Farming with Taobao - C39

Chapter 39 The Road to Well-off (15)

The Uncle Li had really brought back a pig for Black Bean and the others. The helpers who had arrived at the Li Village in the afternoon were simply going crazy.

Other than Zhang Sibao’s master, who was around 40 years old, who other than him, who else wouldn’t have the strength to be a thief, a young man? This was the moment when everyone felt that they couldn’t eat their fill, and when they found out that a few small bosses had prepared a whole pig for them, they couldn’t stop grinning in joy. If it wasn’t for the fact that tomorrow was the official start of the construction, they would have immediately pushed the Li Family’s broken house to the ground and covered it up.

The helpers, who had originally planned to rest for the whole afternoon, put up the grass huts first. Now, they were no longer in a hurry to sleep at night. They looked around the old house one by one, trying to figure out how to build it better.

When Zhang Sibao saw his brothers that were full of energy, the pain in his heart also disappeared. Ye Zichen couldn’t help but sigh. This group of people with shallow eyes had all been bribed by a pig.

Li Yannian was not surprised at all by this result. Since sshe wanted the horses to run, he had to let them eat their fill first. Moreover, during this period of building houses, they had to eat and live in Auntie Li’s house, giving others more benefits.

Moreover, a pig was just an exaggeration, it was truly not expensive. The Li Zheng only sold them one pig for less than seven hundred gold. Unlike the modern era, the people here preferred to eat mutton, while the lower class citizens would only buy pork for their food. Country people usually felled their cattle and chopped firewood while cutting some pig grass, and then cooked it with wheat bran and rice bran to feed their pigs. After raising it for half a year, it was only a little bit, which was very far from the modern era’s four or five hundred kilograms. Raising a pig took time and effort. If it wasn’t for the fact that there was a lot of labour in the family and they had a lot of spare time, not many people would be willing to raise a pig.

Li Yannian thought that when the system levelled up in the future, she would also encourage the villagers to raise pigs. With the environment and breeding methods here, she reckoned that the pork meat would be sold at a high price just like the eggs that were previously sold.

The Li Family three siblings’s side was extremely busy with building houses, so naturally, the heart of the villagers’s idle chatter these days couldn’t escape from it. As the few wives sat in front of the door under the sun, the more virtuous families would have to eat winter melons, which were also watermelons, and the melon seeds they had saved up. They could talk about the matters of Li siblings for an entire afternoon just by talking about it.

Some said that the Old Li Family’s punishment for the Li Family’s second house was as such, but there were also those who excitedly pulled everyone’s strings to guess who stole the items from the Li Family’s children. There were also those who were curious as to why the Li Family’s three siblings suddenly became rich, who asked him to buy pigs, and who built a house.

Every time this happened, the expression on the face of Black Bean’s Eldest Aunt, Wang Xiumei, would turn very strange. Everyone only thought that she was feeling uncomfortable after hearing that the three children in the second house would live better than he did. After all, the major chamber had given them money to build a new house. With Wang Xiumei’s sharp personality, taking money from her was no different from taking a knife to cut her flesh.

One of them, who usually went against Wang Xiumei, intentionally used this as a conversation topic. One sentence, where did the Li siblings’s house go to today, and one sentence, in the end, came from a house with a grandma and an outsider helping it out. The yellow mud used by the villagers to build a house, they used the green brick and jade tiles that were shipped from the town.

Wang Xiumei always listened to him for a while before she disinterestedly carried away her half-finished shoes. Everyone had always thought that she was narrow-minded and petty. Who would have known that she was the one who couldn’t listen to what was happening with three siblings the most? However, it wasn’t for anything else but purely a guilty conscience.

Ever since their parents forced them to return Li Hongshan’s land, and even forced them to spit out the silver, Li Qingshan and Wang Xiumei had been holding back their anger. They wanted to go to Black Bean’s house to cause trouble, but were afraid of angering their father, so they turned around and broke their legs. It’s not a hassle, it’s not going to end well for me right here in my heart. “” No, no.

The couple thought about it for a long time. Even if they couldn’t live their days, they still had to add fuel to the fire. Since it wasn’t possible to do it in broad daylight, he decided to do it in the dark. The couple had been silently rubbing their hands, waiting for an opportunity. They didn’t think that the opportunity would arrive so soon. Black Bean brought the two red beans and an ox cart to the town, but no one came back until night.

It was really a nap, but someone had delivered a pillow to him. The couple immediately went to Black Bean’s house with a kitchen knife in hand, kicked the door latch loose, and entered the house to search around the kitchen under the bed. They thought that these kids would not take all that money with them, as they would not run around the house.

In the end, he didn’t find anything. The two of them were infuriated. They had been busy the entire night, yet they hadn’t even managed to get a single copper coin.

The couple thought that they couldn’t come here for nothing. They immediately plundered everything that was worth a bit of money from Black Bean’s family. It was too dark to be seen clearly. When the two sneakily returned home, they lit an oil lamp to see what they had stolen.

New thick quilts, white rice, and jars full of oil and salt!

Li Qingshan was stupefied. In his entire life, he had never seen such good rice. These three brats were actually using his money so recklessly!

Wang Xiumei was the same as well, gritting her teeth in hatred. “This isn’t the way to go even if you have money. We’ll go sue them tomorrow and see if Mother won’t break their legs.”

