Chapter 11 Livelihood

After the family came to the table, Li Yangwu saw the grilled fish on the table, "Where did this fish come from?" I remember no one in the family went out to catch fish! Li Yangwu scratched his head.

"Huh! It's not the naughty guys at home, who have the audacity to go to the river to catch fish. Old Man Li swept the small ones on the table, a little angry and helpless.

"Cheng Gang, Cheng Qiang, your guts are fat, you don't go to the house for three days!" Li Yangwu's violent temper is about to beat people even if he is on fire.

"Second brother, don't blame them, it's me, it's me who came up with the idea to fish, if you want to blame, blame me, we did fishing with a fishing rod, and we didn't go into the water." Li Yangqing hurriedly explained.

"It's my sister! Only a child as smart as my sister can make a fishing rod and bring fish back to the family to eat. Li Yangwu deserves to be a sister control, Li Yangqing instantly changed his gentle expression in a few words, and praised Li Yangqing.

"Don't talk about it, eat and eat, and try the fish caught by the little sisters today! Solve the cravings. Li Yangde also played a round with a smile.

This morning, Li Yangqing got up early in the morning, sat on the threshold of the hall and held his chin to look at the country road in the distance, the green crops swaying with the breeze, and the damp morning breeze caressing the red flowers on the pomegranate trees outside the yard.

The villagers who got up early in the distance were already busy in the fields, and the lazy sunlight penetrated into the courtyard from the fence, and with this tranquility, Li Yangqing's thoughts also diverged, thinking that most of the money he had just earned at home had gone because of the purchase of grain, and the next time the houttuynia cordata in the field grew and sold for money, it would take until September or October, and he still had to find a way to make money for a long time regardless of time and place.

Starting from the aspects of "clothing, food, housing and transportation", looking at the current resources at home, we can only start from the aspect of "food", the cost should be low, the operation is simple, the materials are not complicated, and the taste is delicious to attract people's attention.

Li Yangqing suddenly blessed his soul: "Hey! There is, set up a stall to sell explosives! There's nothing more noticeable than fried food, everything can be fried, and in this age of lack of meat, anything with oil and water can be sold for a relatively high price. ”

Thinking of this, Li Yangqing stood up excitedly, hurriedly ran to Li Yangming's house, and saw that Li Wendong, Li Chenggang, and Li Chengqiang were still sleeping, and Li Yangming was already reading.

"Third brother, I have a good way to make money, do you want to hear it? I'm going to wait for a while, and when the whole family is there, I'll tell everyone to hear about it, and if I can, I'll do it as soon as possible to make money. ”

Li Yangming raised his head from the bamboo slip in his hand and looked at the excited Li Yangqing, "Little sister, what kind of money-making method are you talking about?" ”

"Third brother, what I want is to do a business that sells food, you don't have to look at the time of day to eat, I didn't see anyone selling this last time I went to town, I am going to sell fried food."

"What kind of explosives?" Li Yangqing aroused Li Yangming's interest.

"Hey, hey! Let's not tell you to sell it first, and when my father and mother come back, I will tell you together, if you have any questions, I can answer them together, you just need to support me later, don't discourage my enthusiasm, okay? "Li Yangqing first needs to find a supporter.

"Okay! You're a ghost, I've told Wen Dong to hurry up too. Li Yangqing got Li Yangming's affirmation, and he was really excited at this time, and he couldn't wait for his family to get together to listen to his thoughts, so he was ready to wake up a few nephews who were still asleep.

"I'll help you call them and make sure they'll wake up in one go, hehehe! Look how I clean up these lazy pigs. Li Yangqing tiptoed to the bedside of a few lazy pigs, and saw that the three of them were still sleeping dimly, Li Chenggang even drooled out, I don't know what kind of good dreams I had, it must have something to do with eating.

Li Yangqing tore open their quilt with a "whoosh", pinched Li Wendong's nose, and quickly bent over and squatted behind Li Yangming, covering his mouth and snickering, only to see Li Wendong on the bed, "Ah...... After sneezing ......", he opened his confused eyes and rubbed his uncomfortable nose, and looked around the room, "Who, who is it?" Why is the quilt missing? ”

Li Chenggang and Li Chengqiang on the bed also shrunk their exposed feet, woke up trembling in the cold, rubbed their eyes, raised their sleeves and wiped the saliva from the corners of their mouths, still in a state of confusion, Li Yangqing couldn't help but smile and slowly came out from behind Li Yangming.

"Cheng Gang, you're so embarrassed! It's such a big person, and I'm still drooling when I sleep, and I'm not ashamed. Li Yangqing said while scraping his little face with his hands, it may be that after his body became a child, his childlike innocence was also regained, so he would make fun of his little nephews.

"Ahh Sister-in-law, why are you in our room, you get out quickly. Li Chenggang said as he covered the quilt on his body, probably shy, Li Yangqing smiled and walked out of the room.

"It's dinner, it's dinner, Wen Qing is going to call your father and your brothers to dinner." Li Qiu went out of the kitchen door and saw Li Yangqing swaying in the yard, so he grabbed a strong man and asked Li Yangqing to run errands.

People in the village generally eat two meals a day, two meals in the morning and two meals in the evening, and one more meal at noon when the farm is busy, which is also not to save food.

