I am many years in the courtyard

Chapter 156, Outrageous (seeking subscription)
Another day, today is NO.12, it is suitable for travel, marriage, moving, etc., so it is just right to return home today.

Since he was going back home, he had to bring gifts, so he had to go there earlier.

I still have to go to work today, so I can't ask for leave.

It's not bad to take a one-day vacation for getting married, but you still want to ask for leave when you return home?

Dongzhimen Pigeon Market, sweating profusely for many years, finished training, wiped off the sweat, changed into a tattered clothes, and walked in.

In the quiet Pigeon City, there are still many people coming today, and fruits like pears are still the protagonists.

Around the capital, there are not many seasonal fruits in this season, except for big white pears, it is apples.

However, apples are so sour. It is really rare to encounter big, sweet and red apples.

For many years today, I have encountered two baskets of red apples.

"Comrade, how do you sell this apple?"

Such a beautiful red apple, if you don’t go directly to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy and sell it, why do you come to the pigeon market?

Could the price here be higher?
Before the other party could speak, there was another person next to him for many years, who was also asking about the price of apples.

Obviously this red apple is very popular, and the price is quite scary, it is actually a dime a catty.

The person next to him turned green when he heard the price, and said angrily:

"At the price you're selling, who would buy it? Just wait and die."

I have frowned for many years, but I still asked if it could be less?
The person who sold the apples was not like a farmer, but like a second-hand dealer. Hearing the words, he asked how much money he could give for many years?

"How about three cents a catty?"

The price of big white pears is very cheap, only two cents and five cents a catty, and red apples are so expensive, it is estimated that the second-hand dealer in front of him is thinking of rare goods to live in.

However, he said three cents per catty, and when the price came out, the Erdao businessman's face turned black and he waved him away.

Leave and leave!

Anyway, the price of Mao is so expensive, I really don't believe it, any sand sculpture is willing to pay such a price.

In the capital city of the 50s, although there were still many capitalists stranded in the city, these people would not be foolishly taken advantage of and slaughtered.

After all, you can buy sweet and delicious big white pears for two or three cents, so why pay such a high price to buy red apples?
After leaving for many years, not long after, I saw someone carrying a goat weighing forty to fifty catties to sell.

The smell of mutton was quite strong, and it was divided into two baskets, and two people gathered in front of the booth.

The price is also good, not too expensive, the market price is [-] cents a catty.

The supply and marketing cooperative sells it for fifty cents a catty, but the supply and marketing cooperative needs a meat ticket to buy it, and meat such as beef and sheep is actually not very popular, and fatty pork is everyone's favorite.

When confirming the price, he didn't care about the people next to him for many years, and asked the stall owner to give him his full name, while he himself took out three cards of great unity.

"Why are you doing this? We still have to buy it, comrades, don't listen to him, everything has to be first come, first served."

The two people next to them who wanted to buy meat murmured to Nian Nian in dissatisfaction, and then urged the stall owner to cut the meat quickly.

Moreover, the meat cut by the stall owner is all beautiful parts, and other bad parts are not wanted.

Being so picky, the stall owner was not used to the two of them, so he picked up the two baskets and weighed them.

The shank of lamb was bone in and not light so no one liked it.

But if the other party is so picky, the stall owner is naturally more willing to sell it for many years.

"We've weighed it. Excluding the baskets, one side weighs 25 catties and the other side weighs 27 catties. The total"

After many years, I quickly calculated the result: "The total is 52 catties. According to the price of 31 cents a catty, the total is [-] cents, right?"

Hearing this, the stall owner looked at it for many years in surprise, then bowed his head and continued to count.

After a while, he gave a thumbs up to many years and said:
"Comrade, your calculation skills are really good, and your calculations are fast and accurate. That's right, it's 31 yuan and [-] cents."

It's nothing more than mathematics in the second grade of elementary school. As long as you practice more, it's not surprising that your mental arithmetic speed is so fast.

Smiling, he handed the 32 yuan to the other party. After many years, he got back the thirty-two cents in change, and put the mutton on both sides into the basket behind him.

