"A cucumber cost two cents a piece is not cheap." Zhao Wan spoke on the side. She told Li Xiao that although there were floods in many places in Jiangnan last year, many places still had bumper harvests this year, so the grain prices, especially in Guanzhong, Henan, Shannan and other places, are still very stable.

"One dou of Luoyang corn and two and a half coins, and one dou of 11 coins, the price of grain in Chang'an is slightly higher, but it is only a little higher."

Old man Zhao said that a cucumber costs two cents, but it is already selling at a high price. A bucket of corn in Luoyang is only two cents, and a cucumber is equivalent to a bucket of corn. The price of rice is more expensive, which means that a bucket of rice is only eleven cents.

This rice is sold by bucket, and a bucket can be several pounds. Cucumbers are sold by roots, and each piece is at most one pound.

A cucumber is equivalent to a bucket of corn, and the price is cheap, which is really unreasonable. Old Man Zhao still sets the price based on high-end customers. Otherwise, who would buy a cucumber worth two cents per person?

No matter how much I experienced the Zhenguan rule and how peaceful the world is, there are still many people struggling on the line of food and clothing.

No matter how delicious a cucumber is, it only satisfies the desire to eat it, but a bucket of rice can last for several days for several people.

After Zhao Wan's explanation, Li Xiao had a deeper understanding of the prices of this era. After the Zhenguan reign, the current food prices are still relatively low, and the low food prices have also led to the maintenance of other prices at relatively low levels.

This is not only a contribution to the Zhenguan administration, but of course there are also some reasons why the Tang Dynasty lacked copper coins and had shortage of money. But no matter what, two cents were very valuable in this era.

He compared the current prices with those of later generations in his mind. A penny now can be worth about five or six yuan. By this calculation, a cucumber is indeed not cheap for ten yuan.

If a thousand pounds of cucumber is sold at two cents per piece, it can be sold at least two thousand cents. If it is exchanged for corn, it can be more than 60 stones, which is enough for the people in this farm, plus Li Xiao and others to eat it for the whole winter, and even until the harvest next summer.

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Two thousand cents of money, but only two cents of money, Li Xiao really didn't take it seriously.

But in the eyes of Old Man Zhao and those farmhouseholders, this is a lot of money, and even in the eyes of Li Zhen, who was once the daughter of the landlord family, this is also not a small amount of money.

It is said that when there is no money, a penny will stump the heroes. They now have a deep understanding. On Lanxi Street, a bucket of corn costs only three cents, but they can't afford the three cents. The porridge of wild grass sautéed in the pot is proof.

Two thousand cents can buy back a few thousand kilograms of corn. It can be piled up into a hill, and no one is moved.

When the years are good, it is already amazing to save dozens of copper coins after a bumper harvest, let alone two thousand copper coins.

Some farmers are even imagining that the copper coins have been obtained and which grain store to buy grain. Some say they want to buy corn, some say it is more cost-effective to buy millet directly, and some say that buying some millet and some beans and sorghum can save more when you eat it.

"One thousand cucumbers can definitely not be sold in Guanglanxi Town. Although there are inns and inns and restaurants on the street, these cucumbers have to be eaten fresh, and the price of two cents per piece is not cheap. It would be good if Lanxi could sell 100 pieces."

A cucumber with two citrus is a high consumption. Even if Lanxi travels south and north and there are many people going east and west, they are not willing to eat a cucumber with two citrus.

"Send to Chang'an, thousands of cucumbers, hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, and countless powerful nobles, will definitely be sold out at once."

"But there are many powerful families in Chang'an who also have their own greenhouses, and they also grow green vegetables, fruits and melons," said Old Man Zhao.

Li Xiao is full of confidence.

"Even if they have a warm room, I dare say that the cucumbers they grow from home are definitely not as good as mine, and not as delicious as me. Once we take out our jasper cucumber, it will definitely be amazing."

Li Xiao's words made Zhao Wan and the others nodded. Such a good cucumber is rare in winter, even in summer, you can't see such beautiful and delicious.

"Without any further, I will bring some cucumbers to Lanxi now, sell some food and fish first, and come back with some food and fish. You probably haven't eaten for many days. Let's have a good meal tonight." Li Xiao patted Li Zhen's back and said.

After explaining to them a few words, Li Xiao went out.

Guo Biao and Yang Dayan followed. When they were in the Jiangnan rebel army, these two were Li Xiao's right-hand men. Guo Biao was his deputy general and Yang Dayan was his military advisor. Guo Biao used to be a butcher who killed pigs and sheep. He was big and thick. He was good at using two knives in the rebel army, one butcher knife and one sharp knife.

Yang Dayan used to be a private school teacher and read a few Confucian classics, but his level was average. When he was with Li Xiao, he was at the level of a dog-headed military advisor.

"Sanlang, why don't we know when we bought cucumbers?"

They came from Jiangnan all the way to Guannei, traveling day and night, and even had to carefully avoid the government's investigation. Even if they were in the name of business and travel, they actually did any business along the way. Besides, they had never heard of any merchant selling this cucumber along the way.

Li Xiao smiled.

