Chapter 106 spreads everywhere
"If you want to exchange for refined grain, you can do it, but the exchange ratio is different." As he said, Bai Duojin said: "You have to go to the city gate to know the specific situation."
In the eyes of people in Taohua Village, rice and flour are precious fine grains, so they are called refined grains.
The news was so shocking that Zhou Yang didn't recover for a while: "This, this, this..."
After taking a deep breath, he calmed down and asked uncertainly: "Guanshi Bai, are you saying that these bugs can be exchanged for food?"
Did he hear it correctly? It can be exchanged for food? !
Bai Duojin corrected: "It's crayfish."
"Ah, I'm sorry, it's a crayfish." No matter if it's a bug or a crayfish, as long as it can be exchanged for food, it's a good thing.
"Yes, it can be exchanged for food." Bai Duojinxin said, not only can it be exchanged for food, but it can also be eaten.
"Ah, here, then, we, thank you very much, Bai Guanshi, we, we will go now."
Zhou Yang was very excited, with an excited smile on his dark and rough old face.
Next to them, other members of the Zhou family were also grinning happily.
"Thank you, Manager Bai. Thank you for telling us this news. These little bugs, no, they are crayfish. Just treat them as gifts from us. Thank you..."
It's not that the Zhou Yang family doesn't feel bad when they hear that they can give away these things in exchange for food, but they have already said what they said before, and it would be dishonest to go back on them.
Bai Duojin waved his hand: "No, these can buy you a lot of food. You can transport it over quickly and exchange it for food."
The one who takes the person is short-handed and the one who eats the person is soft-mouthed.
There were stalls set up at the gate of the city. There was no need for him to make Taohua Village owe Zhou Yang's family favors for these sacks of crayfish.
You can get it for free before setting up a stall, but you can't do it if you owe someone a favor!
Bai Duojin insisted not to accept it, and Zhou Yang's family could only thank them endlessly, then loaded up the big sack and pushed it towards the city gate.
Fifteen kilograms are exchanged for one kilogram of grain. This big sack can be exchanged for at least thirteen or five kilograms, right?
When he walked to the gate of the city, Zhou Yang also made a rough calculation. Eight big sacks equaled one hundred catties!
Zhou Yang and his party were so happy that they couldn't help laughing when they thought that their unintentional move in the morning could be exchanged for one hundred kilograms of grain.
When they were near the city gate, Zhou Yang's family discovered that it was not just the Baijiabao caravan who were picking up bugs, ahem, crayfish.
Looking again, there was a shed more than ten feet away from the city gate that was not there before entering the city yesterday.
At this time, people were queuing up one after another in front of each shed carrying bamboo baskets or pushing wheelbarrows. The faces of these people were both nervous and excited.
Zhou Qing also urged excitedly: "It seems that Manager Bai didn't fool us, hurry up, hurry up, we have to hurry up."
Zhou Yang: "There is a caravan as big as Baijiabao. There is no reason for Bai Guanshi to lie to us."
"Yes, yes, brother, you are right."
Zhou Yang also grinned happily: "Don't you blame me for asking you to get up early in the morning to pick up bugs and lobsters?"
At this moment, Zhou Yang was full of gratitude to the Baijiabao caravan.
However, he still wasn't used to calling this thing crayfish, since it was obviously a bug.
But just say this in your heart, don't let the people in the Baijiabao caravan hear it, otherwise you will be suspected of scolding your mother.
"No wonder, no wonder, eldest brother is the most powerful. Let's quickly take these and exchange them. While it's still early, hurry up and pick up more."
There are five sheds outside the city gate, and six or seven people from Taohua Village are in charge of each shed.
Some people weighed the crayfish, some recorded the number, some weighed out the sufficient amount of grain according to the sign given by the visitor, and some maintained the order of the team that came to exchange the crayfish. The division of labor is clear and orderly.
One shed is for exchanging dried sweet potatoes, one for corn, one for corn, and the other two sheds are for exchanging rice and flour.
In less than half an hour from the notification to the time the stall was set up, there were already many people living at the gate of the city. After hearing the news, they doubtfully picked up some crayfish to exchange for food.
Anyway, these things are all over the floor. You can easily pick up a dozen or twenty kilograms. If you can't, just throw them away.
What's more, people's sheds have been erected. There is no reason to play with people, right? !
Therefore, when the first person successfully redeemed four kilograms and six taels of grain, the people behind him who were also waiting in line to see the situation were instantly excited.
It really works! ! !
Great, for this kind of effortless work, the family must be called on.
People in the city got the news a little slower than people outside the city.
When the news spread into the city, some people outside the city had already started to redeem it for the second or even third time.
If you have a large family, you can have several big bags in half a day of picking up children.
Moreover, some people will arrange for their family members to line up early and rush to push the big bags over when it is almost done, which can save a lot of trouble.
The little bug that I thought looked disgusting before suddenly became a lot more cute.
One pound of grain, two pounds of grain, three pounds of grain...
At this moment, because I felt sorry for the two-penny man who came to the city, I just felt that I was doing the right thing by living outside the city.
The name of Crayfish suddenly became well-known in Qingzhou, and the name of Baijiabao Caravan also quickly spread throughout Qingzhou City.
People in Qingzhou City used to find these things in front of their homes and shops particularly annoying.
Now, if you hate it, take a broom, sweep it, put it in a sack, and let the guys transport it out of the city. You can get ten or twenty kilograms of grain back at a time.
The insect-catching teams in various districts and streets are working diligently to clean up the insects at the end of the streets. They don't have to wait for an hour for fear that they will be picked up.
Although they receive a monthly salary, they still have to support their families. Now the insects they clean can be exchanged for food, which is a double benefit for them.
Carts carrying large sacks of crayfish were pushed toward the city gate. When they returned to the city, the carts were filled with replaced food.
If conditions are good, replace corn, rice, and flour.
Those in poor conditions, especially those who fled to Qingzhou, simply exchanged for the cheapest dried sweet potatoes and corn kernels.
It was the first time for everyone to see dried sweet potatoes and corn kernels, but the Baijiapu caravan was cooking these two things on a large iron pot outside the shed. With the smell, no one would doubt that they were inedible.
Moreover, these two sheds will also thoughtfully remind you that dried sweet potatoes and corn kernels can be added to the rice to cook. A handful of dried sweet potatoes and rice can cook a lot.
The key is that dried sweet potatoes are convenient, so that ordinary people who have nothing to eat in winter will have less trouble to deal with.
Some people were so short of food that they were almost chewing tree bark. With such food to satisfy their hunger, there was nothing else to choose from.
As more and more people get the news, more and more people are picking up crayfish. Many people no longer allow others to pick up crayfish at their doorsteps.
Some people even chased and started a fight because someone picked up a dozen crayfish outside their door.
"I'll let you pick up my crayfish~"
(End of chapter)