The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 352 The Dying Man (8)_1

Chapter 352: Chapter 352 The Dying Man (8)_1

"I need to calculate this on the abacus. When are you guys pulling the goods?" Pull the goods and run off quickly!

"You really have a knack for talking nonsense. You’re clearly adept at mental math, but you speak as if you’re telling the truth!" Ji Bingchu had already seen her information long before.

Pei Qin was silent for a moment, "The truth often goes unbelieved, while lies easily win people’s trust!"

Ji Bingchu nodded, "You speak as if it’s the gospel truth!"

Pei Qin did some quick calculations and asked, "Are you sure you want 250 jin?"

Ji Bingchu caught the hidden meaning in her mention of "250" with just one look, "We want 300 jin!"

"Sixty wen per jin, three times six is a total of eighteen taels of silver." Pei Qin reported the total.

Ji Bingchu took out his purse directly, threw her two ten-tael silver ingots, and told her to keep the change, "... Have the soy sauce ready, we’ll come to pull the goods before we leave!"

Pei Qin came out holding the silver ingots, her eyebrows slightly furrowed together.

Pei Yuan noticed her troubled expression, "Big sister, what’s wrong?"

"Oh! Sold 300 jin of soy sauce, put the silver away!" Pei Qin handed her the silver ingots.

Pei Yuan took the silver with puzzlement and went to record the transaction.

After seeing Pei Qin, that evening Ji Bingchu went to the workshop to see Mo Heng.

Mo Heng listened indifferently, his sightless eyes remained cold and detached.

Pei Qin was also wondering whether they were here to kill the blind man Mo or for something else. But if they weren’t here to pull goods, they’re bound to stay for a while.

The next day, Ji Bingchu went to the workshop to pull the soy sauce, gave a tip, and left with the soy sauce.

While Pei Qin was picking sweet potato leaves in the field, she went to check on Mo Heng in the workshop. Nothing had happened.

A few days later, Mo Heng had Zhang Gengshan come over and called Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin to listen to his lecture.

Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin had also guessed that Mo Heng’s arrival in the town was related to the two distinguished men who appeared recently—another big trouble. So, when Pei Qin said not to go, they obediently didn’t. Now that Mo Heng had someone call for them, they all looked to Pei Qin for approval.

Pei Qin thought for a moment and waved her hand, "Go ahead!" Several days had passed, and nothing had happened. It looked like it wasn’t a vendetta to silence someone.

Life returned to its peaceful rhythm, and the weather cooled down as well.

The sweet potatoes in the field were also in season.

As soon as Pei Qin spread the word, the villagers who planted sweet potatoes joyfully rushed to their fields to start digging them up.

Before long, word came from all the villages that someone had harvested two thousand jin per mu, some harvested four thousand five hundred over two mu, and some even got over one thousand six hundred jin with inferior land.

The Lizhengs from each village recorded the sweet potato harvests to report to the Government Office.

Pei Qin compiled all the data and went to the Wang family and Chang’s house to discuss the autumn sweet potato planting, and she sent the statistical data to Magistrate Wu.

The sweet potato crop had been abundant, yielding several times more per mu than the corn and sorghum—after paying the taxes, feeding a family was no longer an issue.

Those who hadn’t planted were full of regret; even if they hadn’t planted one or two mu, half a mu would’ve been worth a try!

But when it came to planting autumn sweet potatoes, nobody was willing to do so. After all, wheat had to be sown after the autumn harvest. If they planted sweet potatoes, what wheat would there be to reap next year?

The ones with lots of land didn’t have this concern. Hearing that they could harvest spring soybeans next year, and after the autumn sweet potatoes were done, they could plant spring soybeans without affecting the planting of corn and sorghum. They came to buy sweet potato shoots and planted the sweet potatoes in their lower-grade fields.

Pei Qin gave them a tip: the harvested sweet potato vines, as long as you pick the green and healthy ones to cut, could also be planted, which could save some money.

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