The villagers in Shili Baxiang like to buy a needle, thread, brain or other items during the market day, so the market day in Liutun Town can be said to be very lively: people selling rouge, playing tricks, and even begging along the street. There are more beggars than ever before.
The first two times that Youjin came back to town, he hurried back to town, but he had never experienced the ancient festival full of life and the smell of fireworks. But today she was just as indifferent.
The heavy basket on the back knocked on the back door of the kitchen outside the Xianwei Zhai Hou, but after a while, the guy who was responsible for guarding the back door came to open the door. Shang didn't know if it was stained with soot from the bottom of the pot or something, and he couldn't even see his face, so he asked, "Did you knock on the door?"
In general inns and restaurants, some people will sell things from time to time. The young man is used to seeing it. He glanced at the big bamboo basket behind Youjin, which was covered tightly: "What are you carrying? ?"
Young Jin licked his face and said with a smile: "Little brother, what I carry are all pheasants and hares that my father put on the mountain, and they are still alive and kicking, why don't you take a look?"
As soon as I heard that it was a pheasant and a hare, the young man was also interested: "You can open it and let me see if you can talk." Now it is the late autumn season, and there are many more guests who come to Xianweizhai to eat game than in summer, but There are not many hunters near Liutun Town, and the mountain goods they can receive every day are also limited.
When You Jin heard what he said, there was a glimmer of hope. He quickly put down the heavy backpack, and then lifted the sackcloth covering it in front of the young fellow, and saw seven or eight still whispering "coo" The barking pheasants and the huddled gray hares were all crowded into the basket.
With a "hey", the young man let out a smile: "You can do it! With so many pheasants and hares, you can carry your bean-sized body to the town!" He squatted down and looked at these The spirit of Shanhuo found that everything was fine, so he stood up and said to You Jin: "You wait here, I'll ask the steward in charge of purchasing in our kitchen if we want Shanhuo."
You Jin thanked him gratefully: "Brother Lao is here." You Jin originally thought it wasn't that simple, but he didn't expect it to go smoothly. In fact, it is because the pheasants and hares sent by the general hunters are often shot and killed. When they were sent to Xianweizhai, the body of the pheasants was hard, and it was rare for them to be alive and kicking like the ones sent by Youjin, so it was so smooth. .
Within a quarter of an hour after the guy entered, he came out with a slightly fat middle-aged man: "The person in charge is this kid who is going to sell mountain goods."
The steward had a pair of gleaming eyes, and he twirled around Young Jin a few times, twisting a few goatee beards and asking, "Where did your kid come from to sell all these mountain goods? What's the price?"
Young Jin smiled and imitated the ancients and gave a half-hearted salute: "Back to the steward's words, my family is a hunter on Cuifeng Mountain, and these mountain goods are all beaten by my father. Because the old mother in the family is sick, my father sent the boy. I went to the town to sell the mountain goods, and then I asked for some money to go back to my mother to see a doctor."
After hearing her say that, the person in charge didn't ask any more questions, and motioned her to lift the sackcloth on the top of the basket, then checked it carefully, and finally asked for eight pheasants and four hares.
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Young Jin was carrying a basket that was heavy compared to when he came, and now it is as if there was nothing on his back. In his arms, he carried the small purse that Su Shi sewed out of linen yesterday, and it contained the silver money from selling mountain goods. Silver, but Young Jin felt that his heart was hot and hot.
After exiting the alley where the back door of Xianweizhai was located, we went all the way to the place where everyone set up their stalls on the West Market Day. There were still two small pheasants left in the young gold back basket. She wants to sell these two pheasants while the West Market is busy.
Entering the streets of the West Market to go to the market, as expected, there were people who set up stalls and sell things everywhere. Young Jin finally found a narrow place in the crowded corner, and hurriedly put down the basket, and then both died. The pheasant was taken out and placed on the ground.
Looking at the vendors who were constantly hawking around, Young Jin opened his mouth, feeling a little embarrassed. He was a human being in the past and present, and Young Jin had never done any job hawking along the street, so he really couldn't open his mouth.
When You Jin was almost ready to open his mouth to sell, a middle-aged woman in half-old fine cotton clothes came over with a basket: "Boy, how do you sell this pheasant in your family?"
When Youjin saw a visitor coming, he quickly returned to his senses and smiled and replied, "Forty cents a piece." This is nearly half the price of a live pheasant. In Liutun Town, the better pork and farmhouses raise their own. Chickens and ducks cost more than 20 cents a pound, and this wild game is not as easy to obtain as poultry, so the price is often much higher than that of domesticated chickens. If a live pheasant is sold, it can be sold for nearly 40 cents a pound. Price!
But the woman frowned and pulled the pheasant that had died, and then clapped her hands in disgust: "You brat really dares to ask for a price, but the pheasant who has died dares to ask for fifty cents! How about thirty cents a piece?"
