Dressed as a blacksmith

It was a sunny day for several days in a row, and the ox carts were easy to drive on the road, and more and more people rushed to the county town to pay the land tax and go to the market.

From the warehouse gate opened by the yamen, there were two long queues.

Along the two sides of the line, there are another line of hawkers of various colors, some selling steamed stuffed buns, some selling cooking cakes, some selling needlework, and some selling sugar water...

This has been a habit that has been formed for decades. Every year when the land tax is paid, a market is spontaneously formed here to make it lively.People in the city also need to pay taxes, and those who have paid will come to join in the fun and visit the market.

This time, Yu Dameng and Qiao Yuan also came early to take up a place. Thanks to staying in the iron shop last night, they got a good place.

There is a curfew in the county seat, and people in the village often arrive at the gate of the city before the curfew is lifted, and most of them don't have time to have breakfast.I can't help but smell the aroma, especially the pancakes, the hot pan is stinging with cold oil, and the aroma is wafting all over the street.When I asked the price, the one without eggs was only two pennies. They were paired together, and you helped me arrange the land tax, and I bought pancakes for you.

Fortunately, Lin Cuifen is here, after all, she is a woman who is used to doing housework, and she is much more agile than Yu Dameng.She was in charge of cooking, Qiao Yuan was in charge of wrapping the vegetables with pancakes, and Yu Dameng was preparing the oiled paper, waiting to pick up the pancakes Qiao Yuan made, wrapping them up and handing them to the guests.Father Yu is in charge of collecting the money, and the twin brothers are in charge of looking after Brother Liu.

After being busy with breakfast for a while, Lin Cuifen was not lightly tired, and she felt sorry for her child's earning money.

A seller of sweet water next door even offered them water to drink, thinking to himself that he was really smart today, next to the vegetable pancake stall, even his own business has doubled compared to previous years!

The Yu family would not drink him for nothing, Qiao Yuan gave him pancakes to eat.

Seeing that the sun was almost here, and everyone in the city had finished their breakfast and came here to join in the fun, Qiao Yuan asked Yu Shanwu to ring the gong borrowed from the village.

The sound of the gong attracted people to watch the excitement.

Qiao Yuan stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Hello, folks, we are from the Yu family iron shop. Recently, the iron shop has released a new piece of iron, and I want to show you a scene."

Yu Shanwu flattered and asked, "What is it?"

"That's the grater and paring knife!"

The two of them asked and answered, which amused everyone.

Someone asked curiously, "What is this?"

Qiao Yuan smiled, and immediately said, "I'll show it to everyone!"

After all, I took out two potatoes, first peeled them with a paring knife, one shredded the potatoes with a grater, and sliced ​​​​the other.This operation only took a moment.Yu Shanwen took the grated potatoes and walked around the crowd for everyone to see.

Everyone wondered: "It's so fast to cut into shreds and slices!"

"The thickness of the silk is about the same, and the slice is neither thin nor thick."

"how much is this?"

Qiao Yuan replied: "The grater and scissors are priced at the same price, two hundred renminbi each, can be grated or sliced, and the paring knife only costs [-] renminbi."

The price is not bad, and the grater is more delicate and difficult to make than scissors.

However, many farmers still feel that there is no need to spend this money, why don't they just cut a vegetable?

But most of the people in the city are well-off, and this is just a box of rouge money for women, so someone asked: "Little brother, can I try these two things of yours?"

Qiao Yuan saw that it was Granny Niu from the Niujia Baozi Shop, and immediately agreed.

This thing is easy to learn, and Grandma Niu has just watched Qiao Yuan's demonstration, and she has already used it very smoothly.The experience was good, and she could sleep for another quarter of an hour in the morning. She paid for two graters and a paring knife, and asked Qiao Yuan if she could make something convenient for chopping meat.

Qiao Yuan: "..."

This is really embarrassing!

She has been making buns in the city for decades, and everyone in Yunshui County is very familiar with her, and everyone who was watching asked her if she was good.

"It's good! If it's not good, can I still buy it?" She thought that cutting radishes would save trouble in the future, and the old man would let her do it if he didn't want to be lazy.

Seeing this, Qiao Yuan said in a timely manner: "Anyone who comes to buy can try it." Anyway, the peeled potatoes will not be wasted, and they will be sold in vegetable pancakes at noon.

In this way, the business of the grater was completely opened, and the stall was full of people for a while.Qiao Yuan was afraid that something might go wrong, so he asked Yu Dameng to watch carefully.On the contrary, he was more worried. Yu Dameng followed Father Yu. He was a big and terrifying man. Although the twin brothers were young, they were still there. The four of them looked like bodyguards when they went there. Who was so ignorant!

Now is the busiest time in the market, and some people who saw it later thought it was a juggling show, and gathered together to watch the fun, but it turned out that it was Yu's Iron Shop selling ironware again!After he understood what was going on, he was told that it was sold out before he was in the queue!

"I'm sorry everyone, the grater and paring knife are complicated to make, so I just made these pieces. If you want to buy something later, please register with me and pay a deposit, or you can go to Yu's Iron Shop."

"Everyone remember that the silk grater and paring knife are only available in Yu's Iron Shop! Only Yu's Iron Shop has them!"

