Little wealth

Before I knew it, a whole morning passed by like this.

After the most crowded time in the morning, there are gradually fewer people walking on the street at this time. Some stall owners who have sold out their items are already collecting their stalls and preparing to go home.In some villages that live far away from the town, people there want to go to the town to do business, and they always go out before dawn, and they have to rush back before noon, otherwise it will be dark before they get home.

The vegetable stall next door to them was basically sold out, and there were still some rotten vegetable leaves on the stall. After the vegetables were sold, the stall owner lowered his head to clean up the stall and the scattered vegetable leaves, and picked them into the basket behind him.

Josh noticed that the people here have a very good habit, that is, most of the vendors who set up stalls will consciously clean up the leftovers from their positions after selling their goods.So after these stalls were packed up, the ground was also clean, and nothing was left behind.

Seeing others cleaning up the stall, he remembered that he forgot to buy his chickens, and hurriedly said to the man, "Look at the stall, I'll go over there to see if there are any chickens for sale, and buy some chickens." The chicken is back."

After leaving such a sentence, Josh ran to the chicken stall, his little chicken!

As soon as Zhao He raised his head, he saw Fu Lang went to another stall to look at the chickens. Across the street, he looked at Fu Lang who was squatting in front of other stalls with his back facing him. The knife also stopped.

"There are still two little ducklings, I'll give them to you together, so as not to have to take them back."

"Hehe, thank you boss, you are so kind."

At this time, there are not many people on the street, and those who have not sold out their items and are eager to go home will deal with the remaining items at a lower price.

So without any haggling, Josh bought eight chickens for eight cents, and two ducklings were given to him by the boss as an extra. The woman who sold the things also gave away the basket containing the chicks. to him.

Afraid that the man who bought chickens from her would not raise these chickens, the woman who finished the last transaction of the day was in a very good mood, and smiled and told this guy who didn't seem to be very good at raising chickens The brother of the duck cub taught the tricks of how to deal with these little things, "Take these chickens and ducks home, don't rush to feed them, you can feed them some water, and give them something to eat later, feed them for seven weeks. The eight-day-old little broken rice will soon be released and run outside."

"Oh, I see, then thank you boss, I won't delay your return home."

After listening to the boss's professor, Josh happily carried the little chick he was thinking of, and a pair of flat-billed ducklings were successfully mixed into the basket. There was an abrupt rattling sound.

Looking at a group of fluffy chicks and ducklings in the basket, Josh had a benevolent smile on his face, just waiting for you to grow up healthy, and in autumn we will have soy sauce chicken, scallion oil chicken, salt-baked chicken, roast chicken, roast duck, eight-treasure duck Let's eat duck soup!

Hahaha... He couldn't help but want to laugh when he thought of that beautiful picture.

"Buy it?" Seeing that Fu Lang came back with a small basket, Zhao He didn't ask how much he bought, and helped Fu Lang put the small basket on the cart.

"Well, yes, I bought it back." Josh smiled and lifted the white cloth on the basket to show the man, with a hint of showing off, "Look, this is the chicken and duck I bought, and the duck is the boss. It cost eight cents to give it away.”,

Look at how good he is, buying eight chicks and two more ducks!

Zhao He looked down at the chickens and ducks in the basket, and only noticed the happy smile on Fu Lang's face.

"Hey, aren't you going to buy things for tomorrow? We are going to buy something, why don't you go and buy the things first." After the things he wanted to buy were bought, Josh didn't forget that they still had things to buy for Qingming .

"How much do you want to buy something, I will give you money to buy it."

Today, all the money from selling things is on him, and this man even handed over his private money to him. Josh thought that this man should have no private money on him. Knowing that he was going to buy things, he generously handed over the sewing money to him. The old money bag was handed back to the man, it contained all the money they sold in business today, and he added a string of money into it.

He re-strung the money himself with red strings, [-] copper plates in a string, which is also convenient for use.

He didn't count the money for selling things today. He may have earned more than [-] copper coins after selling a few things. I don't know if there are thirty.He remembered that the men in the village could earn [-] to [-] yuan when they came to the town to work for a day, and the two of them could earn about half of what others sold here for half a day. This money is not too much, but it is not too little. up.

But what other people do is hard work. The most they do in this business is to walk over and spend a little effort. Selling things is just a matter of lip service, which is not considered a lot of hard work.However, Carpenter Zhao made these things one by one by himself, and of course a lot of time and energy were wasted here.

But Josh didn't know that his carpenter Zhao used to set up a stall here in the town for a day, but he couldn't sell as much as today.So Zhao He was a little surprised that Fu Lang sold so many things when he came here today.

"No, you take it." Zhao He shook his head, did not reach out to pick it up, and said, "It's getting late, let's close the stall too, you go with me." Even though he knew that there were people coming and going on the street , but the man is not very relieved that Liu Fulang is here alone.

"Have we closed the stall too? Why don't we set it up for a while?"

