Portable Space: Dressing Up as a Little Brother

As soon as the dishes were brought into the room, the shopkeeper was attracted by the aroma.The Shen family has been used to this taste since Xiao Yu'er started growing vegetables, so their control ability is much better, and they won't stare at the dishes.The shopkeeper is much more straightforward, pick up the chopsticks to taste the food as soon as it is on the table.The first thing he tasted was stir-fried cabbage, without adding any seasoning, just simply adding some oil and salt.But as soon as the dish is in the mouth, it feels crisp, tender and sweet, mainly because of the feeling that you will want to aftertaste after taking a bite.He then tried several other side dishes such as beans and eggplant, and each of them felt better than usual.In this way, without much effort, a total of four or five side dishes were eaten by the shopkeeper, and there was nothing left.

After tasting the taste, the shopkeeper expressed his satisfaction.I immediately discussed the price with my father. This time, there were only two baskets, a total of 5 kinds of vegetables, weighing about 40 catties. Eggplants and beans accounted for the majority, so they were relatively heavy. A few leafy vegetables are still a little less harvested.Usually, the price of vegetables in restaurants is around 4 or 5 yuan. This time, the dishes of their Shen family are really good, so the shopkeeper almost doubled the price, and paid 8 yuan per catty. Don't sell the dishes to other restaurants.Father also agreed. I was shocked when I heard that it can sell for 8 Wen per catty.The shopkeeper immediately gave the money to my father, and with the money for preserved fruit, I got a total of 320 Wen.

After the money was settled, the shopkeeper served them a few more plates of snacks for them to eat, and chatted with Father.I asked how many vegetables were grown at home and what types they were.Father Ye answered one by one.It is said that the vegetables at home have just begun to grow, and the quantity and variety are still relatively small, and will gradually increase.The shopkeeper also very much hopes that their family can order more varieties, especially those leafy vegetables.

After talking for a while, the members of the Shen family were ready to leave, and there were still things to buy. It was too late to catch up with Uncle Aning's ox cart.After the shopkeeper finally confirmed with my father the time for the next delivery of vegetables and preserved fruits, he sent them out of the house. Before leaving, he asked them to wrap up the unfinished snacks on the table and take them away.

Xiao Yu'er was dragged by her elder brother to follow her father and uncle out of the restaurant.They walked back along the main street, this time going to the side street to do some shopping and go home.When I walked into the small street, I found that it was much more lively, with people coming and going with courageous people and people carrying baskets on their backs.The elder brother tried to grab Xiao Yu'er's hand for fear of losing it.

They looked all the way over and saw many snacks, as well as some grocery stores, clothing stores, cloth stores and so on.They have to go to the cloth store to buy some cloth, and by the way, bring some needles and thread back home.What I want to buy this time is mainly coarse cloth, which I plan to buy back to make clothes to wear when I go to the field, and I also want to buy a few feet of soft cotton cloth for making clothes for children.When entering the cloth shop, Father and the others went to pick out cloth, and Xiao Yu'er was beside him choosing embroidery threads for Father and the others.This time I chose relatively plain colors, mainly because the embroidery patterns on Dad's own clothes have always been relatively plain.It's just that the little clothes of the children at home will be more fancy.

In fact, in Dad's opinion, Xiao Yu'er's clothes should be brighter to look energetic and good-looking.But Xiao Yu'er can't accept too bright colors, so she always wears blue clothes, and the embroidery on the clothes is also light.In this way, apart from sometimes needing to embroider hand towels and other things at home, when selling them in shops in the town, we need to buy all kinds of bright silk threads. In most other cases, blue and other plain colors account for the majority.That's why Father and the others let Xiao Yu'er choose with confidence this time.Xiao Yu'er's embroidery work is really bad, and by the way, his eyes only focus on plain colors when looking at the embroidery work.He is insensitive to all bright colors, so he will not pick those silk threads at all.

After buying the cloth and silk thread and putting them in the basket, my father and uncle led them directly to the seed shop, planning to buy more vegetable seeds that were not available at home.When they were walking towards the seed shop, Xiao Yuer saw someone selling potatoes on the street, but he had never seen someone growing potatoes here at home, and when he asked his family, he said that he had never heard of any potatoes, and they looked similar. Did not ask.So he always thought that he would never be able to eat potatoes in the future, but he didn't expect to see them now.

Seeing that there was no one there to buy from the potato seller, Xiao Yuer walked over with Father and the others.The potato seller is a man in his 20s. In addition to selling potatoes, he also sells some vegetables next to him.Xiao Yuer squatted down and looked, and found that it was indeed a potato.I asked how to sell it, and the man said happily: "Actually, I don't know what it is, but I accidentally dug it out when I went to the mountain to dig herbs. I saw something I had never seen before and wanted to take it." Come and see.

