Dad and mother, listen to what Gu Liang said. Maybe there is a misunderstanding. My brother and sister-in-law have always been honest. The separation of the family must not be planned by them behind the scenes."

So everyone focused their attention on Gu Liang again. Gu Liang was also scared just now. He had never seen the old man Gu so angry, so he didn't explain immediately.

After Gu Liang repeated his thoughts and explained why he bought Mrs. Wu's house, everyone realized that it was a misunderstanding. But it's not their fault for misunderstanding. Buying someone else's house for no reason makes people think of moving out alone.