Traveling through the money-making life of a small peasant girl

Chapter 663

The sun hasn't come out yet, but it's already a bit hot and stuffy. There are many fewer people on the streets of Shenshui Town than usual. Chen Rou and Erya found a big shady tree and set up a stall under the big tree to sell some Cold porridge, herbal tea, and mints.

After deciding to come to the town to sell mints, Erya moved directly to Chen Rou's house. The two of them used all the white sugar from their own home, and borrowed some from other people's homes to boil a lot of mints.

Erya seldom comes to the town, and she is unfamiliar with everything in the town. Looking at the people coming and going on the street, she has been twisting her clothes nervously, while Chen Rou, on the other hand, made a small stool and calmed down Drink peppermint water at your leisure.

"Auntie, really... will anyone buy it?"

Erya looked at the few mints that Chen Rou put on the table. Chen Rou packed the remaining mints in a box and threw them in a bucket filled with water. The water couldn’t get in, but they could be kept. The mints don't heat up too much and melt.

"You'll know when you wait. It's a big deal. Let's take it home and eat it ourselves. The mints are well preserved and can be eaten for a long time."

Chen Rou is not worried that the things will not be sold, because all the things she makes can be stored for a long time. As for the cold porridge, even if no one buys it, she can eat it by herself. waste.

Er Ya was a little envious of Chen Rou's calmness, she could do this before, ignoring everything, but now she can't, she wants a lot of things, and she must earn more money.

During the whole morning, almost no one stopped to look at it. It was not until less than an hour before noon that the first visitor began to come.

A very ordinary passer-by, holding a child, looked at the strange candy Chen Rou put on the table, and asked the price.

"Ten pennies a penny."

Chen Rou shook her finger. The man looked at it, hesitating whether to buy it or not. The child's finger had already stretched out to the table, quickly grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth. The child's expression changed instantly. The sweetness, coupled with the impact of mint, after a while, the child tugged on the man's trousers.

"Father, this is delicious, I want to buy it, hiss, it's so cold, it's not hot at all."

From the eyes of adults, children's childish words and language are still somewhat incomprehensible, but he still knows the phrase "I want to buy it".

He took out a bag and handed it to Chen Rou, who immediately carried the wooden box out of the bucket.

In this era, there are no plastic bags, no refrigerators, and you have to use the most primitive way to store things. Chen Rou knows that there is oil paper, but she has cut the oil paper to make candies, so the only way to store candies is to use a sealed one. wooden box.

"You are my first guest, so I'll give you two more. These are mints, made at home. They are delicious and clean, and they moisten your throat."

While Chen Rou was speaking, she had already wrapped the mints for someone. The man left without saying anything, but when he was halfway there, he couldn't hold back. He opened the paper bag and threw one in his mouth. .

"Well, it's really refreshing."

After the first customer came, Chen Rou became more and more calm, and gradually there were two or three more people, most of them were men or women with children, who happened to come here and bought a penny.

"Auntie, why do they all stop here for a while?"

Erya gradually discovered that when the weather got hot, not only men and women with their children, but even those who were alone would stay here for a while, and would buy a bowl of cold porridge when they saw it, or ask Chen Rou for it. A bowl of water to drink, at times like this, Chen Rou never refuses anyone who comes.

(End of this chapter)