"Okay, mother." Li Yangqing first went to the back room to ask Li Tingyuan to eat, and then ran to the door of the two brothers' houses to ask them to eat.

"Mother, I'm done shouting, and the Wendong people are also up, what else do you want me to do?" Li Yangqing went into the kitchen to see the three older women in the family busy eating morning food.

"The rice is ready, drink Shu millet gruel with pickles this morning, and you can pour a basin of washing water for the Wendongs." Seeing that Li Yangqing looked like he wanted to help, Li Sun casually assigned this light job to her.

"Okay, second sister-in-law." After Li Wenqing scooped a few gourds and scooped hot water, mixed it with some cold water, took the wooden basin to the courtyard, and beckoned Li Wendong to wash his face after a few years.

Li Qiu, Li Wen, and Li Sun entered the hall with rice, vegetables, and chopsticks, and saw that Li Tingyuan and the three brothers had already sat on the table.

"Grandpa, grandma early."

"Uncle, aunt early."

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After the juniors greeted the elders in turn, the family sat neatly at two tables to eat and eat.

When Li Tingyuan moved the first chopsticks first, the others began to move the chopsticks, and the sound of the collision of the dishes and chopsticks sounded, and the occasional sound of children eating "chirp, chirp" appeared, and they would be blamed by the elders.

Li Yangqing drank a few sips of gruel, wiped his mouth and looked at Li Tingyuan's table and said: "Father, brother and sister-in-law, nephews, while the big guys are here, I want to say something, I think now is not the time to be busy with farming, the family is idle now, and there is nothing to produce at home, and the houttuynia that sells money will have to wait until September and October. At present, the conditions of our family can only be considered from the aspect of "food", and a few people in our family go to the town to sell food, and sell the "fried food" that is not yet available in the town. ”

Li Yangwu hurriedly put down the bowl and looked at Li Yangqing, "What is an explosive thing?" Little sister, you said in detail. The others followed suit and put down their eating bowls.

"Fried food as the name suggests is fried food, this detailed point is to boil a pot of oil and water with lard fat, and then all kinds of vegetables, chicken, duck, fish and meat at home, and even fruits can also be, and so on after the oil and water boil, put these things into the oil and water to boil, wait until the food is cooked, scoop it up, sprinkle some spice powder made of garlic, ginger, white plum, salt, cooked chestnut yellow, or you can eat it without seasoning, and there is a unique strong oil fragrance mixed with spices, and the production process is called "fried" It's just a way of cooking, and this fried food is called "fried food", don't you think this business is made? ”

"Yangqing, what you said requires oil, water and spices, will the cost be very high?" Li Yangming, through Li Yangqing's description, felt that there was such a problem.

"Third brother, don't worry, although you have to boil out a pot of oil and water at the beginning, but the oil and water can be used repeatedly, as for the spices, the spices are more expensive, even if they are cheaper without spices, the average people can't help but buy when they smell the fragrance of oil, and the prices of meat and vegetables are also calculated separately, skewered with different bamboo skewers, sold by skewers, and an ordinary radish can be skewered on a few skewers! The operation is also simple, only a pot, stove, firewood, two or three people can put up the stall, when the farm is busy, just let the third brother take a few of us to the line, neither delay farming nor delay business. ”

"Well, it's feasible to hear Yang Qing say this, what do you think?" After listening to it, Old Man Li also felt that it was feasible.

"Sister-in-law, can we eat that fried thing you said tonight? Sounds delicious! Li Chengqiang listened to Li Yangqing's description, and just thinking about the taste in his head, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, thinking that he could taste it tonight.

"Yes, I'll make it for you to taste tonight, and I need my mother to contribute some of the oil from the meat I bought last time, and we'll let my father have a name for this stall!" The eldest brother carves a signboard with a wooden board, the second brother is responsible for cutting bamboo sticks, the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law are responsible for preparing various ingredients, the third brother takes a few boys from the family to chop some firewood, and my mother, Wenqiu and I are responsible for skewering and preparing spices. Li Yang had already allocated in his mind what everyone in the family could do, and now he began to arrange it while the iron was hot.

"Since this one is skewered with bamboo skewers, let's call it "Lee's fried skewers"! Okay, let's listen to Yangqing's arrangement today! Try it tonight, everyone will enjoy it, and tomorrow you will prepare for another day, and the day after tomorrow you will go to the town to set up a stall. Li Tingyuan made a final concluding remarks, waved his hand and asked everyone to disperse to get busy with the work assigned to him.

Li Wenshi and Li Sunshi went into the kitchen with the dishes and chopsticks that the family had finished eating, and after the busy meal, they cleaned up the work, saw that there were no ready-made dishes at home, and decided to go to the vegetable field at home to dig some fresh vegetables.

Li Sun came to Li Yangqing with a basket of washed vegetables, and asked Li Yangqing to see what was still missing, "Little sister, there are not many types of vegetables that are not grown at home, just these few things, do you think it's okay?" ”

Li Yangqing stretched out his hand and flipped through the dishes in the basket, "Second sister-in-law, these dishes are fine, if only there were a few more dishes." ”

"So be it! My sister-in-law and I went to Aunt Lan's house to have a look, and she grew a lot of vegetables, so I bought some of them and came back. Li Sun thought of a way.