roccoschili Chapter 165: A Great Harvest of Chili Peppers
Chapter 165: A Great Harvest of Chili Peppers
Han Yiyi listened to Yun Xiao's words and nodded. Using sand must be much cheaper than using ice. After all, there is no ice maker here.
Seeing that everyone had left, he went home with Yun Xiao, prepared lunch, and then started harvesting peppers.
Originally, Han Yiyi planned to have everyone deliver the peppers to the village chief's house and calculate the money for everyone together. After all, the village chief's house was in the village, so it would be more convenient for everyone to deliver the peppers.
But considering the number of peppers, the village chief’s house probably couldn’t hold them all, so he had to ask everyone to deliver them directly to his home.
Han Yiyi and Yun Xiao had just finished lunch and had not had time to put away their dishes when someone knocked on the door. When they opened the door, they saw Aunt Wang with a smile on her face. Behind her were two half-grown boys. They all had baskets on their backs filled with hot peppers.
When Han Yiyi saw this, he hurriedly invited the person in and asked Yun Xiao to bring the scale and change that he had prepared in advance.
The two half-grown boys are Aunt Wang's grandsons. It is their first time to visit Han Yi's family. When they see that Han Yi has such a big yard, they can't help but whisper to Aunt Zhang.
"Grandma, this yard is so beautiful. After we sell the peppers, let's build a big house..."
"Yes, grandma, our house is too small..."
Aunt Wang has a son and a daughter. Her daughter married into the next village. Now the old couple lives with their son, daughter-in-law, two grandsons and one granddaughter. As the grandsons and granddaughters grow older, the three thatched houses are no longer enough.
In fact, the reason why Aunt Wang followed Han Yiyi to pick so many peppers this time was because of this plan.
She wanted to use the money from selling the houses to build a few big houses with blue bricks and tiles like Aunt Zhang's family. But she knew that Aunt Zhang's family had been following Han Yiyi all the time, which was why they were able to build such a big house so quickly.
Therefore, when he heard his two grandsons say this, he couldn't help but curl his lips, but looking at the two naughty looks, he spoke.
"If you want to live in a big house, put down your backpack and go pick peppers..."
"Okay..."
Hearing their grandmother say this, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes full of surprise, and hurriedly responded and ran away...
The three of them carried a total of three baskets of chili peppers. Han weighed them one by one and found that there were still 45 kilograms excluding the baskets.
According to what was written in the previous agreement, one pound of long peppers costs twenty-five coins, so the total price is 1,125 coins, which is more than one tael of silver.
"Auntie, should I give you the money now, or should I give it to you all at once after you bring all the peppers from your home over and we've calculated the price..."
When Aunt Wang heard the number Han Yiyi calculated, she found that these three backpacks were worth just over one or two taels of silver. She couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
You know, her family planted two acres of peppers, and these three baskets didn't even finish picking them from the edge of the field. So...
Thinking of this, Aunt Wang couldn't help but gasp. She knew that she would be able to make money by growing peppers with Han Yizhong, but she didn't expect that she could make so much money. Not to mention building a big house, it would be enough to marry off her two grandsons and give her granddaughter a dowry.
"Aunt, should I give you the money now, or should I give it to you all at once after we've settled the score..." Han Yiyi saw that Aunt Wang was a little absent-minded, and couldn't help but repeat what he had just said.
At this time, Aunt Wang seemed to come to her senses and spoke quickly.
"It's okay, it's okay. Wait until you've figured it out, girl Han, and I'll give it to you all at once. I'll give it to you all at once..."
Seeing Aunt Wang's excited expression, Han Yiyi's eyes were full of smiles. After pondering for a moment, he spoke.
"How about this, I remember that your family planted two acres of land, and I think we can't pick all the crops today. I will settle the bill with what you send today, and I'll do the rest tomorrow. What do you think..."
Han Yiyi knew what this silver meant to this villager. She was afraid that if she kept this silver, she would not be able to sleep at night.
Han Yiyi didn't know that some people who received the silver were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night.
Hearing Han Yiyi say this, Aunt Wang naturally agreed.
Without waiting for Han Yiyi to say anything, the man left in a flash, picking up the backpack. Looking at his brisk steps, Han Yiyi couldn't help but curl his lips.
As soon as Aunt Wang left, other villagers came to her house carrying peppers.
Han Yiyi had told them before that the pepper harvest was about 1,200 kilograms per acre, which shocked them. But now they didn't expect that the harvest would be more than 1,500 kilograms.
In the village, except for Fan Ting's family and Huang Po Po's family, everyone else planted some.
The least amount of land that a family could grow together was half an acre, which is about two or three mu per family. By this calculation, the least amount of land that a family could grow was two or three hundred kilograms of peppers, which was seven thousand five cents, or more than seven taels of silver.
Not to mention seven taels of silver, according to previous years, if a family lived frugally and could save two or three jin of silver in a year, it would be very good.
Therefore, after receiving the silver, several families were so excited that they cried out loud. Among them, there was an aunt from Murakami who had been living a difficult life. She even knelt down to Han Yiyi.
Han Yiyi was shocked when she saw this and quickly helped the man up.
"Auntie, get up quickly, get up quickly, what are you doing? These are all grown through your hard work, and you deserve them..."
When Yun Xiao saw Han Yiyi surrounded by a group of aunts and sisters thanking him, his face changed. He thought to himself that he had never been so close to Yiyi before, so he hurried forward and pulled her out.
Han Yi was surrounded and felt that his face was frozen from smiling. Now that Yun Xiao pulled him out, he felt relieved.
Now, in just one afternoon, they harvested more than 7,000 kilograms of peppers. Because most of the peppers planted before were long strips, only Aunt Zhang, the village chief, and Aunt Wang's family planted chili peppers. Maybe because chili peppers were difficult to pick, the three families did not send chili peppers over today.
Looking at the backpacks and baskets piled in front of him, Han Yiyi felt a little worried. His family only had one mule cart. If he relied on one mule cart to go to the town, he was afraid that he would not be able to finish the journey by tomorrow morning.
However, when talking about this mule cart, we have to mention the dramatic scene before. After Han Yiyi was kidnapped by Fan Ting, he stopped feeding it.
Perhaps because it was extremely hungry, it bit the rope by itself and ran to Aunt Zhang's house, where it secretly ate all the food that Aunt Zhang had prepared to feed the chickens. Aunt Zhang thought that a wild cat had attracted the house. It was then that Aunt Zhang realized that Han Yiyi and the two children were missing.