Josh glanced around at the others, and saw that the stalls nearby had been cleared up for several days, so he didn't object to closing the stalls and going back in advance, "Alright then, let's close the stalls too, let's go and see what we want to buy together."

It happened that he also stopped by to look around and see if he wanted to buy something.

Not to mention, after being out for a long time, he still wondered about their son, wondering if the child would cry if he woke up today and didn't see them, and if he played well with Ah Mo at home.They will go back soon after shopping, and they will be able to see their children sooner.

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The two of them started to clean up the stall together, when the wind started to blow, the road was full of sand, and when the wind blew, the sand would blow towards them, covering people's heads and faces with sand and dust.

There was still a little sun in the early days, but there was no sun at noon, and the sky was a bit cloudy.

"Oh, it's windy." Josh stretched out his hand to block the blowing dust, and a few grains of sand were blown into his mouth. He poohed on the ground a few times and spit out a mouthful of saliva.Looking up at the sky, he asked a little worriedly, "Isn't it going to rain today?"

"Maybe it will." Zhao He knew that it might rain by looking at the sky, and he glanced worriedly at Fu Lang who was following him.

If he was alone at ordinary times, he wouldn't worry about whether it would rain, but today Fu Lang came with him, and he didn't want Fu Lang to follow him back in the rain.

"Hey, if it rains, let's sell out these oil-paper umbrellas on the street before going back." Josh is not worried about the rain, and it won't rain too much in this weather, at most it will be a little drizzle That's all.

Today they sold two or three oil-paper umbrellas, but there are still a lot of unsold umbrellas.If they can sell out all the umbrellas today, then their business today will be really good.

While they were packing up, some people came to buy things and sold an oil-paper umbrella for an extra five cents.

Josh carefully put the copper coins into his pocket, calculated in his mind how much they earned today, and reported the amount to the man, "We have sold 32 copper coins so far." That's because of the umbrella just now. For money, they only sold so much, otherwise it would not be enough for thirty cents.

Carpenter Zhao looked at Fu Lang carefully putting the purse in his arms, and thought that when their son was happy, his smile was a bit similar to that of Fu Lang now.

The two put away the stall together, stacked the things neatly on the cart, and Josh took the stool they were sitting on and put it away.

"Let's go, first go buy things for tomorrow, and then go buy some salt and soy sauce. There is no salt and soy sauce at home." Salt is an indispensable thing in the house. Anything less is fine, but salt is not enough.

"Yeah." Zhao He pulled on the cart and took Fu Lang with him.

At this time, there were not many people on the street. Just now, when there were many people, they would still be crowded. Now they don't have to be crowded with people, and the road in front of them has become very spacious.

But when walking, you should also pay attention to whether there are landmines under your feet. These mines are left by passing cows and donkeys, and no one has cleaned them, so the smell of the street is a bit conceivable...

While walking, Josh looked at the surrounding shops, looked down at the road under his feet from time to time, and asked the man beside him, "Shall we buy some vegetable seeds back?" There was a piece of land in front of their house, I don't know whose land it was, I don't know if we can open a la carte.But there seems to be some space in their yard, maybe it can be used as a vegetable garden?

"No, I have them at home, and I kept some seeds last year." The man replied.

"Oh, then you don't need to buy it." Josh was not very clear about the things at home, since the man said they had them, they didn't have to spend money to buy them.

Seeing a pork stall on the side of the road, Josh remembered that their mother had ordered them to buy pork yesterday, and said to the man beside him, "Let's go and see the pork. Didn't Ah Mu ask us to buy pork? Let's buy some pig heads by the way."

Zhao He pulled the wooden cart and followed behind Fu Lang.

At this time, there was not much pork left on the pork stalls, and the owner of the pork seller wanted to sell the remaining pork as soon as possible, pack up the stall and go home. When he saw customers coming, he greeted them Said: "Does my husband want to buy pork? Fresh pork is cheap."

"Boss, how do you sell this pork?"

"If you want it, I'll give it to you at a discount of fifteen cents a catty. Earlier it was sold for eighteen cents. There won't be much left. I'll sell it to you at a lower price. Hehe, how about a yuan?"

The stall owner who sells pork picks up the pork to show the customers, puts the pork down for the customers to choose, wipes the meat-cutting knife on the whetstone in his hand, and asks: "Little husband, can you see where you want to cut it?" ?”

Josh turned around to discuss with the man behind him, and gestured with his fingers on the pork, "Just cut a knife down here, and you can get a piece of meat about one catty." This meat was bought for ancestor worship tomorrow, and it is too small It doesn't look good, and it costs too much money to buy too much. It should be about a catty to buy one.

"Okay." The boss took a knife and cut down the top, and weighed a dozen, which was exactly one catty.

When the boss was cutting the meat, Josh noticed a few big bones piled up on the side of the stall, and asked, "Boss, how do you sell these bones?"

