When the nine clans on the side of Fengtian set off, it was the time when Mrs. Ma's dim sum shop opened.

Cake Xingxing store is located in the most lively street in Huining County, Dongdatan Street.

On this street, there are all kinds of buying and selling.

The best restaurants, pawn shops, the largest inn in the county, tea shops, silk villages, rouge gouache shops, rice grain shops and so on.

On the day of its opening, I only saw that in front of the big house with nearly 300 square meters in the front and back yards of this new dim sum shop, another shed was opened.

Under the shed, six tables were set up, and when I looked up, the shed was covered with dozens of red lanterns.

It is conceivable that the Tohoku is dark early in autumn, and when it gets dark a little later, if all the lanterns are lit, the front of the confectionery shop will become a scene in Huining.

From afar, the street is lit up by a red patch.

Mrs. Ma was very worried:

These lanterns were not bought by her, but were given by the officials under San'er.

It's really disturbing, don't hang blind, and dislike it to occupy space wherever the dust falls.

Hang it up, so what? Do you have to arrange someone to light the lamp and change the oil at night? Who will pay for the lamp oil, this is all expenses, okay?

However, the old lady finally decided to hang it up, at least it was really lively when it opened.

On the opening day, just as the plaque was about to be hung, a lion dance team suddenly came in front of the door.

Followed by those on stilts, there are many styles of artists.

Suona team, gong and drum team.

After a while, the lion danced to the beat of the drums in the middle of winter.

The stilt rider turns the colorful fan and handkerchief in his hand.

Those who practice acrobatics and train monkeys to jump the circle of fire, swallow swords, break boulders on their chests, and breathe fire perform in the noisy sky of gongs and drums.

The hard performances of these artists seem to be calling:

Big villages and small villages are coming, let's laugh together.

Men, women, and children are all coming, and we ordinary people are going to dance today.

Let's take advantage of the opening of Ma Lao Tai Cake Xingxing Store to wish this year a bumper harvest.

But they were so happy to give Jinbao rice and garlic seedlings.

Isn't this the scene: pull the big saw, pull the big saw, and sing a big show in front of grandma's house?

Seeing the fire-breathing one, several boys opened their mouths and exclaimed in exclamation, and after dodging, they glanced at each other, applauded excitedly, and jumped up and down: "Okay, another one!" ”

Peach Blossom's little face was flushed and she dragged Poria Cocos's hand and said, "Look at that monkey, sister, how can it be so smart, it's so interesting, Erya will definitely regret it." She has always been thinking about going to the city to see the 15th Lantern Festival, but she didn't expect that our own opening would be the same as the Lantern Festival. ”

Song Fuling covered her ears to block the deafening drums, squinted and smiled, and chattered with her sister: "She missed it." ”

It's so much that I can't wait for the people of the whole county to come.

The people are standing on the third floor inside and the outer three floors, and this commercial street is like the New Year.

All the children in the audience laughed and leaned back and back, and the red lanterns reflected their happy faces, and the lion dance team jumped up and down and spit out the couplet:

The harvest of the five grains rejoices

Visitors from all over the world laugh and laugh

All merchants in Hoi Nyeong.

Song Fusheng was dressed in regular clothes and raised his eyebrows slightly in the crowd.

Looking at his mother wearing the Beijing embroidered clothes he bought, the old lady's face was full of red light, and it was conceivable that she should be very excited, and she was rarely generous, squinting and waving her hand with a gold ring in the firecracker debris: "Reward!" ”

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How many days have you been out of business?

The children of the common people's families still remember the excitement of that day.

The order of Mrs. Ma's dim sum shop has been received softly, and it has been set for next month, and the order will be scheduled until next month.

The old lady knew in her heart that all the people in the county came to buy it, which was a bit of a visit to the dock.

After all, who is she? The old lady of the lord of Huiningzhi County.

Can her business be patronized? Whether it's delicious or not, you have to cheer it up, unless you don't want to mix it up.

If you want to say whether the old lady is lost in her heart, how to expand the market depends on her son's prestige?

The answer is that the old lady and Mrs. Wang laughed together: Hahaha, there is wood, there is no loss at all.

You don't care about black cats and white cats, the one who can catch rats is a good cat.

What's wrong with borrowing his son, it is good to earn money to make a living.

But what the old lady didn't know was that she underestimated her own livelihood.

Some people set their hearts for the second and third time, and they really didn't rush Song Fusheng's name again.

Children love this sweet and greasy food, and they don't like the traditional dim sum.

And, for example, Mrs. Liu in the General's Mansion.

Mrs. Liu thought it was very peculiar, and she had never eaten it before, so it was best to try everything. There are many people in the house, so there are naturally more orders.

