Little wealth

In October, the persimmons on the branches turned red.

They rely on the mountains here, and there are many wild persimmon trees on the mountains. Every year when the persimmons are ripe, the persimmons in the persimmon forest on the mountain turn red in a large area, hanging high on the branches, like red lanterns full of trees.

Every year at this time, the villagers and children near their place will go up the mountain to pick persimmons, and take them to the town to sell.However, persimmons are cheap and cannot be sold at a high price.It's just that as long as it can be sold, it can be sold for some money and can subsidize the family, so some people will still go up the mountain to pick it and sell it.

When I got up early in the morning, I saw a basket of persimmons placed in front of my house. The persimmons were bright red, looking festive and cute.Their son took a persimmon and was about to put it in his mouth. Josh quickly grabbed the child's hand and shouted, "Hey, you can't eat this like this."

"Huh?" The child looked at him with big eyes, as if asking why.

"Well, there is something in the freshly picked persimmon, which will make your mouth very astringent after eating it. It will take a few days to ripen before eating, so you can't eat it now." Josh remembered that he had eaten unripe persimmons before. The feeling of eating persimmons in your mouth... how should I put it, it's like sticking something sticky to your teeth and tongue, that feeling is really indescribable, it's extremely uncomfortable anyway.

If it wasn't necessary, he really didn't want their little boy to eat a bite of the unripe persimmon, so that he would cry for a while and have no way to get it out.

Therefore, regardless of the little guy's pouting, he took the persimmon from the little guy's hand, turned to look at him and said, "Mum, where did you get the persimmon?"

"Aunt Liu's sent it just now. She said that the boys from their family went up the mountain to pick the persimmons. They sent such a big basket to our family. I said she wouldn't take the money, so she left in a hurry. " Zhao Amu replied.

"Oh, I remember her. The boys in their family don't seem to be very old, can they go up the mountain to pick persimmons?" Josh had a little impression of that aunt of the Liu family. I can't find a job, and there are four or five children in the family. The life of the family is quite difficult.

After the oil workshop opened in their home, the man surnamed Liu went to their oil workshop to get the oil and sell it in the village below. When I come back, I can get twenty or thirty copper coins a day.

Among the same group of people who went out to sell oil, the man surnamed Liu sold a lot of oil every day.It's just that compared with Cao Pingyi back then, the results of these people are still not very good.

Now that Cao Ping has become the shopkeeper of their oil shop, these men sell oil in various villages. Of course, the price of oil is uniform, the same as the price of the oil shop in their town, so some people in the village do not want to travel so far to the town. If you go up to buy oil, you can follow the oil seller in their village to buy it.

All the oil sellers who sell oil from them have the word "Zhao" pasted on the jars containing the oil, indicating that the oil is from their Zhaojia oil workshop.

Since the last time they won the lawsuit with the Zhang family oil shop, their Zhao family's oil has become well-known, and it is not too difficult to sell in the entire Anyang town and the villages below.

After the last lawsuit, their Zhaojia Oil Factory did not cause trouble, but they were not afraid of trouble. If there was any problem with their oil, they could get the full refund and pay three times the money.But if they want to cheat them, they are not afraid to go to the county magistrate to file a lawsuit.

"The oldest one seems to be eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest one is maybe three or four years old. The older one can help with work." Looking at such a big basket of persimmons, Zhao Amu felt a little headache and didn't know what to do. , This thing tastes astringent, and the stomach will bloat after eating too much, and it is not something that can be eaten too much.But when others sent so much, it was too wasteful for them to throw it away.

"Mum, are you thinking about what to do with these persimmons?" Josh saw his Eminem's appearance, and he knew what he was worried about, so he said, "We can make persimmons, let's wait and see." Eat slowly."

"Persimmon?" Zhao Amu looked puzzled, what is persimmon.

With one hand on his forehead, Josh remembered that the people here didn't seem to know how to make persimmons, so he smiled and said, "This is very simple. I'll tell you how to do it later. Besides making persimmons, we seem to have It can be made into persimmon vinegar."

He remembered that he had seen others make these things before, and he probably still had a little impression, but he hadn't made them himself. Persimmon cakes were relatively simple, and he didn't have much impression of persimmon vinegar.

"Did someone in our village pick persimmons and sell them? Let's buy more persimmons and make more persimmons and eat them slowly in winter." There are no fruits and vegetables in winter, so we need to prepare them in advance.

