Yipin Farmer

In the kitchen of the Meng family's old house in Sanhua Village, the chopping boards rattled.

"Second, go and peel some garlic." Ting Shuang ordered while rolling out the noodles.

"Take garlic for dinner again." Ting Hui pouted and reluctantly came over and squatted in front of the stove to peel the garlic.

"Some food is good. In previous years, many people suffered from edema, even when they died." Ting Shuang thought of the natural and man-made disasters in the modern 60s, and heard that it was not because of bad harvests that so many people starved to death. Mainly still man-made.While thinking about it, he has a new plan. He also wants to go to the city to work and do some business, so the field and home will be handed over to the second child.

After hearing his plan, Ting Hui immediately said, "I can't do the work in the field, why don't I go to the city to find work?"

"Come on, you love to play so much, you will learn to be bad."

Ting Hui was about to refute.Just as he was talking, he heard a cry from outside: "Brother of the Meng family, come out quickly..."

Hearing the urgent cry, Ting Shuang hurried out, and as soon as she left the hospital, she found several people carrying Ting Ke over, she was so frightened that her heart couldn't beat.

"What's the matter?" Ting Hui rushed out and asked repeatedly.

The elder brother who led them told them the story. When the pillar was erected, the pillar fell down, and Tingke did not avoid the injury to his foot. Fortunately, there was a fork underneath, so the injury was not serious.

Ting Shuang looked at it and made sure that the bones were not broken, so she was relieved. She only thought that there were no tall buildings in ancient times, and the house would not fall, but she forgot that there was no crane or anything. It's dangerous, and I won't do this job in the future.

The foreman gave a sling of money, which was regarded as the settlement of the wages for these three days.

Ting Shuang was a little surprised. In modern times, we see many people who are in arrears of wages, beating migrant workers who ask for their hard-earned money, and even restricting their wages. Here, I can’t believe that I met someone who only worked for three days and doubled his wages.

After sending those workers away, I went to Ma Yaozi's house to invite him to have a look. After confirming that the bones were not broken, but only the muscles were injured, I was relieved to rest for half a month.

Ting Ke saw that his brothers looked sad, and comforted him, "It's okay, the injury is not serious, I know best. I don't have experience in doing it for the first time, and it will be fine if I do it next time..."

"What are you talking about next time, I won't do this anymore." Ting Shuang interrupted him, and made up his mind that any risky work would never be allowed to be done by his younger brothers. He really couldn't bear the excitement. He just saw Ting Ke being carried here. I almost fainted at the time, thinking of the modern popular saying: "I have worked hard to earn money, and I will return to before liberation when I get sick."In addition to being unbearable financially, it was even more unbearable mentally.

"It's really nothing..." Ting Ke muttered a few words in a low voice and didn't dare to say anything more.

Ting Shuang decided to buy something nutritious to eat. There are wounded people in the family, and it’s not good to eat pickled vegetables, mixed noodles, steamed buns, etc. Seeing that the baby chickens and piglets at home have not grown up yet, she is reluctant to kill them. Pigs are slaughtered only during the New Year in the village. Kill, I can't get pork now.It is better to buy in the city.

"Did you go to the city empty-handed?" Ting Ke asked him. It's not easy for the villagers to go to the city. No one goes to the city specifically for shopping, they just drop by when they sell things.

Ting Shuang looked through the things at home, and what she could sell was dried mushrooms that had been saved for a few days, and she could sell them for two dollars.Among the mushrooms picked these days, the oyster mushrooms are all eaten, and the shiitake mushrooms are dried and stored. They are sold in modern supermarkets for hundreds of yuan a catty. I don’t know how much they can sell here.

The next day, before dawn, Ting Shuang got up and made breakfast. With two pieces of dry food in her pocket, she went into the city with a basket on her back.There are no mules, horses, or carts. Fortunately, for light-legged young people, a few dozen miles is nothing.

When I entered the city, I looked and asked about the prices while walking, and I got a rough idea of ​​the prices here. Unlike Kaifeng, the prices here are relatively cheap, especially the food, but the fish is much more expensive. I don’t know why. .There are no dry goods.

After market research, Ting Shuang felt that her dried mushrooms should be sold and popular, but it would not work at a price that is more expensive than meat in modern times. buy meat.

So set the price slightly lower than pork.

