Chapter 148: Selling Eggs

Chapter 148: Selling Eggs In the four occupations, the farmer was ranked second, just below the warrior nobles and the gentry scholar.

When the kingdom was founded, the warrior noble was slightly higher than the scholar, even though both ranked first in the occupations class, because the warrior noble had a higher family background.

But after the late emperor ascended to the throne, he slowly diminished the power of the warrior nobles and raised the gentry scholars’ position. Because of this, the nobles now pursued scholarly virtue and deemed warriors as rough and uncultured.

After the warrior and scholar, the next rank was the peasant farmer, followed by artisans and merchants, and the last was merchants and traders.

Therefore, even if she wanted to earn a lot of money, Yao Zhi couldn’t become a merchant. Otherwise, she would bring shame to her husband and might hinder his official career.

Since that was the case, she decided to become a peasant farmer. With this title, even if she became a merchant later, she would still be able to raise her head high and defend her husband’s reputation.

As the sun rose on the eastern horizon, Yao Zhi finished watering her vegetable gardens and ate her breakfast. Since she needed a favor from the Village Chief, she couldn’t go empty-handed.

This time, she didn’t bring vegetables with her since she had just given a basket to Yang Dalang yesterday. She thought for a moment and opened her system’s husbandry.

It had been almost a month since she obtained the system’s husbandry.

She had bought so many ducks and chickens and just put them in the husbandry. Fortunately, there was automatic management. Otherwise, with her forgetting about them, they might have died by now.

She thought about giving several eggs to the Village Chief’s family.

When she checked her grassland, she was shocked to see the number of ducks and chickens inside. Besides the 50,000 ducks and 50,000 chickens, there were also newly hatched chicks and ducklings.

Yao Zhi opened the husbandry’s warehouse and saw so many eggs inside. She almost fainted from the sheer number. It was too much for her own consumption.

Because the time was 30 times faster than outside, one day outside was equal to a month inside. With this difference in timeline, the poultry was able to lay 30 eggs in a day.

Counting the time, today was the 29th day since she bought the poultry. With just a rough calculation, there were a total of 87 million eggs in her warehouse right now.

Fearing that the warehouse wouldn’t be able to store the eggs, she quickly sold most of them to the system’s shop. The price for a duck egg was 1 point each, and the price for a chicken egg was 0.5 point each.

With each type totaling 43.5 million eggs, she sold 43 million of each type. With just one transaction, she earned a total of 64.5 million points. She now owns a total of 71,570,677 points.

Yao Zhi stared at the points in shock. She had thought that it was hard to earn points, but only now did she realize how easy it was.

Even though she didn’t know why her eggs were more expensive compared to the eggs sold in the system’s shop, she didn’t dwell on it too much.

She took out ten chicken eggs and five duck eggs from her space and placed them in a small bamboo basket. After she locked the door, she went to the Village Chief’s house.

At this time, the villagers had woken up and were working in the fields. They needed to clear the land and prepare the soil for sowing next year.

When Yao Zhi arrived at the Village Chief’s house, there were only Yang Dalang’s youngest daughter and second son.

Seeing her coming, the six-year-old boy stood up and walked over. As he opened the gate, he asked, "Aunt Yao, are you looking for my grandpa?"

Yao Zhi nodded and asked, "Erbao, is your grandpa at home?"

Yang Erbao shook his head and replied, "Everyone is going to the field. There are only Erbao and Xiaobao at home."

Although the child was young, his pronunciation was clear. He had already learned the Three Thousand Classics in a year. Compared to other children from farmers’ families, he could be counted as a smart child.

Meeting his clear eyes, Yao Zhi smiled and asked, "Did your grandpa say when he will come back?"

The boy shook his head. "My family needs to clean the field. It might take a whole day."

Hearing this, Yao Zhi thought for a moment and handed the basket to him. "Erbao, when your grandpa comes back, can you tell him that Aunt Yao will come again after dinner?"

Yang Erbao peeked into the basket and saw so many eggs. The eggs were larger than the ones laid by his family’s old hen. He was young and only knew that these were good things.

He accepted the gift readily and nodded. "Aunt Yao, Erbao will tell my grandpa later."

"Thank you."

Yao Zhi rubbed his head gently before she left. After she left, she heard Yang Erbao’s excited voice. "Xiaobao, look, Aunt Yao gave us a lot of eggs. Later, we can ask Mother to steam two eggs for you to eat."

Xiaobao was born prematurely and always had a weak constitution. Because she often caught illnesses, she rarely went out to play with other children, which made her timid.

When she heard her second brother’s words, she only nodded and said, "Brother, eat."

"Okay, we will share it with our parents and eldest brother, too."

When Yao Zhi no longer heard their voices, she thought about the goat milk and cow milk in her husbandry’s warehouse.

In this era, cow milk was rare. Besides the royal family and nobles, no one could have it. After all, dairy cows were priceless and could only be bought from the grassland tribes.

Because of the price, the commoners could only buy goat milk. The price of goat milk was also not low, but it was still possible for them to buy it for their children.