Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 59 Selling Chai Weng (ask for a monthly ticket)
Speaking of Pan Kang, Xu Da and Wang Dayou have been panning together for half a month.After the first personal experience of the two families, the kang was well received, and a wave of kang boom was also set off in the county.

It's a pity that there are only two Master Pan Kang, and those who want to Pan Kang have to queue up.

Some people saw the business opportunity and wanted to imitate it, and they did it decently, but they didn't know the essence of it. After making the client's house full of cigarettes and almost being beaten to death, they had to give up temporarily.

But now the market is clearly in high demand, and there are only two pankang masters, and the plate is so big that they can't finish it.

Coupled with the difficult life, those who have calculations in their hearts are probably already thinking of other ways.

Father and mother left as soon as they said they would, and there were only three Xu Yue brothers and sisters left in the family.

The three first consciously practiced the gymnastics in the house, and then got busy after their bodies warmed up.

The snow had stopped, and the cold wind was still blowing. Xu Dalang picked up the plastic broom in the corner of the yard and swept all the snow in the yard to prevent his sister from slipping when she walked around.

The snowflakes that fell in the middle of the night piled up into a small hill, just enough to make a snowman half the height of a person.

"Sister!" Xu Dalang suddenly called out.

Xu Yue, who was helping her sister who was cooking in the kitchen adding firewood, looked back and saw her brother standing in front of a little snowman half a person tall, pointing at the snowman and smiling at her.

After a closer look, it turns out that the snowman was made according to her appearance, with a small bulge piled on the left and right of Yuanyuan's head, just like the little bulge on her head.

"Looks good!" Xu Dalang said proudly to her as if asking for credit.

Xu Yue looked at the naive little snowman, couldn't help but burst out laughing, and gave her brother a thumbs up, "It looks good."

"Hey~" Xu Dalang felt embarrassed, turned around and picked up an ax to chop wood in the yard.

Xu Erniang, who had just set up the small stove, looked back and saw the little snowman, and couldn't help but slapped Xu Yue's bun in a funny way, causing Xu Yue to stare at her, but she didn't mind, instead she laughed.

"What's so funny?" Xu Yue cast an angry look at her sister.

Seeing her swollen bun face, Xu Erniang became even happier, and Xu Yue couldn't help but also laughed for no reason.

The two sisters were busy while laughing, the older one stepped on the wooden pier and boiled the millet porridge on the stove, and the younger one was holding a pan and frying pancakes on the small stove.

Smelling the aroma of oil coming from the pan, all Xu Yue could think about was the pork stuffing wrapped in pancakes.

However, the cakes in her pot were just pure wheat cakes, and the family hadn't eaten meat for several days.

Firstly, it was inconvenient to go out because of the severe cold, and secondly, the butchers who sold meat in the county charged expensive prices, only [-] yuan for a catty of pork.

And Daqing’s taels are different from modern ones. Here, a catty is 16 taels. Xu Yue has tested that a catty in Daqing only has about 250 grams in modern times.

Calculated in this way, half a catty of pork costs [-] yuan, and I can't bear to eat it every day.

Millet porridge with pancakes is a good breakfast compared to before.

It's just that the flour here is really rough, usually it is only ground once, and it is finely ground two or three times. Compared with the modern fine flour, Xu Yue still feels that the taste is not good.

Xu Erniang and Xu Dalang have been talking about dumplings for a long time, but due to the roughness of the flour, Xu Yue has not been able to get good flour to meet the expectations of her brothers and sisters.

The three siblings nestled on the kang in the main room, having breakfast while warming themselves by the fire. The kang was so hot that they were reluctant to leave the kang.

Xu Yue was glad that her family had set up the kang early, otherwise this winter would be hard.

It's just that there are not many people in the city who are on the kang. Rich people can burn charcoal to keep warm and have thick clothes. They should be able to survive the current severe cold.

But the neighbors on the left and right have neither a kang nor a charcoal fire, and their clothes are thin. I really don't know how they survived this winter.

After eating and drinking, I was just thinking about these things in a daze, when the sound of the old man selling firewood came from the street outside the house.

Xu Erniang was studying her enchanting experiment, trying to make a magic robe, and reminded without raising her head:
"Aniang told me to buy firewood, you and Xu Dalang can go."

After finishing speaking, he concentrated on studying her "Magic Robe".

Xu Yue nodded, took a handful of money from the research room, put on her shoes and got off the kang, took a deep breath, prepared for the cold wind, and opened the courtyard door.

The old firewood seller walked over from Qian Street with a hunched back, pulling a cart full of firewood, shouting, "Firewood! Firewood!"

The heavy wheels made two deep ruts on the muddy and snowy street.

It's a pity that the people in the slums are not willing to buy firewood for two loads of firewood. The old man's business is not very good today.

"Old man!"

Xu Yue stood by the door and yelled, the old man heard the sound, his eyes showed a bit of joy, he speeded up and dragged a mountain of firewood to the front of Xu's house.

"How do you sell these firewood?" Xu Yue asked.

The old man didn't lie to her because of her young age, he said honestly: "It's snowing today, the girl will give me an extra fee for hard work, three dollars a load is okay?"

Life is hard, so we have to be careful about the price increase, lest the customers will not like it.

Xu Yue felt that this old man was too honest. If you raised the price so cautiously, it would be strange if they didn't lower your price.

She counted the money in her hand, exactly twelve, and handed it over, "It takes four dan."

The old man was taken aback for a moment, then he was ecstatic. He hurriedly took the money, carefully put it away in the inner pocket of his clothes, and carried the firewood into the yard.

Xu Yue and Xu Dalang hid in the courtyard, pointed to the small firewood shed next to the kitchen and asked the old man to put the firewood in it.

The fire in the kitchen is still smoldering, and you can feel a little warmth when you are close to the kitchen. When the old man puts firewood, he always stops by the stove for a while.

He was only wearing a patched unlined garment. The linen was rough and had big holes. Xu Yue saw that it was stuffed with dead leaves and hay.

On the old man's feet, he was wearing a pair of straw sandals because of clogs, which made it difficult to move. The snow was cold and slippery, and it had already turned purple from the cold.

Even though he really wanted to stay by the stove for a while longer, so that it would be warmer, but in order not to keep the employer waiting for a long time, the four loads of firewood were quickly moved.

There are still two loads on the car board, Xu Yue doesn't mind buying them together, but the yard at home is small, so I really can't put them down.

The old man put down the last load of firewood, nodded to Xu Yue and his sister, and was about to leave.

"Old man, wait a moment." Xu Yue hesitated for a while, but stopped him.

The old man turned around in puzzlement, his eyes were still a bit uneasy, wondering if he didn't want so much firewood or thought it was expensive?
Xu Yue signaled him to wait, then ran into the house, filled a tube of boiling water from the stove with a bamboo tube, plugged the lid, went to the yard, and handed the bamboo tube to the old man.

"This is?" The old man was a little puzzled, but when he touched the warmth from the bamboo tube, he understood, and he was a little at a loss for a while.

(End of this chapter)