Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 58 Chapter Eight: Zhang Luo
The enthusiasm for Zongzi has passed, so there is no need to worry about it anymore, the mountain fungus will naturally continue to be picked up.

So early in the morning Zhang Lihua came to call Song Qiu with a basket on her back.

Song Qiu was going to Ping'an Daji, and today he would be busy collecting food all day, so he came out with a basket on his back, and said: "I won't pick up mushrooms today, I will go to Ping'an Daji to buy some meat and vegetables, and I will talk about it tonight." I've decided to treat you two to dinner."

This old Yuan family will go to the two families to call for invitations today.

As soon as Zhang Lihua heard that she wanted to treat her to dinner, she nodded, leaned over and said in a low voice, "I should invite you to help make rice dumplings. I will also pay for this dish. Ah Qiu, you can just take it from my money."

Song Qiu just smiled: "Okay, for buying two catties of meat, how much money, why don't you pay a share, keep your share, and let's go to the town tomorrow to take a good look around and you spend it for me money!"

Zhang Lihua listened, grinned, turned her head to look at her yard, then winked at Song Qiu and said, "Then Ah Qiu, remember to tell my grandma, I'm looking forward to going to town with you to play."

Song Qiu nodded, "Okay, let's go to the mountain, I have to go to Daji too, or else I won't be able to buy meat if it's scattered."

The two went out of the courtyard together, and then separated to go their separate ways.

Song Qiu went down the gentle slope, went straight to the outside of the village, and took the small road to Ping'an Daji.

Ping'an Daji sells rice, grain, meat and fish, and it is more than half closer to the village than the town. Of course, it is convenient to go to Daji.

Otherwise, it would take no time to go back and forth to the town, and it would be tiring.

Today I am going to invite two families to dinner, and there are about ten people in total. Naturally, this meal needs to be rectified, and it will not be ready so quickly.

Song Qiu drew down the recipe in his mind, thought about what to cook, and bought something later.

But the most important thing is to buy some seasoning first. It is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult for a chef to cook without seasoning.

She's going to make a big show of it, just oil and salt, always almost or something.

So as soon as they arrived at Ping'an Daji, Song Qiu headed into the only grocery store in Daji.

The grocery store in Daji is naturally not as complete as in the town, but it has everything that should be there. Song Qiutou saw the small steamers piled up on one side, which should be used to steam steamed buns, so they are not small. Yes, a little big.

But Song Qiu happened to need a steamer, and regardless of whether it was a little bigger, he took one first.

Then on the other side, there are soybean oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil, salt, soy sauce, mature vinegar, and seasonings such as pepper, fennel, cinnamon and star anise, as well as less pure white sugar and a small piece of brown sugar. There is no excess up.

But that's enough.

Song Qiu looked around, asked the price, and finally settled on something, "Ten catties of soybean oil, two taels of sesame oil, two catties of salt, two catties of soy sauce, one catty of mature vinegar, five taels of peppercorns, and fennel and cinnamon. One or two star anise each, and half a catty of brown sugar."

Rapeseed oil is more expensive than soybean oil, so let's buy soybean oil now.

What's more, the unattractive white sugar is so expensive, she can't afford it right now, and she doesn't need to buy it. Brown sugar is much cheaper, and it costs fifty cents a catty.

These things plus a steamer, a total of 270 five Wen.

But she didn't bring anything to hold liquids like oil and soy sauce, so she had to sell a few more gourds at the grocery store. Fortunately, they were not expensive, and you could buy two small gourds for a penny.

It’s just that clay pots containing ten catties of soybean oil are more expensive, costing three pennies each.

After Song Qiu settled the bill, he carried all his things in the basket, which immediately became heavy on his back.

The strange thing is that ordinary people don't use seasoning, but now it costs nearly three hundred dollars, which is really unaffordable.

Song Qiu walked out of the grocery store, thinking that he had to hurry up and earn money, otherwise, even buying a seasoning would be very distressing.

