Yoshida Mii

Chapter 172 Beans for Tofu

Under Li's uneasy expectation, the children finally returned from the octagonal building, bringing gifts to everyone in the family as usual.Aunt Qiuxia didn't expect Dongbao to bring her the same gift as Li Hongqin's, so she couldn't hide her excitement and love for Dongbao.

Dongbao has always been generous to the people he likes, not to mention that Aunt Qiuxia will be her mother-in-law in the future, just because of Aunt Qiuxia's care and love for her in the past, it is worth this silver hairpin.

"Why did you buy earrings?" Li looked at the heavy silver earrings in her hand and smiled. Although her daughter bought them and liked them very much, she couldn't help but said, "I'm old, why do I still wear these? What a waste of money, don't buy it in the future."

"It's not a waste of money." Dong Bao laughed, "Anyway, it's made of silver, but you wear money on your body. Mom, you're not old, it's just right to wear this. When you're really old, you'll have to wear gold jewelry , to be able to hold it down."

Mrs. Li is only 31 years old. At this age, many people in modern times are not even married, but here, if a woman gets married early and has children early, she probably has her grandchildren in her arms.

"My daughter bought it for you, you can wear it!" Li Hongqin persuaded with a smile, "Why are there so many jitters!"

Mrs. Li looked at the people around her with a smile, blushed slightly, and said embarrassedly: "Then I'll put it on?"

"Hurry up and put it on!" Everyone hurriedly urged.

After Mrs. Li put on the earrings and hairpin, Dong Bao hurriedly brought the bronze mirror, and Li Hongqin smiled and said, "Take a look at it, it's very pretty! A man depends on his clothes and a horse depends on his saddle!"

After flipping through the things Dong Bao brought back, Li Shi asked, "Did you bring a bag to your grandma?"

"No." Dong Bao fiddled with the cloth he brought back, shook his head flatly, compared the cloth to Li Shi, and said with a smile: "Mother, the cloth seller said that it is a blend of cotton and silk, which is most suitable for summer. After wearing it, it doesn’t stick to your body when you sweat, but it’s cool, so I can make you new clothes.”

Li Shi smiled, patted Dong Bao's head, and said nothing.She was afraid that Dongbao would hate his grandparents at a young age. After all, filial piety is too great, but it is true that the two old people are too careless and partial in what they do.To say that Dongbao was very devoted to the two old people, she had never heard of any granddaughter who went out to deliver bags to her grandparents.

That's fine, it's been pretty quiet over there recently, so let's just pretend there's no contact between the two sides.
In the afternoon, when people from the Baoji team came to pick out tofu, Sanwei, the smartest, said to Dongbao: "Dongbao, can we exchange beans for tofu when we do business? Many people have asked me, but we have never done this. Rules, I didn’t agree, I think if we can exchange beans for tofu, the tofu will definitely sell more than twice as much!”

Of course Dongbao knew that if she nodded and agreed to exchange beans for tofu, she would be able to sell more tofu.Farmers pay close attention to money, it is not easy to save money, and spending money is even more eager to break it into two halves. If you ask him to spend money to buy tofu, he will definitely feel distressed and unwilling to buy it, but let him use the soybeans produced in his own field. If you want to change, then he will definitely be willing.

But Dong Bao thought about it for a long time, and she still didn't want to make such an opening. In order to play Baoji's brand, she has high requirements for beans. The dry, shriveled, and worm-eyed beans are picked out and thrown away to ensure the quality of tofu and bean sprouts.

When she went to sell tofu with her parents in her previous life, she also exchanged beans for tofu at the beginning, but the beans she collected were not very good, either moldy or rotten.There are also many noodle shops in the village who trade wheat for noodles. Some of them are poor wheat that is infested with worms, and there is no way to grind and press noodles.

It’s hard to say that the people who buy tofu have a bad heart, but people have this kind of problem, there is this kind of luck, thinking that the tofu seller uses so many beans, how can I eat tofu made of bad beans by such a coincidence .

Seeing Sanwei's earnest eyes, Dongbao nodded after thinking about it, "Yes, yes, but you must ensure the quality of the beans you collect, if they are not good, I will not accept them here, and try to charge money as much as possible. We have to ensure the quality of tofu, otherwise people will think that tofu is not good when they see us accepting such poor beans, and they will not buy tofu in the future.”

"I know this well, and I won't harvest bad beans. Then how do we change?" Sanwei asked.

Dong Bao thought about it, and said: "One catty of beans can be exchanged for one catty of tofu or one catty of bean sprouts. If he thinks it's expensive, let him buy it with money."

"Okay!" Sanwei said with a smile. When a farmer goes to sell beans, he can sell them for two and a half cents a catty. If a catty of beans can be exchanged for a catty of tofu or bean sprouts, there must be more people willing.It's just that I have to worry more. If the quality of the beans can't satisfy Dongbao, I'm afraid they won't sell tofu wholesale to them in the future.

In the evening, Dongbao's house was more lively than usual. Several people closed the door and sat in the room to discuss matters. Even Lin Fu and old man Lin also came.

