Chapter 106 spread everywhere

"If you want to exchange it for fine grain, we have it, but the exchange rate is different." Bai Duojin said, "You will have to go to the city gate to find out the specific situation."

The people in Taohua Village consider rice and flour to be precious fine grains, so they are called refined grains.

This news was so shocking that Zhou Yang couldn't recover for a while: "This, this, this..."

He took a deep breath and came to his senses. He asked uncertainly, "Manager Bai, are you saying that these bugs can be exchanged for food?"

Did he hear it right? It can be exchanged for food?!
Bai Duojin corrected: "It's crayfish."

"Oh, sorry, it's crayfish." No matter whether it is a bug or a crayfish, as long as it can be exchanged for food, it is a good thing.

"Yes, it can be exchanged for food." Bai Duojin thought, not only can it be exchanged for food, but it can also be eaten.

"Ah, then, we, thank you very much, Manager Bai. We, we will go right away."

Zhou Yang was extremely excited, and an excited smile appeared on his dark and rough old face.

Beside them, other members of the Zhou family were also grinning happily.

"Thank you, Manager Bai. Thank you for telling us the news. These little bugs, no, they are crayfish. Consider them as a gift to you. Thank you..."

Hearing that they could exchange these for food, Zhou Yang's family felt bad about giving them away, but they had already said it before, and it would be very dishonest to go back on their word.

Bai Duojin waved his hand and said, "No, these can be exchanged for a lot of food for you. You should quickly transport them over to exchange for food."

Those who take people have short hands and eat people with soft mouths.

There is a stall set up at the city gate, so there is no need for Taohua Village to owe Zhou Yang's family a favor just for these sacks of crayfish.

You can get things for free before setting up a stall, but you absolutely cannot owe favors to others!

Bai Duojin insisted on not accepting it, so Zhou Yang's family could only thank him repeatedly, then picked up the large sacks and pushed them towards the city gate.

Fifteen pounds can be exchanged for one pound of grain, so this big sack can be exchanged for at least thirteen or fifteen pounds, right?
When he arrived at the city gate, Zhou Yang also made a rough calculation. Eight large sacks would weigh one hundred kilograms!

Thinking that their unintentional action in the morning could be exchanged for 100 kilograms of food, Zhou Yang and his group were so happy that they couldn't help laughing.

When they were near the city gate, Zhou Yang and his family discovered that it was not just the Baijiabao caravan that started picking up insects, cough, crayfish.

Looking again, I saw a shed about ten feet away from the city gate, which was not there before I entered the city yesterday.

At this time, people were queuing in front of each shed, carrying bamboo baskets or pushing wheelbarrows. These people had a look of both nervousness and excitement on their faces.

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: "Baijiabao is such a big caravan, it's unreasonable for Manager Bai to lie to us."

"Yes, yes, brother, you are right."

Zhou Yang also grinned happily: "Now you can't blame me for calling you guys to get up early in the morning to pick up bugs and lobsters, right?"

At this moment, Zhou Yang's heart was filled with gratitude towards the Baijiabao caravan.

But he is still not used to calling this thing crayfish, because it is obviously a bug.

But it's fine to just say this in your heart, it wouldn't be good to let the people from the Baijiabao caravan hear it, otherwise it would be suspected that he was cursing.

"Don't blame me, don't blame me, Big Brother is the best. Let's quickly exchange these. Let's pick up more while there is still time."

There are five sheds outside the city gate, and each shed is managed by six or seven people from Taohua Village.

Some people weighed the crayfish, some recorded the number, some weighed out the food according to the sign handed in by the customer, and some maintained order in the queue of people who came to exchange crayfish. The division of labor was clear and everything was in good order.

There is one shed for exchanging dried sweet potatoes, one shed for exchanging corn, one shed for exchanging millet, and the other two sheds are for exchanging rice and flour.

It took less than half an hour from the announcement to the setting up of the stall, but many people living at the city gate had already picked up some crayfish to exchange for food after hearing the news.

Anyway, this stuff is all over the ground, and you can easily pick up one weighing ten or twenty kilograms. If you can't, just throw it away.

Besides, the tent has already been set up, so it doesn't make sense to play a joke on people, right? !
So, when the first person successfully exchanged 4.6 jin of food, the people who were queuing behind him and waiting to see the situation became extremely excited.

It really works!!!

That’s great. I must call my family to do this effortless job.

People in the city received the news a little slower than people outside the city.

By the time the news reached the city, some people outside the city had already started exchanging their coins for a second or even a third time.

If there are many people in the family, you can get several large sacks in half an hour.

Moreover, some people will arrange for their family members to line up early, and when the time is almost up, they will push the large sacks over, which saves a lot of trouble.

The little bugs that I thought were hideous before suddenly became much cuter.

One pound of food, two pounds of food, three pounds of food...

At this moment, because people felt sorry for the two cents they spent on going into the city, they just felt that it was the right decision for them to live outside the city.

The name of crayfish suddenly became known to everyone in Qingzhou, and the name of the Baijiabao caravan soon spread throughout Qingzhou City.

People in Qingzhou city used to find it particularly annoying to have these things in front of their homes or shops.

Now, there is nothing to worry about. Just sweep the dirt with a broom and put the dirt into sacks, and ask the guys to carry it out of the city. You can exchange it for 10 to 20 kilograms of food each time.

The insect catching teams in every city and street are even more diligent in cleaning up the streets and at the end of the streets. They don't have to wait an hour for fear that all the insects will be picked up by others.

Although they receive a monthly salary, they also have to support their families. Now the insects they clear can be exchanged for food, which is a win-win situation for them.

Carts were pushed with large sacks of crayfish toward the city gate. When they returned to the city, the carts were filled with the exchanged food.

If the conditions are better, they can exchange it for corn, rice and flour.

Those who were 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 Baijiabao caravan was cooking these two things in a large iron pot outside the shed, and judging from the smell, no one would doubt that they were inedible.

Moreover, these two sheds will kindly remind you that dried sweet potatoes and corn kernels can be added to rice when cooking. A handful of dried sweet potatoes can be cooked into a lot of rice.

The key is that dried sweet potatoes are convenient, so people who have no vegetables to eat in winter will have less trouble with the difficult problems of making them.

Some people were so short of food that they had to eat tree bark. Now that they have food like this to fill their stomachs, what else do they have to complain about?

As more and more people got the news, more and more people started picking up crayfish, and many people no longer allowed others to pick up crayfish at their doorsteps.

Some people even chased after others and had a fight with them just because they picked up a dozen crayfish from outside their doorstep.

"I asked you to pick up the crayfish from my house~"

(End of this chapter)