Today was supposed to be a big purchase, or in other words, I came to Pigeon Market every day for many years, doing big purchases.

Therefore, the back baskets and bags must be ready.

After buying the mutton, he left the Pigeon Market directly, and returned to the Pigeon Market a few minutes later. He had already changed.

He had already thrown the mutton into the space, and wrapped it in oiled paper and newspaper, so that it could be taken out directly when he returned to the courtyard next time.

Returning to Pigeon City again, I have purchased a lot of coarse grains and fine grains over the years.

However, most people don't sell much grain, basically ten or twenty catties of grain.

Because this weight is not heavy, it is also easy to trade.

The second is that these grains may be all or the most grains they can get out of their own homes.

When he was about to take the grain out to the pigeon market for storage, he happened to see the old man, the old Chinese doctor who claimed to be a mountain villager.

He quickly left Pigeon City, then changed back to the last time he dressed, and went back to find the old Chinese doctor.

When he arrived, several people had already gathered in front of the old Chinese doctor, and everyone was looking at the goods in the basket placed in front of the old Chinese doctor's booth.

A big back basket, which contained a lot of things like Chinese medicine, prey and wild vegetables, all of which were good things.

"Old comrade, how do you sell these things?"

He knelt down to talk, and the old Chinese doctor was about to reply when he saw the face of many years clearly, he couldn't help saying:
"I seem to have seen you before."

"Of course, didn't we just meet last month? I was the one who bought the cured wild pork and old wild ginseng you brought."

Hearing what he said, the old Chinese doctor suddenly realized and nodded with a smile.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the old Chinese doctor entered the process of buying and selling, and sold these goods for money.

The prey in the basket was a silly roe deer that he hadn't seen for many years. He didn't want the meat, so it was bought by others.

However, Chinese medicine, wild mushrooms, etc. were taken down by him.

Not long after, all the things in the old doctor's back basket were bought by everyone.

It can be seen that the old Chinese doctor who has sold out the mountain goods has a happy expression on his face.

For many years, I took the opportunity to communicate with the other party, asking if ordinary people want to learn Chinese medicine by themselves, which book should they read first?

The old Chinese doctor glanced at him, but didn't pierce his little thoughts.

"If a person who has no foundation in Chinese medicine wants to learn Chinese medicine by himself, he first needs to recite and memorize "Medicinal Fu", "Soup Song Jue", "Medical Three Character Classic", "Mai Jue Complete Volume" and so on."

"There are many pulse conditions in "Complete Volume of Pulse Jue", and all diseases of 28 pulse conditions must be memorized by heart."

"Also, you must memorize the flowers, branches, leaves, skins, roots, whole plants, fruits, etc. of more than 300 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines."

The previous things were fine, and he felt that he could do it for many years, but when he heard the latter, he was dumbfounded.

For example, the understanding of mineral medicines, the identification of animal medicines, etc., and learn how to cut and fry commonly used medicines, such as the processing of ginger juice from pinellia, the processing of sand scalding from nuxychia, the forging of mineral medicines, such as the vinegar of natural copper Forging and so on.

These are completely the only way that ancient Chinese medicine must go through, and they must be learned.

After all, if a Chinese medicine doctor in ancient times could not make medicinal soup, he was not a qualified Chinese medicine doctor at all.

"My master's best skill is that one orange shell can be cut into 108 pieces, and the slices are as thin as the wings of a cicada. At that time, my master said that if you can do this step, you can become a master."

After listening to the old doctor's words, he swallowed his saliva for many years. Although he didn't know what the citrus aurantium was, he heard that it could be cut into [-] pieces as thin as a cicada's wing, so he knew it was not so easy to do.

Not to mention anything else.

"Old comrade, are there any other books that need to be read? For example, Treatise on Febrile Diseases?"

Let’s not talk about whether it can be done, anyway, I have been very grateful to the other party for many years, after all, the other party has pointed out the way for him.