Several people were having a meeting to discuss how to spend the 300 taels of silver brought back by Dong Bao.

Mrs. Li wanted to save up, and when Dong Bao got married, she would buy Dong Bao a dowry and build a big house.Li Hongqin suggested to buy another shop, because there is a lot of traffic now, and there is often no room for customers in the shop.Qiuxia agreed with Li Hongqin's opinion, "Many people wanted to come in and eat, but they left when there was no place to sit."

After a few people finished speaking, they looked at Dong Bao.

Dong Bao thought it was a good idea. The elders present all respected her opinion. No one wanted to surpass Li Shi to be her master like Uncle Song.

"I want to buy land." Dongbao said. In this farming society, without one's own land, there is no sense of security. After all, food is the foundation of human survival. Like her and Li now without their own land, they can eat anything. You have to pay for it yourself, which is inconvenient and expensive.

Li Shi nodded, agreeing with Dong Bao's point of view. "I think it's better to buy land." She is a farmer at heart, and nothing is better than land.When Dong Bao gets married, it would be nice to use the land as a dowry.

Lin Fu smiled and said: "Nowadays, the better land is ten taels of silver per mu. Dongbao earns enough money to buy thirty mu of land, which is enough for a family. If the lesser land, he can buy fifty or sixty mu of land." mu."

"Buy a good land." Dong Bao said quickly, "Don't be afraid to spend money, the important thing is that the things are good."

Li Hongqin saw that Dongbao had already made up her mind, so she smiled and said, "Then let your Brother Liang Zi ask to see if there is anyone who sells land. This kid is reliable in his work, don't worry!"

Dong Bao glanced at Zhang Xiuyu, who bowed her head and said nothing, jokingly said, "Auntie is looking at Brother Liang Zi now, how pleasing to my eyes!"

Zhang Xiuyu blushed, secretly pushed Dong Bao, and said softly, "Don't talk nonsense!"

Liang Zi was indeed fast and reliable in his work. Within two days after Mrs. Li asked him to do so, he found a family that wanted to sell land, about 35 mu of land, not far from Yuanshui Town, but a little far from Tagouji. The family wanted to sell the land and open a grocery store in the town, so they were in a hurry to sell.

"The land is good." Liang Zi said to the Li family members, "I went to see it, and the crops are growing well."

Dong Bao interjected and asked, "There are still crops growing in the field, we bought them now, who owns the crops?"

"Forget it." Liang Zi drank his saliva and said, "The total land is 45 mu. In fact, there are five or six more acres of land, which is less than 46 mu. That person sold it as 45 mu. He just wants to pay now. After the crops are harvested, the land will be handed over."

Mrs. Li nodded and said: "If the land is good, it's okay." The crops were produced by others, so there is no reason to give them to others for nothing.

"Auntie, why don't you take a look at it when you have time?" Liang Zi smiled, "The man is selling it in a hurry. If it's too late, he might sell it to someone else."

In the afternoon of that day, Li Shi and Li Hongqin took Dong Bao and Liang Zi led them to the field. The crops grew quite gratifyingly, the corn grew tall, and many of them had grown sticks.Mrs. Li knelt down again and squeezed a handful of soil, crushed it, looked at it, nodded in satisfaction, and said, "This place is not bad."

After seeing the ground, Mrs. Li fell in love with him.Dong Bao didn't know much about the reasoning here, and since Mrs. Li was interested, it should be good, so she nodded with Liang Zi and decided to buy the land.

The silver she brought back from Anzhou was not enough, so she made up for it from her previous savings, and was led by Liang Zi to the town office to register the land deed. From then on, the 45 mu of land belonged to her, Song Dongning.

For the first time, Dong Bao felt a strong sense of belonging here, looking at the lush field, they will be able to harvest their own food next year.I remembered that when I was in the Song family, the Huang family didn't allow them to eat enough, and the noodles they served were all watery soup. Now that they have their own land, even if they don't do business, they can't fight the famine, and they don't need to look at others face to eat.

After taking the title deed, a few people went back to Tagouji. Within two steps into the village, they saw a monkey-like child running out of a house, followed by a woman carrying a fire stick. , but couldn't catch up with the child in front, and cursed angrily: "You shameless monkey boy! If you dare to steal from my house, I will break your hand!"

Seeing Dong Bao and his party pass by the door, the woman felt a little embarrassed, stopped and wiped her drooping hair, and greeted with a smile, "Miss Xiucai, are you back?"

Mrs. Li let out an "hey" and asked, "Grandma Liu, what are you missing?"

This woman is not much older than Mrs. Li, but her seniority is high. According to the rules, Dongbao will call her Grandma.

"It's nothing, my chicken just laid an egg, and it was touched by this quick-handed monkey cub. It's not once or twice, I'm so mad!" Grandma Liu laughed, "It's nothing, you are tired It's been a day, go home and rest!"

Mrs. Li comforted Grandma Liu a few words, and several people continued to rush home.

On the way, Dong Bao said to Mrs. Li: "Mom, I think that kid who stole eggs looks like a big hair!"

Although the child ran extremely fast, only a shadow remained behind, Dong Bao still recognized it.

(End of this chapter)