Chapter 46
"I can't eat it anymore, I'm so full." Da Biao waved his hand straight and couldn't do anything to the little hot pot soup left in the pot. "May I still eat it? There is still half a pot of meat soup here."
Zhuzi stood aside and fed his stomach, stroking his belly with both hands, but when he heard that there was broth, his eyes were still shining and he came over with his legs.
Li Xiao looked at Zhuzi with some concern, "Can you really eat it? Don't eat too much."
"I can't eat pork anymore, but I will definitely eat the next bowl of chicken soup and beef soup." Zhuzi stared at the pot and looked at the soup in the pot and said with a sniff. He had already eaten very much in this meal, at least one pound of pork, not to mention that he drank a large pot of pork bone soup, and had a pot of radish stewed in the bones, and two large bowls of noodles.
Such a thin person, with a flat belly, at least four or five pounds of things, makes people wonder how to put their belly on.
But my stomach is full, but my heart is not full. The pillar has grown so big that I have never had a few full meals. If I hadn't been so hungry back then, I wouldn't have rebelled to be able to have a full meal and die.
Before today, Zhuzi had never eaten beef. Although he had herded cattle for the landlords at the village head when he was very young, he had driven the beef ass for several years, but he didn't even know what the beef tasted. This is the first time he has eaten beef today.
Just now, each of them got two large pieces of beef. He swallowed it almost completely and regretted it after eating it. Why didn’t he savor it carefully?
"Keep this soup for tomorrow to cook soup cakes." Li Xiao said. He was really worried that Zhuzi and his group would eat it. For example, Zhuzi and many others, they were actually hungry in their memory. If they had the opportunity to eat it, they would not know how to stop.
"Brother, I can drink another bowl of beef soup."
Zhang Cong Liu and Liu Yan came over there, looking at the tiliang Tongguo. Although their stomachs were already very strong and they were still full. But looking at their pitiful looks, Li Xiao could not refuse.
"One person has half a bowl. After eating, everyone remembers to drink a bowl of hawthorn water. You can't lie down and walk around the yard to digest food." Li Xiao was helpless.
When he was a child, he raised a small local dog when he was a child. He looked very cute. He liked this puppy very much. But because he loved this puppy so much, he always secretly fed the local dog food, and the puppy didn't know how to stop and ate as much as he fed it.
Finally one day, the puppy ate a large piece of meat he fed after eating, but ended up dying.
People who have never been hungry will not know the obsession with food for those who often go hungry.
They would not give up if they didn't let them drink the soup today, so Li Xiao had to give in in the end.
Fortunately, he also knew that people at this time did have a lot of appetite, and eating two pounds of meat was really normal. Even if they had 10 or 20 steamed cakes, they were just adding more to the radish soup, and they were just adding more to the top and drinking cold water.
Let those who have never been hungry in later generations and are not short of oil or water, and those who do not do physical work feel overwhelmed, let alone a few kilograms of meat. But in this year, no one will let go of a few kilograms of meat if they have the opportunity to eat a few kilograms of meat.
Today, even Wanniang ate half a bowl of meat, two bowls of knife-cut noodles, and two bowls of radish soup. This little body bone actually ate so much.
Li Zhen, a teenage girl, also ate three or four bowls of food.
As for a rough man like Da Biao, who was not soup and meat, but soup cakes and vegetables, and had four or five pounds.
"This way of eating is that the 100 stones of grain we bought will not last long." Mr. Zhao also ate today, and while picking his teeth with a willow branch. This is a good day to pick teeth.
"I'm happy today, everyone eats more. I guess tomorrow, everyone won't be able to eat much. Usually, it's impossible to eat like this every day. Even if there are one every day, everyone can't eat it."
"The house is coming back, and the debt is exempted, but now there are still people in the fifties to eat. We have no other industries except Jade Green. It is not a long-term event to do this. Saburo, do you have any other plans?"
Although the Li family has survived a great crisis, after all, there are only dozens of acres of mountainous land left. That little barren land can produce nothing, let alone feeding more than fifty people.
Li Xiao hasn't thought about something yet.
In fact, Li Xiao felt that if he really wanted to do it, there were many things to do, and he also had great achievements, such as papermaking, winemaking, sugar making, and refined salt. But to be honest, these things are too deep, so no one dares to enter. Without some power, he would not even have the residue left after rashly entering.
Even if you get to the Xue family now, it will not be easy.
Li Xiao gave the secret recipe for decolorization of sugar to the Xue family, but the Xue family himself never thought of keeping it, because this thing was still quite hot.
The farming is the old business of most landlords, but there are too few acres of land.
Nowadays, landlords with a little money still know that they should buy other things while renting out land, such as opening a shop in the township and county, or lending and collecting interest. Land is fundamental, but it is not enough to rely on land alone.
There are still a few more cucumbers to be sold, but in fact, the market in Changan is so large. If the supply is increased, the price will inevitably fall. Therefore, this business is so large that there is no room for further expansion.
"The Chinese New Year is not yet, and it's still a long time before the beginning of next spring. The weather is cold and there is nothing to do. Otherwise, I'd better go chop firewood and burn charcoal?"
There is a great demand for charcoal in winter, especially here is close to Chang'an, and burning charcoal does not require any technology or cost. There are men in the farm and firewood on the mountain. You can burn it by digging a charcoal kiln and chopping it. You can still make some money.
"This method is too difficult and too little to make money." Li Xiao shook his head. He never looked down on this way of making money by relying so much on his own efforts. He was so tired that he couldn't make much money.
"I have an idea. What do you think of us digging ponds and raising fish?"
"Dig a pond to raise fish?" Mr. Zhao was stunned.
The geographical conditions of Guanzhong are destined to be a relatively lacking place. Although Guanzhong also has many rivers such as Jingwei, there are many plateaus, mountains and water shortages. People in many places have never eaten fish.
Eating fish, especially raising fish and selling live fish, is indeed a good deal, and it was even listed as one of the most profitable deals by the ancients. However, raising fish in ancient times was not easy to do. There were many technical problems, such as how to breed fish fry, how to sell live fish to the market, especially this sales issue.
In particular, the transportation of live fish is quite difficult.
Li Xiao had the idea of raising fish, mainly because he found that there were fish in the spiritual spring in his space. The first time he saw only one, but last time he saw a group of fish. Although the spring was not big, the group of eyes inside was still just small fish fry. But Li Xiao felt that since his space was so magical, cucumbers could grow so well, the fish fry in the spring would definitely be very different if they were moved out to breed them.
Mr. Zhao is not optimistic about raising fish. No one in the Li family has raised fish, no experience or skills. Besides, it is not far from Chang'an, but it is eighty miles away. If you really raise fish, how can you transport it to Chang'an freshly? If you cannot guarantee that you will live, then the dead fish will not be sold for a price.
Chapter completed!