Chapter 34: The Grass Market

As early as September, Wang pickled vegetables into products to survive the winter, she not only pickled snow mushrooms, yellow dwarf vegetables and king melons, but also cellared a lot of white and carrots, but the most delicious cabbage in winter is Chinese cabbage, but she did not have time to prepare. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, what the Wang family does is planned, for example, today is the grass market in Lijia Village, where there are naturally many people who sell Chinese cabbage, and the Wang family not only brought Zhang Zhaohua, but also pulled Zhang Chang on, because the two of them can't carry the cabbage.

Lijia Village is close, and when they walked to the place, they saw that the grass market had opened, and the stalls of the department stores were one after another. From east to west, it crossed a long road in Lijia Village, and as soon as you entered, it was crowded with people and noisy. This grass market is not divided into vegetable area, fish, meat, poultry and eggs area and small commodity area, just squeezed together randomly, there are not a few open spaces like seams and needles, each of them opens their own stalls, saying that they are stalls, but in fact they are pitifully small, just laying a piece of cloth on the ground, or just flattening a piece of wood, and then shaking off the things they want to sell.

The cheapest is to carry a bamboo basket, no need to bother to grab a place or to set up a stall, just find a place to squat everywhere, and someone will come up to see when the basket is uncovered. There are also small bamboo carts that come here, like this are generally selling mountain goods, Zhang Zhaohua smelled the aroma of chestnuts as soon as his nose moved, and sure enough, the pot was set up at the other end and a pot was fried.

Before Zhang Zhaohua came, he was stuffed by the Wang family for twenty yuan to buy snacks, so he paid for a bag, ate a few and found that the chestnuts had thin skin and sweet meat, and originally wanted to bargain again, so forget it. "Liuwen, you count. Zhang Zhaohua handed over the eldest son, and the aunt who stir-fried the chestnuts copied another spoonful for her, and said, "I still have chestnut cake here, do you want to taste it?"

Zhang Zhaohua shook his head and said, "My mother will do it too." ”

She said again: "There are also osmanthus miles!"

Zhang Zhaohua had already seen the pastries cut into pieces in her hand, and said with a smile: "Your family is not an osmanthus cake, it is a corn cake, and there is too much yeast, and it is all fluffy!"

"That's right, this is osmanthus cake," the woman refused to admit defeat, lifted the cotton cloth and took out a porcelain plate, which was black and puddled with water, and said, "I want to dip this and eat it." ”

Zhang Zhaohua leaned over and sniffed it, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be osmanthus saccharin, and the corn cake dipped in osmanthus saccharin becomes osmanthus cake - Liu Ji's osmanthus cake in the county town sells for two dollars of silver a catty, how much does the osmanthus cake sell here?"

"We make it ourselves, how can we compare with the pastry shop! It's worthless and worthless," she said with a smile, "Selling for 18 wen a catty." ”

Zhang Zhaohua said: "Then come to Liuwen, I don't want to dip it and eat it, the saccharin will be poured on this cake." ”

The woman quickly cut a piece out, because this pastry is square, a piece is just a catty, she went to break one with a knife, and the scale was just right, so she poured osmanthus saccharin on it according to Zhang Zhaohua's request.

Zhang Zhaohua held a chestnut bag in one hand and stuffed pastries in his mouth with the other, and saw that the eyes of other children who followed their parents to the grass market to catch the market were straight, and they all shouted that they also wanted to eat osmanthus cakes.

Zhang Zhaohua carefully lifted her legs and carefully stepped in front of a stall selling persimmons, feeling a little worried, she just saw a person accidentally kicking down the hoop bucket, the old man who sold the hoop bucket smacked his lips and did not admit that his hoop bucket was not resistant to falling, but grabbed this person and asked him to compensate for all - she looked at these people who greeted and shouted, and she was afraid that she would also have such a thing.