After buying the seasoning, Song Qiu then went to buy another ten catties of brown rice. There were not a few catties of rice left at home. To entertain others, Song Qiu still planned to cook a dry meal. With so many people, it would take several catties of rice.

In addition to buying rice, Song Qiu thought about the small fish in the ditch in front of his house, so he bought two catties of flour, which cost a total of 66 Wen.

When I came out, I saw a small shop selling wine, thinking that it would be impossible to invite people to dinner without wine, so I went in and bought two catties of wine.

As for the vegetables, Song Qiu first went to the butcher stall to buy three catties of meat, which cost 36 renminbi in total. Seeing a cage of large intestines hanging in the corner of the butcher stall, Song Qiu couldn’t help but saliva. Fat intestines, hers favorite.

"Uncle, how did you sell this large intestine?"

"This one, it's worthless. If you want this cage, you can pay ten cents." The meat stall owner said.

Song Qiu heard that it was only ten Wen, but there are at least ten catties here, which is quite a bargain, much cheaper than later generations, so he immediately paid ten Wen to buy it.

After buying these, Song Qiu walked around Daji, and felt that there was nothing to buy. In addition, the back basket was full, and there were things in his hands that were too heavy, so he left Daji and went home.

Hurrying back to the village, it was still early, the sun had just risen to mid-air, Song Qiu put things into the stove house, talked to old Yuan Shi who was hanging out with old Deng Shi, and then took a small wooden bucket and an old dustpan Go to the small river ditch in front of the door.

Most of the current small ditches are where people wash their clothes. The ditches down the mountain are shallower. The stones at the bottom of the water can be fished out, and there are many small fish and crabs. They always play here. water.

The small fish and small crabs in the ditch are fun to catch and play, but if you really want to eat them, it seems that everyone is not very good at handling them. The small fish have no meat, and the soup is too fishy.

But Song Qiu is about to laugh, although it will cost oil, but this small fish is the most delicious when it is fried, the bones are even crunchy, and it is chewed and swallowed without spit.

Today, she will spend a little extravagantly frying the original small fish, which is more delicious than the ones caught in the small river ditches of their later generations.

It's a waste of money. She just earned a small sum of money, and her grandma would turn a blind eye even if she feels sorry for her. Besides, she is not stingy when it comes to entertaining guests.

Song Qiu chuckled, and when he got to the place, he took off some of it first, lifted up the skirt and tied it around his waist, rolled up the bottoming trousers to his calves, and happily went into the water.

Playing in the water to catch small fish and crabs is the happiest memory of her childhood.

The water in the ditch is clear and crystal clear, and many small fish and shrimp drift along the current without knowing their destination.

The shrimp is not big, only as long as a little finger, and it is a bit craving to eat.

Song Qiu's eyes lit up twice, and he inserted the dustpan upside down into the bottom of the stream, and fixed it against the mud underneath.

The water in the ditch is not deep, and the small fish and shrimps going down are blocked by a dustpan, and many of them stop, they can't get out after drilling, and they are so stupid that they don't know how to go around.

Song Qiu seized the opportunity and went straight to it, scooping up the dustpan. Many small fish and shrimps ran away quickly, but many were also trapped in the dustpan.

I pressed the dustpan and swung the mud in the water, then poured it into a wooden bucket, found another place, and settled it again.

There are so many small fish and shrimps in this river ditch, and there are very few people in the village who come to fish, most of them are children who want to play in the water to play in the hot weather.

I really want to eat it, but I still think that the small fish is hard to get and has no meat, and the small shrimp shell is hard, is it delicious?

Song Qiu thought that they would not know how to handle the shrimp shells and ate them mixed up, so he couldn't help smiling. When she cooked a meal today, the custodian would ask her how she did it.

At that time, those who are willing to spend this effort will be considered interested in these small fish and shrimp.

(End of this chapter)