Through the small days of farming

It snowed for a day and a night at once, before the weather finally cleared up.

My house was bored for a few days, and when the snow stopped, many people walked around the village, visiting the next door or something.

It's a good sign that it's snowing.

The group of them walked around the village and found that the snow had stopped. At this time, someone came to the village to buy grain.

They came here with a few ox carts. Every year, the grain in the village is sold to these door-to-door merchants. Not only is the price higher, but they don't need to pick it up to the town.

If you go to the town to sell, you will be exhausted just picking the grain to the town, and the price is not as high as that of the merchants who come to the village.

Because the village head told everyone not to sell the food at home, and now it is snowing, I don't know how many people secretly regret it.

I regret that the price of grain was expensive at that time, so I didn't sell the grain.

Chen Mingren thought, it's snowing now, and the family bought a lot of food at a high price, and it hurts to think of him.

So after the businessman came this time, he was warmly welcomed by the village.

"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Many people hurried past them and ran forward, as if there was something lively ahead.

"You don't know?" The person who was stopped was not very angry, but just muttered that their news was too late, "Boss Luo, who came to the village to buy food, is here, we have to sign up quickly."

"Boss Luo? Who is that?" Chen Mingren had never heard of this person, so what if he came?

"Boss Luo gave us the highest price for buying grain, which is three times as much. If you want to sell grain, you should sign up quickly. Otherwise, when he collects enough grain, you will have to wait for the next time." The stopped one The young man explained it once, and then rushed to sign up.

"This situation is not right." When Bai Niannian heard the price of rice, he felt that something was wrong. Now that it is snowing, it is very likely that there will be no drought. Logically speaking, the rising prices should be reduced at this time.

But the actual situation is that the price of rice not only did not fall, but doubled.What exactly caused the price of rice to rise instead of falling?Is the food in the town also at this price?

These businessmen are the most shrewd. This time they actually paid three times the price to buy rice. What is going on here?

"Is the price of rice in the town the same?"

"What caused the price of rice to rise?"

"Let's go to the village to have a look."

On the way, he asked brother Nian who Boss Luo was.

"I don't know too well, but he only came to our village to buy grain in recent years. He is generous and kind-hearted. Most people in the village have a good impression of him." Bai Niannian shrugged. There is no surplus food to sell to him, I met him in the village."

"In the future, we will eat half of the food in our family and sell half." Chen Mingren comforted.

Now their family has so many fields, in addition to renting out, they also grow a lot by themselves.

Just the rented out land, the rent they received was enough for their family of four to eat.

On the way to the village chief's house, they also met a few people who hurriedly ran in that direction, and found that there was a family they had made friends with, so Chen Mingren stopped them.

I tried to persuade them with good words, but I didn't get the other party's understanding, but I was complained all the time. Is it because they saw that they had no food, and they were jealous that their food could be sold at such a good price.

Chen Mingren had no choice but to let him go. Why did everyone seem to be in a daze?The businessman will definitely not let his family lose money. To be honest, he may still lose money at three times the price.

They quickened their pace and walked towards the village chief's house. The village chief might know something.

"Village chief, wait!" When they arrived, they found the village head locked in front of the door, wearing thick clothes, ready to go out, Chen Mingren immediately stopped him.

Lifting it was so cold that his hands and feet were a little stiff. Hearing the sound, the village chief stopped what he was doing, and turned his head to see the group of them.

"It's you! Old man, I'm planning to go out and exercise my old bones." The village chief opened the door again and invited them in.

It was much warmer in the house and everyone relaxed.

There was a pot of water on the table, Bai Niannian reached out to touch the lid of the pot, it was still hot, and poured a cup of hot water for everyone.

It is much more comfortable to drink a cup of hot water.

"This winter is really cold!" Bai Niannian exclaimed.

"Tell me, what's the matter with you, old man?"

"Village chief, everyone in the village is planning to sell their grain." Chen Mingren said, "If the price of grain is okay, it doesn't matter if everyone wants to sell it, but now that it's snowing, the price of grain will not drop. Sheng, I am afraid there is a lot to write about.”

"At least you have to figure out what caused the price of rice to rise before you can sell the grain."

