Blessed Peasant Woman of Time Traveling

Chapter 21

When Ding Xiang saw Aunt Zhong's mysterious smile, she became even more curious.However, if Mrs. Zhong didn't want her to know, she wouldn't force her to ask.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Zhong was so forthright, she immediately lifted the cover, and she touched it with her hands in surprise, "It's done! It's really grown up, and it's not too small!"

Ding Xiang smiled, "Isn't this bean sprouts?"

"You know him?" Aunt Zhong looked at Ding Xiang in surprise.

Ding Xiang thought it was nothing strange, who wouldn't know bean sprouts?She nodded and said, "I used to..."

She almost said that she used to eat this kind of thing, but fortunately she reacted quickly. Seeing Mrs. Zhong being so surprised, it must be that people here rarely eat bean sprouts, and some people don't even know them, so she quickly shut up.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it's really not surprising.The standard of living in the entire Wu County is not high. The villagers only grow grain to feed their stomachs, and they don't have any idle land to grow other miscellaneous grains. Beans can't be eaten often, so naturally no one grows them.Only when the food and clothing of the farmers in the affluent land have been solved will they grow all kinds of miscellaneous grains and sell them for money.

Liangfeng Town is the most affluent town in Wuxian County. Their town has enough paddy fields, and some of the grain they grow is kept for food and some is sold for money.But because paddy fields are not suitable for growing beans, no one in Liangfeng Town grows them.

If people in the county want to eat beans, they can only go to the shops to buy them. Because the ones shipped from other places are more expensive, it is estimated that few people buy them, so it is understandable that few people here have seen bean sprouts.

"I used to... I heard from my cousin." Ding Xiang said with a smile.

Aunt Zhong didn't ask how her cousin knew, but just looked at her bean sprouts with joy, "I tried to make it several times, but this is the first time I made it! My son secretly learned it from the landlord's cook." , I heard that the cook came from the south and knew a lot. My son taught me it after he came back. I didn’t expect it to work this time. Look, the bean sprouts are neat and beautiful!"

Ding Xiang was also happy with Aunt Zhong, "Auntie, can you sell bean sprouts in the future? Can you make money selling bean sprouts?"

Mrs. Zhong replied with a smile: "Who knows, of course we have to sell both tofu and bean sprouts. If it's not easy to sell, forget it, and it's not a loss to keep these for yourself. Mung beans are cheaper than soybeans for tofu. I I was reluctant to use soybeans to make bean sprouts, but I didn’t expect the bean sprouts made from mung beans to be very good. Mung beans only cost six yuan per catty, and you can still produce ten catties of bean sprouts! If you sell bean sprouts for one penny per catty, you can earn four for ten catties of bean sprouts. It’s worth a penny. Although the profit per catty is much less than selling tofu, it’s cheap, and maybe someone is willing to buy it. I don’t know if it will sell well, but I’ll try it tomorrow.”

Ding Xiang thinks Mrs. Zhong's idea is really good. Although tofu can earn a penny per catty, it only sells about ten catties a day, and sometimes it can't be sold because the price is expensive and people are reluctant to buy it.But the bean sprouts are only sold for a penny a catty, no matter how poor the family is, it is still very easy to spend a penny.

She was still thinking to herself, when she got home, she would also make tofu and bean sprouts for sale. If she couldn’t sell them in the village, she would go to the town. Can't sell.She doesn't expect to make a lot of money, as long as she doesn't lose money at first.

She quickly took out the remaining ten or so coins from her purse and stuffed it into Aunt Zhong's hand, "Madam, can you... teach me how to grow bean sprouts? Don't worry, you will never come to the county to sell it. If I don’t compete with you for business, I will go back to Qingshan Town to sell. If I come to the county to sell someday, you will let your two sons beat my stall!”

Aunt Zhong laughed, "Girl, since I let you see this, I didn't intend to hide it from you. It's actually very simple to do, so I can't charge you any more money."

Aunt Zhong wants to return the money to Ding Xiang, but Ding Xiang insists on refusing, "Auntie, you can take it, I originally kept the money for the inn, and you kindly let me stay overnight, the money should have been given to you. You want Teach me how to make tofu, and also teach me how to grow bean sprouts. You taught me the most important methods of making a living. In this way, you are my master. You will accept this little money no matter what. If I come again in the future The county wants to bring some good things to honor you."

Mrs. Zhong was delighted by what Ding Xiang said, "Oh, I never thought I would accept an apprentice. Well, I will accept the apprentice's wishes, otherwise I will be alienated. You will often come to my house to play in the future. I'll cook something delicious for you!"

"Hey." Ding Xiang felt warm in her heart.The most difficult thing between people is heart-to-heart communication, but Aunt Zhong is straightforward, without any reservations, and tells Ding Xiang what she has to say without turning around, which really moves Ding Xiang.

Aunt Zhong took out a jujube cake wrapped in several layers of paper from the cabinet, "Come on, Lilac, eat it quickly, or it will spoil if you don't eat it."

Originally, she saved it for her son to eat, but if she kept it, she was afraid it would really spoil, and she herself was not willing to eat it.Now that there is a girl like Ding Xiang that people like to be close to, she quickly took it out.