"Well, we need to read this Treatise on Febrile Diseases." The old Chinese doctor looked at it for many years with a half-smile, and then said:

"In addition, you must memorize "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber", "Golden Mirror of Medicine", "On Seasonal Diseases", "Differentiation of Febrile Diseases", "Fu Qingzhu's Gynecology and Gynecology" and so on."

"It's roughly these. After you, oh, after your friend learns these, you can almost become a teacher."

After talking about this, the old Chinese doctor left.

Before leaving, for many years, he asked the other party when he would come next time?

The old Chinese doctor said that he was not sure, the difference was that he would go to the city every ten days and a half months.

After looking at the back of the other party leaving for many years, he also got up and left the Pigeon City with a basket.

Today was the right trip, I learned a lot.

Traditional Chinese medicine is indeed not something that ordinary people can learn. The pile of medical books that need to be memorized is enough to discourage many people.

After walking for a while, it suddenly occurred to me after many years that I forgot to ask the old Chinese doctor about rectal cancer.

I don't know if it is possible for Chinese medicine to cure rectal cancer?
Perhaps only resection is the best treatment effect that can be achieved at present?

Of course, cancer is divided into early, middle and late stages. If it has not spread, it is natural to have resection to recover.

But if it is in the late stage, it is the countdown of life.

I went to the elementary school campus near the courtyard again, and ran for about 20 minutes, all of which were sprints of [-] meters, exhausting all my strength.

Then I went to a nearby supply and marketing cooperative and bought two catties of pork to take home.

Back near the courtyard, he found an empty place and took the mutton down.

Walking into the yard, he put one of the one-jin pork pieces into Lao Xu's kitchen.

Zhou Hongmei saw him coming in with pork, and complained about his wasting money again, but this time with a smile on her face, she blamed more than blamed.

"Mom, I paid my salary yesterday, and today I will buy some meat for you two elders to nourish your body."

Although the family is separated, they are still close relatives, and this has not changed.

Although Lao Xu and Zhou Hongmei have many shortcomings, if they draw a clear boundary with the two elders for many years, it will probably hurt the two elders' hearts.

In fact, this is quite good now, after all distance creates beauty.

It's the same no matter what time it is, children are always in front of their parents, and they are always considered worthless. Parents are short-sighted, and noise is inevitable every day.

But if you are not in front of your parents, as long as you come back, no matter how you mess around outside, you will be loved and loved by your parents.

Distance will really deepen people's longing.

The sisters-in-law Fan Zhaodi and Hu Meifeng, who were still eating with the elders, were almost drooling when they saw the pork.

Then, they saw the leg of lamb in the basket many years later, and couldn't help exclaiming:

"His third uncle, is this mutton?"

Fan Zhaodi walked around, stood behind him for many years, and saw the tightly wrapped mutton in the basket.

Half of the lamb was divided into two lamb legs and one lamb chop, totaling more than 20 catties, which looked like a lot.

"Yes, why don't you go back to the door today? I just saw mutton for sale at Deshengmen, so I bought it."

Many years nodded, and then said to Zhou Hongmei, Mom, I will go back to the house first.

Watching him leave, Hu Meifeng and Fan Zhaodi looked away reluctantly, and thought sourly: they are also the daughter-in-law of the old Xu family, why is there always such a big gap?
There is no harm without comparison!
Look at Qin Huairu, how good life is, with so many houses, and meat to eat, and now she is studying hard in the study every day.

This Xu Lao San didn't marry a daughter-in-law and go home, but married a student and went home.

The two of them didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Xu Laosan's gourd. Qin Huairu was so old, what else could he learn?

I'm afraid they can't guess what they can learn.

When I got home, Qin Huairu hadn't made breakfast yet, so she walked into the kitchen to have a look.

He took out the cutting board directly, cut some pork, shiitake mushrooms and shredded ginger, and put them in the pot with millet porridge:

"Lean meat porridge today, add some peanut oil later, it must be delicious."

Then he sighed again, saying:
"If there are chives planted in the vegetable field at the door, you can pick some green onion seedlings now and put some chopped green onions on the millet porridge, that will be delicious in the world."

As a classic side dish, green onions are an essential decoration on the table.

