Three children saw a stall selling candy bars on the street and couldn't walk.
It's not a piece of cut candy, but a big lump, as big as a pasta basket, placed in a flat griddle. It's like a big piece of rice cake, cut into as many pieces as the customer wants to buy.
The cutting knife is extremely thin, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with a wooden handle on the top. Customers can cut wherever they point.
You need to use a hammer to knock the cutter on the handle to cut it. After cutting it, use a small scale to weigh it. One pound costs ten cents.
The three children held hands and gathered around to watch.
Qiao Mingjin bought half a catty and asked the man to cut it into small pieces and wrap them in the big tree leaves he gave him. He gave each of the three people a piece, and put the rest into the baggage.
The three children were very happy and did not bite. They held it in their mouths like a rare delicacy. They sucked the left side, then used their tongues to remove the right side. They turned it back and forth, and the two sides of their cheeks exchanged the bulging cheeks.
Especially Xiao Wan'er, with her small mouth and especially big candy. Qiao Mingjin pulled her and poked her from time to time. The little thing raised her head and smiled happily at her. Qiao Mingjin felt happy and sad at the same time.
I entered a grocery store, picked around, and spent twenty cents to buy two larger casseroles, one for cooking rice and one for boiling water. The copper pots were too expensive and I couldn't afford them at the moment.
The iron pot also cost fifty or sixty cents, so I didn't buy it.
According to Qiao Mingjin's idea, two iron pots are just right, one for cooking and one for boiling water for washing. But the iron pots are too expensive.
I also bought a few pottery bowls, a few deep dishes, and two larger pottery basins for soup and porridge at the grocery store. I also bought some lamp oil and wicks. I also bought some oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
Seeing that she bought a lot, the shopkeeper gave her a bundle of chopsticks. Five pairs, saving five cents.
Qiao Mingjin thanked the boss again and again, and took her three children to the grain store to buy rice and noodles.
Polished rice costs twelve cents per catty, ordinary white rice costs ten cents, and even worse, eight cents. Broken rice is cheaper, only five cents per catty.
Qiao Mingjin looked at it and found that it was indeed very broken. There was still some rice bran that had not been removed, including polished rice and ordinary rice, all mixed together.
It must be the rice that was broken during the husking process. At this time, the machines for husking millet were still very backward, so it was inevitable that there would be broken rice.
Qiao Mingjin doesn't care. The rice she eats now is very ordinary rice, and it is mixed with sweet potato pieces and dried sweet potatoes. It doesn't matter whether it is broken or not. She can't live a life of eating good rice now.
He asked someone to weigh ten pounds.
I also picked a very average flour, and weighed ten kilograms of six cents per catty. I spent one hundred and ten cents at the grain store.
The total at home is 215 fen, plus the income from selling firewood today is only 280 fen.
All of a sudden, there was less than twenty cents left in the bag. He still had ten cents left for Sister Xiu.
Qiao Mingjin was in a daze. Before the sixty-five cents he earned from selling firewood that day was warm, he went in with his left hand and went out with his right hand.
I originally wanted to buy a cut of meat and another cut of all-white meat to blanch the lard, but I gave it up now.
Qiao Mingjin sighed deeply in her heart.
After taking the three children out of the grain store, they headed towards the city gate.
Qiao Mingjin looked at the three children. Even Xiao Wan'er was carrying a small bag. She originally wanted to walk around the city and ask where there was firewood. But she saw that these three children were carrying big and small bags.
, and gave up.
The three of them walked to the place where the bullock carts were stored. Now there were very few carts in the entire horse and cart farm. Most of the people going to the market had gone back, and people in the city also had their own places to store their carts and horses.
Qiao Mingjin put her things on the bullock cart, then hugged her three children and sat on it. She grabbed the bullwhip and was about to go home.
The cart had just taken two steps when a man panting from behind caught up with him. He stopped the cart and asked Qiao Mingjin which direction he was going.
