Chapter 264 The price is high

Old Zhou Tou glanced at the time and said to Mrs Feng, "Go to Zhou Hu's house and ask if your mother will come back for dinner."

Feng Shi responded.

Qian gave birth to many children. Although she is not a midwife, everyone in the village likes to let her sit in the yard when giving birth. Even if she does nothing, she can talk to the mother.

Feng shi came back soon and said, "It wasn't so fast, it was launched, and it would be good to be able to give birth at night."

So everyone didn't wait for her, and started to eat with tableware and chopsticks. After the meal, Feng shi helped put the tableware and chopsticks in the kitchen. Today, it was Zhou Xi's turn to wash the tableware and chopsticks.

Then the adults moved chairs and stools to the yard to sit and summarize today's work, while the children ran around and played in the yard, and the older ones took burnt sticks and wrote in the yard. Writing and drawing is all about remembering the words that Manbao taught them.

Man Bao taught them another piece of "The Analects of Confucius", which was not long, only three sentences. She used a wooden stick to write the words clearly on the ground. After teaching them to read it twice, she dropped the stick and listened to the second. brother speak.

On Tuesday, Lang took out all the income from this time in the city, and everyone's eyes couldn't help but freeze, because there were four strings of copper plates that were stringed together, and there were a lot of unstringed ones, and there were fifty or sixty articles by sight.

Lang Le Tao Tao said on Tuesday: "Father, although tofu and vegetables are cheap, they add up to a lot. The wild mushrooms we brought are also selling well. There are few people selling wild mushrooms this year, and those rich people are willing to spend money. ."

Lao Zhoutou was impatient. They have all sold these things before, and they knew the price. This was not what he wanted to know the most, so he said directly: "Just tell me how much Fuling sold for."

The smile on Zhou Lang's face couldn't be suppressed, "You must have never imagined that the tuckahoe is still carrying mud. Manager Zheng took it all and weighed it together with the skin. It's 80 wen per pound. I'll take it with me. The two pieces that I bought are three and a half catties, so I sold them for two hundred and eighty cents."

With just two pieces of tuckahoe, the money sold was comparable to the one basket of wild mushrooms, two baskets of vegetables and two buckets of tofu he brought.

If it weren't for that basket of wild mushrooms, I'm afraid I would have to add a basket of vegetables and a bucket of tofu to compare to the two pieces of Poria.

The old Zhoutou was also surprised and asked, "This thing is so expensive? It's even more expensive than a privet?"

"No, I heard from Manager Zheng that some old ladies and young ladies like to use Poria as a snack and dessert. They say it is a beauty product, and it is not worse than bird's nest, so a box of Poria can be sold for two to ten taels. s price."

On Tuesday, Lang still felt a little regretful, "Our Poria is big, and the flesh is white. It is said to be excellent. After it's cooked, a box can sell for at least five taels. I've seen the boxes they put Poria in, and it definitely won't hold a pound. It is estimated that it looks like seven or eight taels."

The abacus in the old Zhoutou's heart began to fight, "Should I cut it and dry it? Then we will dry it at home..."

"Dad, don't think about it, it's not that simple," said Tuesday Lang: "It has to be concocted, this Poria is not a privet, just take it out in the hot water and dry it. I heard that there are several ways. , and the Poria obtained by each method is different, and the diseases it treats are also different, there is a kind of cinnabar system, but it is difficult, I can’t remember it anyway.”

Old Zhou Tou looked at Man Bao.

Everyone's eyes followed.

Man Bao was listening with relish. Seeing everyone was looking at her, she blinked and asked, "What's wrong?"

Old Zhoutou asked expectantly, "Manbao, have you seen books on concocted medicinal materials at Mr. Zhuang and Shanbao's house?"

Man Bao thought for a while and said, "It seems that Mr. Zhuang has a thin book there."

Old Zhoutou's eyes were shining, and he asked, "Can you read it clearly?"

Man Bao knew what Father's idea was, and said, "Father, don't think about it, it's easy to fail with concocting medicinal materials, and we don't have any skilled hands, so we have to buy cinnabar. If the processing is not good, then not only the cinnabar is wasted, but the tuckahoe is also wasted, what a waste."

This thing is so hard to find, how can it be wasted?

After Man Bao said this, Zhou Yi Lang immediately woke up and said, "Father, this pound of Poria is 80 wen, and it's sticky with the skin on."

Man Bao couldn't help but said: "Second brother, the skin of Poria is also a medicinal material, so of course you have to wear the skin."

"Oh, even the skin is a medicinal herb."

That day, Zhou Lang was even more reluctant, and said, "Father, even the skin has to be cooked. This is what Man Bao can teach, and we probably won't be able to learn it."

Thursday Lang nodded fiercely, "Father, this thing is not easy to find."

Old Zhou Tou sighed in disappointment, "Okay, then let's find Poria to sell Poria."

But after losing so much money for nothing, the old Zhoutou still felt a little heartache, so he glared at the sons with hatred that iron was not steel, and said, "Look at all of you, Bai Chang is so big, he can't even concoct a medicinal material. "

Brothers: ... You will, but you will go.

In fact, Zhou Dalang and the others think that they are already very powerful. When they were young, which of the things they are doing now, which one has their father done?

In the past, their father could only work in the fields, as long as he was not hungry all year round. The clothes worn by the brothers were all picked up by their uncles, and then passed down one by one.

Man Bao is as easily satisfied as her brothers. Her husband has taught her and Bai Shanbao more than once that they should slow down, run forward if they don't know how to walk, and don't even think about flying to the sky after running.

The former will fall hard, while the latter may fall from the sky to the ground.

The former may just be very painful, and it will be fine after a while, but the latter will kill people. Of course, this consequence is the result of in-depth discussions between Man Bao and Keke.

Therefore, although she is always full of self-confidence, to a certain extent, she feels that she is still very humble and self-aware.

Keke: That's weird!

Old Zhoutou asked Man Bao to take out the ledger and write down all the money that Tuesday Lang brought back today. Then he began to take all the money. After thinking about it, he counted ten coins from the scattered copper plates. He gave him the money and said, "Since the vegetables and tofu can be sold at a price, then you will continue to go to the county town tomorrow. Didn't you say that the vegetables in Xiaowan can be eaten?"

"It's okay, but it's too tender. It's delicious. It's a bit of a loss for us to sell it at this time."

"Then continue to sell the vegetables from the vegetable garden tomorrow. The vegetables from Xiaowan will be suitable in two or three days. For everyone, you can soak the beans now, and get up early tomorrow to make tofu."

Mr. Qian responded.

On Tuesday, Lang took the ten pennies and sighed sadly. If only his mother was at home, you must know that now his income from entering the city is paid to the public, and he doesn't have any share, so every time he enters the city, his mother Will give him fifteen cents.

In addition to the entry fee and protection fee, he still has about five cents left. He can buy a bowl of hot soup with dry food in the county town, and occasionally eat a steamed bun.

But his father gave him ten cents today.

Man Bao also felt that her father was very stingy. She glanced at her second brother sympathetically and then patted her butt to watch her nephews and nieces write. She took a shower and changed her clothes, so she can't go out to play today.