Eighty miles away, even when I rode an old horse and arrived at the farm, it was still dark.

At the intersection outside the village, Zhao Wan kept waiting. Seeing Li Xiao and the others back, she came forward with a smile. Li Xiao was shocked.

"Why are you still staying here so late?"

"You haven't come back, worry."

Zhao Wanyan was shaking all over, and her lips were white as she was wearing thin clothes. Li Xiao held her hand and felt like she was holding two pieces of ice.

"Have you eaten yet?"

"The meal is ready, I'll wait for you."

Li Xiao took off his cloak and surrounded her, "You are so stupid, won't you sit at home and wait?"

"Sanlang, sister-in-law cares about you." Zhang Cong and his younger generation said with a smile from behind, with envy in their words. Zhao Wan's virtuousness was really envious. In this life, it would be even better if he could marry a virtuous woman like Zhao Wan to do housework and then have a few more children.

If you have some savings, you will ask your neighbors and relatives to help build a few thatched huts and surround a yard. It will be enough for a lifetime.

As soon as we entered the village, people from all households were already alarmed and everyone rushed out to greet them.

Dabiao smiled and loudly informed everyone that the cucumbers were sold, which attracted everyone's cheers, and he was heartbroken for a day, and finally landed.

Zhang Cong and Liu Yuan also deliberately slapped the purse on their backs to make a sound.

"It's all cash, it's about forty pounds!"

"About forty kilograms? Isn't it more than six jin?" Doctor Zhao came out with a crutch. A penny of Kaiyuan Tongbao in the Tang Dynasty was one jin, which was better and heavier than the copper coins of the Sui Dynasty in the past. A penny, a thousand jin was one thousand jin, which happened to be six jin and four liang.

More than forty kilograms, wouldn’t it be more than six jin?

"Well, today was very smooth. At least it was sold at a price of 5 cents per piece. Some of the stocks were sold at a higher price, and it cost more than 6,000 yuan in total." Li Xiao also reported some results and gave everyone a reassurance.

Dr. Zhao sighed, "It's great, you don't have to go hungry this winter."

More than 6,000 yuan, although it is only a drop in the bucket of debts of the Li family, for everyone in this small village, it is enough to have a warm year.

"I will definitely be hungry when I travel around Chang'an for a whole day, so I will have to eat!" Dr. Zhao said with a smile.

Dinner is very simple.

There are millet porridge and yellow-faced cakes. The dishes are made from radish soup made from leftover pork bones that I ate yesterday, and then cooked intestines with the old soup of braised pig faces, and added a little dry vegetables.

It is still in Doctor Zhao's home, and this house is now Li Xiao's home.

Everyone is ready to buy another house for Li Xiao and Zhao Wan alone. By then, Li Xiao, Zhao Wan and Li Zhen will live there, but now we have to squeeze in.

Men get cakes, while women and children take the initiative to make porridge and drink.

The porridge was cooked more thin than yesterday, and the chopsticks couldn't stand it, and some wild vegetables were mixed in it.

Men don’t have many cakes, one person has two cakes. In fact, in this era when there is no oil or side dishes, two yellow-faced cakes are not enough to eat, and they must have a stomachache in the middle of the night.

"Is there no food at home?" Li Xiao asked.

"It's still there, but I'll save some food." Zhao Wan answered while holding the cake for Li Xiao.

"We still have to be full. How can we do things if we don't have enough food? Today I earned more than 6,000 yuan. We will buy some food tomorrow. We will do it twice a day, and it will be thin at noon in the morning and evening." Li Xiao said.

Doctor Zhao opposed it, "I have made some money now, but I can't spend it randomly. We are also in the forty people here, and we can eat a lot of people every day. Now it's winter, so I don't do much, so I eat less. Look at which family has three meals a day, and the landlord's family also eats two meals. From now on, we will still have two meals a day, one one is a day. You guys work, eat more, and we can't do a job, just two meals a day."

"Sometimes, you have to think about the time when you don't have it, so that you can flow slowly."

Although I have made money selling cucumbers now, after all, there is a heavy debt on my body, and Mr. Zhao doesn’t feel relaxed. Dozens of people, but now they have no other income except selling cucumbers, so how can they be so generous?

Zhao Wan and the others think that making money is not easy and they need to save money.

Li Xiaoze was thinking about how to open source. It would definitely not be possible to sell cucumbers alone. The space is limited and so many can only be planted. Besides, although Chang'an is the capital of the imperial capital, the high-end market is only so big. The more cucumbers, the lower the price will be. In fact, there will be no more profits when the volume increases.

The best way out is to find other open source methods.

He had a few chunks of money in his hand and dozens of people, so he should find another source of income, but he really didn't expect something to do now.

When guarding the fire pit, the thatched roofs and mud walls lock the cold wind outside.

Everyone was very happy to eat a bowl of porridge and a piece of cake.

I heard their joy in eating, and it seemed that they were eating delicacies.

"Sanlang, the people we stayed at home today have already gone up the mountain to cut some thatch and dug some soil. Tomorrow we can weave the thatch and mix the mud. Taking advantage of the good weather these days, turn over these roofs and repair the walls."

Dr. Zhao is now a parent of this big family. While eating, he reported to Li Xiao about the progress of his family.

"We plan to repair these houses first, and then build a few new ones next to them, one of which is yours and Wan'er, and the other ones belong to these brothers who have just arrived."

"Yeah, it's pretty good." Li Xiao nodded.

"I think so. Now everyone has food every day. It doesn't take much effort to repair a few thatched huts in the house. You can't just eat or cook, and you can't just eat or cook, and you can't eat and eat in vain. We are in the Qinling Mountains, and there are no other trees. There are a lot of firewood. I thought we would dig a few charcoal kilns in the mountains. We would go into the mountain to chop firewood to burn charcoal. After burning charcoal, we would take it to Chang'an to sell it. The weather is getting colder and colder, and charcoal is worthwhile at this time."

"We women can also help chop firewood and charcoal," Zhao Wan said on the side.

"We can go too." Several and a half-old boys also said, poor children have long been in the family, and they know that they should help at a young age.

"Chop wood and burn charcoal?" Li Xiao thought of the story of the charcoal seller. Chop wood and burn charcoal in winter is also a business for the poor. This is better than cutting wood and selling wood directly. But burning charcoal is also a hard job and can't make much money.

Especially when asking women and children to burn charcoal, Li Xiao disagreed.

"Women are the right way to manage their families at home. There are men who do the work outside, and children should not do those things. You are still young. My idea is that there are seven or eight children in our village, some of which are half-large and some are beginning to become sensible. You can't just let them stay like this and have to let them study."

"Reading?" As soon as Li Xiao said, the men, women, young and old in the room were shocked.

In a poor small village, there are a group of miserable farmers. Who dares to think about letting their poor boy study?
Chapter completed!