The reborn peasant girl has space for farming

Chapter 510 Chagan Mountain Market

Bai Meixi let out a long sigh. It would take more than half an hour to walk back to the train station. It would be better to go directly to Chagan Mountain. Maybe the situation would improve soon and even the snowstorm would stop.

After leaving the town, the snow on the mountain became deeper and deeper. The shallowest place was more than a foot deep. Bai Meixi walked with great difficulty. She had to pull her knees out of the snow every step she took. Several times she They all felt like they were going to be buried in the snow.

Bai Meixi decided to change her strategy. She could not let her body sink into the snow. She raised her arms, then threw herself forward, lying on the ground and rubbing her body forward.

This crawling method made her speed up a lot. She pulled the branches on the roadside with her hands to save her energy. It was a rolling climb all the way. Bai Meixi's cotton pants were already wet. The whole person was shaking with cold.

She had to stop and go back to the space to change clothes. The pair of cotton pants soaked by the snow water was placed in the best sunlight position. The water droplets on the cotton cloth were rapidly evaporating, and they soon became much lighter.

Bai Meixi looked at the time and decided to go to the big kitchen to replenish her strength first. Aunt Liu made a stir-fried mutton dish today, using the mutton Bai Meixi bought from the Agushan market. It looked soft and fragrant.

"Come and try the new dishes I made, which are stir-fried mutton and stewed duck with sour bamboo shoots. There are a lot of chili peppers in them, which are just right to ward off the cold."

Aunt Liu felt the coldness on Bai Meixi's body. She quickly brought a bowl of hot duck soup from the kitchen and asked Bai Meixi to drink it while it was hot.

This bowl of soup was sour and spicy, but it was particularly enjoyable to drink, causing a thin layer of sweat to break out on Bai Meixi's head.

Her body warmed up quickly, and she quickly took a chopstick to taste the mutton. The texture of the meat here was indeed different. The mutton was smooth and refreshing, and the meat was full of flavor. Combined with the aroma of green onions, Bai Meixi could eat two large bowls of rice. .

This kind of cheap and good meat has made Bai Meixi more determined to raise sheep. If she can buy this mutton back home, it will definitely sell well.

"Aunt Liu, practice following the menu I gave you these two days. It will be of great use tomorrow night."

Bai Meixi has already prepared a menu for tomorrow's treat. There are some dishes that Aunt Liu has never cooked. She has written down the detailed process and asked Aunt Liu to practice it first to avoid making mistakes in front of the squadron leaders.

This is the first time Cheng Haiyi has officially invited the leaders of the squadron to dinner, and he must not be careless.

"I have already tried to make it and put it all in the kitchen." The menu written by Bai Meixi was a bit complicated. Aunt Liu was afraid that she would delay the work, so she specially took a small part of the ingredients to practice. Now her cooking skills are as good as fire. , waiting for Bai Meixi to come for inspection at any time.

"It tastes good. Just do this tomorrow." Bai Meixi took a bite and found that these dishes met her expectations. In order to save ingredients, Aunt Liu only served less than one person per dish. This kind of portion The greatest test of a person's skills, Aunt Liu is obviously better than her old masters, and has more experience in cooking than Bai Meixi.

Bai Meixi hopes that her subordinates can become independent and can share many tasks for herself, so that she can concentrate on doing business and improve a lot of efficiency. After all, making money is the king.

After Bai Meixi replenished her calories, she returned to the snow. This time she added a large wooden board under her body to act as a temporary sled, which not only saved energy but also prevented her clothes from getting wet.

This time God seemed to see her tenacity and actually made the originally cloudy sky clear. When the first ray of sunshine shone down, Bai Meixi was so moved that she wanted to cry.At one o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Meixi finally arrived at the herdsmen's market. This is a leeward depression. No matter how heavy the wind and snow blow outside, it will not be greatly affected. It is simply a natural place created by God.

The herdsmen's market is very large, and the variety of things in it is much greater than that of the farmers' market in Agushan Town. There are not only livestock such as camels, cattle and sheep, but also daily necessities such as hair oil and calico hair.

Bai Meixi carries a huge bamboo basket on her back and looks like someone who comes to the market to buy things.

Today is the big fair at the herdsmen's market. The weather is getting colder, and fewer and fewer people can come to the market. Everyone can't wait to stock up on things to prepare for the winter. It is also the best time to do business.

She quietly walked around these people, trying to find out something, and found that the biggest obstacle here was actually the language barrier.

People at the herdsmen market come from all over, some speak Mongolian, some speak Chinese, and some speak Korean. Bai Meixi knows nothing about other ethnic minority languages ​​except Chinese, so she is at a disadvantage here.

Most people were trading in Mongolian. Although Bai Meixi was standing nearby, her head was buzzing as if she were listening to a book from heaven, and she couldn't understand what they were saying at all.

After wandering around for a long time, she discovered the trading methods here. Currency transactions were rarely used in the herdsmen's market. Most of them were barter, using cattle, sheep and horses to buy the daily necessities, medicines and vegetables they needed most.

These three things are most lacking in the entire pastoral area. Sometimes, in order to buy some medicine, herdsmen need to ride horses for three or four hours to a nearby town to buy it. If there is heavy snow and the mountains are closed, someone may die. .

What's more, food cannot grow on the grassland. Once snow accumulates, even the lives of cattle and horses will have problems, let alone people.

Now everyone wants to exchange cattle and horses for edible food. If they can see some green leafy vegetables besides cabbage, it is what they want.

The herdsmen's market was originally an open space, but now there are many yurts set up in it, making it look like a happy family.

Nomadic people are originally at home all over the world. Some people are far away from here, and they have to drive cattle and sheep and raise families. They have to live here for a while to get what they want.

Relocating as a whole is the most cost-effective way. Anyway, there is snow everywhere now and the animals have nothing to eat. It is better to try their luck here.

Most of the others used horses and camels to carry goods on their backs to set up stalls. These people occupied a large area and had loud voices. It was very obvious in the market that Bai Meixi was too weak in comparison, even if she was wearing thick clothes. , and it doesn’t look too conspicuous.

Bai Meixi didn't want to compete with them for territory, so she found a corner and sat down, placing the big basket on the ground. The vegetables in the space were in harvest season, and there were as many as they wanted now.

She planned to take out some first to see the price, so she took out a basket of green vegetables from the space and spread it on the ground. It weighed about seventy or eighty kilograms. These vegetables made her the focus of the entire market, and soon a large group of people gathered around her. Come up.

(End of this chapter)