"You want this big bone... It doesn't cost money. If you want it, I will give you two." The meat on these bones has been shaved off, and there is no one to buy. When someone asks, the pig's head The boss is also very generous to give away two.

This made Josh feel a little embarrassed. Seeing some pig intestines and half a pig liver hanging on the side, he wanted to buy some pig liver to make porridge for his children. In the end, it cost him two yuan to buy these things. That's fifteen cents worth of meat, which looks like a lot.

After paying the money and getting what they bought, the two left.

Seeing the man next to him looking at him with a puzzled expression, Josh explained, "Bring these big bones back to make soup, and give the bones to Ah Huang to chew on. Pork liver and pig intestines are also delicious after processing."

Although he was a little skeptical about this in his heart, it was just what Fu Lang said, so Zhao He didn't doubt anything.

The two of them first went to the shop selling ingot paper money to buy things like ingot paper money, and then went to the grain store to buy oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar.Seeing the white rice in the store, Josh's eyes stayed on it for a second and then turned away, thinking that after they made money, the family must replace it with rice!

But now I still have to buy the necessary things first. After asking the price of salt and soy sauce, I discussed with the man behind me, and said to the seller: "I need two catties of salt and half catty of soy sauce."

As long as salt is stored well, it can be stored for a long time. It doesn’t matter if you buy more and take it back. You can eat it slowly.

However, the price of salt in this era is not cheap, and the reason why the price of salt in ancient times was high is that the technology of producing salt is not advanced, and the salt industry is monopolized by the government; the second is that salt can only be produced in coastal areas , transported to all parts of the country, the middle freight is quite high, so this is the main reason why the price of salt remains high.

But for ordinary people like them, no matter how high the price of salt is, they still have to buy it.They don't eat much soy sauce, so they just put it in when cooking to add some flavor, half a catty is enough.

Seeing amber crystal blocks, which looked a bit like sugar, I asked if it was really sugar.But because sugar comes from the south, the price is not very cheap.Thinking that there is still a jar of bees at home, it doesn't matter whether you can buy this candy, Josh doesn't plan to buy it.

"Buy it, let's go." The money in his pocket continued to decrease, and Josh began to feel sorry for his purse.The little money he earned today was all gone out before it was hot, and he spent too much on buying things later, and if he didn't have enough money, he had to take money out of his own purse and put it in.

After paying, and getting what they bought, they come out of the store.

When the two walked to the street outside, Josh asked the man pulling the cart, "Do you have anything else to buy?"

The man shook his head and said, "It's nothing, are you going to buy something?"

"It's gone. Let's go back then. I don't know if Niannian misses us at home." Speaking of their son, Josh had a smile on his face.

"Let's buy a string of candied haws for Niannian."

"Well, go buy it."

Seeing someone selling candied haws on the road, Josh hesitated for a moment, and bought a bunch of candied haws, carefully wrapped them in cloth and put them under the basket, thinking of taking them home for his son to eat.

If spending two copper coins can buy his son's smile, he thinks it is very worthwhile.

……

But before they could go out to the city gate, it began to rain.

The drizzle fell on his face, and Josh reached out and touched the rain on his face, "Is it raining?" People on the road were running, looking for shelter from the rain.

"Well, it's raining." The man replied.

"Let's find a place to sell umbrellas!" The rain hit him right in his arms. If it's raining, don't sell umbrellas, so why wait for sunny days to sell umbrellas?They want to sell a basket of umbrellas, and they get back all the money they bought today!

He didn't give the man a chance to refuse him. There happened to be a tea stall in front of him. He dragged the man to the tea stall and asked the man to discuss with the owner of the tea stall. He would borrow a place here to sell umbrellas.

Fortunately, the owner of the tea stall was also a man of negotiation. There was no business at the moment, so he allowed them to borrow a place nearby to set up a stall.

Zhao He followed Fu Lang helplessly, but seeing Fu Lang's enthusiastic appearance, he had no choice but to follow Fu Lang to help.Just looking at the rainy day, he felt a little worried. The way back might not be easy.

After selling things for a day, Josh was no longer ashamed to ask people to buy things, so he shouted in the street: "Sell umbrellas, sell umbrellas, don't worry if you have umbrellas when it rains..."

"Sir, why don't you buy an umbrella?"

"How much is it?"

"Five cents a handful."

"Come on."

"..."

After the first son bought an umbrella from them, they sold another five or six oil-paper umbrellas one after another.

The rain falling outside has become a rain curtain, looking from a distance, it is hazy.

Although it wasn't raining very hard this time, if you go out without an umbrella, your hair and clothes will get wet soon. Some people who were in a hurry to leave bought umbrellas from them.The umbrellas in the basket were sold one by one, and the smile on Josh's face became brighter and brighter.

The man standing next to him looked up at the rain outside, feeling a little anxious, not knowing when the rain would stop, when he would be able to bring his husband home together...