On the seventh day of March in the twenty-first year of Dading, after the spring rain, there was a thick earthy atmosphere in the air, with the moisture of the rain, the wild grass and mountain flowers came out overnight, the dead wood was spring, and the whole barren mountain was dressed in green.

Situ Yan and Li Dalang had breakfast, the brothers went to the fields to be busy, and she went to Aunt Fu'er's house, "Is Aunt Fu at home?" ”

"Here, it's a girl, you wait!" Situ Yan stood at the gate of the courtyard and waited for a while, then saw Aunt Fu coming out of the stove room and opening the door.

"Auntie, what are you busy with? Is Grandpa Five at home? Situ Yan entered the courtyard, took a horse and sat down.

"I'm not here, I'm going to go down with your uncle. What else can I be busy with, I've been busy in the field these days, it's not that I want to make up for them just because you Uncle Wangfu and Brother Xiaoyang'er have lost weight. ”

"It's still my uncle and little brother Yang'er who are blessed, and there are aunts who are in pain."

"You girl is still making fun of your aunt. I saw a few Da Lang yesterday, if you hadn't taken care of it, how could I be so busy and not lose weight. The two chatted for a while, and Situ Yan told Aunt Fu what she meant.

"Auntie, I want to buy some eggs with you."

"You're polite to your aunt, if you don't buy it, you just take it to eat, and I'll take it for you."

"Auntie, don't be busy when you sit down, I don't want eggs to eat myself, I want to sell them. So this money must be given. I've inquired, when this egg is good, it's 2 pennies, and when it's not good to sell, it's 1 penny, so I'll buy it with you for 2 cents. ”

"Which line, even if you want to buy it, you will pay 1 penny a piece. You are going to sell it, and you will collect it for 2 cents, where can you make money? ”

"Auntie, I have a way, you can believe me. That's it.,I've got all the baskets back.,How many of you are in the baskets! ”

"You girl, why do you want to lie to you, I can tell you, if you can't sell it, you can send it back to your aunt, can't you lose yourself?"

"Yes, thank you, auntie."

came out of Aunt Fu'er's house, Situ Yan went through several families that had a good relationship with her family and raised chickens. The eggs were washed and soaked in salted water, and some wine was poured to make the oil, and one jar could hold exactly 100 eggs.

With this jar of salted eggs, make more pickles, there is a small market on the tenth day of the first month, and then buy some eggs, at least four more jars, and you won't have to worry about having nothing to sell in these months.

With a goal, people don't feel tired when they work, pickles are good quickly, and salted eggs can be good in 15 days at the earliest. On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Situ Yan asked Li Dalang to drive a mule cart into the county seat, and bought another 420 eggs, 400 of which were drowned into salted eggs, and 20 were kept for weekdays.

In addition to going into the mountains and cooking rice every day, it is to make pickles, Li Dalang and a few people see that although the little sister is busy, she smiles every day, unlike the previous few days, which is a little sullen, so she is relieved.

On the day of March 15, I put a jar of three pickles on each of the three pickles and put them on the mule cart, and I didn't dare to bring more, and I didn't know if it would sell it or not, so I just tried it today. Then load two bundles of firewood, and then drive to the county seat. A few days ago, the peasants were busy farming, but the county town seemed quiet, and the people who were busy with spring ploughing poured into the city at this time, but it seemed extremely lively.

I inquired with someone first, and this pickle is also a vegetable, so it can only be sold in the vegetable market. After finding a clean vacant land and putting a piece of "Li Fuji" under the guise of "Li Fuji", some old customers came to the door, "You boys are here again, what is this delicious?" ”

"Uncle, you are a frequent customer, we are selling pickles this time, ten cents a catty. Guaranteed that you won't regret it. ”

"This dish is expensive enough, I'm afraid it's not easy to sell, and the dish over there is only three or five cents a pound."

"Uncle, I have submerged this dish, with a salty taste, take it back and stew it with other dishes as salt, this is much cheaper than buying salt, do you say?"

"And this good thing?"

"Pinch it for you and buy it if you feel good."

San Lang and Shiro shouted to collect money, and Erlang helped to be known, so Li Dalang took chopsticks and took some leaves from the jar for the guests to taste.

"Really. Give me a pound, I carry a bowl here, and put it directly in the bowl. "There are people watching the excitement on the side, and I can hear the taste at this time, busy with you two or two, he sold it for a catty.

Situ Yan saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so she went to the bookstore to continue copying books, these days she even copied and watched she had a new understanding of this era, and also faintly felt a kind of unease, although the Northern Wei, Southern Wu, and Western Shu seemed to be the three kingdoms, but the emperor of the Northern Wei State was mediocre, which made the complaint. And the Southern Wu country is rich and the people are strong, the emperor is diligent and loves the people, and the war is not far away. What's more, there is a Turk in the north who is ready to move.

It turned out that Situ Yan only had some slight doubts in her heart, but these few times she copied books, and occasionally heard some guests who came to buy books talking, knowing that the Turks and the Southern Wu border passes had changed, but the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty was stubborn and didn't take others seriously at all. Sometimes Situ Yan has time, and she will stay on the edge of the restaurant and teahouse to listen to the root of the wall, these places are well-informed, and they spread faster than the radio in her previous life.

Situ Yan combined what he heard and the experience of his previous life, and felt that there were many factors to start a war, one was internal chaos, although the emperor had no way, as long as there were no natural disasters and the people could still stutter, there would be chaos. This is also the inertia of man. The second is that the foreign enemy is strong, the enemy is strong and I am weak, so it gives people an opportunity to take advantage of, and the Southern Wu is not strong enough to swallow the Northern Wei in one bite, if the war is launched now, and the Northern Wei will join forces with the Western Shu and the Turks, the time is not yet ripe, at least not yet. In the long run, it is still necessary to make more money, no matter who is in power in the future, money is omnipotent.