"You don't know much, don't worry about so much. I originally agreed to you that you can live a peaceful life when you come to the pass. But now something unexpected has happened, and today's supper is not yet settled. Fortunately, I still have these cucumbers on my hands, so let's go to the Lanxi selling spot to exchange for some food first."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he asked the two to call Tiezhu, Ergou, Liu Cong, Zhang Liu and several others to go to the pine forest to get cucumbers.

On the way, he was too lazy to explain to them why there were so many cucumbers in the pine forest. Li Xiao himself didn't know how to explain this thing. He had tried that space a long time ago and found that others could not see or touch it, and he could not even take others in.

Even if they say it, they can't believe this kind of thing.

Let them guess.

When he arrived outside the pine forest, Li Xiao asked them to put down the basket and wait. He took the willow basket and entered the woods.

After walking a little into the woods, he found that no one was following him, so he entered the space and began to pick cucumbers.

After a long time, I picked two baskets of cucumbers, about a hundred, and then came out.

I spent about half an incense stick in the space, but outside, it seemed that only a short time had passed.

When Li Xiao really came out with two big baskets of fresh cucumbers, Biaozi and Dayan widened their eyes, let alone Ergou and a few young people behind him were young.

"There are really cucumbers. This cucumber is not wild in the pine forest, right?" Ergou asked.

Big eyes rolled his eyes and said, "Have you seen wild cucumbers on the mountain? Even if there are wild ones, have you seen such good wild cucumbers grow in the cold winter and so good?"

Ergou didn't believe that evil, so he ran into the forest by himself, and Li Xiao didn't stop him. After a while, Ergou came out dejectedly, and naturally he couldn't find any wild cucumber seedlings inside.

"I didn't see the cucumber vine, nor did I see anyone."

Several people looked at Li Xiao in confusion, but Li Xiao just smiled and said nothing.

"Let's go, send this cucumber to Lanxi for money first."

When they went down the mountain, Zhang Cong and Liu Yuan carried a basket of cucumbers each, weighing about fifty pounds, but they seemed to carry empty baskets.

These two men were only fourteen or fifteen years old. They used to be Li Xiao's personal soldiers. Because they had no big name before, Li Xiao gave them the name Zhang Cong Liu Yuan.

When they arrived at Zhuangkou, Old Man Zhao, Zhao Wan, Li Zhen and others were surprised to see Li Xiao coming back with two baskets of tender cucumbers.

"You are waiting for us at home. Let's go to Blue Bridge and come back soon."

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Zhuangzi is only two miles away from Lijiapo and only five or six miles away from Lanqiao Street. It doesn’t take a horse to ride, and it takes only a while to walk.

Several people were walking on the frozen and solid road, and Li Xiao looked at the place where he had decided to live for a long time.

Following the Qinling Mountains, there are continuous slopes under your feet. The ground is very uneven and the road is very small. The loess slopes can be seen that this land is not fertile.

Compared to the irrigated land by the river in Lijiapo, it is far worse.

"That's Li Jiapo, right? Saburo?"

Passing by Lijiapo, Guo Biao looked at the village that was obviously much better than the village just now.

"Yes." Li Xiao nodded.

"Sanlang, ask me, why should we be polite to the Zhang surnamed and call us directly to the door."

"No."

Li Xiao stopped them. Although they had committed rebellion, they were still fleeing now. They were counting on escaping into Guanzhong to avoid disaster. How could they be so directed? It would not be of any benefit to them.

It is certain to deal with the Zhang family, but it must not be so simple and crude. Revenge must be a must, but you must also protect yourself first. He did not want to take Zheng Wan, Li Zhen and others to wander around the world in the second half of his life, or become a bandit.

"Wouldn't that be too cheap for them?" Ergou said hatefully.

Li Xiao stopped and looked at Zhuangzi. It should be Zhang Laocai's son Xiao Ba Wang who lives there.

Although he had to make a long-term plan, doing nothing really did not conform to his character.

He turned around and looked at the cucumbers in the willow basket on Zhang Cong and Liu Lian and the others, and suddenly came up with a plan.

"Let's go, let's go for a walk in the village."

"Sanlang has figured it out, it's great. Let's kill him completely." Guo Biao said with a smile.

"Uncle Biao, don't say anything casually about fighting and killing in the future. We are now a righteous and good citizen. We should talk about the axioms of the king's law. Don't talk randomly later, just follow me."

"Ah, if you don't fight and kill, then what will we do?" Guo Biao was puzzled.

"Go to find them to recover some interest first?"

"How to collect it?"

Li Xiao smiled and said to Yang Dayan, "Uncle Big-eyed should understand what I want to do."

Yang Dayan stroked the goatee's beard and smiled, "If it's not bad as I expected, Sanlang would have planned to sell some cucumbers to the evil young master of the Zhang family?"

"Uncle Big Eyes is indeed worthy of being a magic trick, and I am worthy of being praised as Zhiduoxing. That's right, today I'm going to send some cucumbers to the person named Zhang."

"Send cucumbers? What does it mean? Why don't I understand?" Ergou had a bad mind at first, and now he didn't understand even more.
Chapter completed!