Ancient Fortune Records

After Shen Li slept well, he arrived in the town.In order to reduce the burden on the donkey cart, Shen Laiqiu decided to send these Shilaozi named Gegen to the best pharmacy in the town to ask if they would accept them.Fearing that the boy would cry, Shen Laiqiu decided to spend some money to buy a few jujube cakes for Shen Li to eat.Shen Li looked at the old father looking at him with a loving look inexplicably, and shivered.Dad, your tall and thick appearance is really not suitable for the expression of "Sister Lin". Shen Li couldn't stop complaining.

When I arrived at the pharmacy, I saw a doctor with a goatee and a robe dispensing medicine. Shen Laiqiu coughed and said in a rough voice: "Mr., I have some medicinal materials here for you to see. Do you think you can accept them here?" Rubbing his hands together anxiously, he purposely raised his voice to hide his anxiety.

The doctor stepped forward to take the basket and took a look: "Huh? It's kudzu root? It's all wild kudzu root, and it looks pretty good."

Shen Li said sharply: "Old man, I dug this in the mountains!"

The doctor looked at this clever boy, who was tender and healthy, and his body was clean, like a ginseng doll, and he liked it in his heart: "Hey, I know. How about this, we want all of them here, and the price is set at three pounds per year. Ten Wen, two years later it will be set at forty Wen Jin."

Thirty Wen a catty?Forty cents for a catty of two-year-olds?My God, Shen Laiqiu couldn't believe his ears.At this moment, the boy came to weigh it. After calculating the weight and category, he actually calculated a high price of 12 taels of silver!

The doctor said: "My surname is Li, what is your surname?"

Shen Laiqiu's face turned red with excitement. This is 12 taels of silver. He couldn't speak clearly: "My surname is Shen, and I live in Shenjia Village."

"Do you want all the silver or not?"

Shen Laiqiu thought for a while, "Mr. please give me seven taels of silver, and give me copper coins for the rest!"

After all, copper coins are too heavy and difficult to hide, so silver is better. Three thousand coins are enough for household copper coins.

Shen Li said: "Thank you Uncle Li!"

Li Langzhong smiled and said: "If you still have such a quality, you can give it to me."

The reason why Shen Laiqiu was so excited was because on the way here, he heard Shen Li say that there are still many in the mountains, and if they were sold, how much would they earn?Considering that he worked as a coolie at the wharf all year round and planted crops, he barely earned five or six taels of silver a year. After deducting expenses and handing over to the public, it would be considered good to have one tael of silver left.Now my son recognizes Pueraria, and earned back two years' income in one day!The son is the biggest lucky star in the family!

After bidding farewell to Langzhong Li and leaving the pharmacy, Shen Laiqiu felt that this was the first time he had been able to straighten his back so many times in the city.

He thought, if all the kudzu roots that are so lucrative are plucked, it would be a pity that they will be gone in the next year. It is better to save the seeds and try to grow them in the next year, maybe it will be a stable income.He thought happily, and he still didn't forget to hug Shen Li and kiss him twice!

"Good boy! Daddy bought meat for you to eat! Isn't it gluttonous?" This kid, these days are tired of eating eggs, greedy for meat, but the family is building a house, and there is no money left, so I didn't buy it for him.Now that you have kudzu root, are you afraid that you will have no money and no income?purchase!I bought a lot of ducks, chickens, and pork, and spent a total of [-] Wen. The merchants gave some ducklings and chickens, and the butcher gave offal and bones.Shen Laiqiu didn't forget to buy food, and even bought two silk flowers for Mrs Yu.I also bought some snacks such as jujube cakes and rice cakes. Shen Li thought he didn't like these sweet snacks, but he didn't expect that his body seldom eats sugar. Now it can be said that he likes these sweet cakes very much.

Shen Li looked at his father's short jacket which was covered with patches, and felt sore in his heart: "Father, buy some cloth, and ask the village tailor Zhang to make some close-fitting clothes for us, and the outer ones are waiting for the new house to be built. Let's talk."

Shen Laiqiu nodded as he thought about Yu's tattered inner garment.Over the years, they have done less husband and wife field work, home work, and private work outside?But throughout the year, there is not even a piece of good clothes.Poor boy Li, I haven't eaten candy a few times.Once during Chinese New Year, all the grandchildren had candied haws to eat, but Li'er stood by and watched the others eat, his neckline was drenched with saliva, but his grandma pretended not to see it.Maybe it's all because of his bad luck, and he didn't like his parents when he joined this family.He couldn't explain how he felt, he shook his head, at least he raised himself up, and he was Amitabha if he didn't throw it away.

So I took the car to the cloth shop and bought three bolts of cloth, enough to make several sets of underwear.It is enough for parents to honor a chicken, and for those who are not of the year or festival, giving a chicken usually can be called filial piety.

There is also a shoe seller in the cloth village. I bought two pairs of soft-soled thick rabbit fur cloth shoes according to Yu's size, and bought myself a pair of long and watertight boots. Shen Li has no shortage of shoes for the time being. The kid looked at the shoes made of animal skins in amazement, couldn't bear it for a while, and bought him a pair, good guy, his pair of shoes cost twice as much as the combined shoes of the two of them.

After buying these, the donkey cart can hardly fit.Shen Laiqiu didn't stay here, he was still thinking about the kudzu root in the forest, so he took his son home.

