Farming with Taobao - C38

Chapter 38 The Road to Well-off (14)

The three Li siblings stayed at the Zhang family’s residence for the night. Originally, Zhang Yaomei wanted to keep them there for a while longer, but building a house was more important.

However, the three of them were not the only ones returning to the Li Village this time, there was also Zhang Da Bao who was heading back to the village with them. With the excuse of working in the village, he planned to go to the town to find a suitable shop for Li Yannian to do business for him and also Little Uncle Zhang Sibao who was carrying the food guy. Zhang Sibao thought that he would go out sooner or later anyways, so he decided to go with Black Bean and his sister.

When they arrived at Li Village, they split up. Zhang Bao not even told his little brother that he wanted to open a shop for his niece, so Zhang Sibao had always thought that he was just going to Du Jia Village to work. He was even happy to tell him to bring a bottle of osmanthus oil for his wife the next time he returned home.

Zhang Bao didn’t say anything and waved goodbye to the others. Carrying a bag on his back, he walked on the road looking extremely heavy, with a faint sense of desolation.

Li Yannian shook her head in amusement. It would be difficult for the First Uncle and the others to understand how to earn money. After all, it had been centuries since they had last seen the Treasure Shop.

Li Yannian paid special attention to this when she was in the Du Jia Village. As the Du Jia Village was an important business town, a home of the Du Family, all the merchants from various places would come here to buy and sell their goods, the majority of the money earned by the shops in the town was from these merchants, and the share of purchasing power that really fell onto the ordinary citizens was not very prominent.

Originally, she wanted to see what kind of skills the Du Jia Village had to do with this business, to prevent the amount of money they had in the future from becoming too much, and to attract suspicion. But after causing trouble for the Huichun Hall, Li Yannian still wanted to stay in the Du Jia Village and get a share of the Du Family’s spoils. It was obviously impossible.

As a second choice, she set her eyes on the Du and Gu Families’ shared shore and pier.

People ate like the sky. Whichever generation or generation it was placed in, it was an eternally immutable truth. With the information he got from Black Bean, Li Yannian felt that the people in the town could no longer support an upscale restaurant. As for the middle section, it already had the Gu family’s third young master’s restaurant, and it was doing quite well. After all, with the large amount of rice noodles that the Gu family had bought as a base, the prices of the food in the restaurant were not high. Ordinary people would be merciless, but they would also be willing to occasionally treat members of the Gu family’s restaurant to a meal.

The higher the better, the more saturated the market they were in, the better. The only high ground Li Yannian could occupy, was the market, which was actually a huge place for him to stay.

These kinds of people had great strength and consumed a lot of energy every day. Usually, in order to save money, some brought black flour, steamed buns, mixed grains, and some were willing to buy food from nearby shops, but they could only earn enough to eat. Those who were willing to spend money like this were mostly the type who were single, who ate their fill while their families were not hungry.

Facing such a potential market, Li Yannian could totally imagine what would happen after her Three Coins food filled small restaurant was opened, and she was afraid that there would be a lot of people coming to eat.

But here?

Black Bean had told Li Yannian before that when Shangguan Family collected the rent and taxes, they did it based on the amount of money they earned. After the entire family paid the taxes, there wasn’t much left over for them to eat. However, if she wanted to go to a grain store, the price of rice would soar all the way up to twenty cents a game. That was to say, for the same Three Coins, Li Yannian could buy two to three hundred kilograms of rice from the system when she replaced them with gold. Not only was it much cheaper than buying the rice here, the quality of the rice was also much higher.

After all, the rice in the grain depot was famous for its three liters of white rice.

Then, with the copper coins she earned from the small restaurant, she would continue to convert them into gold and then buy rice for the system. With such a virtuous cycle, not only would she silently make a fortune, she would also be able to help out these laborers.

Li Yannian was laughing foolishly to herself, when she was hit on the back of her head by Little Uncle. Although she did not use much strength, it was still enough to scare Li Yannian.

“What are you thinking, Red Bean? Laughing, I didn’t even make a sound at all. ”

Seeing Zhang Sibao’s curious face, Li Yannian chuckled, pretending to be mysterious, and extended his hand, gesturing for him to come over to talk.

Zhang Sibao had originally asked casually, but now, he completely piqued his curiosity and carefully walked over. He didn’t expect Li Yannian to whisper in his ear, “Little Uncle, do you really want to know?”

Li Yannian: “Hehe, I won’t tell you!”

Zhang Sibao:…

Black Bean tried his best to hold back his laughter, pointed at Old house, who was not far from collapsing, and intentionally changed the topic: “Little Uncle, if we continue walking forward, we will arrive soon.”

Zhang Sibao who had been humiliated wanted to reply, because he was not blind. Who could not see the vast wasteland in front of him? Besides, they already came here before, okay?

However, after thinking about it, he held back and nodded: “Yes, I saw it.”

