Hu said that the family also made a lot of fish balls and white soup, which they could share with everyone to take home and eat together when the children came home. The white soup offered by the Xia, no matter what you cook, is delicious, and the fish balls can be made into soup or boiled when you go back, and if it is convenient, you can make fish balls into a pot in the soup.

These words brought the atmosphere at the table to a climax.

Taking advantage of everyone's happiness, Hu said that when the weather gets cold in a few days, his family can provide the service of delivering food to the academy. Each meal is served with one meat, one vegetable, one rice and one soup, and each meal costs fifteen cents, which is guaranteed to be hot.

"This is a bamboo basket specially set by my family to keep warm, and if the son of any family is studying in a nearby academy, those who want to deliver food can also hold me together, just two pennies."

For a while, everyone inquired.

This one said, "If the food tastes as good as it does today, I'll order one for my son." ”

"Auntie, if you want to book, you have to book in advance, this is limited, there are only fifteen places."

The one asked, "What about the Xia offering, does the fifteen pennies also include the Xia offering?" ”

"No, no, no, the price is other prices, he has to order in advance, fifty yuan a piece, with two taels of rabbit meat, an egg, cabbage, and a radish. Its white soup alone requires several kinds of meat to boil. ”

Seeing that his mother was too busy, Guo Mianmian hurriedly replied.

A lively warming banquet or pre-business tasting party was successfully completed.

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After the queue paid the tax and grain, noon was almost over. After eating lunch, the Guo family left three bags of wheat for seed and food, and moved the remaining less than 20 bags of wheat to three flatbed trucks one by one.

The Guo family only has one flatbed truck, and two of them are borrowed from good friends. Guo Laoshi, Guo Shu, Guo Lin, father and son, pulled one by one and walked to the town, while several women followed behind, and when they encountered a steep slope, they pushed it by the handle.

The adults in the family were all dispatched, except for Kunkun, who was going to the town, and the rest of the children stayed at home. It's not that the children don't want to go, it's just that there are more geometric people in the town, either people who sell food from all over the country, or grain merchants who come from the county town or other places to collect grain.

There is a big road leading to Taoyuan Town in Lijia Village, it is said that the road is only allowed to accommodate two flatbed trucks, and the road is not neat, from time to time encountering soil pits or steep slopes, the Guo family walks quite hard, empty-handed only needs half a time of travel, at least double the number of dog tail grass.

Finally pushed the flatbed truck and walked a long steep slope, Guo Mianmian wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said to Mu Shi with an unsteady breath: "Mother, let's buy a cow!" ”

The strength of the ox is large, not only can plough the land, but also pull the cart, grind the rice field to feed the grain, not to mention the reduction of manpower, people can also be much easier, will not be like the current agricultural busy, people are thin and changed shape, the shoulders are grinding out of the thick calluses can not be removed.

Without waiting for Mu's reply, Yu's family, who was resting with his waist crossed, laughed: "Sister-in-law, this cow is not something that can be bought if you buy it, not to mention whether there is a cow to buy, even if there is a cow to buy, even if there is a cow, our family can't afford it." ”

Guo Mianmian only knew that Daqing's cattle were very precious, and it was a crime to slaughter cattle at will, and eating beef that had not crossed the road would be beaten and imprisoned, but he didn't know the price of beef, so he asked curiously: "Is it difficult to buy cattle that are very expensive?" ”

If it's just a little more expensive, it's nothing, but if it's priceless, it's a big problem

Mu Shi took over the conversation and said carefully: "It's not expensive, a half-year-old calf costs seven or eight taels of silver, and the big cow that can contribute is even more expensive, and fifteen taels of silver have not yet been bought." You see, there are four or five hundred households in our neighboring villages, but there are only three or five of them who have cattle, one is expensive, and the other is difficult to buy, so you have to find a route. ”

"That's very expensive...... Guo Mianmian stammered when she listened, she really didn't expect it to cost so much effort to buy a cow.

You must know that one tael of silver here is a thousand yuan, one penny can buy an egg, coarse grain is two and a half yuan a catty, and refined flour will not cross eight yuan......

In this way, a cow can be exchanged for 6,000 catties of coarse grain, which is enough for a family of ten to eat for almost two years! If you want to buy cattle, not to mention whether the farmer can find a route, even if you find it, it is difficult to buy it.

I think most people think that buying cattle is not cost-effective, and the work in the field can be done hard, and buying cattle can save a lot of money, and if you can buy nature, you won't buy it.

Guo Mianmian quickly calculated the silver in her hand, in addition to the few silver tickets that could not be moved, although most of her own silver money was spent on the way back, there were still thirty or forty taels left, it was more than enough to buy a cow, and the link was to find a route to buy, and the payment in this was difficult to confirm.

With a plan in his heart, Guo Mianmian said to Mu's family: "Mother, are there cattle merchants in Taoyuan Town?" If there is, we will go and see when we sell the food later, and if we can't afford it now, it doesn't mean that we can't afford it in the future. ”

"Huh? Do you really want to buy it? Not to mention this, Mu Shi was excited when he heard this, and Guo Laoshi and the others' desire for cattle was also stimulated.

