Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

After all kinds of things this winter, finally ushered in a warm festival - the winter solstice.

The winter solstice in the south is often not very cold, and the sun is even out, so it is not as warm as the winter solstice. Because of this, many places in the south do not pay much attention to the winter solstice festival, and at most two dishes are added as a festival.

However, the festive atmosphere in the village is still more lively than that in the city. Some people make cakes and rice dumplings, kill chickens and ducks, and invite relatives and friends to eat at home, which is also very grand.

Aunt Niu made zongzi one day in advance and sent them here. She sent six as many, and each of them was enough to eat one. It was used for breakfast or supper, and it took three days to finish all six. .

Ruan Xishi accepted the zongzi from Aunt Niu and thanked Aunt Niu.In the evening, he and Lu Ze sat in the living room and watched TV together, and saw a public service advertisement about the winter solstice on TV. The content of the advertisement was that the juniors who were usually busy with work and could not take care of the elderly at home brought gifts home on the day of the winter solstice. Make dumplings with the elderly and eat dumplings.Ruan Xishi suddenly felt emotional: "Why don't we buy dumplings and visit Uncle Niu's house tomorrow?"

Lu Ze thought it was a good proposal. Anyway, Uncle Niu's family only had two old people, so it was strange that they were deserted. They used to be more lively.

"Then let's buy some more food tomorrow, how about we eat lamb?"

Tomorrow, mutton will be much more expensive than usual. If it were normal, Ruan Xishi would be reluctant to buy mutton, but tomorrow is the holiday, and I will go to Uncle Niu’s house for dinner. I can’t buy it a few times throughout the year. Not a problem.

For money—

Ruan Xishi said: "Tomorrow, let's pick a snakeskin bag of sweet potatoes and sell them in the town for money to buy mutton."

Anyway, there are so many sweet potatoes at home, we can’t eat them all, and we can’t sell them all. It’s better to sell them slowly a few times.

Lu Ze nodded: "Yes, I will pack a bag tomorrow morning and sell it in the town."

Ruan Xishi had an idea, and was a little excited when he went to bed at night. He kept thinking about how much the sweet potatoes would sell tomorrow, how many catties of mutton, how many dumplings, and what supplements he would buy for Uncle Niu. Excited, people became more and more awake, tossing and turning in Lu Ze's arms, unable to fall asleep.

Lu Ze was about to fall asleep, but suddenly Ruan Xishi in his arms turned over and woke him up, opened his eyes and asked if Ruan Xishi had insomnia with concern, Ruan Xishi was a little embarrassed, turned back and hugged Lu Ze, coaxing him Said: "It's okay, you go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow to pack sweet potatoes."

Before he finished speaking, he closed his eyes before Lu Ze fell asleep, and soon fell asleep in Lu Ze's arms.

After the sweet potatoes are taken home, they are placed in a room specially used to store grain, and covered with a layer of straw ash to prevent germination and insects.After a period of time, the skin of the sweet potato will not have as much moisture as when it was just dug out. After a part of the water evaporates, the sweet potato will become sweeter than before. At this time, the sweet potato is easy to be loved by customers and can be sold well. Price.

Ruan Xishi picked out a few smaller sweet potatoes for Lu Ze, and asked Lu Ze to wash them and cook them in a pot for breakfast. Then he squatted in front of the pile of sweet potatoes, picked them one by one and put them into the snakeskin bag.

The boiled sweet potatoes tasted sweeter than the freshly dug ones, and Lu Ze also tasted it.Although the villagers have never studied biophysics and do not know the principle of how sweet potatoes will become sweeter when stored, the experience passed down from generation to generation is not wrong.

After breakfast, Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze worked together to tie a snakeskin bag full of sweet potatoes to the back of the motorcycle, and after telling Xiao Hui to look after the house, the two set off.

The villagers are also much more active than usual today. They came out to pick vegetables and bought vegetables. Ruan Xishi and the others met many acquaintances along the way, and they all greeted each other when they saw each other.

"Shizai, are you going to town with Ah Ze again so early? What's in the back, such a big bag?"

Ruan Xishi was sitting on the motorcycle, and Lu Ze was driving very fast, Ruan Xishi could only hurriedly reply: "It's sweet potatoes grown at home, and they are sold in the town."

"Hey, then I can make a lot of money!"

