Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 36 Steelyard
The pheasant flew away, and the Ning family father and daughter were somewhat regretful, but their good mood was not affected.

As long as they looked into the basket, they felt that pheasant soup was nothing compared to this basket of vegetables.

Ning Wan stood up after resting enough, and was just about to pick up the basket and go, but she saw something in the grass over there, walked over and looked, it turned out to be a pheasant nest with a few gray-green eggs in it. Yixi was no small matter, "Father, look!"

"It turns out that this is a pheasant's nest!"

The two carefully picked up the eggs and put them in the basket, "It's good to have these few eggs, I just want to make a dish when I get home!"

After walking a few steps, Ning Wan suddenly realized, "Father, that pheasant flew out to lure you away because it was afraid that we would find its eggs."

Ning Liang thought it was true, "No wonder I always felt that I was going to catch up with it when I was chasing it, but I couldn't catch up no matter what, and finally let it fly away."

The father and daughter laughed, "Fortunately, we picked up its eggs, otherwise we would be fooled by a pheasant for nothing!" Perhaps with the encouragement of a few wild eggs, the next mountain road will be easy to walk, just after noon. Entered the house.

But when I got home, I couldn’t rest. I had to rearrange the cat’s claw vegetables, pick out the damaged stems and leaves, and trim the bottom stems neatly, and then weighed them with the newly bought steelyard. Measure it out.

Seeing that Yaonu is very proficient in using the steelyard, Ning Liang smiled and said: "Obviously we learned how to use this scale from the owner of the grocery store, but I have forgotten it now."

Ning Wan learned how to use a steelyard early on. The Zhao family lived a wealthy life, much richer than people outside. At the end of each year, Mrs. Zhao closed the door and used a steelyard to weigh the silver. After all, the steelyard is too small, and a steelyard is more suitable .Since she was trusted by Mrs. Zhao, she has participated in these things. The whole ingot was weighed and weighed, wrapped in mulberry paper and put away directly. Mrs. Zhao never used bank notes to deposit money, but cash. They said it was good to hand it over and make it into big ingots, or exchanged for strings of new copper coins.

There are also precious things such as ginseng, bird's nest, and fish maw, and they always have to go through the scales to know what they know...

That day, when the grocery store owner told her, she just pretended to listen, but now Ning Wan slowed down her movements and put the vegetables on the small copper weighing plate of the steelyard to show her parents, "This thing is not difficult. Yes, just get used to it - the steelyard in our house is the most common. It has two ranges: the first millisecond and the second millimeter, the first millimeter is two centimeters, one small star is one tael, two small stars is two taels, and the next one is two milliseconds. It’s still a small star, but when it reaches eight liang, that is half a catty, it is in the shape of a plum blossom, and the last plum blossom star is one catty. It’s also the same reason that the last centimeter is weighed in a catty, and the last star is twenty catties.”

He held the hands of his parents and taught them, "When weighing, put things on the scale first, and roughly estimate whether the weight should be measured in front or back. For example, when Dad and I came back from picking vegetables, we used twenty Weigh out 100 catties at a time, and weigh more than [-] catties of wild vegetables five or six times is enough."

"Now we want to bundle a catty of vegetables, so naturally we need to use the front millet. Look, just like this, lift the leather cord of the front millet, and tie the weight on the fixed plate star of one catty. The beam is flat and it is exactly one Jin." As Ning Wan said, she added a few more cat's claw vegetables to the weighing pan, causing the weighing pan to tilt up high, "Look, it's more than a catty in this way, and it can be tied up with straw and put away. It's in the basket."

Ning Liang and Yu Shi tsk-tsk praised: "Wan'er is really capable, this name is used so well!"

Ning Qing watched from the sidelines, because Merchant Liu had a steelyard, so she had met early, so she smiled and took down the few vegetables, then took the scale and lightly lifted it with her hand, turning the flat scale just now into a She tilted it up high, and said proudly: "Although Wan'er can use it, she doesn't know how to use it—you see, this steelyard is well used, but the flat scale can make the steelyard tilt up without adding anything. "

He also pointed out to Ning Wan, "It's also the same when taking other people's food. If 21 catties of vegetables weigh down to [-] catties, don't you get a catty for nothing?" She spoke slowly, letting everyone see that she was carrying The hand with the leather strap, the little finger moved quickly on the scale head.

The steelyard uses the leather rope as the middle point, and the two sides are balanced. If you press the scale head, the scale tail will naturally tilt up, and if you lift the scale head, the scale tail will naturally fall back, but the things on the scale pan have not changed. This is the trick of profiteers.

Ning Wan also laughed, and then remembered that in her dream, Merchant Liu and Ning Qing had indeed made a lot of money doing business, but their reputations were not very good, and such small actions were probably one of the reasons.

They always think that they have made money by deceiving others by some means, but in fact it is hard to say how.Not to mention that people with scales will naturally re-scale, even if people without scales have been cheated once or twice, they will be cheated for the third time?
You have to say to yourself, if Liu Merchant and Ning Qing didn't use these small tricks, maybe their business would be even bigger.Right now, I am confident that I can do business in Hutai Town within three to five years, earlier than they did back then, and the shop will also be bigger.

