The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 19 Selling Goji berries

  Li Yu went out to town with a bag of wolfberry and a cool cloth hat made by Li Mei.

   After Li Yu left, Li Mei told Liu Changmin that Li Yu wanted to lend her money to repair the house, and that her family helped to repay the money.

   After hearing this, Liu Changmin remembered his two younger sisters-in-law, and they were quietly watching from the side when he was packing his things. He also had a few nieces and nephews, and he felt cold as if he wanted to leave quickly.

  Liu Changmin gratefully said to Li Mei: "Amei, it's still your family who are affectionate. You told Xiaoyu that her uncle would not be ungrateful."

   "Dare you," Li Mei pulled him a little distressed, "You haven't had lunch yet! I'll make you a bowl of noodles, you can eat it before you go."

   Liu Changmin sighed when he saw Li Meihe's white noodles: "What white noodles do you eat? No wonder you and your two children have grown meat, and Zhao Di and Laidi have grown taller."

Li Mei smiled while kneading the dough, "You don't know, Yu'er said that if you eat well, your body will be healthy, and if your body is healthy, you will have the strength to work, and she also said that money is earned by earning it, not by not eating. , This kid doesn't know where these fallacies come from, but it is true, since I have enough oil and water, I have a lot of strength to work, and people feel that it is not so easy to get tired."

Li Yu had already arrived at Ji Shitang in the town with the wolfberry on his back. When he entered the shop, he saw that the shopkeeper was there, and when Mr. Yang, the shopkeeper of Ji Shitang, saw Li Yu came in with the wolfberry on his back, he laughed, "Girl, what kind of medicinal materials are you here to sell this time? "

  Li Yu put down the back basket and replied with a smile: "Uncle shopkeeper, the wolfberry fruit I told you last time has been dried. I'll carry some on my back to show you."

  Li Yu untied the oilcloth pocket, and Shopkeeper Yang bent down and grabbed a handful in the palm of his hand. Seeing that the wolfberry brought by Li Yu was evenly sized and dark red in color, Shopkeeper Yang tasted two of them with a sweet taste and a slight bitter taste in his throat.

   Shopkeeper Yang smiled and nodded in praise, "That's right, it's not bad to be able to pick wolfberry of this quality here, whether it's sun-dried or not, how much do you have in your house, girl?"

   Li Yu replied with a smile: "There are about four or five stones!"

   Shopkeeper Yang thought for a moment, "Little girl, I'll give you fifty cents a pound, you can see if it's okay, if not, you have to go to another place to see."

  Li Yu looked at Shopkeeper Yang and said with a smile: "Okay, Uncle Shopkeeper doesn't have an ox cart at my house, can you send someone to bring an oil cloth bag to pull it over."

   "Okay, I'll let the guy go to your house to pull it and weigh it for you first."

   Shopkeeper Yang asked the man to weigh it. The bag that Li Yu was carrying was just 100 pounds. Shopkeeper Yang looked at Li Yu and smiled and said, "I can't tell, Miss Xiaoyu is so strong!"

  Li Yu took the money and said, "I'm naturally strong, uncle shopkeeper, can you wait for me to buy something I went to the grocery store to buy?"

   Shopkeeper Yang looked at Li Yu and nodded cheerfully, "Okay, let's go!"

  Li Yu went to the Zhouji grocery store, and Zhao Cai greeted Li Yu politely as soon as he saw Li Yu, "Miss, you're here! What are you going to buy today?"

   "Brother, I want to ask if I want to buy salt for food, how much can your family sell to me?"

   Zhaocai looked at Li Yu with an embarrassed look, "One household can buy up to ten kilograms, and you have to go to Zhencheng for approval."

  Li Yu stuffed the copper coins to the man and lowered his voice, "Is there no other way? I want to buy a piece of rock salt, please help me find a way!"

   Zhaocai took the copper coins, and rolled his eyes and lowered his voice, "Girl, you are also a regular customer, so it's not impossible to sell it to you, but it costs two cents per buck. I'll get it for you if I can."

