Jiangyu Mufeng

According to Du Jianfeng's instructions, He Xuelian bought a lot of soybeans in the village during this period of time. Soybeans are really common in their place, because every household grows some beans, and some of them sell tofu in the town. There will be some soy milk and bean curd for food. Apart from this, she can't think of anything else that can be made from soy beans, but He Xuelian naturally knows that her son is different. She believes in her own My son must be able to come up with a lot of fresh ideas.

In fact, Du Jianfeng really came up with a lot of ideas. During this period of time, he was spending money everywhere. The money used to sell pastries was basically used to build some furniture one after another. Now there are basically three main sleepers. The furniture in the room is complete, but the kitchen and bathroom are just empty shells, the stove has not been opened, the well has not been dug, and there are many things that are not perfect in the huge house, let alone wanting to live in the back of the house. Build a small workshop.

As far as Du Jianfeng knows, yuba should have appeared in the Tang Dynasty or earlier. Although there is no clear record in the history of the dynasty he lives in now, it is not too different from the Tang and Song Dynasties in ancient China. There are many, and the food culture is relatively similar, but there are some similarities with minor differences.

But now, he has never seen or heard of yuba in any place, so he can try to make it, and soybeans can also be made into soybean paste, which is also delicious when used for dipping. The money can earn hundreds of Wen a day, which is enough to make some small furniture every day, but it is far from enough to expand the house. Du Jianfeng decided to start with lo-mei.

It's just a pity that peanuts and chili peppers are exotic species. He has no way to travel overseas to get these seeds back now, so he has to replace them with peppercorns. Fortunately, apart from peppers, other seasonings are also good. Complete, the lo mei made out is still delicious.

During this period of time, Du Jianfeng made [-]% preparations for making lo-mei.He first went up the mountain to pick fungus, then made bean curd sticks, and found a wholesaler to wholesale some other stewed vegetarian dishes. The rest were some meat dishes, such as chicken feet. Du Jianfeng naturally seized the opportunity to make lo mei as a shelf.

In order to be able to go to the town to sell lo mei more conveniently, Du Jianfeng also specially built a cart. The conditions in ancient times were limited, and the tires were made of rounded wood, but it was better than nothing. up.

After Du Jianfeng officially started selling lo-mei, the business was booming as expected. He basically sold everything before the morning was over.Now that more and more people know that Du Jianfeng is doing business, there are also some other young people in the village who want to join him. Of course Du Jianfeng did not refuse. After all, when the house is built, he will have a good time. After two years, I will start renting a shop in the town and officially open a shop. I also want to open a branch in neighboring towns and counties in the future. Naturally, the more partners and trustworthy people the better, let alone all from a village. , know the root and the bottom.

Most people in the village follow Du Jianfeng to sell braised meat and pastries. There are sixteen villages below Muyun Town, six of which are far away and not suitable for selling, but the remaining ten villages are farthest away. It only takes an hour to walk there. In the past, it was quite suitable to sell cakes. More and more people joined them to sell cakes. Du Jianfeng had no choice but to focus on building the kitchen and use his daily income to expand the kitchen. , strive to be able to move there as soon as possible to do it.

Those who couldn't join them in selling cakes also decided to change their land to soybeans and other crops, because Du Jianfeng said that he would buy soybeans every year, and this would not stop.

Everyone is still very happy about the gratifying change that every family can make money, but there are always a few people who are unhappy, and the Du family is the most unhappy one.

"I think that little bastard is deliberately against us, deliberately trying to embarrass us." Du Zhongmin was so angry that he couldn't eat, he said to everyone at the dinner table.

"Then what can you do? You have the ability to make him take out the prescription!" Li Xiao'e said with a sidelong glance at him.

"As soon as the Chinese New Year is over next year, we will send Li'er to study immediately." Du Zhongmin ignored Li Xiao'e, but said to Wang: "Mother, we have saved almost all of our money during this time, and Shu Xiu is not alone. Not very expensive."

