Chapter 14 Selling Chicken and Eating Meat
Pingxian County is twenty miles away from Hantun. The Daji mentioned in the Hantun population is located on the south side of Pingxian County, and is separated from Pingxian County by a Daling River. It is the day to go to the market on the third, sixty and nine days of the lunar calendar.
When He Ping and his friends arrived in Liangtun, where the Hongqi Town Commune was located, there were more and more pedestrians on the road, and most of them went to the market. This dirt road was the only way to the market.
When He Ping and his friends arrived at the big market, there were already many people at the market. At this time, everyone was not very particular about the market. They put things on the ground and shouted one after another.
The scene in front of me is not as lively and prosperous as later generations, but it seems full of vitality. Maybe it is a preconceived illusion, He Ping thought.
He Ping walked around, let alone, although the types of goods were not as rich as those in later generations, they could be found here, whether they were eaten, used or worn.
He Ping took a walk around with great interest. The market was not long, so he only set up a hundred meters long, with small stalls on both sides.
After a while, I learned about the market. If I say that doing small business these days is not as dead as I imagined, many small vendors are aware that they are in this industry all year round.
After all, it was the first time that He Ping had set up a stall at a big market. After a walk around, he came back to find the old captain and communicated with him.
This time, He Ping brought all the hatched chicks. This time, he sold some chickens and returned some books. You can exchange them for fresh eggs or food coupons. Go back to the village and collect some fresh eggs to continue hatching. This way, you can achieve sustainable development!
Under the guidance of the old captain, He Ping set a price for the chicken, put the bamboo basket on the ground, and also imitated the people around him to shout.
Nowadays, the large markets in rural areas are almost over at 90 o'clock in the morning, and everyone has to go back and continue working.
He Ping shouted all morning and wanted to exchange half of the food coupons and eggs, but he didn't expect that the food coupons these days were very expensive. Few of them were willing to exchange them. Most of the chicks were replaced with eggs, and a small part was replaced with rice and food coupons. At present, the prices of eggs and pork were almost the same, about 80 cents per catty, and 10 to 12 eggs, but fresh eggs that could hatch chicks were much more expensive, and only three were replaced with one chick.
When they came, they had forty-nine chicks, and when they returned, they carried a hundred fresh eggs that had been fertilized, a hare, eight kilograms of rice and five kilograms of food stamps.
He Ping was feeling a little upset when he was slowly on the donkey cart.
It’s not that this business is not easy to do, but that he is too small and has been busy for more than 20 days. If you want to rely on hatching eggs to improve your living standards, you still have to expand the scale. After a while of thinking, He Ping had a plan in his mind.
I went to the big fair today and knew a little. As long as I acted cautiously, there should be no big problem. Being able to have enough food is the top priority, and everything else has to be back.
With a bang, a big stone was pressed on the wheel. He Ping hurriedly opened the bamboo basket to look at his eggs. This was a small thing that was more expensive than food.
Because there are too many eggs, He Ping not only stuffed the bamboo basket with straw, but also stuffed his clothes in, for fear that the bumps on the way back would break the eggs. This is all money!
It was already noon when He Ping got home. He got off the donkey cart and patted the straw on his butt and walked home.
Xiao Zhu'er was waiting for him on the Tuko trash at the door of his house, and could see it at a glance.
When he left in the morning, he said that he would come back to stew meat and rice for Xiao Zhuer.
I feel distressed when I think about it, a rabbit replaced three chicks.
However, seeing the bright smile on Xiaozhuer's face is worth it.
When Xiao Zhuer saw He Ping coming back, he ran over happily.
"Let's go home and stew you with meat."
Before He Ping could order, Xiao Zhu'er had already set up firewood.
He Ping scraped his nose and said, "Little greedy cat! Stew the rice first."
The corn poles, which have been dry after a year, are very easy to cook. The rice stuffed from the large iron pot has an indescribable aroma, just like He Ping's childhood taste. He never tasted that taste again when he grew up.
After serving the rice, a thin layer of crumbs formed close to the bottom of the pot. This was He Ping's favorite when he was a child. It was crisp and fragrant. With a chew, the greedy people's mouth water flowed out.
He Ping shoveled out the crust and handed it to Xiao Zhuer. Xiao Zhuer put down the corn pole in his hand, and didn't care whether it was dirty or not. He reached out and put it in his mouth.
"Um~" Xiao Zhuer's delicious yakuza was about to come out.
The rabbit's skin has been cleaned up, so He Ping only needs to clear out the intestines.
He Ping is not reborn like the protagonists of other novels and has his own chef skills, simply chopping rabbits into large pieces.
Put the meat oil in the pan, stir-fry the onion and garlic, and the aroma of spices rises with a prick.
Then the rabbit meat was put into the pot and poured two scoops of water. The rabbit meat was gushes for about ten minutes. He Ping put the mushrooms that Xiaozhu had usually picked from climbing trees into the pot and sprinkled salt into the pot.
Ten minutes later, a pot of fragrant mushroom stewed rabbit meat was brought to the edge of the kang.
The father and son were sitting on the edge of the kang. Xiaozhuer was swallowing when the fragrance blew from the pot. His eyes were already straight and he was staring at the meat.
"start!"
With He Ping's order, Xiao Zhuer quickly picked up a piece of rabbit meat and stuffed it into his mouth. Xiao Zhuer was so hot that the vegetables that had just come out of the pot were so hot that he twitched his mouth. After sucking for a long time, he was still unwilling to spit out the rabbit meat.
"Slow down, don't worry, be careful to get hot."
"tasty."
Xiao Zhu'er swallowed the meat whole and said to He Ping with a silly smile.
"If you eat more meat, eat more meat to grow."
He Ping showed an old father-like smile, and his heart became more determined to let Xiaozhuer live a good life and not let his children suffer with him.
People who have never eaten rabbit meat always think rabbit meat is very delicious, which is based on the promotion of literary works. In fact, rabbit meat is relatively dense compared to domestic livestock meat. In layman's terms, it is relatively dry and not delicious.
However, this is a rare delicacy for He Ping and his son who have not smelled meat for a long time.
He Ping did not expect that one day he would have the urge to cry while eating rabbit meat.
This is probably happiness.
Most of the two pounds of rabbit meat entered Xiaozhu'er's stomach. He Ping was sometimes angry that this little person had no stomach. He could only sigh that it was probably the hardship of a difficult life.
I don’t know what happened to the four-horned gold-swallowing beast at home, and my cute and nagging wife, and my parents...
Xiao Zhu'er looked at He Ping in a daze and thought she had eaten too much and was unhappy.
He touched He Ping's hand a little crampedly.
He Ping came to his senses and touched Xiao Zhu'er's hair lovingly.
"Are you full?"
"Um."
"It's good to eat when you're full. It won't take long. Dad will definitely let you have meat every meal."
"Um."
The little head nodded heavily, looking more confident than He Ping himself.
He Ping smiled. Isn’t this a four-horned gold-swallowing beast, but it has not been completely activated yet, and it is still a four-horned meat-swallowing beast.
Chapter completed!