The general's wife ended up in this situation, not only the local people in Huining bought face for the county magistrate, but the family members of officials in Huanglong Mansion and some nearby counties also began to frequently send housekeepers to Huining to order.

In the backyard of the dim sum shop, a large open room at this time is full of newly built ovens.

Under the supervision of peach blossoms and jewels, the girls are baking hard.

The girls' younger brothers were carrying firewood, fetching water, sweeping the yard, cleaning the milk buckets, and a few boys were helping in front.

In the front store, the wives of some large landlords and big merchants in Huining are shopping sporadically with their young sons and daughters, followed by maids.

If you go to another house to buy something, the lady in charge will really not come out to buy it herself.

However, you need to come to the confectionery shop yourself, in order to attract the old lady sitting at the bar.

This is not to think that even if the old lady is not willing to take care of them, they can be familiar with the old lady of the county master.

The old lady didn't pay attention to them at the moment, and she didn't even sweep the wind from the corner of her eyes.

She was busy checking out the daily bills for the merchants who delivered milk to the dim sum shop.

He said, "You bucket, you have to clean it for me." If I get the slightest taste wrong, or if I see that the lid is dirty, I'll change it. ”

The merchant who delivered the milk hurriedly blushed and swore: "Old lady, the grass people don't dare to do this. ”

Mrs. Ma glared: "How many times have you said it, Du Cheng, who calls me the shopkeeper of Ma Da here, is not allowed to call me old lady, this dim sum shop has nothing to do with your county." ”

If it has anything to do with it, you should pay attention to it, don't worry, you can't say it, her third son is a clean official.

This time, the old lady opened the shop again without raising her own cows, troublesome, no place to place, feeding grass, milking herself, and having to prepare buckets.

The little granddaughter persuaded her again: Milk, spend more money to buy worry-free, and then you can help my father drive some economy, so that those who raise cows can also make some money.

In this way, the old lady simply ordered the raw materials directly.

There are a few drunkards in the store who don't want to drink, and after buying snacks, they leave a little sullenly, without getting the attention of the old lady, and they have to come in a hurry.

What makes these self-conscious ladies even more unhappy is that every time they enter and exit the store, they will always see some rough people.

Outside the dim sum shop, there were some men who worked long and short jobs in the county, and those who were carrying big bags as coolies were buying big lieba.

A large leba, save some to eat, and they can eat for two days to fill their stomachs.

Mrs. Wang stayed here, shaking the pu fan, watching the younger brother of the solar term girls collect money and sell Leba.

That's the most common day for a dim sum shop lately.

The only difference from Mukden is that this home is in the county and can be open until the evening closes.

There is no need to rush home with smoke and snow on the roof of the car, and the dim sum team will go back to the county office.

After the gate is closed, the officials will patrol the place to pretend to pass by, intentionally or unintentionally, to escort the old lady and relatives of the county magistrate home.

In addition, whether it is a husband at night or a patrol team, this street is strictly guarded.

And Song Fuling was not idle during this time.

Song Fuling had a bitter face, drank honey water, and complained to Qian Peiying: "When will they arrive." ”

She really didn't want to work as an accountant and cashier anymore, and there was nothing new at all.

Thinking about holding on for a few more days, I leaned back on the chair and shook the fan as if I had nothing to do.

The two sons and daughters were arranged by Song Fusheng to go to a large courtyard by the city gate, and a big sign was erected at the door: Mountain Cargo Station.

There are hundreds of old women in the courtyard, drying mushrooms and fungus.

When they were old, the old women could not go down to the fields to do heavy work, so they recruited those who were idle at home, so that they could pay the wages for doing this simple work, and they could make up for it at home.

Qian Peiying was recording the mushrooms and mountain fungus that had been sun-dried and put into storage, and when she heard this, she stopped writing and said that her daughter:

"Your father specially decorated this office for the two of us.

The small kitchen is ready, and the bed in the room is arranged, which is bigger than his desk and chair for you to sit on, for fear that you will be cold for a while and hot for a while.

You eat and drink well all day, even if you settle accounts, why complain so much. ”

As soon as she heard about eating, Song Fuling looked at it and leaked even more, "Mother, it's noon, let's fry matsutake mushrooms in butter and eat them?" Fry some more pork belly and eat it wrapped in lettuce. ”

Qian Peiying was laughed at angrily, looking at the cheerful back of her daughter going to the small kitchen, and thought:

If you continue like this, you will eat better than the Queen Mother.

After all, the Queen Mother can't eat fresh matsutake mushrooms on a hot day.

Because it doesn't sit fresh for a few days.