  Li Yu thought to himself: Even if you have 20 cents for a bucket, it is only 22 cents per pound, and a stone is only 20 cents more. He readily responded, "Okay, if you have any extra, you can give me two more stones. I'll make some hot sauce to sell."

   Zhaocai nodded and went to the inner hall. After a while, he came out and said with a smile to Li Yu who was waiting in the shop: "Girl, there are only two stones here. I know you are too strong to bother you to come in and move it."

Li Yu followed him to the door and saw two bags of salt packed in oil cloth bags at the door. Li Yu took the back basket, put the salt in it, paid for it, smiled and said to the man, "Brother, thank you very much. already."

   Zhaocai whispered to Li Yu, "Girl, let me tell you that these salts are usually accumulated in shops. You can't tell others that you bought them in my house, and we won't recognize them."

Li Yu bought the salt, so it was time to start preparing the things he needed to make bean paste and pickles. He smiled and said to the man, "Don't worry, I'm tight-lipped, I'll also buy a steel scale, some rapeseed oil, and pepper, star anise, and incense sticks. Leaves and cinnamon, and some peanuts, if you are an old customer, you should consider it cheaper, and I will buy it at your house."

  Zhu Cai thought for a while, "Let's do it! I'll give you two cents a pound cheaper for each item."

After listening, Li Yu bought 50 catties of rapeseed oil, a can of sorghum wine, a few catties of aniseed, and ten catties each of peanuts and sesame seeds.

Zhaocai helped Li Yu to deliver the oil barrels and aniseed to Ji Shitang. Manager Yang asked his friend Agen to drive a mule cart and Li Yu to Xishan Village. Got home in two minutes.

   Li Yu invited Agen into the courtyard, Li Mei brought a bowl of sugar water and handed it to Agen with a smile, and politely said, "Little brother, please make a trip."

  Agen took the sugar water, "Thank you, Auntie, you are very kind."

Agen checked the quality of the wolfberry in Li Yu's house, took out an oil cloth bag, and packed the wolfberry together with Li Yu and a few others. Agen took out the rod from the car and weighed it. The hundred catties that Li Yu brought with him were sold for a total of more than twenty taels of silver.

   Li Yu sent Agen back, and Li Mei looked at Li Yu with a look of surprise, "Fish, why is this wolfberry worth so much money?"

   Li Yu explained with a smile, "Aunt, wolfberry is a warming and nourishing medicinal material. You can also make tea with wild chrysanthemum. Drinking it has the effect of soothing the liver and improving eyesight, so it is worth the money!"

   Li Mei suddenly realized, "I see! Let's dig some more after the spring, and take half of the land at the back and plant wolfberry."

  Li Yu nodded in agreement, "While no one knows the price now, you and your uncle can also find some barren hills to grow wolfberry, and it will be worthless when more people plant it in the future."

   "Then you can't grow all that stuff. You still have to grow grain. You are still young, so if you encounter a famine year, no matter how much money you have at home, you won't be able to buy grain."

"Auntie, if the harvest is good this year, I want to buy more grain and save it," Li Yu counted thirty taels of silver and handed it to Li Mei, "You can take the silver first, buy land to repair the house, and then open up some wasteland. ."

Li Mei hurriedly pushed away the silver handed over by Li Yu, "Yu'er, don't rush to give us the money, there are still a few days after the Mid-Yuan Festival, and the harvesting of millet will begin, even if it needs to be repaired. The house also has to wait for the busy farming season, so your uncle and I will take advantage of these few days to collect peppers and beans for you."

   "That's fine! I'll give you money first. You and your uncle have to collect more cowpeas, kohlrabi, dried beans and peas, and then I'll ask those people for some pumpkin leaves."

   "Okay, isn't the pumpkin leaf simple?" Li Mei replied with a smile, took the money and called Liu Changmin to pick up the vegetables with a basket.

  Li Yu put more than half of the salt into the space, and then took two pheasants out of it and carried them to the village chief's house.

   (end of this chapter)