Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 22

Looking at the disappointed expressions of the children, Zhang Youqing felt a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said: "The market is very lively, but there are not many people who come to ask questions, and some of them did not buy anything. This day, there are only a dozen or 20 people. buy it."

The dismal business discouraged everyone, while Zhang Yun was wondering what the problem was. Mrs. Zhou sighed softly, and then began to cover the tung oil cloth back, saying, "Father, you have been tired for a day. Hurry up and rest in the house, let the fire warm up, and we will have dinner later."

After all, Mrs. Zhou lived for many more years. Although she was disappointed in her heart, she would not be hit so hard like the children.

Zhang Yun had a lot of questions that he wanted to ask his father, but before he could open his mouth, he heard what Zhou said. Thinking about how hard it was for his father, he worked hard from morning to night, and it was freezing outside, so he immediately took his arm and dragged him out of the kitchen. Bian said: "Father, we have stayed in the east room all day, there is a brazier in the room, hurry up and warm up."

Zhang Youqing was dragged into the room, and as soon as he pushed the door open, he smelled a faint tea fragrance in the room, which was so pleasant, he couldn't help wondering: "Why does the room smell of tea?"

Zhang Yun didn't answer, just pulled him to the edge of the kang and sat down, pushed the brazier on the ground to his feet, Zhang Zhang and Zhang Xing also entered the house together, and happened to hear what his father said, Zhang Zhang closed the door and turned back Said: "Father, Yun'er said that oil tea cakes can be burned as charcoal, so let's try it out, but I didn't expect it to be better than charcoal, and the tea flavor comes from oil tea cakes."

"It's really a good thing." Zhang Youqing stretched out his hand to roast on the brazier, looked in with his eyes, and could see some tea oil cake crumbs on the wall of the brazier, so he couldn't help but praise.

Zhang Zhang brought a bench around and sat on the long bench with Zhang Xing, warming up by the fire. Hearing this, he couldn't help sighing, "Good things are good things, but it's a pity that tea oil is so hard to sell, alas..."

Zhang Cheng's sigh reminded everyone of the fact that the tea oil could not be sold. The room fell silent, and Zhang Yun hurriedly took the opportunity to ask, "Father, tell me what's going on this day."

Zhang Youqing nodded immediately, and said: "When I rushed to the market, the market was already very lively. I remembered what you said, and asked the oil shop for the price. They said that the price of oil today is 22 copper coins a catty. The twenty copper coins I received were lower than others. At that time, I was quite happy. I took the load and found a place to rest. By that time, the snow had stopped, so I took off the tung tarpaulin. The fragrance of oil attracted some people to ask. , it’s a pity that most of them don’t buy it.”

Hearing the last two sentences, Zhang Yun could sense some clues, and hurriedly said: "Father, just rest your burden and wait for someone to ask you? Didn't you yell and sell?"

These words made Zhang Youqing blush, and said unnaturally: "We are not salesmen, why are you shouting?"

Who knows what you are selling if you don’t yell, Zhang Yun thought, but a native farmer like Dad really can’t do this, and he can’t be blamed. She took a deep breath and asked patiently: “The person who came to ask , why don’t you buy it, have you ever said that?”

Zhang Youqing thought for a while and said, "Most of them say they haven't seen them, and don't know if they can eat them."

After asking this question, Zhang Yun already knew the crux of the problem. It was one thing that his father didn’t sell it, and the other was that people didn’t know about tea oil. They didn’t dare to buy the food in their stomachs lightly, and selling it was easy to solve. The other side is more difficult, Zhang Yun fell into deep thought for a moment.

At this time, the door of the room was pushed in from the outside, and Mrs. Zhou stretched half of her body in, calling out: "It's time to eat, come to the main room." Everyone in the room stood up one after another, followed Mrs. Zhou to the main room, sat down and sat down. down to eat.

Zhang Yun buried his head in eating the brown rice in the bowl, but he kept thinking about the solution in his mind. The bad business of tea oil affected everyone's emotions to some extent. At the dinner table tonight, no one said anything. A little frustrated.

The silence at the dinner table was broken by Zhang Yun. After much deliberation, she still felt that some promotional means should be used. After a while, she already had an idea in her mind, but she had to ask first to see if it was feasible, so she decided to He opened his mouth and asked: "Father, mother, I want to build a stove in the market, I wonder if it can be done?"

This made the whole family look at it, and Zhang Yun explained: "No one has seen our tea oil, so they dare not buy it. I think as long as they know that this oil is okay to eat, people who buy it will be happy." If there are more, setting up a stove and letting them taste it is the fastest way."

Zhang's family's eyes lit up when they heard this, and Zhang Zhang spoke first, "It's not difficult to build a simple stove. Just put some big stones in a basket and take them to the market. I'll just build it."

"The firewood needs to be picked. There is no firewood in the market. Daqing has to pick oil, so let me pick the firewood." Zhang Liangen also joined in the conversation. His son and grandson have all contributed, so he can't be idle.

A smile appeared on Zhou's face, and he hurriedly said: "The pots, spoons, bowls and chopsticks are all for me to choose, and our family has to go."

At this time, the dinner table became lively, and the family members talked, and divided up all the things that should be picked. This atmosphere made Zhang Xing happy, and asked repeatedly: "Then why do we fry?" where?"

