Chapter Thirty-Three: Duck Feathers All Over the Ground
The old man couldn't stay idle, so he went to the mountains to cut wood for the winter. After the last foot injury, the family has not licked new firewood, and in the next few months, a lot of firewood is needed for heating in late autumn and winter, and the consequences of not stocking up are very serious.
Luozhi originally wanted Ah Shu to go with him to help, but Grandpa didn't let him, saying that he didn't dare to take him to the mountain, and it would be troublesome if he didn't go home for a while.
Luo Zhi smiled and didn't speak, Ah Shu now estimated that he wouldn't go to live in the mountains if he beat him.
Just as Luozhi was struggling to dry peanuts with a rake, Aunt Mu Si came over with Mu Ying, Luo'an, and Ah Shu, and thanked Luozhi as soon as she entered the door, but she didn't kneel down for Luozhi.
Luozhi blamed Mu Ying for her quick mouth, and within a quarter of an hour of going home, she said all the beans poured into the bamboo tube, Mu Ying was blushed by her, and Aunt Mu heard her say funny with a smile on her face.
After making an appointment to go to her house for dinner in the evening, Aunt Mu took Mu Ying and left in a hurry, there was such a big thing in her mother's house, she had to go back to feel at ease. At the moment, Mu Ying's family of four went straight to the town, and there was no table here.
After having lunch early, Grandpa continued to cut wood, Luozhi took Luo'an, and Ah Shu turned over peanuts at home.
Luozhi stood in the yard and looked into the distance, and found that there were many children raking peanuts in the field, and she knew what was going on after a little thought. She had done this in her previous life, and now she has a lot of memories when she thinks about it.
She asked Luo An and Ah Shu if they wanted to eat peanuts that didn't cost money, and the two of them nodded their heads like chickens pecking rice. Luo Zhi smiled and said the plan, the two of them stopped playing caterpillars, and went to the back room to find something.
It is difficult to harvest peanuts, even the most careful croppers, it is impossible to collect every peanut into the warehouse, and there will always be some left in the soil. A pound of peanuts with skin can be exchanged for more than a pound of good rice, and the children in Mujia Village have carried baskets, small rakes or pickaxes in their hands, and scattered to the ground to look for peanuts that fell in the soil.
Luozhi was naturally not far behind, and this afternoon he took Luo'an and Ah Shu to the ground to rave peanuts.
Although Luozhi grows peanuts in his own family, he wants to sell braised peanuts for money, even if he doesn't sell them for money, he has to keep them for oil extraction. So far, Luozhi and their family have eaten only those last night.
This is not to say that Old Man Mu is reluctant, but everyone in the village is like this, but the people who eat peanuts for their children will be said to be accustomed to children and will not be able to live a careful life.
Like Luozhi who generously cooked a big basket last night, she was already very generous, no wonder Aunt Mu said that she was too bright at that time.
In the peanut fields of poor families, their own families have carefully searched, and there are few left. But even these people are careful and careless. If you find the peanut field of the careless man's family, the harvest will naturally be more. There is also the land of the landlord's house, people can also have a lot of harvest if they don't look at the three melons and two dates.
Even if there aren't many of them, finding some to eat in your stomach is a way to satisfy your cravings. For Luozhi, participating in a children's program such as raking peanuts is much more meaningful than eating peanuts itself.
It is very hard to find the peanuts that have fallen into the soil, and everyone almost turns over the whole ground, so it is called a rake. Luo'an likes to eat peanuts, and when he raises peanuts, Luozhi cherishes his young age, and will give him peanuts to eat first. Luo'an is also very sensible, he will eat a small handful very carefully, and then stop eating, and keep it in the bamboo basket.
Some of the peanuts raised by the children in the village have to be returned to their families to supplement their families, while others are more lenient and let the children either make their own tooth sacrifices or sell them in the town and exchange them for candy.
Now that Old Man Mu's family is in charge of many things, Luozhi thinks that he still has money left in hand, so he decides to keep these peanuts for himself to eat.
After raking like this for a long time, the three of them reluctantly returned home when it was almost dark. Each of them weighed five or six pounds of peanuts, and after half a day, although their little faces were tanned, their hands were blistered, and their arms and legs were sore, but looking at a basket full of peanuts, the joy in their hearts could completely withstand the fatigue of their bodies.
When the people in the village saw it, they all said that the children of Master Mu's family were clever and capable. The old man Mu who came back from chopping firewood was happy when he heard this, but his mouth kept being humble, "What's this, they do things at home and work like this, it's not worth boasting."
Why does Luozhi think that Grandpa is very suspicious of selling melons and boasting about herself......
There is no need for Luozhi to cook tonight, Aunt Mu said hello in the morning and said that she would go to her house for dinner. When Luozhi's family arrived, Aunt Mu Si was showing her skills in the stove room, Luozhi took a cursory look, there were a lot of chickens, ducks and fish, and the specifications of tonight's dinner were quite high.
She and Mu Ying sat side by side behind the stove to light the fire, and the old man and Uncle Mu were in the courtyard with a faint voice floating in.
"Luozhi, the stove room is hot, you go to the yard to cool off, don't sit here." Aunt Mu Si arrived at her mother's house in the town, and listened to her mother's family think about the day's events carefully, only to know how dangerous it was at that time, and now she has a sweat on her back when she thinks about it.
