The Transmigrated Li Jin's Daily Farming Life (Translated With Mtl)

Chapter 11

After Li Jin healed his foot, Li Zhuzi had got a different level of respect for Li Jin.
Earlier he always regarded Li Jin as a mud-puddle but now Li Jin was a prodigal son in his eyes.
It was around seven in the morning, and many villagers had woken up and some had even started working.
A few women were carrying bamboo baskets with eggs and embroidered purses to sell in the town.
The men were going to the fields, to harvest the wheat. Farming was the main income source in the village.
According to Li Jin’s assessment, it should be the month of June.
After leaving the village, the river belt came into the view where he went to wash his clothes yesterday.
Some distance away from the river, the fields filled with golden-colored wheat plants.
Li Jin observed that there was the only type of crop in all those fields, the only difference could be found by the length of crop grown.

Some fields have a good harvest of wheat, but in others, the harvest was somewhat average because of numerous weeds in the fields.
The growth of weeds in those fields had slowed the growth of the crops, because of them the wheat plants couldn’t get enough nutrition and didn’t grow well.
The harvest depends on the farmer’s hard work to remove weeds from the fields and provide proper conditions for the wheat crop to be grown.
A little further away, Li Jin saw a field mainly filled with weeds.
Li Zhuzi looked at the field and pointed while saying, “Li Jin looked at your field, if you don’t get a good harvest, this year I don’t think you will be able to pay the rent.”
Li Jin was speechless, so this field of weeds was his allotted land.
Li Zhuzi said, “Even though the village-chief only accepts a bag of wheat flour for the rent, looking at your field maybe harvesting even a bag of flour would be difficult.”
He added, “Li Jin, you are a scholar, so you don’t go to the field to cultivate the crops. Earlier it was your mother and now your husband works in the field. But because of the pregnancy, he was not able to remove the weeds, so your fields were full of weeds now.”
After looking at the field, Li Jin was already planning to buy some good seeds to plant.

Looking at Li Jin’s concentrated face, Li Zhuxi thought Li Jin was getting angry with his husband.
Hurriedly Li Zhuzi wanted to rectify his earlier statement, and said, “It wasn’t your husband’s mistake, his stomach was already very big at the time of removing weeds, so he couldn’t bend. At that time you also didn’t work in the field or help him in the work, so the weeds grew.”
Looking at Li Zhuzi, Li Jin said, “I know, I will not bully him.”
Li Zhuzi would have never believed Li Jin’s words if it was said by him earlier but now it was different, he had faith in Li Jin’s words.
Mainly all the men in the village who bullied their wives daily while being drunk would say promising words like this when they wake up.
But, those men were incapable and would never do cooking or laundry to help their wives. They only treat their wife as servants.
The wives of those men have had to even work and subsidize their family without getting any respect or humanly treatment from their family.
Mostly the little money they had earned would be used by those men to buy wine and be drunk.
And after they got drunk, they would again start hitting their wife creating a very vicious circle.
The Li Jin, he knew earlier was from this kind of category of men.
Hence, he never believed Li Jin’s. But now looking at the calm face of Li Jin and his serious tone, he somehow believed him.
Without continuing the topic, Li Jin asked about crops and their habitat with Li Zhuzi.
Li Zhuzi didn’t doubt Li Jin because he knew Li Jin had lived like a woman all his life without any understanding of the outer world.
Li Jin wanted to immediately understand this world and quickly find a way to earn money.
In the village, after the main crop season was gone, the villagers would grow vegetables, rapeseed, and other small edible plants for their use and it couldn’t be sold in the market for the money.
Li Jin found the village was like a large household.
The village-chief was the most powerful person in the village, he had the power to allocate the fields, decide the crops to cultivate, and monopolize the whole supply of vegetables from the village to the town market.
Li Jin never thought about selling the homegrown vegetables to the market.
His family needed vegetables, if planted well this piece of land was enough to feed his family.

