Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 4 Use your brain to make a small fortune
Chapter 4 Use your brain to make a small fortune

Since it was his parents who begged him, he couldn't say anything else. He waited for three years, and the county magistrate's uncle didn't intend to go home to take care of him, so he felt that he was being tricked by the county magistrate.He has a bad temper in the first place, and he doesn't have that much respect for the head arrester and the county magistrate. The county magistrate and the head arrester usually feel ashamed and will give him face in some things. Therefore, he is well-known in Jinsha County, and everyone We all know that there is a Tian catcher in the county government who is excellent in martial arts and is not easy to mess with.

The second uncle drank alone, and the fourth uncle of the grandpa's family came through the door. Liu Tao thanked him for yelling at her and Jin Yan when the eldest cousin's master and servant beat her, so she let him drink with the second uncle on the kang.Liu Tao heard what her second uncle said to her father just now: "Now the Qinglang Kingdom in the North has invaded the border again, and several of my comrades have gone to the war. The war is not optimistic..." Small countries in ancient times often The territory is at war, and Liu Tao doesn't care about state affairs.

The scolding of the grandparents in the yard became more and more outrageous, and then they got into a fight with their mother, asking their mother to compensate them for their pension money, and if they didn't pay them, they would be driven to move out, and they could live there if they wanted to.The old man was beating others and driving the family away. The mother was crying in anger. Liu Tao also came out of the room to argue with them. Seeing Liu Tao's eloquence, the aunt also came to grab her and wanted to tear her mouth open. In her previous life, Liu Tao was afraid of her who had practiced Wing Chun. Since she couldn't make moves in public, she hit her with a head hammer, and immediately knocked Auntie on her back.

The second uncle was getting more and more outrageous in the house, and some neighbors came over to persuade the fight to watch the fun. The second uncle threw the chopsticks open the door and went into the yard.The dark-faced second uncle was wearing the uniform of a policeman, and when he opened the door he yelled, "Stop it all, the young ones are ignorant, and the old ones are also ignorant?"

This sentence scolded Liu Tao's grandparents. Grandparents raised their heads and saw the second uncle. They shivered and said in their hearts: "Why didn't you see when he arrived? If you know he is here, kill him!" Are you not here to make trouble?"

Although she was muttering in her heart, but her mouth was not forgiving, grandma first said sternly: "They don't respect the elderly, even if they go to the county magistrate, they can't justify it."

The aunt also said: "That's right, if you have good things, you only know how to sell them for money, and you don't know how to put filial piety first. It's not impossible to live a life. If you sell money, you can also spend some money for the elderly. Is it too vicious?"

Grandpa pretended to pull grandma, and persuaded softly: "Come home, old woman, we are all one family. What can we do if we eat less and eat less? There is no need to make such a clear distinction. Besides, old lady The two families are also sensible, they won't enjoy themselves and watch us suffer..."

The second uncle was not interested in taking care of their housework. He just blamed them for disturbing Jiu Xing and saw his sister's family being angry, so he came to stop them. He just said impatiently: "Who wants to take care of your things?" Break things, go out and quarrel with me, don't stay in this yard! I finally came here once, and let people have a good meal?"

Grandma saw that the second uncle didn't blame them for bullying, and she felt relieved a lot. The aunt also saw the way, and she was thinking about the elder brother's daughter marrying Jin Yang instead of Liu Tao. Just now, grandma suggested that Liu Tao's family move Let's go, she very much agrees, if Liu Tao's house moves away, away from Jin Yang's house, Er Ya, the eldest brother's daughter, will be able to take advantage of it.Thinking of this, she said: "Since your second child sold a lot of money, should you give half of it to the old man for the elderly? If you don't take the money, just listen to the mother, you can move away."

Liu Tao's father is also a bit bloody. After the Chinese New Year, he doesn't want his family to move, even if he moves, he has nowhere to go. Hearing what the elder sister said, he immediately retorted: "Eldest sister, thank you for being able to speak out, what have you done to your parents all year round? , I give two hundred catties of grain every year and one hundred copper coins per month, and that year was more than one or two taels of silver, why did you let my family move out..."

"I said second child, are you good at comparing me? I'm a married girl, and I can't manage my own family affairs..."

