Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

While the stove was still hot, An Yue hurriedly added some firewood and prepared to boil water to blanch the shepherd's purse. While waiting, An Yue also cut the wild garlic into sections and put them aside.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the water in the pot had boiled.

An Yue poured the shepherd's purse into the pot, stirred it a few times, and then took it out and rinsed it with cold water.

Then squeeze out the water from the shepherd's purse, put it into a container and spread it out gently with chopsticks. Put the chopped wild garlic into the container as well. Add a little salt, cornus officinalis powder, and pepper powder, stir back and forth evenly. The wild garlic and shepherd's purse salad is ready and ready to be served.

Grandma shouted from under the eaves: "Yueyue, come and eat!"

"Okay, I'll be right there." An Yue carried the plate to the main room and prepared to eat.

Grandfather was sitting in the seat of honor. He saw the plate in An Yue's hand from a distance, and his eyes revealed curiosity.

"What dish is Yueyue making this time?" Grandfather asked eagerly, looking at the plate.

"Grandfather, the name of this dish is 'Wild Garlic Mixed with Shepherd's Purse'." An Yue said with a smile as she placed the plate in the middle of the table.

Although grandpa seemed taciturn and didn't ask about trivial matters on weekdays, in An Yue's eyes, grandpa sometimes had a cute side of an old child, especially when he saw something delicious, he really couldn't move his feet. In modern terms, he was a "foodie".

As soon as it was placed, my grandfather picked up his chopsticks and prepared to taste it.

Grandma took a sip of corn paste and said with a smile, "Then grandma should also try the wild garlic and shepherd's purse made by Yueyue."

"Not bad, not bad, fresh and refreshing!" said the grandfather with praise.

"Oh... I didn't expect that I could eat such fresh and delicious wild vegetables in this winter." Grandfather sighed slowly.

Grandma chewed the vegetables, took a bite of the sweet potato, and said with a smile: "Old man, our Yueyue has really grown up and is becoming more and more capable~!"

Grandfather's smile gradually disappeared and he didn't say anything. He just raised his head slightly to look at the roof, then lowered his head and took a sip of corn porridge.

Instantly, the atmosphere in the whole room was silent and quiet.

"Sister, I don't like this dish very much." An Nian said with a frown.

"Why is this?" An Yue asked An Nian carefully.

An Nian stuck out his tongue and said with a breath, "Too spicy!"

Seeing An Nian sticking out his tongue and breathing like a puppy, his grandparents couldn't help but laugh, and the atmosphere eased a lot.

After lunch, everyone put down their chopsticks and prepared to leave the table. An Yue asked seriously, "Grandpa and grandma, Yue Yue wants to hear your true opinion on this dish."

Seeing An Yue asking seriously, Grandfather thought the answer must be very important. He said to An Yue: "What Grandfather said during the meal just now was his true feelings, and he was not exaggerating at all."

"Yueyue, what do you want to do?" asked the grandmother puzzledly.

"Hehe... When my uncle comes back, he will take me to the market to sell fish. Yueyue wants to..." An Yue hugged her grandmother's arm and carefully expressed her thoughts.

After listening carefully, the grandfather's eyes became solemn. He seemed to have understood what An Yue would have to bear in the future.

He took a deep breath, waved to An Yue and said, "Yue Yue, come here, come to grandpa."

Grandfather looked at An Yue seriously, stretched out his rough and calloused old hand, gently shook An Yue's small hand, and said, "Yue Yue, Grandfather knows that you are a capable child. Just do whatever you want to do boldly! You don't have to worry about what others think of you."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Just remember one thing: no matter whether you succeed or not in the future, your grandmother and I will always be waiting for you."

After listening to her grandfather's words, An Yue's eyes were filled with tears without her knowing.

An Yue nodded vigorously and replied: "Yes! Yueyue will remember it."

Grandfather reached out and gently wiped away the tears on An Yue's cheek, pointed his index finger to the sky, and said to An Yue: "Good child, you must believe that man can conquer nature!"

An Yue said to her grandfather confidently: "Grandfather's words, Yueyue has kept them in mind."

After saying this, tears began to drip down An Yue's face again.

Grandma stood up from the bench, walked to An Yue, slowly squatted down, took out a handkerchief from her arms, and gently wiped An Yue's tears.

He smiled and joked, "Grandma thought Yueyue was already an adult! Oops... I remembered it wrong! I remembered it wrong! I guess grandma is getting old and confused. Our Yueyue is still a crying kid~!"

After her grandmother finished speaking, An Yue burst into laughter.

An Nian was playing with a bird that his grandfather had made out of bamboo silk. When he saw his sister being amused by his grandmother, he ran over and said, "So, your sister is also a crybaby."

An Yue also immediately replied: "That Niannian is still a slug!"

An Nian stuck out his tongue mischievously and said with a grimace: "Lululu..."

The four generations of grandparents and grandchildren then left the table. Grandmother still refused to let An Yue wash the dishes, so An Yue had to go under the eaves and pick the remaining wild garlic.

After picking, place all the wild garlic and wild vegetables in a shady firewood house.

Seeing that An Nian had wiped the tables and chairs and swept the floor, An Yue stood up and took her brother back to the house to take a rest.

An Yue was lying in bed, thinking to herself that when she woke up in the afternoon, she would definitely go around to the left side of the village entrance with An Nian to see if they could find some other good things.

Now An Yue only wants to figure out how to make money. The New Year is coming soon, and she has to hurry up and buy a new coat for An Nian.

Now some of the wild vegetables and wild garlic have been prepared, and more than a dozen fish have also been prepared. An Yue has always felt that if the wild vegetables are kept at home for two or three days and then taken to the market to be sold, they may not be fresh and will be difficult to sell.

I decided to wait for my uncle to come back and cook a meal of wild vegetables and wild garlic for him to try. There were wild vegetables everywhere in the fields anyway, and it would be enough to dig them up the day before the market.

But the most troublesome thing now is the fish.

How to take this live fish to the market? In this era, there are no cars and no leak-proof plastic bags. The wooden bucket must be filled with water to ensure that the fish will not die. The key is that there is no strength.

But even if we can take it to the market, with these live fish in the market, people will at most just come and take a look.

If it was a dead fish, probably no one would even look at it, let alone expect anyone to buy it. An Yue felt a headache the more she thought about it as she lay there.

Anyway, my uncle will be home tomorrow at the latest. He needs to rest after he gets home and will have to go to the market the next day at the latest.

After thinking about it again and again, a new idea suddenly came to my mind.

First, pickle the fish with salt. First, it is convenient for preservation, and second, it is also convenient to take it to the market.

But pickled fish requires salt, and salt is another problem. In that era, salt is more precious than meat.