After listening to this woman's words, You Jin couldn't help but want to laugh. When she was in love with this aunt, she was young and wanted to take advantage of her! He moved the pheasant that she had turned over without a trace, and then said with a smile, "Auntie, these 30 wen are too little. Don't coax me because I'm young."
The woman's face was a little hot when she said this, and she took a sip: "Both of them don't know how long they have died, and they dare to sell them. They are not afraid of eating bad guys and reporting to the officials to arrest you!" Then he twisted his butt and walked away angrily.
Youjin didn't take it seriously either, the business was not righteous, and she didn't expect to sell it all so soon. Seeing that the old aunt walked away swearing, she quietly retreated to the corner and continued to guard her two pheasants.
Facts have proved that the price of Young Jin's pheasants is not too high. Within two quarters of an hour after the woman left, Young Jin sold all the pheasants for a price of forty cents, and then carried the pheasant on his back. The empty back basket hummed a little song and left the West Market. On the way back, he spent five cents to buy a large bag of caramel and eight big meat buns each of three cents.
After leaving the town, and meeting the uncle who was in the car when he came, You Jin happily paid a penny and got on the ox cart. Now that the sun is hanging high in the air, and there are many people rushing to the market, the ox cart was filled with five people after a while, and the uncle drove the ox cart to the direction of Cuifeng Mountain.
On the official road in the south of Cuifeng Mountain, You Jin got off the ox cart at the place where he got on the car in the early morning. After waving goodbye to the uncle who was driving the car, he went up to Cuifeng Mountain with a bamboo basket on his back.
On the way back, because there was no weight of the mountain goods on his body, Youjin's feet were much faster, and he trotted back to the north of Cuifeng Mountain. After seeing the figure of Cuifeng Village, he slowed down and went to play pig grass again. , only to carry the heavy pig grass home.
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Within two quarters of an hour after You Jin arrived home, Old Chen and Xiao Chen also came back from outside, but it was a little different from You Jin, who came back with joy at the corners of his brows and eyes. Old Chen was displeased, while Xiao Chen was With a drooping face, he followed behind Old Chen slumped dejectedly.
Young Jin, who was cutting hogweed and preparing to feed the pigs in the courtyard, saw that something was wrong with the two of them, and waved to Young Pearl, who was picking vegetables under the corridor of the west wing, and whispered, "Youzhu, you go quietly to the back of the main room. Listen and see what Nian said to the auntie."
In the past, Xiaozhu would sometimes eavesdrop, but it was also a trivial matter. But now that he has decided to leave the Yue family, he naturally knows that the more handles he has, the better, so he hurriedly released the little spy, Xiaozhu.
Young Zhu's round eyes sparkled, she nodded vigorously, and then quietly went to the backyard. Sitting on the porch picking vegetables was Youyin. Looking at Youzhu's movements, she felt a little uneasy in her heart: "Third sister, what if she was found out?" It's not an exaggeration to kill!
You Jin gave her a look to tell her to calm down: "Xiao Wu is very clever, you can rest assured."
Xiaozhu did not live up to Xiaojin's expectations, and silently approached the window at the back of the main room, and then crouched under a window that opened a few inches, just in time to faintly hear Xiao Chen's defense: " Mother! I have never embezzled the public's money, so please don't be angry!"
However, the old Chen said in a yin and yang: "Then I'm blaming you wrong? I thought I'd be able to coax me if I haven't been in town for a long time. The town sells eggs for two yuan apiece. You're a black heart. Come back and tell me. One penny for one, it's not that you tainted my money, who tainted it?"
Xiao Chen was choked up by her rhetorical question with a gun and a stick, and then weeping and defending herself, it was nothing more than saying that her two sons wanted to study and the family was spending a lot of money.
But it was these words that stabbed old Chen's nerves, and he almost jumped up and pointed at her while sitting on the kang: "What kind of money did the Wentao brothers spend on studying? Why didn't you get the money for repairing at home? Even the 100 taels who said they wanted to buy papers this time were all from the public, have you ever paid a penny?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled fiercely, and in the end, Yue Dafu took the lead: "Okay! What else do you know besides quarreling? You don't think anything, you have private money, we don't know. But it's not good to filthy the silver in the duke, do it according to my opinion, if you go and get two taels of silver, you will be the one who tainted the duke's silver all these years, and I won't forget about you."
After listening to Yue Dafu's words, both Chen clans jumped up: Old Chen clan dislikes too little, little Chen clan dislikes too much, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law don't stop talking to each other.
In the end, it was Yue Dafu who directly knocked on the small wooden table on the kang with his pipe: "Okay! It's settled, old man, you go and get the money now."
Xiao Chen held his mouth reluctantly, but he didn't dare not to take it, and reluctantly went back to the east wing to get two taels of silver and handed it to the old Chen. Old Chen grabbed the silver in one hand, and then glared at her fiercely: "If you let me know in the future, I'll have to rip your skin off!"
Xiao Chen looked at the money that he had saved for an unknown amount of time, and in a blink of an eye, it entered the hands of his mother-in-law, and he was full of unwillingness.