"Hey, this is good." As soon as she heard that it could be played, Zhao Amu thought it was a good idea.

"At that time, we can make more gifts for relatives and friends, and save a lot of money to buy new year's goods, Eminem, don't you think so?" Josh thought that when the persimmons and persimmon vinegar were brewed, he would have to give them to Bai Luoxi. I'm giving some away, so I definitely have to make a little more.

His family already had several profitable businesses, so he didn't want to make such a little money selling persimmons.After thinking for a while, he said: "Well, Ah Mu, you can go to Aunt Liu's family to see how many persimmons they have left, and buy them all, and call Aunt Liu's family to help us make persimmons. I can do it too." Teach Aunt Liu how to make persimmons, and when she learns, she can go home and make them."

"There are a lot of persimmons at this time, and fresh persimmons can't be sold for much. After the persimmons have passed, it should be easier to sell persimmons and sell for a little more money." This is the time when persimmons come up. It was the season when they went to the town that day and saw someone selling persimmons, and the price didn't seem expensive.At that time, he was thinking that he still had a small one in his belly, and he didn't know if he could eat it, so he didn't dare to buy it after looking at it.

"Okay, I'll ask now to see if they are still at home or have gone out." Zhao Amu felt that it would be a great thing to help the people in the village who are living in hardship, so she agreed. He went out in a hurry.

At this time, Josh waited at home with his son.

Not long after, I saw their Eunuch bringing a thin woman with a pale complexion, and five boys from behind to their house.

Josh knew that this person was Aunt Liu, so he hurriedly stood up, went forward to greet him, and said with a smile, "Hi, Aunt Liu, you are here, thank you for the persimmons you sent today."

"Hey, they're all worthless things. I'll just send you a few along the way. You don't have to thank me." Aunt Liu said awkwardly.To say thank you, I want them to thank the Zhao family's husband. If it weren't for the Zhao family's oil workshop, the men in their family would not be able to find work and could not afford to support their children.

Josh looked at these five boys. The older one should be around ten years old, and the younger one didn't look much older than their son. They were all sallow and thin, wearing patched clothes, and the shoes on their feet were all tattered. sucks.

Knowing that other people's lives are not easy, he didn't show the slightest dislike on his face.There happened to be white rice cakes just served on the table, so he gave two pieces to the child standing at the front, and said with a smile, "Come on, take it and eat."

The two children didn't dare to take it, so they turned to look at their mother.

Embarrassment appeared on the woman's face, and she gave the two children a hand, "No, no, they've already had dinner at home."

"It's okay, you can eat it as a snack after you eat it. Put the things you have on your hands outside, come and get a few pieces of pastries to eat, and you will help me with work when you are full." Seeing that the hands of several children are black Suddenly, Josh asked Caiyun to lead a few boys to wash their hands.

The children glanced at their aunt, and seeing their aunt nodded, they happily followed others to wash their hands.

Ah Nian pointed at the brothers who had left, as if they wanted to follow along.

"You don't go, the brothers are going to wash their hands, and they will be back in a while. You just wait here for them to come back." Josh patted the little boy's head and refused to let him follow.He still doesn't know about their family?In the past, I was obviously afraid of taking a bath, but now I like playing in the water.

Every time a little water was put in the basin, this stinky boy always let them go in to play while the adults were not paying attention, and every time they killed their clothes and shoes, they often got spanked by him because of it.

When the children came over after washing their hands, there were not only pastries on the table, but also millet porridge and steamed buns, which were leftovers from their morning meal.Josh asked the woman and the children to eat something, but the children ate, but the woman stood there but refused to eat, with an embarrassed look on her face.

"Auntie, why don't you go and eat some, and we'll work again after eating." Seeing that the woman refused to sit there to eat, Josh came over to talk to the woman.

"No need, no need, I'll just stand here." Aunt Liu's family has given birth to five children, and she knew that he was pregnant by looking at Josh's figure. A little smile appeared on her nervous face, and asked Said: "Ms. Zhao's husband...you have a belly again?"

"Well, yes." After being pointed out by an unfamiliar person, Josh nodded with embarrassment on his face, and asked, "I don't know how Auntie can tell?"

"Auntie has given birth to five, and if you look at her body, don't you have one?" Auntie Liu said with a smile.

The two of them were not familiar with each other just now, but now that the conversation started, they said a few more words, and they got to know each other a little better.But in the end, seeing the woman still refused to sit down and eat, Josh didn't persuade her anymore.