After occupying the stall, he discovered sadly that he didn't bring a scale. Of course, he didn't think of bringing a scale without it at home.What to do?

Ting Shuang rolled her eyes, remembering that in her previous life, when she was shopping in the modern vegetable market, she had seen some vendors without scales, so she had an idea.The uncle who sells fish next to him is squatting there to sell fish, and there are not many people buying it.He went up to the left and called the uncle, borrowed someone's scale, divided all the dried mushrooms into several piles, and weighed each pile according to the weight of one catty, and left the fragments less than one catty as gifts.

When selling, they are sold in piles, and if you buy a pile, you will get a few gifts per catty.

Buyers find this method of selling interesting and convenient, but the price is a bit expensive.Ting Shuang highly praised her products as being good, long-lasting, nutritious, and capable of curing various diseases, strengthening the body, prolonging life, and making people look beautiful and so on.

The customer was a little confused, so he swore: "If I lie to you, I will be struck to death by lightning."

The ancients respected heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, and dared not swear indiscriminately, but for Ting Shuang from modern times, swearing is easier than eating fried beans, without mental stress, and mushrooms contain [-] essential amino acids and a variety of trace amounts Elements, especially shiitake mushrooms, have higher nutritional value. When the body is healthy, the blood vessels will flow smoothly and run on the surface, and of course it will become beautiful.

Therefore, he didn't think it was a lie, and he even believed that it was scientifically based, and he opened his mouth quickly, and made the customer nod straightly, and bought his product.

When they sold out the dried mushrooms, they immediately went to buy meat. The meat sellers had no storefronts, so they pushed a cart to sell them. There were a few pieces of meat hanging on the shelves with iron hooks, and there were quite a few people who bought them.

Ting Shuang waited beside her.

I saw a middle-aged woman who said she wanted to buy a catty of meat, and the butcher got a piece of meat with a single knife.Ting Shuang was stunned, and lamented that practice makes perfect, as the oil seller said in "The Oil Seller": "Only the hands are familiar with the ears."

The same seemingly inconspicuous kung fu is done well, and it becomes an amazing craft.

Another woman said that she wanted to buy a catty of minced meat to make meatballs, three fat and seven thin.The butcher cut off a piece of lean meat with one knife, and another piece of fat meat with one knife. The two knives in his hand were like juggling. The knife in one hand was chopped with the blade, and the knife with the other hand was chopped with the back of the knife, minced meat in a blink of an eye.

Another little daughter-in-law came to buy sliced ​​meat, and saw that the butcher sharpened his knife and sliced ​​the meat into thin slices. The meat was soft, not hard as it is in modern times, but he cut it into thin slices with even thickness.

Then, someone wants to buy ribs, and the butcher quickly cuts off the ribs one by one, and then chops them with a knife, and quickly chops the steak into pieces of suitable size.

Ting Shuang was watching intently, when she heard someone shouting next to her ear: "What are you buying?"

When Ting Shuang came back to her senses, she found that she was the only customer left. The butcher saw that he was just watching but not buying anything, and looked at him suspiciously.

Knowing that he suspected that he was a thief, Ting Shuang quickly worshiped him, praising him for his skill in swordsmanship, and his precision in swordsmanship was even more amazing.Wearing thousands of clothes, flattering but not wearing, the butcher puffed up his chest and looked proud when he heard the praise.

"But..." Ting Shuang, who was very curious, took the opportunity to ask for advice, "Just now when you chopped meat, why did you use the blade of one knife and the back of the other knife?"

The butcher explained to him: "My aunt buys meat to make meatballs, and chopping it like that can get out the juice of the meat, making it more chewy."

It turns out that the meat is chopped with the back of a knife to fully cut off the muscle fibers, which increases the elasticity and makes it more tender. I saw on TV that the meatballs were made by repeatedly beating them with two iron rods.

"It turns out there is such a thing." Ting Shuang complimented him again: "You cut the meat really thinly."

The butcher explained again: "That's the young daughter-in-law of the Huang family at the end of the street. She is very filial and often buys meat for her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law has bad teeth and stomach. She can only eat thin slices of meat, which must be cut horizontally."

Ting Shuang's admiration for him doubled immediately. First, he admired his craftsmanship, and now he admires his concept of treating customers as God. He serves so thoughtfully and considers customers so much. No wonder his business is very good. If he wants to do well, That's it.

