Old Zhou looked at the time and said to Feng: "Go to Zhou Hu's house and ask if your mother is still coming back for dinner."
Feng Shi responded.
Qian has given birth to many children. Although she is not a midwife, every family in the village likes to let her sit in the yard when they give birth. Even if she does nothing, it is okay to talk with the mother.
Feng came back soon, and said: "It's not so fast, it's activated, it's not bad to give birth at night."
So everyone didn't wait for her anymore, and started eating with the bowls and chopsticks. After the meal, Mrs. Feng helped put the bowls and chopsticks into the kitchen. Today it was Zhou Xi's turn to wash the bowls and chopsticks.
Then the adults all moved chairs and stools to the yard to sit and summarize today's work, while the children ran around and played in the yard, and the older ones took burnt sticks and wrote in the yard. When writing and drawing, they are memorizing the words Man Bao taught them.
Man Bao taught them another piece of "The Analects of Confucius", which was not long, only three sentences. She wrote the words clearly on the ground with a wooden stick. Brother speak.
Zhou Zhoulang took out all the income from this trip to the city, and everyone couldn't help but fix their eyes, because there were four strings of copper plates in it, and a lot of unstringed ones, and there were fifty or sixty copper coins by visual inspection.
On Tuesday, Lang Le Taotao said: "Father, although tofu and vegetables are cheap, they add up to a lot. The wild mushrooms we brought are also selling well. There are few people selling wild mushrooms this year. Those who are rich are willing to spend money. .”
Old Zhou was impatient. Their family had sold these things before, and they knew the price. This was not what he wanted to know the most, so he said directly: "Just tell me how much Poria cocos sold for."
The smile on Tuesday Lang's face couldn't be suppressed, "You must have never imagined that the Poria cocos still has mud on it. Shopkeeper Zheng collected it all and weighed it together with the skin. I will take it to you at eighty cents a catty. The two yuan I bought weighed three and a half catties, so it sold for two hundred and eighty Wen."
Just two pieces of tuckahoe, the money he sold was comparable to the basket of wild mushrooms, two baskets of vegetables and two barrels of tofu he brought.
If it weren't for that basket of wild mushrooms, I'm afraid I would have to add another basket of vegetables and a bucket of tofu to compare with the two pieces of Poria cocos.
Old Zhou was also very surprised, and asked, "Is this thing so expensive? It's even more expensive than privet seeds?"
"No, I heard from Shopkeeper Zheng that some old ladies and ladies like to use Poria cocos as snacks and desserts. They say it is a beauty product, and it is not worse than bird's nest, so a box of Poria cocos can sell for two to ten taels. s price."
Zhou Zhoulang was still a little bit regretful, "Our Poria cocos is big and white in flesh. It is said to be the best. After it is processed, a box can sell for at least five taels. I have seen their box of Poria cocos, and it must not hold a catty. I guess it looks like seven or eight taels."
Old Zhou began to think in his mind, "Should I cut it up and dry it? Then our family will dry it by ourselves..."
"Father, don't think about it, it's not that simple," Zhou Zhoulang said: "It has to be processed, this Poria cocos is not Ligustrum lucidum, just scald it with hot water, just take it out and dry it, I heard there are several ways. , and the Poria cocos obtained by each method is different, and the disease it cures is also different, there is one called cinnabar, which is very difficult, anyway, I can’t remember.”
Old Zhou looked at Man Bao.
Everyone's eyes followed.
Man Baozheng listened with gusto, seeing everyone looking at her, she blinked and asked, "What's wrong?"
Old Zhou asked expectantly, "Man Bao, have you seen any books on concocting medicinal materials at Mr. Zhuang and Shan Bao's house?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said, "It seems that Mr. Zhuang has a thin volume."
Old Zhou Tou's eyes sparkled, and he asked, "Can you read clearly?"
Man Bao knew what his father was up to, and said: "Father, don't think about it, it's easy to fail in concocting medicinal materials. Are there any skilled hands in our family? We still have to buy cinnabar. If the processing is not good, not only the cinnabar is wasted, but the poria cocos is also wasted, what a waste.”
This thing is so hard to find, how can it be wasted casually
When Man Bao said this, Zhou Zhou Lang came to his senses immediately, and said, "Father, this catty of Poria cocos is worth eighty wen, and it's sticky with skin."
Man Bao couldn't help but said: "Second brother, Poria cocos skin is also a medicinal material, of course you have to wear the skin."
"Oh, even the skin is a medicinal material."
That Zhou Zhoulang was even more reluctant, and said: "Father, even the skin has to be processed. This, even if Man Bao can teach it, we probably won't be able to learn it."
Zhou Zhoulang nodded fiercely, "Father, this thing is hard to find."
Old Zhou Tou sighed in disappointment, "Okay, then let's sell Poria cocos to Poria cocos."
But after losing so much money for no reason, old Zhou Tou still felt a little heartbroken, so he stared at his sons and said, "Look at all of you, you are so big that you can't even cook a medicinal material. "
All the brothers: ... You will, but you will do it.
In fact, Zhou Dalang and the others think that they are already very good. Let alone the things they did when they were young, which one did their father do now
In the past, their father could only work in the fields, as long as he could not be hungry all year round, the clothes the brothers wore were all picked up from the uncle's house, and then passed down one by one.
Man Bao is as easy to satisfy as her elder brothers. Her husband has taught her and Bai Shanbao more than once to slow down, don't just learn to walk and then run forward, let alone run and think about flying to the sky.
The former will take a hard fall, while the latter may fall from the sky to the ground.
The former may just be painful, and it will be fine after a while, but the latter will kill people. Of course, this consequence is the result of in-depth discussions between Man Bao and Ke Ke.
So although she is always full of confidence, to a certain extent, she feels that she is still very humble and self-aware.
Keke: No wonder!
Old Zhou asked Man Bao to take out the ledger, write down all the money that Zhou Yilang brought back today, and then began to take all the money. After thinking about it, he counted out ten coins from the scattered copper coins Give him the money and say, "Since the vegetables and tofu can be sold at a reasonable price, then you can continue to go to the county seat tomorrow. Didn't you say that the vegetables in Xiaowan are edible?"
"It's okay, but it's too tender. It's delicious. It's a bit of a loss for us to sell it at this time."
"Then continue to sell the vegetables from the vegetable garden tomorrow, and the vegetables from the Xiaowan side will be suitable in two or three days. Everyone, go soak the beans now, and get up early in the morning to make tofu."
Xiaoqian should go down.
Zhou Zhoulang took the ten coins and sighed sadly. It would be great if his mother was at home. You know, now his income when he goes to the city is handed over to the public, and he doesn't get a share, so every time he goes to the city, his mother They will give him fifteen Wen.
In addition to the entry fee and protection fee, he still has about five yuan left, which can be used to buy a bowl of hot soup with dry food in the county town, and occasionally have a luxury to eat a steamed stuffed bun.
But his father gave him ten pennies today.
Man Bao also felt that her father was picky. She glanced at her second brother sympathetically and then patted her buttocks to watch her nephews and nieces write. She took a shower and changed clothes, so she couldn't go out to play today.