Rebirth in another world is good for farming

Sitting in Uncle Wu's ox cart to go to the market again, Zhang Xiaoliu was already familiar with it, and even squinted on the ox cart for a while.Instead, Mai Mai nervously held the small basket and sat upright all the time.At this time, more brothers go to the market, probably because the five-color rope pattern of the May Festival affects the fashion trend of the year, and they all want to take advantage of this time to see the excitement.

The bullock cart bumped for more than an hour, and it was already daylight when we arrived in the town.The few people in the same car, Zhang Xiaoliu, were not very familiar with each other, only that Brother Lang had spoken a few times, and after getting out of the car, he greeted politely and went their separate ways.

Sure enough, today's market is still full of five-color ropes, after all, it is used by every household, rich and poor.If there are too many, even if they cannot be sold, they will still be sold next year.

Zhang Xiaoliu and Mai looked at the things in other people's stalls as they walked, and after comparing them, they felt that the five-color rope made by Mai was quite good, and they felt a little more confident.There are also those bracelets that use the accessories carved by Zhao Zhengze, which are even more novel that no one has.

"Brother, why don't we put it here as soon as possible?" Walking in from the intersection where we got off the bus, there are temporary stalls everywhere, and there are many people picking in front of the stalls.Seeing that the busiest part of the road is over, Mai Mai suggested.

Zhang Xiaoliu looked at it carefully for a long time before saying: "We are not going to put it here, go to the front."

"Aren't there more people here?" Mai Mai followed obediently, but she still didn't understand.

"The five-color ropes here are almost all selling colored ropes together. Many people bought colored ropes and went back to weave them themselves, so it must be the colored ropes that sell well. Your things are well woven, but if you put them among them, there is no one. We can find it. Let’s go to places where there are few people, and people can see it at a glance.” Even if someone saw it, they might not be willing to spend ten copper coins for such a gadget.They have few things, so it is better to go to the place with more houses in front, people in the town usually have more money.

Mai Mai understood as soon as she heard it, and followed her brother for a long time before stopping at a place with many shops.

"Let's go there." Zhang Xiaoliu pointed to the exit of an alley by the side of the main road. Firstly, the people who run shops around would not like a few copper coins. If they saw something interesting, they might buy it back to amuse the children; There is a residential area in the alley, and they have to pass through here when they come in and out.

They set up a stall very simply, everything is in a basket, they just put the basket in front of them, hang a few colored ropes on the handle of the basket, and occasionally shout a few words when they see people passing by.

There is a fee to set up serious stalls, fixed stalls are handed over every month, temporary stalls like theirs have to pay three to five copper coins if there is a supervision inspection by the city, and if no one sees them, the payment will be waived .

Their luck is obviously good. Although it is not as crowded as the market, there are still many people passing by.Both of them have a cute appearance and are easy to attract attention.

"Little brother, how do you sell this five-color rope?" The first person who came to ask was indeed a young man who had just come out of the alley. He was holding a two or three-year-old child in his arms, probably out for shopping.

"One of the five-color ropes is four cash, and the lower hand rope is ten cash." Zhang Xiaoliu just watched from behind and let Maimai take care of it.Mai Mai was a little nervous at first, but he relaxed when he saw the child in his arms spitting bubbles at him, feeling very much like his younger brother before.

Only then did the man notice that there were some different hand ropes at the bottom of the basket, and he flipped through it quite interestingly, holding the basket made of peach pits and said with a smile: "I only know that people grind the peach pits through and pick out the middle. It can blow out sounds when it is empty, and it turns out that it can be made into such an interesting thing. Did you make it?"

"It was made by my elder brother at home." Mai Mai also smiled at him, showing a few white teeth.Seeing that he was still rummaging, he said, "Peach pits are not easy to find before peaches are born. Besides, peach pits are the best at warding off evil spirits, and children love to play with them." It is said that children have the sharpest eyes and can see bad things, so Also particularly fond of Shenmu.

As soon as he finished speaking, the child in the man's arms grabbed his hand to get the bracelet with the peach pit on his palm.

"Yo, you bastard, what are you talking about?" He obviously spoiled the child very much, and slipped the rope around the child's wrist, allowing him to play with his left hand, and said to Maimai: "How do you know?" So many? You have a smart mouth. I want this."

He took out ten copper plates and put them in Mai Mai's palm, then left with the child in his arms.

"Brother, look." Mai Mai happily waved the copper plate in front of Zhang Xiaoliu with a satisfied face.

"This is what you earned, take it first. We will go shopping after they are all sold."

Now that it's started, things will go much smoother.In an hour, eleven bracelets were sold one after another, but the five-color ropes were left unattended.This is not surprising. Although the five-color rope is more delicately woven, there must be some handy people among the stalls.On the contrary, the things that Zhao Zhengze grinds are not common and require a certain amount of craftsmanship.

When the last person bought all the remaining bracelets and five-color ropes, Maimai almost jumped up for joy.Zhang Xiaoliu helped him put away all the money, looking thoughtfully at the somewhat familiar figure.Except for the people in the village, he really didn't know many people, and most of them were met when he was shopping, but now he couldn't remember it for a while.

