Chapter 174: Robbery (please vote for me, recommend me)
Author: 久l久
"Unenlightened elm head!"
Second Aunt Wang angrily begged to hit her son with a spatula. "Er Ni is already ten years old. When Ma is here, she can talk to her husband's family. If I don't get along with her, my good daughter-in-law will belong to her husband's family."
"Mom, please wake up, you don't know what's going on in our family, so what are you going to do with the Jiang family?"
Wang Erlang didn't want to talk to his wife about useless things, so he picked up a piece of hot noodles, switched the left and right sides, and walked out of the kitchen while eating.
Instead of dreaming about the unrealistic dreams like my mother, why not try to find some truth. When you make a lot of money, will you be worried about not being able to find a good wife?
There were many thoughtful people like Aunt Wang, and the Jiang family's door was almost broken down in those days.
Some arranged marriage arrangements with Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan, while others went directly to Jiang Erlang to arrange matchmaking with Er Ni.
A few of them, even more outrageous, actually begged Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu, who were over four years old, to have sex with them.
Chun Niang was speechless and politely declined the seven aunts and eight aunts who came to the door.
For some unknown reason, no one mentioned Yingbao.
Ying Bao has been traveling a lot recently, studying medicine and martial arts at the same time, and has to go to the wild with her master to identify herbal medicines.
Many medicinal materials can be found in the countryside, such as thistle, barbata, Bupleurum, mint, pinellia, isatis, red-headed weng, etc.
Each has different effects. For example, thistle can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, Bupleurum and Radix root can treat typhoid and colds, Anthurium vulgaris can treat postpartum blood deficiency and diarrhea, and Cat's Claw can treat sore throat.
After some identification of medicines, Yingbao realized that the wild herbs and vegetables she usually saw were not medicinal materials.
Including some trees, fruits, flowers, etc., each has its own curative effect.
Yingbao used to use a shovel to dig out medicinal herbs, but later she stopped digging and started recording the names of weeds carefully.
Combined with the prescriptions she had memorized before, she felt like she had entered a large natural medicine library.
Every grass in the wild can be used as medicine, and every wild vegetable can be used as medicine. If you want to prepare medicine in the future, you can get it yourself instead of going to the drug store to buy it.
"Eh? Look at that hen!" Erni, who was studying medicine identification together, pointed to a place and shouted.
Yingbao looked up and saw that her reed chicken was fighting with a wild duck, and the feathers on its neck were all blowing up.
The flat-billed wild ducks were no match for the big fat chickens with sharp beaks, but they did not run away and surrounded the reed chickens and quacked angrily.
On the east side of the reed chicken cage are several plush ducklings, as many as eight.
It turned out that the reed chicken actually robbed the ducklings of the wild ducks, and very gently took the insects in its mouth for the ducklings to eat.
The little ducklings are also very attached to it, and they will follow the reed chicken wherever it goes.
The mother duck was unwilling to have her baby taken away, and kept rushing to try to snatch it back.
The duckling does not follow the mother duck, but sticks closely to the mother reed chicken.
Everyone was shocked, including Ying Bao.
That hen is too domineering.
Not only did he snatch the young wild ducks, he also took them home.
The mother duck followed her to the door of Jiang's house. When she saw her child being brought in by that damn big fat chicken, she squawked angrily outside and finally flew away unwillingly.
Chun Niang was very happy when she saw that her reed chicken had brought back a group of ducklings. She immediately grabbed a handful of yellow rice and fed it to the ducklings.
Since then, Jiang Sanlang's family has gained a group of ducklings.
In mid-April, the fruits in Jiang Sanlang's orchard gradually mature.
The branches are covered with apricots and peaches, so tender and yellow that one can drool at the sight of them.
That made Jiang Quan extremely happy.
With the consent of his little cousin, he picked a few baskets of apricots and peaches and transported them to the market to sell, but they turned out not to be satisfactory.
After a bandit attack in Chuanhe Town, every family was in a tight confinement situation, and few were willing to spend money to buy snacks.
That's right, in the eyes of the villagers, those fruits are not very hungry snacks, and only pregnant women and children will eat them.
