Chapter 79: Soybeans are a treasure

Chapter 79 Soybeans are a treasure

As soon as Mrs. Chen saw Gu Jinli, she immediately rushed up and said, "Xiaoyu, you sold that snake for two to eight hundred yuan? Hey, how come a few broken snakes are so valuable?"

He blamed Gu Jinli again: "You didn't call my aunt when you went to catch such a valuable thing. If my aunt was here, I would definitely be able to help you catch dozens more."

 Chen's flesh was throbbing with pain. It would be nice if her family could share the money.

Gu Jinli looked at her and said with a smile: "Okay, next time we go to catch snakes, we will definitely call your aunt, but the snakes that can be sold for money are highly poisonous, and being bitten will be fatal. When the time comes, If something happens, your aunt can't blame me."

Mr. Chen was afraid of death. When she heard this, her face twitched and she said with a smile: "Here, let Auntie think about this again."

While talking, Uncle Tian and his son, Gu Dafu and Gu Dagui also picked up things and returned to the door of the grain store.

Not long after, the Luo family father and son also bought good things and came to the grain store to meet up.

The Luo family bought a lot of things, including enough cotton and cloth. They were also responsible for ordering water tanks for several companies: "A water tank costs 500 yuan, and we ordered five. If we want to transport it to the village, each water tank will cost 500 yuan." The water tank needs an extra hundred dollars, but I didn't let him give it away. I made an agreement with the master to come and move it out at Chenshi tomorrow."

　　Tomorrow after midnight, the shopkeeper and his family will go back to the countryside to celebrate the New Year, and will not come back until after the new year.

“Okay, let’s finish shopping quickly and go back, rest early in the evening, rush to the town before midnight tomorrow, and carry the water tank back.” After the third grandfather finished speaking, he led a few people into the grain store to buy the most important grain.

 There are large earthenware jars placed in the grain shop, which contain various kinds of grains, mainly rice, flour, beans and grains.

They also sell seeds, including grain seeds, vegetable seeds, bean seeds, garlic seeds, onions, and even dried chili peppers!

Gu Jinli was really shocked when he saw the peppers. He pointed at the peppers and asked the shopkeeper: "Uncle, what is this red thing?"

 The shopkeeper glanced at her and ignored her, thinking she was stupid and didn't even know Chili Pepper.

Qin Sanlang said: "This is spicy food. Like dogwood and ginger, they are all spicy. They were introduced from outside the customs in the previous dynasty."

 It turned out to be something that existed in the previous dynasty, and it came from outside the customs, not from the sea.

Gu Jinli once again marveled at the mixture of Dachu and Chu. Seeing that Qin Sanlang knew more, he asked him again: "Are there any potatoes and corn?" In the memory of the original owner, there were no such things, only soybeans, sweet potatoes and wild vegetables.

"Potatoes and corn? I've never heard of them. What are they?" Qin Sanlang asked her with a frown.

Gu Jinli said: "They are two edible things. I heard a few old people say it when I was escaping from famine. I guess they are things produced in their mountains."

She was afraid that Qin Sanlang would ask him deeply, so after saying that, she took a cloth bag and went to pick peppers, garlic, and onions, about a pound each, and took them to Gu Dashan and the others to choose food.

 The things they buy the most are sweet potatoes and soybeans. These two items are cheap, costing three pennies per pound. A sack can last for a long time.

Rice and noodles are expensive, new rice and new noodles are sold for thirty cents per catty; brown rice with chaff is sold for twenty cents per catty; millet is eighteen cents, and old rice is cheap, only fifteen cents per catty, and there is also a kind of mold Rice is cheaper, only five cents a pound.

Her family bought fifty catties of soybeans, fifty catties of sweet potatoes, twenty catties of old rice, ten catties of millet, and five catties of noodles.

 The Luo family, Gu Damu family, and Gu Dafu family bought similar things to them.

 Qin Sanlang did not buy soybeans, but only sweet potatoes, brown rice and millet.

The Tian family only bought soybeans, sweet potatoes, and a pound of old rice.

