Lao Zhou's house was very lively. Of course, all the villagers who were watching had left, leaving only their family, but it was still very lively.

Zhou Lang had just arrived home not long ago, and he was taking out the New Year goods he had prepared to introduce to everyone one by one. Fang sat next to him with her child in her arms. When she saw her father-in-law coming in, she immediately hugged the child and stood up to make way for him.

Zhou Lang, who was bragging happily, immediately straightened his face and said to his father respectfully: "Dad, you are back."

Lao Zhoutou said "hmm" and asked, "Have all the things been sold?"

Zhou Lang responded "Yes".

Old Zhou asked, "How much money did you make?"

The smile on Zhou Lang's lips couldn't help but rise. He tried his best to suppress his smile and said: "Those goods were sold in total for 3,798 taels."

Lao Zhoutou almost dropped the cigarette rod in his hand. He swallowed and asked, "So is this earned..."

Zhou Lang said: "I made two thousand one hundred and fifty-two taels."

He looked at Zhou Liwei proudly and asked with a smile: "Liwei, am I right?"

Zhou Liwei nodded and showed the account book to Grandpa, "That's right, Grandpa, you can see that everything is recorded in it."

Lao Zhou took a look and found that except for a few numbers that looked particularly familiar, most of the characters he didn't recognize. He knew that his wife knew more characters than he did, so he gave the account book to Qian instead.

Qian didn't know many characters. In the past, they couldn't read any big characters. It was Manbao who taught the children at home how to read after studying, so they started to recognize some characters, but they also stumbled.

Qian is smart and spends a lot of time looking after children at home, so he knows more words than Zhou Dalang and Zhou Dalang.

She looked at it carefully, and found that there were many words she didn't recognize. She simply skipped those words, and based on the words she knew, she could even make a guess. She pointed to the total money at the back and counted: "Why are you here now?"

There are only one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five taels left?"

Lao Zhou immediately looked over.

Zhou Liwei said: "I'm buying tea."

He briefly explained the origin of this business, and they still had a deposit of one thousand taels of tea from Hu Shang.

Lao Zhoutou listened for a long time, understood, and made a fuss together for a long time. Not a penny of the money they earned fell into their pockets, and they had to buy all the tea and send it to the capital to give to Hu Shang?

It was not the real money that he got, so Lao Zhoutou sat aside a little disappointed.

Qian took the account book and became thoughtful, looked at Zhou Lang and said: "So you are going to transport tea to the capital this time?"

"Yes," Zhou Lang said: "Mom, this business has been negotiated, and even the price has been decided. Three thousand taels of tea will be shipped to the capital. Not counting the expenses on the road, at least you can make some money. Sanzi

Several of them are working with me, and I pay them wages, so the expenses are not big at all."

Qian frowned, "There are just a few of you, some young and some young. What if you encounter danger along the way?"

Zhou Lang looked at Man Baole.

Man Bao shrank, leaned back, and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Zhou Lang said: "Now we have bought a cart of tea bricks. When Manbao and the others go to Beijing, let Lao Wu go with them. The rest of the tea will be enough to load one cart. With so many of us, there is no problem with one cart.

Yes, if it doesn’t work, I’ll look for it again to see if I can find the caravan. Then it will be much safer for everyone to go together.”

Tea is not like fur. Fur is not as valuable as tea and takes up space. So when Zhoulang and the others came back, they pulled four carts, but tea was different. If Zhoulang had not been sure to buy all the tea before Manbao and the others set off,

I'm afraid the four cars brought back can't even fit two cars.

Man Bao obviously also thought about the vacant car and asked: "What about the remaining cars, do you plan to drive them back to Beijing empty?"

Zhou Lang glanced at Lao Zhoutou with a guilty conscience, and whispered: "I don't dare, otherwise we borrow some money to fill up the car?"

Lao Zhoutou calmly knocked on the cigarette pole and said: "We went to buy cattle today. The brothers from the Jia family in Dali Village sold them."

Zhou Lang didn't understand why his father suddenly mentioned this matter, and looked at him confused.

Lao Zhoutou said: "The two brothers gambled, sold their cattle, and borrowed a lot of money from outside."

As soon as he talked about gambling, Zhou Lang lowered his head and muttered: "I have changed my mind..."

Lao Zhoutou hit him on the head with a cigarette pole and said, "Have you changed your mind? Borrowing money to do business. One cart of tea costs nearly two thousand taels. You have to borrow two carts of tea. This is more expensive than gambling."

It’s awesome.”

Mr. Qian also disagreed and nodded: "It's too dangerous. Even if you encounter bandits on the road, even if the journey is safe, what if it rains? Tea leaves are worthless once they get wet."

In fact, Zhou Lang just had this idea and was not very determined.

After all, as his mother said, it's too dangerous.

This is different from "borrowing" a thousand taels of goods from Hu Shang. The former is real gold and silver and has no support, while the latter is goods and he has a shop behind him to support it.

So once his family objected, he stopped mentioning it.

But Feng thought of something, pushed Zhou Erlang aside, squeezed in, and asked: "Silang, can I exchange the silk for tea?"

Everyone looked at Feng.

Feng was timid, but still whispered: "Isn't that what you said? It's the same as in the countryside outside, you can use cloth as money..."

She said: "Since silk and satin are sold so cheaply, it is better to spend it as money, just like when we go to the market. A piece of linen can be exchanged for twelve measures of millet, but if we sell it in a shop, we can only get three hundred."

Laiwen, if replaced by millet, it would only cost seven or eight buckets..."

Man Bao couldn't help but give a thumbs up to his second sister-in-law, "Second sister-in-law, you are so awesome."

Seeing her sincere praise, Mrs. Feng couldn't help but become happy, and even raised her eyebrows at Zhou Lang, "Really, I thought that right?"

"That's right," Zhou Zhoulang also thought about it, and said, "Ordinary people can't afford those silks and satins from Manbao, so they have to be taken to Yizhou City or other big cities..."

He thought about it, and it happened that the tea leaves he collected while selling fur goods this time were all tea farmers who had direct contact. This time he could go to tea merchants or some wealthy squires to get some tea leaves.

Xiao Qian smiled and said, "Okay, let's eat first, and we can talk after eating."

Da Ya had already brought out all the food. Seeing her, Zhou Lang took out a box from his arms and said, "Your fifth uncle said that your wedding date has been set. Here, this is a gift from your fourth uncle."

Da Ya couldn't help but look at her mother.

Zhou Lang stuffed it into her arms and said, "Keep it, please be polite to me."

It was true that Da Ya and Da Tou were brought up by Zhou Lang and his three younger brothers, so they were closer to each other. She happily accepted it, "Thank you, Fourth Uncle."

Man Bao sat down next to her mother and asked Zhou Lang who was diagonally opposite, "Fourth brother, did you buy good tea this time?"

"I don't buy good tea," Zhou Lang said: "Aliudun doesn't specify good tea. Their tribe is not as particular about tea as Mr. Zhuang, and it's not our turn to buy good tea."
Chapter completed!