Nongmen Merchant Girl

Chapter 20 Business Opportunities
"Hey, you damn girl, you are so stingy when you eat a peanut, big brother, look at how you educate your children, you are so rude." She stood on the edge of the ground and said, her loud voice could be heard far away .

Xu Ru really can't stand this idiot woman, but she said that her sister is not well-bred, so how can she let her go.

"My daughter, I know that I need you, a crazy woman, to talk nonsense all day long, so hurry up and go!" The father looked at her with disgust, what in his hand?He knocked his head hard on the ground, making a loud noise.

"You, you actually called me a crazy woman. We are relatives after all. Why, you still want to take it? You can't hit me on the head!" She was a little afraid of her father, but she still said forcefully.

"Second Aunt, let me call you Second Aunt, which means that I still recognize you as a relative, but I recognize Second Uncle. If you have nothing to do, hurry up and do your business, don't delay our work!" Xu Ru stood up and said to her.

She took a handful of peanuts and put them in the basket for her second aunt. "Here, Second Aunt, eat slowly while walking, and be careful where you step!"

She stood there in a daze, this dead girl was throwing stones at herself a few days ago, but today she gave herself peanuts, she couldn't figure it out.She smiled dryly, and when she saw that no one was paying attention to her, she walked away with a shake.

"Hmph, I heard that Shu Xiu, who is Da Zhuang from her family, will go to school next year with the dowry money given by the man who is betrothed by Sister Chunmei. The school in this town costs eight taels of silver a year for Shu Xiu, otherwise where did their family come from?" Money!" Zhaodi said bitterly while picking up peanuts.Chunmei is her eldest daughter, but she is not her own. The second aunt was married after the second uncle, and the previous second aunt died because of Chunmei's dystocia.

"You don't know, sister Chunmei is only 14 years old, how could she say kiss so early." Zhaodi had an angry expression on her face.

Xu Ru smiled helplessly, this Zhao Di was really angry.Who doesn't have hard-to-recite sutras?

The sun was getting hotter and hotter. Xu Ru saw that his father had already taken off his coat and was only wearing a waistcoat inside. Sweat dripped down his forehead.But the peanuts were not half dug.

"Father, drink some water and rest for a while." She raised the clay pot and handed it to her father.

"Well, okay, fourth girl, go back and replace your second sister, your body just doesn't show any good or bad in the sun." Father Xu said with concern when he saw Xu Ru's face was red from the sun.

"Wait, I'll go back later when the second sister comes to deliver the food." She wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at her father with a smile.

Not long after, Yinhua brought lunch, pickled vegetable pancakes, and vegetable soup.After everyone finished eating, Xu Ru went back with the bowls and chopsticks.She thought that there should be a lot of extra peanuts besides extracting the oil to eat by herself, so what should I do with the extra peanuts to become her first pot of gold.

She walked and thought, calmly, and there were many recipes about peanuts in her mind.

Skimming each recipe one by one in her mind, ok, let's make spiced boiled peanuts and frosted peanuts!
It should also be a good business opportunity to cook fresh peanuts directly into spiced peanuts, or dry and fry peanuts to make spiced peanut snacks.

When she got home, she asked her mother about Peanut.In this era, apart from extracting peanuts for oil, a family is reluctant to eat peanuts as a snack.After all, everyone is very poor, and peanuts are relatively expensive.It is related to the production and harvest of a family in the first quarter.

This kind of fried peanuts, frosted peanuts, and spiced peanuts, mother has never eaten.She asked her mother about five-spice powder again.

Mother has never heard of the five-spice powder she mentioned. Generally, the common seasonings at home are ginger and fennel, which are called Huaixiang here, but they are all eaten leaves for seasoning, and there is pepper, which can also be picked in the mountains. arrive.When she mentioned star anise, cinnamon bark, and cloves, her mother had heard of them. These are relatively common herbs, and they should be available in pharmacies.

Xu Ru plans to use the existing seasoning to make boiled peanuts first. Tomorrow is the [-]th. There will be a market on April [-]th. There will be many people in the town. Tomorrow I will go to the town to see if I can sell it. The fermented bean curd I made last time It should be edible too, take it out to try the taste at night.

Father Xu and Sister Yinhua didn't come back from the field until the sun was about to set in the afternoon. Xu Ru hurriedly brought water for washing his face, and also handed over the warm boiled water prepared in advance.

This piece of land harvested a total of more than 200 catties of peanuts, and the remaining one is estimated to be able to harvest about [-] catties.Fortunately, my father pushed the trolley there, otherwise the three big bags of peanuts would not be able to resist.

Xu's father poured the peanuts into the main room to dry, and then went to eat. Xu Ru washed most of the peanuts in a bucket, poured them into the pot, added water to cover the peanuts, and put the prepared Huaixiang leaves and peppercorns into the pot. Go in, cover the pot and start cooking peanuts.Halfway through she added some more salt to the pot.

Half an hour later, the fragrance from the pot attracted all the little treasures who were playing outside. Xu Ru picked up a peanut with chopsticks, squeezed the shell and it started to soften, so she stopped the fire and covered the pot. Let the embers simmer a bit more.

"Fourth sister, are you cooking peanuts? Can I eat them?" Xiao Bao came in from the outside, hugged Xu Ru's arm and began to act like a baby.

"You, I told you to eat less pancakes when I was eating, but I didn't listen. Look, your belly has turned into a balloon." She pinched Abao's face and smiled.

"That's the cake made by Fourth Sister, it's delicious, um, stinky tofu is also delicious, Fourth Sister, what is a balloon?" A Bao looked at her with round eyes, full of innocence.

"Balloons are round and soft, and the air inside is just like A Bao's belly." She pointed to A Bao's round belly, "You should eat slowly in the future, or you can eat more slowly in the future." Turned into a pig."

She also just chopped the Huaixiang leaves, roasted the peppercorns and ground them into noodles, mixed them in pickles, mixed them with cornmeal to make pickles cakes, and the whole family said they were delicious.Especially fermented bean curd, it goes well with rice and has a special taste, which makes people very appetizing.

So she is more confident about going to the market tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Xu Ru followed her father and her second sister Yinhua to the county town with a large jar of boiled peanuts and a small jar of fermented bean curd.They came to the street selling food and drink, and found an empty seat to put down their things.At this time, the sun had just risen, and there were vendors who were sorting things out and not opening their stalls. Not far away, there was a steamed bun seller, with white gas rising from the stove. From time to time, passers-by bought two buns, and there was also a wonton seller. , selling biscuits.

Father Xu put the things away and said that he would go to see an acquaintance first, and then buy some food, so he asked Xu Ru and the others to sell peanuts here first, and then waited for him to come back together when they were done.

(End of this chapter)