When Feng came over with a bowl of boiled eggs, a group of children had already finished their candy and were surrounding Man Bao to look at her four Wen coins.
Feng Shi was stunned when he saw the money, and asked, "Sister, where did you get the money?"
Man Bao raised his head proudly, "We earned it ourselves, selling sugar."
Feng Shi thought it was the candy that her husband bought for Man Bao before, and said helplessly, "Why don't you eat it, but sell it instead, it's for your health."
Every time Zhou Zhoulang came to the market, he would buy a penny worth of candy when he returned home. He would only take out one piece and turn it into sugar water for the children to drink, and the remaining four would be full of treasures.
It's not that they dote on Manbao and don't love the children.
It was a sentence that Man Bao's doctor said when he was young, "This child has a weak spleen and stomach, shortness of breath and fatigue, so eat more eggs and honey."
At that time, the family's situation was not very good. Manbao was only a few months old, and he couldn't eat the bitter medicine, so he could only pour egg water and honey water.
The honey was bought by Lao Zhou after begging several nearby villages for a lot of money. It is hard to find, rare, and very expensive.
Later the doctor said, "There is no honey, maltose is also fine, it all belongs to the lung meridian and strengthens the spleen and stomach."
It can be said that Manbao can grow so big and so fat, the eggs and sugar at home are particularly credited.
It is also because Manbao has become healthier and healthier in the past two years, and the Zhou family thinks that what the doctor said is really true. They cannot give Manbao other good things, but the eggs are laid by their own chickens, and there is still money to buy sugar.
One episode every three days, she can get four candies every time she goes to the market, so in Manbao's heart, she really has no shortage of candies, so that when Keke officially met her for the first time and used candies to bribe her, she Not very buy it.
After eating the candy given by Keke, she still thought it was too sweet, and finally shared some with her nephews and nieces as before.
Seeing them squinting their eyes with joy, Man Bao became good friends with Ke Ke who suddenly appeared.
Man Bao is not short of sweets, because apart from the ones bought by her family, Keke also rewards her from time to time, but Feng doesn't know.
She glared at Wu Lang and Liu Lang who didn't know how to persuade them, and handed the bowl to Man Bao, "You are hungry, the second sister-in-law cooked eggs for you, you can eat quickly."
Man Bao held the bowl and invited Feng Shi first, "Second sister-in-law, you can have a bite too, you didn't eat any cake just now."
Feng pushed back with a smile and said, "I'm not hungry yet. I'll eat with your elder brother and second brother when they come back."
Man Bao didn't doubt it, because she also likes to eat with her family, hey, why did she eat cakes without waiting for her elder brother and second brother
It seems a little sorry for them.
While thinking, Man Bao gave the egg to Datou and the others.
Everyone shook their heads again and again, giving them candy, but they would not eat eggs. Although they wanted to eat them very much, they knew that eggs were not eggs to my sister-in-law, but medicine.
Only then did Man Bao eat all the eggs, and then asked Feng to take her to buy medicine for her mother.
Feng patted her head and said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law didn't bring any money with her, we will go after your elder brother and the others come back."
Man Bao handed over the handkerchief and said, "I have money!"
Feng Shi sighed, "This is not enough."
The mother-in-law takes medicine all the year round, but in fact, she takes the cheapest medicine, which treats the symptoms but not the root cause, so she can only take care of it slowly. I don’t know how much it will cost to cure the disease.
There are two prescriptions that Qian often drinks. One can be bought from a doctor in Dali Village. I picked it myself on the mountain.
Buying from him, a set of medicine only costs 8 Wen. Their family is already very economical. A set of medicine will be decocted four times, which is the medicine for Qian's two days.
If Qian's condition worsens, he can only go to the pharmacy in the county to buy the medicine on another prescription. There is a more expensive medicine on that prescription, which costs twenty yuan a pair.
Mrs. Feng really didn't have any money. People who came to buy baskets and dustpans today were all barters. They collected a lot of eggs and food, but they didn't have any money.
There was no way, everyone could only squat behind the booth and wait for Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang to come back.
It was after noon that Zhou Dalang and Tuesday Lang came back with a sad face, and the two big sacks of grain were still on the cart.
Feng Shi was startled, trotted forward to help push the car over, and asked, "Why didn't it sell?"
Zhou Zhoulang said with an ugly face: "The price is too cheap, a bucket of grain is only eight cents."
Feng couldn't help but shouted, "Only eight? Wasn't it ten before?"
Zhou Dalang squatted on the ground and said: "The food has all come down. This year's harvest is not bad. It means that the grain store is not short of food."
They are all from the village. Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang talked with each other for a long time, but they failed to raise the price. The family was really short of money, so the brothers were reluctant to sell the grain so cheaply, so they pulled return.
Feng couldn't help but red eyes, "Then what should I do?"
Zhou Yilang squatted on the ground for a long time, and said: "There are people in the market who want to exchange hemp cloth. We can exchange it with grain, and the cotton cloth for shoes can also be exchanged with grain, but mother's medicine must be bought with money." , The food still has to be sold, no, we will go to the county seat tomorrow to see, maybe the price can be better than the market price."
Man Bao immediately took out his four coins, "Big Brother, Second Brother, I have money!"
Seeing the four coins, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang were taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Where did you come from?"
"Selling sugar!"
Zhou Dalang took it, sighed and said, "I'm still short of four Wen."
Man Bao wondered if she would have to peel another 20 candies and sell them, Zhou Zhou Lang had already got up and said, "I'll exchange the things with someone."
Zhou Zhoulang had a lot of acquaintances in the market, so he filled some of the wheat harvested by Feng's family, weighed it and left.
It didn't take long for him to come back with five Wen.
Zhou Dalang was very curious, "Who did you trade with?"
Everyone comes to the village market with very little money.
"I exchanged it with Old Wang who sells sugar. He uses wheat to make sugar. I sold it to him at the regular price."
Zhou Dalang breathed a sigh of relief, and handed him Man Bao's money as well.
Zhou Yilang used the money to buy a pair of medicines, and the number of people in the market began to decrease. Everyone went home.
The cloth was handed over to the old lady, and she assigned the task to cut clothes, while Zhou Dalang and Tuesday Lang went to talk to old Zhoutou.
Man Bao followed behind and went in together.
Seeing her walking behind them with hands behind their backs like their father, Zhou Dalang and Tuesday Lang couldn't help sweating, and simply hugged her on their laps, and then reported to Lao Zhou about the situation in the market.
Hearing that the grain could not be sold at a price, Lao Zhou wanted to smoke again.
He sighed and said, "The family needs some cash, not to mention that your mother needs to take medicine, is there an occasional urgent need?"
Zhou Zhoulang also nodded, "During this period of time, I have accumulated a lot of eggs in the market, and I have to sell them in the county."
Although there were occasional people buying eggs at the market in Dali Village, they mostly traded them for grain. In the end, Zhou Zhoulang still had to sell the grain to the grain shop to make money.
So Zhou Zhoulang seldom sells eggs in the market, and he always takes them to the county town, where eggs are sold better than grain.
Old Zhou nodded, stroked his old smoking gun and said, "The day after tomorrow, tomorrow you two will follow me to take Manbao to school."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang responded.
Only then did Man Bao express his opinion, "Father, I'm going to the county too."