The Youjin sisters also brought a lot of things this time, but the weight was much lighter than the day before. The sisters went out early, and when they arrived at the Luohezhou market, they could easily find an empty stall. The fresh water celery was placed on top of the dry straw, and a basket of locust flowers was placed aside.
Nowadays, most of the vegetables on the street are Chinese cabbage that they have stocked up last year, and there are also a few who sell wild vegetables. After a while, most of the basket of Sophora japonicas had already been sold. Young Jin and sisters did not have a steel scale, and they only sold locust flowers in a bag with lotus leaves and tied them with straw ropes. A bag was sold for five cents, which was not expensive, so it sold quickly.
"Little girl, are you a bamboo rat?" A fat white man who was well dressed and followed by a young man asked with a smile, "It's the first time I sell bamboo rats in Luohe Prefecture. See!"
"This master has good eyesight. My father caught my bamboo rat on the mountain yesterday. It is alive and kicking. Would you like one?" , if you sincerely want it, how about two of them for four coins from you?"
The fat white man didn't say anything, but the young beads on the side gasped, how dare these two bamboo rat elder sisters dare to call such a high price!
"The little girl dares to shout at a young age, and she is not afraid of the wind and flashes her tongue?" The fat white man was very interested in these two bamboo rats, and the high price of the young gold did not frighten him, but he started directly. Pulled one of the paws. It made the bamboo rat "cluck" fiercely at him, which made him "haha" twice.
Youjin's stall was set up for a while, and even the spring bamboo shoots were sold out, but no one asked the bamboo rat. This fat white man was the first customer to ask. She must be trying to seize this opportunity. Take these two gadgets: "This gentleman, "Compendium of Materia Medica" has records that bamboo rat is sweet, nourishes the middle and replenishes qi, and detoxifies. This is not the same as the pork and beef you eat on weekdays. It's a good thing!"
Seeing that she even opened her mouth to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the fat white man felt a little interesting: "I can't see that the little girl is still hiding! I'm just talking to you, I want these two bamboo rats, In addition, I have all the things in your stall rounded up, pick them up for me."
This is big business! Young Jin was so happy that he could not see his teeth but his eyes: "Oh! It's so clever! I still have three bundles of water celery, six spring bamboo shoots, and half a basket of locust flowers, plus two bamboo rats, and I will charge you five coins and silver, what do you think? ?"
The man was also rich and powerful, so he took out a piece of silver or two from his purse and threw it into Young Jin's hands. Young Jin was a little embarrassed: "Master, our small business, your money is too big, do you have any broken silver?" It's not that she doesn't want it, but she is out to sell, where will she take it with her? So much loose silver
The fat white man was a little embarrassed to hear her question: "This is the most money I have lost, otherwise, you will send me two bamboo rats and some wild vegetables tomorrow to come to Yunweixuan in Dongshi. How about the money that I paid you in advance?" After saying that, he motioned to the guy behind him to carry all the things that Young Jin had on his back, and he was not afraid that Young Jin would embezzle his money. .
You Jin thought for a while, and said, "Master, this bamboo rat is not something we can ask for, so I will give you more wild vegetables, locust flower, bamboo shoots tomorrow, and when the bamboo rat catches me, I will give it to you. How?" This is a long-term business, and You Jin has to keep a close eye on this big customer!
The fat white man didn't care about the half a tael of silver, and waved his hand casually: "Sure, if you catch another bamboo rat, I'll pay it if you bring it here, and if you have other fresh food, I'll also send it to you. "After that, he didn't say much, and flung his big sleeves to look elsewhere.
Young Zhu watched the elder sister put a tael of silver into her arms, and she still couldn't believe it: "Eldest sister, the two bamboo rats you caught yesterday are so valuable! A tael of silver!"
Young Jin put away the straw rolls on the ground, then carried his backpack, and patted Young Pearl on the head: "What are you thinking about? We have to give people half a tael of silver! Hurry up and put them on your back. Your backpack is gone, otherwise what will you bring to the city tomorrow?" After hearing what the eldest sister said, Xiaozhu came back to her senses, hurriedly carried her backpack, followed behind Youjin, and the sisters left the city. go.
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Youjin and Youzhu went to the city to make money, and Youyin and others were not idle at home: the two elders first washed the clothes of a large family, and then took Youling and Youluo to the riverside ridge to look for traces of wild vegetables, because Last night, the elder sister said that even if you can't sell it when you pull it out, your whole family will eat it. Several children know that money is spent everywhere in the family nowadays, and they are all very sensible, saving a penny is a penny.
When the Young Jin sisters returned home, Young Yin and others had picked a large basket of water celery and half a basket of bracken and came back. I heard that the vegetables picked yesterday were all sold out, and the sisters were very happy. , After lunch, I didn't even take a nap, and in twos and threes, I went to work on my own.
