The next day, Qiao Changshun got up, and the villagers started to trickle in.
Even though there was no wheat left, things like millet, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and sesame still had to be grown. They couldn't just ignore the other fields because of yesterday's financial hit.
Qiao Changshun and Qiao Dami went out to the fields, while Qiao Xiaomai locked up the courtyard and headed to town.
The tax collector from the County Town would be visiting in the next few days, so she needed to buy wheat and hemp cloth.
She did some heavy shopping in town, paid the delivery fee, and had the grain store deliver the wheat back home.
In the afternoon, she started cooking. This time she went to Ji Wei Ju and bought some ingredients she had never tried before: shrimp, crab, sea cucumber, dried abalone, dried scallops, and so on, planning to indulge herself under the pretext of practicing new recipes.
When Qiao Changshun and Qiao Dami came back in the evening, they were both stunned.