Take Taobao to ancient times

Everyone in the village knew that Lu Siyu's family had sold all their sweet potatoes, and they also knew that this item was a rare item with a particularly high yield, but they didn't know how much the sweet potatoes were sold for this time.

Both the uncle and the second uncle’s family received 240 taels of silver each, so much money was definitely not a small income for them, but after getting the money, they didn’t spend a lot of money, they just took the fragmentary 40 taels of silver as expenses.

But that's the case, 40 taels of silver is not a lot.

"The scholar's uncle and the second uncle's family are really lucky. How did such a good thing happen to them?"

"That is, if you want me to say that the son of Xiucai's family is still smart, since the couple of Xiucai left, the son of his family has become smarter, selling charcoal and tofu, and now selling sweet potatoes again, Don't you want to get rich?"

"Hey, have you heard? It is said that the imperial court wants to buy a large amount of sweet potatoes, and it costs a penny a catty."

"One penny and one catty, is there such a good thing?"

"Let me tell you, don't tell it. My aunt-in-law's nephew has acquaintances in the county. They say that many counties have distributed sweet potatoes, and they will buy as many as they grow."

"I've heard about it too, but I heard from people in other villages that they still envy us. They say that their village doesn't get much sweet potatoes, unlike us, almost every household gets a lot of sweet potatoes. At that time, it can be sold for a good price.”

"Oh, this is a great thing. When I saw them digging up the sweet potato fields, there were at least several thousand catties of sweet potatoes in the field. If they can really sell for a penny a catty, they will make a lot of money."

"It's my fault that I'm not well-informed. No, I have to go home and take care of it. If I produce a catty, I will get an extra penny. Such a good thing can't be missed."

"That's right, I have to go back and take care of it."

The people in Lujia Village used to be very diligent in growing sweet potatoes, but Lu Siyu found that they have become more and more diligent recently.

"Uncle, do you know what's going on?"

"The news from above has come down, saying that this season's sweet potatoes will be charged as much as one cent per catty, and you can make money. Of course, everyone is in a good mood," the uncle said with a smile, probably because he has already pinched a lot of money, so I don't have much emotion about this, "Everyone says that even if you harvest only half of the sweet potatoes, you can make a lot of money, let alone one season, so they are all very motivated."

"So that's the case, so isn't the field more expensive now?" Lu Siyu thought about the prices of those fields. The price of paddy fields had been high before, and the price of the second-class fields was relatively lower.

If you don't choose the land to grow sweet potatoes, the price of the field will definitely rise.

"Who says it's not, but it's been a while, some people want to buy but no one sells it. If you grow it yourself, you can earn a few cars for an acre of land. What are you selling? By the way, some people just fill it in. We grow sweet potatoes in the paddy fields." The uncle said with emotion, probably not expecting that someone would be willing to fill in the paddy fields to grow sweet potatoes.

"It's a waste to grow sweet potatoes in water fields." Lu Siyu whispered.

It’s not that growing sweet potatoes is bad, but paddy fields are the most suitable for growing rice. After planting sweet potatoes, the nutrients in the soil will be lost to some extent, but farmers grow food to fill their stomachs. If they can fill their stomachs, it’s okay to fill paddy fields and grow sweet potatoes .

"Isn't this for living?" Uncle sighed, "Many families have only a few acres of land and no money left. At least this time it is clearly stipulated that one season of sweet potatoes should be harvested. If one mu of land can grow three or four thousand catties, then There are also three or four taels of silver, which is much more than before."

"That's true," Lu Siyu nodded, and suddenly thought of something, "Uncle, where are the shrimps in the village?"

"Mud shrimp? They are all in the mud ponds. You can find many in those rotten mud ponds, but there is not much meat, and it is more troublesome to handle. If you want to eat, I will help you to fish some." The uncle looked at Lu Siyu and said.

Lu Siyu shook his head: "I want to put them in the rice fields."

Shrimp at this time is no different from crayfish and large lobster. Many people refer to shrimp as "mud shrimp" and "soil shrimp", because most of these shrimp hide in muddy ponds, so they got this name.

"Put it in the rice field?" the uncle was surprised.

"Well," Lu Siyu nodded, "I've heard people say that putting shrimp and fish in rice fields can somewhat increase the yield."

"Can this work?"

"I just want to try it." Lu Siyu said, there is a saying that "growing rice in fish ponds will yield a good harvest", but he didn't dare to take risks, so he didn't talk about it when the rice was just planted. Now that the rice is almost grown up, it's time to do some experiments.

However, he couldn't find a suitable fry for the time being, so he could only ask if there were shrimps.

"Okay, I'll find some shrimps with your second uncle and put them in. This man is also fat, and the fertilizer for fish and shrimp is also fertilizer. I think this method is feasible." After all, the uncle has rich experience, and he immediately guessed the reason. , If you want plants to grow well, fertilizer is very important.

Seeing that his uncle had said it himself, Lu Siyu didn't say any more, he believed that his uncle could handle this matter well.