Qiao Mingjin saw that he was in his forties or fifties, strong, bearded, wearing silk clothes, with clear eyes, and he didn't look like a bad person, so he told him the direction he wanted to go.
The man was overjoyed when he heard this. He gasped twice and said, "That's great. Madam, please don't take me with you. Someone is going to Songshanji. I want to send some bricks and tiles. The cattle I ordered originally are
The carriage had an accident, and I was in a hurry and couldn't find the carriage. I am willing to pay thirty cents for the fare."
Qiao Mingjin glanced at him and looked her up and down. She was a woman with a child, and she didn't know the other person's details. Although she wanted to earn thirty coins, but...
The man saw Qiao Mingjin's dilemma and repeatedly assured her that she just wanted to hire a car to haul things and had no bad intentions. He has a shop in the city and has been open for more than ten years. If you don't believe it, go with him and take a look.
So much.
The old man in charge of carriages and horses nearby also helped him testify. There were also some owners of oxcarts in the field who nodded repeatedly and said that he had opened a shop on West Street selling building materials. He had been doing it for many years and it was just a matter of giving him a ride.
You can earn thirty coins, which is pretty good...
Qiao Mingjin saw someone testifying for him and because of the thirty cents, he agreed.
Now the money is the biggest in the world.
The man asked her to wait a moment, and in a moment she saw him coming with several people pushing several carts of bricks in wheelbarrows.
Qiao Mingjin left a place in front for her own things and three children to sit, and then helped him move his things into the car. There weren't a lot of things, and when they were piled up, there was still room for the man to sit.
After stacking them, the man personally got into the car and sent them away.
Along the way, the man saw Xiao Wan'er's pleasant appearance and started chatting with Qiao Mingjin and others.
She learned that they were here to sell firewood and that they sold it to the Zhou Mansion, and they chatted with her about the Zhou Mansion.
It turns out that Zhou Fu started his business as a businessman and was considered a big business in Qingchuan County. I heard that all his shops had opened in Beijing.
He also said that his surname was Ding, and he opened a building materials store in the city. There was a village over Songshanji who won an imperial examination last autumn, so he built a new house at home during the Chinese New Year and ordered bricks and tiles from him.
It was the last day of the trip. Unexpectedly, his cow became ill today. After pulling a cart in the morning, he could no longer walk in the afternoon.
After hearing this, Qiao Mingjin said: "Then if you pass by this hour, I'm afraid you will have to stay there at night. Why don't you ask others to go, and you have to go in person?"
Boss Na Ding said: "This is the last trip. I have to go over to settle the bill. The family is also related to me. My cow was looked at by someone and given medicine. I'm just afraid that it will take a long time."
Damn it, I didn’t want to delay it until now. People from their village come to the city every morning, so it’s okay to stay there for one night. I’ve stayed there before.”
Qiao Mingjin nodded after hearing this and concentrated on driving.
The man saw that Qiao Mingjin did not look like an ordinary village woman, but seemed to have some knowledge, so he chatted with Qiao Mingjin all the way.
Knowing that Qiao Mingjin still wanted to do the business of selling firewood, he said: "Every household needs this firewood, but some shops and houses have regular people to give it to them. I will ask you when I return to the city tomorrow.
After delivering the firewood to Zhou Mansion, come back to my shop."
Qiao Mingjin was very happy after hearing this, thanked him, chatted with him along the way, and asked him some questions about the county...
When they arrived at Xujia Village near Songshanji, Qiao Mingjin drove the ox cart to the door of the house where the house was being built. After helping to unload the bricks and tiles, he left.
The host thanked her and saw that the three children, Wan'er and Mingqi, were slouching in the car, so he kindly gave them some cakes to take with them on the way.
Qiao Mingjin thanked her boss, took the thirty cents from Boss Ding, and returned to Xiahe Village.
ps: Thanks to "Haiyan 123" for the reward. I went to work and came back late.
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