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Today's toss is enough to choke, Hao Cheng is ready to rest first to recuperate his anger. She took some copper coins that she had scavenged from the house, bought some vegetables and noodles from the villagers, cooked a large bowl of noodles on the stove in the house, and slept with a thin quilt covering her stomach.
When the sun shone on Hao Cheng's face through the cracks in the roof in the morning, she reached out to block her vision, and after making sure that she was really wearing it, she got up again and washed with a wooden brush dipped in salt. According to the previous time when she was Ah Piao, she followed the memory of the original owner, and found a short fight that was easy to work and put on.
Paper and pen are too expensive, and Hao Cheng is not prepared to waste money on this. She first went to the cupboard and took a piece of white clothes washed by the scholar's mother, twisted a square piece of cloth with scissors, and used finely ground carbon strips to write on it the plans that needed to be added.
If you don't have enough to eat, you can buy two months' rations, buy 20 catties of fine grains and 20 catties of coarse grains and cook them together, and buy gray noodles and glutinous rice flour to make pasta, and you can make pancakes, boil dumplings and make balls to change the taste.
There is only one stool left, and two more need to be added. The door lock has to be new and strong, so that the heart can be steady. The tiles of the house are broken, and it will leak on rainy days, so I bought tiles and asked Aunt Dong to repair them, the pigsty is empty, and I have to go to the village to catch two piglets to raise.
She can't bear the hardships of working in the fields, and she is still good at raising chickens and ducks. And when these chickens and ducks are raised, she can still eat eggs.
Hao Cheng roughly calculated the accounts, carefully hid the ten taels of silver tickets in a clay pot with broken corners, took the piece of cloth full of words, and tightly pinched the ten taels of silver tickets and went out early in the morning.
When she arrived in the town, she first rented an ox cart for twenty yuan. Then add things one by one according to the things on the table, and give full play to the three-inch incorruptible tongue of fighting with the old aunt in the vegetable market in her previous life, and she can talk about things for a penny.
The peddler who sold things shook his head again and again: "Young people nowadays have really powerful mouths, and if they get it, they will be cheaper for five cents." ”
"Knowing that my aunt's shopping is affordable, I will definitely come to you next time to buy it." Hao Cheng smiled and took the change he found, and when he went to the vegetable stall to buy vegetables, he also asked for a few shallots to add.
In her previous life, she wouldn't be so careless when she had a small amount of assets, but now she has limited money in her hands, and she has not come up with a way to make money for the time being, and every copper is very precious.
When the last cage of chickens and ducklings was put on the carriage, and it was almost time for lunch, she bought two big meat buns directly on the street for two cents, and returned to Xinghua Village in a full ox cart.
When the whole house is cleaned, all the new things are put in order. Looking at the stuff, Hao Cheng burst into tears. Although she has lost the external things she struggled with in her previous life, she is now also a person with a house, land and savings.
It's just that you have to find an errand that you can do, otherwise you will have to eat no matter how much money you have. She still has time to think, no more than in a hurry.
At noon, she ordered a bowl of somen noodles, and baked more than a dozen cakes with the ingredients she bought, and when the sun was not so spicy, Hao Cheng took the dagger and back basket she bought today. Xinghua Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it rained again a few days ago, so she should be able to find some fresh bracken and fungus. If you're lucky, you might even be able to catch a few pheasants.
When she went out, everyone in the village greeted her, and it happened that the daughters of Zhang's family, Dahu and Xiaoxiong, were also going into the mountains to chop firewood, saying that they could take her for a ride. Although the twin sisters are four years younger than Hao Cheng, they are already taller than Hao Cheng. With a tiger's back and a bear's waist, he has inexhaustible strength all over his body, and following the two of them is definitely much safer than Hao Cheng entering the mountain alone.
Hao Cheng was not as thin-faced as a scholar, so he greeted him with a smile. After walking a mountain road, Hao Cheng's feet were worn out. Since then, the two sisters of the Zhang family have to worry about her slowing down their trip, and Xiaoxiong has a lot of opinions about her: "If you can't go, don't follow us." We've got to get back before it gets dark, we're going so slow, we're going to have to cut down as many trees as we can!" “
Dahu was more steady, and pulled his sister and signaled her not to say any more: "My sister didn't stop her from talking, and she is not so pretty, Sister Hao Cheng, don't take it to heart." We'll just have to chop wood around here, so we can get back in time. ”
Little Bear snorted and muttered in a low voice: "How much firewood can be cut here, shouldn't you take her with you, it's just troublesome." ”
In the end, it was troublesome, Xiao Xiong didn't speak well, and Hao Cheng didn't say anything. Just shook his head at the big tiger to show that he didn't mind, and found the mountain goods he wanted between the mountains and fields.
She kept some herbs in her basket that could be used as spices, and was lucky enough to find a few peppercorns. I also picked a lot of gray-white mushrooms, and finally found a chestnut forest.
It's September now, and soon after the autumn harvest, it's the season when chestnuts are ripe, and Hao Cheng is naturally very surprised. Seeing that she was happy like this, Zhang Xiaoxiong poured cold water on her again: "I really haven't seen the world, this chestnut tree is everywhere, and I am still happy to be like this." ”
She thought that this weak scholar had picked up some treasure, but it turned out that she had only found chestnut trees everywhere.
Hao Cheng was in a good mood, he didn't bother with this little broken child, the chestnut trees in the village belonged to the village, it cost money to buy, she picked things in the mountains and didn't need money, so many chestnuts, how many good things she could make. Stir-fried chestnuts with sugar, chestnut cake, chestnut cake......
Except for a pile of mushrooms and some pepper, the heavy basket she carried down was full of chestnuts. When she went back, she gave all the cakes she baked at noon to the two sisters of the Zhang family.
Zhang Xiaoxiong immediately changed his mouth after eating the cake: "Sister Hao Cheng, how can you cook this cake, why is it so thin and delicious." ”
Although it was cold, the cake was thin and crispy, and there were tender eggs in it, and she couldn't listen to it when she took a bite.
Hao Cheng's tone was not very warm, but after all, he was polite and polite: "Branding casually, next time I go up the mountain with you, I will bring you more." ”
With a lot of food such as baked cakes and fried chestnuts with sugar, Hao Cheng successfully conquered the stomachs of the two sisters of the Zhang family.
Hao Cheng followed the Zhang sisters a few times, and the relationship between the three of them also improved, Hao Cheng learned from them where there were wild beasts and good things, and he also learned a lot of hunting skills. Zhang Xiaoxiong's broken mouth also told her that her uncle Kou's wife seemed to have caught up with some big man from the capital.
Hao Cheng didn't care too much: "What big people can we have in the town to talk about business, that is, those people sent by the female monarch and the son of the prince to buy it." ”
Zhang Dahu also helped: "In short, your uncle is not a good person, and he is very grudgeful, we are also worried, in short, Sister Hao Cheng, you should pay more attention." ”
Hao Cheng nodded and signaled that he remembered: "Then if you have any news, come and inform me." ”
After going back and forth many times, the blisters on her feet became thick calluses, and she finally got used to walking the mountain road. Now she doesn't have to follow the two sisters of the Zhang family, and she can be safe when she goes into the mountain alone. The mountain against which Xinghua Village is leaned is a treasure land, and she really found a good thing after walking a few times on the mountain road alone.