　　After paying the money, they did not go back immediately. Instead, one person from the family was left waiting in front of the grain shop, while the rest went to the butcher shop in the town to buy meat. They wanted to worship their ancestors during the New Year, so they had to buy some meat anyway.

Meat is expensive, especially fat meat, which sells for thirty cents per catty, which is a full ten cents more expensive than pork belly, and lean meat is ten cents cheaper than pork belly.

 Gu Jinli’s family bought one catty of fat meat and one catty of lean meat. The other families, except the Tian family, all bought two catties of meat.

 After shopping, it was already afternoon, and several families stopped staying and headed back with their things. Because there are so many things, Gu Jinli also has to pick up wooden barrels, pots, pots, bowls and other sundries.

While passing by a farmer’s stall, they bought some eggs and other cheap groceries. After buying it, we kept walking out of the town, hurrying and slowly, and finally returned to the village in the evening.

When passing by the old mud house where they stayed the night before, they saw several villagers surrounding the yard of the old mud house, and He Sanshengzi was talking dirty words into the yard.

Mr. Mo was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed: "Get out of here right now. If you don't get out, I'll go to the village chief and file a lawsuit against you!"

San Leizi laughed and said: "Sue us? Sue us for talking dirty jokes around the old earthen house in Dafeng Village? This is a house in Dafeng Village, not your Mo family. You lived in our Dafeng Village without giving us any money." You still dare to sue us in your house, where do you have the face!"

"You can do it without giving me any money. Call out your eldest granddaughter and let us kiss you. We will recognize you as people from Dafeng Village." After saying this, He Sanshengzi laughed evilly with several villagers. , which made Mr. Mo very angry.

A woman's voice came from the old earthen house: "I told you a long time ago that the money cannot be saved, you have to dig for it, now it's okay!"

Grandpa San and the others did not stop, but quickly walked past this old earthen house and returned to the rented house at the end of the village.

Third Grandma and the others had been waiting impatiently for a long time. When they saw them coming back, all the women and children from the house ran out of the house.

“You are back, have you finished shopping?” asked the third grandma.

Third Grandpa took off the burden, rubbed his shoulders and said: "After buying it, there are five water jars left. We will move them tomorrow morning. How are you at home today?"

"Well, we gave the village money, and Mr. Qin and Erlang are guarding it. The gangsters in the village dare not approach."

　　　When the children from several families saw them coming back with so many things, they were all so happy that they held on to their burdens without letting go.

The adults were helpless and could only carry the burden while letting them carry it, chattering all the way back to their homes.

Gu Jinli’s family bought too many things, and it took them a full hour to put everything away.

Mrs. Cui looked at the cotton and cotton cloth and said distressedly: "Why did you buy so much cloth? Just buy some burlap, and burlap can also be used to make clothes."

“Mom, we will work hard to make money, you don’t have to be so frugal.” Gu Jinli said, “It’s not good to wear burlap for the Chinese New Year.”

The burlap is also used to make mourning clothes, worn by those who wear mourning. Their families still have some money, so there is no need for all the clothes to be made of burlap during the New Year.

Although the third grandma was also heartbroken, she liked children and immediately helped: "Xiaoyu wants you to dress decently. When we get to the village, we have to wear some decent clothes. If you dress poorly, you will be looked down upon by the villagers. .”

After hearing this, Mrs. Cui stopped talking and carefully put away the cotton and two pieces of cotton cloth.

　　After the family finished packing their things, they had a hurried dinner and then went to bed tiredly.

Before dawn the next day, several men rushed to the town to carry the water tanks ordered yesterday.

After Gu Jinli got up, he ran to Luo's Tian's house and told them that he wanted to use the millstone in the yard.

Gu Jinli wanted to make tofu, but among the several rented yards, only the Luojia Tian family’s yard had a dirty old millstone.

 The two adults naturally agreed.

Gu Jinli carried a wooden bucket to fetch water to wash the millstone.

Luo Huiniang played well with her and came over to help: "Xiaoyu, can soybeans really make tofu?"

 Gu Jinli said while washing the millstone: "Yes. Soybeans are a treasure. In addition to tofu, they can also be used to make many foods, such as bean cakes. This can be eaten as a staple food or as a vegetable."

 (End of this chapter)