Most villagers are willing to spend two pennies to buy a black-faced steamed bun, but are not willing to spend one pennie to buy two apricots for a taste.
That made Jiang Quan very frustrated.
Yingbao picked an apricot and took a bite. It was sweet and a little sour. It was more delicious than last year's apricots.
The peaches are also good, big and sweet, with a strong peach fragrance, and they are much more delicious than last year's peaches.
Is that the credit of Tongmuquan?
A while ago, she used Pupil Spring to water all the plants at home, including the pepper seedlings and grape seedlings.
The crops that had been watered by the spring grew so quickly that she was frightened and did not dare to water them again.
After that, I would occasionally water the vegetables in the vegetable garden. Because the Jiang family has a large population and the two martial arts masters Zhang Meng and Xu Kun also have large appetites, the vegetables are consumed quickly and must be promoted to seedlings.
However, the several flat trees planted by Yingbao on the brown soil are growing faster and are now more than one foot tall. They seem to be growing rapidly.
It's just that the panda trees in Bu Nao haven't bloomed yet. Instead, they are spreading their branches and leaves wildly and growing. It is estimated that they will reach the top of the cave in a few months.
The cantaloupe grown with them has already matured and is very sweet and delicious.
Yingbao borrowed the name of the cantaloupe from the vegetable garden and took some out, and distributed some to her family and her master.
Master Xiao Zhenniang liked it very much and lamented that her son and husband were not happy.
Sister Wen also likes it very much, but she is reserved and can't say it out loud.
"There are so many fruits that can't be sold and eaten. Oh, what a waste." Jiang Quan sighed as he looked at the fruit trees.
Yingbao didn't care either, "If you can't finish it, make it into preserved fruits. My second uncle told him last month that apricots are the most delicious preserved fruits."
Jiang Quan's eyes lit up: "Can it really be made into preserved fruit?"
"No, please. I'll ask my second uncle. When the preserved fruits are made and the money is sold, the three of us will share it equally."
Yingbao picked another peach and took a bite. It was fresh and sweet and really delicious.
It’s really incredible that no one buys such delicious fruit.
Jiang Quan ran to find his second aunt Yanru, "Second aunt, Yingbao said I can make preserved fruit, is that true?"
Yan Ru nodded: "It's not difficult to make preserved fruits, so don't waste sugar. For ten pounds of apricots, you need at least two pounds of icing sugar."
"Ah? So many." Jiang Quan scratched his head. That was a bit difficult to handle.
As we all know, sugar is more expensive than salt.
The cheapest one is brown sugar, but it is not very sweet, not as sweet as sugar sand and icing sugar. Jiang Quan has eaten candied fruit, and it is so sweet that it must be made with brown sugar.
The icing sugar costs 60 cents per catty, and two jins of icing sugar makes ten catties of apricots. After the dried fruit is dried, it is estimated that there is not even a catty.
That's not cost-effective.
Jiang Quan left dejectedly.
I found my little cousin again and complained: "It's not cost-effective. My second aunt said that for ten pounds of apricots, you need at least two pounds of icing sugar, otherwise it won't taste good. Two pounds of icing sugar costs more than 100 yuan, and you can make one pound of preserved apricots in the first place."
, that’s a lot of money to make.”
Yingbao asked: "How much does a pound of preserved apricots cost in the market?"
Jiang Quan blinked, thought for a while and said, "I haven't bought any preserved apricots, but he has bought candied fruits. I need fifteen yuan for a portion of six candied fruits."
Six candied red dates cost at least twenty taels. If two taels of candied fruit cost fifteen cents, then a pound of candied fruit would cost one hundred and twenty cents.
And to make a pound of preserved fruit, you need more than 100 yuan of sugar, which doesn’t count the cost of apricots.
How to tell whether to trade at a loss.
"The preserved fruits contain stones, so they must be weighed. The preserved apricots have no stones, so the price will naturally be higher." Ying Bao said, "Please, let's make less and try it. If it doesn't work, we can eat it at home."
Jiang Quan reluctantly agreed, "Okay, let's try it first."
