Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 117 A Smooth Start

It was still bright when we arrived at the town. Zhao Changsheng came earlier and waited for Li Xin at the west entrance of the town. When he saw her coming, he hurried forward to take the cart in her hand, and smiled at her and Amei: "Big cousin, cousin, you are here."

"Thank you, brother Changsheng." Li Xin greeted with a smile.

"Brother is still busy in the restaurant. I'll help you set up a stall first. If you arrive late, the good place will be taken up."

Zhao Changsheng smiled shyly, and asked Li Xin: "Big Cousin, should we go now or..."

"I still have to go to the blacksmith's shop to get something." Li Xin said, "Brother Changsheng, let my sister and you secure the space first, and I'll go to the blacksmith's shop to get something."

"it is good."

Zhao Changsheng agreed, and he and his sister pushed the cart away.Li Xin found the way and followed the blacksmith's shop.

The door of the blacksmith's shop was wide open, and in the winter, you could still see bare-armed men sweating one after another.Li Xin walked over and mentioned Guan Wen's name, and an uncle in his forties came over and said to Li Xin, "Where is Guan Wen from Lotus Village?"

"Yes, uncle, he came here yesterday, and he said that the things he ordered can be picked up in the afternoon today. Can you pick up the goods now?"

The uncle smiled and said, "Okay, I still said why he hasn't come yet." He looked at Li Xin again: "Are you his wife?"

"Yes."

"I haven't seen his daughter-in-law before he got married." The uncle said with a chuckle, "Now I've finally seen someone."

Seeing that Li Xin was a little surprised, the uncle laughed and said, "There are quite a few people who know him in this town, but he probably can't remember those people."

Li Xin laughed, "Ah Wen is quite confused sometimes."

The uncle was also happy, "When he said that he made the pot, I thought he had found another job, but I didn't expect that it was the older sister who came to pick up the things."

While talking, he asked other blacksmith apprentices to fetch the pot. Li Xin took it and weighed it in his hands a few times. He thought it was pretty good, the size was right, and the bottom of the pot was also thick, so he nodded, "Uncle's craftsmanship very nice."

"People are old and have no strength, so they rely on a little craftsmanship." The uncle blacksmith smiled and said, "My sister will call me an iron crook. If there is anything that other people can't make in the future, you can bring it to our house to make it." .”

"Okay, I have to take care of Uncle Chong's business too, don't I?"

Li Xin smiled, and gave Tie Guaizi money according to the agreed price, and asked casually during the chat: "There should be a lot of blacksmith shops in this town, I think uncle, your house is the biggest."

"That's not true." Tie Guaizi laughed and said, "This is the inheritance passed down from our ancestors. Originally, there was an old Jin's family to compete with us, but now the old Jin's family... tsk tsk, can't do it either!"

Li Xin was slightly taken aback when he heard about Lao Jin's family, thinking, this must be about the third aunt's family, right?

Tie Guaizi still said: "In the past, the head of Lao Jin's family still had two brushes, but it's a pity that he didn't have a son to inherit, and only one daughter married his apprentice. All the work was passed on to his son-in-law, and now it seems that he didn't pass it on to his son-in-law and kept a hand for himself, or his son-in-law is not good at learning. Anyway, looking at their things, they always cut corners. "

Li Xin was silent, nodded silently with a smile.

"Uncle does real business, no wonder Ah Wen only looks for you, Uncle, when he finds a blacksmith shop."

Tie Guaizi was delighted to hear people praise him, and Li Xin chatted a few words before seeing off the guest.

Li Xin picked up the pot and hurried quickly, passing by the grocery store where Guan Laosi bought the bride price and stopped.

Walking in, the boss in front of the counter is still the same boss I saw last time, and the baldness on his head is a little more serious than last time.

Seeing a customer coming to the door, the boss hurried out to greet the customer, but he didn't seem to remember that Li Xin was his former customer.

Li Xin didn't even greet anyone, and asked the boss directly, "Is there any butter that sells outside the customs?"

The boss was taken aback, and quickly said: "Yes, there are, but few people buy them, and I don't have many products here. How much do you want to buy?"

Li Xin's eyes lit up when he heard that there were goods in stock, and he calmed down and said, "Let me take a look at your goods first."

Seeing the goods is the right thing to do, so the boss will naturally not stop him, so he asked a young guy to find it and hand it to Li Xin, "Big girl, take a look, is this product okay?"

The butter congealed into a ball, but it was indeed yellow grease.Li Xin dug a little bit and tasted it, it was still a bit fishy, ​​but the taste was not too strong.

The boss said: "There are few people who come to buy this thing, even ordinary people don't know how to buy it. It's just bought by some wealthy people to make some cakes or something. The big girl is going to make cakes, right?"

"Boss, how much is the price?"

"It's more expensive than others, and the older sister also said that it's from outside the customs, so the cost of transportation has increased a lot. Just such a jar, it costs at least five hundred dollars."

Five hundred dollars...

Li Xin did the calculations in his mind, but still felt that the money was a little too much. He looked at the pot indicated by the shopkeeper, and pointed to a slightly smaller one: "Then how much is the butter in such a big pot?"

The boss made some calculations and said, "Three hundred dollars."

