Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 666: So much food collected in one day

"There is an old farmer in the neighboring Guqiao Village. His land yields the most harvests in the village every year. His sons have all learned his skills and are all good farmers with enough labor, so their harvests are higher than those of other families."

On the farm, all the harvested grain was placed at the door of the granary, but had not yet been stored.

Everyone who went out today was waiting here, all smiling and chatting happily.

When they saw Zhou Guo coming, they all stood up quickly.

Zhou Guo took a look and saw that ten groups of people had gone there today. Ten of the sixteen nearby villages had gone, and six had not yet gone.

Hu Zi handed over the account book.

She took it, without turning it over, and pointed at Dapang and said, "Dapang, tell me about your visit to the village to collect grain today."

Big Fatty said, "Yes, today we went to Pingshan Village. There are more than 40 households in Pingshan Village, and 31 of them bought fertilizer. The family that bought the most bought 10 shi, and they have 18 mu of land, which is the family with the most land in the village. The family that bought the least bought 3 shi, and they have 8 mu of land. Most of the other families bought 4 shi, 5 shi, 6 shi, and even 8 shi is rare..."

Once Dapang starts talking, he can talk nonstop.

Zhou Guo's mouth corners curled up slightly.

The others looked at each other and became nervous. They couldn't help but complain to Dapang. Just tell the situation. Can't you just give a brief account? Who asked you to describe it in such detail? You almost found out the total harvest of every household in the village.

How are those people behind them supposed to survive?

"Because we are close to the village, we went back and forth three times today and collected grain from 19 households. A total of 4,856 kilograms of grain, including 4,076 kilograms of wheat and the remaining 780 kilograms of soybeans."

Zhou Guo nodded, flipped through the account book, and saw that all the data were recorded. He said, "Very good. Collecting grain is a big deal. You must not underestimate it. We will not take a single grain more from others, but we will not take a single grain less from ours. Collecting grain is the last step in selling our fertilizer. If we do this well, we won't need to go door to door next year. When people get the news, they will naturally come to us, and we will have no problem selling our fertilizer."

Everyone answered in unison.

Zhou Guo pointed to the next one and said, "Liu San, you go ahead and speak."

"Today we went to Pingnan Village..."

Everyone was talking about their gains today. Zhou Guo was flipping through the account book with a blank expression on his face, but he was so happy in his heart that if there weren't so many people, he really wanted to jump up.

My God, look at how much grain she earned in just one year. She can finally open a grain shop in the county town.

After all the people who collected grain reported, the final tally showed that the ten villages had collected a total of more than 33,000 kilograms of grain today.

All the crops in these ten villages have not been harvested. The least there are only five or six households left, and the most are more than ten. Moreover, there are still several villages that have not been visited.

We can harvest at least 50,000 kilograms of grain this year!

When everyone heard the number, they couldn't help but shout for joy. Thirty thousand kilograms of food was enough food for so many people for the next year, and they wouldn't have to go hungry anymore.

What's more, there are still a lot of them. A small half of them have not been collected yet, and the rest are surplus and can be sold.

The family was relieved to hear this number.

Li said, "Don't tell me, with so many people suddenly coming to our house, food is really a big problem. There are many young boys on the farm, and we have bought 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms of food this year, which costs a lot of money."

Especially since they bought the grain from the grain shop, it was even more expensive. Now that they have their own grain, they can at least save the money on buying grain.

The old man said, "There are still a lot of things that haven't been collected. Doesn't the Zhao family still have a debt to the eldest brother?"

Yes, the Zhao family has placed orders for 400 dan of fertilizer from her family in batches. This is a big deal.

Zhou Guo said, "Wait until the crops in these villages are harvested before we go to collect the crops from Zhao's family. By then, all the ox carts on the farm will go over there, and twenty ox carts will bring back all the grain for our family."

Come as you say.

On the second day, before Zhou Guo even left the house, the Zhao family's convoy arrived.

The ox cart loaded with food entered the village.

Although the villagers had all gone to the fields at this time, the noise was so loud that everyone knew it even though it was just in the fields.

Looking at the dozen or so full ox carts, I was envious. "Where are they going to haul so much food?"

"Oh, you don't know yet. The Zhou family has started to go out and collect grain these days. They collect it from far away and slowly come to the village. They collected it all day yesterday. You didn't see it, but I did. There were carts of grain going in and out of the village. I saw it six or seven times a day. The Zhou family made a fortune this time."

"Really? Oh, do we have to pay grain too? We have 161 dan. Zhou Guo said that in addition to grain, we can also use beans. We still have a lot of beans, which can also be used to compensate for some."

When everyone heard this, they all decided to use some beans as compensation. After all, the Zhou family said it was possible, and beans could not be compared to grain.

The convoy will pass by Zhou’s house.

But at this time, apart from Zhou Xing who was doing needlework at home, there was only Xu in the Zhou family. Even Li went to the farm, saying that she wanted to see what the full warehouse of grain looked like.

The one who came to deliver food today was Old Man Zhao. When he saw Zhou Guo and the old man from a distance, he waved, "Brother, brother, the little girl from the Zhou family, little girl!"

Zhou Guo had sharp ears, so he turned around and said with a smile, "Master, your good friend is here to bring food to our family."

Everyone in the farm came out to watch the fun. Although they had harvested tens of thousands of kilograms of grain yesterday, that was all transported back by them in two carts.

Today is different. More than twenty ox carts are coming from a distance with a rumbling sound. Just looking at the bags of grain on the carts, everyone's hearts are filled with endless satisfaction and pride.

Because Zhou Guo said that all the food was earned by their own hands.

It is their food ration for the next year, and the excess will be sold.

Mr. Zhao got out of the car and asked with a smile, "Where are you going?"

Zhou Guo said, "Grandpa Zhao, you came at the right time. I plan to go to the village with my master to collect grain. Do you want to go?"

Old Master Zhao was stunned. "Collecting grain, what's so fun about collecting grain?"

The old man said, "You just think about having fun all day long. Is that how you got started?"

Upon hearing the news, Li and Zhou Gu hurried over to pay their respects.

Old Master Zhao nodded and said with a smile, "I have delivered the food to you. It is exactly as you said. Seventy percent of it is grain and thirty percent is beans. It is all here. Come up and weigh it."

Li smiled and said, "Then why should we call it that? There is no need to call it that."

"No, you have to weigh it."

Zhou Guo and the old man spoke in unison and refused to do it.

Although the old man said so, he was still a little unhappy after hearing Zhou Guo's decisive words, "Why, little girl, do you suspect that I have lost weight? You don't even say a polite word?"