Xia Qiyue came back so quickly that the four people who were cooking tea eggs didn't expect it, and they didn't even have a basket in their hands.
"Sister, are all the candies sold out so quickly?" Xia Jiuyue was the first to come out and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"It's sold out! How are the boiled tea eggs of yours?" Xia Qiyue closed the door of the courtyard and walked in. She picked up the two children and asked, one enjoying each other.
"It's been smashed, it's almost ready!" Xia Jiuyue followed behind, "Is the candy sold so well? Sister, where did you sell it?"
Xia Qiyue didn't answer, walked a few steps, put down the two children at the kitchen door, then turned and entered the room to change into men's clothes and comb her hair.
Now the tea egg seller is a young man, and she has to become a young man.
When she came out, four people were lined up at the door waiting.
Xia Qiyue had no choice but to tell them the story of selling crispy candy, and then he was able to escape.
"You guys peel all the peanuts and mash them. I'll be back soon after milking the tea eggs and making halva!"
Xia Qiyue said, reminding the barrels to go out. Two hundred of them were sold today, and halva can make money faster than tea eggs. The remaining time will be spent on making halva.
The lady selling apples didn't come out today, and she couldn't get a good seat. The sales were a bit slow. But after a while, the Tang family's housekeeper came over and rounded up the remaining sixty or so, saying that it was
There was a banquet at the house, and it was used.
Xia Qiyue felt so relaxed that she went to buy candy and some pork to take home.
There is still rice in the space, and I have grown rice myself. I don’t know if I can grow it yet, so I haven’t bought any more for now. Furthermore, there is also cabbage in the space, which is what people in the Northeast call kohlrabi.
You can stir-fry meat and eat eggs, and you don’t need to buy too many vegetables.
After returning home, he put down the barrel, gave pork, cabbage, ten eggs and rice to his sister and asked her to cook.
I quickly started making halva and tried to make more to sell before I left here. I had no way to make money when I started to flee.
She earned a total of twenty-one taels of silver in the past three days. In the eyes of ordinary people, this would be almost two years of income, but it was a drop in the bucket in terms of her needs.
The space is really not based on reality at all. When will she, a young rural woman, be able to save enough for a thousand taels..."
There are a total of twenty kilograms of peanuts, and my younger brother and sister have already peeled ten kilograms out. She will make all ten kilograms today, which should be about twenty-five kilograms of halva.
In this case, the icing would not be enough. The extra one or two kilograms would be put in milk bottles and sold. She would not have to spend money to buy cloth to make icing. It would be a waste of time, effort and money, and it would not be as high-end as the milk bottles.
Because the mouth of the milk bottle is quite large, there is no problem of not being able to put it in or take it out. It just happens to be tied with the original oil paper, so it won't be too obtrusive.
After lunch was over, everyone started doing their own things, and they almost didn't finish until dark.
Xia Jiuyue and Xia Xinghe failed to do what they were supposed to do to carry the basket.
Twenty-five pounds of halva was made, and the extra 7 pounds of halva was put into milk bottles in July.
One bottle could only hold half a catty of halva, so she later bought ten bottles of milk. Each of the five of them drank three bottles a day. They washed out all fifteen bottles, wiped them clean, and carefully put the halva inside.
Not to mention, it’s really pretty. The coffee-colored halva is packed in a transparent glass bottle, which is really appetizing.
Xia Qiyue decided not to sell tea eggs starting the next day. She had to sell the twenty-five kilograms of candy. Twenty-five kilograms could be sold for fifty taels of silver.
When Xia Jiuyue and Xia Xinghe heard that a pound of candy sold for two taels of silver, they both couldn't believe what they heard.
It was Xia Qiyue who showed them the silver before they believed it.
It was getting dark, and when they returned to the refugee camp, they could no longer see their hands and fingers. Xia Qiyue slowly took her younger siblings and carried her son and daughter on their backs back to their own shed.
An Wang was still waiting for them worriedly, but her face was obviously more worried today.
"Auntie, why are you still standing here? How cold is it?" Xia Qiyue spotted An Wang standing on their side of the house at a glance.
As soon as Mrs. An heard Xia Qiyue's voice, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed her hand, "You are finally back!"
"What's wrong, Auntie? Come in and talk!" Xia Qiyue led the person inside. Although it wasn't very warm inside, she still thought it would be better to go in and talk.
After entering the shed, Xia Qiyue asked her sister to lay out the new quilt she took out from the space. It was already time for the two children to go to bed.
The old quilts were spread underneath, and the new quilts were covered with them. It was really warm enough.
The two children didn't make any fuss and just lay down when they were told. No matter whether they were sleeping or not, it was better to lie down in the warm quilt.
When Mrs. An and Wang saw that the two sisters were finished, they hurriedly said, "Girl in July, my aunt sold three baskets today and earned fifty copper coins. This is much easier than the father and son who went to cut firewood and sell it.
Earn ten more coppers!"
Xia Qiyue breathed a sigh of relief, as long as they could sell it, "This is a good thing, Auntie! This is great!"
"No..." An Wang's original smile dropped, "But I can't stay in this place for a few more days. I don't know what to do next."
Xia Qiyue sighed, "What happened, Auntie?"
Only then did Prince An reveal the reason why he was waiting here.
It turned out that the father and son made more than ten baskets in one day. Mrs. An and Wang were also skillful and decorated them all. However, they only sold three and left nine in the shed.
Li Zheng came back in the afternoon to tell everyone the bad news. He said that he went to the Mashan Town Guard to see if they could settle these refugees, because winter was about to come and people like them would not be able to survive the winter.
However, the mayor of Maoshan Town said that there was nothing he could do, and their household registration was under the jurisdiction of Anyang Prefecture and had nothing to do with their Oasis Prefecture.
He also said that giving soup once a day might not last more than a few days, and asked him to think of a solution quickly.
When the clan leader heard this, he quickly gathered the men to discuss what to do next.
If they go back now, they can't guarantee that they will survive this winter, but they can be sure that they won't freeze to death.
If we flee north to the capital now, we are not sure whether we can reach it before winter. We will not starve to death but freeze to death.
Both ends are dead ends, and everyone has no choice. They don't know how to choose.
"This... what should we do? Girl Qiyue, can you help us fellow villagers?" Mrs. An Wang is just a woman, and there is nothing she can do in this situation.
Xia Qiyue had no choice. If it was just a few families, she would be cruel enough to help. After all, in the eyes of others, she was a person with a thousand taels of silver.
But the problem is, there are over 300 people in Shanbei Zhuangzi, how can she help? Even if the space is exposed, she can't help, not to mention that she must not expose the space.