Looking at it with admiration, I feel that the butcher looks masculine and masculine, and looks strangely familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.

"What are you going to buy?"

Ting Shuang finally remembered why she came here. The price of this meat is thirty yuan a catty, which is not cheap.Buying one catty is not enough for a few young men to stuff their teeth, and buying two catties will cost half of the price of selling dried mushrooms.The dried mushrooms are a lot of fresh mushrooms that shrunk to a light weight after being dried, and they can only be replaced with a little meat. Thinking about it, the meat hurts.

When I turned my head, I saw pig bones and offal piled under the case, including heart and stomach.This is also a great substitute for meat.

"How do you sell that big pig bone?"

"You can take all the two pennies."

"Then I'll take it." Ting Shuang took out the money. "Please help me chop up the bones."

If you can't chop it at once, and then chop it a second time, there will be broken bones attached, and it will be bad if you accidentally eat it.His technology is not yet capable of this.

The butcher didn't show any negligence just because what he bought was a cheap thing. He quickly chopped up the big bone with an axe, and chopped the spine into several pieces. While packing for him, he asked, "Do you have a dog?"

"Oh... oh..." Ting Shuang responded indiscriminately, it seemed that the bones were all used to feed dogs.I heard that what you eat will make up for you, and eating bones will make up for your bones. Although this statement is a bit far-fetched, pork bones have a meaty taste anyway. If you shave the meat on the bones, there is still a lot of it, and the bone marrow inside is also good. thing.

He asked again, "How do you sell the water?"

"Ten coins a pair."

Much cheaper than pork.It's not like in modern times, where tripe and intestines are more expensive than good pork belly. In ancient times, it was the opposite. It might not be easy to eat meat. Everyone valued meat, and the fatter the better, it's not like modern times that regard fat meat as a killer.

"Then I want it."

The butcher quickly fixed it for him, and Ting Shuang put all the bones he had bought into the basket and carried them on his back, ready to go home. Thinking about fried belly slices and fried fat intestines, he felt that his saliva was about to flow down.

Just as he was thinking about it, a person came over: "Does this little brother want a mochi ball? Children like it the most."

The peddler saw that he bought a lot of things, so he hurried to solicit business.

Ting Shuang looked into his basket. It turned out that hemp balls were rice balls made of fried rice and glued with sugar. It was the size of a fist and was used to coax children. Just as she was about to say no, she suddenly remembered that her family had been affected by so many people in the village. Zhou Ji doesn't have the strength to repay now, but those children can coax him.

Immediately, he bought a bunch of hemp balls with three Wen, put them all in a basket and carried them away.

"Get out of the way..."

A man on the opposite side was pushing the car and yelling, Ting Shuang hurried to get out of the way, but the man still couldn't stop the car, and the car overturned to the ground.

Ting Shuang stepped forward to help him up. The man was pushing a wheelbarrow, which was full of goods, and the weight was heavy. The pitiful wheel turned left and right, making it difficult to keep balance.Seeing him sweating profusely and looking embarrassed, Ting Shuang helped him support the car.

It was much easier to push the cart with someone holding the balance, and the two quickly pushed the cart to a clothing store.The man, who appeared to be a clerk in the shop, thanked him and invited him in for tea.

After a busy day, Ting Shuang also felt very thirsty, so she followed him in.After resting for a while, I looked around while drinking tea. This shop seemed to sell ready-made clothes, because there were a lot of scraps of cloth piled up in the corner, and I remembered that Dayingzi said that cloth had many functions, and asked: "Do you want those cloth? "

The guy said bluntly, "Take all you want."

Ting Shuang thanked her, and carried the cloth head, the basket and the sack, like carrying a mountain, and walking with things on her back, which was much more tiring than carrying a few kilograms of dried mushrooms when she came here.By the time I got home, the sun had already set.

Thinking of how happy her brothers were when they saw Rou, Ting Shuang quickened her pace, and when she got home, she saw Ting Hui and Ting Ke gathered together and didn't know what to say. When she saw him coming back, she panicked and stopped talking immediately.

"What are you two talking about? I won't say anything as soon as I see you." Ting Shuang put down the basket and asked them.

Ting Hui giggled and said in disguise, "We're talking about when you'll come back."