Farming with Taobao - C7

CHAPTER VII INITIATING THE LITERATURE TARGET OF PROGRESS (1)

Calming himself down, Li Yannian said to Black Bean: “Since there’s still some fire in the kitchen, let’s burn the outer packaging of the rice and blankets.”

She pointed to the two items on the floor, the non-woven cloth and the plastic bags. They were all foreign objects of this era, and if anyone saw them, they wouldn’t be able to explain it.

Black Bean had wanted to ask what these bags were made of, but they were so exquisite that they were hard and colorful, not to mention exquisite.

But after thinking about it, he endured it and did not ask. He took the big basket of forage leaf s and poured the rice into it. Fortunately, the vegetable basket was woven so that not even a single grain of rice could escape from it.

Intrigued, Mao Dou reached out to touch the big bag of rice. The one outside was rough (nylon woven bag), but the one inside was slippery (transparent plastic bag). It was something he had never seen before, and he couldn’t bear to burn it.

“Sis, did all of these really burn up in the stove in the stronghold?”

“Mmm, it will be a little stinky when I burn it later. I have no choice now, we’ll talk about it in the future.”

Mao Dou could only give up the thought of collecting them, and buried his head to help Li Yannian “destroy the corpse and erase the evidence”.

At this moment, Black Bean’s eyes landed on the delivery slip wrapped around the blanket. He curiously touched it and started to tear off a small piece of the slip, only then did he confirm that the thing in front of him was really made of paper. He looked at Li Yannian with a gaze that wanted to say something but hesitated.

“Er Niu, you’re going to burn this as well?”

Li Yannian nodded her head, the delivery slip was typed in simplified form, there was no use in keeping it.

Black Bean had a pained expression on his face: “This is made of paper, it costs a lot of money.”

Li Yannian was moved when she heard it.

As she unwrapped the blanket, she asked Black Bean: “How much money does this town need for a piece of paper? Brother, tell me, I have uses for it.”

Black Bean did not know the reason, and recalled to answer: “I heard that one needs to use money on a piece of paper, and it would be even more expensive at the beginning, a thousand and eight hundred gold. But now, there are a lot of paper, so it’s really cheap.”

Sigh, if she had known that paper could be sold at such a high price, she would have saved up some money to buy some half-cooked Xuan paper!

Li Yannian was a little regretful. This place usually had more than eight hundred gold, she remembered this fact. The usual amount of money was not in fact the same as in the field. There was a fixed number of one thousand, but in reality there were frequent changes, sometimes close to one thousand, sometimes less than seven hundred. But generally speaking, money could be exchanged for one tael of silver, one tael was 16 taels of silver, and one tael was about 37.375 grams.

However, Taobao’s previous price of four pieces of silver was only four pieces of silver. If there was a brand premium, then there was also a price of seven to eight pieces of silver to several thousand pieces of silver. However, according to the original value of the silver, a single piece of silver here, regardless of its quality, would cost approximately one hundred and fifty pieces of silver.

However, it was different from the modern era. The ratio of gold and silver here was only one to six. Six taels of silver could be used to exchange for one tael of gold. However, on Taobao, the gold price would be almost 300 yuan per gram after the brand’s premium was removed. The gold and silver ratio would be as high as one to seventy yuan.

Li Yannian’s mind was spinning very quickly, when a light suddenly flashed past. She couldn’t hold on to the bag for a moment, so she hurriedly stopped her actions of opening it.

Black Bean saw her strange expression, and was about to speak, but instead saw Li Yannian smacking herself on the forehead, “Why am I so stupid, what a great way to earn money, I didn’t even think of it!”

That loud voice, even Black Bean felt pain for her. Although he did not know what she was vexed about, but he believed that with the Bodhisattva watching over the girl, he would not be able to earn all the money. It was obviously his responsibility to support his family. When her sister woke up from his illness, she acted like she was a different person, putting all her effort into carrying on.

Black Bean was a little worried, and couldn’t help but remind her: “It’s better for you to be sick, since there’s food and clothes at home, don’t be anxious about those things that don’t exist, just focus on recovering.”

Li Yannian could hear the deep concern in his voice, and laughed: “Brother, don’t worry, I know.”

Then he went back to his bed. Li Yannian tidied up the tattered blanket that the siblings had covered previously and used it as a cushion. If this bed was made thick, it would be very warm. After that, the newly bought students were refreshed, resulting in them being too greedy, causing half of the blanket to droop to the ground. Li Yannian had no choice but to fold off the blanket again and pull it away when he was about to sleep.

Mao Dou had already finished burning the fire, and seeing that there was a new blanket on the bed, his face was filled with joy. He wanted to reach out to touch the bed, but he was afraid that his hands would be dirty and break the blanket.

However, even if he couldn’t get a hold of the blanket, Mao Dou could not hold in his excitement. He smiled happily at Black Bean, “Brother, we have a new blanket to sleep on tonight!”

Black Bean replied as he looked at the bed, his face filled with excitement.

Mao Dou ran in front of Li Yannian as if he was offering a treasure. He held her hand and covered his mouth as he laughed, “Sis, we have a new blanket to take care of tonight!”

This time, the siblings could not hold it in any longer and burst out in laughter.

Black Bean looked like he couldn’t do anything to him, he rubbed Mao Dou’s little head and said, “Look at how cocky you are.”

However, Li Yannian pushed Mao Dou onto the bed and bared her teeth as she laughed, “Ah Dou, there’s no need to wait for the night. You’ll have a new blanket to sleep under now.”

At first, Mao Dou did not dare move, afraid that he would dirty the blanket, but after Li Yannian scratched his body a few times, she could no longer stretch his body even if she wanted to.

“So soft, Sis. This blanket is too comfortable, it’s even warm!” Brother, Sis, you guys come up too. It’s so warm.

It was a cold winter, and the brick bed wasn’t hot. There was only an eight-kilogram bed. It would be a joke to say that the bed was covered with hot sweat. However, neither of the brother nor sister laughed, nor did they expose him. Black Bean turned his body to wipe the corner of his eyes, and then followed Li Yannian to get into bed, one on the left and one on the right.

Mao Dou slept between his older brother and sister, looking from left to right, his body warm and his heart warm. Ever since his parents died, he had never been as happy and happy as he was now.

Mao Dou held the quilt close to his face and carefully rubbed it against his face. This quilt was really soft, as soft as a cloud floating in the sky. Bodhisattva is so good, to give sister such a good thing. He let out a long sigh of satisfaction. In the end, it was just a child that was tired quickly and had no worries. It only took a while for him to close his eyes and sleep soundly.

This winter, it was the first time Black Bean covered himself with a blanket. He excitedly touched his bed, which was still rather plentiful, and under the assault of the unfamiliar warmth, he actually couldn’t hold back his sleepiness.

Hearing the long and short breaths, Li Yannian’s body finally warmed up a little, but when she woke up in the morning, she could not sleep at all, so she opened her eyes and started looking through her books silently.