"That's right, what the eldest sister said is right, our family can't afford it now, it doesn't mean that we can't afford it in the future, our family will start saving money to buy cattle now, I don't believe that our family has so much labor, and it can't save enough money to buy cattle." Guo Shu pulled the cart and turned around and said loudly.

Guo Laoshi, Guo Lin and his son, who were walking very ahead, did not speak, but stopped, and their faces could not hide their excitement.

After all, how tiring and bitter the work in the field was, the three of them, father and son, felt very deeply. Every year, the three of them, father and son, bent down and ploughed like oxen, and at the end of the day, the bones were like falling apart, and the shoulders were strangled by ropes, and they couldn't touch them.

If there is a cow, the family can also be more relaxed, and if it is easy, they can also pull an ox cart to help people carry goods. Goods are a good input, much stronger than farming.

Yu and Liu glanced at each other and saw approval in each other's eyes. Both of them feel sorry for their man, no matter how much it costs, if the family can buy a cow, they will not veto.

Kunkun, who didn't know what the cow represented, was affected by the excitement of the adults, and showed a few small white teeth and said to his mother: "Mother, buy a cow, buy it with Kunkun's silver." ”

Yu sneered, patted Kunkun's little brain melon and joked: "You still use your silver to buy it, come on, come on, you come to report to the eldest aunt, how much silver do you have, you can really afford to buy a cow." ”

Kunkun took this seriously, frowning and thinking about the eldest aunt's question, and then looked at his mother in confusion, and said not very well: "Kunkun doesn't know how many, it's all in the hands of my mother." ”

"Haha, Kunkun is so well-behaved, he knows how to hand over the silver to his mother."

Yu touched Kunkun several times freshly, and did not hesitate to reward him, but he didn't take his little nephew's words seriously in his heart.

My sister-in-law, a widow, even if she has money in hand, how much money can she have? The cost of returning this way is not small, which means that it may not have been spent, and she will not fight her sister-in-law if she wants to buy a cow.

The rest of the people didn't take Kunkun's words to heart, and they didn't think that their daughter (sister) had a lot of money in their hands, and even if they had, they wouldn't add it up.

Guo Mianmian smiled helplessly, patted his son's head and didn't answer anything.

The matter of silver, she didn't mean to hide it from her family, but she didn't know much about the reason for this large amount of silver, the truth was that she had been away from home for more than ten years, she was just a maid of a big family, and her husband was ordinary, how to answer with such a sum of money?

And when she returned to Lijia Village, she came to fulfill the original owner's last wish and fulfill her filial piety to Guo's father and Guo's mother; Second, it was forced to do so. Once the origin of the silver is said, not only is it not good for the Guo family, but it is very likely that it will cause unnecessary troubles and even disasters because of the excessive mouth, which she has to be cautious......

Taoyuan Town commands one hundred and five villages within a radius of fifty miles, but its own area is not large, only four or five streets 100 zhang long, and it takes three or two moments to walk from the street to the end of the street to walk around the whole town.

Although it occupies a small area, Taoyuan Town is located in the land of fish and rice, and is located on the official road leading to the city, most of the business travelers from the north and south pass through it, especially in the late spring and early autumn harvest seasons, business travel is more and more frequent, so there is a thriving and prosperous scene.

Guo Mianmian looked at the shops on both sides of the street, and none of them closed their doors until the next day, thinking that the people who came to this Taoyuan town should have a very nourishing life.

"Mother, geometric people......" Kun Kun took his mother's hand, looked at the crowd of people coming and going, and couldn't help but open his small mouth and make a sound.

"Geometric people are just like us, they all come to sell food, and there are naturally more people on this street." Guo Mianmian replied to Kunkun, who was curious about everything, but sighed silently in his heart, not knowing whether to cherish or glorify this child to forget the past.

The mother and son stood in the corner talking, waiting for the Guo family who were selling food at the grain station opposite.

After waiting for two moments, it was the turn of the Guo family, and after a long time, everyone in the Guo family walked towards the son and mother with a smile, thinking that they had come to sell food at a good price.

Mu walked over quickly, and said to Guo Mianmian with joy: "Our family's wheat grows well, and the grain merchant is very freehand to give more than half a penny per catty, and this time there is more than 900 yuan." ”

The rest of the people couldn't hide their excitement, and Yu even pinched Kunkun's little face, and laughed loudly: "Later, your grandmother is going to buy meat, and there will be fragrant meat to eat tonight, is Kunkun happy?" ”

Although Kun Kun didn't eat porridge and meat, seeing that the elders were so happy, he was not too happy, so he nodded his little brain, blinked his eyes and said, "Happy!" ”

Looking at Kunkun's cute and pleasing spirit, everyone laughed and shouted that they wanted to weigh two catties more meat, so that Kunkun could eat a full stomach at night.

Guo Mianmian also laughed, but her heart was very bitter. earned an extra 900 yuan, which made the family so happy, which shows how difficult it is to earn this silver, and the family is afraid that there is not much money left.