Ding Xiang knew that it was Aunt Zhong's wish, so she reached out to take it, but she broke off a small half and stuffed it into Aunt Zhong's mouth.Mrs. Zhong smiled as she ate, her heart was sweet. She had no daughter, only two sons, and the sons and mothers rarely spoke to each other, and they couldn't talk together. Today, one of them is accompanied by Lilac, and she will I will often come here to accompany her, she is really happy.

After eating jujube cake, Mrs. Zhong taught her how to soak mung beans in warm water, then cover them, and press them down with light objects.

"The cloves, soybeans, and mung beans are all soaked. Tofu can be made into tofu tomorrow morning. The bean sprouts may only sprout a little in the morning, but it's okay. If they are left there at night, they will grow like the ones I made. It's too late, we all sleep."

Ding Xiang was really tired this day, she slept very soundly, and had no dreams all night.

The next day, I was called by Aunt Zhong before dawn. It turns out that making tofu is not difficult. You just need to grind the soaked soybeans into slag, pour the ground juice into a pot and cook slowly, and it will become tofu. up!Ding Xiang and Mrs. Zhong fished out some bean brains, put some sugar in them and ate them. It was smooth and delicious. This was their breakfast.

Pour the bean brains into a large gauze cloth, then wrap it tightly, and press it with a heavy object. After an hour, it will be bright and the tofu will be ready.

Looking at the bean sprouts again, there are indeed some sprouts, and I believe they will grow up in the evening.Making bean sprouts is really worry-free. You don’t need to worry about anything after soaking them last night, just wait for them to grow.

Ding Xiang helped Mrs. Zhong set up the stall together, and the stall was to be placed in a downtown area, far away from Mrs. Zhong's house.On the way, Mrs. Zhong carried tofu and bean sprouts, and Ding Xiang carried a small table. When they reached the downtown area, Ding Xiang was very tired.

"Auntie, how do you usually set up a stall? You don't run back and forth twice, do you?"

Mrs. Zhong seemed very relaxed, "Where, I usually carry a small table on one shoulder and a load on the other. These are not heavy and don't tire me."

Aunt Zhong said and took out something wrapped in paper from the burden, "This is bean dregs made from the bean dregs that are ground when making tofu. You can dry it and cook it in porridge. It's delicious."

"Thank you, ma'am!" Ding Xiang knew it was time to say goodbye, and she was really reluctant to give up.

Aunt Zhong explained to Ding Xiang the essentials of making tofu and sprouting bean sprouts again. Ding Xiang remembered it firmly and thanked Aunt Zhong a lot before leaving.When she walked for a while and looked back at Mrs. Zhong, she saw people gathered around to buy Mrs. Zhong's bean sprouts. Ding Xiang smiled happily, hoping that Mrs. Zhong's business would be better and better.

Ding Xiang didn't go home right away, but wandered around in front of the small house next to the county government office.She has no money on her, and she wanted to go home and get the money to buy soybeans and mung beans in the county, but it would take two days to go back and forth. Sun Hong borrowed some money.

This time, she really planned to borrow money, instead of reaching out and asking him for it.Although the Sun family owed Haitang, she had already asked for money, so she couldn't ask Sun Hong for money endlessly because of this matter. Haitang would be unhappy if she found out, because this is the essence of being a human being.

Others can be shameless and thick-skinned, but she can't, otherwise she would be no different from a shameless person.

Unexpectedly, Sun Hong was really here. He had seen Ding Xiang wandering back and forth outside, and he sneaked out after the big brother of the Shan family went out.

"Ding Xiang, you haven't come home yet, did you come to see me?" Sun Hong looked left and right when he asked, for fear of being seen by the eldest brother or uncle of the Shan family.

Ding Xiang didn't want to embarrass him either, and said bluntly: "Cousin, I want to borrow a hundred Wen from you, do you have any?"

Sun Hong was stunned. Almost all his family's money was given to the Meng family. The cost of his engagement to Manao and the money he brought for this trip were all borrowed from his family.

Seeing that Sun Hong hesitated, Ding Xiang immediately said: "If you have, I hope you can lend me some. If you don't have one hundred, even eighty is fine. You go back to the house and write an IOU for me. I will press my fingerprint on it and wait for me. I will take the money and send it to your house when I get home, and I will never break my promise! If you really don’t have it, then forget it, I don’t want to embarrass you.”

Sun Hongsheng was afraid of being seen by others, and he didn't want Ding Xiang to think he was stingy, so he quickly took out the [-] Wen from his body, "Forget about the IOU, if I go into the house to write a note, it's not good if someone bumps into me, you should leave now. Don't be in a hurry to pay back the money, my mother knows it will be endless, and it will not be too late when I go to your house to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year."

"Thank you." Ding Xiang took the money and hurried to leave. Suddenly, she turned around and asked, "Have you settled down with your errand? What's the errand?"

After hearing this, Sun Hong's face brightened, "It's almost done. First, I will be assigned to be a jailer in the execution room to hone my training. If I do well, I will be a jailer in the lobby of the county government. Maybe there will be better jobs in the future. Wait two more days and start working."

Being a jailer can make him so happy, Ding Xiang really didn't know what to say, she didn't look back, and went straight to the grocery store.

(End of this chapter)