She looked around and didn't see Wang, but saw Zhang Chang not far away as if he was looking left and right, so she said, "Big brother-"

When Zhang Chang saw her, he beckoned her over, pointed to the stall in front of them and said, "Whatever you want to drink, big brother will buy it for you." ”

Zhang Zhaohua looked down and saw that it was actually selling drinks, and what surprised her even more was that she didn't know any of the drinks they were selling. "What is this?" Zhang Zhaohua simply asked one by one.

"This is fennel cooked water," said an old man who sold this thing, and said with a smile: "It is made of fennel, neem seeds, and tangerine peel. ”

"This is water chestnut soup," he said, "it is a sweet soup, which contains white fungus, jujube and rock sugar, which dissolves dampness and dispels phlegm, eliminates food and swelling, and is the most suitable for the elderly and children." ”

"This," seeing Zhang Zhaohua ask one by one, he was not annoyed: "It's rafter soup, this is perilla cooked water-"

After seven or eight small buckets in a row, Zhang Zhaohua was puzzled: "Is there any difference between soup and cooked water?

"The soup is cold, and the cooked water is hot," the old man haha, "but this cooked water can also be drunk when it is cold." ”

"You boiled it all out?" Zhang Zhaohua was surprised: "You have this craft, go to the city to earn a lot of land!" Although there are villager markets in this Lijia Village, there are not necessarily a few people who are willing to spend more than a dozen yuan to buy a bowl to drink.

"There are also old man's sons and daughters-in-law in the city who are selling," the old man said: "The old man is just earning two or three more money here, and he is idle when he is idle, and he is urged out by the old woman to sell it." ”

"The craftsmanship of the grandmother of the Chen family is a must," Zhang Chang said: "This soup is not only delicious, but also healthy, you see that you are over sixty years old, and your health is still so good, you can see you pushing the cart from afar, and the next six or seven descendants can't catch up with you!"

Although the old man was modest, his body was there, and the two villagers in their thirties next to him were shivering and couldn't stop jumping to their feet.

"I want cooked fennel water," Zhang Zhaohua said, "Big brother, you can also have a bowl." ”

"I don't drink it," Zhang Chang's face was a little embarrassed, and said, "I went out and drank a big bowl of water, and now I'm holding my urine." ”

Zhang Zhaohua handed him osmanthus cake and chestnuts for him to eat, drank a bowl of fennel cooked water, and then the two went to find Wang's, and after a circle, Zhang Chang was even more tormented, and simply slipped out of the market to solve the problem. Zhang Zhaohua saw that there were more people in this grass market, and he was afraid that he would not be able to find anyone in both sides when he came back, so he simply made an appointment with him to wait outside the grass market.

After a while, she found Wang, Wang was carrying a basket of things, I don't know whether he was crowded or tired and panting, when he saw her, he asked Zhang Chang where he went, Zhang Zhaohua said that he was going to the toilet, Wang folded his fingers and calculated: "I bought taro and frozen tofu, cut a piece of pig ear, what is missing?"

"Have you bought the vegetables?" Zhang Zhaohua has a good memory, and last night Wang told her all the things he wanted to buy, asking her to remind herself.

"I bought it," Wang said, with a worried look, "but it's the ground vegetables that come out when the frost falls, and although they are dried, I always feel as if it's been a little too long." ”

"It's okay to do it," Zhang Zhaohua comforted: "At this time, it's good to be able to buy it." ”

As long as there is rain and water, you can grow clusters, you can boil porridge with glutinous rice, you can also soak it in cold dressing, and you can also make stuffing - it was snowing at this time, and the ground was not soft, but I didn't expect Zhang Sheng to be greedy and said that he wanted to eat a meal of soft buns before leaving home, Wang felt sorry for him, and fortunately he could still find soft land in this market, otherwise Wang would have nagged for a long time.

"Where's the cabbage?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.

"I'm optimistic about the family," Wang said: "I bought five first, and I will ask your brother to get it, and if his family is delicious, he will pull a car directly next time." ”

"And beans," Zhang Zhaohua said, "What about the beans for tempeh sprouts?"

Wang said "oh" and said, "I almost forgot this, let's go, go and see the beans." ”