After copying a book, Li Dalang and a few people were already waiting at the door, and several people looked very excited with baskets on their backs.

"What's going on with my brothers, smiling so happily?"

"Xiao Wu, that pickle is better than dim sum, it's been less than two hours, it's all sold out, give." San Lang handed the money bag to Situ Yan, and Situ Yan shook it and it was quite heavy.

"It's good to be able to sell it, it's not in vain these days, what do you want to buy brothers, let's go shopping for a while?"

"Seeing that the heavens are well fed and well-dressed, we don't lack anything." Li Dalang doesn't want to spend money indiscriminately, some of them eat and some of them are already very good, not to mention that their family can now see meat or eggs every few days, I don't know how much better than others.

"Big brother is right, when I went to the city, everything I saw was fresh, but when I was full and warm, I didn't have fun seeing anything." Li Sanlang also felt that such a life was already very comfortable, it was not easy for the little sister to make some money, and he was not willing to spend it.

Erlang and Shiro are even more so, pulling Situ Yan and walking towards the city gate. Situ Yan sighed secretly in her heart, she is still far from living a well-off life, and now she can only be regarded as food and clothing. When they have money, these people may know that people live not just to be well fed and warmly clothed. Forget it, it's too early to think about it, let's talk about it later.

Back to Lijia Village, Da Lang took Erlang to the ground again, Situ Yan went to the backyard to take a look, the seedlings grew well, especially the rice seedlings, obviously grew a lot taller, and the fish fry could be released in a few days.

When he returned to the house, he turned out all the rags that he had brought back in the past few days, picked out the large pieces, and divided the silk cloth, silk cloth, and cotton cloth into categories, which would be ready for use in a few days. He also took some cloth and gave it to a few people to make summer shirts. Several people in this spring shirt are wearing old clothes from before, patches and patches, Situ Yan has no time to do it, and the weather will be hot for a while, and you can't wear it if you do it, so it's better to prepare summer shirts first, and the others can only be done when you are free in winter.

After the beginning of summer, the temperature began to rise, and the hottest time at noon was about 25 degrees. The days get longer and the nights get shorter. Situ Yan took advantage of the cool morning to enter the mountain, do some needlework in the afternoon, and boil salt at night, this salt brine is not as strong as before, it seems that there will be two or three months, this salt well will be useless, after all, the Northeast is not rich in salt wells, it is already a windfall to find such a place, and she is not the greedy person. Occasionally, Erlang would be asked to drive the car to dig up the river mud and make fertilizer. This kind of land is not something that can be fertilized once to produce good crops.

On the morning of March 16, Situ Yan brought breakfast to the table, and when the eldest man was seated, Erlang looked at the food on the table, a little strange, "Little Wu, why is it only me who eats noodles, and this is still full of eggs?" ”

"Second brother, today is your birthday, of course you have to eat longevity noodles on this birthday. Originally, I wanted to celebrate the birthday of the third brother and the fourth brother in the month, but who knew that it was just in time for the funeral in the village, and we were busy making money at that time, so it was delayed, and I will not forget the birthday of my brothers in the future. There is also a festival day for godfathers and godmothers. In fact, Situ Yan remembered it before, but there were too many things that people had to remember, so they forgot it, and there was no mobile phone reminder these days, and it was only these days that I had free time to think about it again.

"Good. It's the first time I've eaten longevity noodles. Thank you, Little Five. Li Dalang was very envious, and Situ Yan picked up one boiled egg for each, "The eldest brother, the third brother and the fourth brother have to eat this boiled egg." ”

A few people happily ate a birthday meal, and when a few people were too old to have teeth, they would eat a bowl of longevity noodles and a poached egg on each birthday.

After a few days, several well-connected families in the village came to the door with eggs, "Girl, are the eggs easy to sell?" When I went to the market a few days ago, the eggs were only 1 penny, and you collected the 2 pennies a piece, I'm afraid you will lose. "Aunt Quan and Aunt Fu have similar temperaments, and they really talk a lot.

"I haven't started selling it yet, I don't know, try it!" Several people persuaded Situ Yan that if it was not good to sell, they would return it to them. Situ Yan is grateful for the kindness of these villagers, in fact, even if she collects eggs for 1 yuan, these people are willing to sell them, which is better than taking them to the city to sell, and they can save 2 yuan for a car.

A few people put the eggs, took the money, and happily went home. When he entered the house, of course, he had to praise Situ Yan again. Even a few of their families felt that since Situ Yan entered the village, their lives had been much better. In the past, only during spring plowing and autumn harvest, you could eat cakes, but now, you can eat a meal every three or five times on weekdays, and your daughter-in-law often recites the good of others. It's hard to believe this after listening to it for a long time.

With new eggs, Situ Yan found a new jar and flooded it again. On March 20, Li Dalang drove the car, and the whole family went to the Liaohe River to net fish fry. The night before, Situ Yan also made some bait, although it was useless when netting fish, but it was still useful for spreading nests to attract fish. It's a pity that there is no boat, if there is a boat, maybe you can catch a big fish on the net, and it will be easy to satisfy your hunger. In her previous life, Situ Yan's favorite food was fish, but she was unwilling to pick fish bones. Every time, it was my grandmother who picked the fish for her to eat.

The days of the previous life can't go back, Situ Yan, who was sitting on the mule cart, held the barrel and looked ahead, everything looked forward, the days still had to pass.