Zhang Lihua shook her head, fearing that her parents would be worried, so she quickly added, "Shitou just met my brother at the banquet and said that he has grown taller and gained weight. He must not have suffered a loss outside. Don't worry, mother."
Mrs. Chen nodded, pursed her lips, and looked at her daughter with withered hair. She wanted to say something, but she still swallowed the sigh in her chest, and the words in her mouth changed, "You should take good care of yourself at home. Listen to me."
Grandma’s words.”
"Yes, I understand." Zhang Lihua responded and stood up, "We still have to go back, so we're leaving now."
After walking all the way out of the yard where Chang Gong lived and turning the corner and out of sight, Zhang Lihua slowed down her steps.
She turned to look at Song Qiu, and for a moment, she came over and grinned, "Aqiu, did you see that? My mother just gave me a few coins!"
Song Qiu: "..." She didn't see it. She thought Aunt Donggua was holding Lihua because she was reluctant to let her go. It turned out that she took the opportunity to stuff the copper plate.
"Don't your parents take home all their wages every year? Where does the money come from for you?"
Long-term workers of the Cheng family are provided with food and accommodation, and are given clothes and shoes every quarter. Their wages are given directly to them when they start work at the beginning of each year, and they will not receive any more wages until the end of the year.
"I don't know. What did you do to help others?" Zhang Lihua was also very confused, but she didn't have time to ask carefully just now.
She opened her palms and revealed four copper coins, "My mother asked me to buy flowers to wear. Ah Qiu, please keep them for me and save them together."
Song Qiu thought that with Uncle Donggua and his wife being so honest, they would definitely not steal other people's money. The money was legitimate. Although he was confused, he nodded, took it and put it away.
"Then you only have three hundred and forty-seven coins here with me. If you have another one hundred and fifty-three, it will be half a tael!"
Zhang Lihua was not very good. When Song Qiu said this, she smiled and narrowed her eyes, "I actually have so much money? Come on, save another hundred or so. If you have half a tael, ask for it from my brother.
My wife is inseparable!"
Song Qiu couldn't help but throw cold water at her, "Son, what kind of wife can you get for half a tael of silver? There's still more to be done."
Zhang Lihua curled her lips at her, "I know, I know, it's not enough to stay together at eight or nine, so let's stay together at four or six! After all, I will save more and more!"
People, you have to look forward.
Song Qiu narrowed his eyes and smiled, thinking about that matter in his mind, and couldn't help but whisper to Zhang Lihua: "It's hard to pick up those rare fungi. It might take several years to save just a few pennies.
Isn’t the Dragon Boat Festival coming soon? I have a good business here, do you want to buy a share? If you can make a fortune, your money will probably double or triple!"
Hearing this, Zhang Lihua thought that it was indeed true. Once these two months passed, she would no longer be able to save money if the mushrooms were gone or if they were difficult to sell, and there would be nothing to save money for in the second half of the year.
It is quite difficult to save more money.
"Then Aqiu, what can you do to make a living during the Dragon Boat Festival? Can you really make a fortune?"
She was thinking about the Dragon Boat Festival carefully in her mind. During the Dragon Boat Festival, their custom here is not to plant mugwort leaves and calamus in front of the door, boil the mugwort leaves in water, wash them in the bath, wash their hair to remove evil spirits and remove bad luck. What else can be done to earn money?
Song Qiu smiled mysteriously. She had been thinking about this profitable business for a long time.
It was also the dynasty she came from that gave her this opportunity to make money. It was also the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival in this area, in addition to hanging moxa leaves and calamus to wash mugwort water, the other thing to eat was boiled eggs with mugwort leaves.
I won’t talk about dragon boat racing, drinking realgar wine, etc., because her hometown in her previous life didn’t have these.
But the most important thing is that there is no such thing as rice dumplings here!
The customs here are not even related to the Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi, which simply gives her a huge opportunity to make money!
Therefore, selling rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival was something she had been thinking about making a living early in the morning. This was definitely something she could do, and even if she didn't make a lot of money, she could still make a small fortune.
Today is already twenty-two, so you can start getting ready.
After figuring this out in his mind, Song Qiu whispered: "I plan to sell a kind of food during the Dragon Boat Festival. I don't know what to say at the moment. Let's go back to the village first. I'll show you the things and then talk to you.
Please elaborate."
The two took a small road all the way back to Songshan Village, but almost all the people in the village did not come back. Also, the people in their village did not work in the fields and spent most of their time in Chengjiazhuang.
Mr. Yuan had not returned home at this time, and the woman in that house had not yet given birth.
Song Qiu opened the courtyard door, took the basket, and took Zhang Lihua straight up the mountain.
In future generations, the mountains behind Songshan Village would be where she worked. She spent almost all day in these mountains.
At the moment, she couldn't say anything about anything else. When it came to Songshan, there was no place she wasn't familiar with.
After climbing halfway up the mountain, Song Qiu pointed to the hilltop on his left where he had climbed down from the col and was close to the official road outside.
"Lihua, have you seen that mountain? There are bamboos all over there. The food we are going to make requires the shells of those bamboos. Let's go pick some up now."
Song Qiu had already noticed that mountain, but he never went there.
The main thing is to cross a mountain col, which is a bit far away.
Zhang Lihua looked along and saw where she was talking about, so she continued: "Isn't that Ear Mountain? Are there snakes in the bamboo forest? Have you forgotten, Aqiu? We met a snake when we went there once.
Later, we were so scared that we never dared to go there again.”
The mountain where the bamboo forest is located from top to bottom is called Ear Mountain because it looks like a human ear.
Song Qiu thought about what Zhang Lihua said about the snake. He rummaged through his memory and found that it happened two or three years ago. If he didn't think about it, he really couldn't remember it.
"It's okay, let's just be careful!"
There was a bamboo forest in the back area, namely Er'er Mountain, and it was full of spotted bamboos. She had to go there even if there were snakes.
The two people carefully descended the mountainside, passed through the col between the two mountains, and went up to Ershan Mountain. They found mountain mushrooms on the way and picked them up along the way.
The bamboo forest is quiet and cool. Once you get into the bamboo forest, the feeling is different. The bamboos are close together one by one. The bamboo leaves are lush and cover the sky and the sun. It is quite cool.
As soon as she got into the bamboo forest, Song Qiu stepped on a mottled bamboo shell under her feet. She immediately bent over to pick it up and turned around to show it to Zhang Lihua, "Lihua, look, the food I want to make is made from this mottled bamboo shell, but I have
The bamboo shells are all falling apart, so we have to pick up the ones that are tightly wrapped together and not damaged."
As she said this, she noticed that there was a peeling bamboo shell within reach of a nearby bamboo tree. She carefully peeled it off, and as soon as it fell into her hand, the bamboo shell spontaneously curled up together.
, "Here, look at Pear Blossom, it's just like this. It's just right."
Zhang Lihua had naturally seen the spotted bamboo shell before, but when she looked at the spotted bamboo shell, she really couldn't think of what to eat with it.
But Ah Qiu has said so. If she believes in Ah Qiu, then she will pick it up.