Seed dealers in ancient times

The clatter of horseshoes came from the dirt road, and the villagers in and out of the courtyard immediately fell silent, stretching their necks and looking towards the road.

Cai Lin pushed aside the people blocking the yard, and walked out of the yard with a few strides.

After the galloping horse neighed and stood firm, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a tall man came down first from inside. The older generation of the village saw the familiar face of the man, and murmured doubtfully: "This is like the former Zheng salesman." Boy at home."

"Where is the landlord, this is not a bluff."

Zheng Jiang saw that the villagers were talking a lot, and he was not in a hurry to argue. He only greeted Cai Lin, then bowed respectfully by the side of the sedan chair and said: "Guard Huang, come down and talk to the villagers. Sentence."

There was a slight cough from inside the sedan chair, and the curtain was lifted again. With Zheng Jiangting's support, a well-dressed steward got off the sedan chair slowly, and said in a drawn-out tone with a foreign accent: "Is this the Yangmu Village where you said you want to rent grain?"

Zheng Jiang was very satisfied to see Huang Jingyi's tone of voice. He was indeed a slave sold from a big family. He changed into clothes and pretended to be a manager, and he still looked good. He could scare people.

He also pretended to be courteous: "Yes, these villagers want to borrow your grain."

"Have you agreed on the terms of the lease? How many people are there?"

Cai Lin hurried forward and said respectfully: "It's all agreed, now there are five households who want to borrow."

Huang Jingyi waved his sleeves: "Then let's divide the seeds of the rice crops quickly, and prepare paper and pen to write evidence, so don't waste time."

The villagers looked at each other in dismay, and it took a while for the person who came to borrow food to react, and followed Cai Lin and Zheng Jiangting to carry the food on the carriage in fear. The big sacks of food were heavy and big. It was thrown on the back.

Although the village only had [-] catties, Zheng Jiangting brought an extra [-] catties. On the one hand, it could appear that the landlord was rich and powerful, and on the other hand, it could temporarily attract other villagers who did not rent grain.

After the grain was transported to the yard, Zheng Jiang stopped and untied the rope that bound the sack: "Whoever has the rice bucket, come and measure it now."

In the past, borrowing grain would be taken from the landlord’s house by himself, and then carried back by himself. It is rare for the landlord to take the initiative to send it to the village. Nowadays, they still use their rice buckets to measure the rice. In the past, the treacherous landlord would make special rice. Dou, Minger saw how much rice was measured. If he took it home and measured it with a rice bucket, he would be short of catties and taels. Many villagers had stumbled. Even so, they did not dare to argue with the landlord again. Suffering from being dumb.

Although the villagers didn't speak, they felt like a mirror in their hearts. The landlord was just.

"I have it here, is it okay for everyone to use mine?"

Cai Lin shook his rice bucket in his arms.

"Success, use yours."

Looking at the grains full of grains in the big sack, the old man was overjoyed and wished he could carry the grain home immediately.

"Old man Yu wants to rent [-] catties of grain, right?"

"Yes, yes!"

Cai Lin’s rice bucket can only measure ten catties at a time, and it takes a while to measure eighty catties. Even if it takes time, the villagers are happy to spend time waiting. Cai Lin pours the rice into the basket brought by the old man and lifts his hand deliberately Lao Gao fell down, and the villagers standing outside watched the big grains fall into the baskets.

"The quality of this grain is really good, I haven't even seen any empty shells."

"That's not the real [-] catties of grain."

The villagers muttered softly, they were jealous and regretful at the moment, they didn't believe in such a good thing, but now it was clearly laid out in front of them, they couldn't believe it or not.

Huang Jingyi put his hands behind his back, raised his neck and looked arrogantly: "Eighty catties of grain are only given to one catty of seeds. If there are more spring seeds, they will be sold at the market price. The seeds here are all the best, and the germination rate is very high." Generally high."

The villagers were eager to move. The grains looked so good, and the seeds must not be bad, but no one dared to speak.

Satisfied, the old man measured out the grain, and after listening to Huang Jingyi's words, he bought another catty of grain seeds and two catties of corn seeds at the market price.

After Zheng Jiangting led the people to distribute the seeds, he also presented a pack of pepper seeds: "This is an extra seed given by the manager. You only need to find a small piece of land to plant, and it will come when the harvest comes. It's like growing vegetables."

The old man Yu nodded again and again, meaning he understood that he was asked to help with planting and management. The landlord would come to pick up the harvest. Although he hadn't seen any seeds, he still carefully put them away. The conditions given by the landlord were so good. He deserves some kindness.

Zheng Jiang stopped to show the recorded lease to the old man: "Look at this IOU, is there anything wrong with it?"

The old man Yu was illiterate, but there was a special literate person in the village who looked at the IOU. He helped the old man look at it carefully, nodded and said, "The name, quantity, and return date are all correct."

With such an affirmation, old man Yu felt at ease. His sallow old face, which had been worried for a few days, had a radiance, and his whole body was in good spirits. He guarded his food steadily, and stretched his neck to look at other houses on the side. Measure grain.

"Uncle Yu, are you ready?"

Old man Yu moved his chin: "It's here, isn't it?"

"You didn't call me when you came to rent that day. I thought about it and came too. I didn't come if I didn't have a companion later, otherwise I would continue like you today."