When I went to the town, I found that the town is also very lively today. There are many stalls temporarily set up on both sides of the streets and roads, selling everything, such as chicken, duck, fish, pork, beef, mutton, fruits and various crops grown in the field, etc.

Lu Ze didn't bother to drive the car into the big market, because there were too many people, and there was no way for the car carrying things to drive in, so he simply parked the car on the side of the road, put the snakeskin bag on the ground, and opened the bag Let the sweet potato inside be exposed to attract the attention of passers-by.

The living standard of the residents in the town is much better than that in the village. Although they do not grow crops themselves, they have money to buy them.They don’t care about rice as a staple food every day, but they like to eat sweet potatoes, taro, and yam. They don’t care even if the price is comparable to rice. Anyway, they don’t eat it often.

Farmers in several nearby villages have monopolized the supply of crops in the town, and it is up to the farmers to decide when and what to sell.The sweet potatoes in the south are not like the north. They will sell well in winter, because northerners like to eat roasted sweet potatoes. In winter, the streets and alleys are full of baked sweet potatoes. The business is very good, and the sweet potatoes sell well.In small cities in the south, there are relatively few baked sweet potato businesses. Sweet potatoes are generally used for processing into various snacks, and more are used for steaming.The sweet potato syrup in the south is the most popular among the locals, and there are countless ways to make it. It is generally eaten in summer and autumn, and it is drunk after cooling to relieve heat and thirst.However, fewer people eat them in spring and winter, so fewer people sell sweet potatoes, and they save them for sale in summer, which is not the season for harvesting sweet potatoes, and the price of sweet potatoes will satisfy farmers.

It is precisely because there are few people selling sweet potatoes, it is difficult for people who want to eat sweet potatoes to eat them, and sometimes they cannot buy them even if they have money.Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze put a bag of sweet potatoes on the side of the road with a lot of traffic, which quickly attracted the attention of the townspeople.

Soon, the stalls of the two of them were full of people who wanted to buy sweet potatoes, and you kept asking about the price of sweet potatoes.

Ruan Xishi was worried that there were too many things to buy today, and the sweet potatoes were too cheap to buy, so she set the price a little higher, at two yuan a catty.

Some customers gave up because the price was too high, but more customers chose to buy some to take home. Even if they are not in a hurry to eat now, they are worried that they will not be able to buy sweet potatoes for a long time in the future. I also bought a few catties and kept it at home, so I can eat it when I want to eat it.

The sweet potato with white flesh and purple heart has always been loved by the locals, because both the taste and the sweetness are the most suitable for the taste of the local people. It is suitable for making sweet potato syrup or steaming, frying and roasting.Moreover, farmers usually grow purple sweet potatoes or yellow sweet potatoes, which are less in quantity and more expensive. Ruan Xishi planted them with the idea of ​​making more money.

A snakeskin bag of sweet potatoes was sold out in less than half a day. It cost more than 200 yuan for a hundred catties. Ruan Xishi took the money and was already thinking about what to buy later.

However, the urgent matter at the moment is to solve the problem of lunch. He thought that he would go to Uncle Niu's house to cook a big meal tonight. He could make do with it at noon and save some money to buy vegetables, so he asked Lu Ze for his opinion, and asked Lu Ze: " Shall we eat rice noodles?"

Lu Ze had no objection, and when he heard that he wanted to eat rice noodles, he took him directly to the noodle shop on the old street.

Ruan Xishi asked the boss for two servings of raw rice noodles, and soon the boss cooked out two large plates of soup noodles.

Fearing that Lu Ze would not be full after one serving, Ruan Xishi removed the double disposable chopsticks, took a large chopsticks of rice noodles from his plate of soup noodles and put them on Lu Ze's plate, and told Lu Ze that it was too much for him. I can't finish it by myself.

Lu Ze couldn't tell that he said this to make himself full. In the final analysis, it was because they were "too poor" and couldn't spend money freely and freely, so they couldn't even eat enough outside.Lu Ze shook his head helplessly, took his bowl away and said to Ruan Xishi, "Enough is enough, no matter how much it is, I won't be able to finish it. Eat yours quickly, and you have to buy something after eating."

Ruan Xishi then stopped giving Lu Zeyun rice noodles, and began to eat in small bites with chopsticks.