For a long shelf life, unless fresh is frozen. What kind of freezing was it here in ancient times in this kind of weather? After freezing, it has to be transported all the way to ensure that it does not melt. If you want to store it for another year and a half, you can dry it in the same way as ordinary mushrooms.

Therefore, the Queen Mother can also eat a dried matsutake mushroom.

At her daughter's side, the front feet were fresh, and the back feet were let the women who were working outside scrape and wash the matsutake feet with bamboo chips, and then brought them in and cut them and fried them.

Fresh lion's mane mushrooms were collected, and her daughter stewed either chicken soup or pork ribs.

Harvest hazel mushrooms and stew chicken.

After a while, when the fresh ginseng came back, Qian Peiying had no doubt that her daughter dared to put the centuries-old ginseng in her mouth.

As Song Cocos fried matsutake mushrooms in the kitchen, the bell outside the door jingled.

After a while, a woman came in to report that Wudaogou Village had come to deliver mountain goods.

Qian Peiying put on a hat and hurriedly followed out.

At present, more than 90 villages in Huining County know that the county collects mountain goods.

The common people spontaneously went up the mountain to pick black fungus and mushrooms, all of which were picked and sunned, and the mushrooms were divided according to the category. Then take the village as a unit and use livestock to transport it to Qian Peiying and put it on the scale.

Qian Peiying will check and check the accounts, settle the accounts every half a month, and settle the money to the village representative who delivered the goods.

These village representatives who came to the county went back and distributed them to the villagers.

The Li Zheng in each village is very active, not to fool the people to make the difference, and this situation does not exist here in Song Fusheng.

When Song Zhixian issued a notice, he wrote down how much money was collected for hazel mushrooms, how much was a pound of lion's mane mushrooms, how much was matsutake fungus, and so on.

The Li Zheng of each village is very active, for the sake of striving for advanced villages, for political achievements, for bonuses, and for being a good name in the county.

Especially in those villages where there are no special products, no ginseng does not collect honey, and the mountain goods can no longer be compared to others.

At the end of the year, the magistrate said that he would hold a general meeting, and he would see you then, and there was no need to visit now.

Moreover, at the meeting, the income of each village's sideline business should be disclosed, and the bottom three will be criticized by name. The first three will be rewarded in the name of the county government, and the county lord will also invite him to dinner.

Qian Peiying appeared, and the people who transported the mountain goods bowed their heads and knelt on the ground early: "Madam." ”

Wudaogou Village is a remote village, this is the first time I have come back, and I don't know the rules.

Qian Peiying wore a hat and informed: "In the future, there is no need to kneel. Don't call me Madame when I see me. ”

What's that called.

"The money is big." Qian Peiying motioned for the men to get up and quickly unload the truck and load the scales.

The women in the courtyard put down their work and hurriedly helped the men to transport qualified dried mushrooms and fungus to the warehouse one after another.

If you want to say where the fresh mushroom fungus that is drying in this big factory comes from?

Since the villages below are already dry, why are there still fresh.

I have to mention here that at this time, I was leading the team to beat hazelnuts, walnuts and pine nuts on Changbai Mountain.

These two boys belong to a walk all the way, so that those men who play mountain goods can easily get some mushroom fungus.

A team of thousands of people was scattered outside.

At the foot of the hill is the vehicle waiting for the local dart bureau in Hoeryong.

Every day in the evening, bags of hazelnut walnuts would be carried down from the mountain, and now the pine nuts are not good, and it is not time.

The owner of this dart game thought that he would be disheartened and clean up and close the door.

But I don't want a rich man to come to the family, but the rich man is a relative of the county master.

Not only did he not intimidate him into closing the door, but he also introduced him to transportation work. Let help deliver goods to earn money.

That's not what moved him the most.

What made the boss of the local dart bureau in Huining most grateful was that the noble master said, let him not think about it too much, and he would only live more and more.

Even if the Maxima Dart Bureau comes in the future, it will not affect him to take orders to help merchants transport, because Maxima does not accept this kind of order and is not available.

also told him that if the dart bureau was robbed while running darts outside, don't squeak and admit the dumb loss, and go to the county magistrate when he returns to Huining.

The lord said, let's Ning outside the team, if there is a problem in the way, as a parent official, the people dare not do it, he will ask the local officials for an explanation.

This dart boss used to be a gangster, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to do this.

After hearing this, my heart was surging.

I actually felt that the magistrate had the spirit of the rivers and lakes.

Thinking of the bitterness of running darts for so many years, the money offered, and the circles in his eyes were red, this is the first official to dare to say: You are wronged outside, and this official is in charge of you.

(End of chapter)