vrcanaries Chapter 1092: Will there still be such a life after getting married?
Chapter 1092: Will there still be such a life after getting married?
The old man ate a piece of mutton and sighed, "If you want to talk about delicious food, it has to be yellow sheep. It doesn't have any fishy smell and is very tender and fresh. Tsk..."
He looked at her with endless aftertaste, "Didn't the young man from the Xu family say that he would send a letter to the border to ask them to bring a few more yellow sheep out? Why hasn't he sent a letter yet? How long has it been?"
Zhou Guo said, "How can he be free at the border? He has been gone for so long and there is no news at all. I don't know how worried the eldest brother of the Xu family must be. Let's put the matter of the yellow sheep aside for now. It's not appropriate to ask at this time."
The old man thought so, and after a while he said, "Come to think of it, I haven't been to the mountains for quite some time, and the fungi in the mountains are about to come out."
This time of year is also when the shadowless fish are fat and plump.
Zhou Guo paused while eating the mutton, then said, "It's okay. If it doesn't work, you can eat some crabs later. Crab meat is also tender and sweet, and tastes very similar to shadowless fish."
The crabs have been sold everywhere for more than a month. It is no exaggeration to say that we have made a fortune every day during this month.
The old man said, "It's so expensive, I can't get over it even if I eat more."
In previous years, I could still eat some at one tael of silver, but at two taels of silver per piece, I really couldn’t bear to eat that much.
Zhou Guo was helpless, "Why have you become like my mother? Don't listen to her, eat if you want. I have hundreds of thousands of crabs in my ponds. Besides the ones that are sold, there are still some that die every day. When winter comes, they die in droves. Isn't it a waste? What's wrong with eating a few? If they haven't been sold yet, they are not money!"
After a while, Dashu brought a group of people and brought baskets of crabs. It seemed that there were thousands of crabs.
Everyone stopped eating the meat and looked at the crabs in confusion.
"Isn't this for us?"
"A crab is not cheap. I heard that one in the north can only be sold for two taels of silver. One bite and half a tael of silver is gone. I'm not lucky enough to eat this thing."
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Dashu said: "These are the extra meals that the boss prepared for everyone. One crab for each person, everyone has a share."
The old man leaned over to take a look and saw that each of them was quite large. "With such quality, each crab can be sold for one or two taels of silver, right? You are really willing to do so. You might as well sell the crabs and share the money with them. They might be happier."
Zhou Guo said, "One for each person, and if we sell it and share it, it's only one or two taels of silver. They may not be willing to spend one or two taels of silver to eat this. What I give is different. Although I can't let them eat to their heart's content, it's good for them to have a taste of something new."
I can’t raise so many crabs at home and still not taste them.
It turns out that things that you don’t have to spend your own money on are quite popular.
After hearing Dashu's words, thousands of people became excited and clamored to eat crabs.
"I've never eaten something this expensive, but how do you eat it? Do you know how to eat it?"
"Hey, are you stupid? Do you know how to eat? Do you have no hands or a mouth? Just put it in your mouth. Do you know how to chew it?"
"It seems not possible. I heard that there are things in it that cannot be eaten."
"What can't be eaten? When you're starving to death, you'll even eat dirt. How can you not eat this? As long as it doesn't kill you, you can eat it. Just eat anything that's in a shell!"
He broke the shell and ate half of it in one bite, even the shell, without vomiting.
So everyone ate like this. It made sense. When you are starving to death, you will even eat dirt. What is there that you cannot eat?
The biting sound was extremely loud.
Some were happy while others shook their heads.
"This thing doesn't have much meat, just a mouthful of shells. Why do all those rich people like to eat it? It's far less delicious than two mouthfuls of fatty pork!"
"That's right, it hurts my mouth when I chew it, and it's not as solid as meat."
How many kilograms of pork can you buy with one tael of silver per pig?
There are some people who like this, but not many. They eat it slowly, and every bite is meat.
The old man smiled and said to Zhou Guo: "What did I say? Look, why not give the money to them? How many people like to eat this?"
Zhou Guo was gnawing on the crab claws. There were crab-eating tools nearby but she didn't use them because she always felt that the food tasted better when she gnawed it with her mouth.
Hearing this, he said indifferently: "What's the matter? If you don't like it, you can just not eat it next time. I just want them to have a taste, so that they can proudly tell others when they go out that they have also eaten crabs that cost one tael of silver each."
As for whether it tastes good or not, that depends on personal taste.
To put it simply, it means letting them broaden their horizons.
Gnawing on crab legs and watching the people below eating happily, drinking and eating meat happily, I felt that life was really good.
I couldn't help but ask softly, "Master, do you think there will be such a life after I get married? Can I still sit here and drink and eat crabs?"
"Ah?" The old man, who was eating rice, looked up in surprise, suspecting that his ears were broken. Is this a question that a young apprentice could ask?
Zhou Guo asked again.
The old man swallowed the yellow in his mouth, and was very surprised. "You still have such concerns? Didn't you always say that you would not get married?"
Zhou Guo said: "I'm just asking you, I'm curious."
The old man pursed his lips and shook his head, "That's definitely not possible. You're already married. Given your current status, the family you marry into will definitely not be bad, a wealthy family like the Xu family. But you also know that such a wealthy family has many rules, and a married woman must put her husband's family first.
Everyone talks about the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. If you want to drink with these men like this again, no family will allow it."
Although he was just a bodyguard, he knew a little bit and had never seen any wife of a wealthy family show up in public.
Zhou Guo smiled, "Then life like mine is better, free and unrestrained, I can do whatever I want."
The old man nodded and said, "When the Xu family takes over the world in the future, you will be even more free. With the imperial court behind you, no one can control you if you don't marry."
He no longer worried about her.
The meal lasted until late at night, and the group rested on the farm. If there was not enough space, they would squeeze together and sleep on the floor. There were twenty or thirty people in one room, and if it was not enough, they would spread mats under the corridor.
Because the old man is in Nanhe, this group of people will not return to the north, but will go directly south after a while.
Zhou Guo was busy meeting with wealthy people in the north to see the landlords' livestock, grain seeds, and cloth shops.
Although she only has a small silk shop now, she still wants to do better.
The Wang family has a strong foundation. Since she took over the silk shop, there has been no stable supply of good goods, so the business is naturally not as good as the Wang family's.
The cloth shops in Nanhe are not large in scale, usually with only 10 to 20 machines. They are small workshops, and 30 to 40 shops are considered top-tier shops in Nanhe.
Although the fabrics were not as gorgeous and fashionable as those brought back from the capital, they were already very good and could at least meet the needs of most families in Yunzhou.
As for the richest people who wear the best materials, she has the connections.