Accompany by A Fool to do Farming

Chapter 63: 巨额 [Large sum (of money) ]

"How come it's so much? " Zhong Ziqi cried out in surprise, this silver ticket was as much as 300 taels, how did he earn it?

'Is it possible that ...Is it robbery?'

~Sigh~Sigh~ Zhong Ziqi threw out the unrealistic thoughts in his head. He had thought that a hundred taels at most would be enough, after all, he had only taken twenty taels of silver when he left. Who would have thought that it would have doubled so much?

Zhao Zheng'an looked at him who was having a look of surprise and joy, his heart overflowing with satisfaction. Even if the journey was difficult or even if he met bandits and almost died (and across the yellow springs), he felt it was worth it.

[The Yellow Springs is the underworld from Chinese mythology / the equivalent of Hades or Hell]

Zhao Zheng'an did not want to talk to him about the dangerous things, so he only told him some interesting stories. For example, the shells and sea snails he sold and the many strange things he sold to make money.In fact, he would not have made so much money at once if it had not been for the generosity of the young masters of the aristocratic family. He was already giving high prices, looking for rich people to sell it to, yet, often, the rich young masters would give him the remaining large sum of money as a tip.

"Indeed rich people are willful!"

Zhong Ziqi shook his head as he listened, they, as the common people, would hate to be unable to break a penny into half to use but these rich people 'squander the money recklessly'. Which money was not hard-earned by parents? Using his father's words: get beaten up too lightly!!

It was not that Zhong Ziqi hates the rich, he was just feeling a bit emotional, because in his previous life there was no shortage of people like this, it could even be said, they all can be found everywhere. It was only now that he was living at the lowest rung (of society) that he felt how big was the gap between the rich and the poor. Besides that, those officials who are rich were only concerned with their own free and unfettered matters. How many of the officials really give thought to the common people?

"Moreover...."

Zhao Zheng'an carried the large and small bags he had brought back to the bed.

"What are these?"

Zhong Ziqi was curious and opened a box, which contained dried fruit of some kind.Zhong Ziqi took a look at its dark and shapeless appearance, hesitated for a while before he ate one.His eyes lit up as the sweet and sour taste was delicious.

Zhong Ziqi unpacked the mountain of things one by one like digging for treasure. Everything was inside, such as glutinous rice flour,pickled plum, dried fruit of some kind, snow-white pearls, all kinds of shells and sea snail conch. Surprisingly, there were also several yams, many other herbs that Zhao Zheng'an had heard were nutritious for the body, fruits, and so on. Anyway, there were a lot of messy things.

Zhong Ziqi was distressed and said: "You .... Why do you buy all these things? How much does this cost?"

Zhao Zheng'an smiled unconcernedly: "It didn't cost much. These things seem expensive to us, but they are very common in the local area. Moreover, I go to home specialties to buy them. It's definitely cheap."

"Why do you buy all these medicinal ingredients? And this 'miscellaneous stuff' is useless too, isn't it? I've never seen them before. Aren't you afraid that you'll eat it? " said Zhong Ziqi, speechless.

"These are all good for the body. I've asked the doctor. Just put some in your cooking. The herbs are all very mild,there's nothing that clashes with each other, they can nourish the body."