"The most expensive one is never Shuxiu." Yu Ke also put down his chopsticks and said, "Shuxiu is only a little bit, just give the teacher a little bit of chicken, duck and fish as an honor. The most expensive ones are pen, ink, paper and inkstone, rice paper."

"So what if it's expensive? Don't we send Li'er to study?" Li Xiao'e became angry when she heard Yu Ke's eccentric words: "Now Li'er is the only hope for our family to succeed. A large part of the income also comes from his copying letters outside, and I was a little bit unconvinced when I heard the tone of my younger siblings, since my younger siblings are not convinced, then I should move out like my elder brother."

When Yu Ke heard this, he said angrily, "What does the second sister-in-law mean? Is it amazing that you have a son who has studied? How dare you drive me out in front of my mother?"

"Okay, okay, let's not say a few words!" Du Zhongmin said: "Sending Li'er to study is only good for our family. Although it costs a lot of money to study, it is worth the money!"

"If you don't have any money, you can go to your eldest nephew to borrow it." Li Xiaoe said.

"Hmph!" Du Zhongmin snorted coldly, and said, "I won't lick my face to find him. When our Li'er is admitted as a scholar, won't we be better than him?"

No matter how the Du family quarreled, Du Jianfeng's place was going smoothly. Time passed day by day, and the things that were not perfected on the side of the house were basically completed. Basically, the finishing work is already in progress, and all the furniture inside is also available. The quilts and quilts are all brand new. The large kitchen and bathroom have also been completed, and the well has been dug. We just need to choose an auspicious one. The days have moved on.

It was late autumn, and He Xuelian chose a day on the eighth day of November, and moved her family to a new house. The family hosted a banquet for the workers who built their house and the villagers who usually supported their business. They borrowed several tables and set them up. Had several banquets of flowing water.

Finally moved into a comfortable big house, Du Jianfeng is also very happy, although he has suffered all kinds of hardships in the army, and even slept on the ground when performing missions, but when living a quiet life, he is still as comfortable as possible best.

As the weather was getting colder, he spread earthworms in the room, so that they would not suffer from the cold when winter came.At night, Mu Jiangyu lay on the big soft bed, looked at Du Jianfeng with bright eyes, and said, "Husband, I am so happy to be with you!"

Du Jianfeng was overjoyed, went up to scratch his nose, and said: "A man, not to mention doing great things upright, but at least it is his responsibility to support his family, and it is also my responsibility to make life better. However, After the new year, you will fight with me. Now that you have learned how to settle accounts, it is a bit too rush to rent a shop in the town this winter, and there are too few people on the street in winter, so it is a bit uneconomical to do business at this time. When spring comes next year, we will rent a shop in the town and officially open a shop, and you have to come with me, and you will be the accountant of our family from now on."

"Yeah!" Mu Jiangyu nodded vigorously, and said, "Then don't we go out to sell things in winter?"

"Of course we go out to sell, but I just said that we can't sell stewed vegetables." Du Jianfeng said: "After all, it's not good to set up a stall in the town in cold weather, but cakes can be sold, and you can eat hot cakes in cold weather. would be willing."

"Yeah!" Mu Jiangyu said: "Our backyard has been cleaned up, and we can raise some poultry by ourselves in the future."

"I think so too. When the time comes to raise some chickens, ducks, geese and the like, they can still lay eggs. If they are raised well, we can expand the yard a little bit and use them exclusively for raising these things. In the future, we will make chicken feet for braised vegetables You don’t have to go elsewhere for duck intestines.” Du Jianfeng said.

"Then after winter, we will only make pastries at home?" Mu Jiangyu asked.

"Yes, there are more cake sellers in our village now." Du Jianfeng said: "Basically, there are people selling our cakes in ten surrounding villages, so the daily income is so much, and now our kitchen is also built, Enough for us to do more, we will rest for the time being this winter, anyway, we can earn about one or two taels of silver a day, and we don’t have to worry about food and clothing. We will find time to visit your mother in a few days, and send him some I used to buy some thick clothes and store them for the winter.”

