At the noon table, Lu Zhong ate the flour rose cake and praised: "Well, this is good, it tastes softer than the dead flour cake." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said lazily: "Dad, you see that this cake is empty when you bite into it, will anyone buy it for three cents?" ”

"There must be! Although this stuffing looks small, it has a strong floral fragrance and a good sweetness, so it doesn't feel greasy to eat, and it's not small. Lu Zhong weighed the rose cake in his hand, "It's almost three taels, it's about the same size as the steamed buns in the restaurant!" ”。

Lu Xiaoyi's eyes opened, and he suddenly came to his senses, and said excitedly: "Really? Dad, do you really think this will work? ”

"You can try it! If you can't sell it, you can take it back and eat it yourself! ”

Lu Xiaoyi asked Yulan and Xiaoding again, both of them had a positive opinion, Xiao Geng saw that he was ignored, put the rose cake in his hand back on the plate, and pouted unhappily and complained: "Big sister looks down on people!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi coaxed him in a good mood, and presented a specially selected big rose cake, Xiao Gengcai smiled and put forward his opinion: "Sanwen is too cheap, it sells for about thirty yuan!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded and praised Xiao Geng for knowing the goods the most, and the opinions he put forward were the most in her heart.

Yulan scolded with a smile: "One is more greedy than the other!" A loaf of bread can buy three liters of fine wheat noodles for 30 yuan. ”

"Mother, where's the couscous? How much is a liter? Lu Xiaoyi asked.

"Food is a price a day, where do I remember clearly, ask your father to go, he runs in the city every day!"

Lu Zhong said: "The wheat noodles have to be sifted several times, the finer the more expensive, take our kind of coarse wheat noodles as an example, the grain stores sell them for four cents a liter." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said secretly: The liter is the capacity unit, the catty is the weight unit, if you want to convert it into catties, it depends on what kind of grain it contains, and the weight of a liter of noodles and a liter of rice is definitely different. Moreover, one liter in ancient times is heavier than one pound in modern times, and one liter of noodles weighs about 1.5 catties, so it is estimated that a pound of fine noodles in this dynasty is about six to seven Wen, and a catty of coarse wheat noodles is about two to three Wen.

The last time he went to the livestock market to collect the price of cattle and horses, Lu Xiaoyi determined that the prices in Lu were cheaper than those in the Song Dynasty, and combined with the comparison report between prices and modern prices in "Water Margin" in his previous life, it was estimated that a copper coin in the Song Dynasty was equal to about 0.7 yuan. Then, Lu Xiaoyi also boldly estimated that one copper coin in Lu Guo was equal to 0.6 yuan, a pound of fine noodles was about 3.6~4.2 yuan, and a pound of thick noodles was about 1.2~1.8 yuan.

Although this price is not much different from the price of flour in modern society, it is not reliable and convincing, after all, modern society has developed agriculture and high grain production, while ancient agricultural production was backward and grain output was low. Moreover, the price of rice and flour and other grains are closely related to the annual situation, and if there is a disaster year or war, the price of grain rises three times a day, and no matter how many people hold silver, they cannot buy food.

Therefore, Lu Xiaoyi came to the conclusion that it is best to live in the present despite its modern and ancient times!

Lu Xiaoyi was engrossed in thinking, until Yulan touched her, handed over a cake, and asked, "What do you want?" A look of a soul that can't give up! ”

"I'm wondering if I lose money selling a cake for three dollars?"

Yulan smiled: "I promise not to lose, I pay attention to it when I make noodles, our scoop is a liter of noodles, I dug a total of six scoops, that is six liters of noodles, you count how many cakes we made?" ”

Six liters of noodles are about nine catties, and one liter of four wen is twenty-four wen.

Lu Xiaoyi stretched out his hand again and counted the number of cakes, plus the thirty that were given to the surplus grain and the West Courtyard, a total of forty-five, on average, five cakes were made in one catty, and the cost of each cake was only 0.5 Wen, referring to the previous life A catty of noodles with water and yeast can make a catty and a half of noodles to calculate, the average weight of each cake is about three taels, counting the auxiliary materials Thorn rose, frosting and yeast, and then counting the miscellaneous expenses such as artificial firewood, it is also appropriate to sell three pennies.

