Chen Xiaocai went to the village chief's uncle's house, and when he came back, he could already eat.

After eating dinner, the family discussed again how to make this shaken honey bucket.

Yanni described what she used to see shaking the honey bucket, and asked her brother to draw it with pen and paper, and the rest could only be left to Chen Xiaocai to figure it out by himself.

Chen Xiaocai is worthy of doing carpentry work, and he can think of a way to shake the honey bucket in one night.

Before she could get up, she heard him sawing the planks, and by the time she had breakfast, she had already made the shape of a bucket.

By noon, Chen Xiaocai's honey bucket was completed, and the appearance looked no different from what I had seen before, but the structure inside had changed a little. However, it should not affect the use.

Poke and scrub the honey with boiling water to cool and dry, and start to shake the honey in the afternoon, the adults and children in the family are gathered together, and they are very curious about this honey bucket.

The white wax on the hive is cut off and then put into the honey bucket, and the honey is amber and pure.

Chen Xiaocai looked at it and nodded, "The honey should be this color, the honey that the people in the Houwu Village cut back on the top of the stone before, it was made by pressing it, and the color was a little black and it didn't taste good." ”

"Dad, we still have to filter out the impurities inside!" Yanni reminded.

There was no gauze tent at home, so my mother found a white cloth to replace it, and the filtered honey was put into the vegetable jar.

Yanni brought the bowl, poured cold and white water into the bowl, and put a spoonful of honey in the bowl.

Li shouted that enough was enough, and he was going to sell it for money, although he shouted, he didn't stop it.

Everyone held the bowl and drank it in small sips, it was so sweet! It's all sweet to the heart.

"A-Ying, tomorrow you will wear your daughter to help the eldest brother's family plant rice, yesterday I told the eldest brother, let's help his family plant seedlings, and when his field rake is finished, he will borrow the cow for us to rake for two days."

Yanni doesn't understand the matter of farming, and the adults arrange it, so she can do whatever she wants.

guessed that Chen Xiaocai would go to the county to sell honey early the next morning, Yanni got up early and waited at the door, her parents couldn't resist her, and they were afraid that she would shout loudly and wake up the little two to follow, and finally had no choice but to let her go.

They walked for nearly an hour to reach the entrance of Li Village, and it was already dawn, and Chen Xiaocai said that the mule cart from the town to the county would pass through here, and we would just wait here.

Yanni asked, "Since there is a mule cart to ride, why do we have to come out so early, is it a long way to go to the county?" ”

"It's not a long way to get to the county, it's about seven or eight hours to walk, and it doesn't take two hours to take a mule cart. Leave early and you'll be back tonight. ”

The mule cart had no carriage, it was a board cart with four pillars, and the top was covered with a piece of tarpaulin sandwiched between bamboo pieces.

The mule cart was faster than the donkey cart and the ox cart, but the fee was also very expensive: Yanni and the child would cost two cents, her father would have to charge three cents, and their vegetable jar would have to charge two cents.

There were twelve people in the car, plus items, the boss had more than 30 wen in his account this trip, and more than 70 wen a day, Yan Ni secretly calculated in her heart, thinking about whether she could develop in this area in the future?

The mule cart stopped at the county gate, and the boss said, "I'm going to rush back in the afternoon, and I'm going to wait here before the time, and I won't wait when it's too late." ”

Chen Xiaocai was in a hurry to sell the honey, so when he entered the city, he asked people that there was a big pastry shop there.

Following the direction of others, we came to a place called Huiwei Zhai, where people came and went, and it seemed that business was very good.

When they walked into the store, Xiao Er greeted them and said, "The guest officer, please, I don't know if the guest officer is here to taste or pack?" ”

"Little second brother, our family picked some honey in the mountains, can you collect it in this store?" Honey is not particularly precious, only a little more expensive than ordinary food, so there is no need to hide it, Dad just said it.

Xiao Er heard that he had to ask the shopkeeper to decide, and after speaking, he went inside.

The shopkeeper was drinking tea in the back garden, and I heard that Xiao Er said that there was a honey seller, and I wanted to go to see if the quality was good.

Coincidentally, the master of the shop came out and went to the thatched house to hear it.

"Does the shopkeeper want to buy honey? I wonder if you want to buy it yourself, or in the store? The store can be particular about what you buy, don't dare to ask for any unknown goods, if the pastries made are not delicious, it is difficult to explain if there is a serious problem. ”

"Master Fu is really good at joking, I, Liao, have been in this industry for more than 20 years, and I can still tell if there is a problem with the goods."

The master is the most favored Aunt Liu in the house, and he is not very capable but has a great temper. Usually, the shopkeeper Liao dared to be angry with him, but he blamed himself for not having a backer.

"I heard that Aunt Liu's village has a lot of bees, why don't you send a message to the house if the shopkeeper Liao wants to buy honey, no matter how you say it, your own will not be worse than others."

Shopkeeper Liao is so angry! I don't know who is in charge of this shopkeeper!

No matter how angry he was, he had to endure it for the sake of the children who were still in the house, so he had to ask Xiao Er to send people away.

The father and daughter came out of the store, and Chen Xiaocai was about to go to the next pastry shop, but was stopped by Yanni.

"Dad, let's go to the pharmacy and ask, the pharmacy needs a pill, maybe you need it!"

Chen Xiaocai thought for a while and said, "Then go!" ”

They didn't go to the stalls to sell in bulk, which would take a lot of time and couldn't be sold all at once.

They found Renxintang, the largest pharmacy in the county, and the lobby was crowded with people queuing up to see a doctor and catch medicine.

They walked up to the steward and told him the reason, and the steward said that he would only accept it if he saw the quality.

The steward instructed the little medicine boy to bring a bowl and dig out a scoop of soup, and when Yanni saw that the steward's eyes lit up, she knew that the steward was very satisfied with his own honey.

After tasting the honey, the steward negotiated the price with Chen Xiaocai, and he said, "This honey is handled properly, the price of spring honey and winter honey is different, and the price of your spring honey is much cheaper." ”

The steward groaned for a moment and said, "So be it! Brother, I'll give you a fair price, next time you have honey, you have to come to me again, this spring honey will give you 500 wen a catty, and you will immediately weigh it and get the money, how about it? ”

They didn't know the price, and Yanni wanted Chen Xiaocai to raise the price up. But when I looked up, I saw Chen Xiaocai with a happy face. Come on, everyone in charge of things like this has seen it, and they won't mention it anyway.

Just when Chen Xiaocai was about to agree, Yanni's sharp eyes saw two acquaintances coming in at the door, so she pulled Chen Xiaocai's sleeve.

"Dad, it's Uncle Zhang."

Chen Xiaocai looked in the direction of his daughter's finger, and the two of them probably heard the shouting and found them walking this way.

Everyone greeted each other.

Chen Xiaocai said: "What a coincidence! Does Brother Zhang live in the county? ”

Daniel Zhang: "No, it's just standing here." How did you get here? ”

Chen Xiaocai said humbly, "We got some honey from the mountains and sold it here." ”

"Brother, if you think the price is satisfactory, let's overdo it, right?" The steward interrupted them.