Chapter 144 Psychological Balance
The next day.
Yang Song heard that Bai Dayong and others were fishing by the river. He hesitated for a moment and came over, but he never mentioned borrowing a fishing net.
Every fishing net in Taohua Village can catch a lot of fish, which also attracts the attention of many people.
Looking at the fish brought up by the fishing nets over there, and then looking at the fishing rods that have not moved for a long time in their hands, many people have stopped thinking about fishing and eating.
Pull it down, you can't catch it anyway.
When Lu Xiaohao saw this scene, his heart immediately became balanced.
It turns out that Yu not only doesn't deal with him, but also doesn't get close to anyone else, except of course the Baijiabao caravan.
Today, Baitao stayed in the tent, put on headphones, watched a movie on her tablet, and ordered lunch.
Lu Xiaohao took advantage of the opportunity to come over to pick up the meal and asked: "Miss Bai, the reason why your caravan was able to catch so many fish is because you put in fish food in advance?"
Ordinary people might not think of such a thing, but Lu Xiaohao was different and quickly thought of it.
Baitao had no intention of covering up, and nodded openly: "Yes, I made a nest."
The fish food in the fishing nest is not cheap either. A box costs her 500 coins.
"No wonder it's like this!" Lu Xiaohao instantly felt that he had not lost unfairly.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Early this morning, a startled scream broke the tranquility of the morning.
"The river is frozen!"
Many people ran to the river immediately after hearing the sound.
Yesterday before nightfall, the Qingquan River was still sparkling. After a night, the ice has covered the water.
During these ten days, some people couldn't wait any longer and had already turned around and found another way.
The remaining people who didn't leave either had family members working in the Baijiapu caravan, or they were determined to follow the Baijiapu caravan.
But even though I had made up my mind, I was still worried.
At this time, people looked at the frozen river surface, and after being surprised, they felt happy.
"I don't know if it can be completely frozen. If it is completely frozen, we can cross the river without a bridge."
"This... Judging from this posture, it should be okay, right?"
"I hope God will bless me. The ice on the river must be frozen..."
Lu Xiaohao also went to the river to check the situation. It wasn't snowing and it wasn't too cold. It was really strange that the Qingquan River would freeze.
He thought about it, and it seemed that Qingquanhe had no such special reaction in the anecdotes in the Secret History of the Royal Family.
Lu Xiaohao subconsciously looked in the direction of Baitao's tent. Although Baitao had said nothing in the past few days, he felt inexplicably that she seemed to know a lot of things.
It only takes ten days to hire someone to get the grass heart, no more, no less.
Before Lu Xiaohao could ask Baitao about it openly or secretly, he heard the discussion among the female workers who went to work.
A: "Today is the tenth day. Shopkeeper Bai said that those who don't want to work don't have to come tomorrow. What do you think?"
B: "Of course I want to come. I won't come when this work stops."
C: "Yeah, me too. Anyway, there are still five days, let's finish it."
A: "Then you don't plan to leave?"
B: "Let's go? Where can we go now."
While speaking, the young daughter-in-law lowered her voice and said: "My family has discussed it. I don't know where to go, so I might as well follow the caravan."
"After all, we work for the caravan, and the stewards know us very well. If they still have jobs in the future, they will think of us."
C: "Yes, that's right, my family plans this too."
When A heard this, he thought about it for a while and realized that this is the truth: "Then I will talk to my family when I get back from work today." Lu Xiaohao, do you want to collect the grass heart for another five days?
Speaking of which, he still doesn't know what the heart of the Qinxin grass is for.
Lu Xiaohao also asked people in Taohua Village, but their answers were either they didn't know or they were unclear.
Baitao was even more straightforward: "Of course it is useful. We are a caravan, so of course we sell it for money."
Lu Xiaohao was very doubtful about the idea of selling money, but since Baitao said so, he couldn't ask any more questions.
In this way, for the next five days, people would run to the river every morning to observe the speed of ice condensation.
Everyone was very happy to see the ice getting thicker day by day.
The fifth day came in a blink of an eye.
As usual, the workers packed up their things when they got off work, put the small wooden hammers back into the frames, and then waited to be paid and receive supplies.
"Shopkeeper Bai, do you want to pick up the grass hearts tomorrow?"
Bai Dashan: "Today is the last day, I don't have to come tomorrow."
"It's been a hard work for you guys for the past half month. After a while, wages and things will be paid, and everyone can go back after eating."
The grass heart of Qinxincao is not available all year round, it only appears for a month.
Baitao and his party were late in arriving at Qingquan River, so they could only take half a month.
Bai Dashan: "Our aunt said that we will give you three extra pounds of meat, two pounds of dried sweet potatoes, and one pound of salt today."
As soon as the words fell, the scene where there was still some noise suddenly fell silent. After three seconds, everyone seemed to react, and the scene was filled with joy.
A pound of salt? !
This is good stuff.
Better than meat.
It’s not that meat is bad, it’s that people can’t live without salt.
What's more, anyone who has bought salt from Baijiabao Caravan before knows that their salt is fine, white, and very salty, which is better than the salt bought in salt shops in the county.
The key is that the salt bought from the Baijiapu Caravan is 20% cheaper than that from the salt shop.
Private salt is cheap, but compared with the salt from Baijiapu Caravan, it is incomparable.
However, the Baijiabao caravan doesn't have much salt. Previously, each household was only given a purchase share of three kilograms.
Now the extra pound is given to them for free, and no money is charged. How can we not make everyone excited?
In fact, when someone asked to buy salt before, it wasn't that they didn't want to sell more white peaches, but they couldn't sell more.
Salt and iron were one of the important taxes in ancient times. The Baijiabao caravan was not qualified to buy and sell salt. It sold salt without authorization. It was such a good salt. If it was discovered, it would easily get into trouble.
That is to say, on the way to escape, people with no fixed abode would casually sell for three hundred kilograms, and they were all ordinary people. They were excited and trembling when they bought it, so naturally they would not tell anyone about it.
Bai Dashan waited for everyone to be overjoyed, then raised his hand to suppress it, and continued with a smile: "Also, everyone can take two fish home today."
The crowd cheered again.
"Thank you, Shopkeeper Bai, thank you, Xiaodongjia..."
"My little boss is a good man. He will surely have a long and prosperous life. He will live a hundred years and be as blessed as the East Sea..."
These auspicious words made the people in Taohua Village happy. Everyone grinned happily and nodded constantly.
Isn't it? Our aunt is the best aunt in the world.
The client, Baitao, was holding a durian and looking up and down.
This is a fruit blind box she bought from the mall. It looks quite big, but she doesn’t know what’s inside.
‘Shangcheng, tell me, is this durian a repayment durian? ’
Mall: ‘…’