Liu Tao caught her aunt's words at the right time: "Auntie, you are a married aunt, and you can't take care of your own family affairs, so why come to take care of our affairs? We sold the money and you have money." Does it matter?"

"You son of a bitch, you think I'm willing to take care of it. Isn't it catching up today? If you sell money, you should use part of it to honor the elderly!"

"Auntie, if you catch up today, you can't mess with your grandparents to ask for money. Your family has a big business in the town. Why don't you be filial to your grandparents when you earn money? How many taels of silver did you bring to them today?"

"You, can you control it?" Auntie felt that Liu Tao was very different this time from before. In the past, she would cry when she stared at Liu Tao, but this time her little mouth is too troublesome.

"Okay, what should I do? If you want to keep arguing, go out and quarrel!" The second uncle yelled impatiently.

They didn't dare to offend the second uncle, so they went out of the door cursing, and their parents ignored them. They saw that no one was talking to them outside the door, so they walked home bored.The fourth master hated Liu Tao's grandma, and he didn't go out to watch their quarrel just now. However, he ate half a plate of dried shrimp while he was in the house. He knew that dried black wolf fish was poisonous, but he didn't dare to try it. a mouthful.Liu Tao has long known that he is a small farmer who loves to take advantage.

They quarreled in vain for a long time but didn't get any good. When they returned home, the dried shrimps given by Jin Yang's mother were snatched up by the big fat Erya and Liugang Liutong's children from the third family's family when she went to Liutao's house. The angry aunt was in vain, so she could only scold her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaofeng, for being heartless and useless to watch over her own things.

The few people quarreled so dryly that they didn't get half a copper coin, and they were extremely unhappy, and the three of them immediately continued to plot.After a while, Fatty's parents also joined in, saying that they forced Liu Tao's family to move out so that the 12-year-old Fatty could make room for his daughter-in-law.It would be much better for Erya to marry Jin Yang from the landlord's family than Liu Tao to marry Jin Yang. It would be better if their family moved away.Even if Liu Tao's family doesn't leave, when Liu Tao's second uncle leaves, no one will protect her and she can still get money.The aunt said: "It's best to borrow the fishing net from Jinyang's family. My family can use it to catch shrimps all day long. That way, I can eat them for a long time. I will take some and put them in the grocery store to exchange for money." .Did you eat the dried shrimp? How exciting, that's the best appetizer..."

Jin Yang’s family has a fishing net, which was bought by his father when he was young. Although the villagers envy them for catching shrimps, it is troublesome to make the meshes of the fishing nets, and there are no professional personnel who can make them. They want to buy ready-made ones that have not been sold yet. .Grandma Liutao has already sensed the business opportunities for shrimps. Like the villagers, she suffers from the lack of fishing nets.

Liu Tao finally met a couple who knew some important affairs of the country, so she asked her second uncle many questions that she didn't understand.The second uncle answered Liu Tao one by one: Now is the fifth emperor of Daqing Kingdom, named Fuzong.Isn't this the new year?It is Fuzong's 25 years.

In the afternoon, the second uncle went back after eating and drinking, and his mother packed some dried shrimp for him to take back to grandma.My aunt didn't go back to town today, but stayed at my grandfather's house. For some reason, my grandparents' family never came over to make trouble.

In the evening, the son of the third uncle's family, Liu Gang and Liu Tong, came to visit. Liu Gang was as big as his younger brother Liu Mao, and Liu Tong was as big as a willow branch. They usually get along well when they play together.Seeing that my nephew is here, the New Year's candies are gone, and my mother just took out the grilled fish fillets left over from dinner for them to eat.The two children who never knew what grilled fish slices were, this time they opened foreign meat, and the two brothers were happy to eat, so they repeated what they heard from their grandparents during the day.

What, my aunt, grandparents, uncle, and aunt are plotting against my family, and my mother is sure that the two nephews will not talk nonsense, so I can't help shaking with anger, and I have to go to them to reason with them.

Liu Tao held back her mother: "Mom, if you do this, won't you sell Liugang and Liutong? You don't have to worry, we will all come up with a plan to deal with it at night..." My mother always Dad was right when he thought about it, so he suppressed the fire.