Young Jin naturally wanted to go to the mountain to find bamboo rats. Bamboo rat is the best at digging holes, so Young Jin came up with a way to smoke it. This bamboo rat is not the same as a rabbit, and it will come out naturally as soon as it is smoked. Xiaozhu also tasted the sweetness of the bamboo rat, and shouted to go with Xiaojin. Xiaojin thought about it, and he was really busy by himself, so he brought the only one who was not so afraid of Xiaozhu to help.
Young Jin's back is carrying a basket of dried straws today, while Young Zhu's back is a large sack, which will be used to smoke bamboo rats later.
The two sisters reached the mountain and turned around several times before You Jin roughly determined which holes were connected, chose one of the holes, and asked You Zhu to hold the sack tightly around the hole: "I will smoke on the other end in a while, bamboo The rat's appointment is here, you have to hold on to the sack!"
Xiaozhu was also a little nervous, pursed her lips and nodded: "Well, I see, eldest sister, you can go!"
Youjin picked up a lot of wet bamboo leaves, stuffed them with dry straw into the other two holes, and then took out the fire sticks and lit them one by one. After a while, thick white smoke curled up. Before Young Jin returned to the hole where Young Pearl was guarding, Young Pearl felt the sack in her hand tighten, and then the sound of "cluck" kept coming from the sack. Young Pearl was afraid that the bamboo rat would run away. I was still a little scared and still held the mouth of the bag tightly: "Eldest sister, catch it!"
Young Jin ran over in three steps and two steps. The sisters hurriedly closed the mouth of the bag, and then tied the sack tightly with sturdy rattan before Young Jin picked up the bag with an unknown number of bamboo rats. The sack felt the weight, then smiled and said, "There are four or five bamboo rats at least!"
"So much!" Youzhu opened her mouth wide: "Then it can be exchanged for a lot of money!" She looked like a little money fan and fell into the eyes of Youjin, who was also amused and nodded: "Yeah! It can be exchanged. A lot of silver!"
After catching the bamboo rat, Youjin asked Youzhu to guard the heavy sack, while he wandered around the mountains to shave bamboo shoots. This time, Youjin honestly planed two baskets of plump spring bamboo shoots, and Young Zhu was stunned: "Elder sister, you are planning to plan all the bamboo shoots on the mountain!"
"Now is a good time to eat bamboo shoots. Let's give it to Yunweixuan, and we can take the rest to the West Market to sell, right?" You Jin glanced at the surprised her: "Why, Youzhu hates money now. Too much?" Youzhu shook her head again and again, how could she think she had too much money? As soon as I heard that I would sell more silver, I even wanted to dig more young gold!
After the sisters brought the two large baskets of bamboo shoots and the bamboo rat home, seeing that it was still early, they actually ran up the mountain again and dug up two more baskets of bamboo shoots before returning.
Looking at the neatly arranged bamboo shoots under the kitchen porch, Mrs Su laughed a little: "You guys are going to bring back all the bamboo shoots on the mountain!" But she also knew that the two daughters were doing it for the family's good, very neat. He cleaned the ground and cleaned up five or six small and bad bamboo shoots to prepare for tonight's dinner. It has been almost a month since Mr. Su gave birth to the child. Even the two-year-old Young Silk went out to pick wild vegetables. Mrs. Su agreed to let her start doing some light housework after she gave birth to her child.
Although Su's health has been getting worse and worse in the past two years, and she has been pregnant and giving birth to children, so she is bedridden for at least ten months throughout the year, but her cooking skills are indeed beyond the people of the young gold. It's the same dish, but the food made by the Su family is much better than the food made by the younger sisters. Today, five bamboo rats were caught. The youngest one weighed nearly two kilograms. Young Jin slaughtered one and made a pot of bamboo shoots and stewed bamboo rats for the Su family. All the sisters ate their mouths full of oil, so they were not satisfied.
"It turns out that bamboo rat meat is so delicious, even better than pork!" You Bao said with a smile, taking a piece of meat for You Luo, who was too busy eating.
Xiaozhu nodded: "No wonder that person is willing to spend so much money to buy bamboo rats today. It's really delicious!" While saying it was delicious, he took a piece of bamboo shoots to eat. I don't want to grab it, after all, it's already pretty good to be able to eat meaty dishes, isn't it
After dinner, Young Jin gave the two little ones a bath, and then the older ones took turns taking a shower before taking a break. Recently, the children have been running outside, all sweaty, plus Under the influence of Youjin, the children of the Su family love to be cleaner than the children of ordinary village families, and they really can't sleep without taking a bath.
In the daytime, everyone was working outside. Now they are lying comfortably on the kang after taking a bath. After a while, the Su family's yard was calm, and the gentle mountain wind was blowing slowly. With the sound, everything was very peaceful and quiet, and several children fell into sweet dreams.