Joe's Farming

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So I didn't get to see the sunrise the next day.

However, Qiao Yu has already made plans. He will stay at an inn by the sea tonight and go to see it early tomorrow morning.

But they won't vacate the room here, so it's just perfect for storing things.

Maybe it was because exercising late at night was too tiring, Qiao Yu felt very hungry when he woke up.

Because we got up too late, the inn had cleared out breakfast.

Gu Feng took his men out to look for food.

What a coincidence, Qiao Yu saw the two brothers selling sugarcane again.

"Hi, what a coincidence. Why are you here so early today?"

Qiao Yu greeted warmly.

The two brothers looked at each other, then whispered, "We came here at this time yesterday."

Chen Han and Tie Zhu followed behind with expressionless faces.

But in his heart he was already embarrassed for his employer.

Qiao Yu chuckled and said, "I remembered it wrongly. Do you still have this sugarcane? I want to buy some more."

The two brothers were surprised and asked, "How much do you want to buy?"

Qiao Yu looked at Gu Feng. Gu Feng knew that Qiao Yu was afraid that he had bought too much, so he let him make the decision.

"About a thousand." Gu Feng said calmly.

"what?"

The two brothers couldn't believe it.

A piece of sugarcane weighs at least four pounds, and a large one can weigh seven or eight pounds.

A thousand of them would weigh several thousand kilograms.

Because Qiao Yu wanted to rent a boat to go back to Taoyuan, Gu Feng specifically asked the waiter yesterday how heavy the boats that could be rented at the pier here were.

A thousand sugarcanes should be just enough to fill one boat.

Qiao Yu said he wanted a boatload of sugarcane, so he would buy him one.

It’s only about twenty taels of silver.

"You should have a lot of sugarcane at home, right? You can sell them all to me."

Qiao Yu said gently.

He knew that his husband would definitely pamper him.

The older of the two children said politely, "Wait a moment."

Then he pulled another child aside and said, "Xiao Hai, do we still have that much sugar cane?"

The child named Xiao Hai shook his head and said, "Most of them were taken away by the Wang family a while ago. There are only a few bundles left at home."

"If I had known earlier, I should have asked your mother to keep the sugarcane so that we could take it to town and sell it."

Ji Cheng said in annoyance.

Xiaohai is the son of his aunt. His uncle passed away early, and the family depends on his aunt growing sugarcane to support the family.

Xiao Hai also felt a little sad: "The Wang family didn't want to take my family's property at first, but they took it in because my mother sold it at a low price.

Because of this, my mother was scolded by other people in the village."

Ji Cheng patted his cousin's head and said, "Many people are planting sugarcane this year, so it's normal for the Wang family to suppress the price."

Qiao Yu watched the two children mumbling to each other and said to Gu Feng, "I'm afraid my husband won't be able to buy me a boatload of sugarcane. The two children's brows are so wrinkled that they can pinch a fly."

Suddenly, the older one patted the younger one on the shoulder, making the younger one grimace in dismay.

But after a while, the two children came over happily.

Ji Cheng looked at Gu Feng and Qiao Yu with a smile on his face: "When do you two want the sugarcane? Can you pay us half of the deposit first?"

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Half of the deposit is too much. How about 20%? I can just deliver it to the pier in front by tomorrow night."

The two children looked hesitant, but Ji Cheng finally nodded and said, "Okay."

Gu Feng counted out four taels of silver and gave them to the two children.

Qiao Yu stayed in front of the sugarcane stall for a while and was so hungry that she quickly pulled Gu Feng to a nearby shop selling crab roe noodles.

"Boss, four bowls of crab roe noodles!"

Qiao Yu shouted loudly.

"Okay! How many crabs do you want as toppings?"

It took Qiao Yu a while to realize that different amounts of toppings should have different prices.

“How many crabs are there usually?”

The boss was an elderly man, and he said kindly, "Usually it's two, plus five cents."

Qiao Yu exclaimed that it was cheap, saying that the price of a crab here was almost the same as that of an egg in Shangtian Village.

"Then give each of us a bowl of ten!"

Gu Feng had no objection and only ordered: "Add three more bowls of noodles."

Qiao Yu smiled at her husband and he forgot about it.

The boss's crab roe topping is made by steaming crabs early in the morning and then picking out the crab meat and roe with his wife.

The crab roe is fried in lard and then added with crab meat.

The seasonings are soy sauce and homemade oyster sauce.

In order to remove the fishy smell, onions and ginger slices are first added to the lard, fried until fragrant, then removed and the crab roe is added.

The crab roe fried in this way is not fishy at all and tastes very delicious.

After the noodles are cooked, pour the crab roe on them and sprinkle some chopped green onions on them, and add nothing else.

When Qiao Yu saw the crab roe topping that was about to overflow, she couldn't wait to take a bite.

"Mmmmm...husband, this is so delicious! Come on, eat it!"

The aroma of crab roe and crab meat seemed to explode in her mouth, and Qiao Yu squinted her eyes happily.

He took a second sip carefully.

I tried to taste how it was made, and finally couldn't help but ask the boss.

The boss didn't hide it, because this practice was not a secret in Nanyang City.

Everything else matched, except the oil used, which Qiao Yu mis-guessed.

"It turns out to be lard, no wonder it smells so good."

After finishing their noodles, Qiao Yu and Gu Feng discovered that the two children were missing.

"Maybe we should go back and tell the adults that we want to buy sugarcane."

Gu Feng said.

Qiao Yu said with some regret: "I should have taken one earlier. I'm very thirsty now."

Gu Feng pointed to the stall selling blue sugar water and asked, "Do you still want to drink it?"

Qiao Yu's face suddenly turned dark.

"I'd rather die than drink it."

He doesn't want to have diarrhea again today.

"what is that?"

Gu Feng pointed at a couple at the dock. The man was holding a large green fruit with a cut in the middle.

The man was facing the hole, as if drinking water.

Qiao Yu said excitedly: "I said how could there be no coconuts on the beach!"

He had diarrhea yesterday and couldn't find any place selling coconuts.

Qiao Yu looked at the stall selling blue sugar water again. The stall owner felt a chill, but after looking around and seeing nothing unusual, he continued to sell the sugar water that had not been sold yesterday with peace of mind.

Qiao Yu pulled Gu Feng to the man who was drinking coconut milk.

"Excuse me, where did you buy this fruit?"

Gu Feng didn't want her husband to ask the strange man, so he asked first.

The couple was stunned for a moment, then pointed to an inconspicuous little shop.

“We bought it there.”

Gu Feng clasped his fists: "Thank you."

When I turned around, Qiao Yu was already jogging to the store to buy coconuts.

Gu Feng looked at Qiao Yu's lively appearance and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

How could he know that Qiao Yu was dying of thirst because he had just eaten too much crab roe and it was too salty.

So I would rather endure the discomfort and run faster.

Plus, it’s pure coconut flavor.

He hasn't had a drink in three years!

As soon as Qiao Yu arrived at the store, he shouted proudly: "Boss, four coconuts! I want big ones! Help me open them!"