Qin Huairu laughed and said, "Brother A Nian, you are poor and fastidious, who would put green onions if there is nothing to do? It's not delicious!"

"You have never tasted southern food. If you have a chance in the future, I will take you to taste it. I promise you will have an endless aftertaste."

Among the eight major cuisines in our country, there are three southern cuisines, namely Cantonese cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Fujian cuisine, and in later generations, Cantonese cuisine is a world-renowned cuisine that has become famous all over the world.

"No, it's a waste of money to go out to eat!" Qin Huairu shook her head, she still thinks it's better to cook at home.

In this regard, for many years did not argue with her.

Although he also thinks it would be good to cook by himself, after all, only he knows his own taste.

But there are also a lot of delicacies in the restaurants outside, which are worth tasting.

It's a pity that it's hard to find some local specialties now. After all, everyone is poor now and they all eat the same food. How can there be any desire to make delicious food?It's nice to have something to eat.

Therefore, what Qin Huairu said about poverty is really correct.

In the yard outside, San Xiaozhi and Xu Wumei had already run in because they could already smell the fragrance.

"Third Uncle, Third Uncle, it smells so good, what kind of breakfast did you make this morning?"

The scent permeated the entire courtyard. After all, even with the windows closed, the scent of shiitake mushrooms was very strong.

And it can't be stopped.

The scent of those artificially cultivated shiitake mushrooms in later generations can only be described as mediocre, but the taste of wild mushrooms is really different.

Jia Dongxu, who was standing on the steps brushing his teeth, smelled the mushrooms and couldn't help taking a few more breaths.

Fortunately, the strong mushroom flavor conceals the meat flavor.

People who don't smell it seriously, or those who are not very sensitive to smell, really can't smell it.

He Yushui, Liu Guangtian and other middle-aged people were already yelling, and the former even came to the door of Niannian's house and stood and yelled several times.

She also wants to eat mushrooms.

Not long after, the three little ones in the house came out, and He Yushui walked in.

"Xiaoqian, what delicious food do you make at your third uncle's house? Why is it so delicious?"

"Of course the shiitake mushrooms are delicious. My third uncle just bought the shiitake mushrooms this morning. I heard that the old man just picked them and went to the city to sell them not long ago."

Hearing this, He Yushui was speechless.

How early to get up to pick mushrooms?

After all, it is only after six o'clock, which is very early, and it has been bought for many years, so the old man who sells shiitake mushrooms, at least, went to the mountains to pick them at three or four o'clock, right?
It's normal for her not to know that.

After all, it is necessary to pick shiitake mushrooms as early as possible, at three or four o'clock in the morning, and go out of the mountains and go to the city to sell them at five o'clock in the morning, just in time for the morning market at six o'clock.

"Be careful, it's hot, let me carry it, Xiaomei, get out of the way."

The voice of many years came from the kitchen, and then he was seen bringing out a pot of porridge.

There was quite a lot of porridge in the pot, and the rich aroma made He Yushui and the three little ones swallow several mouthfuls of saliva.

So delicious!
"Xiao Ru, wash your hands and eat breakfast."

After a while, including He Yushui, a total of six people sat down to eat breakfast.

He Yushui drank half a bowl and left.

She didn't dare to eat too much, because although it looked like there was a lot in the pot, there were also a lot of people.

If you can taste a small half bowl, it is very good.

After a while, she brought a handful of candies from her home, but the three little ones didn't react much.

Because obviously, the lean meat porridge with mushrooms in front of me is more fragrant.

As for candy, they usually don't eat less, and eating too much candy will cause tooth decay, so let's forget it.

After putting down the candy, He Yushui came to the next door and knocked on the door of her brother's house.

"Brother, why are you still sleeping? Thanks to you, you are still a chef, not as good as my brother's cooking skills for many years..."

After walking in, she output a meal.

He Yuzhu, who just woke up, was a little confused, but after listening to it, he became even more confused: What is my sister talking about?

"You said Mr. Xu's cooking skills are better than mine?"

He Yuzhu couldn't believe it, as if he heard some big joke.

(End of this chapter)