Chapter 45: Purchasing Household Goods - Oxcart
Shuiqing knew nothing about what happened in Shanshui Village.
Their small home belongs to Shanshui Village, but it is a short distance away from Shanshui Village, so no noise or excitement can reach them.
"Auntie, what are you doing?" Yan Qiu looked at Shui Qing curiously, not understanding why he had to cover the good leek roots in a bamboo tube.
The bamboo knots inside the bowl-thick bamboo tube have been opened, leaving only the topmost part to block light.
Shuiqing put eight in a row. Satisfied, he straightened up and gave instructions: "The leeks grown in this way are not green, but yellow and white. They taste more fresh and tender, and the scrambled eggs are delicious."
When the five children heard about scrambled eggs, their eyes brightened.
But anything fried with eggs is delicious. Does it make any difference whether the leeks are tender or not?
Shui Qing looked at five pairs of confused eyes, not knowing how to explain Lee Huang to a baby who had never seen the world.
Even if you describe it, they can't understand it.
She let herself go, "Forget it, I'll be able to eat it in ten or twenty days, and then you will know the difference."
Yan Qiu and the others didn’t ask any more questions. Anyway, whatever A Niang does is delicious!
They dug into the ground and dug holes.
"Aniang, what is this bag?" Xing Hui stared at the thing wrapped in dry leaves in his hand and asked.
Shui Qing answered confidently and without any guilt: "Hey, your dad brought it back yesterday and said that he met an old man selling vegetable seeds on the roadside. They were all his own, but they were mixed together and difficult to sell.
Your father thought that our family was always short of food, so he bought them all. "
When Xinghui heard that it was vegetable seeds, he had no doubts. He just frowned and asked, "How should I plant them?"
Shui Qing thought I could, but he put on a calm look on his face and said casually: "It's okay, let's scatter the rapeseed first and wait until it comes out."
She will know when it comes out!
When the time comes, we will eat those who can eat, transplant the seedlings when they need to be transplanted, and put up frameworks when they need to be put up.
The six people were busy in the vegetable field.
The place is large, the population is large, and now there are many types of vegetables, so of course you can grow as many as you can.
As for the vegetables, if you can’t finish them all, you can pickle them and dry them in the sun. You can never have too much.
The vegetable plot was hard to clean, and work continued until almost noon. Shui Qing went back to the kitchen to cook, leaving a few children to continue working on it.
The so-called kitchen is just a simple thatched roof. Instead of air leakage from all sides, the wind blows and blows, making it more cheerful than an open space.
There is no stove, but there is an extra stove hole, and the big iron pot is still placed on the raised stones.
Shui Qing has to be careful every time she cooks, for fear that the pot will be crooked, the stone will collapse, or the roof will collapse.
As she stirred the egg, vegetable, and noodle soup, she was thinking about whether Fan Jin's progress in Fucheng was going smoothly or not.
I came back a long time ago at this time yesterday.
However, today we have to discuss writing brushes and buy cattle and carts... It will take some time.
The gnocchi were floating in the big iron pot, and a gust of wind blew a lot of ash and two or three grass clippings inside.
Shui Qing thought silently in his heart: If you eat it if you are not clean, you will not get sick.
While using his hands and feet, he quickly fished out the grass clippings!
Nowadays, the medical level is underdeveloped. If you can avoid getting sick, you won’t get sick. If you can get sick less, you will get sick less often.
We still have to build a brick house, a large clean and bright kitchen, and a spacious yard.
Fruit trees and flowers were planted in the yard, and a grape trellis was set up. In the summer, I would lie under the grape trellis to enjoy the coolness, with ripe grapes falling into my mouth...
"Shui Qing, I'm back."
The clear and elegant voice with obvious joy interrupted Shui Qing's beautiful thoughts.
She raised her eyes and saw Fan Jin standing tall and tall in a long gown in front of her. His fair face was stained with a thin layer of blush, and his whole person exuded an aura of loneliness.
Uh, you are twenty-eight years old, how come you still have such an air of stupidity?
Fortunately, he will be in charge of education and dealing with students in the future, which will be relatively simple.
"What's the price of the brushes?" Shui Qing asked with concern.
Seeing that she did not feel the same joy as him when she saw him, Fan Jin felt an indescribable disappointment in his heart, but he quickly adjusted his mood and reported the results clearly: "The bookstore shopkeeper said that the quality of the brushes is excellent, as long as We have it, and it is also of this selling quality, and he wants it in large quantities.
The prices given were 130 fen for the small branch, 150 fen for the medium branch, and 180 fen for the large branch. I thought this price was pretty good, so I agreed. "
After saying that, he asked again anxiously: "What do you think?"
He wasn't very good at negotiating the price, and he didn't know whether the price met Shuiqing's expectations.
What Shui Qing thought was that bookstore owners were buying from them, and they would make money by selling them again. This was the purchase price.
It’s pretty good to have this purchase price.
Then he nodded in approval.
Fan Jin had been observing Shui Qing's expression. When he saw her nodding in approval, a relaxed smile appeared on her face. He pointed at the oxcart grazing not far behind him and continued to report: "One hundred and fifty brushes were sold for a total of twenty-three Two silver coins.
This ox was in its prime, capable of pulling five to six hundred kilograms, and it cost thirteen taels of silver;
There happens to be a finished product on the cart. I spent one tael of silver and have nine taels left. Here, here it is. "
Fan Jin handed over the money as a matter of course, and Shui Qing accepted the money as a matter of course.
Although their deposits only increased by 9 taels, they purchased a very valuable asset today - an ox cart!
Shui Qing was very satisfied.
The price of the brushes was better than she expected, which means that in seven days, three hundred brushes can earn forty-six taels of silver. If nothing unexpected happens, maybe the house can be built before winter comes.
Bah, bah, bah, you can't say nothing unexpected, often nothing unexpected will happen!
Sure enough, the next moment, Fan Jin said worriedly: "Shuiqing, I saw my elder brother and cousin in the city."
Shuiqing: ..... Isn't that Fan Qian and Fan Damu, the smartest man in Shanshui Village.
"They were not close in the past. I suspect they went to the city for us." After Fan Jin finished speaking, he felt that he was a little mean and made random guesses about others.
After all, everyone can go to the city, and it is normal for the elder brother and cousin to go.
Shuiqing would not think it was normal.
It takes two cents to enter the city, which is not easy for rural farmers.
Unless there is something very important, the people in Shanshui Village will only spend two cents before the New Year when they need to go to the city to buy New Year goods.
Now is not the New Year or the festival, Fan Qian and Fan Damu go to the capital together, Fan Jin is not overthinking.
She looked at Fan Jin and told him to be prepared: "They can't take away the chicken head rice, but your "classmate acquisition" will be exposed after they ask about it."
"I've thought about it, and I'll just say it's a lie, just in case someone wants to steal our acquisition business." Fan Jin pursed his lips, feeling a little sad.
Unexpectedly, the one who held him back and hated him the most was his own elder brother and cousin.