I farmed and raised cubs in ancient times

Chapter 13
Jiang Zhi bought two buckets of japonica rice, saw brown sugar for sale in the shop, and asked, "Brother, how do you sell this sugar?"

"Brown sugar is [-] cents a tael, stone honey is [-] cents a tael, and caramel is ten cents a tael cheaper. What kind of things does this lady need? The shop can provide paper bags."

"Is there no white sugar?" Jiang Zhi asked after tasting the brown sugar under the guidance of the waiter.

The waiter in the shop was confused: "What is white sugar? The little one has never heard of it."

"What about granulated sugar or rock sugar?"

"Xiao Ke guesses that what you are talking about is syrup, we don't have that kind of thing in our small place, and syrup and brown sugar are also the same color, and there is no white one." The waiter continued.

Jiang Zhi nodded: "I see, please bring me ten catties of brown sugar."

Since she had never heard of white sugar or rock sugar, Jiang Zhi stopped talking.

"Okay, the small one will be weighed for you." The waiter in the shop wrapped five large bags in paper, and then tied them firmly with a rope to ensure that they would not leak out.

Although it was brown sugar, Jiang Zhi noticed that the brown sugar was very loose, which was different from the ones given by the cheap daddy before.

This loose brown sugar is sandy, and it feels like a transition between brown sugar and white sugar.

After leaving the rice shop, Ye Xiaomei finally dared to express her doubts.

"Why did sister-in-law buy so much brown sugar? Don't we still have it?" Ten catties of brown sugar cost 130 Wen, and two buckets of rice cost [-] Liu Wen. This rice shop is really a gold mine.

Fortunately, before entering the rice shop, Jiang Zhi first went to the only bank in the town to exchange for copper coins. One tael of silver can be exchanged for two pennies.

"We'll talk about this when we get back." Jiang Zhi glanced around, seeing how many people were on the road, it was inconvenient to talk.

Ye Xiaomei nodded.

Sister-in-law may have other uses for brown sugar.

Jiang Zhi put the brown sugar into Ye Xiaomei's basket, while she carried two buckets of rice on her back, almost sixty catties, but it was too heavy.So the two first went to the ox cart rented by the book boy to unload the things, let the book boy look at it, and then went to the cloth shop.

There is no cloth shop in the town, only in the county.

Ye Xiaomei needs colorful ropes to make a net, and the price is not expensive, and it only cost three hundred cash for a large bag.Jiang Zhi further inquired about the price of the ready-made garments. An ordinary linen garment would also cost three hundred cash, but if the fabric was a little better, it would cost upwards of five hundred cash with embroidery and other details.

Jiang Zhi said in her heart: I can't afford it, I can't afford it.

It is more cost-effective to weave cloth at home and then make clothes by yourself.

The original owner doesn't know how to cut clothes, but Ye Xiaomei can, so let's leave it to the children. Making clothes shouldn't count as child labor, right?
So Jiang Zhi bought the cotton thread used for weaving. There is only one loom at home, and there is also a small hand-operated silk reeling cart, which is inefficient.It takes at least one month from twisting to fabricating.

If you have this time, you might as well do something else.

The thread of a piece of cloth usually costs [-] yuan. Leaving aside labor costs and time consumption, this cloth basically does not make much money.Jiang Zhi didn't plan to sell it at first, she just wanted to use it to make clothes, so she didn't care about making money.

Their family members are all thin and petite. With a bit of brainpower, it is not impossible to cut four clothes out of one piece of cloth, and the material is still pure cotton, which is comfortable to wear.

After sending the things to the bullock cart, Jiang Zhi and Ye Xiaomei found a pork shop, and before they got close to Jiang Zhi, they smelled a foul smell, which was comparable to the smell of sheep.

vomit~
Jiang Zhi and Ye Xiaomei covered their mouths and noses.Jiang Zhi swore that this was the only time in her life that she was smoked by pork.

The butcher is a burly man, his sharp eyes are fixed on the butcher's knife on the chopping board, and a few flies are flying around.

"Slap" the ferocious butcher slapped a fly to death, and then flicked the corpse out with his little finger.The way he flicked the flies was so calm and breezy that Ye Xiaomei was frightened and tightly tugged at the cuff of Jiang Zhi's clothes.

Jiang Zhi turned her back to take a few breaths of fresh air, and then said: "This pork smells so strong, it must be uncastrated."

"Sister-in-law, every time we sell meat, we depend on luck. Some meat has a strong taste, while others have a light taste. It seems that today is bad luck."

"Don't talk nonsense, we never have bad luck." Jiang Zhi stopped Ye Xiaomei's words, then turned around and went to the butcher shop. The butcher looked really easy to mess with, but Jiang Zhi still wanted to solve the confusion.

"Little lady, come to cut the meat?" The butcher raised one eyebrow, fine sweat gradually oozes from his forehead, and his hands can't stop shaking.In order to hide the strangeness, he put his hands behind his back.

Jiang Zhi shook her head, and said, "I heard this meat showman, did the boss get this pig from somewhere else or raised it at home?"

The butcher held back for a long time before choking out two words: "Take it."

"But just now my little sister said that sometimes pork is also a show." Jiang Zhi said again.

Think this butcher looks a little nervous?

"By luck, some of the collected pigs stink, some don't." Sweat dripped from the butcher's temples.

Isn't this butcher a social terror?

Jiang Zhi said: "I know a way to get rid of the smell of pigs."

"what?"

"The piglets that have been weaned for ten days are castrated when it is cool. As long as they are clean, they can get rid of the smell and grow fat." After Jiang Zhi finished speaking, she took Ye Xiaomei and walked away quickly.

The butcher secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then carefully recalled what Jiang Zhi said just now.

Castration of piglets?really useful?
"Sister-in-law, why are we leaving so fast?" Ye Xiaomei said out of breath.

Jiang Zhi stopped, turned around and said, "The smell is too strong, and that butcher also looks vicious."

Wasn't it because that guy was a social terror, she only said three sentences, and the other party's sweat fell on the chopping board.

If she didn't leave, she might be put down.

I really don't understand how he became a butcher?
"I feel the same way. In the past, the big brother bought the meat and brought it back. We have never been to the pork shop." Ye Xiaomei said.

People in Daning generally don't like to eat pork, because pork is stinky, and only ordinary people occasionally buy it to satisfy their hunger.Rich people eat more mutton, especially dignitaries.Beef is a strategic material and cannot be eaten in excess. Occasionally, a cow that fell to death was ordered and emptied as soon as it was dismembered.But mutton is not restricted, so mutton has become a favorite of many families.

In fact, Jiang Zhi thinks that there are other reasons. Iron pots were not popular before Daxia, and even cooking has only gradually become popular in the last ten years, so it has a lot to do with the way the food is cooked.

There was no meat, so Jiang Zhi had no choice but to buy some pancakes and went back to Jiang Ling'an with Ye Xiaomei.

The moment Ye Heng saw Jiang, he felt as if he had seen a savior, and desperately leaned into her arms.

Jiang Ling'an was holding a copy of "Hundred Surnames", and Jiang Zhi already knew why Ye Heng reacted in this way.

"Father, I inspected Brother Heng today. His comprehension and character are completely incomparable to children of the same age. It is better to let him enter school earlier. I think it is better to hit the sun than to choose a day. How about today? In the future You come here every seven days to talk to him about the relationship between mother and child, and get enlightened early, maybe our family can produce a child prodigy."

　Stone honey (like rock sugar, added with starch, hard, not crystal clear)

　　
　
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