Popular peasant wife: mountain man lacks training

Chapter 273 Pork Stall
When they arrived at the market, Geng Sang and Fang first went to the embroidery workshop to pick up the embroidery.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder day by day, and the farm work in the field is finished, and when it is time for the slack farming, Fang took the embroidery and went home to do it as in previous years, in exchange for some money to subsidize the family. .

Geng Sang did not take it, since the last time she asked Fang to cut the clothes, Fang knew that Geng Sang was not good at these things, simple sewing and mending, needlework was fine, but delicate work such as embroidery was not something Geng could do. .

"Sangsang, I've finished what I have to do, but I haven't done one thing about you. Let's go and do your things?"

Fang didn't quite know what Geng Sang came to the town for today, but he had already finished his business, so he asked.

"Hui Lan, my business is easy to handle. I just go to the pork stall to buy a few catties of lard. If you don't want to buy anything else, then let's go over there and go straight out of town to go back."

"Why, is there no oil in your house?"

Fang smiled and said, "The third brother asked you why you didn't tell me in advance. These men just don't manage the family and don't know what is lacking in the house."

Geng Sang replied vaguely, only assuming that what Fang said was true, and did not explain seriously.

In fact, she bought these lard back to make soap. In the past, she liked to do some small handicrafts. DIYing some small gadgets was always considered to be unprofessional, but now it has a use.

In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, there were soaps very similar to today’s soaps, and they were relatively precious daily necessities at that time. Now, except for the bath beans that Lu Nanchuan gave him for bathing, Geng Sang has never seen them. I've never used this kind of thing, so I want to make some by myself.

There was a meat stall not far from the town's entrance. When Geng Sang and Fang's passed by, the meat had not been sold a lot, and there were not many people there.

It’s late autumn. At this time, ordinary farmers rarely buy pork to eat for themselves. It’s only during Chinese New Year and busy farming seasons that the family’s life is heavy and when they need to make up for it, the business of the butcher’s stall will be better. I think Usually, especially during the slack season, few people spend money for the sake of appetite.

"You two ladies, all the pork in my house is fresh. It was killed yesterday afternoon. How much do you think you want to buy?"

The meat stall is a well-known time-honored shop in the town. The bearded man who holds the knife is known as Butcher Hu, and he has been slaughtering pigs for decades.

Geng Sang saw that the pork was really fresh, so he chose two catties of pork belly, and then picked two catties of lard, and bought four catties of things at once. This is already considered a generous customer, and Butcher Hu happily weighed Geng Sang The meat is wrapped.

Pork belly is much more expensive than lean meat, mainly because people don’t often eat meaty meat. Geng Sang can understand, but I didn’t expect that lard is more expensive than pork belly.

It cost 150 Wen for this little thing. Geng Sang counted the copper coins and gave them to Butcher Hu in pain. Seeing that there were still many big bones piled up in the big wooden barrel next to his butcher shop, he bargained and asked him to give it away. two.

Butcher Hu with big bones also bought it on display, but the meat on the bones was shaved clean, and no one bought it for three to five yuan a catty. Seeing Geng Sang wanted it, they bought so many things, Butcher Hu He readily asked Geng Sang to choose two.

Holding the bought things, Geng Sang and Fang Shi went out of the town together and headed home.

(End of this chapter)