The result of their discussion is to adopt a delaying strategy. On the surface, they promise to give money to the elderly, but only when they have this kind of income. In this way, the house can be temporarily stable, but it is necessary to find a house or find a suitable foundation as soon as possible, and then save money to build the house.What Liu Tao meant was to find a transitional vacant house first, and move out if she and her grandparents got stuck, so as not to be caught blind if they forced her to move out when she was in the same situation as her grandparents.The fishing nets also had to be told to Brother Jin Yang’s family not to borrow them, no matter who they were.As for the marriage with Brother Jin Yang, Liu Tao didn't have to worry, she had already booked Brother Jin Yang in her previous life, so she was completely at ease with her brother Jin Yang.

In the early morning of the next day, my parents took the money to compensate their grandparents, and Liu Tao also took time to find Jin Yang's house and told him and her mother-in-law and father-in-law that this was the case.They all have the mentality of small landlords, and they value the fishing net as a money-making tool more than anything else. They also know that Liu Tao’s family sells shrimps, and they sell them for five taels of silver in a few days. They usually rent out an acre of land for a year. If you don't come back for a couple of days, this is a good way to make money without spending money.

When Liu Tao got home, her mother just came back to get the money: "Mom, didn't you agree to give them three hundred copper coins? Why do you want more?"

"It's not your aunt's shit-stirring stick. She still insisted on asking for a tael of silver. It wasn't until your third uncle interceded that I agreed to give you four hundred copper coins..."

"Ah, the third uncle's family is pretty good. My aunt is not a good person. But, mom, four hundred is four hundred. You can tell them that since you give four hundred a month, what else will you pay?" There is no need to give food or something."

"Don't give food, is that possible? If you don't want to give it, you can not give it?" Liu Tao thought about it, and bowed her head speechlessly.

"Tao'er, your uncle is looking for rope and bags, are they really going to borrow fishing nets?"

"You don't have to worry about it, they can't borrow it! Brother Jinyang's mother loves the fishing net, and they want to borrow it, but there is no way!"

Sure enough, the whole family excitedly went to borrow the fishing nets, and the grandma bit the bullet and went despite the quarrel with Liu Tao's mother-in-law a few days ago. The mother-in-law certainly didn't look good when she saw Liu Tao's grandma, so they talked nicely. A big basket came back with a touch of ashes.My aunt stayed overnight last night in order to get back dozens of catties of shrimp and sell them for money. Seeing that the fishing net was not borrowed, she went out to discuss with Jinyang's mother in person.

"I said his (Jin Yang) aunt, it's not that I don't lend it to you, just like your old woman, she fought with me for shrimp a few days ago, do you think I can lend it to him? Today you come to borrow the fishing net as usual I can't refute your face, but why don't you come first, if you come first, I don't know that you are lent to their house, so I will give it to you. But you are later, I can give you the things from my house Do enemies use it?"

"Since it doesn't work, I won't force it, but do you still have mesh at home, can we take it back and make one ourselves?"

"No, after they made the fishing net that day, the remaining pieces of net were not good, so I burned all the broken pieces of net as firewood."

In the end, the aunt also returned home without feathers, and the family did not give up. Seeing that the mesh of the fishing net was similar to the gauze net of the mosquito net, the aunt came up with an idea and proposed to find two mosquito nets belonging to grandparents and dismantle them to make fishing nets.Relying on the memory of the Jinyang family’s fishing nets, I did not have a suitable bamboo pole, so I cut down a tree trunk similar to the bamboo pole to replace it.After finally tinkering, the fishing net was launched into the water. The mesh of the gauze tent was too small to filter the water very slowly. The buoyancy of the tree trunk was not as good as that of the bamboo pole. Two bricks were tied to counterweight in a mockery, causing the fishing net to be caught in sludge. It was a bit difficult for four people to pull the rope together. In addition, the size of the fishing nets they made was too different from that of Liu Tao. Enough to cook a plate.Xiazi didn't catch much, but destroyed two mosquito nets, and the angry family complained to each other.The aunt got angry and led her daughter back to the town.

After the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather gradually warmed up, and the farm work in the fields was still unavailable, so the two families devoted their energy to the work of catching shrimps. Liu Tao's mother also joined in, and her father only focused on sales. .This time, because it is not the Chinese New Year, the shrimps are not easy to sell. They can only be sold for half of the price before the sale. If you want to sell them at a good price, you have to go to the county or prefecture.Because there are many downhill sections all the way to the county seat, my father went to the county seat to save effort.Because there are many rich people in Fucheng County, fresh shrimp can be sold at a high price.But that is too hard. If you are not willing to spend [-] copper coins to hire a vehicle, you have to push a small cart to drive dozens of catties of shrimp to the county seat.Besides, the shrimps were caught and kept at home overnight, and the next day I got up early and went to the county seat. When I arrived, it was close to the afternoon, and the shrimps were not so fresh.