Yulan said again: "If it is fine noodles, the dough effect will be better, and you can make two or three more in one liter of noodles." ”

Lu Xiaoyi immediately began to calculate the cost of fine wheat noodles again, if you sell them for six yuan a piece, the profit is much higher than that of coarse noodles, thinking of this, Lu Xiaoyi smiled and lost his eyes.

Yulan looked at her wealth obsessed and said, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, if you have anything to say, wait until you finish eating!" The young ladies of large families pay attention to 'food and sleep, and you have a temperament like you, you have to be born in such a family, and you can't be beaten endlessly all day! With that, he put an egg in a bowl for her.

"I don't want to be Miss Laoshzi, I just want to be my father's daughter, I just want to be the sister of Xiao Ding and Xiao Geng!" When Lu Xiaoyi said such a thing, he didn't deliberately pat the horse, but his true thoughts from the heart.

Yulan's eyebrows and eyes stretched, Lu Zhong laughed even more, Xiao Ding's eyes were shining, Xiao Geng was the cutest, and kept shouting: "Big sister!" Eldest sister! I'll only be your brother! ”

It was Yulan who stopped it, and the dinner table quieted down.

After lunch, Lu Zhong took Xiao Geng to the next room for a nap, Yulan urged her two daughters to learn to do needlework, and she was not idle, she put a thimble on the middle finger of her right hand, pinched the slender embroidery needle and pierced it flexibly on a new vamp, and the lotus flower on the toe had begun to take shape.

Lu Xiaoyi seriously practiced hand-sewing needlework on a rag head, in order to save cotton thread, Yulan taught her not to tie a knot at one end of the thread, and use the needle to pick out the cotton thread completely after sewing, which can continue to be used, but it is not an infinite cycle, and the cotton thread will be sharpened after a few times, until it can no longer be used, then change to a new cotton thread and continue to practice.

It's easy to get tired and drowsy when doing one thing repeatedly, Lu Xiaoyi was so sleepy that she pricked her hand a few times with the tip of the needle, so she simply put down the cloth head and discussed with Yulan what she was interested in.

When Yulan heard that it was a matter of selling rose cakes, she said seriously: "It's not impossible, but there are some things I want to talk about before, one is that your cake is baked out of an iron pot, and it is the most fragrant when it is hot, and when you get it to the city, it is already cold, how can you let others buy it back?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Buy it back and burn it!" ”

"If you take the leftover cake back to the pot and burn it, you will find that it is not only easy to burn but also difficult to heat through, unlike steamed buns, which are heated after slipping through the steamer."

Yes, Lu Xiaoyi didn't think about this problem, now it's cold outside, and cold food must be heated to eat when you buy it, but this pancake is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and it completely changes the flavor when steamed!

Yulan continued: "The second point, you don't have many prickly roses, I calculated, according to the amount of noon today, I can make at most a hundred cakes, so toss twice and stop, are you tired?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, there were indeed not many thorn roses in her hands, and the first time she went to Yu's house to pick not much, then the surplus grain brought her a large bag, and used up part of it twice to make rose cakes, and the rest was only the amount estimated by Magnolia.

"The third point is that there is a lot of work in the city before the year, and your father can't always take you to sell cakes, right? Last time, I was accompanied by your grandfather to sell baskets, and this time I don't worry about letting you sell a girl's house along the street, and it's freezing cold, what should I do if I freeze you out? Earning that little money is not enough to buy medicine! ”

He also said: "There is no shortage of money for you at home, don't toss in the cold, obediently learn needlework at home, and the warmth is not better than when you go out to be cold?" ”

Yulan is telling the truth, Lu Xiaoyi wonders if she is too much, she can live her life, why do you have to earn this hard-earned money? However, she just doesn't want to stay at home obediently, relying on his father's small monthly income to live, she wants to contribute to this family, wants to let the family live a good life, the family has three rooms and half a yard, in case Yulan has another one, the family has to build a big house, Xiao Geng wants to study, Xiao Ding's dowry can not be less, and she has to save food and money to prevent disasters and wars......

