Chapter 18 Visiting the Temple Fair

It's not hard to sell, but you have to have something to show people.

Sugar production is not as good as other businesses, first of all, there are requirements for site and equipment.

The first is sugar extraction. Nowadays, when there is no machine to operate, the traditional stone mill can only be used to extract juice, which is time-consuming and laborious. Then there must be a sugar room for boiling sugar, a warehouse for drying sugar, and finally someone must hand wrap the sugar.

The manpower and material resources required for this production line are definitely something that she, a little girl, can't provide.

There is a more important issue, sugar, like salt and iron ore, is a state-controlled material, and it must be specially issued by the imperial court to start construction.

This license is no problem for the larger families, or wealthy merchants, but the ordinary people can only make it and eat it themselves, but anyone who dares to buy and sell it privately is a big crime to take the life and future of the family.

So Wei Jin never considered making her own sugar room from the beginning. However, it is still no problem to boil some sugar and eat it at home.

It is not difficult to boil sugar, but it is difficult to master the heat in how to mix it. Generally, the sugar boiled out by themselves always has a little residue that cannot be filtered cleanly, and there is a strange taste.

After Wei Jin wrote down this idea in his heart, he took the opportunity to visit the temple fair and rearranged the surrounding situation.

There are too many people who make pasta, and there are no less than seven or eight stalls selling all kinds of steamed buns and steamed buns here at the temple fair. There are also stalls that sell convenient and simple food. In general, the low-end food market is almost saturated, and if they want to do it, they must take the high-end route.

But the question arises again, the rich bring their own food, who will buy the "high-end food" on the roadside stalls?

The meal should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be taken step by step. Wei Jin understands this truth better than anyone else, although there are all kinds of ideas in his head, but how to implement them needs to be considered again.

"Third sister, this is so beautiful."

Wei Jin saw Sihua'er holding a small butterfly hairpin wrapped in silver and was reluctant to let go, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, and she asked the price and felt that it was not expensive, so she bought it directly.

"No, I'm ......"

"The four flowers are so beautiful to wear. Shall we choose another pair for the eldest sister and the second sister? ”

Their pot and helmet stall earned some money, and although they had to save to buy a house, they could still have a luxury once in a while.

This kind of silver-coated jewelry is not expensive, but it is not good-looking. It is generally worn by the little daughter-in-law of the family. Wei Jin took Sihuaer to a jewelry shop and bought a pair of earrings for the eldest sister and the second sister.

The earrings for the eldest sister are silver-inlaid sapphires, and the earrings for the second sister are silver-inlaid with red coral.

"Third sister, you bought it for the eldest sister and the second sister, don't you buy it for yourself?" Sihua'er bit her lip and took off the little butterfly on her head, "Or I don't want it either." ”

"Put it on, I don't see what I like. We'll go back in a minute, and I'm sure I'm not going to treat myself badly. ”

The shopkeeper next to her looked at the two sisters with a smile, thought about it again, and took out a wooden box from under the counter.

"This is our pawn, it's already deserved, if you like it, I'll make you cheaper."

The price of these pawns is not high, if it is really good, it will definitely be sent to the pawnshop. And many people are not happy to wear these second-hand cheap jewelry.

Wei Jin picked it out in the box and bought himself a very average Hetian jade hairpin, which was originally a pair, but the pendant of one of them was gone, and only a floating green and white magnolia on the tail remained.

The price of the goods is one-third lower than the market price, but higher than the original price. The shopkeeper is to eat the difference in price.

These things don't add up to a lot of money, Wei Jin took out his purse and paid the bill, and asked the shopkeeper to wrap up the things and stuff them into her arms.

After going out, the sisters continued to return to the big camphor tree outside the temple to wait for the second sister and the neighbor's sister.

It took another moment for the two sisters to squeeze out.

