"Boss, how much is a pound of chestnuts?" Qin Zhong looked at Chu Ying, who was carrying a heavy basket.

"5 Wen a catty, do you want to sell it?" Qin Zhong picked a few from Chu Ying's back basket and looked at them, some of them were dried, but the quality was not bad.

"Well, do you take it? How much is a pound? You take the words. ”

"4 texts, can't be more, I can't collect much, at most 5 baskets." Chu Ying also asked the question of how much other families can collect before, but they can't collect much, there are at least more than 50 back baskets installed at home, and if they can't collect so much, they can only grind powder.

"You don't need to accept it, can I consign it from you? It's that I put the back basket here, and someone comes and you help me sell it, and you will pay 1 penny for 2 catties. You don't have to take it and you can get the money, okay? ”

It was the first time Qin Zhong had heard the idea of consignment, but in this way, he didn't have to buy chestnuts in his store, and he just helped sell them, so it sounded pretty good to have money.

"This is the first time I've heard of this, why don't you put a basket of chestnuts here first, and do it if it sells well, and you won't make money if it doesn't sell well, right?"

Chu Ying just wants to sell these chestnuts, and if he can do it, he will make money, which is actually the same as a lattice shop, giving rent or giving the boss a commission to sell things in his store.

I made an appointment with Han to kill pigs, and the time is not fixed, and it is almost the New Year, but I am afraid that it will be very busy by then, so I don't have time to set up a stall.

Those chestnut stores saw that some of Chu Ying's chestnuts were bad, so they pressed the price to 2 wen a catty, so it was not cost-effective to sell the chestnuts in this way.

"Some of my chestnuts are bad, when you sell them, give them a handful of chestnuts, and tell them that if there are bad chestnuts, they will come to you to change them, is that okay?"

Qin Zhong looked at the little Chu Ying's serious appearance, chestnuts would have been a little bad, and he had encountered them in his own business, but there was no promise that they could be replaced if they were so broken.

"Okay. But don't say I'm missing your chestnuts when the time comes. I lost it. ”

"No, I believe you. When you put that kind of brand, write bad chestnuts to pay for it. Give more chestnuts to others, say that you are afraid of bothering them to come back and change them, so give them more chestnuts first, and it will be fine. ”

"This is a sign that writes the price. Look at your little one, and you're quite thoughtful. Chu Ying also asked other shop owners, but they didn't understand and were too troublesome, Qin Zhong was relatively young, and his ability to accept new things was really stronger.

"That's really troublesome, I'll come back later." Qin Zhong put this basket of chestnuts in a conspicuous place at the door of the store, with a price card written on it, looking at Chu Ying's small back, he always felt that this child had a special strength.

Chu Ying visited many grocery stores, and finally found a cheap small stone mill, and Chu Ying reluctantly gave half a penny of silver to the boss. "Don't worry, I'm so good."

Chu Ying smiled reluctantly, he could only hope that those chestnuts could be sold, and sell them faster, without the back basket, Chu Ying could only hold the grinding plate.

Chu Ying looked at the price of the big wooden barrel, it costs 40 Wen apiece, and the large water tank costs 80 Wen, it seems that ceramics are more expensive than wooden ones, Chu Ying originally wanted to buy a water tank to hold chestnut powder, there is only an empty clay pot at home, if you buy a clay pot to hold chestnut powder, the single amount is small, and the price of the clay pot will add up to more than a water tank, and it is not practical to buy a clay pot. But the idea of saving money to pay taxes should be put on hold for the first time, and put it in a sack first.

When she got home, Chu Ying touched the hen's nest as well, and there was actually an egg in it, this hen had not laid eggs before, it was estimated that she was a little uncomfortable in an unfamiliar environment, but fortunately she laid eggs, otherwise Chu Ying planned to eat this hen that did not lay eggs.

Chu Ying picked up the broom tied with cattail leaves, swept all the on the ground outside the door and piled it up, this guy eats a lot, pulls a lot, and walks around, he has to build a nest for it and restrict its movements.

It's almost winter, Chu Ying doesn't plan to build a chicken coop outside, thinking about making something that can be taken out, let it stay warm in the kitchen first, and then take it outside when spring begins, but Chu Ying knows how to build a shack, and doesn't know how to build a chicken coop.

