Man Bao hugged her elder brother's neck and said, "Brother, we made a lot of money today."
Zhou Dalang thought of the money he had just bought for cotton and fabric, and his face turned bitter, "It was a lot of money."
"We made five hundred cash from selling yams."
Zhou Dalang was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Who did you sell it to?"
"Sold it to the county magistrate's family," Wu Wulang hurriedly took out the part of the money he had collected and handed it in, saying, "Twenty Wen a catty, the total is more than twenty-five catties, and Man Bao will give the extra money to the county magistrate." They gave me an extra yam."
Zhou Dalang frowned and said, "Isn't this a scam? It's only twenty Wen."
Wu Wulang lowered his head and said in a low voice, "The county magistrate even charged us to enter the city."
Man Bao thought so, but she couldn't tell her elder brother that way, so she whispered, "Brother, raw yam is a rare commodity, and we can sell it cheap."
After briefly summarizing what Keke said and telling him to him, Zhou Dalang was dumbfounded. He didn't expect such a big difference in the price of medicinal materials, so he couldn't help asking: "You heard clearly, the drugstore bought it. Dried yam, a penny for a penny?"
Man Bao nodded, Keke would not lie to her.
Zhou Dalang only felt his heart beating wildly, he murmured: "My dear, how much is that one catty?"
Anyway, he couldn't figure it out.
Man Bao said: "It's only one hundred and sixty characters."
Zhou Dalang felt a terrible pain in his heart.
As if he didn't think it was hurting enough, Man Bao continued: "Ligustrum lucidum is among the medicines that Mother caught. I have read the prescriptions. The medicines that Mother caught in the county have eight flavors, and they cost twenty cents. Zhenzi is worth three coins, and I heard that the most expensive medicine in my mother's medicine is angelica."
Zhou Dalang did his own calculations and felt that privet seeds should not be cheap, but he only paid fifty renminbi a catty.
Zhou Dalang said: "Next time we will prepare the medicine for my mother."
Man Bao also came up with this idea, and my sister-in-law told her about it at the time, so this time she also mercilessly laughed at her elder brother, "Our family only has one medicine, and other people's medicines are prepared one by one. Just bought it?"
Zhou Dalang remained silent.
Although Zhou Zhoulang felt a little uncomfortable, he thought about it, and said: "He also relies on his ability to make money. Didn't Man Bao say it? It costs a lot of money to transport the medicinal materials back and forth, and he takes a lot of risks. Those who open a pharmacy are not allowed to have a doctor sitting in the hall?"
Zhou Zhoulang was a little envious, "This is the advantage of having skills. Uncle was right before, everything in this world may belong to others, and only the skills you learn will always be yours."
Zhou Dalang nodded, and after thinking about it, he glared at him.
Man Bao asked curiously, "Second brother, who is my uncle? What he said makes sense. I will discuss it with him when I return to the village."
On Tuesday Lang forced a laugh, and said: "You heard it wrong, it's not my uncle, it's the village chief who said it, that's a senior official, you should stay away from now on, you know?"
Man Bao muttered dissatisfiedly, "I'm not deaf, and I'm clearly talking about uncle."
But Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang didn't give her a chance to ask another question at all, they just carried her onto the cart, pushed the cart and left.
It was only after walking a long way that Man Bao remembered, "Big Brother, Second Brother, I haven't bought you some biscuits yet."
The two brothers said with a smile: "We are not hungry, and the county seat is not far from home, we will arrive soon after walking a little."
How could it not be far
Wu Wulang and Saturday Lang stuffed the unfinished dry food into the mouths of their two elder brothers, forget it, let's fill some stomachs anyway.
Be brisk on your way back.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang are also sensible, and they take turns helping their two elder brothers push the cart. Man Bao and four nephews and nieces take turns sitting on the cart, which is not particularly heavy.
It just takes a lot of effort to go up the mountain.
So Manbao always finds various excuses to slide down the scooter and insists on walking by himself.
The Zhou Dalang brothers thought she was very sensible and knew how to love them, but they also loved her because she was young after all.
But I don’t know how happy Man Bao is. She searched for places with grass on the side of the road and asked Keke to scan the flowers and plants that hadn’t been collected. Not to mention, she talked a lot along the way. Pay attention to Koko.
Everyone has long been used to Manbao's behavior of pulling flowers and weeds. This child has had this problem since he was a child. When he walks on the road, he will go to pick an ugly flower when he sees it. Sometimes he insists on uprooting other flowers. , and then throw it away after playing in the hand for a while.
Several times, he sneaked into other people's vegetable gardens and tore up the vegetables as weeds, so Manbao's problem was not only known to Zhou's family, but it was well known in the whole village.
So everyone couldn't be more calm about her happily going all the way to the woods on both sides of the road, grabbing a grass for a while, and pulling a branch for a while.
So talking and making a fuss, I returned home.
Not only the brothers of the Zhou family, but also Man Bao were hungry, so they got into the kitchen as soon as they came back, clamoring for Xiao Qian's to make dinner.
Xiaoqian glanced at the sun that was just empty, and couldn't help but said: "How can you have dinner at this time? If my sister is hungry, can I bake you a pancake?"
"And the eldest brother and the second brother."
Xiaoqian also felt sorry for them, but the family had just sold two bags of grain not long ago, so they had to save some food.
In the house, after learning about the money earned today from Da Lang, Qian raised her voice and said, "Since the children are hungry, let's cook in the pot. If they are dry, cook more and save some for later." It’s enough to make porridge to fill your stomach, and eat early for today’s dinner.”
The children cheered, and even Wu Lang was very attentive and asked to help with the cooking.
Little Qian hurriedly drove the boys out, saying: "Don't make any more trouble."
Let Da Ya and Er Ya enter the kitchen to help light the fire and cook.
Man Bao went to fetch the mutton, and gave it to Xiaoqian, "Sister-in-law, today I will eat mutton, stewed with yam."
"What is yam?"
Wu Wulang took out the yam and bragged about how powerful it was and how much money it earned them. It is said that this is a medicine that only rich people can afford.
Xiaoqian was speechless, "The medicine is three-point poisonous. Why do we still take medicine when we are not sick?"
"This is a medicine that can be used as an ingredient," Man Bao said, "It's delicious."
Xiaoqian asked her, "Have you eaten?"
Man Bao was drooling and shaking his head. At this moment, in her brain, Keke was mischievously calling out several pictures of meals made of yams collected in the encyclopedia. They were all beautiful, especially the stewed chicken with yams. , it looks delicious.
Seeing Man Bao's saliva dripping out, Xiaoqian couldn't help laughing, and while helping her to wipe it, said cheerfully: "You little thing, you don't need something to eat, why are you so greedy?"
But she also agreed to take it and put it away, and asked how to do it. When she learned that it was just peeled and cut into pieces and put in for stewing, she patted her chest and said, "This is simple, my sister-in-law will make it for you in a while."