Li Xin lifted the jar, it was still very heavy, and the butter inside should weigh ten catties.After thinking for a while, Li Xin said, "I bought a small jar. If I still want to buy it from you, the boss, is this price acceptable..."

The boss is also a good person. After hearing this, he knew that Li Xin still wanted to bargain with him, so he hurriedly said distressedly: "Big sister, this price is really..."

Li Xin didn't even bargain, and just said: "Then I'll go to another house to see."

"Hey, big sister, wait a minute." The boss stopped her, and said as if losing money: "Then 280 yuan, it can't be less."

"250 yuan, if the boss sells it, I will take it away immediately. If he doesn't sell it, I will go to another house to ask the price and come back."

The boss immediately slapped his thigh: "Big sister, it's up to you, 250 dollars." He ordered the clerk to fill the jar, and said to Li Xin with a sad face: "If you want to buy butter, remember to come to our store to buy it." .”

"Don't worry, boss."

Li Xin paid the money, took the jar and was about to leave, but saw the boss talking to the waiter with a shocked expression on his face, and his mood was a little irritable and hesitant.

Although he was curious in his heart, he didn't ask too much. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and Li Xin hurriedly went to Yuanguang Temple with his arm around the pot and the butter pot in the other.

Yuanguang Temple is the most famous and spiritual temple in Hui County, and there are forty or fifty monks in the temple.Today, it is still lenient to Buddhist disciples. Although it is not as grand as the previous dynasty, it also advocates the Buddhist theory of "karma and retribution, and retribution is not good", and the Xiangguo Temple was established in the capital for the royal family to visit.

Yuanguang Temple already existed in the previous dynasty, and its scale is far more prosperous than it is now.Although the Yuanguang Temple in Huixian County is still lively, people from the nearby villages and towns will come to add some incense and pray to gods and Buddhas. Other entertainment programs are gradually declining.

When Li Xin arrived, Zhao Changsheng had already picked up a place to occupy the place, and Amei placed things as Li Xin said before. Zhao Changsheng was curious and asked this and that from time to time.

Li Xin walked over with a smile, and Amei saw her rushing over to help her take over the vacant round stove on the pot shelf.

Li Xin put the jar aside and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

"Big cousin, my cousin said that the food you made is delicious..." Zhao Changsheng smiled shyly, and what he said was that he wanted to try it.

That's right, Li Xin is thinking of trying to see if the special pot and specially bought butter taste better.

After cleaning the pot twice with water and drying it, turned on the fire to heat the pot evenly, then lifted half of the lid of the pot and scooped a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of butter and a cup of corn kernels into it, and pinched the corn kernels protruding from the center of the pot. Stir the wire part continuously in a clockwise direction, and open the pot after hearing the sound of "pop".

A-mei cleverly took the Shau Kei out and put it on the side. Li Xin lifted the lid of the pot and poured the popcorn in, covered the pot again, pinched the junction and shook off the sticky popcorn grains, and then Open it, pull out a paper bag and put the popcorn grains in it.

"Try it, second cousin." Li Xin said with a smile, "Do you think it's delicious?"

Then he said to A-mei: "Try it too, the taste should be different from what I made yesterday."

A-mei's eyes lit up immediately, and she put the popcorn into her mouth and chewed twice, regardless of the fact that it was still hot, and then said with a surprised face: "Sister-in-law, it's really delicious! It's even better than last time!"

"You can eat more if it's delicious." Li Xin patted her head, then asked Zhao Changsheng, "It's a little sweet, girls and children should like it, and it's okay if my second cousin doesn't like it."

Zhao Changsheng ate a few mouthfuls in a row, and then he said embarrassedly: "It's delicious, but...you always feel sweet when you eat too much. Men shouldn't eat sweet, they have to eat bitter. The masters say so .”

From the time Li Xin started making popcorn, there were people around him, and when he thought of that kind of richness, it made people swallow even more.

While they were talking, someone asked, "Sister, what is your thing?"

"Popped rice." Li Xin said with a smile, "I made it at home, and I will sell it at the temple fair to see if anyone likes it."

"Is this sold by the bag?" Another person asked, "How much is the bag?"

Li Xin replied: "Seven dollars a bag with gas, four dollars without gas."

She has done the calculations, the price is a bit high, but if it is sold at a lower price, it will be a waste of time for her to come here.The money for the butter and the money for the pots must be recovered.

"It's a bit expensive..."

"But it smells delicious."

"I just don't know how it tastes..."

People around were talking about it, but no one offered money to buy it.Li Xin thought for a while and said, "Everyone can taste what I made with oil."

As he spoke, he signaled Amei to give others a taste. Each person had two or three pills in their hands, and they all ate them up in a while.

Li Xin said with a smile: "The taste with oil is definitely much better than without oil. Everyone has tasted the taste. If you think it tastes good, you can buy it again."

Some children clamored for it after taking a bite, but the adults had to pay for it for them.

If someone started to buy it, the business would be easy to do, and people would buy it one after another. Li Xin was busy all the time, Zhao Changsheng watched Amei do it a few times, and he knew how to do it. It was an apprentice like him who could get started very quickly. up.

When this place is on the right track, Amei is only responsible for collecting money and changing it, and by the way, she puts her needlework next to Li Xin's stall.

(End of this chapter)