readytorunbook Chapter 135 What's the Situation
Chapter 135 What's the Situation
The young man looked in the direction the servant pointed and saw a figure in the crowd not far away. His eyes immediately widened with lust and his mouth opened into a smile.
"She has fair skin and bright eyes, and she is not made up. She is like a lotus emerging from the water, with a face as beautiful as a flower and as bright as the moon."
He looked up and down, waving the folding fan in his hand faster and faster, "I didn't expect there would be such a beautiful woman in this poor town."
The young man straightened his back and walked over with big strides.
"Girl, where are you going? I can help lead the way."
He showed what he thought was a perfect smile and stood in front of Xia Qingyue and the others.
"Who are you?" Li Weisheng saw that the person had bad intentions, frowned, took two steps forward, and stood in front of Xia Qingyue.
Behind them, the men who were following Xia Qingyue and the others witnessed this scene, their expressions filled with shock, they hesitated and dared not move forward.
"Go, go, go, I won't follow you anymore!"
The men scattered like birds and beasts.
Xia Qingyue didn't recognize the person blocking the road at all, "You must have recognized the wrong person, let's go."
They hadn't walked a few steps when the young master and his servant caught up with them. He still looked at Xia Qingyue with a smile and said:
"If I tell you who I am, you will be scared to death, but I don't want to see you die. For a woman like you, I can't wait to be nice to you."
When Li Benfu and his two sons heard this, their faces darkened and they clenched their fists.
Xia Qingyue frowned. Where did this lunatic come from?
She said expressionlessly and coldly, "Stop following us!"
"Uncle, brothers, let's go!"
Several people left quickly as if they were avoiding the plague.
When the young master saw this, the smile disappeared from his face and he gave the servant a meaningful look.
The servants understood immediately and ran after them, intending to surround Xia Qingyue and the others.
The young man put one hand on his waist and waved his folding fan with the other hand, sneering: "Humph, I have never failed to get what I want!"
However, the next second, he was slapped in the face.
Heihei opened his mouth and barked wildly, biting the servants so hard that they pissed and shit themselves and ran away in panic.
Seeing that it was almost time, Xia Qingyue called Heihei back and they quickly left the town.
On the way back to the village, no one followed them.
"It's so unlucky. Why am I so unlucky today? I haven't gotten anything done yet."
Xia Qingyue comforted him: "Good things take time, Brother Weisheng, we have money now, so we don't have to be afraid."
It was already noon when we returned to Li's house.
Chen Yuzhen knew they were coming back and cooked dinner.
Seeing them coming back empty-handed, Chen Yuzhen didn't ask any more questions and ran to the kitchen to get two basins of water. "Come, wash your hands and eat first. We'll talk after you finish eating."
After working all morning, everyone was really hungry and went to the table to eat.
After dinner, Chen Dawei and his son went to wash the dishes. After they were done, Chen Yuzhen went to close the door to their courtyard and the door to the main room.
During the day, the sun shines in through the window and the light inside the house is quite good.
Everyone sat around the dinner table. Li Benfu carefully took out the money he earned from selling medicine, his hands shaking with excitement.
The Li family was shocked to see so much money on the table.
“The main reason is that the purple Ganoderma lucidum and spices we found are valuable.
The Ganoderma was found deep in the jungle two days ago in the afternoon. We went there too late, and half of it had been bitten off by something, so it was incomplete. We thought it was worthless, but Qingyue said to keep it and take it to the pharmacy to ask about it. "
Having said that, Li Benfu looked at Xia Qingyue with gratitude.
She smiled and shook her head. "No, you shouldn't thank me. You worked hard to find this."
"The Ganoderma lucidum was of poor quality and was sold for more than four taels of silver, the spices for five taels of silver, and the other miscellaneous medicinal materials for more than three taels of silver." Li Weisheng said. He told the story of selling the medicine and explained why he didn't buy any grain.
"We should be cautious and not rush today. It will be the same if we buy it tomorrow." Chen Yuzhen said frankly that they were thoughtful.
"I plan to take the prey to the market in town to sell tomorrow. I was in a hurry today and didn't have time to go over to check. Kang'er, have you checked the grocery store? How is the situation?" Li Benfu said to his eldest son.
"I have visited several grocery stores, and each one is doing very good business, crowded with people. Because the prices are high, although there are many people, they don't buy much. Each person buys a little.
I've also been to the market. There were vendors selling vegetables, mushrooms, and fish. There were two men selling game, but they didn't have much game, just a few.
I have a rough idea of the market situation. The prices of rabbits and pheasants have more than doubled compared to before, and those who come to buy them are the wealthy people in town.
The daily stall charge at the market was twelve cents a day, which I thought was a bit expensive, so I ran to the only restaurant to ask if they accepted game.
Unfortunately, I asked too late. The restaurant has a fixed person to deliver prey every day. The restaurant has just opened, and business is not very good. The number of prey collected every day is not much."
Li Benfu: "Then let's go to the market tomorrow!"
Xia Qingyue listened quietly. She had been mainly looking for medicinal herbs recently. She also went hunting in the dark or with a bow and arrow. The prey she hunted was either dead or injured and could not be sold. She either ate them or pickled them.
After saying those things, the Li family members took turns to ask Xia Qingyue to stay at their home temporarily.
Xia Qingyue thought about the trouble of going to town for a big purchase the next day, and she also needed to prepare enough food and water for the poultry before going out in the morning, so she agreed.
In the afternoon, several men in the Li family were busy building the new room on the west side of the main hall, which was Xia Qingyue's room.
Chen Yuzhen took Xia Qingyue to the field to check out the cassava that had been planted a few days ago, which covered more than an acre of land.
"We went up the mountain to dig it up a few nights ago. We've brought it all back. Qingyue, you can dig some and bring it back to the mountain to plant."
"Okay, Auntie."
The taro trees planted by the Li family have sprouted, and the green buds are pleasing to the eye.
The two stood on the ridge of the field to look at the crops, and then strolled to the paddy field allocated to the Li family. Chen Yuzhen said that they would be able to plant rice seedlings in a while. The rice seeds were distributed, and they could plant about three acres of land.
In the evening, Chen Yuzhen and Xia Qingyue prepared dinner early and ate it. As soon as it got dark, they were already lying on the bed to sleep.
Xia Qingyue, who was familiar with her bed, didn't feel sleepy at all. She kept her eyes open. It was pitch black after dark and she couldn't see anything clearly.
Chen Yuzhen fell asleep beside me, snoring softly.
Xia Qingyue was very excited at the moment and had some money in her hand.
In ancient times, having so much money was equivalent to a huge sum of money.
If the two Ganoderma lucidum were a little bigger and the ginseng was a little older, they could be sold for more money.
She had wanted to take a few pearls with her last night, but thinking about the ginseng and ganoderma lucidum spices, she decided not to take them.
Unable to sleep, she was thinking about what to buy tomorrow. As she was thinking, she fell asleep in a daze.
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The next day.
After breakfast, Xia Qingyue and the others rushed to Datong Town at daybreak. Considering that they bought a lot of things, all members of the Li family went out.
When they arrived at the market in Datong Town, the morning sun was rising slowly, and Li Benfu and Li Weikang went to pay the stall fee.
The prey were kept in cages woven from bamboo strips, and there were four cages in total. The number of prey was several times more than that of the other two men who were also selling prey.