Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 26

The Zhang family ate the tofu puffs fried by Zhang Yun, and they all said it was delicious. They finally gained confidence in selling this fried tofu. Take it to the market tomorrow, fry it up and try selling it to see if it is popular.

Zhang Yun fried all the tofu puffs, cleaned up the kitchen, and returned to the main room with the hot, fragrant fried tofu puffs. When he entered the hall, he called out, "Father, mother, grandpa, come and eat some while it's hot."

Zhang's family members in the main room all looked over, and Mrs. Zhou hurriedly said: "Gang Xing'er has brought a plate, we have already eaten, let's save these for tomorrow." The fried tofu is really delicious, and they each share a share, but there are not many, but eating by themselves is secondary, and selling money is the most important thing.

Zhang Yun walked to them with a smile, brought a bench over and sat down, and put the plate of tofu puffs on another bench, "I think it's better to eat this while it's hot. Let it sit overnight, and it will be ready tomorrow." I don’t know if it’s delicious or not, don’t worry, there will be more for sale tomorrow, let’s eat these by ourselves, I don’t know when I’ll be able to sleep after making this ghost ginger tonight, so it’s good to fill your stomach with this.”

Hearing what Zhang Yun said, Zhang Cheng also smiled and said: "Yun'er is right, in case it won't taste good after staying overnight until tomorrow, and you won't be able to sell it, why don't we eat enough today? Work harder, father, mother, don’t you think so?”

The daughter and son said so, and Zhang Youqing and Zhou agreed. Although Zhang Liangen was still a bit reluctant, it could be seen that everyone else was ready to eat with chopsticks.

Zhang Yun specially mixed some chopped peppers on the plate. Everyone sat and worked all night. Eating more peppers would make them warmer. Throw in the crushed camellia oleifera peel and seed husk and ignite it. After burning, the heat will be released slowly, and the room will not be so cold, so that the hands and feet will not be stiff, and the work will be easier.

The whole family gathered together to peel the ghost ginger. When the peeled ghost ginger piled up in a high pile, Zhou and Zhang Yun stopped, put the ghost ginger in a wooden basin, and took it to the kitchen to cut into slices. .

The Zhang family was busy all night, and it wasn't until after the third watch that they could gather a bucket of ghost ginger, sprinkle it with salt, and then everyone turned off the lights and went to sleep.

The next day, the whole family got up before dawn as usual. Together with Zhang Yun and Zhang Youqing, they poured out some of the camellia oil in the barrel and prepared to use it for fried tofu. Packed up, the family hit the road in the dark.

The weather is not so good today. It was foggy when I got up early. I couldn’t see clearly far away on the road, but I could only see the blurred image in front. It's foggy, winter foggy and snowy, with such a heavy fog, I'm afraid it won't be far to snow, but I hope it doesn't fall for too long, otherwise people who visit the market will have to drive away."

Zhang Liangen's words made Zhang Youqing, Zhou Shi and the others feel a little worried. It was rare that business was good yesterday, and they wanted to do more business in one go and make some quick money. If the sky is not beautiful at this time, they may have to delay.

Worried and worried, the family still stepped up and rushed to Bailidu to board the boat. When they arrived at the market, the fog began to slowly dissipate. After a while, Zhang's family searched for a long time before they found an open space, which was far away from yesterday's place.

But it’s better to have a place than no place, and I can’t choose this meeting. The Zhang family hurriedly rested their burdens, and were busy building the stove, chopping firewood, and loading the bowls just like yesterday. Some people had already seen Zhang's oil stall yesterday, but today they were not so hesitant. Many people came to buy directly, and some came here on purpose. After a while, the stall became lively.

While the stall was busy, Zhang Yun took out the tofu cubes he had cut early in the morning, and one piece was almost stacked in the wooden basin. After this night, the water had already been drained. After taking out the whole basin, he directly set it on fire The most prosperous, open the oil pan and put it down to fry.

Deep-fried food always has a particularly strong aroma. When the tofu puffs are deep-fried, the aroma has already wafted far away. The customers who originally bought the oil were immediately attracted, and asked one by one. Are these fried in the oil pan brought for delivery? Can you taste them at will.

Zhang Yun naturally yelled again, "Auntie, aunt, uncle, uncles, this is a delicious food. It can be eaten directly after frying. It is also delicious when mixed with chili and bean paste. You can also take it home and stew cabbage. , stewed vermicelli, stewed radish are all good, if you want to make something delicious for the New Year, shredded fried pork slices, fried pork shreds, it will be more fragrant."

Zhang Yun yelled at the variety of ways to eat it, and the smell that wafted out was really delicious, which made all the people who came around a little greedy, and they all kept coaxing, asking if it was a gift.

"Auntie, aunt, uncle, uncles, don't worry, you can buy three of these good things with only one copper coin, and if you spend three or four copper coins, there will be many fresh dishes on the dinner table. It can be used as a snack for the children, and they can try something new." Seeing that the gluttons of the big guys have been hooked, Zhang Yun quoted the price.

The price is not expensive, and it is not cheap, but the profit of tofu puffs is really thin. A pound of tofu fried can earn four or five copper coins at most, but a pound of tea fried tofu can still be made. Yes, it is not much different from selling tea oil.

When the surrounding crowd heard that they wanted money to buy, they were not as excited as before. However, there were quite a few people who paid two or three copper coins to buy something to try something new. All in all, although it is not as easy to sell as camellia oil, the five or six catties of tofu I brought were sold out before noon.