After hearing this, Mu Jiangyu slowly moved into Du Jianfeng's arms, leaned on his shoulder and said, "Husband, you are so kind to me, and I want to be kind to you too, for the rest of my life."

"Are you stupid? You are my husband. If I don't treat you well, who will I treat?" Du Jianfeng was helpless.

"Then, husband, why do you have to wait two years before you can have a child? Isn't it good that we want a child now?" Mu Jiangyu hesitated, and said: "I think Xu Yang's husband already has children. He's as old as me."

Xu Yang is also one of the pastry sellers. His husband is from the village next door. His family used to be poor, but now he has improved a bit because of pastry sales. In addition, Fulang is pregnant again. Seeing him for a while, His face was beaming.

Du Jianfeng stroked Mu Jiangyu's hair, kissed him, and said, "In my hometown, men have to be 22 years old and women have to be 20 years old to get married... Uh, getting married, and you have to pass the time." I’m only 17 years old, and if I’m strictly speaking in my hometown, if I have anything to do with you, I’ll be arrested and jailed.”

In fact, Du Jianfeng made the matter too serious, and there are many remote areas like this, where they get married and have children in their teens, but according to normal people, it is indeed unethical to do so.

"Ah?" Mu Jiangyu raised his mouth when he heard that, and said, "20 years old! But husband, you said that it will be two years later, and I still have more than three years before I am 20 years old!"

"Look, you're in a hurry." Du Jianfeng kissed him again, and said, "It will be fine when you are full. Besides, we need to develop our business well in the past two years, and we will consider taking care of it when our business grows bigger in the future." Children's affairs, we want to give children the best life, don't we?"

"But our life is already very good now." Mu Jiangyu still poked his mouth up: "I want to have a child with my husband, no, I want several."

"Look at you, you are so young that you are born with children." Du Jianfeng scratched his nose and said, "Don't be ashamed!"

"No!" Mu Jiangyu hugged Du Jianfeng, put his arms and legs on him, and said in a low voice, "My husband is used to bullying me."

"Then throw away your husband, can you give up your husband?" Du Jianfeng teased him.

"Impossible." Mu Jiangyu dimpled from a smile, and hugged Du Jianfeng with a smile: "I don't want to throw away my husband."

As the weather got colder, Du Jianfeng and the others did not go out to sell stewed vegetables. They bought some chickens and ducks from the town and raised them in the backyard. Now the family makes some pastries every day for wholesale. The pastries are popular in the town and the village. There is a market. Some workers who work on the wharf earn [-] Wen a day, but the [-] Wen does not include food. They have to go to restaurants to eat, which costs another [-] Wen. Appearance has changed this situation, two yuan of cakes and six cents are enough to fill their stomachs, and they will not feel hungry for the whole afternoon.

The same is true for people in some villages. Some people with a little extra money can eat pastries as snacks, and some directly take them for lunch. There are hundreds of people in a village, and one person only takes 100 yuan pastries in a village. There is still a market for it.

When winter finally came and the first snow fell here, when Du Jianfeng opened the door early in the morning, he saw a vast expanse of whiteness outside. The mountains in the distance, the river nearby, and the houses in the village seemed to have entered a space. The fairy tale world of ice and snow is ordinary, so white that it makes people intoxicated.

Du Jianfeng walked into the backyard and looked at the mountains in the distance. Seeing such a scene inevitably made him feel homesick, but he never regretted staying here. There are also parents, relatives, and lovers here. After all, they are not cold-blooded animals, and it is human nature to miss their relatives in the past.

Just as he was thinking, Du Jianfeng noticed footsteps behind him, and he heard that it was Mu Jiangyu, so he didn't look back. Sure enough, after a while, Mu Jiangyu walked up to him and hugged him, saying: "Husband, I will Always with you."

Du Jianfeng was taken aback for a moment, only then did he realize that the melancholy in his heart had been known all along.He also hugged Mu Jiangyu tightly, kissed his forehead, and said, "You are the most precious gift this world has given me."