Chapter 174: Grabbing the cub (please vote for me and recommend me)

Chapter 174: Grabbing the cub (please vote for me and recommend me)

"Unenlightened elm head!"

Aunt Wang was so angry that she wanted to hit her son with a spatula. "Er Ni is already ten years old, and she will soon be able to talk to her husband's family. If you don't get along with her, your good wife will belong to your husband's family."

"Mom, you better wake up. You don't know what's going on with our family. Why are you marrying the Jiang family?"

Wang Erlang didn't want to talk to his wife about useless things, so he picked up a piece of hot bread, switched his left and right hands twice, and walked out of the kitchen while eating.

Instead of dreaming about unrealistic dreams like my mother, I would like to have more practical ideas. When you make a lot of money, are you still worried about not being able to find a good wife?

There are quite a lot of people who are as thoughtful as Aunt Wang. In the past few days, the Jiang family's door has almost been broken down.

Some arranged marriage arrangements with Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan, while others went directly to Jiang Erlang to arrange matchmaking with Er Ni.

There are a few that are even more outrageous, they actually want to kiss Jiang Jie and Jiang Wu who are over four years old.

Chun Niang was speechless and politely declined the seven aunts and eight aunts who came to her door.

For some unknown reason, no one mentioned Yingbao.

Ying Bao has been very busy recently. She is studying medicine and practicing martial arts. She also has to go to the wild with her master to identify herbal medicines.

Many medicinal materials can be found in the countryside, such as thistle, barbata, Bupleurum, mint, pinellia, isatis, Pulsatilla and so on.

Each has different effects. For example, thistle can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation, Bupleurum and Radix root can treat typhoid and colds, Pulsatilla can cure postpartum blood deficiency and diarrhea in women, and Cat's Claw can treat sore throat.

After some identification of medicines, Yingbao realized that the wild herbs and vegetables she usually saw were all medicinal materials.

Including some trees, fruits, flowers, etc., each has its own curative effect.

Yingbao used to use a shovel to dig for medicine, but later stopped digging and only carefully recorded the names of weeds.

Combined with the prescriptions she had memorized before, she felt like she had entered a large natural medicine library.

Every grass in the wild is medicine, and every wild vegetable is also medicine. If you prepare medicine in the future, you can get it locally without going to the drug store to buy it.

"Eh? Look at that hen!" Erni, who was studying medicine together, pointed to a place and shouted.

Yingbao looked up and saw that her reed chicken was fighting with a wild duck, and the feathers on its neck were exploding.

The flat-billed mallard ducks were no match for the fat, sharp-billed chickens, but they did not run away. They surrounded the reed chickens and quacked angrily.

Under the reed chicken were caged several fluffy ducklings, as many as eight.

It turned out that this reed chicken actually robbed the ducklings of the wild ducks, and even gently took the insects in its mouth for the ducklings to eat.

The little ducklings are also very attached to it. They follow the reed chicken wherever it goes.

The mother duck was unwilling to have her baby taken away, and kept rushing forward to try to snatch it back.

It's a pity that the duckling doesn't follow the mother duck, but sticks to the mother reed chicken step by step.

Everyone was shocked, including Ying Bao.

This hen is too domineering.

Not only did he snatch the young wild ducks, he also took them home.

The mother duck followed her to the door of Jiang's house. When she saw her child being brought in by that damn big fat chicken, she squawked angrily outside and finally had no choice but to fly away unwillingly.

Chun Niang was very happy when she saw that her reed chicken had brought back a group of ducklings. She immediately grabbed a handful of yellow rice and fed it to the ducklings.

Since then, Jiang Sanlang's family has gained a group of ducklings.

In mid-April, the fruits in Jiang Sanlang’s orchard gradually mature.

The branches are covered with apricots and peaches, so tender and yellow that one can drool at the sight.

This made Jiang Quan very happy.

With the consent of his little cousin, he picked several baskets of apricots and peaches and transported them to the market to sell, but the results were not satisfactory.

After a bandit attack in Chuanhe Town, life was very tight for every family, and few were willing to spend money to buy snacks.