With so many things, they will definitely be seen by the villagers.But everyone will only think of the previous separation, and he has money on hand, and they will not think of the pie falling from the sky for him.

The good people at the entrance of the village saw Shen Laiqiu returning with a full load, and they all commented: "As soon as the family is separated, it is obvious that Laiqiu can't live a life. How much money did his parents give him? How dare he show off so richly? Don't even go to the top of the beam." All the money is gone!"

You are sensible and humane: "Left and right are other people's money. I don't think Qiu is the kind of person who waits for nothing. In their house, Qiu is the most capable! It doesn't make sense to play around like a child. Stop worrying about other people's leisure time." !"

Shen Laiqiu didn't care what others said, his uncle yelled loudly, didn't stop much, and soon arrived at the door of the house.Randomly built a simple fence in the yard, and put the chickens and ducklings in it.Then he took off the chickens and ducks with their feet bound and put them under the window of his room.Yu Shi looked at the load of things in surprise, and when she saw Shen Laiqiu winking at her, she swallowed a cry of surprise.Moved to the house in the same way quietly.Fortunately, everyone in the family has gone out today, because a family in the village got married, and Shen Daman and his old wife went to a banquet. Study in private school.

It's rare for Mrs. Yu to be free today, as long as no one in the family makes things difficult for her, even if she takes the whole family's clothes to the river to wash, she won't feel tired.Seeing that Shen Laiqiu brought so many things back now, she was startled. If the man hadn't been honest, she would have thought she had gone to steal things!She suddenly remembered the kudzu root that Shen Li was talking about... Oh my god, things that look like tree roots can really be sold for money, right?Then she will move this good thing back without taking a rest, the big house will be used for the children of the family to study, and she also wants her Li'er to have books!She is the daughter of a poor family and has little knowledge, but the big house has always been unprofitable. If reading is not a good thing, would someone as picky as Aunt Li'er be willing to spend so much money for two boys to study?

It's just that she didn't have the time to think about it right now, so she went back to the room and took Shen Laiqiu's arm, and asked cautiously, "Is that thing sold for money?"

Shen Laiqiu laughed so hard that his eyes disappeared: "That's right, I never dreamed it would be so valuable, just look--" Then he took out the silver ingot from his bosom, and took out the wooden box containing the copper coins.

Yu was stunned, she had never touched such a complete and bright silver ingot!She pinched her arm secretly, tears came out from the pain: "It's true, it's true..."

Seeing his mother's unpromising appearance, Shen Li didn't want to laugh in his heart, so he took a piece of pastry and handed it to his mother: "Mother, eat the pastry quickly, after we're done, we'll go to the mountain to dig some kudzu roots. You can also make more money to buy candy!"

"That's right! Master, let's go and take all the baskets at home. When the villagers know about it, we won't be able to earn any money."

Shen Li knew that things like kudzu root could not be hidden, and in a few days someone would go digging up the mountain, and then the price of kudzu root might be lowered.If you get Li Langzhong’s written introduction to the effects of kudzu root, make a billboard, grind kudzu root into powder, find a place in the pier market to set up a stall to sell kudzu powder, and find some people to loudly publicize the magical effect of kudzu root, maybe They will be favored by businessmen who come and go, and they will buy some and take them away.Pueraria powder is definitely more expensive than pueraria, and it avoids the trouble of processing by merchants, and it looks much better.If it doesn’t work, it can also be made into sweet-scented osmanthus kudzu powder soup, which is available in the osmanthus market. Now autumn is the time when sweet-scented osmanthus is sold at a low price. You can make it by looking for a suitable source. After it’s ready, put it on the market where vendors are allowed to buy and sell at the Guandao post station. It is estimated that people who are used to pursuing the "poor family's rich road" are willing to buy a jar and taste it. The price is right, and it may be more profitable than simply selling arrowroot powder.

The reason why I don't say it now is because they don't have an independent space yet, and the kitchen is shared, so there is no way to implement it.Shen Li sighed, it is better to build the houses in the village as soon as possible.

The most urgent task is to go to the mountains to dig out the kudzu root.Shen Li was left at home to guard the door, while Shen Laiqiu and his wife changed into their oldest coarse clothes and went to the mountains.

In the evening, when the farmers were about to return, Shen Laiqiu had already sold the kudzu roots he had dug up.He originally planned to dig up some more, save them, and then sell them to the pharmacy at one time. After thinking about it, this thing would not be kept secret for a long time, so he still sold what he dug up.The ones dug this time were basically two years old, and the two adults dug more kudzu roots than Shen Li dug in a few days, and they sold them directly for 20 taels plus half a penny!

When Shen Laiqiu came back, his complexion was quite normal, Yu's whole body was weak, and he could barely stand up with Shen Laiqiu's support.

Shen Li thought, where is this going?With such a small amount of money, it is enough to build a bigger house, buy a few chickens and ducks, buy winter clothes, hold banquets, and buy a few acres of better paddy fields.

Fortunately, no one in the village knew about Shen Li's idea, otherwise Shen Li might be beaten severely by the villagers.That's 20 taels of silver!A family of five does not need to be frugal, and it can be used for three years for normal expenses!At present, besides farming their own land, Shenjia Village’s main source of income is doing coolies on the wharf or working as a small trader.Fortunately, the imperial court intends to recuperate and reduce taxes. Otherwise, with a big house making sesame seed cakes and selling steamed buns in the city, I am afraid that they will not be able to support their two children in school.

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