After hearing this, Xiao Yuer expressed that he wanted to buy it, and he planned to buy all of them.I also learned that there were only so many places dug by that person, and I had never seen it in other places.

I also looked at the man who was chatting vigorously with my father, and found that I still knew someone. This man was called Zhang Shan, and he was from the village of my grandfather's house, and he was still a neighbor to my grandfather's house.In this case, Xiao Yuer told him that this thing is edible, and there are relatively few of it now, and I want to buy them all and plant them, so that next year there will be more potatoes as seeds. Give some of it to his family.

Zhang Shan responded quickly after hearing this, and said, "It's okay! Take it! If you don't tell me, I don't even know what it is, and I don't know how to plant it. Wait until you plant some extra. Give them a home, anyway, the two villages are not far from each other."

While talking, he praised Xiao Yuer to his father, saying that this little brother of their family is not only energetic and good-looking, but also capable, and he knows so much at such a young age.Father was happy when he heard that, he laughed so hard that he couldn't see his teeth, Xiao Yu'er was so embarrassed that he was praised.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Shan, they planned to go to the butcher shop to buy some pork to take back.Father weighed 4 catties of pork, and Xiao Yuer asked the stall owner when he saw that the stall owner had piled up a lot of bones that had been removed from the meat.The stall owner said that no one bought it, and every time he brought home a dog to eat it.Xiao Yu'er said that I just want to buy it, and I'm going to buy all of them.The stall owner is of course very happy to see that someone is willing to buy it.I packed them all up and took them away. It weighed about four to five catties, so I just asked for 5 Wen.Xiao Yuer was very happy, and already wanted to drink bone soup.

By this time it was almost sold out.They were about to go back, and when they passed by those food stalls, they remembered that they had to buy delicious food to take back to those little gluttons.

They bought some meat buns and candied haws, and when they saw a sugar seller, they bought one for each of them.

At this time, it was getting late, so they took their things to the street corner, and saw that Uncle Aning was already waiting beside the ox cart.When they saw them coming, they hurriedly helped to put the back basket into the bullock cart.

After getting into the bullock cart, he hurried out of the town.After walking all the way, Xiao Yuer expressed that he was tired!This little body still lacks exercise, and it can't stand walking.Now, when I rested, I couldn't resist anymore, and soon fell asleep leaning against my brother in the swaying of the bullock cart.

This time he slept until it was dark before waking up. When he woke up, he was already on the bed at home.The noise of the twins could already be heard outside.Xiao Yu'er got up quickly, went out to wash up, and then went into the kitchen, ready to wash the bones and make soup.It can be used to make rice tomorrow morning, or to eat below, it will be very delicious!

In the kitchen, father and uncle are ready to serve the last dish.Xiao Yuer quickly took out the bones after he went in, washed them clean and asked his father to cut them into small pieces.Then pour it all into a washed cauldron, add water that almost covered the bones, turn on the fire first, and blanch it again.After removing the impurities, add another half pot of space water, then cut some ginger slices into it, and then close the lid.Boil the water under the pot first, then put fire-resistant wood into the stove, change the fire to a low heat and let it simmer slowly.The whole family set up meals and prepared to eat first.The bone broth will take at least an hour to get its flavor out, so I won't be able to drink it for dinner.However, the dishes tonight are still very rich, with pork, eggs and all kinds of delicious vegetables.All were well fed.

After finishing dinner and cleaning up, the whole family gathered around to eat fruit, and by the way, told the story of going to town during the day.

They were very surprised to hear that these vegetables at home could be sold for 8 cents a catty. Ah Mo counted the copper coins and said happily: "From now on, we should have more vegetables in our family! I never thought that vegetables can sell for so much money."

Xiao Yu'er went on to say: "Ah, I thought we could grow vegetables at home. The chickens in the back mountain are still young and don't grow up so fast. Recently, I will prepare more preserved fruits. After the season is over, the wild fruits in the mountains will be ready." Not anymore."

Grandpa and the others agreed, and asked Father and Uncle to send the leftover preserved fruit to the town as soon as possible, and then they will go up the mountain to pick as much fruit as possible from the mountain, and let Xiao Yuer teach Ah They make candied fruit.Try to make another fortune before the fruit is out of season.

After saying this, little cousin Xu Bai said: "Xiao Yu'er, what's in this little basket? Can it be sold for money?"

Only then did Xiao Yuer realize that he had almost forgotten the most important thing—potatoes.

If other things can be sold for a small amount of money, potatoes are the food that can fill the stomach.In this ancient society, no one knows when there will be natural and man-made disasters.I don't know when even if I have money, I can't buy food, so I will be hungry.So it’s great to be able to find potatoes. Potatoes are so productive, and we don’t choose the land. If we can grow more varieties and set aside more varieties, maybe relatives, clan members and folks won’t have to worry about not having enough to eat.