Old man Yu raised his eyelids: "Hey, didn't you say yesterday that there will be no pies in the sky, why did the wind turn today?"

"My lord, you are joking. You are a fellow from the village. Tell the old man in charge to see if you can rent it?"

Immediately, someone came to chime in: "Yes, the whole family is looking at the food. If we can't borrow food, how will we live this year? Uncle Yu, please help us with a question. When the time comes, our cattle will not let us go." You can mow the grass as you please."

"We will help you sow the seeds when you plant the land. Big girl, please ask grandpa."

The old man Yu couldn't help but bite the bullet and said: "Okay, I'll just ask. Everyone has a mouth, so I know in private that no one is useful before the business."

"Master, ask again if those who don't borrow grain can buy grain seeds."

"You brat don't know how to ask!"

The old man Yu walked around in front of Huang Jingyi, but he still didn't dare to ask. He thought that Zheng Jiang should stop and talk, so he went up to him: "Xiao Zheng, if you want to ask, can you borrow some money?" No food."

Zheng Jiang stopped to put away his pen: "Uncle Yu, to tell you the truth, you also know that I grew up in our village when I was a child. A few days ago, I heard Cai Lin say that it is not easy to borrow food in our village. I was lucky enough to meet him when I was selling goods. A rich master from another county, it’s hard to persuade him to rent grain for our village, but no one believes it, thinking about how troublesome it is to transport grain from other counties.”

"It's the reason, it's the reason, good boy never forgets his roots, since the masters are here now, then you can help the village again, we will never forget your kindness."

Zheng Jiang paused and said, "Then I'll ask Guanshi Huang again. Don't brag about borrowing food in other villages. If it's a good thing, our village will take it first."

"Okay, even if you don't say it, we know it in our hearts. If you say that there are too many borrowers, what if the loan conditions are raised."

"Yes." Zheng Jiangting whispered a few words to Huang Jingyi in front of the old man, and he didn't know what the two said, but the hearts of all the villagers were raised, and after a while, Huang Jingyi said: "There are still leftovers for today." For one hundred catties of rice, those who want to borrow can borrow it now, and those who have not borrowed grain can come to buy seeds."

The villagers jumped up when they heard the words, and rushed to borrow the one hundred catties of rice: "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze! Manager Huang said that if you want to borrow more, you can register your name first and send it tomorrow, but Registration is only for today, and after borrowing the next batch of food, Steward Huang is going back to another county."

"I want to register, I want to register!"

After all the tossing, it was already afternoon. When Zheng Jiang stopped and returned to the carriage, he carefully checked the list, and twelve more households registered on the list. A total of [-] catties of rice was requested, including grain and corn. Yes, even wheat.

"My lord, the cash received from the grain seeds sold is three, two or four."

Huang Jingyi, who was very obedient when he got on the carriage, handed the money bag he was holding to Zheng Jiangting. The villagers gave him scattered copper coins and filled a large bag.

Zheng Jiangding put away his money bag, renting a horse-drawn carriage today cost him [-] Wen, and tomorrow he will have to add another one to transport the grain, and it will cost money for the ostentation.

"You performed well today, let's go again tomorrow."

Huang Jingyi originally felt that his new master had no family background. Looking at the hundreds of catties of grain today and the thousand catties of tomorrow, these grains are not a small amount of money. When the grain is borrowed, it will be recycled during the autumn harvest. Once sold, money makes money, not much worse than the big family he followed in the past.

It's just that he really can't figure out why he has to spend so much effort to make the villagers feel that he is the master since he has these family backgrounds.

Although I have doubts in my heart, I also know that as a servant, I should not ask too much about the affairs of the master. In short, the most important thing is to do the things that the master told me right now.

On the second day, Zheng Jiangting sent the grain and seeds to the village on time for distribution, along with seeds for the villagers to plant, as well as some fruits and vegetables such as spinach, cucumbers, carrots, etc. Each household did not give much, but waited for the harvest The season will surely harvest a large wave of fresh vegetables.

After dealing with the matter of borrowing grain, the villagers rushed to sow in the spring. Although the crops of Cai Lin's family were planted early in the morning, people were not idle. If necessary, we had to harvest the seeds and sow them when the weather was good.

Now he doesn't have to hide from the villagers anymore, after all, he has received the seed of Guanshi Huang, and many people in the village have never seen it before, so it's not surprising.

The momentum in the village is very good, everyone is happy to land on the ground, half of the stored seeds in Zheng Jiang’s parking space have been counted, and they can borrow more, but after all, the tree attracts the wind, if all the surrounding villages come to rent If there is no food, the landlords in Jincheng will definitely notice it soon.

Although Huang Jingyi can scare the villagers, the landlords in the city are very powerful, so it is not difficult to find out the details of a person. It can also be found out.

Right now, he is not greedy for too much. He first rents grain to Yangmu Village, and then resells it after the autumn harvest is collected. At that time, he has made money and started to walk step by step. Only when the foundation is stabilized can he have the capital to resist others.

Although the matter of renting food has been settled for the time being, he has not been idle. The two customized carts at the carpenter's master have been completed, and he has to work on the next business non-stop. Why is the wedding room so expensive? .

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Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Sun waiter ne1;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Ah Meow;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!