Since you can't figure it out, it's fine, anyway, it seems that there is nothing wrong with people buying goods and paying for them.Zhang Xiaoliu turned his attention back, shook the money bag in his hand, and the two hundred copper coins in it were quite heavy, so he jokingly asked, "I'll use the money you earned to buy things today, okay?"

Just during the chat, Mai also mentioned that half of the money should be given to Zhao Zhengze, because the things he made are valuable.

"Okay, brother, what else do you want to buy at home?" Mai Mai's eyes sparkled, as if she felt that she could do something for the family, and her mood was very clear.

"I won't buy anything for the time being, I'll take this money home for you." Recently, I often come to the market, and there is no rush to buy, Zhang Xiaoliu is just teasing him.

If you follow the method at noon today, not to mention the time to make it, even if it is sold, it will take a long time to set up a stall.A bracelet costs ten cents, and you can only do this once or twice, so you will definitely not make much money, that is, you can be happy to make pocket money for your children.In fact, after seeing Zhao Zhengze's craftsmanship, he was inspired. Maybe he can make some things for sale during the slack season.What he likes the most is peach pit carving. Apart from the time-consuming, it is low-cost, exquisite and beautiful. It should be popular with young men and children when made into bracelets or ornaments.But this will take a lot of time, and it can be discussed later.

Because Zhang Xiaoliu had a plan in mind, they never made bracelets to sell again.Although the five-color rope seems to be very popular now, the price is not high.Seeing that they all liked the things they made, Zhao Zhengze would still pick up some strange-shaped stones or wood from the river or on the mountain when he was free, and come back to carve and paint, and the finished products were also placed in small baskets.

By May [-]th, the eggplants and bitter gourds in the vegetable field are full of branches.The purple eggplants, the green bitter gourds, and the growing cucumbers on the fence are really bumper harvests at this time.Zhang Xiaoliu took Zhao Zhengze and Mai Mai to pick half a basket of bitter gourds and a dozen more eggplants.

Because Cao'er was sick this year, and the mother was busy taking care of the children to take care of the housework, their vegetable field was ruined several times by chickens and ducks.Zhang Xiaoliu asked Maimai to send over the freshly picked vegetables and a five-color rope for Xiaoliu.Dashun's family had a good harvest, and the family started to dry the vegetables if they couldn't finish eating, so Zhang Xiaoliu didn't send any more.

Because the soybeans in the field can be harvested very quickly, there are especially many people who make tofu during the May Festival.Zhang's family had neither soybeans nor tools for making tofu, so Zhang Xiaoliu naturally didn't dare to think about making it, so he just went to the village where the pig was slaughtered, cut the meat and stuffed it to make bitter gourd.

Stuffed bitter gourd is the most important dish of this festival, probably because bitter gourd is the most seasonal, and it has the effect of eliminating fire and detoxification.The way of making bitter gourd here is also slightly different. In addition to stuffing meat, there is also a glutinous rice filling.Soak the glutinous rice in water for half an hour, then pour off the water, mix with salt and oil to taste, and pour it into the bitter gourd until it is cooked without leaking.

It is not easy to do this. The bitter gourd is full of bitter gourd seeds. First of all, it needs to be cut in half to hollow out the seeds inside, and then soaked for half an hour.When all the fillings are ready, drain the water and fill the fillings, put them in the pot and simmer for two to three quarters of an hour.

People here think that the bitter gourd is the most delicious the next day, so this dish should be prepared one day in advance.At night, Zhang Xiaoliu and Zhao Zhengze were very busy with their work, so they settled everything.

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After doing all the other things on the first night, the day of the festival was very relaxed.Mai Mai got up early in the morning and dragged his younger brother over, and Zhang Xiaoliu tied five-color ropes around their wrists.During this process, he couldn't speak, but Xiaomai remembered that Shizhu gave him one at this time, so he hurriedly found it and handed it to his brother.

Zhang Xiaoliu tied them up for them, patted the clothes to keep the poisonous patients away, and then said: "Okay, be careful not to drop them, and I will untie them for you when you have to burn them."

Xiao Song quickly ran away.

"Mai, why is the color of this five-color rope a little different?" Zhang Xiaoliu said, pointing to his wrist.

"Oh, Shizhu gave it to me, I just remembered it." Probably because I remembered to feed the chicken with the small fish when I came back that day, and I put this thing on the bedside and forgot about it.Because the five-color rope can't be kept by your side all the time, it will have to be burned after five months, so I just went to get it and put it on.

Zhang Xiaoliu's eyelids twitched, and he instinctively felt that something like hand jewelry always had an inexplicable taste.But thinking that he was just two children, and May Day was just an ordinary holiday, he waved his hand to show that he knew and let him go out to play.

The last one to come in was Zhao Zhengze. Although Zhang Xiaoliu had told him last night that he would come over when he woke up, he was obviously not used to the role of "parent" for a brother younger than himself.Zhang Xiaoliu beckoned to him again, and he came over.

Zhang Xiaoliu tied his five-colored rope tightly just like before, and then said: "I heard you get up early tomorrow, why are you here so late?"

"Wheat and the others want to take the lead, I don't care." After getting up and putting on the five-color rope this day, I have to go on the road, the sooner the better.I didn't expect him to observe so meticulously and considerately make the two children happy for a long time.