Chapter 5: Catch the morning market
Thanks to Han Fool's pot, Su Guoguo's family gathered in a dilapidated house and ate a meal of corn tortillas, grains, and porridge with heterozygous bark. Although the taste is not very good, after a family of three eats, in this late autumn night, the whole body is hot and a little supportive.
After the meal, Su Guoguo helped his brother, who was not downcast, to go back to the adobe side house on the side to rest. She went back to the big house, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and on the couch, her mother coughed nonstop.
Su Guoguo hurriedly brought a bowl of water to her mother and told her to suppress her cough.
Su Mu drank a bowl of water, felt much better, and with a little strength, she half-lay on the bed and asked, "Guoguo, my mother is a little curious, where did you hide the fish and the axe?" Why can't your second aunt find it? ”
Su Guoguo smiled and said, "I gave away the fish, because there is something to ask that person." As for the axe, Guoguo was hidden in a very secret place, and no one could find it except me. ”
Su Mu smiled after hearing this, touched Xiao Guozi's cheek and said, "Hey, Guoguo has grown up, and my mother and your brother finally have something to rely on." ”
"Mother, you and your brother don't add up to anything. Everything in the family is good if there are fruits to Zhang Luo. ”
Su Guoguo helped her mother lie down and covered her with a thin quilt.
After Su Guoguo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, she divided the fire in the house into two parts, one for her mother and one for her brother.
Su Guoguo returned to his Nanwu cottage at this time.
A very small boudoir, in addition to the bed, is a dresser that my father built before, the mirror has been taken by my father to exchange for money and gamble, and there is only a small comb on the table.
Su Guoguo was lying on the kang with her clothes covered with a quilt, a little cold, but she was very sleepy, wrapped in the quilt, and fell asleep after a while.
There was nothing of value left at home, so Su Guoguo slept peacefully. When I woke up, the rooster crowed.
Su Guoguo hurriedly went to wash his face, threw the bark into the pot, and cooked the porridge with the little heterozygous corn left over from last night.
Su Guoguo told Su's mother that she was going to go to the city to catch the morning market with Uncle Li, and Han Fool went out of the house alone.
Su Guoguo went to the gate of Uncle Li's courtyard, the little donkey cart was loaded with a sack, Uncle Li, and Han Fool waved at her there.
"Hey, Uncle Han, I didn't expect you to get up earlier than me."
"Not really. Yesterday I was so excited, I didn't sleep well all night, and I waited at the gate of Brother Li's courtyard before dawn. ”
Uncle Li slapped Han Fool's sturdy shoulder and scolded, "This fool stood at my door in a daze, the dark winter sky almost scared the old man and me to death." ”
Hahahaha. Han Fool was not angry at all, and laughed with Uncle Li and Su Guoguo.
Uncle Li gave Su Guoguo a tortilla, and Han Fool took two hot potatoes for her breakfast.
Su Guoguo was very grateful, and only kept half of the tortillas, and then gave the two potatoes and the other half of the tortillas to his mother.
Su Guoguo picked up the half of the corn tortillas, and then ran out of the village, caught up with Uncle Li and Han Fool's donkey cart along the country road leading to Wusu County, and entered the city together.
They got up early and left early, so when they entered the city, the genius was bright.
The grain alley is very lively.
Han Fool led the donkey cart, looked at the lively scene, smiled like a flower, and said to Su Guoguo, "Guoguo, look, how lively this is, it's interesting to watch." ”
Su Guoguo didn't see anything interesting, and smiled awkwardly.
Uncle Li said to the two: "You two are here, take a good look at the car." I'll go find someone and I'll be back in a moment. ”
The two watched Uncle Li walk into the crowd of people buying and selling, and disappeared after a while.
Su Guoguo sat on the donkey cart, his arm pressed the sack of dried corn, and watched the lively scene of this grain alley.
She didn't really go to the morning market, but came to see the market, but to see what vegetables were the most expensive and exchanged for the most grain.
However, the grain stores have not yet opened, and the current morning market is all private transactions by the people of several nearby villages.
Vegetable farmer with turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes. As for grain farmers, bags of sorghum rice, stick noodles, millet and so on, everyone exchanges with each other according to unwritten rules, and prepares grain and vegetables to survive the coming cold winter in the north.
However, since it was not long after the tax was paid, the farmers did not have much inventory, and what Su Guoguo saw were small transactions. For example, someone who returned a bag of sorghum rice seemed to have a little less corn. Because corn tastes much better than sorghum rice, wealthy farmers exchange some sorghum rice for corn, and then mix it to cook porridge and drink, so that the taste is greatly improved.
Su Guoguo sat on the donkey cart and watched for a long time, but she didn't see any expensive vegetables that could be exchanged for more food, so she was a little disappointed. Do you want to grow fruits? But then I think about it, how can the people in ancient times have the money to eat fruits, those who eat fruits are rich people, don't get food, until the black-hearted rich man robs the fruit, wouldn't it be a loss to the wife and a soldier.
Su Guoguo totaled, the fertilizer is just such a small bag, and it took a lot of effort to get it from the vending machine. Without it, it is estimated that their family of three will have to be cold at home in winter, so it is better to be safe.
Suddenly, Han Fool patted Su Guoguo's shoulder, pointed at the trading crowd and said, "Guoguo, look! How nice that Chinese cabbage is! ”
Well? Su Guoguo saw that he was a vegetable farmer, pulling a carriage of cabbage to exchange for food.
"That's good." Su Guoguo replied casually.
Han Fool swallowed his saliva and said to Su Guoguo, "Guoguo, do you know sauerkraut?" That thing stewed potatoes is always delicious! I'll just drink a bowl of sauerkraut and potato soup, and I'm willing to die. ”
Naturally, Han's family has never eaten sauerkraut and potato soup. Because this kind of thing is delicious, but it is not practical, and it cannot withstand the long cold winter. But before my brother's eyes were sick, and before my father was not good at gambling, her family had eaten! Of course, before Su Guoguo crossed over, he always ate it.
Sauerkraut, white meat, blood sausage, vermicelli, and gurgling are stewed in a casserole, and eaten with white rice when cooked.
Wow.......
Su Guoguo also swallowed his saliva.
Han Fool also nagged sauerkraut potato soup, and the more he talked, the more excited he became, and he didn't listen to his saliva.
Su Guoguo looked at his virtue, and snorted unconsciously, "Come on." What's so delicious about that. Tell you, you have to use pork belly, six points fat, four points lean kind! Then there are thin vermicelli, blood sausage filled with fresh pig's blood, a casserole, and then green onions, ginger and garlic together, and these things are put into the pot for a meal. As soon as the white gas comes out, the sourness of sauerkraut, the fragrance of pork belly, and the unique fragrance of blood sausage enter the nose. Take a sip of soup and eat a bite of rice. Yes! That's what makes it delicious. ”
Han Fool was stunned, swallowed his saliva without listening, and after listening to Su Guoguo's words, he said hesitantly, "Guoguo...... This, this is sauerkraut and white meat stewed vermicelli, this, this is something that can only be eaten by the emperor! Have you eaten? ”
Su Guoguo almost burst into laughter, looking at his ignorant look, he thought that the emperor would eat this thing? You think too badly about the emperor's food, right?