The camellia oil was also going well, and it bottomed out before evening. Seeing that the sky was getting darker and gloomy, and the wind was blowing harder, it seemed that the weather was about to change. The Zhang family quickly packed up and rushed to the ferry as early as possible.

When they got off the boat at Bailidu, it was snowing in the sky. The Zhang family braved the scattered snow and hurried all the way back to Tuntian Village. The person's body and head were covered with a layer of white, and the heat from the body evaporated the snow, and the melted water dripped down the man's eyebrows and temples, wetting his clothes.

None of Zhang's family dared to delay, and as soon as they put down the burden, they hurried back to the room, took off the snow-covered overcoat, wiped off the snow on their heads and faces with a dry cloth, and when they were all dry, they all went to the east room. A brazier was lit over there, and the whole family sat around to warm up the fire. After a little bit of drying off the moisture, Mrs. Zhou got up, went to the kitchen to wash and chop the old ginger, put it in the pot and boiled a pot of ginger soup. Serve each a big bowl.

After drinking the hot ginger soup, the whole person will be warmed up, the brazier in the house is also burning hot, and the whole room becomes warmer. The Zhang family put down the ginger soup bowl and wiped their mouths. Suffering from the cold is no joke, a serious illness may occur at any time, poor families are most afraid of getting sick, and they really don't have the spare money to treat illnesses.

After Zhou collected the bowl and took it back to the kitchen, she hurried back to the east room. The snow outside had already fallen densely, and the wind blew even harder. stay outside for a long time,
When Mrs. Zhou came to the door, she hurriedly opened the door and entered. The cold wind from outside poured into the house. She hurriedly closed the door tightly, rubbed her hands and walked towards the brazier. Sit down on the same long bench.

"It's just been a while, and the snow has fallen a lot. I'm afraid the snow won't stop for a while, so we won't be able to go to the market." Mrs. Zhou rubbed her hands and leaned close to the brazier so that she could roast closer To the fire, the mouth began to speak.

"I've already told you that it's bound to snow when there's such a heavy fog in the morning. Oh my god, I'll report it myself." Zhang Liangen warmed up now, so he took out the tobacco pot, filled it with shredded tobacco and lit it. He was so busy that he hadn't touched the dry tobacco for several days, and now it was snowing outside, so he had to relax if he didn't want to be idle, so he thought about the tobacco pot again.

Zhang Youqing warmed his hands to the fire, nodded as he listened, and said, "It's impossible to have a few snowfalls in the twelfth lunar month. Fortunately, our oil is almost sold out, but the fried tofu business has to be delayed for a few days. gone."

Zhang Yun is not worried, she has already covered more than half of the tofu, ready to mold into stinky tofu, the stinky tofu will take five or six days at the earliest, and it will be snowing this time, just to rest for a few days, It is not good to wait until the stinky tofu is moldy, and then fry the stinky tofu for sale.

"Father, mother, don't think too much. Anyway, fried tofu can only take advantage of the twelfth lunar month to make some fresh money. We can't do it for long. If it's snowing all over the world and can't sell it, the remaining tofu will be turned into moldy tofu. We can eat by ourselves, don't worry." Zhang Yun said with a smile.

Zhang Youqing and Zhou Shi all nodded their heads. Although they felt that it was a pity that the money would not be earned, if the weather was really bad, they could only do so.

This little trouble was only for a while, remembering that the camellia oil sold so well this time at home, it took only two days to sell more than three hundred catties, and I soon became happy again.

"Father, I didn't expect our oil to be sold so easily and at a good price. This time our family will be able to pay back all the money owed to Dr. Lin, and we won't have to carry these debts year after year. " Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhou felt overjoyed. Poor families are most afraid of incurring debts. In the past, before they owed debts, their family life was quite decent, but once they owed debts, the hard earned money every year More than half of the few money has to be used to pay off debts, how can life be better.

Speaking of this, everyone felt a little emotional, especially Zhang Liangen, after taking a few puffs of dry cigarettes, he sighed: "Oh, the old lady's illness has really dragged her down. She has been away for so many years, and you still have to pay for it." After so many years, I have suffered for you."

Zhang Liangen's face was shrouded in the smoke he spit out, and he couldn't see clearly. Thinking of his wife who had been away for many years, his tone was somewhat sad.

"Dad, don't say that, this is what we should do, okay, okay, don't mention these things, we haven't counted the money yet, his dad, quickly take out the money bag, let's count and count I made some money this trip." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little sad, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly smoothed things over and brought the conversation to something that made people happy.

No matter how honest Zhang Youqing was, he also knew that Mrs. Zhou was diverting the conversation on purpose, so he quickly nodded and said, "Yes, don't mention the past, let's count the money." money bag.

Zhang Xing was the most impatient, jumped off the bench quickly, moved another square stool, put it in front of Zhang Youqing, and said with a smile, "Father, let me count for you." He looked at the money bag in his hand with bright eyes.

Seeing Zhang Xing's nasty expression, the others couldn't help laughing. Zhang Xing scratched his head, and moved aside embarrassingly, so as not to show that anxious look anymore.

Zhang Youqing opened the money bag with a smile, and fell on the square stool with a clatter. Immediately, the copper coins rolled away and scattered on the stool. broken silver.

(End of this chapter)