Many people in the county had dealt with Yu's iron shop, and knew that this iron shop was always honest and the quality of the ironware it forged was good.Besides, the shop is in the county town, so it's not worthwhile to cheat people for their own money, and those who didn't buy it paid for it to make an appointment.

When he saw that he still asked what his name was, where he was from, where he lived, and when he would come to pick it up, wrote it on the paper, and gave him a pick-up certificate, and his heart was completely settled.

This is the method Qiao Yuan came up with. In order to prevent anyone from claiming it falsely, he specially wrote modern simplified characters in charcoal. No matter how good you are, it will be difficult to imitate it in a short time!

In the afternoon, because of the excitement of selling ironware, vegetable pancakes became popular again.

After a day of tossing, the whole family was exhausted.

But the results are gratifying, and the family counts the money behind closed doors.

Vegetable pancakes earn 730 yuan today!

The grater and paring knife earned a total of 27 taels and [-] cash, of which [-] taels were fixed money.

Slapping Lin Cuifen happily, "How can this be good? How did our family make so much money all of a sudden? This is only for one day!"

Qiao Yuan is also happy when he sees his family happy, and he is also a little money fan. "Mother, there are still twelve tails of gold in the back! And after that, word spread slowly, and I guess more can be sold."

"Can there be more?" Lin Cuifen seemed to have seen a lot of money being thrown at her, and put her arms around Qiao Yuan again and said happily: "This is all thanks to our brother Yuan!"

Qiao Yuan looked at Yu Dameng and said proudly: "Da Meng thought of this!"

Yu Dameng smiled shyly, and rescued Qiao Yuan from Lin Cuifen's grasp.

Father Yu took a puff of his dry cigarette, with a smile on his face, "Let's count it again, put the money on, and go to the bank tomorrow to change the whole silver." He shook the cigarette bag and said, "There is a bill on the account of the iron shop. 30 taels of living silver is enough. From now on, the store will distribute the money every month. This idea is your idea, and the money will be calculated separately, so you can take the big money."

His daughter-in-law here can earn money, but he can't let his son always spend his daughter-in-law's earnings all year round.

Qiao Yuan was unwilling, but Father Yu and Lin Cuifen insisted, he finally shied away, but this time he only paid 15 taels of silver, and from now on, the income will be calculated at four or six cents per month.

After discussing it, Lin Cuifen hurried to get the hemp rope to rub, and the family entered the time of counting money happily again.

The next day was still early in the morning. Father Yu and Yu Dameng moved things to occupy a seat first. Lin Cuifen and Qiao Yuan brought a few small dishes to prepare pancakes. The pancakes were made late last night.Although the past two days have been extremely hard, the family does not feel tired if they can earn money.

People from Xianhe Village also came to pay the land tax today. Although the village head only arranged for a few people, everyone was worried and wanted to see it by themselves, and also came to the market to buy things.Therefore, I met a lot of acquaintances on this street today.

Aunt Zhao still came to him to buy pancakes, but Qiao Yuan didn't want to take money, so before he could say anything, Aunt Zhao said: "Business is business, even if you are in a village, you can't lose a penny."

These words were obviously intended for the other Xianhe Villagers who gathered around his stall to watch the excitement.

Qian Caiwang's family hurriedly echoed: "That's right! Brother Yuan, I'll buy one and try it too!" Her family is engaged in lotus pond fish farming, and they have been selling fish on this street for the past two days. Qiao Yuan gave it away yesterday. The pancakes are for her family to eat. There are many women in the village today, and she also walks with her. Naturally, she wants to help Qiao Yuan speak.

Others who wanted to bargain were embarrassed to open their mouths after hearing this. A woman can fill her stomach by buying pancakes for two pennies, which is much more cost-effective than buying buns. Therefore, anyone who wants to fill their stomachs still chooses to buy pancakes.

Aunt Zhao also helped him for a while. After the stall was free, she chatted with them: "I don't know if you haven't been in the village these two days. Qiao Da beat Xiuhua again!"

"Why are you beating again? Why does he keep beating women!" Lin Cuifen was very angry.

One size counts, although Xu Xiuhua is very annoying, but as a woman, she can't bear it when a man beats his wife.

Aunt Zhao also sighed, "Xiuhua didn't dare to say anything, but when I went to her house to collect the land tax, I saw her lying on the bed, so I went over to have a look, and she started crying." Aunt Zhao lowered her voice, "I saw that she was covered with injuries, but it couldn't be seen on her face!"

It fit Qiao Guangzhi's style, vicious and hypocritical.So even though Xu Xiuhua's demeanor didn't affect Qiao Guangzhi's reputation in the village at all, Qiao Yuan even heard villagers sympathize with Qiao Guangzhi for marrying such a troublemaker several times.

"But you don't have to sympathize with her! Isn't her family's wheat soaked by the rain? This year, the production has been reduced a lot, and the former one is sitting on the ground crying, pointing at our village people and scolding us, saying that no one will help her! You Said that if she usually does more personnel, can we not help?"

What Aunt Zhao didn't say was that it was the Yu family that Xu Xiuhua scolded heavily, and Qiao Yuan was the one who scolded the most and most ruthlessly.Now that the family is happily making money, she can't make trouble by talking about these things, the most important thing is to live a good life.

However, even if she didn't say anything, Qiao Yuan would have guessed how Xu Xiuhua would miss him.