Mao Dou looked at this, then at that, and then scratched his head helplessly. What were his brothers and sisters talking about with the Little Uncle?

Fortunately, they quickly reached their destination. Knowing that there was no place for business in their house, Zhang Sibao shamelessly followed his nephews to the neighboring Li Clan to eat.

With one more person to eat at home, Auntie Li did not say anything. Although there was nothing good to eat in the farmers’ houses, their food was always good, so they did not feel nervous if there was one more person.

From a certain point of view, Zhang Sibao could also be considered to have eaten a lot. Not only was he able to chat happily with the Eastern Family’s short Auntie Li, he was even able to rely on his lunch hour to become sworn brothers with the silent Uncle Li. He had truly shown Li Yannian what it meant to talk when you see someone, what the hell would you say when you see someone, the skill of dancing with long sleeves.

Auntie Li obviously liked the young lad from Zhang Jia Village. When he found out that he was planning to sleep in Li siblings at night, Auntie Li’s face immediately darkened to express his opposition: “How can they live in that burning house? There wasn’t even a bed, and the blanket was stolen by a thief. How could you sleep there in such a cold weather? Listening to Aunt, you still stay in Aunt’s house, so you should sleep in the same room as Black Bean. Aunt will find a pillow for you in a while. ”

Zhang Sibao immediately stopped her, and explained while laughing: “I appreciate Aunt’s good intentions. In the afternoon, when all our people are here, a lot of people, it’s not right for me to live alone in my aunt’s house. I can’t stay in my aunt’s house. “Aunt, don’t be polite with me. We are all rough people, not as delicate as children. We build a shed in front of the house, and we all sleep together on the big shared bed with the kang burning underneath. It won’t freeze us, Aunt, don’t worry.”

The Auntie Li wanted to advise him otherwise, but she only heard the Uncle Li puffing on his pipe and slowly said, “Four Bao brothers are right. If you tell him to sleep with us, it won’t be good for him to talk to those brothers. He is, after all, the uncle who is closest to Black Bean and the others, and can’t break it apart no matter what.

Zhang Sibao quickly continued: “That’s exactly what I said. Those who forge iron cannot get on the brick bed, and those who burn cannot get on the table. There is a line of rules that cannot be broken.”

Seeing that they had all said it like that, Auntie Li could only give up. However, she was still worried: “Then Brother Little Zhang, when you have finished setting up your shed, can Aunt give you two blankets? “I can see that you can’t wrap anything up with your bundle.”

Zhang Sibao laughed and said: “No need, no need, at night, a lot of men will sleep on the hot brick bed. “Aunty, don’t worry. If it’s really cold, I’ll ask you again for a blanket.”

He didn’t know what else to say. A bunch of men were as dirty as mud monkeys after finishing their day’s work. Even if they used the quilt, they wouldn’t be able to clean it if they smashed it with a club. His family knew about this, so they rolled up the quilt and returned with it. When he brought it home, his wife would soak it in soap for half a day before washing it off. It meant that it would be a bit clean and he would use it again when he returned to his host’s house.

He wouldn’t be willing to bring out such a good blanket and ruin it.

Black Bean took the opportunity to say: “Aunt, just listen to Little Uncle, he is also a straightforward person, and is not faking politeness with you, Aunt.”

Li Yannian also laughed: “That’s right, Aunt. If you truly care for my Little Uncle, then just cook properly and don’t save up for me. Only when you have eaten your fill will you have the strength to work.”

Auntie Li was amused. “Sure! It’s not like I have money, so of course I don’t feel bad. Brother Little Zhang, wait until the house moves, aunty will cook good food for you. You will have strength every day after eating the bag. ”

Zhang Sibao laughed honestly: “Alright, Aunt, with your cooking skills, even my wife wouldn’t be able to catch up. Let alone making delicious foods, even if I ate wild herbs, I would still be able to.”

Everyone in the room was amused. The Auntie Li even patted her chest and said, “Cooking wild vegetables is too cheap. Just you wait, Aunty will cook for you all at once. Tomorrow, I’ll go and order a pig for you.”

Everyone laughed. Uncle Li saw that she was becoming more and more confused, and even fixed his pig, villagers had already killed almost all of the New Year meat, even if he was rich, there would still have to be someone to raise his from home! He did not expect Li Yannian to take it for real, and continued: “That’s fine.”

Uncle Li had a headache, but if his wife were to let this matter go, even if he were to kneel down, he would definitely take it back, “I really don’t have this.”

Mao Dou raised his head at this moment, his eyes rolling around. He said naively, “Uncle Li, Li Zheng still has pigs to sell. There really is one.”

Uncle Li looked at Li Yannian’s face which instantly lit up, and his wife who only knew better, covering her mouth and not saying anything. He sighed, looks like this really had to happen.

Fine, let’s go to Qingfeng’s house tomorrow. At least let him pay a bit more cheaply.