It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 221

No wonder the purchasing boy bought everything without bargaining after I raised the price. It turns out he was already used to it.

Jiang Yan thought that she would have to go up the mountain more diligently in the coming days, and then make more trips to the county town... Hehe, she held up the two rolls of coarse cloth she had selected and showed them to the boss, "You won't raise the price for me, right?"

The cloth stall owner saw that Jiang Yan looked happy but would immediately leave if he heard the price was too high. He waved his hand and said, "No, I sell everything at a reasonable price."

Good price~

Jiang Yan bought two more pairs of coarse cloth soles, and then hurried to the grain store with the conscientious cloth.

After asking about the price, I said goodbye.

She only raised the price by two times, but the grain store actually tripled it. No wonder the cloth stall owner advised her to go directly to the countryside to buy grain after knowing that she wanted to buy grain.

At this price, I’m afraid the owner behind it wants to take back the money he “got ripped off” with interest.

When I went to the salt market again, I saw that the prices had not dropped at all.

It is said that in the early days of the Northern Jin Dynasty, the official price of salt was set at two taels of silver per dan, five times the price of grain. Because Heding Prefecture was far from the salt fields and transportation was inconvenient, and due to losses during transportation, the price was two and a half taels after adding the cost.

Later, due to various reasons, the price continued to rise. The current price of official salt in Rongcheng County, Heding Prefecture has reached as high as six taels of silver per dan, which is equivalent to sixty coins per catty, which is equivalent to Jiang Yan's three-month salary when she was a maid of Fu Girl.

Although a pound of salt can sustain Jiangyan for five months if eaten sparingly, the money spent on buying a pound of salt in Rongcheng County can be roughly 70% more in Xiakou County.

Jiang Yan bought the maximum single-person quota directly in Xiakou County at that time, thinking it would last for half a year, so the demand was not urgent at the moment.

But she did feel that life would be much easier anywhere if she left Heding Prefecture.

Considering that he still had to go to the countryside to exchange grain, Jiang Yan took advantage of the fact that there was no information exchange between the salt markets of Rongcheng County and Xiakou County and bought another kilogram with a painful heart.

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The next afternoon, Jiang Yan returned to the yard panting, carrying a basket of mountain products, a wild rabbit in his left hand, and a large bamboo basket in his right hand.

She got up early and went to the area where she remembered reeds growing lushly to collect reed flowers.

At this time of year, the reed flowers are soft and white, and when the breeze blows, they look like flying snow all over the sky, which is very interesting.

But for the river geese that enter the reed marshes to collect reed flowers, this beautiful scenery is also another kind of torture.

Even though she covered her mouth and nose, the flying catkins still made her face itchy and she sneezed from time to time.

By the time Jiang Yan pulled aside the reeds and walked out carrying a basket full of reed flowers, tears were already streaming down her face.

Jiang Yan spread out the collected reed fluff in the yard to dry, but he couldn't help thinking about cotton. When would cotton be introduced and popularized?

This expectation only lasted for a moment. In order to successfully get through this winter, Jiang Yan still had many things to do, such as soaking and changing the water for the first batch of dried acorn pulp, washing, drying and crushing the firm and not too old wild vegetable stems and leaves.

The body cannot bear not eating vegetables in winter, but if you miss the best picking period, it will be difficult to swallow Jiangyan without some special methods.

Jiang Yan also had to deal with the only prey she had caught in recent days. With her recent skills, which were probably barely even comparable to a mediocre one, she had only been able to catch this rabbit thanks to the traps and snares left behind by the elders of Dongshan Village.

Although she almost got caught, having meat to eat was enough to soothe all the fear.

Jiang Yan wasn't very good at butchering rabbits; she only had experience watching others butcher chickens and rabbits. She scraped the rabbit's skin for a long time before finally slicing it off, leaving it in tatters.

Rabbit skins can be nitrated to make gloves or protective gear. Jiang Yan hesitated for a long time before bringing out an old wooden basin and throwing the broken fur into the wood ash solution.

She only remembered this step. Whether it would work or not, she would just treat it as an experiment.