Shen Wanxue didn't care, and looked at the piles of fish. Her two brothers and her reluctantly sent the two big baskets of fish back home.
"Brother, we made a lot of money today, we will cook fish for dinner later..."
After hearing this, Shen Yurong in the room had a smile on his face. The only regret he felt was that he could not catch fish with his younger brothers and sisters.
After returning home, I put the fish in a large water tank and soaked it in water to raise it.
Shen Wanxue directly asked her two brothers to clean up a few smaller fish and start making fish.
The fish head is added with green vegetables and stewed into a white soup.
I cooked several fish dishes. Because there was not enough seasoning, I could only cook them simply.
A big pot full of braised fish cubes.
The four siblings had a great meal that night. Xiaobao ate a lot of meat after Shen Wanxue picked out all the fish bones.
It has been almost two months since I followed her, and I have grown in size again, but have lost a little weight.
The next day, when the sky was gray, Shen Yuhua and Shen Yufu came, pushing a cart in their hands.
"Third brother, are you staying at home with your eldest brother and Xiaobao? I'm afraid it will take a long time to sell the fish. Second brother and I can go there.
I feel a little more at ease with you here. I have everything at home, and I have cleaned the dishes and put them in the kitchen..."
"Okay, I get it, be careful on the road!"
"Um!"
They took two large baskets of live fish out of the water tank, put them in the baskets, and carried them onto the horse-drawn cart. The two of them walked along the road toward the town.
Because it was a push cart, Shen Wanxue walked with her brother.
"Xue'er, sit up, brother will push you!" Shen Yuhua patted the empty space.
Looking at her brother's thin body, she shook her head: "Second brother, I want to exercise my body, so I won't sit down! If you are tired, let me push for a while."
If he was tired, he didn't know what his sister was thinking. She just didn't want to overwork herself.
"OK!"
The two of them walked and chatted, and soon arrived at the town. At this moment, the sky just turned a little fish belly white. They found an open space and stopped.
Moved the two big baskets of fish down.
Shen Yuhua's face turned red with embarrassment, but he still sat there with courage.
"Second brother, I'm hungry. Here you go, buy me some food. If you see what you want, buy some for yourself..." Shen Wanxue put a tael of silver into her brother's hand.
"Okay, wait until brother comes back!" Shen Yuhua said and stood up to leave.
"Fish is for sale, fresh fish, fish just fished out of the river, fresh fish... sold at a cheap price..." Shen Wanxue shouted directly not long after Shen Yuhua left.
He knew very well that his shameless brother was embarrassed to be sitting here, so he sent him away directly.
After Shen Wanxue shouted, many people soon gathered around her.
"Girl, is this fresh fish?"
"Of course, look at it. It was fished out yesterday and kept in a water tank overnight. It was delivered here this morning. It's still alive on the road. It's not a lack of water...it doesn't cost money if it's not fresh..."
"Well, it looks similar, how do you sell it?"
"30 cents for a big one and a small one for free!" This was what she had allocated last night. The big ones were put in a basket of small ones. Buy a big one and get a small one for 30 cents.
When the man heard that it was thirty cents, he was very happy to buy one and get one free. He quickly took out the money and carried two fishes.
When people around heard that buy one and get one free, everyone started to pay.
In a short time, more than half of the fish in Shen Wanxue's basket was sold.
When Shen Yuhua came back, he saw that most of the fish had disappeared, and the cloth next to it was covered with copper plates.
He was a little surprised.
"this……"
"They're all sold, brother!"
"Sold? So quickly?"
"Unhappy, it's already a market now, and the market will be gone in a while..."
Shen Wanxue took the buns bought by her brother and after eating one, she shouted again.
Shen Yuhua couldn't laugh or cry as he listened to what his sister was yelling at. He looked at her small figure and showed such disregard for his own face. As an elder brother, how could he have such thoughts?
So, the brother and sister started shouting there.
When the market was about to end, the last two fish were sold.
Shen Wanxue looked at a pocket of copper plates with a smile on her lips.
There are a full 1,300 copper coins here. In other words, they made a total of one, two, or three hundred coins this morning.
"We go home!"
"Okay!" Shen Wanxue was also happy, but thinking that there were only green vegetables at home and no other varieties, she planned to go with her brother to see what vegetables were available in the seed store.
Shen Yuhua didn't want his sister to run more errands, so he placed her near the carriage and went on his own.
Shen Wanxue was sitting there bored. At this moment, a middle-aged man hurriedly came from a distance with his head wrapped in a white cloth.
"Old Li Tou, are you back yet?"
"Oh, I can't come back. The journey is too far. How can she, a woman, return home?"
"Then what should we do? The old man is dead and is about to be buried. Why hasn't he come back yet? How ugly would it be to say this?"
"There's nothing you can do about it, why not find someone to replace you?"
"What, find someone to replace you?"
Shen Wanxue, who was sitting not far away, heard their conversation clearly. She immediately thought of an idea, quickly jumped off the carriage and ran towards the two of them.
"Uncles, what do you think of me?" Shen Wanxue asked with a smile.
"You?" Both of them focused on her.
"That's right, aren't you looking for someone to mourn or hold a wake? I can do either, as long as you give me money!"
After hearing this, the two of them looked at the little girl in front of them.
"Can you really do it? Our girl's family is getting married, and the old man has to come back and cry loudly even after the funeral. There can't be any fraud... Moreover, this person is not a member of the royal family, and his family has a lot of money..."
"I can do it, but I don't know how much you can give me?"
"Wang Yuan's family is not short of money. If you can, come with us..."
"Okay, wait for me!" Shen Wanxue said and came to the edge of her horse-drawn carriage.
I asked a person next to me to give him two cents and ask him to look at it for a while. I followed the two middle-aged men and left.
As expected, Wang Yuan's wife's family was a big one, and they had hung cloths inside and outside. The custom here is for the daughter to cry in mourning. The louder and sadder the cry, the more peaceful the old man's death will be, and the more prosperous the family's business will be.
Therefore, when I entered the courtyard, I only saw a large wave of people with their heads wrapped in white cloth, and no one was crying there.