Crossing the Homeland

Chapter 41

"Sister, mother asked me to ask why you guys have been hanging around for so long!" Xiao Changsheng, who was five or six years old, raised his head with an unhappy expression on his face.

Xia Junyan took out a piece of candy and gave it to him: "Okay, it's our fault. You tell the aunt that we will go up the mountain." After thinking for a while, she said, "Do my sister a favor, these candies are all yours of."

Changsheng stared at the small cloth bag in Xia Junyan's hand, swallowed hard, and said loudly, "Say it!"

Xia Junyan said: "If there is a man about seventeen or eighteen years old in the village, who is slightly fat and well-dressed, please help my sister pay more attention. He is Cheng Yuan's classmate. If he goes to Cheng's house, he must pay attention to it. Let me tell my sister."

Changsheng blinked, patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Er Gouzi and I are going to the village gate to herd cattle right now, we must keep an eye on it."

Xia Junyan nodded, seeing that there was nothing wrong, she went up the mountain with Xiaoyu.They didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they came to the strong man's cabin.Put everything back together, and start working after a short rest.

In addition to the spicy sauce that came out of the cottage before, Xia Junyan also plans to try several other miso sauces.In modern times, to see if a family knows how to cook, and whether they pay attention to cooking at home, generally speaking, it is enough to see if the family has their own pickled sauces and pickles.The better the cooking skills, the more people like to study cooking, and they usually have their own special sauces and pickles.Xia Junyan's advantage is that she can stand on the shoulders of giants to study the formula, trying to recall the easy-to-make and delicious food that she has eaten before.

"These things can be sold for twenty yuan?" Xiaoyu helped to dry the spices and Chinese herbal medicines for seasoning. "It can't cost ten yuan for a jar."

Xia Junyan said: "We are drying and pickling here. It took so much time, and we will help transport it to the town later. These are all money, and they must be counted."

"But we didn't spend any money." Xiaoyu was still puzzled.

Xia Junyan thought for a while, and explained: "After making the sauce, we need to spend time transporting it to the town. At that time, if you embroider at home, the embroidery work can be sold in the town. But when you transport it You can’t do embroidery when the sauce is on the market. It can be seen that when you transport the sauce to the town, you will lose a share of embroidery work. Of course, this money must be counted in your sauce, otherwise you will lose money. Already!"

Xiaoyu nodded ignorantly.It seems to understand and it seems not to understand, but what A Xia said seems to make sense...

"A Xia actually means that twenty coins is not expensive?"

"Of course it's not expensive!" Xia Junyan sighed, "Actually, we're just earning hard money. We hope to make a good impression on shopkeeper Sun, so that we can continue to receive jobs in Fujulou in the future."

In the following days, Xia Junyan and Xiaoyu almost lived on the mountain, and Uncle An would come to visit every now and then and bring some ingredients to the two.Changsheng didn't come once, so Lu Chenshan should be treated very strictly by shopkeeper Lu.Xia Junyan was so busy that she gradually forgot about Lu Chenshan.

At the end of the month, the ten jars of sauces were finally ready, and they carried them down the mountain with Xiaoyu.For the sake of safety, Mrs. An specially asked Uncle An to drive the ox cart to send the two of them to the town.

Xia Junyan saw that there was a big burden in Xiaoyu's hands, and she couldn't help but wonder: "Is this a fake embroidery? So much embroidery?"

Xiaoyu said with a smile: "I gave my brother some clothes and some food. He eats a lot, and my mother is afraid that he will be laughed at by the husband if he doesn't have enough to eat."

Xia Junyan's face has almost recovered these days.But just in case, every time she came to town, she tried to make herself as messy as possible.Together with Xiaoyu, they carried the bamboo baskets to Jufulou.

(End of this chapter)