“What is the market price of rapeseed, Brother Zhuzi?”
Li Zhuzi answered, “The price mainly depends on different varieties. Usually, you need a packet of rapeseed to plant an acre of field, costing around four cents.”
He added, “The land allotted to your family is two-acre, so eight cents will be needed.”
Li Jin wanted to know the price of many things but to avoid any suspicion, he only asked about the crops and their cost.
They arrived in the town around eight.
Before Li Zhuzi went to sell the firewoods he had chopped, he pointed the direction to the clinic to Li Jin.
“This is the clinic where everyone from our village went for treatment. The doctor and person who manage the shop are very good.”
This town had three clinics, the clinic pointed by Li Zhuzi was small and remote, the cost of treatment was also cheap.

After thanking Li Zhuzi, Li Jin said, “Brother Zhuzi, I am going to sell herbs. I will go back on my own after selling it.”
Li Zhuzi said, “Okay, I have to carry and deliver some other items first, you should go back to the village first.”
After parting away, Li Jin went to the direction Li Zhuzi pointed without looking at the other two clinics which were located on the main street.
Li Jin knew for a medical clinic to be opened on the main road, there must be a good power operating behind it. And in that kind of place, there wouldn’t be any shortage of medicinal herbs.
The apprentice sitting in the clinic was named Zhou Gui, the name was given by his family in the hope for him to have a nobleman future.
After hearing the sound of the steps, Zhou Gui looked at the door and thought someone was sick early in the morning.
But, when he looked he found a very good looking man wearing coarse clothes walking inside the clinic.
The man had the demeanor of a scholar, but why was he so handsome?
Even though the man was very handsome, Zhou Gui didn’t mistake him for ‘ger’ because the man was tall and had a masculine look.
Moreover, this man had no red mole on his beautiful face.

Zhou Gui stared at the man, and said, “Mr. have you come here to seek some medical advice? I have to call my master, he is in the back hall.”
Li Jin replied, “My surname is Li. I am not here for treatment, but to sell medicinal herbs. Do you need some herbs in your clinic?”
Zhou Gui was surprised, the herbs they needed were mainly collected from the nearby mountains every year by an expert.
They didn’t accept the herbs from the villagers because those people had no idea of extracting medicinal plants from the soil, and they mainly damaged the plants during the collection process.
Zhou Gui was hesitating, he thought this person was a noble scholar, but the man came here to sell herbs.
The hesitation of Zhou Gui was mainly because of the handsome face of this man, finally, he was defeated by the value of this handsome face and said, “You can show me the herbs, if it is not damaged, I will ask my master to come back.”
Li Jin thanked the apprentice and took out the bundles of the medicinal herbs tied neatly by the thread.
The plants were still covered in dew and we’re very fresh.
Even though the amount was small, Zhou Gui was astonished by the careful handling of those medicinal plants by this man Li.
Zhou Gui was relieved, thankfully this man had skills and knew medicinal plants.
The medicinal herbs collected by this person were better than that of an expert. The roots of herbs were intact, and all the herbs were of the same size.
Those herbs were top-grade herbs.
Zhou Gui hurriedly said, “Mr. Li, please wait. I am going to call my master.”
Li Jin nodded and said thank you, the apprentice quickly went inside.
A few moments later, a man strode from the back hall. While examining the herbs, the man said, “These are really ‘Skullcaps’ with intact roots.”
Looking at the handsome man, he asked, “You have collected these plants?”
Li Jin nodded his head and replied yes.
The man asked again, “You want to sell them?”
Li Jin again said yes.
The man said, “My surname is Wu, I am the doctor of this clinic. I am interested in buying your herbs. I can pay you three hundred cents for these herbs at the market price. I am willing to add ten more cents for the good quality of the herbs.”
After receiving three hundred ten cents, he thanked the doctor and the apprentice and left.
Doctor Wu stopped Li Jin, and said, “Mr. Li, do you regularly pick these herbs? If you want you could sell us these herbs in the future, I would add ten more cents in the cost.”
Li Jin stopped at the clinic for a while to discuss the price and quantity of these medicinal plants.
They decided the frequency for the herb supply as twice a month.
Li Jin happily left the clinic with three hundred ten cents in his purse.