Traveling through time with a house, I teach people all over the country how to farm

Chapter 213 Returning with a Full Load

Not long after, the scattered villagers came back. Several of them walked together, holding buckets in their hands. It seemed that they were a family group.

When they arrived at Zheng Sisi's carriage, Village Chief Wang was already waiting there with two baskets and a scale.

Zheng Sisi checked the quality of the red crayfish everyone caught and expressed her satisfaction. Then Village Chief Wang weighed them and found that all they had collected was more than 150 kilograms.

Village Chief Wang was very sorry and said to take out some. Zheng Sisi said, "It doesn't matter today. We will charge according to this quality in the future."

Zheng Sisi didn't expect that there were so many red crayfish. They caught more than 150 kilograms in just 20 minutes. It was hard for Zheng Sisi to imagine how much they harvested in a year.

Zheng Sisi asked Village Chief Wang in confusion: "Village Chief, have you reported the prevalence of red crayfish in this area to the government? Didn't the government take any measures?"

Village Chief Wang sighed, “We reported the flood to the county government the year after it happened. The county magistrate brought people to take a look and organized collective fishing. Unfortunately, after several attempts, the fish kept popping up. The county magistrate had no choice but to let us solve the problem ourselves.

Later, the harvest was getting worse year by year, so the county magistrate had no choice but to ask the government office to reduce our taxes. We just lived on like this, neither getting rich nor starving.

The Third Prince said: "The capital has never heard of this matter. I think several government offices have concealed it together."

Village Chief Wang said: "At that time, I only heard that some senior officials in the government office were going to be promoted, and I don't know the details."

The third prince and Zheng Sisi understood that this required political achievements, so they suppressed the news about the red crayfish, not wanting this matter to delay their promotion.

Zheng Sisi didn't say anything more. This was a political matter and it was something that officials should take care of. As for what the third prince would do, that was his business.

Zheng Sisi paid for today's red crayfish, gave a deposit of one hundred taels of silver, and also gave ten taels of silver, asking Village Chief Wang to find someone to weave more baskets with lids to hold the red crayfish.

Wang Cun refused to accept it, saying, "This basket is not worth much. We can just go to the mountain to cut some bamboo and find a few people to help weave it. It won't be a big deal."

Zheng Sisi: "It takes time to find someone to weave it, and it's someone else's craft. Anyway, there's not much more, so I'll use these ten taels of silver to buy baskets for the future."

Village chief Wang understood that the county lady was helping everyone. He was very grateful and secretly vowed to require the red crayfish provided by the villagers to be of qualified quality in the future.

More than 150 kilograms of red crayfish were packed into three baskets. The carriage was filled with masters, and the crayfish contained water, so they could not be placed inside the carriage. Finally, they asked the villagers for some homemade straw ropes and tied the baskets to the rear of the carriage.

The group said goodbye to the village chief and villagers. Zheng Sisi said she understood and would arrange someone to pick up the red lobsters early in the morning. Then she got on the carriage and went home under the guidance of Captain Zhao.

Zheng Sisi was very satisfied with this trip. It can be said that she returned with a full load. She found the crayfish she had missed for a long time and also found a long-term supplier. She no longer had to worry about the supply.

A few young sisters saw the villagers catching red crayfish and chattered about it in the carriage.

Zheng Zhiyuan and Zhong Ruiyu in another carriage were more excited than them.

Zheng Zhiyuan said, "Third Prince, you know, that red crayfish is not as powerful as they say. As long as you grab it from behind, its claws won't be able to pinch you."

Zhong Ruiyu also said: "Yes, I think the method is right, it is actually very simple. I am just wondering how to eat this red crayfish. I studied it and found that it is all shells and there is no meat. If we cook it, do we just eat the shells?"

The third prince didn't know what to eat, but he believed that Zheng Sisi would not speak without purpose and would definitely give everyone a satisfactory answer.