Transmigrated into a Blacksmith’s Husband

five hundred jin of wheat and two hundred jin of sweet potatoes first.
We can store the wheat for now and save the sweet potatoes for eating.
When winter comes, we can hire a cart and go to town to buy more rice and flour to last us through the winter.”

After experiencing a long period of time in modern society where he often went without food, Qiao Yuan felt very insecure and only felt at ease when he had a stockpile of food.
And this was ancient times.
Although the current era was peaceful and prosperous, he knew the importance of hoarding food in times of war and famine.
If he had more money, he would have stocked up even more!

This year had been favorable with good weather and a good harvest.
The village was filled with joy and everyone had a smile on their face.
Qiao Yuan was also sincerely happy for them.

But even so, most families barely had enough food to fill their stomachs after paying their land tax, and they didn’t have any surplus grains to sell.
If they wanted to buy grains, they could only go to the richer families in the village.
These families had a lot of land, and after paying their land tax and leaving enough food for their families for a year, they sold the surplus grains for money.

Lin Cuifen always bought grains from the village chief’s family.
His family had thirty acres of land and only seven people.
Moreover, the village chief had an annual salary from the court, and his eldest son Zhao Shuisheng was also a shopkeeper in town.
His family was quite wealthy.

As soon as Aunt Zhao saw Lin Cuifen bringing Yu Dameng and Qiao Yuan to her door, she had a happy expression on her face.
“Cuifen, are you here to buy grain? I’ve saved some for you, just waiting for you!”

After speaking, he warmly took Qiao Yuan’s hand and said, “Yuan Ge’er, do you also need to buy grain this year? You can buy it from Auntie here.”

Qiao Yuan: “……”

How weird is this?

But he had learned to face it calmly.
“Yes, Dameng and I decided to buy five hundred jin of grain and two hundred jin of sweet potatoes.”

Aunt Zhao frowned: “Isn’t that a bit too little?”

“We don’t have much money.” Qiao Yuan smiled and explained.

Aunt Zhao quickly told Lin Cuifen, “It’s not good that your family doesn’t have any land.
You should hurry up and buy a few acres of land.”

Lin Cuifen also said that she had this plan.
Aunt Zhao said that she would let the village chief help them look out for it.

The village chief and Zhao Gensheng happened to come back from the field at this time.
Because Zhao Shuisheng and Yu Laoda were close, Zhao Gensheng and Yu Dameng also had a good relationship.
They were playmates when they were young.
As soon as he saw Yu Dameng, he gave him a punch with a big white smile and hugged Yu Dameng’s neck, and took him aside to chat.

This was the first time Qiao Yuan saw Yu Dameng interact with his friends, and he felt very happy.

Yu Ge’er also came to talk to Qiao Yuan.
He had heard that Qiao Yuan was selling food in the county town to earn money, and he admired him very much.

Qiao Yuan said, “I haven’t thanked you yet for introducing people to order steamed cakes from our house.”

Yu Ge’er blushed and shyly smiled, shaking his head.
“It’s not a big deal, no need to thank me.”

The two chatted about some other things, but Qiao Yuan was not very familiar with him, so they just exchanged some polite words.
It was only after Zhao Gensheng and Yu Dameng finished their private conversation that it ended.

In the end, Qiao Yuan also bought some dried eggplants and pickled cabbage from Aunt Zhao’s house on his way back.
This time, Qiao Yuan spent another one or two silver taels.

Before leaving, the village chief told Yu Dameng to come and drink with him after the village paid the land tax.

Qiao Yuan had not thought about the land tax before, so he asked Yu Dameng: “Do we have to pay it too? How much?”

Yu Dameng answered, “We just pay money directly.
But we have to pay twice as much as others.
The two of us will need about five qian.”

As they were talking, they heard a commotion not far away.

“That’s not fair!”

“How is it not fair? Who did your family rely on to work at the dock? You are so ungrateful!”

“What are you talking about? You only gave thirty wen after a whole day of carrying heavy loads.
I have already inquired and found out that the dock pays fifty wen per person! Where did the twenty wen go? They were all swallowed by your family!”

“You are talking nonsense!”

When Qiao Yuan heard Xu Xiuhua’s voice, he dragged Yu Dameng and Lin Cuifen to join the crowd and watch the excitement.

The two sides were arguing back and forth, and after hearing the people who came earlier explain to the ones who came later, Qiao Yuan understood what was going on.
It turned out that Qiao Guangzhi would take some men from a few families in the village to work at the dock every year, but the condition was that they had to come and work for him for free during the busy farming season.
These families endured it for the sake of earning some extra money.

In previous years, because the original Qiao Yuan had not married yet, he would take care of the meals during the busy farming season, and he could at least provide them with food.
This year, Qiao Yuan was not there, and Xu Xiuhua was too lazy to cook for so many people, so she did not even provide them with meals.

Originally, these people still put up with it, but they were too tired from working in the fields for days.
Today they rested a bit more at the edge of the field.
Xu Xiuhua came to the field twice and happened to see them resting both times.
She then started to mock them sarcastically, implying that they were lazy and not working hard.

Everyone has some temper, and they were already angry and exhausted.
So, someone talked back to her.
Xu Xiuhua was most arrogant during this period of time, having so many people working for her family.
She acted like she was some kind of landlord’s wife.
When she heard someone dare to talk back to her, she could not stand it.

Xu Xiuhua’s words became increasingly unpleasant as if they were her slaves.
The two sides then started to quarrel.

Anyway, they had already offended her, and they could not go to the dock to work in the future.
They simply revealed all the old grievances that had accumulated over the years, so that the whole village would know how much they had suffered.

Xu Xiuhua was the kind of person who would bring disaster upon herself by doing evil deeds.
Qiao Yuan understood what was going on and lost interest in watching the excitement.
He was about to go back home when he noticed a shy and timid gaze that kept falling on Yu Dameng.

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