So Ning Wan said seriously, "Do you know how this steelyard came about?"

Not to mention father and mother, even Ning Qing shook her head.

"When Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and determined the weights and measures, the scales were called balances, the scales were called weights, and the scales were weighed. It means to compare which one is beneficial and which one is harmful. Later, everyone called it a vulgar scale."

"Why do you say that there are stars on the balance beam? And it is neither fifteen nor seventeen? It turns out that the sixteen stars on the sixteen Venus scales are composed of the Big Dipper, the Southern Dipper and the Fortune and Shou three stars."

"Therefore, the six stars of the Southern Dipper refer to the six directions of east, west, north, south, up and down, telling the people who use the scale to be in the center and not to be deflected; Those who use scales will be short of one tael, no blessings, two taels of less salary, and three taels of life will be discounted!"

Ning Liang and Yu Shi heard this, and hurriedly said: "We must do business according to our conscience, we can't short others, it doesn't matter if we suffer a little loss."

Ning Qing blushed, "Who told you to cut someone else's? I just said that if you give more to others, can you afford it?"

It's all for Ning Wan to explain the truth, everyone who listens or not, nodded and said: "Doing business to make money, naturally I don't want to lose money. It's just that this cat's claw vegetable will become lighter tomorrow if it loses some water, so Every catty is more than enough."

When Ning Liang and Yu Shi heard this, they became worried again, "So let's add a few more vegetables to each catty, don't lose enough water, and the restaurant people will look down upon it."

Ning Wan just laughed, "Although the scales will drop some, but these are enough. As the second sister said, if there are more, our family will lose money."

Everyone talked and laughed, tied the cat's claw vegetables with straw, put them in two baskets, and got up in the middle of the night to send them to Hutai County.

Father originally refused to let Ning Wan go, and wanted her to rest at home for a day, but it was the first time selling goods, how could Ning Wan not go and have a look?Therefore, I must have gone out with my father in the middle of the night.Two baskets of the same weight were hung on the little donkey's body. Mother put a small mat under the basket for fear of grinding the little donkey's back. Father carried the lantern and walked in front, and Ning Wan followed behind, leading the donkey.

With the little donkey, they all saved a lot of energy and arrived in Hutai County in more than three hours.The second time they entered the county was different from the first time, the two of them no longer bumped into each other like headless flies, and went directly to Wangyuanlou, the largest restaurant in the county, which they had inquired about beforehand.

The shopkeeper of the Wangyuan Building looked at the two baskets of fresh bracken, and nodded secretly. They were clean and tidy, and they could be directly made into vegetables as long as they were washed with water, so they immediately kept the two baskets of vegetables, saying: After checking 130 jin or more, I took out 280 money and gave them, "If there are more, I will send these in three to five days."

The Ning family father and daughter took the money, nodded and said: "Then it's settled, we will come back in four days."

This time I went shopping again, my father was not stingy anymore, seeing that Ning Wan had cut the meat and bought buns, he said: "Let's go buy some dim sum, your mother especially likes the puff pastry."

Ning Wan just laughed, "Father should have said a long time ago, what mother wants to eat now is actually what the little brother in her stomach wants to eat."

When the two arrived at Piaoxiangju, they asked for a catty of crispy osmanthus cakes and a catty of crispy meat muffins. Ning Liang heard that the crispy osmanthus cakes cost fifty yuan a catty, and the meat muffins cost [-] yuan a catty. I couldn't believe my ears, "Why is it so expensive? It's much more expensive than meat!"

"Good things have a good price," Ning Wan smiled, "so we must make more money."

Dad nodded in conviction, "Wan'er is right." After all, the price of the puff pastry was too expensive, and when he got home, Dad only tasted a small piece, and was reluctant to eat it anymore.But he cleverly didn't tell his mother the price of the cake, he knew it without thinking about it, if mother knew the price of the pastry cake, she wouldn't be able to eat any more.

Then I went to pick cat's claw vegetables again. The father and daughter became more motivated. When I entered Hutai County, I didn't go to Wangyuanlou, but went to several other hotels and restaurants. Although each one didn't cost much, But more than 100 catties of vegetables were quickly gone.Once there was some left over, they gave some price to the vegetable sellers in the market, one and a half pennies per catty, they guarded the market to sell, although they could sell three or four pennies per catty, but the father and daughter of the Ning family didn't have that much time .

Every time they sold the money, they would buy some things to go home. Meat, fish, and snacks were nothing. Ning Wan also slowly bought a lot of daily necessities. The wooden comb at home had lost many teeth, and now she bought Four peach wood ones with different patterns engraved on them, one pair engraved with dragon and phoenix for parents, two for myself and Ning Qing engraved with peach blossom peonies; ten small magnetic bowls, eight large bowls, ten There are two plates and ten chopstick rests, all of which are burnt with blue and white flowers. It is a set, which is enough to serve vegetables and soup on weekdays; two large copper basins, fragrant soap for washing face and hands; Ning Wan also bought Got four toothbrushes...

Although it cost a lot of money and her parents objected, Ning Wan still insisted on buying it. After all, people who have brushed their teeth can't stand it if they don't brush their teeth again; She is not used to it either, this is just a small part of it, there are still many places to change.

(End of this chapter)