Xiuse Farmhouse

Chapter 60

After finally arriving at the market, he pulled the meat directly to the back door of the restaurant, politely told the doorkeeper to find shopkeeper Yu, and at the same time handed over a few copper coins when no one was watching.

Money has to be talked about in any era!

Wanwan and Baishou would give a few copper coins every time they came. Although they didn't have much money, the gatekeepers were very happy to get a few extra copper coins to help spread the word in this small town.

Smiling and telling Wanwan to wait, the gatekeeper went in.

After a while, the little brother who guarded the door came out and said that shopkeeper Yu was busy and asked them to wait.

Wanwan thanked him again.Several people put down their things and rested on the spot.After waiting for a quarter of an hour and still not seeing Shopkeeper Yu, Shitou Niang worriedly said, "Why hasn't anyone come out yet? There won't be any problems, right?"

"That's right, Wanwan, do you want to let the little brother who guards the gate go in again?" Yuan Baoniang also asked aside.

"It should be that shopkeeper Yu has something to do and can't make time, let's wait." Wanwan thought for a while.

I also began to ponder in my heart, this reckless approach is really wrong, next time I have to ask shopkeeper Yu for a deposit first!
Just when everyone was guessing and wondering, a man in a long robe came out. Seeing Wanwan and Baishou, shopkeeper Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm really sorry, something happened just now, everyone Wait for a long time." Then he glanced at the other people, and looked at Wanwan and Baishou inquiringly.

"These people are making cured pork with us." Wanwan introduced Daddy Yuanbao one by one, and then said: "Shopkeeper Yu, you have a lot of work, we are not busy, so it's okay to wait."

Shopkeeper Yu immediately laughed and invited a few people into the backyard.

Everyone moved the cured pork to the backyard of the restaurant, and Yu Tang inspected all the cabinets one by one, and was very satisfied. When he saw the sauced pork ribs and sausages, he was a little curious.Wanwan told him in detail the special features of the sauced ribs and sausages.

"...Spicy with numbness, hemp with fragrance, rich and fragrant, full of taste, cut into slices, oily and shiny, just looking at it will greatly increase your appetite, I guarantee you will want to eat it again..."

Shopkeeper Yu couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this, and smiled for a moment and said, "I've never seen this thing even though I've traveled all over the country, so I wonder if it's really as delicious as you said?"

Wanwan smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Master Yu can cook a small piece later and taste it for yourself. Besides, you are our long-term customer. If I lie to you, what good will it do me? For that Wouldn't it be our loss to lose a big customer like you for a little bit of profit?"

Shopkeeper Yu nodded secretly as he listened. During the days of being in touch with Wanwan Baishou, he also saw that the two of them were genuine and honest people, but Wanwan was more eccentric and had more ideas, but he didn't like the sausage she said I have some doubts.

As the saying goes, if you don't want to part with a child, you can't be a wolf. Shopkeeper Yu simply bought all the cured pork, ribs and sausages.

The pigs of Wanwan's family are smaller than those of the other two families, so the cured pork and ribs are naturally less. However, the price of sauced pork ribs is higher than that of cured pork, and the price of sausage is naturally the highest, so Wanwan's family got a total of 30 taels of silver , and Yuanbao's family and Shitou's family also got more than 20 taels of silver.
The old Zhutou on the side was also stunned, this is 30 taels of silver for nothing, so easy to get it?

After selling the meat, a few people left the restaurant.

Wan Wan generously brought a pot of burning knives to Li Zhutou, and bought some dried dates for him to take back for fifteen renminbi, thanking him for helping them bring the bacon to the market.

Li Zhutou smiled so that the creases on his face appeared. Although he is shrewd, he is still a sincere person: "Oh, how can this be possible? Just go along the way. How about this? I will keep the wine, and you can keep it for yourself." .”

Wanwan pushed the jujube back: "The jujube is bought for the aunt."

Only then did Li Zhutou accept it, and then he pulled the ox cart to do his own business.

This time the pork was sold for so much money thanks to Wanwan's idea, Yuan Baoniang and Shitouniang discussed: "This time, thanks to the second sister, we can continue to earn so much money, how about this, we invite you two to go buy it." Restaurant?"

"Yes, yes, it's been such a hard time, let's go and have a good drink." Yuan Bao's father agreed, and Shitou's father took Baishou's shoulders: "How is it? Brothers and sisters are also going to taste the wine in the restaurant today. Is it the same?"

Baishou scratched his head in some confusion: "I'm a person who gets dizzy when I drink alcohol. Why don't I return it later? What's the matter?"

Several people laughed, and Wan Wan also pursed his lips and laughed lightly.

A few people didn't go to the restaurant, they walked around the market, took advantage of the crowds and empty hands today, and bought some household items that needed to be purchased at home.Yuan Baoniang and Shitou Niang each bought some food for their children, and also bought some things to honor the elderly at home.

Wanwan bought two new bowls and chopsticks, bought two copper basins, and when he went to the dry goods store, he bought dried dates, soybeans, and peanuts, and then picked out two kinds of sugar that were more suitable and bought a pack of each.

There are still fifteen days before the Chinese New Year, and I will wait another ten days before buying other New Year's goods.She and Baishou were the only ones in their family, and they couldn't eat much.

Everyone is very happy today, a big rock in their hearts has been solved, and a few people are not in a hurry to go home. They walked home slowly after shopping enough.

