The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Li Yu went out to the town carrying a bag of wolfberries and a cloth hat made of plum plums.

After Li Mei waited for Li Yu to leave, she told Liu Changmin that Li Yu wanted to lend her money to repair her house and that her family would help with the work and pay back the money.

After hearing this, Liu Changmin thought of his two sisters-in-law, who were quietly watching him while he was packing his things. There were also several nieces and nephews who looked like they were eager to leave quickly, and his heart felt cold.

Liu Changmin gratefully said to Li Mei: "Amei, your family still has feelings for you. You told Xiaoyu that her uncle will not be ungrateful."

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

When Liu Changmin saw Li Meihe's white noodles, he sighed: "Are you eating white noodles? No wonder you and the two children have gained weight, and Zhaodi and Laidi have grown taller."

Li Mei smiled while kneading the dough, "You don't know, Yu'er said that only by eating well can your body and bones be strong, and only by having a healthy body and bones can you have the strength to work. They also said that money is earned, not saved by not eating. , This kid doesn’t know where these fallacies come from, but it’s true that since I have enough oil and water, I have become stronger at work, and I don’t feel tired so easily.”

Li Yu had already arrived at Jishi Hall in the town, carrying wolfberries on his back. When he entered the shop, he saw that the shopkeeper was there. Shopkeeper Yang from Jishi Hall saw Li Yu coming in with a bamboo basket on his back and laughed, "Girl, what medicinal materials are you here to sell this time?" "

Li Yu put down the bamboo basket on his back and replied with a smile: "Uncle shopkeeper, the medlars I told you about last time have been dried. I carried some for you to see."

Li Yu untied his oilcloth bag, and shopkeeper Yang bent down to grab a handful and put it in his hand. He saw that the wolfberries brought by Li Yu were uniform in size and dark red in color. Shopkeeper Yang tasted two of them and they tasted sweet, with a slight bitterness in his throat.

Shopkeeper Yang smiled and nodded in praise, "Yes, it's good to be able to pick wolfberry fruits of this quality here, whether they are dried or dried. How many do you have at home, girl?"

Li Yu responded with a smile: "About four or five stones!"

Shopkeeper Yang thought for a moment and said, "Little girl, I'll give you fifty cents per catty and you can see if it works. If not, you'll have to go to another place."

Li Yu looked at Shopkeeper Yang and said with a smile: "Okay, Uncle Shopkeeper, I don't have a bullock cart at home. Can you send someone with an oilcloth bag to pull it over?"

"Okay, I'll ask my guy to go to your house and weigh it for you first."

Shopkeeper Yang asked the waiter to weigh it. The bag Li Yu carried was just one hundred pounds. Shopkeeper Yang looked at Li Yu and said with a smile, "You can't tell, Miss Xiaoyu is so strong!"

Li Yu took the money and said, "You are born with great strength. Uncle shopkeeper, can you wait while I go to the grocery store to buy something?"

Shopkeeper Yang looked at Li Yu and nodded happily, "Okay, go ahead!"

Li Yu went to Zhouji Grocery Store. When Zhaocai saw Li Yu, he greeted him politely, "Girl, you are here! What are you going to buy today?"

"Brother, I would like to ask how much salt you can sell to me if I want to buy it for food."

Zhaocai looked at Li Yu with a troubled look on his face and said, "One household can buy up to ten kilograms. For any extra, you have to go to the Zhencheng to approve it."

Li Yu stuffed some copper coins into the boy's hands and lowered his voice, "Is there no other way? I want to buy a piece of rock salt. Please help me think of a way!"

Zhaocai took the copper coins, rolled his eyes and lowered his voice, "Girl, you are also a regular customer. It's not impossible to sell it to you. It's just that a bucket costs two cents. If it works, I'll get it for you."

Li Yu thought to himself: Even if there are two more coins for a bucket of twenty coins, it is only twenty-two coins per catty, and for one stone, it is only twenty coins more. He readily agreed, "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 smiled at Li Yu, who was waiting in the shop: "Girl, there are just two stones here. I know you are very strong, so please come in and move it."

Li Yu followed him to the door and saw two packages of salt packed in oilcloth bags at the door. Li Yu took the bamboo basket, put the salt in and paid the money. He smiled and said to the clerk: "Brother, thank you very much." ”

Zhaocai whispered to Li Yu, "Girl, I tell you that these salts are all accumulated in the shop. You can't tell others that you bought them at my house. We won't recognize you if you tell us."

After Li Yu bought the salt, it was time to prepare the things needed to make bean paste and pickles. He smiled and said to the waiter: "Don't worry, I'm tight-lipped. I also need to buy a steel scale, some rapeseed oil, pepper, star anise, fragrant Leaves and cinnamon bark, and some peanuts. If you are a regular customer, it is cheaper, so I will buy them at your house."

Zhaocai thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this! I'll give you two cents a pound cheaper for each item."

After hearing this, Li Yu bought another fifty kilograms of rapeseed oil, a can of sorghum wine, a few kilograms of aniseed, and about ten kilograms each of peanuts and sesame seeds.

Zhaocai helped Li Yu deliver the oil drums and aniseed to Jishitang. Shopkeeper Yang asked his assistant Agen to drive the mule cart to Xishan Village with Li Yu. They got on the Taiping cart pulled by the big green mule. We arrived home in two quarters of an hour.

Li Yu invited A Gen into the courtyard. Li Mei brought a bowl of sugar water and handed it to A Gen with a smile, and said politely: "Little brother, please run around."

Agen took the sugar water and said, "Thank you, auntie, you're so polite."

Agen checked the quality of the wolfberries in Li Yu's house and took out the oilcloth bag. He and Li Yu and others packed the wolfberries together. Agen took out the scale from the car. After weighing the bags, they found a total of four to five hundred kilograms plus The one hundred catties brought by Li Yu were sold for more than twenty taels of silver.

When Li Yu came back from seeing A Gen off, Li Mei looked at Li Yu with a surprised look on his face, "Yu'er, why is this wolfberry worth so much money?"

Li Yu explained with a smile, "Aunt, wolfberry is a warm and tonic medicinal material. You can also make tea with wild chrysanthemums. Drinking it can soothe the liver and improve eyesight, so it is valuable!"

Li Mei suddenly realized, "That's it! After spring, let's dig more and bring back half of the land behind and plant wolfberries there."

Li Yu nodded in agreement, "It doesn't matter if no one knows the price now, you and your uncle can find some barren mountain land and plant it in wolfberry. It won't be worth it when more people grow it in the future."

"You can't grow all that stuff, you still have to grow food. You are still young and you don't know that if there is a famine year, no matter how much money your family has, you won't be able to buy food."

"Aunt, if the harvest is good this year, I want to buy more food and save it." Li Yu counted thirty taels of silver and handed it to Li Mei, "You take the money first, buy land and 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 yet. There are still a few days until the Hungry Ghost Festival. After the Hungry Ghost Festival, we will start to harvest grains. Even if we have to repair The house will have to wait until the farming season is over, so your uncle and I will take advantage of these few days to help you collect peppers and beans."

"Okay! I'll give you the money first, and you and your uncle will need to collect more cowpeas, kohlrabi, dried peas and peas, and then ask those people for some pumpkin leaves."

"Okay, aren't pumpkin leaves simple?" Li Mei agreed with a smile, took the money and called Liu Changmin to pick up the vegetables in a basket.

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