The next day, Cheng Yaojin, who had nothing to do after the morning court session, prepared to go to Lu Village in Anping County.
However, what disappointed him was that he had sent seven or eight people to catch locusts yesterday. He had thought that they would be able to catch hundreds of kilograms of locusts, but who knew that they would only catch 50 kilograms.
"Fifty catties is enough."
With two or three subordinates, Cheng Yaojin rode a tall horse and headed towards Anping County.
Who would have thought that they would run into Cheng Chumo on the way?
A few question marks popped up in Cheng Yaojin's head. He couldn't help but ask,""Chumo, what are you doing?"
" Dad, it's military training. Villa Head Lu arranged for us to go back and forth between Chang 'an and Anping County every morning and evening," Cheng Chumo said.
"Chumo, as a lieutenant, how can you be trained like a soldier? I'll get someone to give you a horse.”Cheng Yaojin shouted.
"Father, although I want to slack off, I can't. Villa Head Lu will know.”Cheng Chumo said helplessly.
"Could it be that he has been sending people to follow you?”Cheng Yaojin looked behind him, but there was no one there.
"How can Manor Lord Lu's methods be so simple? Father, you won't understand even if I tell you. Don't bother about me.”Cheng Chumo said.
Seeing his son running silently, Cheng Yaojin thought to himself that he should talk about Villa Head Lu later.
Cheng Yaojin didn't wait for his son and rode faster.
A dozen miles of running would take about an incense stick to burn, but riding a horse would take less than half an incense stick.
After asking around for Lu Zhuang's location, Cheng Yaojin quickly found it.
But looking at the long queue, Cheng Yaojin was dumbfounded.
Every citizen in line was holding a bag of locusts in their hands, ready to exchange for food.
If they had lined up according to the rules, he might not even have gotten his turn tonight.
Cheng Yaojin planned to wait for Chumo to come back and ask him what to do. He wanted to see if the locusts could really be exchanged for food.
He looked carefully and indeed saw commoners coming out of the Lu Manor one after another with big smiles on their faces. They were carrying bags of grain.
He happened to see one of Lu Zhuang's servants maintaining the formation at the door. He rolled his eyes and seemed to have an idea.
"Little brother, is it true that locusts can be exchanged for food in Lu Manor?”Cheng Yaojin smiled.
"Of course it's true. Do you also want to exchange for food? But judging from your clothes, you don't look like a poor citizen.”Li Ergou asked curiously.
"Hehe, I want to try something delicious. I don't know if it's possible.”Cheng Yaojin seemed to have a rough heart, but many people were deceived by his appearance. In fact, he was smart.
"It should be possible. Actually, it mainly depends on Young Master's mood. If he was willing to change it for you, the delicious food would make you swallow your tongue.”
"Little brother, what do you think I should exchange for? If it can be exchanged successfully, I will come out and give you two catties.”Cheng Yaojin said generously.
"Is that true?"
"Of course. Do you think I'm the kind of person who doesn't keep my word?”
Li Ergou's eyes lit up. Little did he know that Cheng Yaojin had succeeded in getting his information.
"I think we can change the wine. Moutai is mellow and strong. Just the smell of the wine is enough to make people unable to stop.”
Up until now, Li Ergou had not been able to taste it. Although Lu Xiu conjured a lot of food, Li Yuan and the others finished it all.
"You can even exchange wine?" Cheng Yaojin mumbled, as if the Liquor worm was causing trouble in his stomach.
"Thank you, little brother. I just don't know if I can get my turn tonight. Hehe, why don't you give me a chance and let me queue up a little earlier?”
"How can I break the rules of the young master? You can't cut in line."
"Really?"
"Ahem, it's not impossible. Rules are dead, but people are alive. You can ask the people in front of you if you can buy their positions with money.”
"Haha, I see. I understand now.”
Cheng Yaojin smiled contentedly. If money could solve the problem, it was nothing.
He sent someone forward and asked an old man who was ranked around 20th. He offered 30 coins to buy his position and also bought the 10 catties of locusts at the price of 3 coins per catty.
The old man naturally agreed. Although Lu Zhuang could exchange for food and give up a spot for 30 money, how could he refuse? Even the dozen people in front of him competed to sell their spots to Cheng Yaojin.
In addition, he didn't need to be ranked at the back anymore, because the price of the good food above locust was also sold to Cheng Yaojin.
Actually, for him, even if he didn't have the 30 coins to sell the location, it was better to exchange the locusts for money.
Although locusts could be exchanged for the same weight of high-quality grain in Lu Village, the same price could be exchanged for three catties of low-quality grain in Chang 'an.
Their main goal was to fill the stomachs of their families, not to consider eating good food.
So, he had just gotten 60 yuan from Cheng Yaojin, which allowed him to buy more than 60 catties of food. It was enough for his family of six to eat for ten days.
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