Time always comes with people's mood, and the time passes very quickly when the mood is good. Several people talked and laughed, and soon arrived at the village, and then went back home.

In the evening, Wanwan took out the piggy bank. The last time I sold wild boar meat, I got five taels of silver. In addition, I usually earn tens of hundreds of taels a day from selling cakes. When I go out to spend, I still have more than 30 taels of silver on hand. Wanwan wrapped the silver with a cloth and put it in an earthen pot, buried it under the bed. She still had more than 100 Wen in her hand. She gave [-] Wen to Baishou, and she only kept five Wen on her body.How can a man not put some money on his body for self-defense.

But Baishou didn't want it, and only took five copper coins, and returned the rest to her.Let him keep Wanwan, maybe he will need it when he goes out.

Baishou said: "I'm either at home or on the mountain all day long. If I lose it, it won't be worth it. If I really want to go out, I will ask you for it."

Wan Wan nodded, it really makes sense.Hide all the silver in the bottom of the box.

From the next day, Wanwan and Baishou started selling biscuits again. This time she changed the way of sweetness, completely dissolved the sugar in water, cut the biscuits into thin pieces, brushed them with sugar water, and folded the biscuits in half. , and then dried into a round shape.

In this way, the sweetness can be more evenly distributed, and the sugar can penetrate into the flour better. It doesn’t taste like the original sweet in the middle, but loses its flavor towards the sides.

There are a lot of people going to the market before the end of the year, and more cakes are sold.

The two were at home in the afternoon, and Baishou made a wooden table with the wood saved from building the pigsty last time.Two stools.I also made a fence and circled the front and back of the house as my own area. In ancient times, this was good. Even if you built a house in the front and back of the house, no one would care about you. In modern times, the township government can't do anything about it. People came in two days.

There is a large piece of good land next to the vegetable garden, which is waiting for spring peppers to be planted. A piece of land can be surrounded behind the house to the door of the chicken coop, so that the chickens can be free-ranged again.There is enough room to raise ten more.Next year, their family will reorganize the house and add two more rooms, so they won't have to worry about taking a bath.And there is a place to live when someone comes.

However, it seems that no one will come to live in their house!
Wanwan thought joyfully in her heart.

The closer the Chinese New Year is, the more lively and festive the atmosphere will be. Everyone has smiles on their faces, and children can be seen laughing happily in the village every day.For children, the New Year is a long-awaited, not only delicious food but also new clothes to wear.

Many people in the village are busy selling fat pigs. Wanwan and Baishou only need to go to the market in the morning and stay at home in the afternoon, which is very relaxing.

It will soon be the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and everyone will be busy from this day on.

In the morning, the two of them went to sell cakes as usual, and when they were done, they bought new year's goods and some fruits, and at night they would sacrifice to the stove.

This ancient stove is also worshiping the stove king. People call this god "Siming Bodhisattva" or "Saojun Siming". It is said that he is the "Nine Heavens East Cook Siming Stove King's Mansion" conferred by the Jade Emperor. Kitchen fire is worshiped as the protector of the family.

In many people's homes, there is a god of "Stove Lord" in the kitchen.

The Kitchen God has stayed at home since New Year's Eve last year to protect and monitor the family; on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will ascend to heaven to report the family's good or evil deeds to the Jade Emperor in the sky, and send the Kitchen God ceremony. It is called "send stove" or "ci stove".According to the report of the Stove Lord, the Jade Emperor handed over to the Stove Lord the fate of the family's good and bad fortune in the new year.

Therefore, people would say some kind words to the Stove Lord when worshiping, such as "Say more good things than bad things" or "...please speak good words to the Jade Emperor".

In the evening, Baishou puts the table in the stove room. There is no statue of the Stove Lord in their house, so they offer incense in the direction of the stove, offer sweets bought from the market, and put paper horses made of bamboo sticks (this is a gift in the market) available for sale) and fodder for livestock.It means to make his old man sweet mouth.Tell him not to speak ill.

After worshiping, those who have god statues at home will take them off and ascend to heaven together with paper and smoke.

This is sending the Stove Lord to heaven!

In other places, sesame stalks and pine branches are piled up in the yard at night, and then the statue of the Kitchen God that has been offered for a year is taken out of the shrine, together with paper horses and fodder, and set on fire.The whole family prayed while burning.

This custom is also common in modern rural areas.It's just that it has been passed down to modern times, and the rules are no longer as strict as before, and have been simplified.

After the stove is finished, it is time to start sweeping the dust.In some places it is called "dusting".In modern times, it is the general cleaning before the Spring Festival.

Baishou found a long stick, tied a bunch of bamboo leaves at one end, and covered his head with a towel to prevent all the dust from falling on his hair.Start sweeping from the house to the yard, from the roof to the walls.

After sweeping the dust, clean all the household utensils and so on, as well as bedding and curtains, sweep the courtyard, shake off the dirt and cobwebs, and dredge the open channels and underground ditches.

Its meaning is to sweep away bad luck and bad luck.According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn" records, my country has the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the era of Yao and shun.

Wanwan remembers that when I was a child, I did a big cleaning in my hometown. I followed the adults to move the benches, chairs, tables, TVs and other easy-to-move things in the yard, and then the adults started to sweep the dust from inside the house. The important thing is Yes there are some cobwebs on the roof.

It was very interesting then.

(End of this chapter)