Since he came to the morning market, Pan Yang simply set up a small stall and took out all the sweets, biscuits, bread and other leftovers from the previous sale.

Pan Yang did not sell these things in a single package, but mixed them together, a piece of oiled paper contains different kinds of things, imitating the supply and marketing cooperatives to sell them, making a simple version of the 'gift bag', Pan Yang clearly marked the price, six cents a pack.

Compared with rice and noodles, which are only a dime a catty, candy biscuits are simply not too expensive. However, Pan Yang is not asking for a price indiscriminately, in this era of extreme scarcity of materials in all aspects, the more finely processed things are, the more expensive they are, you know, the mixed gift bags sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives cost at least eight cents.

Originally, I thought that these things should not be sold, after all, the wages of residents in the city are limited, but I didn't expect that as soon as Pan Yang put it out, people came to ask the price one after another.

After thinking about it for a while, Pan Yang somewhat understood. The New Year is approaching, and everyone has to visit relatives and friends, and it is decent to take out candy and biscuits as gifts.

In order to attract buyers, Pan Yang opened a package of gift bags, stopped to ask the price and sincerely wanted to buy it, Pan Yang asked them to try it for free, Pan Yang was absolutely confident in the taste of these snacks she sold, but after the tasting, ten out of ten ** paid more or less to buy some.

Before the morning market dispersed, all the gift bags that Pan Yang put out were sold.

Counting the money on her body, she sold it for a total of twelve yuan, and suppressed the excitement in her heart, Pan Yang carefully put away the twelve yuan, and dispersed the morning market, she still had one more thing to do.

Pan Yang took out the buyer who left the address last time she bought her eggs from his trouser pocket, Pan Yang knocked on the door one by one according to the address, and said that if there were eggs, they would be delivered to the door, Pan Yang could not break his promise.

Sent to the old man's house last time he bought eggs to supplement his wife's nutrition, the old man opened the door and saw that the person was stunned for a few seconds, after Pan Yang reported to the house to explain the situation, the old man finally remembered and invited Pan Yang into his house very warmly.

The old man's surname is Cheng, and he and his wife live alone in a single portal, two bungalows, with a small small yard outside, some flowers are raised in the yard, and the chrysanthemums bloom just right, which makes it seem that the small yard of Uncle Cheng's house is cleaned up neatly.

Uncle Cheng's wife heard the movement and also came out of the house, and Pan Yang brought the eggs to Uncle Cheng.

Uncle Cheng said happily, "It just so happens that the eggs I bought last time are gone, my eldest grandson loves to eat scrambled eggs, and every time he comes back, he shouts to eat, if it is not difficult to buy eggs, I will let my wife give him how much he wants to eat." ”

Pan Yang gave Uncle Cheng a total of twenty eggs, the same price as the last sale, six cents and ten, a total of two pieces.

Uncle Cheng asked his wife to come into the house to get the money, and he sat under the eaves of the porch with Pan Yang and chatted a few words.

Uncle Cheng said in a low voice, "Young man, as long as you come to the city in the future, will you send me some eggs?" ”

Pan Yang smiled, "Cheng, of course, it's just that the weather is getting colder and colder, and the hens at home shouldn't be able to lay eggs, I'm afraid there will be eggs in the spring of next year." ”

Pan Yang said this, in fact, there were not many eggs left in her space, and she didn't want to sell the remaining dozen or so to others, and it was about to be the New Year, so she had to leave something good for the old Pan family to eat for herself.

Uncle Cheng also understood, after all, eggs were not easy to get, and he said, "It's okay, just send the eggs if you have them." ”

Pan Yang sighed with a smile and said to Uncle Cheng, "Uncle, I don't have an egg supply, but I have a small vegetable garden at home, do you want vegetables?" If you want, next time you come to the city, you will bring some, to ensure freshness, as for the price, it is easy to say, they are all home-grown, and the storage is cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperatives. ”

When Uncle Cheng heard this, he replied, "That's great, it's getting colder and colder, and it will snow and rain when the weather changes in the future, and it's inconvenient for our old couple to go out, it's better for you to send it home, if my wife and I eat well, I will let my son and their colleagues buy it from you in the future." ”

Hearing Uncle Cheng say this, Pan Yang was overjoyed, and was busy thanking the uncle, while the two were talking, the uncle's wife came out of the house, smiled and gave Pan Yang egg money, Pan Yang took the money and left.

Because the car back to the hometown is only one a day, it is already noon when it comes out of Uncle Cheng's house, at this time Pan Yang has the heart to go back and has no car, lunch is casual to deal with, in the afternoon Pan Yang walked around the city, and did not find any good way to make money, and when it was dark, she went to the old place as usual.

When she arrived at the bridge cave, there were already people inside, and it was Liu Tiezhu who was sitting curled up and eating steamed buns!

Seeing his acquaintance, Pan Yang jumped off the bridge with joy and said, "Big brother, what a coincidence!" ”

Liu Tiezhu saw that it was Pan Yang and said with a smile, "I didn't meet you last time, this time it can be regarded as a coincidence." Has Brother Pan eaten it? I've got some steamed buns with me, come in and eat some. ”

Pan Yang was also not polite, took Liu Tiezhu's steamed buns, she brought pickled mustard greens, took them out of her pocket, and the two of them ate next to the fire.