Although he had sold a lot of sweet potatoes before, Lu Siyu still had quite a few at home, and he kept them at home for various reasons. He used some of them to make dried sweet potatoes, and the rest were almost piled up on the other side of his room. The corners are full.

Looking at this pile of sweet potatoes, Lu Siyu was a little hesitant. There were too few of them, and they would definitely not be able to eat them all. If they were fed directly to pigs, they might be considered a waste.

He looked at it for a while, and suddenly had an idea, which is to make sweet potato flour.

Sweet potato flour is also called sweet potato flour. The production steps are relatively simple, and the grinding work can be directly processed with a stone mill. Although the output is relatively low, at least these sweet potatoes can be disposed of.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and he began to be a little bit greedy.

However, the work of peeling sweet potatoes was relatively troublesome. He went to the county on a special trip, found a blacksmith, and specially ordered a peeling knife.

In fact, it’s cheaper to buy paring knives on Taobao, but he doesn’t know if the craft of paring knives on Taobao can be done now, and with the money in hand, he simply ordered it directly in the blacksmith shop. For now, the money on Taobao is a little less, it is better to take it easy for the time being.

After leaving the blacksmith shop, he arrived at the cloth village.

Now the weather is getting hotter and the clothes are getting less and less, so he plans to buy some clothes for his three children.

"It's better to be lighter. They like to play more and are afraid of sweating." He had made clothes once before, but it was to insert cotton into them. I don't make my own clothes anymore.

"There are some lighter ready-made clothes, but I don't know if they fit?" The shopkeeper brought out some clothes, all of which were children's clothes, but they didn't fit very well.

"Well, I'll bring them over tomorrow, and I'll trouble the shopkeeper to order them."

"Okay, guest, go slowly."

The shopkeeper felt that he might have been mistaken. He looked at Lu Siyu and thought that this person didn't look like a rich man, but he wanted to order some clothes when he opened his mouth. If he really had no money, he wouldn't say that.

The next day, Lu Siyu brought the three children over and asked the shopkeeper to make clothes for them.

Hearing that there were new clothes, the three children were very excited, and started chatting on twitter, and quickly got the shopkeeper's surname out.

"Uncle Lin, I want to ask how much these rags sell for?" Lu Siyue asked suddenly.

"rags?" The shopkeeper looked at the broken steps kicked into the corner by him. They were all cut out for making clothes, and in order not to waste, the slightly larger cloth heads were used up, and the rest were real broken steps , even if it is a hundred clothes, it can't be done.

The so-called Baijia clothes are clothes that are pieced together with a large number of small steps. Some people who are poor will use this method to make clothes.

"If you like it, I'll give it to you." The shopkeeper looked at Lu Siyue and said with a smile. He probably could guess what she was thinking. It's normal for a little girl to like to play with fabrics.

"No," Lu Syue shook his head, "I want to buy it, I have money."

The shopkeeper smiled: "Well, these rags are useless to me, how about selling them to you for a penny a catty?"

In his opinion, for children, it is almost enough to spend a penny or two to buy a catty or two to play with.

"Then I want ten catties." Lu Syue said earnestly, took out a small wallet that was already a bit worn out from her bosom, took out ten cents from it, and handed it to the shopkeeper, "Uncle Lin, weigh ten cents for me, By the way, I still want needlework, but I only have two cents left, can Uncle Lin sell it to me cheaply?"

The shopkeeper looked at the twelve cents in Lu Siyue's hand, a little surprised, and looked at Lu Siyu who was not far away: "This..."

Lu Siyu smiled slightly: "These are her pocket money, she can buy whatever she wants."

The shopkeeper suddenly felt that he was a bit confused, but he still nodded: "For the sake of being so cute, Yueyue, can Uncle Lin sell you some more needles and threads?"

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Lin." Lu Siyao narrowed her eyes and smiled.

"Sister, I have money too, I'll give it to you." Lu Siyun stuffed his own money into Lu Siyue's hands, but his money was not as well kept as Lu Siyue's, it looked dirty.

"I..." Lu Sile touched his body, but couldn't find a penny, so he could only look at Lu Siyu helplessly.

"Whenever you don't put money in your mouth, I'll give you pocket money." Lu Siyu laughed.

"No, I don't want to eat, brother... wants to." Lu Sile spread his hands.

Lu Siyu smiled and put a copper coin in his hand.

Lu Sile took the copper money, ran towards Lu Siyue, and handed the money to Lu Siyue: "Here."

"Thank you brother, will my sister return it to you in the future?"

"Okay." Lu Sile nodded. In fact, he really didn't care whether Lu Syue returned it to him or not, he just wanted to join in the fun.

"I'll give you everything I have, and you don't need to pay it back." Lu Siyun was very generous and handed over all the money to Lu Siyue.

If he hadn't seen the painful expression on his face, Lu Siyu would have believed that he was very generous.

"No, I will definitely return it to you in the future," Lu Siyue said firmly, and looked at the shopkeeper again, "Uncle Lin, I still need to buy something else."