Liu Tao refused to let her father go to the county seat, and suggested to her mother-in-law, "Grandma, it would be inappropriate to sell shrimp like this. Why don't we form a joint stock? If we make dried shrimp or smashed shrimp, we can sell them at a good price." , It is estimated that the price is higher than selling fresh shrimp, just need some labor and firewood. Well, a catty of shrimp sells for fifteen copper coins, and if you catch more than 100 catties a day, it is 100 copper coins. Shrimp like this, probably Six to seven catties of fresh shrimp yields one catty of dried shrimp, seven catties of fresh shrimp sells for more than [-] copper coins, one catty of shrimp should sell for two hundred copper coins, and one hundred catties a day can produce nearly thirteen catties of shrimp, and the sold copper coins It can be converted into more than two taels of silver."

Seeing that they were all excited, Liu Tao added fire: "If you can make all those black wolf fish into dried fish, eat them grilled or steamed, you can also braise them in brown sauce, and it's all money!"

I don't know, the profit of selling shrimps is higher than that of selling fresh shrimps. This proposal was immediately approved by the two.Changgong built a large stove in the yard, put a big pot on it, laid a reed mat, and began to cook shrimps. Jin Yang considered that adults helped to pull the net this time, so he remodeled the fishing net by nearly twice the size. Except Jin Yang's older brother, Jin Sha, who doesn't work, even Liu Mao and Liu Zhi join in to pick up shrimps.

In order to ensure the quality of this shrimp, the head of each shrimp is removed, and the sand thread must be pulled out in advance.Dried shrimps that are [-]% dried in the sun have to be bagged and shredded. When the shreds are too busy, the dried shrimps are bagged and sold directly when the shrimps are sold.When throwing the shrimps, the family and the long-term workers take turns to fight, and then use a dustpan to shake out the shrimps, and the rest are pure shrimps.It is a bit troublesome to have so many extra processes in this way, but in order to make money, this difficulty can still be overcome.

Three days later, the yard of Jin Yang's house was covered with reed mats to dry cooked shrimps. The space in the yard was obviously not enough, so some of the cooked shrimps had to be moved to the yard of Liu Tao's house to dry. Grandma and Fatty Hearing the smell, he became a frequent visitor to Liu Tao's house, and even lost a lot of food and money, Liu Tao had to invite her mother-in-law to watch, and they would restrain themselves a little with her mother-in-law around.When the mother-in-law stopped the grandma who brought the dried shrimps in a basin, the grandma took out the killing stick that told them to move. The angry mother-in-law asked Liu Tao to call in a long-term worker and stopped drying the dried shrimps at Liu Tao's house. Instead, he moved these reed mats and dried shrimps to the roof of his house, so that gluttons like them couldn't even see a shrimp hair.When grandparents saw so many dried shrimps, they roughly estimated their production. They couldn't eat anything, and they couldn't help gnashing their teeth, just wanting to see when they will sell the dried shrimps that day, so that they can have a good time. Gangzi took the opportunity to get some money.But after more than half a month of monitoring, they didn't find any intention of selling them.

The shrimp heads and shrimp bran of these shrimps are leftovers that can be fed to pigs, and people can also eat them in this food-scarce age, but the shrimp guns of the shrimp heads are too hard to chew and prick their mouths.Liu Tao picks some clean shrimp bran and grinds it into shrimp bran powder with a small stone mill, and mixes it with cornmeal to make pancakes or 尜尜 soup. The ingredients are also not bad from shrimp meat.

Because the mother-in-law was afraid that it would not be safe to store the dried shrimps at Liu Tao's house, and that Liu Tao's grandma who loved to take advantage would take it by force, so good things could not be stored in Liu Tao's house.However, shrimp bran is not considered a good thing, so they are separated for their own use. Liu Tao’s family does not raise pigs, so they took back two bags, one big and one small. Dad took a big bag away.

(End of this chapter)