This question made everyone's voices stop abruptly, yes, everything else is easy to handle, but I have no idea what to fry for a while, apart from the vegetables in the vegetable field, the rest at home are some pickles and pickles, all of which If you can’t fry it, if you want to fry rice cakes, fried sesame balls, fried bells, etc., it will be troublesome to make, and it will cost a lot of money. To be honest, I really can’t bear it. .

Mrs. Zhou frowned, and said, "I still have some peanuts at home, but it's only one or two catties, and it's not enough to fry. If we want to fry other things, it's troublesome and expensive to make. I'm afraid it's not worth it. Why don't we fry vegetables?" .”

For this suggestion, Zhang Yun rejected it from the bottom of her heart. There are only a few vegetables in the house, which are very common and unattractive. According to her thoughts, she is going to fry them for tasting, giving them as gifts, and promoting tea oil. The effect of this method requires a large amount, so I really can't make up my mind.

"I'm afraid stir-frying is not good. Let's think about it again, what to fry." Zhang Yun said, and everyone stopped talking for a while, thinking about what to fry. Zhang Yun also frowned and lowered his head to think.

In terms of food, men are always unable to get their mouths open and can't come up with any tricks. Zhou and Zhang Yun still have to figure it out. Zhou said several fried foods in a row, but all of them were rejected. It was too expensive. Now To make a worry.

Zhang Yun thought to himself, if you can find raw materials that don’t cost money, then you don’t have to worry about it, but where can you find the ones that don’t cost money?

Suddenly Zhang Yun had a flash of inspiration and thought of the ghost ginger that he had seen at his uncle’s house. Isn’t that stuff all over the mountain? It’s crispy. If you use this, although it’s not as effective as deep-fried food, it’s better because you don’t need money. At most, you need to spend some salt and pepper, which is much less expensive than others.

The more Zhang Yun thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible, so he immediately said his idea. The family members were half-believed after hearing it, and Zhang Youqing asked worriedly: "Is it okay, no one eats this thing now, I'm afraid others will dislike it .” Everyone else nodded, with the same worry in their hearts.

"We can slice and shred it so that we can't tell what it is from, and give them a taste first, and then give it away. For example, if you buy a catty of oil, you can give a spoonful of this, which is much more cost-effective than the oil sold by others. "Zhang Yun is full of confidence in this. Now everyone doesn't like to eat ghost ginger. The main reason is that they don't know how to cook it. They should be like her grandma, sauté the peppers with oil, and then pour the peppers and oil into the ghost ginger. , if you sprinkle some salt and mix it cold, it will be absolutely delicious.

Seeing Zhang Yun's confident look, and thinking about the fact that the free gift is really attractive, the family couldn't help nodding their heads in agreement. The whole family was motivated again, and they couldn't wait until tomorrow. After dinner, they took advantage of the dark Toushi went up to Qingtunling with a sack and left Zhang Yun and Zhang Xing at home.

Zhang Yun was not free at home, so she cleared the dining table, washed the dishes, and ran to the vegetable field to pull the chili peppers. Zhang Xing followed her and went to the vegetable field together, helping to pull out peppers.Zhang Yun pulled all the peppers from the vegetable fields and threw them into the dragged baskets. Thanks to the fact that there are a lot of peppers grown at home, they were all picked and filled half of the baskets.

When the vegetable field came out, Zhang Yun also pulled out some grown coriander and chrysanthemum chrysanthemum. These two are very delicious when mixed with cold. Not bad, it can look a little more tricky.

Zhang's grandparents and the Zhou family didn't go down to Qingtunling until very late. Everyone dug a whole sack of ghost ginger and brought them back. Early the next morning, they went up the mountain again to continue digging. Zhang Yun, Zhang Xing They also followed. Fortunately, since the tenth day of the lunar new year, the snow stopped, making it much easier to work.

Originally, after digging a few sacks on the second day, the family members said that it was almost enough, but Zhang Yun thought about it, if the ghost ginger is not dug at this time, it will germinate in the early spring, so neither pigs nor humans can eat it. Now that you have dug it, you can simply dig more and store it. When you get the money and catch the little piglet, you won't have to worry about having nothing to eat.

Zhang Yun told his father and mother about this idea. Zhang Youqing and Zhou saw that their daughter was only thinking of catching the little piggy, so they didn't want to spoil her interest. It's okay to eat slowly, so I agreed. The family can dig as much as they can. Jiang, the family ghost, pushed the hall to the full.

Just when Zhang's family was busy digging ginger, good news came. As the year was approaching, the market became lively every day, and the market would no longer only happen on Fridays.

After receiving this good news, Zhang's family will no longer go to Qingtunling, but the whole family will work together to peel and slice the devil's ginger, as well as the chili peppers, as well as coriander and chrysanthemum chrysanthemum.
It took a whole day to cut a bucket full of ghost ginger, sprinkle salt in the bucket and marinate overnight, and when I got up early the next day, I poured out the water from the bucket and filled it with chopped peppers, coriander, and chrysanthemum chrysanthemum. , and then picked up tea oil, big rocks, firewood, thatch, and pots and pans, and the whole family went out together to Bailidu in Beitangji, where they boarded a boat to Changyuan Town.

(End of this chapter)