The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 18 Reading for Eggs

Father Hu still has some opinions on what materials need to be stored.

"Food is the most important thing. If it doesn't rain this year, the price of food will rise even more. The rice in Jiazhou is now 70 yuan a catty, and the ashes are 60 yuan. There is still a shortage of food on the mountain."

"There are other things. I think your iron gun has a good head. I also want to let the second boy of my in-laws beat it a few times. I have food and a gun. Don't panic, hehe!"

He is a mature person with a good ability to focus on key points.

"Father, why don't you buy a mule? You can find someone in the mountain pass to store the cart, and the mule will drive back. It will be convenient to go to the city to sell the goods! This time we have two mule carts and we can buy more food!" You may have.

"Then let's buy one? Your mother will scold me when you go back!"

"I'll help you persuade my mother later. Really, Dad, I found out why you are so afraid of your wife?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? In our family, no one is afraid of your mother!" Cuihua was speechless, feeling so proud that she was afraid of her wife.

The next day, after breakfast, I went to the Luoma Market in Mao County. There were almost no horses here, but there were quite a few cows, mules, and donkeys. The old hunter was still very good at watching livestock.

Father Hu broke apart a big green mule and looked at the mouth, waist, and hooves.

To Cuihua Science Popularization: "When buying a mule, you should buy this kind of narrow-hoofed mule. It has good fatigue (endurance) strength! The teeth must be opened to see the degree of wear and tear. This mainly depends on age, whether it has rotten teeth, and the waist. Slender, the mule from your grandma's house may have died."

This kind of posture is more familiar with the business than myself, and the horse market guys don't speak much vernacular, sir, if you like us, we will raise the price again!It's just a long time watching Father Hu and his buddy gesturing in his sleeves.I have to go to the next door to buy the car frame, which can be regarded as a one-stop process.

After holding back all the way, Cuihua drove the mule cart alongside Father Hu, and asked, "You have been gesturing for a long time, how much did you pay for the mule?" "30 taels! The carriage cost five taels, and it hurts my heart." "Don't be in pain, you still have to buy food, our focus today is to spend money!"

The grain store in Mao County is in full swing, because it is the closest county to Jiazhou, the grain reserves are still sufficient, and the price is not bad (expensive).

Parked the mule cart in the stables of one of the largest grain stores, and the two began to discuss the purchase category and quantity. Father Hu prepared half of the rice and half of the gray flour, and bought 100 catties each. If there was old grain, he would buy old grain first. That's a 400-pound load-bearing capacity.Cuihua copied homework.

As a result, there are not too many people who want to buy old grains, there are many people who are careful and careful.In the end, I bought 200 catties of rice from last autumn and 70 catties of gray noodles from last summer. The price here is the same as in Jiazhou. The rice costs 60 renminbi and the gray noodles 1000 renminbi. The total cost is three taels of silver. Here, [-] liters of copper coins are exchanged for one or two taels. silver.

I also bought several boxes of dragon beard crisps for the little baby, and the family divided them into two boxes.

"You are so used to children, Xiaoshan and the others always want to go to your house! I just want you to eat better!"

"You still say me, you are not used to children, and you come to deliver meat every now and then. Isn't it your credit that your two grandchildren are so strong?"

"Can meat and snacks be the same?"

"For children, they are all equally important. Maybe they like sweets more. Ask your Xiaoshan and Xiaochuan whether they like meat or candy!"

The father and daughter were arguing, and they were not convinced by each other, and they both felt that the other was more used to children.

When traveling westward from Mao County to Maliu County, I found that compared with Jiazhou and Mao County, there were many more refugees. People with their families and their families, Renyazi’s business was booming, everywhere was messy, and they passed through quickly.

When he returned to Qiaotou Town, Father Hu deliberately went to the blacksmith shop where Yuan Laoer was, and ordered four iron guns, requiring the handles to be hollow. The daughter’s 4-jin iron guns would not be needed by the sons of the family. Okay, then the two fathers will go back to their respective homes.

Three days and two nights away from home, although Datou and Ertou didn't cry, their eyes were red when they saw their mother coming home.

"Oh, mother, you will take me there next time, I promise not to be skinny, I am obedient!"

"You still know your skin, shame on your face!" The three mothers hugged each other and laughed.He took out the rice noodles from the mule cart, gave Datou a box of Longxu crisps to distribute one by one, and gave the other box to Ma Shi, and the crying child immediately became alive again.

Before going to bed, the elders of Yuan's family had a meeting, except for the two children and two dogs, everyone else attended.

Hearing that Cuihua sold beads for 1000 taels (the rest was embezzled by herself), everyone was in a daze for a while, and they had never seen so much silver in this life, not gold, because what Cuihua took out was 10 gold pieces. Ingots.But the rarity of the family was ruined, and finally they unanimously agreed to let Cuihua take care of the family.

I will focus on telling everyone about the situation of the victims in Maliu County. Everyone who originally wanted to trouble the Gou family after the beginning of spring agreed to suspend it, so don't poke the hornet's nest.

The main reason is that the foundation of my house is strong enough now, except for exporting, I don't like the broken furniture anymore.Cuihua reminds everyone to keep a low profile and don't float around, especially the third child, who is not strict with his mouth and does not reveal his wealth. There are beggars everywhere outside. Whoever has money here is a gunpowder bag.

Yuan Laosan, who was underestimated, was very upset. The 14-year-old and 15-year-old Lao San said that he was already an adult and could be called a wife. Are we so ignorant! The second child who is 16 years old and 17 years old doesn't even have a wife yet!
This is also an important task for the Yuan family this year, and Cuihua said that she would send the two ends to study at the home of her elder brother and old man Zhao Xiucai in the upstream village, huh?Does the daughter-in-law (sister-in-law) still have such ambitions?
"It's not for the imperial examination. Now that the imperial court has suspended the examination, the main thing is to let them learn a few characters. Our family can't read a single big character. Someday we will be cheated by someone. Maybe we will help count the money!" , that's no problem.

The two protested when they were told that they would go to school tomorrow. Is it not fun to play with cats and dogs or is there not enough friends?Small people have no human rights, and protests are invalid.

"If you can recognize 5 more characters when you come back every day, mother will reward you with 2 eggs! If you know [-] characters, you will kill a chicken!"

"You mean what you say?" Ertou immediately regained his energy, it was an egg!

"When did mother lie to you?"

"Haha, I want to eat 2 eggs a day, I'm so good!" The two were happy to roll on the bed, reading for the eggs, the book is not bad for me!
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Xiucai's private school opened.Cuihua took Liuli and brought her two apprentices, both of whom were relatives, so there was nothing wrong with that, and she accepted the two smoothly.

They also officially named them: Yuan Wenjie (the big head) and Yuan Wenbin (the second head). Anyway, they hope that the two babies can become talents. Well, one wants to eat eggs, and the other also wants to eat chicken by the way!
(End of this chapter)