After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

Facts have proved that Liu Ji can be looked forward to after returning from the border.

Before dawn the next day, I took the thirty taels of silver given by Qin Yao to buy food, the twenty taels of travel expenses, and the thirty taels of silver from the old house, a total of thirty-five taels of silver, and drove a car with Liu Fei. The car set off.

After all, Liu Fei had little experience in going out. After leaving Jinshi Town, no matter how dissatisfied Liu Fei was with Liu Ji, his companion, he had to choose to listen to him.

Because it was only after he left the town that he realized that he couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north and south outside.

But in this regard, Liu Ji, who can walk out of the grass, is already proficient in identifying directions.

The two of them first arrived in Kaiyang County. Liu Ji parked the car outside the city for Liu Fei to watch. In this way, he could save a share of the city entry fee. He only had to pay his own penny, and Liu Fei's share included parking the car and horses. The fees are 'reasonable' and pocketed.

There were three rice shops in the county. Liu Ji looked at them all and was surprised to find that the price of rice, which he thought was not expensive, suddenly increased a lot.

The price of brown rice has increased from three cents per catty to four cents, and that of fine rice has increased to thirteen cents per catty.

In this way, there are still many people queuing up at the door to buy food.

If you don't care about these details of life, you won't be able to feel the slight changes at all, because it does not rise suddenly, but slowly increases day by day.

It is the women at home who are responsible for daily life. They line up to buy food and complain constantly.

However, compared to rice, the price of noodles has skyrocketed, almost tripling.

Liu Ji visited all three rice shops and found that they seemed to have been negotiated and the prices were exactly the same, which avoided vicious competition.

Right now, it’s just rice and noodles that are needed every day, and Mipu can handle it easily.

Liu Ji tentatively asked if the rice shop had a lot of inventory, but the shopkeeper ignored him, obviously not wanting to do bulk business.

Also, the price of food is rising day by day. If I sell it to him at this price today, he will suffer a loss.

However, the shopkeeper is so confident, which means that they have low-price purchasing channels to continuously deliver food to them.

Liu Ji stayed from morning to noon before leaving the county seat.

When I left, I went to the academy again and asked for a few more days off.

He decided to go to the south of Zijing Mansion. The grain production there was more than that in the north. The two places were far apart and there might not be any pests.

This decision was very risky. Once everything was unknown, he had to ask about the road to that place as he walked.

Secondly, if grain at normal prices is purchased, he and Liu Fei only have two cars which are not enough, and the return trip is far, and there will be an additional transportation fee.

But Liu Ji had his own way, and he didn't want to spend an extra penny anyway.

Handing two grain steamed buns to Liu Fei, Liu Ji jumped on the carriage and said, "Let's go to the neighboring county."

"What?" Liu Fei was shocked, but the steamed buns in his hand were so delicious. He hurriedly took a few bites to satisfy his craving. Then he asked curiously while driving the bullock cart to follow:

“Isn’t it sold in our county?”

Liu Ji only replied: "It's too expensive, I can't afford it."

Liu Fei said "oh" and didn't say anything else. He gnawed on the fragrant steamed buns and looked forward to what it would be like outside.

The two arrived at the neighboring county in the evening, but Liu Ji still did not enter the city. The two spent 5 cents on hot water to wash themselves at the post house five miles away from the county town, exchanged two pots of hot water, and continued to eat what Liu Ji bought during the day. I spent the night eating multi-grain steamed buns.

Sleeping in the carriage at night, the two brothers faced each other, staring at each other, and it took a long time before they fell asleep.

When they got up in the morning, the two of them had dinner in the lobby of the post house.

Without blinking, Liu Ji tossed out twenty coins and ordered two bowls of soy sauce pork noodles. He squeezed forward and ate at the same table with other business travelers, chatting animatedly.

Liu Fei tasted the bowl of meat sauce noodles carefully, eating not a drop of soup left.

Listening to Liu Ji and those businessmen bragging to the sky, Liu Fei snorted secretly, a dog can't change its habit of eating shit.

But he was soon slapped in the face.

After leaving the post house, Liu Ji smiled and said to him: "We have some connections. Go two hundred miles south. There are two large farms over there that have not been infested by insects. The owner has just harvested wheat and wants to take action. .”

Liu Fei looked at him in disbelief, did he find out now?

Not only did they find out, they also bought wheat at normal prices.

Because it’s much more, shelled salmon is a pound.

Knowing that the person in the family likes to eat thin rice, Liu Ji hesitated for a while.

But then he thought about it. There was no such store in this village, so he quickly bought it. It was very hard to go out, and he wanted to go home and eat meat and sleep.

I paid thirty-three taels of silver and bought eleven thousand catties.

On the 280-mile return trip, the two people's car could only carry two thousand kilograms at most, and they had to find ten cars to help transport the rest.

But even including transportation costs, it is still more than half cheaper than the price of rice shops in Kaiyang County.

By the way, you have to buy rice bags to put it in, which is another expense.

Liu Ji glanced at his money bag, only less than one tael of silver was left in it.

If he took it out to rent a car, this 'hard money' would not fall into his hands.

So Liu Ji spent 50 yuan to buy two bags of pastries in the nearest county town and took them to the owner's house who sold them food, and quickly solved the problem.

"Master Yu is still willing to find an ox cart for us to transport food?" Liu Fei was surprised again.

Liu Ji nodded proudly, "I can still get it on credit first. Then I'll send it to Kaiyang County and ask your third sister-in-law to come over and pay the fare."

"Why not send it directly to our village?" Liu Fei asked confused.

Liu Ji raised his hand and knocked him on the head, "You're stupid, won't the fare be a little more if you go one more way?"

There is a large official road all the way from this county to Kaiyang County, and the damage caused by pests here is very small. There is no need to worry about being robbed on the way, and the transportation cost is naturally cost-effective.

But if we pass through Kaiyang County, who can guarantee that there will be no trouble?

It would be better to let the evil woman at home come with a knife to pick it up. This free escort is useless.

Liu Fei rubbed the back of his head and rarely shouted at Liu Ji. He just asked with a guilty conscience: "Won't Third Sister-in-law be angry?"

"Why are you angry? I don't have a penny in my pocket now. It's already good that I can reach this point."

Liu Ji waved his hand in disgust, "You start driving, I'll write a letter first and ask someone to take it back."

Liu Fei glanced at his arms suspiciously, then made way for him to write a letter.

At home, Jinbao goes to school, and occasionally Si Niang comes over to teach Jinhua how to write. She follows these children around, and Liu Fei can also recognize a few simple words.

But what he knew was simply not enough in the face of Liu Jiti's ability to write an entire article eloquently.

He didn't recognize the two words at the beginning of the letter, but he guessed that it might be the name of the third sister-in-law, so he couldn't help but curiously asked: "Third brother, is this the name of the third sister-in-law?"

Liu Ji didn't seem to hear the third brother's voice, which he had never heard before, or he didn't care if he heard it. This guy should have called him that, and it was natural.

He put away his pen and nodded, "Qin Yao, Qin in Qinguan, Yao in Wangbang, remember?"

Liu Fei scratched his head uncomfortably and looked at it a few more times. Maybe, probably, maybe he remembered it.