The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 25

Chu Ying waited until there were a little fewer people in the store before going in. "Are they all here to trade bad chestnuts?"
"Some are, some are for re-purchasing, and there have been a lot of broken ones recently. Those 3 baskets are broken. Can you take them back then or should I throw them away for you?" Bad chestnuts are poisonous if eaten, and Chu Ying doesn't plan to take them with them. go back.

"Then please throw it away for me, it's really troublesome for you to have so many broken ones."
"It's okay, it's not troublesome, it's almost sold out, and there are still these two baskets. Do you still have them at home? If you have any, sell them as soon as possible. The longer you keep them, the more they will go bad."
"No, I don't have many at home. I'm going to grind the flour. Thank you for helping me so much. Otherwise, I don't know how to sell these chestnuts."
"No, I didn't do it for nothing. Didn't I charge you money? This is the account book for the past few days. Everyone buys a lot in the coming Chinese New Year. They buy food for cooking or flour milling. The business is still good. "Chu Ying looked at the detailed records in the ledger, and recorded how much was damaged and how much was lost.

"Qin Zhong, how much do you pay for a candle here?" Chu Ying thought that if the candles made a lot of money, she might be able to make good use of the pine tree behind the house.

"Do you want to buy it? Go for that one. It doesn't cost money, and it costs 8 cents apiece, and a better one is 10 cents." Chu Ying knew it in her mind, the pine trees behind were all perennial, and the circumference of the trees was quite large. , the amount of pine resin cut out should be relatively large, that is, there are not many pine trees.

"好的，我就问问。一共是4两9钱50文银子是吗？扣除你的5钱50文银子。"坏了3筐赔了3筐，还有些是多给的栗子，算下来也差不多。

"Yes. But can you handle it? Do you want me to keep it for you first? You still have some unsold, and you definitely can't afford this much money." Chu Ying had seen ancient copper plates before, I don't know the weight of this nearly 5 taels of silver, and it is really inappropriate to take it out to attract too much attention.

"That's right, then I'll take 9 coins first, and I'm going to buy some cloth to make clothes and sacks." Chu Ying picked up the strings of copper coins that Qin Zhong put on the low table. If you want to spend it, it’s okay to carry it with you.

"Let me give you a bag, you can't get it like this." Chu Ying put all the copper coins in the bag given by Qin Zhong. It is really inconvenient to have no money or bank notes.

"Thanks, then I'll go first, business is booming." Chu Ying went straight to the fabric store after leaving the grocery store.

Same as last time, I asked for two bolts of fine cloth, three bolts of coarse cloth and some thread, which cost 3 renminbi.Chu Ying's back basket can only hold 8 horses, and the other Chu Ying can only be held in her hand.With the money from selling chestnuts, Chu Ying now feels that she is a little rich woman.

But the chestnuts at home are still waiting for her to go back to grind, and Chu Ying doesn't want to waste any money, but she doesn't have a handy knife, and the stone knife she used before has worn out a few yuan, and there is only one yuan left, and This stone is still relatively hard to find. Chu Ying couldn't find it when she went to the lake last time.

Chu Ying looked at the knives of different sizes in the blacksmith shop, and picked out a comfortable one. This knife is considered a long-term investment. She wanted to buy a better one, but she was not that rich, so she decided to buy a middle-to-lower one first. The knife is better.

Chu Ying looked at all the knives for a long time and compared them, and picked out a knife with medium quality and a reasonable price.Take out the 1 renminbi you brought from home, plus the remaining 1 renminbi, and put a total of 2 renminbi on the wooden board.

"I don't know, I thought you picked a husband and son-in-law, and it took so long." Chu Ying looked at the master blacksmith who was still expressionless. Although he was joking, she still felt that what she said just now was not said by this stern-faced man.

"The money should be spent on the blade." Chu Ying inserted the knives into the cloth. None of these knives came with scabbards. She had to make a scabbard when she went back. The knives were considered sharp, and cutting her hands would not be worth the loss.

Chu Ying went to the gate of the city early to wait for Grandpa Li’s ox cart. Chu Ying looked at the barbecue in the distance and raised her nose to smell it. There were barbecues in this dynasty, and they used bamboo sticks and iron sticks, although there were no peppers and peppers. Natural and other spices, but the roasted meat itself has a strong meaty aroma.

"Isn't that person Yu Wenying? Li girl, look." The two young women supported each other, pointing at Chu Ying who was smelling the smell of meat.

"That's not true. The country woman must be too sick to get out of bed. How could she carry so many things to walk around?" Among them, the younger girl pointed to the new jewelry on the Yinque Tower next to her, and only glanced at it. The child sitting on the ground will take the beautiful woman next to him to the Yinque Tower.

"That's right. Girl Ying has been weak and sick since she was a child, and her complexion is also very pale. She is indeed not as dark as the country children." The little girl next to Jiaren Naihe was so anxious that she didn't look closely, and asked the servants who were carrying things to follow them.

Chu Ying turned her head to look at the two women in fine clothes who were followed by servants.Chu Ying has seen this material before, at least 1 tael of silver per horse. Chu Ying, who used to feel good about herself, now feels that she can only live a well-off life temporarily, and there is still a long way to go from her life as a rich woman. I can also spend as much as I want without having to look at the barbecue before I can be counted as a rich woman.

When Chu Ying returned home, she hurriedly cooked dinner, cut coarse cloth and made two sacks, washed the sacks and cooled them in the kitchen.Put some ground chestnut powder into another small water tank.

Then I moved two baskets of chestnuts from the bedroom to the kitchen. I have nothing to do these days, so I just concentrate on grinding the chestnuts. I have two sets of winter clothes, so I am not in a hurry. I can slowly make the chestnut powder after I grind the chestnuts.

Chu Ying ground the chestnuts and looked at the candles made yesterday on the shelf.The pine tree in the back is about half an acre. Although he is considered wealthy, he can't bear the thought of cutting down the pine tree for resin.

This was the last way the original owner's father left for the original owner. Chu Ying didn't want to just lose it like that. Although 8 to 10 coins for a candle was quite a lot, Chu Ying didn't want to destroy those pine trees in large quantities for the money.

Tomorrow, I will cut down a tree and make enough candles for myself. Let’s put aside my plan to start a candle business.Now that I have the income of chestnuts, I don't have to worry about food and drink, but I still have to think about making more money, and I can't just sit and eat.

Grinding chestnut flour is a boring and tiring job. Chu Ying continued to grind after the meal, and she didn't stop until she was about to fall asleep after nodding her head several times.

In the next few days, it rained for a few days, which saved me the effort of watering the vegetables, and there was no reason to be lazy and not grind chestnuts to play.Chu Ying put on autumn clothes to cover her head from the rain, and carried chestnuts back and forth between the two houses.Only then did Chu Ying realize that she didn't have the same coir raincoat that Brother Wang wore when she went out.

(End of this chapter)