You can only use the remaining bamboo pieces to insert them on the ground, and make a semicircle against the wall, and the bamboo pieces reach Chu Ying's waist, and the hen should not be able to come out. But the hen that saw this qiē seemed to be a little frightened and scurried around.

"I know you've been laid-back these days, and there's a big bad wolf outside at night, come and come, come inside." The position Chu Ying left for the hen is quite large, with 2 steps long and 2 steps wide, so it shouldn't suffocate it.

After wasting all his strength and falling several times, Chu Ying finally grabbed the hen and put it in the bamboo fence, and put some mustard greens and rice porridge on it.

Chu Ying saw that the firewood was almost gone, Ming'er had to chop some firewood when she came back from killing the pig, this kind of open stove was very expensive for firewood, Chu Ying had to collect more firewood before the snow, and find a way to make the rocket stove.

The rocket furnace first appeared to improve the cooking problem of African residents, using simple physical principles, three iron cans are joined into an L-shape, the high body is the combustion chamber, the short side is the fuel chamber, put firewood on the barbed wire, add a large iron tank outside, fill with heat insulation materials, and maintain the temperature of the combustion chamber.

The L-shaped structure creates convection to keep enough oxygen to burn, requires little fuel, but produces maximum efficiency, saving at least two-thirds of the fuel compared to traditional firewood cooking, but this method is not advisable in this era of more expensive iron.

There is also a method that does not require an iron can, as long as a shovel, dig a U-shaped hole on the spot, put fire and firewood in one of the holes, and make an underground rocket furnace, the principle is similar to the formal rocket furnace, using another hole to form a chimney effect of exhaustion, so that the firewood is fully burned.

But this method is suitable for outdoor barbecue, or elevating the pot, otherwise it will affect the firewood. What Chu Ying wanted to do was a rocket furnace made of bricks, but she didn't have the money to buy bricks.

Chu Ying saw it last time in Xishi, a brick costs 40 Wen, and the people in the village can't afford it, the village is full of wooden houses, or mud brick houses, and there are only a few big households in the city that use bricks.

Chu Ying could only pick up the stones and carry them back, although there were many stones by the stream, but Chu Ying was worried that the water vapor inside would explode when heated, so she ran to the foot of the mountain, picked a stone with a little rule, and when she returned home, it was almost dark.

Chu Ying cooked the rice and piled the stones next to the fire to let the moisture inside them escape. When the rice was almost cooked, Chu Ying knocked the eggs she had harvested today on top of the rice, sprinkled some salt flowers and let it continue to cook.

While the sky was still dark, I put the bamboo shoots that were drying outside in the back basket. The bamboo shoots have been dried for a few days, but there is no clay pot that can be loaded, and the only empty clay pot Chu Ying plans to wait for the time when the chestnuts are ground and filled with chestnut powder.

Chu Ying could only use a rope made of cattail leaves to tie the bamboo shoots to the rope one by one, and then threw the other half of the rope onto the beam, and then tied the other half of the rope that was not tied to the bamboo shoots.

After eating, Chu Ying extinguished the fire on the stove, closed her eyes to adapt to the sudden darkness, and walked to the bedroom by touching the room by the moonlight.

It is indeed very inconvenient to have no candles, but the candle costs 10 wen a piece, and I only need some light to walk back and forth between the two rooms at night, especially when the dark clouds cover the moon, I have knocked a few times, and I don't know if the pine resin behind the house can be used to make candles.

Chu Ying closed the door, climbed onto the bed by touching the wall, and thought carefully that she seemed to have a lot to do, and there was still a long time before she enjoyed the treatment of modern people here.

The first thing to bear is the toothbrush, Chu Ying went all over the east and west cities and didn't see the toothbrush, so he could only bite the branches every morning and use the fibers of the branches to brush his teeth, this is the morning chewing tooth wood.

Chu Ying didn't let herself think too much, she had to get up early tomorrow to kill pigs, making more money was the king, and when she had money, she had to improve her life, although she didn't have high requirements for the quality of life, but at least she had to do a good job in cleaning.