Man Bao hugged her eldest brother's neck and said, "Brother, we made a lot of money today."
Zhou Dalang thought of the money he spent just now to buy cotton and fabrics, his face became a little bitter, "It's a lot of money."
"We made 500 Wen from selling yams."
Zhou Dalang was stunned and quickly asked: "Who did you sell to?"
"Sold to the county magistrate's family." Wu Lang quickly took out the part of the money he had collected and handed it over, saying: "Twenty cents per catty, a total of more than twenty-five catties. Man Bao will give the extra money to you."
They gave me an extra yam."
Zhou Dalang frowned and said, "Isn't this a trick? What I did was only twenty cents."
Wu Lang lowered his head and whispered: "The county magistrate even charged us a fee to enter the city."
Man Bao was convinced, but she couldn't say this to her eldest brother, so she whispered: "Brother, raw yam is a rare thing, and we are selling it cheaply."
After giving a brief summary of what Keke said to him, Zhou Dalang was dumbfounded. He didn't expect the price difference between the incoming and outgoing medicinal materials to be so big. He couldn't help but ask: "Did you hear clearly? I bought it from the drug store."
Dried yam, one penny?"
Manbao nodded, Keke would not lie to her.
Zhou Dalang felt his heart beating wildly, and he murmured: "My dear, how much does that pound cost?"
He couldn't figure it out anyway.
Man Bao said: "It's only one hundred and sixty coins."
Zhou Dalang felt extremely painful.
As if he didn't think it was painful enough, Man Bao continued: "The medicine I took contained Ligustrum lucidum. I have read the prescription. The medicine I took in the county town has eight flavors in total and costs twenty cents, and the medicine I took is twenty cents.
Sadako costs three cents, and I heard that the most expensive of my mother's medicines is Angelica sinensis."
Zhou Dalang did his own calculations and felt that Ligustrum lucidum should not be cheap, but he only paid fifty cents per pound.
Zhou Dalang said: "Next time, we will prepare the medicine for my mother myself."
Man Bao had come up with this idea before, and her sister-in-law told her about it at the time, so this time she laughed at her eldest brother mercilessly, "Our family only has one kind of medicine, and other people's medicines are all prepared one by one. How can there be a different medicine?"
Just bought it?"
Zhou Dalang remained silent and stopped talking.
Although Zhou Zhoulang was also a little uncomfortable, he thought openly and said: "People also rely on their skills to make money. Didn't Man Bao already say it? It costs a lot of money to transport these medicinal materials and takes a lot of risks, not to mention people."
Those who open medicine shops are not allowed to have doctors sitting in the hall?"
Zhou Erlang was a little envious, "This is the advantage of having skills. My uncle was right before, everything in this world may belong to others, only the skills you learn will always be yours."
Zhou Dalang nodded, then thought about something wrong and glared at him.
Man Bao asked curiously, "Second brother, who is my uncle? What he said makes sense. I will discuss it with him after I return to the village."
Zhou Zuorang forced a laugh and said: "You heard wrong, it was not my uncle, but the head of the village who said that. He is a senior official. From now on, you should stay away from me, you know?"
Man Bao muttered dissatisfiedly, "I'm not deaf, so I'm obviously talking about my uncle."
But Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang didn't give her a chance to ask questions again. They just carried her to the cart, pushed her and left.
After walking far away, Manbao finally remembered, "Eldest brother, second brother, I haven't bought you sesame cakes yet."
The two brothers laughed and said: "We are not hungry, and the county seat is not far from home. We will get there in a quick walk."
How could it not be far?
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang stuffed the uneaten dry food into their two brothers' mouths. Forget it, let's fill their stomachs at least.
Go back more lightly.
Wu Lang and Liu Lang were also sensible and took turns helping their two brothers push the cart. Man Bao and his four nephews and nieces took turns sitting on the cart, which was not particularly heavy.
It just takes a lot of effort to go up the mountain.
So Manbao always found various excuses to slide down the cart and insisted on walking on his own.
The Zhou Dalang brothers all thought she was very sensible and knew they felt sorry for them, but they also felt sorry for her because she was young after all.
But I don’t know how happy Man Bao was. Along the way, she searched for places with grass on the roadside and asked Keke to scan the flowers and plants that had not been included. Not to mention, she teased many young and old along the way, taking advantage of everyone’s absence.
Pay attention to give it to Keke.
Everyone has long been accustomed to Man Bao's behavior of picking flowers and grass. This child has had this problem since he was a child. Whenever he sees an ugly flower while walking on the road, he will go over and pull it, and sometimes he insists on uprooting other flowers.
, and then threw it away after playing with it for a while.
Several times, he sneaked into other people's vegetable gardens and tore up the vegetables as grass. Therefore, Manbao's problem was not just known to the Zhou family, but was well-known to the whole village.
So everyone couldn't be more calm about her happily going into the woods on both sides of the road, sometimes grabbing a piece of grass, and sometimes trying to pull off a branch.
Just talking and making a fuss back home.
Not only the Zhou brothers but also Man Bao were hungry, so as soon as they came back they got into the kitchen and asked Xiao Qian to make dinner.
Xiao Qian glanced at the sun in the sky and couldn't help but said: "How can we have dinner at this time? If my sister is hungry, can I bake you a pancake?"
"There are also eldest brother and second brother."
Xiao Qian also felt sorry for them, but his family just sold two bags of grain not long ago, so he had to save some food.
In the room, after learning about the money earned today from Dalang, Qian raised his voice and said: "Since the children are hungry, let's go to the pot and cook. Cook dry food, cook more, and save some for later."
Just make porridge to fill your stomach. Today’s dinner will be eaten early.”
The children cheered, and even Friday Lang was very attentive and asked to help in the kitchen.
Xiao Qian quickly drove the boys out and said, "Don't cause any trouble."
Let Daya and Erya go into the kitchen to help light the fire and cook.
Man Bao went to take out the mutton and gave it to Xiao Qian, "Sister-in-law, I will eat mutton today and stew it with yams."
"What is yam?"
Wu Lang took out the yam and boasted about how powerful it was and how much money it earned them. It was said that this was a medicine that only rich people could afford.
Xiao Qian was dumbfounded, "It's a medicine that's three-thirds poisonous. Why do we still take medicine when we're not sick?"
"This is medicine that can be used as food," Man Bao said, "it's delicious."
Xiao Qian asked her, "Have you eaten it?"
Manbao drooled and shook his head. At this time, in her brain, Keke was naughtily calling out several pictures of meals made from yam collected in the encyclopedia. They were all very nice, especially the stewed chicken with yam.
, it looks so delicious.
When Xiao Qian saw that Man Bao was drooling, she couldn't help laughing. While helping her wipe it, she said happily: "You little thing, you have no shortage of food, why are you so greedy?"
However, she agreed to take it and put it away. She also asked how to make it, and was told that it was just a matter of peeling it, cutting it into pieces, and putting it in to stew. She patted her chest and said, "This is simple. My sister-in-law will make it for you in a minute."