The two of them had a full stomach, and went shopping after a short break. When they passed by the pharmacy, Ruan Xishi stopped and asked, "What did you buy for Uncle Niu last time? Do you want to buy some more for him to eat?" , I am worried that in two days the weather will get cold again, and he will fall ill again."

Lu Ze didn't want Ruan Xishi to know how expensive the things he bought for Uncle Niu were, afraid that he would feel distressed and entangled, so he told him, "I bought quite a lot last time, enough for him to eat for a long time."

Ruan Xishi said: "Then what should we buy for Uncle Niu?"

From the corner of Lu Ze's eyes, he caught sight of the cotton slippers with fur gloves placed at the entrance of the opposite supermarket, pulled Ruan Xishi over and said, "I see that Mr. Niu and the others don't seem to have a pair of decent cotton slippers, why don't we buy a pair of cotton slippers for him and Mrs. Niu? Hmmm ...You can also buy two pairs of thick gloves, so that you won't get cold when you go out to play."

Ruan Xishi thought it was a good idea as soon as she heard it, and while looking at the cotton mop, she praised Lu Ze and said, "Brother Lu Ze, you are really thoughtful, so let's buy these two."

After buying things in the supermarket, they finally went to the big market to buy vegetables. There are many stalls selling mutton today. Because of the winter solstice, people think that eating mutton is nourishing and suitable for the occasion, so there are many people who buy mutton. When they went , there are not a few pieces of mutton on the stall.

But it can't be said that there is nothing to buy, it's just that there are a little less to choose from. Neither Lu Ze nor Ruan Xishi has experience in picking fresh mutton, so standing in front of the stall feels a little helpless.

But the stall owner is very enthusiastic. Seeing that they didn't know which one to buy, he helped them pick and choose, saying: "This one is good. Although there are a little more bones, soup needs bones to be nutritious. This A few pieces are sheep breast bones, easy to chew."

Ruan Xishi looked at it and said in a low voice: "There is no meat, just soup is not enough..."

The stall owner took out another piece of mutton, put it on the mutton bone, and said bluntly: "Today's mutton leg meat is only half a catty left, and it is not easy to sell. Let's beat it on the mutton bone and sell it at the price of the mutton bone." How about for you guys? I’ll close the stall and go home for dinner as soon as it’s sold out, anyway, this is all I have left at my stall, and the other stalls are probably selling about the same, so it’s good to be able to buy lamb.”

Lu Ze took a closer look at the mutton that the stall owner brought to them. He felt that the meat was normal and fresh, and felt that there was nothing to choose from. Who told them not to come earlier, and the stall owner gave a piece of mutton, which was only the bone. The price is also very kind.

He said: "Then I want this, how much is it per catty?"

When the stall owner heard what he wanted, he immediately weighed it and said, "Today the market price is 36 yuan a catty, but the stall is about to be closed now, let's say it's 30 yuan a catty. The sheep we sell are all our own sheep. Don’t worry about the black goats I raised. I’ve been in business here for so long, so I definitely wouldn’t dare to lie to you. Everyone knows how expensive black goats are. The total here is a little more than four catties, let’s count it as four catties, exactly 120 yuan .”

Lu Ze took the mutton, and Ruan Xishi counted out 120 yuan from the money he earned today and gave it to the stall owner. Seeing that the money he earned today was spent like this, he was a little disappointed.

The next step was to buy dumplings. Lu Ze meant to buy dumpling skins and meat to make at home, so he bought half a catty of dumpling skins and a catty of lean meat, and spent another twenty yuan.

The money earned from selling sweet potatoes had just been spent, Ruan Xishi looked at her empty wallet dumbfounded, and suddenly didn't care so much.

Anyway, money has to be spent, so it’s better to spend it happily, not to say that if you lose it, you can still have a delicious meal when you go home.

When Lu Ze saw Ruan Xi, who was depressed just now, he suddenly felt relieved and happy, thinking that he was troubled by money before, so he comforted him and said: "I can still make money without the money. The most important thing is that everyone can make money today." Have a great time.”

Ruan Xishi nodded heavily: "We will go to Uncle Niu's house in a while, and he will be very surprised that we have bought so many things. I have already figured out what he will say when the time comes. So many worthless things, what a waste of money."

As he spoke, he also imitated Uncle Niu's tone of voice, which made Lu Ze laugh.

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