Lu Xiaoyi never thought that a good life was shouted by shouting slogans, it was impossible without effort, and her ideal good life in the countryside should be both materially rich and spiritually comfortable. Farming when busy and making money when idle, there are flowers in the yard, melons and vegetables in the ground, men in the kang head, carriages when going out, no Confucianism in talking and laughing, all white ding, three views to be correct, quarrels without stage fright......

Cough! Cough! Stop there! is only 472 Wen net worth, everything is too far away.

Lu Xiaoyi pulled back her distant thoughts and thought about Yulan's three questions, she knew that she couldn't convince Yulan, everything was free to talk about, not that Yulan was so authoritarian and strict, but that she valued her daughter rather than making money.

"Mother, let's not make pancakes into steamed buns, frosting is also replaced with brown sugar, brown sugar is cheaper than frosting, we can put more brown sugar, it is best to have a small box, carved into a five-petal plum blossom shape, the filling is wrapped in the middle, steamed out of white and fat in the middle of a little red how beautiful it is, and others buy it back on the steamer, and the taste remains the same."

Yulan's eyes lit up and praised: "This method is good!" You're so good-brained. ”

Lu Xiaoyi said with a smile: "Mother, when you come, you will comb my boy's hair for me, and then change my father's clothes, and it will be much safer to pretend to be a teenager!" Besides, my dad doesn't have a job every day, he can accompany me when he doesn't have a job, and I will follow him and sell it near him when he has a job, what's the matter? ”

Seeing that Yulan didn't speak, Lu Xiaoyi said again: "Mother, I'm not afraid of the cold, I wear thicker, and then put on cotton hats and gloves, I definitely won't be able to freeze!" ”

Yulan sighed: "Hey, you kid doesn't know what's going on in your head, I also know that you can't stay at home, if you want to go, try it, anyway, after the little thorny rose is tossed, you will stop!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi was relieved when she heard Yulan, and excitedly hugged Yulan's arm and coquettishly, Yulan was still holding a needle in her hand, and shouted: "Oh, beware of piercing you, how can you look like a girl!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi immediately sat up straight, changed to a new cotton thread, and practiced the needlework in a regular manner.

When Lu Zhong got up from a nap, Yulan said Lu Xiaoyi's thoughts, Lu Zhong's support was reflected in action, and he quickly found a piece of wood and asked Lu Xiaoyi for that kind of mold, Lu Xiaoyi took out a plum-shaped pattern of Yulan, "Dad, just dig a mold along the edge of the outside of this pattern, the size can be best fitted on two sides." ”

Lu Zhong looked at Lao Gao, who was frowning at the show, and muttered, "I don't understand, it's densely packed with lattices." After speaking, he handed it to Yulan and said, "You can help me see, which line shall prevail?" ”

Yulan traced a circle along the edge of the plum blossom with her fingers, Lu Zhong suddenly looked at her with reverence and affection, and said with a smile: "Okay, now I will be clear, it's not difficult!" With that, he took the wood and went out to find the carpenter in the village.

In less than an hour, he brought back two molds, and sure enough, they were five-petal plum blossom shaped, and the inside was polished very smooth, and Lu Xiaoyi was very satisfied.

Yulan said to Lu Xiaoyi: "We can't delay your father to pick up passengers, we have to get up early, can you get up?" ”

There is money to be made, what is drowsy, Lu Xiaoyi said loudly: "Yes!" ”

Yulan pursed her lips and smiled: "Let's make the steamed bun stuffing in the evening, I'll get up early to make noodles, and I'll call you when it's ready." ”

"Mother, remember to give me a change of clothes." Lu Xiaoyi reminded.

"I almost forgot about it!" Yulan hurriedly got up to find Lu Zhong's old clothes, which were cut higher than Lu Xiaoyi's height.