If it weren't for Luozhi, not to mention the collapse of his mother's family, he would have ruined his family. Yes, she is very pleasing to the eye when she looks at Luozhi now.
Thinking that this little girl is going to take her own family to do a braised peanut business, her heart is even hotter, this Luozhi is really her own little lucky star.
Luozhi was driven out of the stove room by Aunt Mu Si, and saw that the old man and Uncle Mu were in the yard to choose peanuts to keep for seed in the afterglow of the sun.
Mu Jia'an danced like a drum, Luozhi was an arm's length away, a unique fragrance of fragrant pancreas slowly spread to the tip of his nose, his ears were slightly red, and he almost picked up and threw away all the good peanuts.
"Uncle, don't you want the duck feathers?" Luo Zhi looked at the duck feathers that were thrown in the corner of the yard, and suddenly blessed his heart, didn't many down jackets in his previous life be made of the fluff of the duck's belly?
Eiderdown is fine, dense, and light. It makes it difficult for cold air to enter, and body temperature will not be lost, so it is very warm. Ancient winters did not have a greenhouse effect compared to today, even when they were as cold as winters in the south. I should have thought about it and prepared early.
In addition to making clothes, eiderdown can also be made into quilts, pillows, pants, shoes, and warm in winter...... When she was young, there were people who went to every household in the countryside to collect it, probably just to make down, the ancients were really tyrannical!
"What else can you do with this smelly duck feather? After a while, I will directly burn it to make fertilizer," Fourth Uncle Mu said with a smile.
Luozhi stopped picking up deflated peanuts, she clapped her hands and stood up, walked to the corner and squatted down. Luo An and Ah Shu also squatted down with her, and their three black heads were next to each other looking at the chicken and duck feathers all over the ground.
"You kid, you have to take a look at a bunch of duck feathers" Old Man Mu saw his little granddaughter squatting down, shook his head with a smile and said.
"Uncle, I want all this duck feathers and chicken feathers, and you will keep them for me in the future," Luo Zhi said.
Fourth Uncle Mu naturally promised her that this thing was thrown away after the countrymen pulled it off after killing chickens and ducks, and since Luozhi wanted it, he gave it away.
She looked around and found that there were sun-dried lotus leaves in the basket under the eaves, and Luozhi directly took two lotus leaves and wrapped them at the gate of the courtyard, so that they could be taken away when they went home in a while.
"Everyone washed their hands and ate." Mu Ying shouted to everyone to eat.
Aunt Mu Si has invested enough money to treat her today, the old hen stewed mushrooms in a big wooden pot is about to overflow, the duck meat is stir-fried with old ginger, the boiled fish made of fish, and the back pot meat, the meat is full of aroma and volume, and all kinds of vegetables are also crisp and refreshing, everyone chats while eating, warm and comfortable.
Rural cuisine is natural, nutritious, healthy, harmless, and tasteless! You'll love it after you eat it. Luozhi has come through these days, and the most satisfying thing is not that she has earned more than 200 taels of silver, but that this kind of life really wins her heart.
Luo'an was next to Luozhi, holding a big duck leg and eating a mouth full of oil, this half a month's good food made the little guy's face ruddy, and he looked particularly clever and cute.
After drinking and eating, Luozhi helped wash the dishes and chopsticks, wiped the stove, and rested in the yard with everyone.
"Luozhi, this boiled peanut, how about we sell it at this price?" Aunt Mu asked. Everyone looked at Luozhi, and invisibly Luozhi became the one who made the idea, and everyone was convinced of her ability, although she was young.
Luozhi had visited those fried food shops in Ji'an Town before, and the ones sold in the shops were fried in a big pot, and it was easy to get angry if you ate too much, and you would get black with one hand and one mouth. The boiled peanuts are salty and fragrant, slightly empty and dry, both clean and not hot, and the peanuts outside are not as delicious as the peanuts she makes, nor are they as clean and refreshing as hers.
"It's the boiled peanuts we ate last night, let's make more and sell them in the town. I think it must be easy to sell," Uncle Mu said.
Luozhi snapped his fingers and began to settle the score. After the peanuts are to be sun-dried, they can be sold with skin, and they can be sold for 12 yuan a catty. She inquired about the price in the bullock cart this morning, and yes. If you peel the skin and sell peanut kernels, it will be more expensive. The cheapest raw peanuts sold in the town are 12 yuan a catty, and the most expensive fried peanuts are 18 yuan a catty.
"None of theirs are as delicious as we make, we sell them for twenty yuan a pound per catty, and we can earn about six yuan per catty after removing the marinade money." Luozhi Road.
"Isn't ten catties sixty wen, and one hundred catties is six hundred wen?" Mu Jia'an said.
"We are all our own peanuts, and we even save the cost, and we can earn 18 yuan in one pound after removing the brine money." Fourth Uncle Mu said.
"Let's sell our own first, if we sell well, we can still collect raw peanuts from the village and continue to sell." Luozhi Road.
Everyone smiled and nodded.
"For the first time, let's make sixty-six pounds first. The picture is auspicious, 66 Da Shun "Luozhi Road," the day after tomorrow is the town's set, let's start doing it now just in time. ”
"Yes." Everyone agreed
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