"Today, I heard that there was a mage master who was practicing inside, and there were so many nobles that we couldn't squeeze in at all, so we bowed outside the hall. Look, my headscarf is going to be squeezed off. ”

A married woman like Erhua would wrap her hair in blue and white cloth and put two hairpins on her hairpins when she went out. The neighbor's sister was dressed the same.

Unlike Erhua praying for the safety of her family, that sister came to ask for a son. has not been happy for three years of marriage, and her mother-in-law has begun to accuse Sang and scold Huai that she is a chicken that does not lay eggs.

"They all say that Guanyin here is the most spiritual, if you relax your heart, you will definitely be able to conceive."

The neighbor's sister barely pulled out a smile, carried the basket and said that she was going back.

is different from Erhua, there are parents-in-law above, and younger brothers and sisters below, she and her concubine have to afford the food and drink of more than a dozen people in the family. Today, I also saw her cry several times, so she was asked to come here to worship, and it would be better to get pregnant early.

After Erhua put the people on the ox cart back to the village, she turned around and took her two younger sisters to eat.

"Look, that's the pain of being a daughter-in-law." Although Erhua has separated the order with the men in the family, if it weren't for the sister-in-law who helped find a job making nitrate fur, their family's life would not be easy.

"Don't worry, second sister, it will always get better. When you develop in the future, your nephew will be promoted to become an official in the exam, and you will be an old lady and an old king. ”

"Pull it down. I know better than you what your nephew looks like, this child can grow up peacefully, start a family, find a good daughter-in-law and have a few cubs, and I will already be Amitabha. ”

Sihua'er was amused by the second sister's singing, and quickly covered her little teeth.

"Smile and smile, you'll know when you grow up and get married."

Wei Jin looked at her sister helplessly, interrupting the little commotion between the two of them.

"Second sister, do you want to eat mutton powder?"

This vermicelli is made with buckwheat flour. Buckwheat is divided into sweet buckwheat and bitter buckwheat. Sweet buckwheat flour is kneaded into a ball, and when you eat it, you roll it into long strips, stuff it into a dough machine, and press it down with a long wooden pole to squeeze the noodles out of the leaks.

Drain the water with a colander and scoop it into a bowl and plate it into a lump, put a few slices of cut white braised mutton, and then put a little salt and coriander leaves and pepper, and finally pour on the hot haggis soup, and the fragrant mutton powder is ready.

Of course, this is just the way ordinary people eat. I heard that the rich and noble people made rice noodles made of fine white flour, which was very different from the black and yellow buckwheat flour they ate.

The three Wei Jin sisters occupied a table, asked for three bowls of noodles, and after snoring, they were sweating all over, and they felt a lot of fatigue.

Later, I will go to buy some sundries for the house, and it is almost time to return to the Li family.

The Li family is doing mountain goods business here, and when they came, they said that they would take them with them on the return trip.

When they arrived at the agreed place, they didn't see the Li family, and the sisters were a little panicked.

The distance between their village in the temple is not close, and if you walk back, it is estimated that you will not be able to get home until the second half of the night.

"The Li family can't forget about us, right?"

"Probably not." Wei Jin stood on tiptoe and could only see the dense human heads, "Uncle Li and Aunt Li are not untrustworthy people, I'm afraid I'm in trouble." Does the second sister know where Uncle Li sells their goods? Why don't we take a look? ”

Erhua'er didn't know, but she couldn't show her cowardice in front of her sisters, otherwise she was afraid that the two younger sisters would be even more afraid.

"Don't worry, I'll go find someone to ask. You two are just waiting here, don't go away. ”

Erhua carried her burden and found a place where there were many businessmen to inquire, and only after this inquiry did she know that something was wrong.

She hurriedly ran back to find the two girls, and asked them to take the other people's cars back first to call someone over.

"Second sister, don't worry, what happened do you have to call the villagers all the way over?"

"Your Uncle Li, Uncle Li accidentally injured the nobleman's arm, and now he is being escorted to the temple." Erhua's lips trembled, and it took a long time to spit out such a sentence.