Man Bao patted his small pocket, sighed sadly, and gave the cloth and cotton to her mother as soon as he got home, and then only solemnly announced to his family, "I have spent all my money. You have to pay for the meat!"
Old Zhou glanced at the cloth and cotton in his wife's hand, touched the bong and thought to himself, but it was finally spent.
He nodded, then turned around and said to his sons: "In the future, when you go out to sell soup, leave a jar first, and bring it back to warm up for your sister to eat at night."
Everyone said there was no problem, and Tuesday Lang also said, "We can still bring back the bones with meat underneath for Man Bao to chew on."
So the matter of the meat is settled.
Information transmission is slow in this era, and the Zhou family followed Lao Ding in doing business. Except for Lao Ding who went home every ten days and his family knew about it, few people knew about it.
Things didn't go anywhere, so in the first forty days, there were no competitors, and their income stabilized.
When those Lao Ding went home to get dry food for the first time, most of them no longer brought dry food, but came with rice or wheat, and directly exchanged fresh hot dry food with the Zhou brothers, and then served it with a bowl of broth , Even if there is no food, it is enough to fill the stomach.
It's not that no one has thought about doing it, especially those Laudin who have many brothers in the family. They have thought about it, but there is a huge difference between wanting to do it and being able to do it.
How many people walked to the meat stand and flinched when they asked the price.
Until the news spread from one village to another, finally some courageous and clever people knew that they could earn money by cooking after Lao Ding.
So people began to push carts to appear behind each section of Laoding, naturally including the two sections of Laoding that the Zhou brothers followed most often.
They didn't have such a big movement like the Zhou brothers. Most of them put the finished steamed buns in a basket to keep warm, and sent them over urgently. Maybe they knew that they came here for a short time, so they deliberately lowered the price a little bit, or made the steamed buns. A little bigger than the Zhou family.
So Zhou's business was divided.
Although it is a pity, Zhou Zhoulang also said: "It is very lucky to earn so many days."
Zhou Wulang's heart was raised, and he said: "Then shall we still go, this day is only two hundred and two taels, the vegetables can't be sold at all, and there are fewer people buying steamed buns and sesame seed cakes, but the soup can still be sold. "
"Go, why don't you go, even if you can only sell soup, you can earn more than a hundred yuan a day." Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang are not as eye-catching as their younger brothers, and they also told them: "It's winter, and it's also good to go home. Laying down, why not go out and earn some money, fourth child, you still owe money to your family, fifth child, sixth child, haven’t you been clamoring to buy new clothes, you can share at least 30 Wen per person a day, save A few days are enough to make a new suit."
Wu Wulang lowered his head and stared at his toes unwillingly, not very happy.
Old Zhou got angry, knocked on the stool and said, "I'm too lazy, if you don't want to go, then come home and dig the ground!"
In winter, who would dig the ground
Man Bao was gnawing bones as a routine, and together with her nephews and nieces, she raised her head when she heard the words, clapped her little hands and said, "Okay, come back and help me open up wasteland, brothers, I don't think fourth brother's piece of wasteland is not big enough , I can’t grow what I plan to plant, so let’s open a little more along that piece of land.”
She said: "Fifth brother must be disgusted by the many people who go there and the little money you make, so you take turns to go. Today the third sister-in-law and the fourth brother will go, and the fifth and sixth brothers will stay at home to help me open up wasteland. Tomorrow five Brother and Sixth Brother will go, and Fourth Brother will stay at home to work, wouldn't that be all right?"
The brothers saw their father thinking for a while before nodding, "Man Bao is right, if you only sell soup, it would be a waste for you to go to so many people, as soon as you go, just go to two people, and the remaining two people stay at home to work." job."
He looked at Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang again, and said, "You brothers also go in rotation, there is no need to go to four people at one time, and there is a lot of work at home, the kitchen needs to be made into a shelf, and the chicken shed also needs to be repaired …”
Although Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang were adults, they didn't really want to stay at home and work, so they leaned over their shoulders, but they didn't dare to express their disappointment, for fear that their own children would follow suit.
The more Lao Zhou made the arrangement, the more he felt that this method was better, and he took turns to go, except for the public transportation, the rest of the day's income was divided between two people.
There is no shortage of money in the office, and four extra laborers are added to do the housework every day, which is fine.
Wu Wulang couldn't help complaining about Man Bao, "What do you want to plant, the fourth brother's land is not small, do you need such a large land to grow yams?"
"And ginger."
Wu Wulang said: "It's so expensive, it's not sure whether it can be planted for a living, and your heart is too big."
Man Bao hummed and said, "I will definitely be able to work."
For this reason, Manbao went to find Bai Shanbao with ginger. The two of them read many books, but they couldn't find the method of planting ginger in the only agricultural book. Manbao read so many books during this time, so angry His eyes were dizzy, and he said: "Such an important ginger doesn't even write how to grow it, hum, they don't write it, I will write it."
After all, I took out a lot of white paper from the system, folded it and cut it, and then asked my sister-in-law to sew it up for her. She took a brush and wrote the word "ginger" on the front page crookedly.
She decided to write it herself. Keke said that as long as you observe properly and keep a planting diary, you can write down the planting method of ginger. What's more, Keke's entry has the basic planting method written down.
The customer service in the mall will also answer her planting questions, but she doesn't understand any nutrient solution or fertilizer, and Keke also said that she doesn't have those things here, so they still have to figure out the planting methods here.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao are both poor children now, and they are very enthusiastic about making money, so Bai Shanbao generously emptied the flower beds in his yard, and buried ginger cut into small pieces.
Mrs. Zheng, who occasionally came to look for her son, was a little entangled when she saw the two children playing seriously in the flower garden with their buttocks pouted. Although the flowers planted in the flower garden are not very precious, they are not easy to grow. Why did they just dig them up
The two children were covered with mud, and finally Man Bao knocked off the soil from the roots of the uprooted flower plants, placed them gently on the soil, and said to Bai Shanbao solemnly: "It's too cold, we have to keep them warm. It is best to use straw and wheat straw, and I will give you a hug tomorrow."
Bai Shanbao also nodded solemnly, and then watered it diligently. Before going to bed at night, thinking of the ginger in the yard, he got up and watered it again.
As the Spring Festival is approaching, the temperature begins to rise slightly, and Man Bao’s ginger in the vegetable garden has sprouted. Man Bao was so happy that he came to Bai’s house that day and asked Bai Shanbao if his ginger had sprouted.
The two children squatted in the flowerbed for a long time, but no sprouts emerged. In the end, the two couldn't help digging up the soil, and then saw that the bulging ginger turned black, and it softened when poked , is obviously broken.