Li Qingshan tilted his head and roared at her: “Are you stupid?! “If you tell Dad about the stolen goods, he’ll know about it. The first one to break your legs!”

The couple was furious and resentful. They were so angry that they didn’t get a good night’s sleep. He was still trying to think of a way to get rid of the children of his second brother’s family. He didn’t expect that the next morning, the village would ring a gong to gather everyone at the grain sunning ground.

When he arrived at the village, he saw Li Zheng and a few of the village’s uncles leading the way. The first few words he said sounded like gentle rain, but later on he said that there were people in the village who didn’t want to be thieves and even stole from parentless children. The more Li Qingshan and her wife heard about this, the more they felt that something was off. They looked at each other in fear, as if they were talking about the two of them.

Li Qingshan thought, but he just took back something that should originally be his own home, Lizheng was also muddleheaded, he even helped the few kids in the second house by making a big fuss over nothing.

Li Qingshan didn’t expect that when he passed through the crowd and looked straight at him, his heart skipped a beat. Looking at his expression, it seemed like he thought he was that thief.

He suddenly felt guilty. Seeing that his wife’s face was completely pale from fright, he quickly dragged her and ran towards his home in a panic.

However, Li Qingfeng’s voice came from behind them, “No matter who is caught as a thief next time, after cutting off their fingers and chasing them out of the village, Li Village will not accept this kind of shameless person.”

“Yes, drive out of the village.”

“That’s what we should do, otherwise we won’t be able to sleep at night!”

villagers’s angry words could still be heard. This time, Wang Xiumei was truly frightened, and every time she heard someone talk about the bed and the basket of dishes, she would feel a burst of fear.

Although she kept comforting herself that she had already sewed the old blanket to death and Third Mother’s basket had already been burnt to ashes, no one would be able to realise that she was the one who stole Black Bean’s family. At night, she would even be woken up by nightmares. When she dreamt that she had been caught, Lizheng and the clan uncles would drag her to the ancestral hall to cut off their fingers …

After all, Li Qingshan was a man. He was more daring, and was afraid for a period of time. They had been hiding their stolen rice and not daring to eat it. Furthermore, from the look of fear on their faces, their wife, Wang Xiumei, was probably not in the mood to eat it. As time passed, the things that he had stolen would become a scourge if they remained at home. Thus, when his family members were not paying attention, Li Qingshan secretly took the opportunity to take out a bag of rice and sold it to the Du Jia Village for a cheap price. Even though it was only seven or eight kilograms, he was only able to sell it for about a dozen gold.

What a fine rice, and he didn’t even have a taste for it.

Coincidentally, Li Qingshan was selling this little bit of rice on the Gu family’s rice store. The shopkeeper, Hu You, had been doing business for many years and had mastered a pair of Fiery Eyes of Truth. With one glance, he could tell that this bag of rice was not normal, so he immediately put it in at a low price.

However, Li Qingshan stammered out some vague words, sometimes saying that it was given by someone else, and sometimes saying that it was his family’s younger generation who planted the best food to honor his. When Hu You Lai heard this, he immediately knew that there was an article in it. He got the underling to give him money, and at the same time, he signaled for people to follow him and find out who this person who sold rice was.

The reason Hu You Lai was so interested in the bag of rice was also because the third young master of his family mainly ran the restaurant. At the restaurant, as its name implied, rice was the most important part. If you can get such fine and fine rice at a low price, then the cost of using rice at the restaurant will be reduced.

The shop assistant quickly found out the news, Li Qingshan was just a country bumpkin, he did not have that much of a wariness towards people, and was not that smart either. The shop assistant only chatted with him for a short while, before they found out everything about him.

When Hu You Lai heard that Li Qingshan was merely a stocky fellow who had lived and eaten in the Li Village for generations, he could not help but be a little disappointed. He was familiar with the little village in Li Village. Every year, when the rent was collected, he would go to the door with the officials to check and decide on the price. The rice planted by the Li Village was even better at farming, with only medium rice growing. The grains were not very full, and the yield was low.

For a grain like this, the Gu family could only buy it at a low price from the official warehouse. Along with the medium and high rice, it was mixed with the rice that was sold in the rice store. The market price was also not high.

Li Yannian did not expect the bag of rice that she had lost at home to cause such a ruckus in Du Jia Village. For the past half month, she had been so focused on her bridal chamber that she forgot to prepare even the Xuan paper that she had arranged with the Gu family’s Bookstore. Only when the shop assistant came to ask for the goods did Li Yannian react.

Fortunately, Auntie Li and Uncle Li had been helping out at the bridal chamber for the past few days, so there were no outsiders in the house. Li Yannian made the servant sit in the living room for a while, then quickly bought the remaining Xuan paper. She tore it down and destroyed it, but fortunately, she did not move slowly, and quickly packed the Xuan paper and allowed the servant to carry it away.

As expected, the young lord of the Gu family couldn’t resist the huge profit of being sent to his door for free. He agreed to all of her conditions, not to mention that he even arranged to send some servants to pick up the goods on the eighth and twentieth day of the month.

Looking at the newly acquired gold ingots, Li Yannian couldn’t help but to let out a satisfied smile.

Dear Taobao system, just wait for me to throw gold at you next month!