Yes, in the eyes of the villagers, these fruits are just snacks that are not very hungry. Only pregnant women and children will eat them.

Most villagers would rather spend two pennies on a black-faced steamed bun than one pennie on two apricots to try.

This made Jiang Quan very frustrated.

Yingbao picked an apricot and took a bite. It was sweet and a little sour. It was more delicious than last year's apricots.

The peaches are also good, big and sweet, with a strong peach fragrance, and they are much more delicious than last year's peaches.

Is this the credit of Tongmuquan?

A while ago, she used Pupil Spring to water all the plants at home, including the pepper seedlings and grape seedlings.

The crops that had been watered by the spring grew so fast that she was too scared to water them again.

After that, I would occasionally water the vegetables in the vegetable garden. Because the Jiang family has a large population and the two martial arts masters, Zhang Meng and Xu Kun, also have large appetites, the vegetables are consumed quickly and the seedlings must be promoted.

The apple trees planted by Yingbao on the brown soil are growing faster and are now more than one foot tall. They seem to be still growing.

It's just that those apple trees didn't bloom and bear fruit. Instead, they stretched their branches and leaves wildly and grew upwards. It is estimated that they will reach the top of the cave in a few days.

The cantaloupes planted with them have matured and are very sweet and delicious.

Ying Bao borrowed some of the cantaloupes from the vegetable garden and distributed some to her family and her master.

Master Xiao Zhenniang liked it very much and lamented that her son and husband were not happy.

Sister Wen also likes it very much, but she is reserved and won't say it out loud.

"There are so many fruits that can't be sold and eaten. Alas, it's such a waste." Jiang Quan sighed as he looked at the fruit trees.

Ying Bao didn't care, "If you can't finish it, make it into preserved fruits. My second wife told me yesterday that apricots are the most delicious preserved fruits."

Jiang Quan's eyes lit up: "Can you really make preserved fruits?"

"Yes, why don't you ask Second Auntie, and when the preserved fruits are ready and sold, the money will be divided equally between the three of us."

Yingbao picked another peach and took a bite. It was fresh and sweet and really delicious.

It’s incredible that no one buys such a delicious fruit.

Jiang Quan ran to find his second aunt Yanru, "Second aunt, Yingbao said you can make preserved fruit, is that true?"

Yan Ru nodded: "Making preserved fruit is not difficult, but it requires sugar. For ten pounds of apricots, you need at least two pounds of icing sugar."

"Ah? So many." Jiang Quan scratched his head. This is a bit difficult to handle.

As we all know, sugar is more expensive than salt.

At present, the cheapest one is brown sugar, but brown sugar is not very sweet, not as sweet as sugar sand and icing sugar. Jiang Quan has eaten candied fruit before. It is so sweet that it is definitely not made of brown sugar.

The icing sugar costs 60 cents per pound, and two pounds of icing sugar makes ten pounds of apricots. After the dried fruit is dried, it is estimated that there is not even a pound.

This is too uneconomical.

Jiang Quan left dejectedly.

I found my little cousin again and complained: "It's not cost-effective. My second aunt said that for ten pounds of apricots, at least two pounds of icing sugar should be used, otherwise it won't taste good. Two pounds of icing sugar costs more than 100 yuan, and in the end I can only make one pound of preserved apricots." , how can we make money from this?”

Yingbao asked: "How much does a pound of preserved apricots cost in the market?"

Jiang Quan blinked, thought for a while and said, "I haven't bought any preserved apricots, but I have bought candied fruits. A portion of six candied fruits costs fifteen yuan."

Six candied red dates cost at least 2 taels. That is to say, 2 taels of candied fruits cost fifteen cents, so a pound of candied fruits costs one hundred and twenty cents.

And making one pound of preserved fruit requires more than 100 yuan of sugar, not counting the cost of apricots.

No matter how you look at it, it is a loss-making transaction.

"The preserved fruits contain stones, so they must be weighed. The preserved apricots have no stones, so the price will naturally be higher." Ying Bao said, "Why don't we make a little less and try it, and if it doesn't work, we can eat it at home."

Jiang Quan reluctantly agreed, "Okay, let's try it first."