Pan Yang bit the bun in his mouth and asked vaguely, "Big brother, what are you going to sell this time?" ”

Liu Tiezhu held a bun in his mouth, untied the rope of the cloth pocket with both hands, and took out two dead hares from it, in addition to three pheasants and a domestic hen, "I have no other skills, so I will go up to the mountains to hunt, and I can only sell some game." ”

Pan Yang pointed to the domestic hen in his pocket and asked, "What about this?" ”

Liu Tiezhu said, "I won't tell you, this is what my family stole and raised, my mother is reluctant to sell it, there is no way, the New Year is coming soon, how to fix it if I don't have any money." ”

Pan Yang wanted to buy the hen in his pocket, but she had heard her grandmother say that it was better for the hen not to be more than two years old, otherwise it would be like a menopausal woman, who would not be able to lay eggs and would have to spend food.

Pan Yang thought about buying it home and laying eggs, and asked Liu Tiezhu, "Big brother, how many years have you raised hens?" ”

Liu Tiezhu said with a smile, "I only raised it in the spring of this year, and it has been less than a year." ”

Pan Yang's eyes lit up, and he said to him, "Big brother, don't sell this hen to others, leave it to me, how much money I will buy." ”

Liu Tiezhu said, "Brother Pan, do you still want it?" ”

Pan Yang nodded and said, "Yes, sell it to me, there are many children in the family, raise a few more eggs and lay more eggs for the children to eat." ”

Hearing this, Liu Tiezhu said briskly, "In this case, they are all their own people, you can take a dollar." ”

Pan Yang took it, took out two yuan and handed it to Liu Tiezhu, Liu Tiezhu saw it, he didn't want to accept it, Pan Yang stuffed it to him, and said in his mouth, "The two pheasants last time have taken advantage of you, if you do this again, I can't put my face away!" ”

When it came to this, Liu Tiezhu gave up and accepted two yuan.

Pan Yang heard him say that he had experience in hunting, and she wanted to learn, so she asked him how he hunted pheasants and hares in the mountains.

Mentioning this, Liu Tiezhu said with pride on his face and said with a smile, "It's not a difficult thing, rabbits and pheasants run fast, and they can't run with human legs alone. If you want to catch them alive, then dig a pit and bury a trap, and if the blind cat encounters a dead mouse, there are also traps. ”

"Iron clips? How? Pan Yang is more interested in this.

Liu Tiezhu simply used both his mouth and hand, broke a few branches, and roughly compared Pan Yang, "Wait for the snow, it will be easier to catch these things, and if you are lucky, you can catch them without an iron clip, that is, people must be diligent and run up the mountain every day without fear of freezing." ”

Pan Yang was interested in studying, and chatted with Liu Tiezhu for a long time this night. The next morning, Liu Tiezhu was going to catch the morning market, and Pan Yang was going to catch a car home, and the two said goodbye to each other in the bridge cave.

Pan Yang arrived home before noon, and she handed the hen to Zhang Xuelan, "Put it in the chicken coop and feed it something to eat." ”

Zhang Xuelan took the hen and weighed it in his hand, it was estimated that it weighed three or four catties, the coat color was bright, and the raising was good, but it was much better than the pheasant that Pan Yang brought back before.

Zhang Xuelan couldn't put it down, carefully put it in the chicken coop, and specially grabbed a corn kernel to feed it, and said, "It's really a good thing, it's all up to you to hatch chicks in spring next year." ”

Since there is another chicken that lays eggs at home, Zhang Xuelan touched two wild eggs at noon, stir-fried vegetables with fresh snow and mushrooms, and cut a small piece of air-dried bacon and Chinese cabbage and fried them together. There was a bit of meat in the dishes, and the taste was extraordinary, and the two dishes were almost cleaned by the family.

After the meal, Zhang Xuelan squatted at the well to wash the dishes, and Pan Yang also squatted over and asked her, "Can you spare some space at home to grow vegetables?" I want to get a vegetable garden. ”

The yard of Lao Pan's house is very small, in addition to the two points of land allocated by the brigade to each family to plant vegetables, Zhang Xuelan planted seasonal vegetables such as cabbage, radish and snow mushroom in the place near the east wall, but the planting is almost enough for the family to eat, and it is a little difficult to sell it for some money.

Zhang Xuelan put the cleaned bowl on the big stone slab to control the water, and said to Pan Yang, "Look for yourself, the palm-sized land, we don't have a place to plant." ”

That's right, Pan Yang looked around, and he really couldn't make a place.

Zhang Xuelan snorted, turned Pan Yang with her elbow, pointed to the place where Pan Hengchun set up the tent, and said in a low voice, "Why don't you open another vegetable garden with Ada?" ”

Pan Yang said, "Where does Adaa live?" ”

Zhang Xuelan said, "It's not simple, let Adaa live in our hall, anyway, it's basically useless if the hall is empty, put two beds, Shiyun sleeps one, Ada's sleeps one, anyway, there is nothing to avoid the two grandchildren." ”

Seeing that Pan Yang was still a little hesitant, Zhang Xuelan said again, "It's getting colder and colder, it's better to sleep in the house than outside, in previous winters, he slept in the kitchen, but this year let him sleep in the hall, we have done our best!" ”

Pan Yang didn't know that Pan Hengchun actually slept in the kitchen in previous years, the kitchen was so much, didn't Pan Hengchun curl up at the mouth of the hearth every night? Thinking of this, Pan Yang felt uncomfortable with a sullen breath in his chest, how could he hurry up and build a house in the coming year, he couldn't go on like this!