"Why don't I understand the truth you said? It's just that everyone is afraid that if they make a mistake, there will be no such shop in this village, and they rush up to sell grain, and they don't know what's going on outside?" The village chief sighed and said, "I I was going to discuss this matter with my third uncle, even if they complained, I can't let you sell the food in a hurry?"

"In a famine year, you can't buy food even if you have money."

"No, I wonder if the village head knows why the price of grain will continue to rise?" Chen Mingren asked the question that he was most concerned about. If the village head knew, they wouldn't have to go to the town.

Otherwise, they would have to go to the town. The ox cart at home had already been sold, and Li Daniu was reluctant to let the ox cart pull the cart after it snowed, so at present, if they wanted to go to the town, they could only walk.

The journey is long and the road is slippery, and we have to worry about whether it will snow or not. This trip is even more difficult.

But if there is less snowfall, the snow will still cover the mountain, and after a while, people from outside will not come in, and people in the mountain will not go out unless it is absolutely necessary.

"It's been snowing for the past two days. Is there anyone in the village going to the town? I don't know what's going on." The village chief glanced at them, "Are you going to the town to bring that unfilial son of mine? Just a message, don’t come back if he doesn’t come back! Was he having fun when the mountains were covered by heavy snow?!”

"understood."

The village head said disgusting words, but his tone was still concerned about him. Chen Mingren was a little envious, but quickly suppressed his emotions, and responded: "Then we won't bother the village head, we still have to find a way to stop him from catching up." We can only sell food, and Shen Wei and I will leave for the town later."

"Old man, I will do my best. Be careful when you go to the town on slippery roads." The village chief said with concern.

After coming out of the village chief's house, the two of them set off for the town. When they were leaving, Bai Niannian told him two things. The first thing was to ask him to buy some thick clothes for Brother Hua. The second thing is to let them go to the iron shop and buy two iron pots that are similar to the wooden basins used to wash their faces.

Chen Mingren didn't know what he was using it for, but he still agreed.

In winter, how can we forget the existence of the artifact of hot pot!

At that time, the small pot will be placed on top of the charcoal basin, and the whole family will gather together and eat hot pot happily. It is such a leisurely little day.

Originally there was an earthen pot at home, so it was fine to use this, but the thermal conductivity is not as good as that of iron, and the opening of the earthen pot is not large, so it is not convenient for everyone to pick up vegetables.

Buy two and come back. When the time comes, the adults will eat a pot of spicy food, and the little ones who can't eat spicy food will also have a pot.

Now that it's snowing, they don't need to say, the two of them will also bring back a lot of meat. The snow outside is a natural refrigerator, which can be stored for a long time.

Bai Niannian thought flatteredly, how to make a delicious and easy to fill hot pot with few ingredients.

On the way home, they met that Boss Luo, who was really kind-hearted and looked like a good guy, but this was just what he looked like.

Those who signed the contract followed behind him, and each family pulled the ox cart to move the grain.

Paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other hand, both parties are familiar people, and soon finished moving one family's food and went to the next one.

"How did Boss Luo explain that the price of grain would be so high?" Bai Niannian asked a kind-hearted brother.

"You don't know. Boss Luo told us a long time ago. I heard that there was a flood in Shuicheng. Boss Luo bought grain from us and then sold it. He can make a lot of money."

Bai Niannian was taken aback for a moment, he never thought that he would get such an answer.

The flood in Shuicheng may be true, but he doesn't believe that he bought grain here and shipped it there.

He checked the map specifically, and he still has some impressions of the relatively large cities on the map. Shuicheng is in the southernmost place, and it is much richer than here.

The distance from here is more than half a country, and the purchase of grain and transportation there consumes a lot of manpower and material resources on the way. Judging from Boss Luo's appearance, he does not seem to be such a courageous person.

But in this way, the rise in rice prices makes sense, and the news can reach their remote place. Compared with the flood in Shuicheng, it is very serious.

"Brother Ning, what do you think he wants to buy grain for?" They looked at it for a while, then took a few little guys and walked home, Brother Nian took Mingli Mingde's hand, and asked Brother Ning look.

"Hoard goods, buy a large amount of grain when the price is low, and release it when the price of grain rises to a high level." Ning Ge'er can guess some of his thoughts.

"They will regret it sooner or later." Bai Niannian glanced at the people who walked past them and got a lot of money from selling grain.

When the price of rice rises to a higher level in the future, they will definitely regret selling it early.